Here is our current list of the Utah Bostonians together with some "Since Boston" bios.

Note:  This list was originally compiled for our August 9, 2005 mini-reunion and has been periodically updated since then. Please review the list and send any updates, suggestions, questions or comments to khprice@aol.com.

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Quick Find Links: Archibald, Backman, Bracy, Browning, Burgess, Bushman, Cannon, Cardall, Derr, Durham, Eastman/Stewart, Evans, Eyre, Giauque, Hawes, Hinckley, Jensen, Johnson, Lloyd, Lyon, Mackey, Nadauld, Nagel, Oswald, Owens, Plummer, Price, Reynolds, Spencer, Stewart, Stoddard, Thurston, VanDam,

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Nolan and Margaret Archibald - margaret@archibalds.tv 

Original - 2005 - (Note by KP:) Archibalds still live in Potomac, MD but also have a place in Park City.  They were in Africa picking up a missionary at the time of our 2005 reunion.  Perhaps next time.

Update 6/15/2015 - We are extremely interested in joining you - if only we were in Utah.... Maybe one of these times we'll be lucky and be there.  Let us host the next one (3 years? or sooner?) in Park City so we can join in the fun.  It's such a great idea and we would love to see everyone.  

Update 8/25/2021 - Following graduation from HBS, I was invited to attend the Chicago Bulls Rookie Camp. I did not make the Bulls but was offered a contract to play for the Pittsburgh Pipers in the rival ABA. I decided I would have a better career in business than as a professional basketball player. I worked for three companies: Conroy Inc (where I was fired), Beatrice Foods (where I worked for a crazy man – Jim Dutt), and Black & Decker (where I served as CEO for 24 years). Since Boston, we have lived in Montreal; Burlington, VT; San Antonio, TX; Dayton, OH; Orange County, CA; Chicago, IL; and Washington DC, where we’ve been for the last 35 years. We had a child in each location (which technically is not true but makes for a better story) until Margaret declared, “No more moves!”

I have absolutely loved my business career, especially my 24 years at Black & Decker, which is now a $16 billion company (Stanley Black & Decker), with iconic brand names such as Black & Decker, DeWalt, Stanley, Craftsman, Porter Cable, Bostitch, etc. I have also served on the Boards of ITT Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Brunswick, Associates of HBS, Johns Hopkins University, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and currently as Vice Chairman and Lead Director of the Huntsman Corporation.

I have served as Bishop twice, Stake President of the Washington DC Stake for eight years, and an Area Seventy for six years. We have seven sons and one daughter, and 36 grandchildren. Seven graduated from BYU. One graduated from Harvard College and received his MBA from Stanford. One graduated from the Duke Medical School and the five-year Johns Hopkins University Orthopedic Surgery residence program. Five other sons graduated from HBS.

I currently spend my time managing my Red Ledges community development in Heber City and the Boards on which I currently serve.

 

 

Jim and Lynn Backman - 1573 Spyglass Hill Drive, Draper, UT  84020, Tel: 385-529-3999, backmanj@law.byu.edu (new email current as of July 2015) 

Original 2005 - After leaving Boston in August 1969, I completed law school at the University of Utah.  I began my 31-year teaching career at Brigham Young University Law School in 1974.  It is a wonderful home base.  During that time, Carolyn and I raised five boys and our daughter, Heidi, in Provo.  We spent additional years in Germany as LDS Church legal counsel from 1982-84, during the time when arrangements were being made for temples in Frankfurt, Stockholm, and in Freiberg, Germany.  My contributions to our law school programs have culminated in a broad-based internship program for our students.  This summer more than 200 students gained valuable legal experience and earned law school credit in legal positions across the country and in more than two dozen international locations.  I also had the privilege of being the founding director of BYU's Jacobsen Center for Service and Learning in 1999.  When we became empty nesters, Carolyn felt driven by health situationsto live the rest of her life alone, and we had an amiable but emotionally difficult divorce in 2001.  I met and married my high school friend, Lynn Kimball, who had been a widow for almost four years and we have been married for 3 1/2 years.  She and I had been the king and queen of the East High junior prom and served together as head cheerleader and student body president in the Class of 1962.  It is a joy sharing our lives and our special families together.  We have a new home on South Mountain in Draper near the site of the newly announced temple.

