Marianne C. Sharp
Born: 28 October 1901
Called as First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency: 6 April 1945
Released: 3 October 1974
Died: 2 January 1990
Called as First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency: 6 April 1945
Released: 3 October 1974
Died: 2 January 1990
Biographical Articles
Relief Society Magazine, October 1943, Marianne C. Sharp
Relief Society Magazine, May 1945, Marianne Clark Sharp
Relief Society Magazine, May 1945, Marianne Clark Sharp
Lyman, Amy Brown. "Marianne C. Sharp." Relief Society Magazine. October 1943. pg. 593, 613-614.
Marianne C. Sharp Appointed Associate Editor of Relief Society Magazine
President Amy Brown Lyman
THE General Presidency of Relief Society is pleased to announce the appointment, August 1, 1943, of Marianne C. Sharp as associate editor of The Relief Society Magazine. Mrs. Sharp, wife of Ivor Sharp, manager of KSL, and daughter of President and Mrs. J. Reuben Clark, Jr., has been a member of the Relief Society General Board since its reorganization January 1940. Soon after the appointment of the editor. Belle S. Spafford, as counselor to President Amy Brown Lyman in December 1942, Mrs. Sharp began serving as assistant to the editor. She has given excellent service in this capacity, taking the major responsibility in the selection and preparation of Magazine material. Her editorial ability is not only reflected in recent issues of the Magazine, but also in A Centenary of Relief Society published by the General Board in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Society. Mrs. Sharp and Counselor Belle S. Spafford were appointed by the Board to serve as the committee on the preparation of this book. Mrs. Sharp's contribution to the general excellence of the publication was important and valuable. She has a natural interest in historical happenings, and this book bears evidence of the thoroughness of her re- search, her good judgment in evaluating historical events, and the accuracy with which she records historical facts.
Mrs. Sharp received her grade and high school training in Washington, D.C., where the Clark family lived for a number of years. During her senior year in high school, she edited the high school yearbook and school paper. When the family moved from the East to Utah, Marianne entered the University of Utah, where she majored in ancient languages, and was graduated with High Honors. In her senior year she was given a teaching fellowship in Latin and continued teaching Latin at the University and Stewart Training School after graduation.
Mrs. Sharp is a staunch, orthodox Latter-day Saint. She knows and understands the doctrines of the Church and is obedient to Church teachings. She has been active in Church auxiliary work, having taught in the Sunday School and Primary organizations, and for one year she served as chairman of the Queen's Branch, New York, Genealogical Committee. She is thoroughly familiar with all phases of Relief Society work. While living in New York for a period of eleven years, she served continuously in the Relief Society, first as literature and theology class leader and then as president of the Queen's Branch Society.
Later, when New York Stake was created, she served on the Relief Society stake board and as counselor to President Lorena Fletcher. She also represented Relief Society on the National Woman's Radio Committee. After returning to Utah from New York, she continued her Relief Society work as literature class leader in the Twentieth Ward of Ensign Stake until she was called to be a member of the General Board.
Mrs. Sharp has a fine intellect, discriminating judgment, and excellent literary taste. She is sensitive to the reading interests and needs of Latter-day Saint women, and meticulous in the preparation of Magazine material. She is willing to work long and hard to maintain high standards of excellence. Her husband and her young daughters, Luacine, Louise, and Annetta, are interested in her work and fully cooperate with her. Mrs. Sharp assumes her duties well-equipped to carry the responsible position of associate editor of The Relief Society Magazine.
Marianne C. Sharp Appointed Associate Editor of Relief Society Magazine
President Amy Brown Lyman
THE General Presidency of Relief Society is pleased to announce the appointment, August 1, 1943, of Marianne C. Sharp as associate editor of The Relief Society Magazine. Mrs. Sharp, wife of Ivor Sharp, manager of KSL, and daughter of President and Mrs. J. Reuben Clark, Jr., has been a member of the Relief Society General Board since its reorganization January 1940. Soon after the appointment of the editor. Belle S. Spafford, as counselor to President Amy Brown Lyman in December 1942, Mrs. Sharp began serving as assistant to the editor. She has given excellent service in this capacity, taking the major responsibility in the selection and preparation of Magazine material. Her editorial ability is not only reflected in recent issues of the Magazine, but also in A Centenary of Relief Society published by the General Board in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Society. Mrs. Sharp and Counselor Belle S. Spafford were appointed by the Board to serve as the committee on the preparation of this book. Mrs. Sharp's contribution to the general excellence of the publication was important and valuable. She has a natural interest in historical happenings, and this book bears evidence of the thoroughness of her re- search, her good judgment in evaluating historical events, and the accuracy with which she records historical facts.
