65 years ago today - Mar 24, 1960

The First Presidency writes the General Priesthood Committee about the "very urgent need of a correlation of studies among the auxiliaries of the Church," which Apostle Harold B. Lee had unsuccessfully advocated to the Presidency since 1948 and publicly announces on 30 Sept. 1961. However, Lee expands the "Correlation Program" beyond instruction manuals, and throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, he revolutionizes the church administratively by means of the Correlation Program.

[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]