Church Leadership
In 1905, Fox was asked to be the first counselor to Martha Horne Tingey in the general presidency of the LDS Church's Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association. Fox served in this capacity until 1929, when church president Heber J. Grant asked Fox to become the third general president of the YLMIA.
During her tenure as president, Fox changed the name of the organization to the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association and replaced the organization's slogans with scriptural themes. In 1930, Fox wrote the hymn "Carry On", a song that is now associated with the Young Women and Young Men Organizations of the LDS Church; in 1995, "Carry On" was adopted by Gordon B. Hinckley as the theme of his tenure as President of the Church.
Fox served until 1937, when she was succeeded by her own first counselor, Lucy Grant Cannon.
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