Mrs. Sharp received her grade and high school training in Washington, D.C., where the Clark family lived for a number of years. During her senior year in high school, she edited the high school yearbook and school paper. When the family moved from the East to Utah, Marianne entered the University of Utah, where she majored in ancient languages, and was graduated with High Honors. In her senior year she was given a teaching fellowship in Latin and continued teaching Latin at the University and Stewart Training School after graduation.
Mrs. Sharp is a staunch, orthodox Latter-day Saint. She knows and understands the doctrines of the Church and is obedient to Church teachings. She has been active in Church auxiliary work, having taught in the Sunday School and Primary organizations, and for one year she served as chairman of the Queen's Branch, New York, Genealogical Committee. She is thoroughly familiar with all phases of Relief Society work. While living in New York for a period of eleven years, she served continuously in the Relief Society, first as literature and theology class leader and then as president of the Queen's Branch Society.
Later, when New York Stake was created, she served on the Relief Society stake board and as counselor to President Lorena Fletcher. She also represented Relief Society on the National Woman's Radio Committee. After returning to Utah from New York, she continued her Relief Society work as literature class leader in the Twentieth Ward of Ensign Stake until she was called to be a member of the General Board.
Mrs. Sharp has a fine intellect, discriminating judgment, and excellent literary taste. She is sensitive to the reading interests and needs of Latter-day Saint women, and meticulous in the preparation of Magazine material. She is willing to work long and hard to maintain high standards of excellence. Her husband and her young daughters, Luacine, Louise, and Annetta, are interested in her work and fully cooperate with her. Mrs. Sharp assumes her duties well-equipped to carry the responsible position of associate editor of The Relief Society Magazine.
Lyman, Amy Brown. "Marianne Clark Sharp." Relief Society Magazine. May 1945. pg. 262-264.
Marianne Clark Sharp
First Counselor in General Presidency, April 1945
President Amy Brown Lyman
IT was while attending a Relief Society convention in New York City more than a decade ago, that I first learned of the excellent service being rendered the organization by Marianne Clark Sharp, the newly appointed first counselor in the general presidency of the Relief Society, who then resided there. She was pointed out as one of the ablest and most faithful workers in that locality and, best of all, one who was willing and happy to work wherever she was most needed. It mattered not to her whether it was as class leader, visiting teacher, officer, or lay member, her interest and enthusiasm in the work she had to do was always of the highest quality. She served while in New York as literature and theology class leader, president of Queen’s Branch Society, stake board member, and finally as stake counselor to Mrs. Lorena Fletcher. Mrs. Howard R. Driggs, also of New York, remarked at that time that Marianne would make a very excellent General Board member, and she expressed the hope that some day she would see her working in this capacity.
It was only natural, after her return to Utah, that Sister Sharp should continue her work in the Relief Society cause. Her devotion and efficiency were soon recognized in both ward and stake where her work as a class leader became so outstanding that no one who knew her or her accomplishments was surprised at the call that came to her, in January 1940, to serve as a member of the General Board. And now at this time, her appointment, on April 6, 1945, first counselor in the general presidency of the organization is heartily approved by Relief Society women generally, and especially by her fellow Board members who know her best and appreciate her most.
Blessed with a noble heritage, a rich background, rare native endowments, broad education and training, and with unwavering faith in the gospel of the Master, Sister Sharp is especially well fitted for this place of honor and trust. She is also blessed with the support of a devoted and understanding has band, a Christian gentleman of the highest order, and a faithful Latter day Saint. Ivor Sharp to whom she was married in 1927 is the present manager of KSL. He came to this position from the Long Lines Department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in New York City. He is known in the business world as a man of fine character, outstanding ability and distinction, and is loved, honored, and respected by his associates in business as well as by his fellow workers in the Church. There are three lovely and interesting children in the Sharp home—Luacine (Sally) Louise, and Annetta. To these children the parents are devoted.
Sister Sharp is the daughter of President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church, and the late Luacine Savage Clark. Theirs was a home where the standards of the Church were always strictly observed, and where the children were taught faith in God and in the latter-day work, that the greatest joy and satisfaction came to those who adhere to the religious life. Sister Luacine Savage Clark also loved and was devoted to Relief Society and its ideals, and worked in the organization all of her mature life. Her heart is no doubt made glad with joy and pride to have this greatly deserved honor come to her sweet and lovely daughter Marianne.
DURING her five years service on the General Board, Sister Sharp has visited conferences and conventions and she has served on a number of important committees. Her major work, however, has been in the editorial field. With her discriminating judgment, quickness of perception, clarity of mind, and her capacity for work, and with the diligence and dispatch with which she works, she has given invaluable service as an editor. She assisted our new General President Belle S. Spafford in compiling, preparing, and editing A Centenary of Relief Society, published by the General Board during our centennial year, 1942. For a period she was assistant to Sister Spafford, the editor of The Relief Society Magazine, and, in 1943, was named associate editor in which capacity she has served since that time. The many positions which Marianne has held have all come to her unsought. She has accepted these calls because she is obedient and because of her sense of service and her ardent desire to do something helpful for her Church and for her community.
