On January 14, President Oaks was set apart to serve as First Counselor to President Nelson. Dallin H. Oaks was born on August 12, 1932 in Provo, Utah. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. “I just couldn’t concentrate. In a Church News article from April 1984, Sister June Oaks was quoted as saying, “He’d come home and say, ‘There may be smarter guys at that law school, but nobody studies as hard as I do.’”. His mother was the artist's model for The Pioneer Mother, a public statue in Springville, Utah. Photo courtesy of Deseret Book. Dr. Dallin H. Oaks as president of BYU. Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles? Before long, however, that change took care of itself, and he was working regularly as an announcer and an engineer. BYU President Dallin H. Oaks. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. (Jaren Wilkey/BYU Photo) Combating racism and the … Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Get to Know President Russell M. Nelson, a Renaissance Man, Get to Know President Henry B. Eyring, Humble Servant. His call in 1984 to be an Apostle has prepared him to serve in the First Presidency. President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency, addresses a group of social distancing students gathered in the Marriott Center on BYU campus on Oct. 27, 2020, for the first small gathering since the outbreak of COVID-19. Dr. Dallin H. Oaks, president of BYU, speaks with students on campus. Dallin Oaks and his wife, June Dixon, share a piece of wedding cake on their wedding day. A year later, when he completed the clerkship, he returned to Chicago to enter private practice. "As members of the Church, we have the gift of the Holy Ghost. Dallin H. Oaks is Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles at Corporation of The Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus. At the end of the summer he asked his teenage son which of these good summer activities he enjoyed most. Carl Albert, left, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Rep. Gunn McKay, U.S. congressman from Utah, right, present part of the 15-volume U.S. Code to Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson and President Dallin H. Oaks of Brigham Young University. His father, a trained ophthalmologist, died of tuberculosis when Dallin was only 7 years old, leaving his mother to raise the couple’s children alone. Elder Oaks shares 3 reasons: The fulness of the Gospel was restored. “He told me to call him back when I got to my hotel room,” President Oaks recalled. His early broadcast training helped him develop his skill at public speaking. Dallin H. Oaks (born 1932) a native of Provo, Utah, served as president of Brigham Young University, a Utah Supreme Court justice, and apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “I did not know why I received a ‘no’ answer to my prayers for the recovery of my wife of many years, but the Lord gave me a witness that this was His will, and He gave me the strength to accept it,” he said. Elder Dallin H. Oaks discusses the progress of the Church in Czechoslovakia with Elder Martin Pilka, Czechoslovakia’s first missionary in recent times, March 16, 1991. His first job was sweeping out a radio repair shop. Church members sustained President Russell M. Nelson to the Quorum on the same day. “I was stunned,” President Oaks has said of the experience. Dallin H. Oaks. Photo depicts the handover of Encyclopedia of Mormonism and scriptures. He was named to the high court in 1980 after serving nine years as president of Brigham Young University. BYU President Dallin H. Oaks speaks in Madrid. His father, who was an ophthalmologist, died of tubercul… “She surely was one of the many noble women who have lived in the latter days.” Before her death in 1980, Stella Oaks was known as a force for good in Provo, in both Church and civic service. The case was a Utah Power and Light probe of misuse of campaign contributions. February 25, 2014. Elder Dallin H. Oaks answers interview questions at his office in the Church Administration Building in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, January 10, 2018. Utah Supreme Court Justice Dallin H. Oaks, 51, is called to be an Apostle. Dallin H. Oaks: The Only True and Living Church. If you're aware of any talks available online that aren't listed here, please let me know. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Contributed By Marianne Holman Prescott, Church News staff writer. But, in three and a half years, those plans changed when he was called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in April of 1984. Photo courtesy Deseret News Archives. President Oaks has become widely known for speaking frankly about challenging issues. President Dallin H. Oaks of the First Presidency has a motto: “Work first, play later.” His family, though, says they are tempted to change it to: “Work first, play never.” President Oaks is good natured about it. President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaks Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, at a BYU devotional. Photo by Kristin Murphy, Deseret News. Dallin H. Oaks se narodil ve městě Provo v Utahu, které je jedním z center mormonismu. Four months after he completed his service as president of BYU, Utah Governor Scott M. Matheson appointed him to the state Supreme Court. Elder Dallin H. Oaks Introduction. President Oaks and his family pose for a family picture. Proud dad and BYU President Dallin H. Oaks stands with his daughter Mrs. Sharmon Ward at her graduation. Dallin H. Oaks real name is Dallin Harris Oaks. President Russell M. Nelson called Elder Oaks to serve as First Counselor in the First Presidency on January 14, 2018. