![]() ![]() She also penned Something Extraordinary, which celebrated the Relief Society Sesquicentennial. Delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations, and she advocated abstinence and monogamy to combat AIDS and other global ills. In March 2003 the White House appointed her as a member of the U.S. The first shipment of 6,500 books was sent to Ghana and Fiji in July 2005. ![]() After a 1999 trip to Ghana, Dew began to spearhead a humanitarian program to send children's books to impoverished areas of the world. ![]() She served as second counselor in the General Relief Society from 1997 to 2002, the first non-married woman ever to achieve such a high position in the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She had a hook shot, a post-up move, a jump shot, and she could move under the basket to get free for shots. She was a star player in basketball-crazy Kansas at a tiny high school in Ulysses (population 4,000), averaging 23 points and 17 rebounds a game. There, the girl who longed to be petite and pretty discovered her 5 foot 10 size was no longer a curse, but a blessing. Perhaps there was no place, besides a chapel, that she was more comfortable or confident than on a basketball court. She wanted to be a college basketball player. ![]()
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