Item Detail
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14056
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1
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11
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English
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Ricks College : The Struggle for Permanency and Place, 1954-60
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Journal of Mormon History
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Fall 2000
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26
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no.2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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51-109
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For almost seven years, Ernest L. Wilkinson single-mindedly pressured David O. McKay and the brethren to move Ricks College from Rexburg to Idaho Falls. The people in Rexburg were greatly agitated when Pres. McKay announced that the school would relocate in 1957 after assuring them that Ricks would remain in Rexburg in 1954. In 1960, he again reversed his decision in deciding against the relocation. Wilkinson, as president of BYU and chief administrator of the Unified Church School System, envisioned a widespread system of LDS junior colleges
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Brigham Young University : A School of Destiny
Brigham Young University : The First One Hundred Years
Ernest L. Wilkinson : Indian Advocate and University President
History of the Mormons in the Greater Washington Area
Pioneering the Snake River Fork Country
Ricks College : A Struggle for Survival
The History of Public Education in Utah
The Sons of Brigham
The Spirit of Ricks : A History of Ricks College, 1888-1997
Thomas E. Ricks : Colonizer and Founder