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Elder Quentin L. Cook to speak at BYU devotional March 13

March 07, 2007

Elder Quentin L. Cook, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be featured at a Brigham Young University devotional Tuesday, March 13 at 11:05 a.m. in the Marriott Center.

The devotional will be broadcast live on the BYU Broadcasting channels. For rebroadcast information, visit byubroadcasting.org.

Elder Cook was sustained as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy in April 1998 after serving in the Second Quorum for two years. He is serving as executive directory of the Missionary Department.

At the time of his 1996 call, he was vice chairman of Sutter Health System. He had previously served as president and chief executive officer of California Healthcare System. Prior to that, he was a managing partner of Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson and Horn, a San Francisco Bay Area law firm.

Writer: Elizabeth Kasper

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Photo by Mark A. Philbrick/BYU Photo

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