 From the end of World War II until 1977 Hansen had also served as director of the Hill Cumorah Pageant.In 1977 Hansen was replaced as director of the Hill Cumorah Pageant by Jack Paul Sederholm, who had studied at BYU and was then chair of the communications art department at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.Sederholm had served for 12 years previously as Hansen's chief assistant.