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Elder Koelliker to address annual BYU Family History Fireside

Elder Paul E. Koelliker of the First Quorum of Seventy will speak at the annual Brigham Young University Family History Fireside Friday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Joseph Smith Building auditorium.

Admission is free and the public is welcome.

Elder Koelliker serves as the executive director of the Temple Department for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Before his full-time church service, Elder Koelliker worked for the Corporation of the President, serving as secretary to the Presiding Bishopric, managing director of the Priesthood Department, managing director of the Member and Statistical Records Department and managing director of the Temple Department.

He also served on the Board of Directors of Deseret First Credit Union for 25 years, and he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from the University of Utah.

The fireside is sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy at BYU.

For more information, visit familyhistory.byu.edu/firesides.asp.

Writer: Brian Rust

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