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25 years ago
An area conference session in Los Angeles, Calif., presided over by President Spencer W. Kimball, was attended by a congregation of 75,000, according to the May 24, 1980, Church News.
The article stated that the greatest number attending one of the sessions of the May 17-18 conference in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif., was 75,000 on Sunday morning.
Photos accompanying the article showed the nearly full stadium which is best known as the site of the collegiate Rose Bowl football game on New Year's Day each year.
The conference was translated into seven languages: Spanish, Samoan, Korean, Vietnamese, Tongan, Mandarin and Cantonese.
General Authorities attending with President Kimball were his second counselor, President Marion G. Romney; Elder Howard W. Hunter and Elder David B. Haight of the Quorum of the Twelve; Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone of the Seventy; and Presiding Bishop Victor L. Brown. Relief Society General President Barbara B. Smith and Young Women General President Elaine A. Cannon also attended.
The article stated that as President Kimball stood at the podium, "the spiritual impact of the occasion brought the audience to a reverent silence as the prophet spoke."
Members attended from the Mexican border on the south to San Luis Obispo on the north, and from as far away as Yuma, Ariz., on the east. Southern California membership at that time was listed as 250,000 in 75 stakes.