Update July 2015 - (KP note:) Jim and Lynn are now serving a mission in England. They write: "3 ½ years of marriage is now 13 years. How the time flies. We are loving our time in England, of course. I have interesting assignments as Associate Area Legal Counsel as a service missionary. Lynn serves as a temple worker in the Preston, England Temple. If you have a chance to visit us, we have a nice three-bedroom home in Chorley (near Manchester, Preston and Liverpool). It is ideal for visiting Northern England including the Lake District, nearby Scotland, Yorkshire, etc. ... Best wishes"

Update September 2024 - We sold our South Mountain (Draper) Home after 20 years. We have moved in September 2024 to a life plan, active retirement community at Summit Vista in Taylorsville. It is an independent living community for our age without any comparison for quality and service. We would love to have any of you visit us for lunch or dinner in the upcoming weeks or months to order off menus in one of the three restaurants in our first of three club houses. We are in the fifth of 18 residential buildings with 100 residences in each building. The investors are Kem Gardner, Tag Romney with Mitt Romney family resources and Dell Loy Hansen. We are very pleased as we enter the next 20 year chapter of our lives. I loved serving 5 years as a service missionary at the FamilySearch Library downtown and as an ordinance worker this past year at the Draper Temple.

 

 

Bill and Chris Bracy - 8274 S. Set Point Circle, Sandy, UT 84093, Chris cell: 385-256-3149, Home: 801-944-9700, cbracy@gmail.com 

In Memorium - Bill passed away on January 25, 2023. Click HERE to view Bill's obituary.

Original - 2005 - After 38 years of marriage, 25+ moves, four children with twice as many degrees (but no grandchildren), we've moved back to SLC.  We will celebrate three marriages in the next six months and our first grandchild.  Had our teeth cleaned this morning for the party.  If anything significant happens this afternoon, we'll add a PS.

Update - 10/10/2021 - After telling us a little more about Tom & Louise Plummer's Covid experience (see Plummers below), Bill continued:

"Chris and I are heavily involved with a couple of aging and compromised sisters, plus a few neighbors. Christine’s sister-in-law entered an assisted living facility a month ago with about twenty residents who have a lot of interaction during the day. Another close friend’s funeral was last Saturday, and we’re now involved with the husband.

"Chris and I have both had booster shots and the special annual flu shots for seniors. We’re not too concerned about ourselves, but it seems prudent for us to avoid various gatherings in order to minimize the risk of spreading something to those we’re visiting in close quarters on a regular basis.

"Sorry to bow out on such late notice. We trust you’ll have a wonderful evening together.

"We got back from Iceland mid-September after a wonderful two weeks with Becca and her friend Liz from junior high days. We were tested for Covid three times both here and there during the time. People were fully masked and practicing social distancing during the entire trip. Chris is planning to travel to Paris early December, again with Becca and Layne’s wife Amy, who served a French Canadian mission years ago, but has never been to France. We’re also planning to spend two weeks over Christmas with Anne and her family in Ithaca. So we’re not exactly hibernating, but choosing our exceptions very carefully."

 

Gary & Joan Browning - 436 Stadium Avenue, Provo, UT  84604-1843, Tel: 801-377-9890, browningaryandjoan@gmail.com  

9/30/2021 - We note with sadness that JoAnn passed away on Sept. 25th after attending her 60th High School Reunion in Spokane. Here's a link to the obituary: https://www.bergmortuary.com/obituaries/Joan-Browning-2/#!/Obituary

Update 8/12/2012 - Gary and Joan Browning lived in Holden Green in Cambridge while Gary studied Slavic languages and literatures. Joan served as Relief Society President under bishops Richard Bushman and Jamie Lyon, and then again in her Provo ward.  Her specialties continue to be humanitarian and compassionate service – and quilting!  Since leaving Harvard, Gary taught Russian language and literature at BYU.  He served two terms as department chair and was the director and then dean of University Honors.  From 1990 to 1993 he served as president of the Finland Helsinki East Mission, which was divided early in 1992 into the Russia Moscow and the Russia St. Petersburg Missions.  Gary and Joan were assigned to Moscow.  In 2004 President Boyd K. Packer ordained Gary a patriarch.  His calling is to give patriarchal blessings only in Russian in the Europe East Area.  He flies mainly to Russia four or more times a year and stays for three weeks, typically voicing seven blessings a day while here.  Gary and Joan also served at the BYU Jerusalem Center as a volunteer service couple from 2006 to 2008.  They are the parents of five children and, to this point, have 12 grandchildren.

