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Date: August 02, 2022 01:53PM
In follow-up internet noodling on this topic, I came across the following:
“In July 1982, William R. Bradford of the First Quorum of Seventy became executive administrator of Japan and Korea and immediately raised the level of qualifications for baptism as follows:
1. Lessons should be taught over a period of at least three weeks.
2. Investigators should complete all of the missionary discussions prior to baptism.
3. Potential converts should attend sacrament meeting at least three times
4. The baptism date should be set by the bishop and missionaries, and the convert.
5. A missionary should interview the investigator a few days before baptism.
6. The bishop should hold a separate interview to orient the investigator and welcome him or her to the ward.”
Footnote 58, Journal of Mormon HistoryVol. 36, No. 4, Fall 2010Hasty Baptisms in Japan: The Early 1980s...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23291122#metadata_info_tab_contents(I had to register with jstor.org to get access, but it's free and overall, probably well worth the effort, in that you can read 100 articles a month, but I believe you have to pay to download. But copying and pasting appears to be unrestricted.
What would be the purpose of “raising” baptism qualifications, in the same month that Groberg was released, other than recognition of the abuses of the Kikuchi-Groberg program? The footnote for what I copied says that it comes from a memorandum issued by its author which the article's writer copied. I suspect that the memo did not describe itself as a cure for the Groberg misdeeds, but was simply a note regarding how things would proceed in a post-Groberg era.