Forace George Green photograph collection

Collection

Identifier: P0729

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Forace George Green photographs consist of images related to the life of Green (1910-1988), a Utah journalist, publisher, and author. The scrapbooks contain photographs, correspondence, greeting cards, programs, news clippings, postcards, family histories, and a variety of personal memorabilia.

Dates

1910-1968

Creator

Green, Forace George, 1910- (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Conditions Governing Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Biographical Sketch

Forace George Green was born to George Alfred Green Jr. and Lucy May Brady Green on 30 June 1910 in Union, Utah. He became a Boy Scout in 1924 at the age of 14 and remained active in scouting for the rest of his life. From 1930 to 1933, Green served a mission for the LDS Church in the eastern United States as Scout Commissioner. He returned from his mission in 1933 and entered Brigham Young University. The following year, he married Edna I. Lauritzen in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. The couple lived in Provo until 1936, when Green received his degree in journalism. That same year, Green received his Eagle Scout badge and began publishing the South Lake Herald. In 1944, he began the Granite Park Press, and four years later he became the scouting editor of the Deseret News. In 1955, he started the LDS Book Club, patterned after the Book of the Month Club. He was also the owner and operator of the Union Beaver Ranch. In 1965, the Greens moved to Kanab where Forace was active in LDS Church affairs and wrote a column for the Southern Utah News. The Greens traveled to Europe, Hawaii, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and other countries with church-sponsored groups.