Note from 6/15/2015 - "Thanks, Kent, for your welcome invitation.  However, I leave for a patriarchal trip to Yekaterinburg, Russia, on July 12th and return only on the 29th.  Perhaps we can attend the next reunion  in three more years!  Warm regards, Gary and Joan"

 

 

Vicky Burgess - P. O. Box 511244, Salt Lake City, UT, 801-359-9255, drvictoriaburgess@gmail.com (7/14/2015)

Update 11/29/2012 - We just recently got in contact with Vicky who was in Boston in the late sixties.  We're looking forward to having her join us at the next reunion.  Vicky has a very extensive resume which you can see by clicking HERE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard & Claudia Bushman - Tel: 646-245-7093, RLB7@columbia.edu 

Original 2005 - The Bushmans stayed in Boston until 1977 when Richard took a position at the University of Delaware and Claudia put the finishing touches on her Ph.D. dissertation in American Studies at Boston University.  Since then we have been writing and publishing at a pretty steady pace.  Claudia became director of the Delaware Heritage Commission until we moved to New York City and Richard began teaching at Columbia.  Richard retired in 2001 to concentrate on a biography of Joseph Smith and Claudia still teaches in the Columbia American Studies program.  The biography will come out on October 1, 2006, two months after we celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary.

Note from 6/15/2015 - "Not in Utah this year.  Sorry to miss."

Note from 10/12/2021 - "Sorry we can’t make it. We would love to see you all. Richard and Claudia"

Update 9/15/2024 - KP note: We have had several contacts with the Bushmans over the last few years. Each time they expresss their regret that they could not join us and ask that we pass along their greetings to all and with fond memories of our times in Boston. For more bio information, you may wish to check the Wikipedia articles at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bushman and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Lauper_Bushman.

 

 

Jim and Connie Cannon - James E. Cannon, Attorney at Law - Small Business Consultant, 1368 Wilson Avenue, Salt Lake City, UT  84105, Tel: 801-514-6983, Fax: 801-487-4227, jecannon@hotmail.com 

Original 2005 - We spent 9 years in Boston, 6 years in Denver, and have been in Salt Lake for 22 years. (Don't add that up).  We have 5 boys and 1 girl, 3 of which are married with 6 grandchildren.  The first 20 years were in law the last 13 have been in business.  Law is better.

Note from 6/15/2015 - "Great idea!  Unfortunately, on July 19th, Connie and I have been invited to serve as counselors at the Jacobsen Ranch on the west side of the Tetons, and on the 26th, we'll be with our entire clan at a cabin in Duck Creek just east of Cedar Breaks.  Sorry we'll miss it.  Jim"

 

Richard "Dick" Cardall - Tel: 925-997-4119, rcardall@aol.com 
2287 N. 1430 East, Provo, UT 84604  

 

Brooke and Jill Derr - Tel: 801-935-1753 brookederr@gmail.com , jillmderr@gmail.com 

Original 2005 - Brooke is in Hawaii this week and couldn't make it to the reunion.  Brooke is currently the director of international programs for the Marriott School at BYU.  Jill has been the director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute of Latter-day Saint History which has just been dissolved.  She is now director of historical production in the Church Historical Department.  

Update 7/23/2012:  Brooke and Jill are currently serving a mission in Frankfurt, Germany so will not be able to join us. - KP

Update 7/3/2015:  Brooke and Jill are planning to join us 

Update 9/11/2024: Brooke and Jill are happy and healthy and living in Holladay, Utah. Brooke has been active on the Big Cottonwood Canyon Community Council and Historical Society. He has served in four LDS temples as an ordinance worker and been active recording oral histories for the church’s History Department. Jill has almost finished her biography of Eliza R. Snow and is active in various LDS women’s history groups and projects.

The Derrs have eleven grandchildren who keep them engaged. The family lived in Fontainbleau, France and Lausanne, Switzerland when Brooke taught at two different international business schools. We spent considerable time in Lyon, France, where Brooke also taught and Jill worked on Eliza. Consequently, we love returning to France and cooking and eating French food. We also love spending time at our cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon.

George and Christine Durham - George: gh_durham_6121@me.com, Phone: 801-694-1755, Christine: jdurham8345@gmail.com, Phone: 801-550-0161

July 2015 - We're looking forward to having George and Christine join us.  Check the following two links for interesting articles about their family and about Christine's service on the Utah Supreme Court. - KP

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/515036327/Durham-endures.html?pg=all 

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/53358621-90/justice-durham-chief-court.html.csp 

Update - June 8, 2021 -There is a likelihood that we may well be in Nashville, TN in October 2021 visiting our very first great grandchild. We have enjoyed reviewing the biographies. The Thurstons hosted us several years ago as Christine was invited to make a presentation to one of their study groups.

