Mormon Times: Interviews with Dennis Lifferth

The economic downturn weighed heavily on the minds of members of the General Welfare Committee of the LDS Church at a meeting about a year ago. Dennis R. Lifferth, managing director of Welfare Services for the church, remembered the meeting that included the First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve, seven presidents of the Seventy, Presiding Bishopric and Relief Society general presidency.

The following are a 4 part series including interviews with Dennis R. Lifferth.

Part 1: Welfare: Helping the bishops
Part 2: Welfare: Self-reliance isn't selfish

Part 3: Welfare: Finding employment

Part 4: Welfare: The Power of cooperation


http://www.mormontimes.com/around_church/general_authority/?id=7812

Dave Lifferth on ESPN2

ESPN2: Dave Lifferth on ESPN2

Many people know me as a Rabid Soccer fan, but few have ever documented this on video. This is a frame from the 10/09/08 broadcast. I was an enthusiastic spectator and came home hoarse from enthusiastically supporting my team.

Last night was the Inaugural Game for Real Salt Lake at the new Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy. ESPN2 covered the game in a nation-wide broadcast.

One of the first video sequences of the new stadium was of me, David Lifferth, yelling and clapping with enthusiasm. Shortly after this video was shown, I had 4 members of my family text me on my cell phone telling me that they had just seen me on ESPN2.

The new Rio Tinto stadium is an amazing athletic venue. It remindes me of the world-class facilities that I have been to in Spain and England. It is every bit the outdoor equivalent of the Delta Center is polished state of the art facility. The "Jumbo Tron" is crisp in high resolution and very close to the fans.

The game ended in a disappointing tie, RSL 1-NY Red Bulls 1. Real needs at least one more win to ensure that they are in the playoffs.

SS George Washington

I put some of this information together for last years (2007) German Dinner. The details of the ship that EE and Gretchen Lifferth immigrated on in 1921 to the U.S.A. has a fascinating history.

This is the history of the SS George Washington ship from EllisIsland.org. Click here to go to the SS George Washington page on EllisIsland.org:

Built by A/G Vulcan Shipyard, Stettin, Germany, 1909. 25,570 gross tons;
723 (bp) feet long; 72 feet wide. Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin
screw. Service speed 18 1/2 knots. 2,679 passengers (568 first class, 433
second class, 1,678 third class).Two funnels and four masts, reduced to one
funnel 1943.

Built for North German Lloyd, German flag, in 1909 and named George
Washington. Bremerhaven-New York service. Interned at New York at the
start of World War I in 1914. Seized by United States Government, American flag,
in 1917 and renamed USS George Washington. Also Bremerhaven-New
York service. Transferred to U.S. Shipping Board, in 1920 and renamed George
Washington. New York Plymouth Cherbourg Bremen service. Chartered to United
States Mail Lines. Laid up U.S. Shipping Board, in 1932. Laid up at Patuxent
River, Maryland until WWII. Transferred to United States Navy, American
flag, in 1940 and renamed Caitlin. British transport but returned due to malfunctioning boilers. Transferred to U.S. authorities, in 1941 and reverted to George Washington. Panama and New York, then US Army transport service. Completely destroyed by a fire at Baltimore; wreckage scrapped in 1951.

Size Comparisons

To get a comparison of sizes between the SS George Washington, I put several landmarks of interest together.

• 882 feet - Titanic


• 723 feet - SS George Washington


• 305 feet (including base) - Statue of Liberty


• 1,472 feet - Empire State Building

Here are several photos that I have found of the SS George Washington, also known as the USS George Washington and the Caitlin.

Lifferth Soccer Obsession

This is a fun video that I put together at few years ago. Our lives pretty much revolve around the sport of soccer.

Let it Snow at the Ampitheater in Eagle Mountain

This has been a big snow year in Utah. This is a video that I made of a day of playing in the snow at the Eagle Mountain ampatheater.

WorldVitalRecords.com company video with Lifferth photos

This is the recent company video that we did at WorldVitalRecords.com. It contains several Lifferth family photos. Can you identify which ones are my family's photos?

Karl Harwood's video on Gotha Germany

Below are the 3 parts of Karl Harwoods video on Gotha Germany including his interview with Wolfgang Lifferth. I had to break the video up into 3 pieces becuase YouTube will only support 10 minute video clips. This is the video that was shown during the Lifferth Family German Dinner program in 2008.

Part I



Part II


Part III



I loved the Johnny Cash soundtrack to the video. I grew up in Tennessee and heard a lot of Johnny Cash music. I know that Karl is a Cash fan and the sound track of the video worked well.

At first I thought that Karl had found some music by a German singer that did a good Johnny Cash impression thathad translated the lyrics in to German.
Part I

I googled and found out that Johnny Cash had served in the US Air Force in Germany in the 1950's as a Morse Code Decoder on Russian Army transmissions. One of his claims to fame is that he was the first American to discover that Joseph Stalin had died. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash