New Era

September 1979

Volume 9, Number 8

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: “Whose Help Would You Rather Have?”
  Elder William Grant Bangerter

• Talk of the Month: Television and Time
  Elder F. Burton Howard

• Mormonad

• Participatory Journalism: The History Lesson
  Wes Stephenson

• Mormonisms

• FYI: For Your Information

• Photo of the Month
  Robert Clarke

• Feature Articles

• BYU Sounds at Home and Abroad
  Kathleen Lubeck

• How to Eat an Elephant—Or Plan Your Life (As the Case May Be)
  Kent S. Larsen

• They Left Their Hearts …
  Melvin Leavitt

• Kaiserslautern: A Place to Learn
  Richard M. Romney

• Your Charge: To Increase in Wisdom and Favor with God and Man
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Fiction and Poetry

• Last of the Big-Time Spenders
  Jack Weyland

• Crinkled Autumn
  Adrienne Lowden

Front cover: Melanie and Jackie Howells and friend Petra Backer on stairs at their German high school. Back cover: Scenes from Kaiserslautern and Rodenbach, Germany. See story on page 24