Christine retired from the Utah Supreme Court in November 2017 and has joined an appellate law firm — Zimmerman and Booher. She also serves and/or chairs several committees and is a current commissioner (one of seven) on the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission.

George retired from Bryner Pediatrics in May 2014 but will soon complete his ninth year on the board of the Wasatch Homeless Health Center better known as the 4th Street Clinic. He also serves on the admissions committee of the University of Utah’s School of Medicine.

In other words . . . we have both failed retirement.

After twenty-two years in Emigration Canyon, we relocated in January 2021 to a single floor codominium on Salt Lake City’s Donner Way. We are actually in the same building as Grethe Peterson.

We have four children and one nephew whom we raised and have seven grandchildren ranging in ages from twelve - twenty-five. We will celebrate our fifty-fifth wedding anniversary in December 2021. We have been abundantly blessed.

As most of you probably know, Bonnie Lloyd passed away on May 21, 2018 after a six year courageous battle with multiple myeloma. She and her late husband Bill are/were a remarkable couple! We miss them and acknowledge the joy that must be theirs to be together again.

George would likely enjoy a conversation with Gary Browning about his patriarchal service in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union republics including Russia. George has had the privilege of serving as a stake patriarch since June 2013 — in many respects an indescribable experience.

All the best to everyone! Christine and George Durham

(P.S. - We first met as first year undergraduates in the Longfellow Cambridge Ward Chapel on September 29, 1963 — what a significant day!!! Our firstborn — Jennifer — was named and blessed five years to the day September 29, 1968 and in the same chapel.)

Update - September 23, 2023 - There have been a few changes since our most recent communication.

In April 2022, Christine was recruited by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as they established a branch office in Salt Lake City. As you would expect, Christine is in the litigation division but is also active in mediation, arbitration, and the mentoring of new attorneys. She continues membership on several boards including emeritus member of the American Law Institute Council, emeritus Trustee of Duke University, active member of the Rand Institute’s Institute for Civil Justice, active board member of the University of the People, active board member of the Advisory Board for Utah Valley University, as well as other local and national activities.

George has stepped down from his service with Salt Lake’s 4th Street Clinic as well as the University of Utah Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine Admissions Committee but continues as a stake patriarch and as one of five board members of our Homeowners Association.

We anticipate travel before the end of the year to Kauai, Durham, North Carolina (for George’s 50th Duke University School of Medicine Class of 1973 Reunion), and Thanksgiving week in Seattle with our son and his family. We continue to do our best in following the motto” “Keep on keeping on!” During 2023, however, we did acquire hearing aids, updated our estate plan, and completed “final arrangements” with Larkin Mortuary. Nonetheless, life is good!

 

Vickie (Stewart) & Alan Eastman - Alan & Vickie Eastman, 5698 Park Place East, Salt Lake City, UT  84121, 801-440-3874,   vickieeastman@gmail.com 

Original 2005 - I married Lloyd Stewart in 1968 in the summer between his first and second years at the Harvard MBA program.  I was excited to move to Boston because I had lived there as a small child while my father got his Harvard MBA.  I still have a framed diploma on my wall from the Harvard Nursery School, dated 1951!  After Lloyd's graduation, we moved to New York, where he worked with Smith Barney and I continued my undergraduate education at Columbia University and Barnard College.  We moved back to California in 1970 so I could finish my BA degree in English at Stanford.  We bought a home in Lafayette, CA in the East Bay and adopted our first child, Tom, and then had Adam, James, and Megan.  I stayed home as mom and joined the Jr. League.  In 1983, Tom was seriously injured and I became an almost-full-time case manager for him for the next several years.  In 1989, I went to work for Clancy Associates, an executive recruiting firm in Walnut Creek, CA where I learned how to do retained executive search.  I went on my own in 1991, then moved to Salt Lake in 1992 when Lloyd and I divorced.  I spent many years as a single mom, working from home and raising four teenagers.  In 2001, I married Alan Eastman, my very first boyfriend from high school - what a nice surprise!  We have nine children between us and we are very happy together.  My oldest son Tom is living independently and working in Salt Lake, Adam (MBA, BYU) is married and working in CT for Honeywell,  James is in his third year of medical school at the University of Utah, and Megan (BS, UCBerkeley) is a major account sales rep for Xerox in San Francisco.  Alan, who has a PhD in Chemistry, took an early severance package from ConocoPhillips in 2004 and is now a technical consultant.  I still work part-time as a recruiter.  We are putting together a whole new kind of life, but we enjoy it!