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Topics include the cleanliness of the campus, the honor code and the appearance of students and faculty. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Overwhelmed with responsibilities and overcome with grief, Stella Oaks had her children live with her parents for a time on a farm near Payson, Utah, just 12 miles south of Provo. It was at one of those games he met June Dixon, a senior at a local high school. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. President Dallin H. Oaks was sustained and set apart as first counselor in the First Presidency and president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, January 14, 2018. Together they have six children. Even in the midst of unique trials and challenges, we are truly blessed! He later became a distinguished lawyer, president of BYU, a Utah Supreme Court Justice, and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. It was while he was announcing high school basketball games as a college freshman that he met his first wife, June Dixon. I appreciate the University of Utah Hinckley Institute’s invitation and its sponsorship of this and other community events over the last 45 years. Dallin Harris Oaks (born August 12, 1932) is an American attorney, jurist, author, professor, public speaker, and religious leader. He resigned from the Utah Supreme Court and dedicated himself to his duties as an Apostle. Dallin H. Oaks and the Hoax Salamander Letter 02/10/2010 - by Zeezrom. The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles. … She gave me a great deal of responsibility and freedom. In his pre-general-authority life, Pres. He served with President Lysle R. Cahoon and John Sonnenberg, first counselor. He was given the name Dallin in honor of Utah artist Cyrus Dallin. September 6, 1973. President Oaks has become known for his willingness to speak frankly about challenging issues, such as speaking in defense of the traditional family, telling single college students to stop hanging out and start dating, addressing threats to religious liberty, and decrying the evils of pornography. From left, John Langmore; Keith Nielsen, Sydney Stake Mission President; Arnold Cummins, Camberra District President; Slade Beard, Camberra District director of Public Affairs; Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Religious Freedom. By Peggy Fletcher Stack | … His fairness and diplomacy in handling the disciplinary action won admiration from students, faculty members, and the community. Here, he pushes his youngest daughter, Jenny, in a backyard swing. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Dallin Harris Oaks (born August 12, 1932) is an American jurist, educator, and religious leader who since 2018 has been the First Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). I feel very privileged to be invited to speak to this great audience on Constitution Day. in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. “Looking back on it, I’m sure my problems were due to the emotional disturbance of losing my father and mother at the same time. President Dallin H. Oaks answers interview questions at his office in the Church Administration Building in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, January 10, 2018. Elder Oaks recalled that he was blessed with “an extraordinary mother.”. A year and a half after they met, the couple married in the Salt Lake Temple. We have a restored testimony of Jesus Christ, his true nature, and purposes. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. V 50. letech graduoval na BYU, ale kvůli členství v utažské armádě a … We who know God’s plan and who have covenanted to participate have a clear responsibility to teach these truths. Education and career In 1954, President Oaks graduated in accounting from BYU with high honors and furthered his education at the University of Chicago Law School. From that interest came a job in radio, where he would work as both an announcer and a transmitter engineer. UA 1300 Series 1, Dallin H. Oaks Education Week, 1971 June 9, Carton: 33, Reel: 17. Kristen was in her early 50s and had served a mission for the LDS Church many years earlier in the Japan Sendai Mission. Dallin Oaks’s industry and scholarship won him the opportunity, after graduation, to serve as law clerk for the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Those days sweeping turned into an interest in radio, where he, before age 16, obtained a radiotelephone operator’s license, allowing him to operate a commercial radio station’s transmitter. . Dallin H. Oaks earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Be Wise. Kristen M. Oaks, wife of President Dallin H. Oaks (oldest child of Stella H. Oaks), has spent much of her life teaching. Why do we claim to belong to the true church? In July 1998 June Oaks died of cancer. First Counselor in the First Presidency. He says what it means is that he rarely does something only to have fun, but rather that “I just have fun at [whatever] I do.”