Sister Sharp received her education in the grade and high schools of Washington, D. C. and at the University of Utah. From the latter institution she was graduated, in 1924, with high honors. She was awarded a teaching fellowship in Latin during her senior year and she continued teaching that subject at the University after her graduation.
Sister Sharp has rare gifts of spirit, mind and heart, with a deep humility. She is frank and honest, tender and sympathetic. She is generous and appreciative of the work and ability of others. While she has clearcut, positive views, she is always open minded and teachable, always ready to listen to the views of others. But with her right and principle must come first. Above all else she is loyal to those placed in authority over her and gives them full support. She has great reverence for and is always obedient to the Priesthood. With these fine characteristics and qualifications her future is sure to be one of achievement.
Marianne Clark Sharp
First Counselor in General Presidency, April 1945
President Amy Brown Lyman
IT was while attending a Relief Society convention in New York City more than a decade ago, that I first learned of the excellent service being rendered the organization by Marianne Clark Sharp, the newly appointed first counselor in the general presidency of the Relief Society, who then resided there. She was pointed out as one of the ablest and most faithful workers in that locality and, best of all, one who was willing and happy to work wherever she was most needed. It mattered not to her whether it was as class leader, visiting teacher, officer, or lay member, her interest and enthusiasm in the work she had to do was always of the highest quality. She served while in New York as literature and theology class leader, president of Queen’s Branch Society, stake board member, and finally as stake counselor to Mrs. Lorena Fletcher. Mrs. Howard R. Driggs, also of New York, remarked at that time that Marianne would make a very excellent General Board member, and she expressed the hope that some day she would see her working in this capacity.
It was only natural, after her return to Utah, that Sister Sharp should continue her work in the Relief Society cause. Her devotion and efficiency were soon recognized in both ward and stake where her work as a class leader became so outstanding that no one who knew her or her accomplishments was surprised at the call that came to her, in January 1940, to serve as a member of the General Board. And now at this time, her appointment, on April 6, 1945, first counselor in the general presidency of the organization is heartily approved by Relief Society women generally, and especially by her fellow Board members who know her best and appreciate her most.
Blessed with a noble heritage, a rich background, rare native endowments, broad education and training, and with unwavering faith in the gospel of the Master, Sister Sharp is especially well fitted for this place of honor and trust. She is also blessed with the support of a devoted and understanding has band, a Christian gentleman of the highest order, and a faithful Latter day Saint. Ivor Sharp to whom she was married in 1927 is the present manager of KSL. He came to this position from the Long Lines Department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in New York City. He is known in the business world as a man of fine character, outstanding ability and distinction, and is loved, honored, and respected by his associates in business as well as by his fellow workers in the Church. There are three lovely and interesting children in the Sharp home—Luacine (Sally) Louise, and Annetta. To these children the parents are devoted.
Sister Sharp is the daughter of President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church, and the late Luacine Savage Clark. Theirs was a home where the standards of the Church were always strictly observed, and where the children were taught faith in God and in the latter-day work, that the greatest joy and satisfaction came to those who adhere to the religious life. Sister Luacine Savage Clark also loved and was devoted to Relief Society and its ideals, and worked in the organization all of her mature life. Her heart is no doubt made glad with joy and pride to have this greatly deserved honor come to her sweet and lovely daughter Marianne.
DURING her five years service on the General Board, Sister Sharp has visited conferences and conventions and she has served on a number of important committees. Her major work, however, has been in the editorial field. With her discriminating judgment, quickness of perception, clarity of mind, and her capacity for work, and with the diligence and dispatch with which she works, she has given invaluable service as an editor. She assisted our new General President Belle S. Spafford in compiling, preparing, and editing A Centenary of Relief Society, published by the General Board during our centennial year, 1942. For a period she was assistant to Sister Spafford, the editor of The Relief Society Magazine, and, in 1943, was named associate editor in which capacity she has served since that time. The many positions which Marianne has held have all come to her unsought. She has accepted these calls because she is obedient and because of her sense of service and her ardent desire to do something helpful for her Church and for her community.
Sister Sharp received her education in the grade and high schools of Washington, D. C. and at the University of Utah. From the latter institution she was graduated, in 1924, with high honors. She was awarded a teaching fellowship in Latin during her senior year and she continued teaching that subject at the University after her graduation.
Sister Sharp has rare gifts of spirit, mind and heart, with a deep humility. She is frank and honest, tender and sympathetic. She is generous and appreciative of the work and ability of others. While she has clearcut, positive views, she is always open minded and teachable, always ready to listen to the views of others. But with her right and principle must come first. Above all else she is loyal to those placed in authority over her and gives them full support. She has great reverence for and is always obedient to the Priesthood. With these fine characteristics and qualifications her future is sure to be one of achievement.