Update 10/2/2021 Over the years, we have all gone our different directions, and done a variety of different things. Our lives now seem to be converging again: the last few years have found us all doing many of the very same things. Here’s our part of the story:

Travel: In fall of 2019, we took a wonderful trip to Eastern Europe to see some of the places that were behind the Iron Curtain all the time we were growing up, places I never thought I would see. There was a poignant and powerful emphasis on the Holocaust in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, to the point that I felt rather angry when we visited Austria, the land of the oppressors. We loved Vienna, but couldn’t shake the feeling that these people didn’t deserve to be so happy and prosperous after what they had done in World War II. It was a wrenching but eye-opening journey.

Right now, we are on a trip in Northern Italy to celebrate Alan’s 75th birthday. We are traveling to the Italian Lakes, the Cinque Terre, Florence, Siena, Lucca, Verona, the Dolomites, and ending in Venice, where we will be trying not to get too lost, instead of having a lovely time with all of you. Sigh… We had originally planned on a tour to France, where Alan served a mission, but it was cancelled due to too few participants. Italy was next on our list, so we switched to a sister tour from the same company. We have had our COVID booster and flu shots and hope, hope, hope we will be safe! We have now been married for more than twenty years.

We’re volunteers for the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA), which certifies public lands and communities as places where the dark sky is protected as a natural and cultural resource. We started out by traveling to national parks to train their staff and take the initial light readings that are required for certification. In that capacity, we visited Zion National Park, Sequoia/Kings Canyon NP, Redwoods NP, Mesa Verde NM, and Bears Ears NM, where we ran into a herd of cattle at midnight after taking light readings on Cedar Mesa! Killed three cows and totaled our car, but we were fine. We also wrote sections of various dark sky applications and raised money to have lighting inventories done. For our efforts, we were named “International Dark Sky Defenders” by the IDA. Alan is on the board of the Utah IDA chapter now and will become its president in 2022. It’s our effort to protect public lands.

Osher Institute: This is a continuing education program for people 50 and older at the University of Utah. Classes last six weeks and don’t have papers or tests: it is learning for the sake of learning. Alan has been very successful teaching science courses, including “Water,” “Energy in America,” “The Electrical Grid,” “Climate Change,” Plastics,” and “Air Pollution.” He has always wanted to teach adults and really enjoys doing it.

Music: One morning we went out to kill some time at a used piano sale and came back with a Steinway Model M grand piano! We both love it, Alan for how it plays and me for how it fits into our living room. Alan continues as a ward organist and also plays in Mixed Nuts, an ensemble which performs at senior living homes, and a couple of big bands.

Health: Not so good here. In 2019, I had a spike in an arthiritic condition that has plagued me intermittently since I went to India in 1982 (remember then?) and got a serious gastrointestinal infection. I have been able to control spikes through the years with prednisone, but this episode was particularly disabling and required a lot of prednisone. I knew I needed to get off it, but neede the help of a rheumatologist. I was referred to the University of Utah, but couldn’t get in for months due to Covid. In August, 2020, a stomach ulcer (caused by the prednisone) perforated, resulting in two surgeries and a bad infection. I have never been so ill and weak in my life! It took months to recover to some degree. Then, in June 2021, I was diagnosed with colon cancer and underwent a bowel resection to remove the tumor. Thank goodness, we caught it early and I don’t require chemo or radiation! Right now, things seem fine, but who knows what the future will bring?

Hiking and Pickleball: Years ago when we were completely stressed out by caring for Alan’s parents, we started doing a Friday Morning Hike to recover our sanity. We have continued this tradition - dodging around health issues - ever since. It is such a relief to be out in nature, which is not concerned with us and our issues. It has become harder for me to keep up, sadly, but we modify as needed. We take our little dog Hazel along on many hikes. Alan has become fond of pickleball and plays with a group most mornings. He took some individual classes with a pickleball pro (yes, there is such a thing!) when we visited my mother in southern California and is steadily improving.

Family: It turns out that COVID is not all bad: the gift of Covid has been that my mother (age 92) and my siblings and I have a conference call every Sunday. It began when Mom and my brother Mark got COVID in CA in December, 2019; they were away from the rest of us and needed support and help. It has continued as a valuable chance to bond together as a family. We soon ran out of patience with the “news only” format and started to tell our stories about a theme each week. Some of our most interesting themes were, “The Day I Almost Died,” and “Times I was Helped by Strangers.” We are now mounting an organized plan to deal with our family history. My Mom remains a steady matriach who helps hold our family together in many ways. We recently had a family reunion in St. George over Labor Day weekend, with 30 adults and 11 kids in attendance.