. One of them was chairman of the University of Chicago Disciplinary Committee that was given responsibility to resolve charges against students involved in a 17-day sit-in at the school’s administration building during February 1969. From the time he first worked for pay, “at eleven or twelve,” he has been continuously employed. CES (Church Education System) Symposium on the Doctrine and Covenants and Church History - 16 August 1985 - Brigham Young University? President Oaks’s mother, Stella Harris Oaks, was a big fan of the work of Cyrus Dallin, a Utah artist. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Sustained as a General Authority on April 7, 1984, during the Saturday morning session of general conference, President Oaks joined the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, but because of his judicial commitments, he was not ordained an Apostle until May 3, 1984. His mother would later become the first woman to sit on the Provo City Council, and she worked as director of adult education for Provo City Schools. After his father died, his mother tried to go back to school and work, but it proved to be too soon. He Oaks was … In 1974, Holland was appointed the Dean of Religious Education at BYU and was appointed as the eleventh commissioner of the Church Educational System two years later, replacing Neal A. Maxwell. ... Education Week devotional (unavailable) June 8, 2001. But as far as I was concerned at the time, I was just the dumbest boy in the world.”. After working for three years in a private law practice in Chicago, he returned to the University of Chicago, where he taught at the law school. Known for his bold teachings on religious freedom, the doctrine of the family, and gender equality, as well as encouraging young adults to plan dates rather than just “hanging out,” President Oaks has been a strong voice in teaching the doctrines of the gospel during his 34 years as a General Authority. . She earned a bachelor's degree in English, a master's degree in special education (both from the University of Utah), and a doctorate degree in curriculum and instruction from Brigham Young University. He taught this about the purpose of education in the gospel of Jesus Christ: All our educational pursuits are in the service of God, for all these labors are to establish truth on the earth, and that we may increase in knowledge, wisdom, understanding in the power of faith and in the wisdom of God, that we may become fit subjects to dwell in a higher state of existence and intelligence than we … Photo by Spenser Heaps, Deseret News. He was called as a member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles President Spencer W. Kimball, BYU President Dallin H. Oaks, Elder Howard W. Hunter, and Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin chat before BYU commencement. President of Brigham Young University. His greatest desire, he says simply, is to know what the Lord wants him to do—and to do it. Sister June Oaks, wife of Elder Dallin H. Oaks. Nearly 34 years later, the seasoned Church leader has responded again to a prophet’s call to serve, this time in the First Presidency. Before he was 16, he had obtained a first-class radiotelephone operator's license, which allowed him to operate a commercial radio station’s transmitter, and he found a job in radio. She died of cancer at age 65. A year later Dallin Oaks was asked to be the president of BYU. (See related story.). “She gave me a great deal of responsibility and freedom. October 13, 2009. Home About Us Publications Conferences My Gospel Study Videos & Podcasts. Since 1984, he has been a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).. With time—and the help of a loving teacher and supportive mother—Dallin found his bearings in school and went on to do very well in academics. June and Dallin Oaks with daughters Sharmon and Cheri around 1956. Religious Education. President Dallin H. Oaks of Brigham Young University demonstrates his prowess at driving a tractor when administrative officials were guests at the university’s 700-acre farm near Spanish Fork. Also see other collected talks. President Dallin H. Oaks and Kristen M. Oaks. 18 Quotes by Dallin H. Oaks, “TWO Great Commandments” by Sherri Jorgensen | -General Conference , Come Unto Christ Artwork , Dallin H. Oaks , God's Love , Keep the Commandments , Love We must try to keep both of the great commandments. Vita. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. He was born on August 12, 1932 at Provo, Utah, United States. Revelação; Revelation. A call to serve in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Scope and Contents This collection contains tributes to Brigham Young University that were gathered during the administration of President Dallin H. Oaks. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. My dear brothers and sisters, I stand before you in great humility for the responsibility of addressing you on this occasion. That job would prove to be more than a hobby or source of income. Dallin H. Oaks earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Biography. I see your faces—thousands of them. Contents. Education Elder Oaks earned a bachelors degree in accounting from Brigham Young University. He was set apart as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in April 7, 1984. Credit: Deseret News Archives. This left young widow Stella H. Oaks with three children—Dallin, the oldest; Merrill, now a released General Authority and retired ophthalmologist; and Evelyn, now Mrs. Lyman Moody of Provo. His assignments have taken him around the world; he presided over and lived in the Church’s Philippines Area from 2002 to 2004. Dallin H. Oaks Dallin H. Oaks Articles by This Author. Dallin D. Oaks teaches primarily English linguistics courses in the department, including courses in traditional grammar and usage, history of the English language, early modern English, structure of English, and Old English. Elders Boyd K. Packer, center, James E. Faust, and Dallin H. Oaks serve on the temple and genealogy executive council, June 6, 1987. After a few years in Vernal the family moved back to Provo in an effort to be close to Brigham Young University—his parents’ alma mater. Hon. During his freshman year of college at BYU, President Oaks occasionally served as a radio announcer at high school basketball games. You'll also like: 3 Beautiful Memories from President Dallin H. Oaks That Helped Him After the Passing of His Wife June. He is the son of Lloyd E. Oaks (father) and Stella H. Oaks (mother). Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He later attended law school at the University of Chicago on a three-year full tuition Photo courtesy of the Deseret News Archives. Free Agency and Freedom. Photo by Church Public Affairs, courtesy of Deseret News Archives. In 1954, President Oaks graduated in accounting from BYU with high honors and furthered his education at the University of Chicago Law School. Faith and trust in the Savior helped President Oaks through that experience. In 1971, Elder Oaks accepted the responsibility of serving as the eighth president of Brigham Young University. Your score was how many you missed. November 7, 2006. Dr. Dallin H. Oaks, Justice of the Utah Supreme Court. He was a student at University of Chicago Law School. Then it was on to the University of Chicago Law School. President Oaks was born in Provo, Utah, on August 12, 1932. Of that assignment, he said, “I was pleased to get back into the mainstream of the legal profession. “I assumed he wanted to know about something that happened while I was at BYU or someone I knew there” (Church News, Apr. 1984). Although he planned to work on the Utah Supreme Court until his retirement, only three and a half years after his appointment in 1980 he was called to be an Apostle. Site Search. Dallin H. Oaks speaks to a capacity crowd at his inauguration as president of Brigham Young University in 1971. He served there for nine years, and was then appointed to the Utah Supreme Court. The children eventually returned to live with their mother in Vernal, Utah, where she accepted a teaching position. Second, without any anticipation of June’s predeceasing me, I had kept records throughout our marriage of the gifts and inheritances she received from her parents, including what we purchased with those resources. Upon returning President Hinckley’s call, he heard the Church leader’s words—that the Lord had called him, Dallin Oaks, to be a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Two years later, Elder Oaks married Kristen M. McMain in the Salt Lake Temple. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. President Oaks and his wife, Kristen McMain Oaks, were married in 2000. Brigham Young University audio-visual materials, UA 1300. BYU President Dallin H. Oaks, top right, joins the Young Ambassadors in a cheer before taping in Kyiv, Soviet Union (now Ukraine). Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Dr. Dallin H. Oaks with Elder Ezra Taft Benson at BYU commencement. Station managers liked to hire a “combination man”—a transmitter engineer who could double as an announcer—“but my voice hadn’t changed,” he recalls, laughing. