Memory
My grandfather was a friend of Henry Eyring
My grandfather Martin Mortensen was on the Faculty of Gila Academy, and Henry Eyring was one of his students. My grandfather later taught Science Education at what became Arizona State University. He and Henry Eyring kept in touch over the years. Once, while visiting Salt Lake, my grandfather and uncle went to the University to visit Brother Eyring. At that time he had a secretary whose job it was to keep out unwelcome visitors. As soon as Brother Eyring saw who it was he invited my grandafather in and they reminensced about old times in Arizona. My aunt and uncle have memories of visiting the Edward Eyring house in Pima. My cousin was able to read the interview with Henry Eyring published in Dialgoue in 1974 and it brought back many memories for him.
My grandfather, like Henry Eyring was a man of science who also had great faith. They both believed that the scriptures told us why the world was created, while science could teach us how it was created and how long it took the Lord to do it.
I hope that one thing this biography will do is to make more people aware of the B.H Roberts, James E. Talmadge, John A. Widstoe and Henry Eyring tradition of seeking to integrate the scientific and spiritual perspective. I am proud to be an insignifcant contemporary part of that tradition. Like Henry J. Eyring , the author of this wonderful biography, I think it is in our DNA.