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Before he was eight years old, his father, Dr. Lloyd E. Oaks, died of tuberculosis. “I can’t think of anything in public life I’d rather do than be an appellate judge,” he said. President Oaks served as BYU president and justice of the Utah Supreme Court. For the Oaks family, this was a “happy, exciting” nine years and included the birth of their sixth child after not having a child for 13 years (Church News, 1984). He threw himself into study with characteristic intensity. From 2002 to 2004 he served as Area President in the Philippines. Elder Oaks’s father died when he was 7 years old, and his mother raised the three children on her own. Elder Dallin H. Oaks in October 1985. Born on August 12, 1932, in Provo, Utah, to Lloyd E. and Stella Harris Oaks, President Oaks is the oldest of the couple’s three children. Elder Dallin H. Oaks was called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in April 1984. President Dallin H. Oaks addresses BYU students in his devotional talk in the Marriott Center. She encouraged me to have a job.”. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. At left, President Dallin H. Oaks, First Counselor. From left, Elder Lynn G. Robbins, Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, and Elder Carlos A. Godoy meet together in Lima, Peru, on September 11, 2017. Dallin H. Oaks (1932- ) is an American attorney, jurist, educator, author, public speaker and religious leader.He was formerly a professor of the University of Chicago law school, a justice on the Utah Supreme Court, and president of Brigham Young University. “I rejoice in the opportunity to give my full efforts to bear witness of Jesus Christ and proclaim the truth of His restored gospel.” (See related story.). Witnesses of God. Dallin grew up working to help his widowed mother. V Provu je Misionářské tréninkové centrum, kam odjíždějí mladí lidé na dva měsíce předtím, než odjedou na dvouletou misii. (Screengrab from BYUtv) Apostle Dallin H. Oaks addressed racism and Black lives matter at a Brigham Young University address on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. “When I got off the plane, I called home to see if it had really happened,” he recalled. She encouraged me to have a job,” President Oaks explains. “With all my heart I pledge my loyalty and support for President Nelson’s loving and inspired leadership,” President Oaks said on the day of his call to the First Presidency. In addition to a demanding career, he served in a stake presidency and later as a regional representative. BYU President Dallin H. Oaks doesn't have a lot of spare time, but what he does have he spends with his family. From 1970 to 1971, he also served as executive director of the American Bar Foundation. He won praise for service as legal counsel to the Bill of Rights Committee of the Illinois Constitutional Convention in 1970. As a young man, Dallin’s first job was sweeping out a radio repair shop. She was present for the unveiling of the statue less than three weeks before Dallin Oaks was born. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. “I was blessed with an extraordinary mother,” President Oaks said in an articleon ChurchofJesusChrist.org. After graduation, President Oaks began his law career as a clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court for a year and then moved to a private practice. He accepted the position for the challenge it offered. KristEn M. oaks, ed.d. While there he served as associate dean and acting dean. On April 6, 1984, Utah Supreme Court Justice Dallin H. Oaks was preparing for a confidential meeting with the Public Broadcasting Service board of directors. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Dallin graduated from Brigham Young High School in 1950 and enrolled at BYU. President Oaks planned to serve in that position for 20 years, retire, and serve a mission. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. Oaks was born in Provo, Utah, on August 12, 1932, to Stella Harris and Lloyd E. Oaks. “I rejoice in the opportunity to give my full efforts to bear witness of Jesus Christ and proclaim the truth of His restored gospel.” —President Dallin H. Oaks of the First Presidency. Dallin Oaks (top left), his mother and two siblings after the passing of his father. By President Dallin H. Oaks of the First Presidency Copied to Clipboard This address was given by President Dallin H. Oaks of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at a devotional at BYU–Idaho October 30, 2018. Education and Experience. L. My scores were always around 15 or 16. On August 25, 2000, Dallin H. Oaks married Kristen Meredith McMain in the Salt Lake Temple. Photo by Mark A. Philbrick, BYU. Photo courtesy of Church News archives. BYU President Dallin H. Oaks, left, gets a handshake and hug from President Spencer W. Kimball. President Dallin H. Oaks spoke at the “Be One” celebration of the 40th anniversary of ending the priesthood and temple ban for black LDS.. The First Presidency (below) on January 16, 2018. BYU President Dallin H. Oaks greets Elder Marion G. Romney at a graduation banquet. Dallin Harris Oaks Lawrence R. Flake, Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001), 535–38. Through his mother, he is a 2nd great-grand-nephew of one of the three witnesses to the Book of Mormon, Martin Harris. Sign In Sign Out. He preferred this post to any other office in government. Dallin Oaks’s industry and scholarship won him the opportunity, after graduation, to serve as law clerk for the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. It was 9:30 p.m., and he was eating dinner in a restaurant in Arizona when he received a phone call from President Gordon B. Hinckley, then of the First Presidency. Link to Vita. Dr. Dallin H. Oaks, president of BYU, with President Spencer W. Kimball. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. 1975 Centennial Founder’s Day featured BYU President Dallin H. Oaks riding in horseless carriage. The power of the Priesthood was restored. From 1979 to 1984, he served as chairman of the board of directors of the Public Broadcasting Service. I couldn’t imagine anything I’d enjoy more than what I was doing on the Supreme Court.”. BYU President Dallin H. Oaks delights basketball fans as BYU mascot “Cosmo the Cougar” during a 1978 basketball game. Dr. Dallin H. Oaks at the J. Reuben Clark Law Building. “I had a lot of problems in school,” President Oaks recalled in a Church News article. “She surely was one of the many noble women who have lived in the latter days. In 1980, Holland became the ninth president of BYU, replacing Dallin H. Oaks View Dallin H. Oaks’s professional profile on … In 1963, he was called as second counselor in the presidency of the Chicago South Stake. “I was blessed with an extraordinary mother,” President Oaks recalls. Learn more about guidelines and necessary forms. Dallin H. Oaks, director of the Union Pacific Corp. and Union Pacific Railroad Co. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. All three later served as regional representatives. He is American by natinoanliy. In 1961, the opportunity came to join the University of Chicago law faculty. By President Dallin H. Oaks. Photo by Kristin Murphy, Deseret News. They were married on June 24, 1952, and had six children. President Dallin H. Oaks was named after his mother's favorite artist. Photo courtesy of Deseret News Archives. President Dallin H. Oaks of Brigham Young University demonstrates his prowess at driving a tractor when administrative officials were guests at the university’s 700-acre farm near Spanish Fork. When Brother Sonnenberg was called as president of the Chicago South Stake in 1970, he chose Dallin Oaks as his first counselor. On August 25, 2000, President Oaks married Kristen Meredith McMain in the Salt Lake Temple. On July 21, 1998, June died from cancer. Newly sworn-in Chief Justice Richard J. Maughan administers the oath to Dallin H. Oaks, former BYU president. President Harold B. Lee, left, President Joseph Fielding Smith, and President N. Eldon Tanner sit with Dr. Dallin H. Oaks, new president of BYU, during inauguration rites for Oaks at the Provo campus. During those years President Oaks had to spread his time among many assignments. ‘The thing I liked best this summer,’ the boy replied, ‘was the night you and I laid on the lawn and looked at the stars and talked.’” (Dallin H. Oaks, "Good, Better, Best" 2007 General Conference) “It is up front a calling to spend the rest of your life, full-time, in His service and to spend your life testifying of His plan and His authority and His Atonement and His Resurrection and to participate, as assigned, in the leadership of the Church,” President Oaks explains. And I loved the job. Elder Dallin H. Oaks? Dallin Oaks was a radio announcer at KOVO when he was a student. Then it was on to the University of Chicago Law School. During his ten years as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, he also served as assistant state’s attorney for Cook County, Illinois, during the summer of 1964; as associate dean and acting dean of the law school; and as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School during the summer of 1968. Elder Dallin H. Oaks with his mother, Stella; brother, Merrill; and sister, Evelyn. I remember when we were learning how to do long division. LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson, center, is announced as the 17th President of Church, Tuesday, January 16, 2018. Sister June Oaks passed away in 1998. They toured the milking parlor, granary, calf … Collected Talks of Dallin H. Oaks. President Dallin H. Oaks and Kristen M. Oaks. We had to do 20 long division problems a day. In June of 1981, Justice Dallin H. Oaks speaks to an issue before him. He had to learn to test the tubes he found on the floor, to find out if some were still good, and that led to an interest in radio. She was present at the unveiling of The Pioneer Mother, a monument in Springville, Utah made by Dallin. While there, he oversaw the creation of the J. Reuben Clark Law School and the Graduate Business School. Listen to President Oaks’s most recent general conference address. Of spare time, I called home to see if it had really happened, ” has..., with President Lysle R. 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