We found a family motto which I really like, a Maori saying: “I am born of distinguished people whose legacy shines on me like the sun!”

Alan has five kids that most of you have never met. Daniel lives in Salt Lake and works for IHC. Hyriam (the husband of Alan’s daughter Giselle, who died of a brain tumor in 2004) is the pharmacy manager at Costco in Murray, UT. Krista lives near Kansas City and teaches special education. Evan lives in Ft. Worth where he is a manager for Charter Cable. Jonathan is the Technical Manager of the performing arts facility at Pittsburg State (KS) University.

Between us, we have three grandchildren on Spanish speaking missions right now! Mabe we need to learn Spanish . . .

Vickie’s kids:

Tom, age 48, works at UPS and lives just a mile away. I feel lucky that Tom, while not living the happiest of lives, is stable and financially secure.

Adam, age 47 lives in Chandler, AZ with his fabulous wife Aimee. Together, they founded and run the Chandler Children’s Choir, with 150 young singers. Aimee is the musical director, while Adam runs the business end. We are going on a performing tour to the UK with them next May. They have four really fun kids, the oldest two now college age.

James, 44, is a gastroenterologist here in Salt Lake City. He is married and has two children. He has been re-fitting a bike of his to be an electric bicycle, which he now calls “Frankenbike.”

Megan, 41, is married and lives in Santa Cruz with her husband Wes. She is currently in sales for a subsidiary of Google, but hopes to quit soon and take to the road with Wes in their converted Sprinter van. She has wanderlust. No children, just a loved little dog named Luna.

We recently visited the Primary Children’s Medical Center to visit the Alvin Gittins portrait of my grandmother, LaVern Parmley, who was the COB of the hospital for twenty years, a major force in its growth and success. While we were there, we looked at some promotional material and found that the VP and Chief of Precision Health and Genomics is none other than Lincoln Nadauld, who I knew as a child. Go, Lincoln! The hospital will celebrate its centennial (100 years) anniversary next May.

Click HERE for printable version which includes pictures

 

John (and Mary Ann) Evans 1042 West Center Street, Unit 402, Orem, UT; Cell: 832-235-4676 katyjohn9@yahoo.com 

9/25/2023 - Original - "Left Harvard Law School and Cambridge for NYC in 1969 where John worked for a midtown firm until 1972 when we moved to Houston, Texas, to work for Exxon, both its domestic and Far East subsidiaries. Moved to Findlay, OH, in 1978 to work for Marathon Oil Company and raise our growing family. In 2001 moved back to Houston to focus on international work for Marathon. Retired in 2008. Served as bishop twice, in Houston and Findlay, and stake patriarch in Houston and Orem. We have 9 children, 44 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren plus their delightful spouses. Currently (09-2023) I have six grandchildren on missions.

Mary Ann served in almost every ward calling a woman could have and several stake callings over the years. Her favorite was Primary chorister. She died in September, 2017, from a very rare disease, amyloidosis, which led to many trips to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. The chapel, overflow, and cultural hall were filled for her funeral in Katy, Texas. She is my hero.

Update September 2024 - Note from John: Thank you again for the invitation. My high school rowing team is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its founding at the Potomac Boat Club, so I'll be away on the 19th. Sorry to miss y'all (I'm from Louisiana).

 

 

Richard and Linda Eyre -801-541-4430 eyres1@comcast.net 

Note from 7/2/2015 - "We are so sorry to say that we somehow missed this original message!  We are always up at Bear Lake from about the about July 4-26 where our family converges once a year from hither and yon for an extended reunion. We won’t be back in town until the 26th. This gathering sounds like so much fun!  Love the “Theme”!  What a great idea! We have such fond memories of our last get-together! Thanks for all you are doing to keep us connected. Please keep us on the list! We would love to join next time!

Update 8/25/2021 - We divide our Utah time between our home in Park City and a condo at City Creek and a couple of little spots in Kolob and St. George. And we have more time in Utah these days since Covid put a stop to our speaking trips and shifted everything to Zoom. Five of our nine children have re-located to Utah (at least for now) along with 23 of our 34 grandkids, so life is good. On the retirement question: "Old writers never retire, they just fade away."

Update 9/13/2024 - Hey, we have finally shifted from writing parenting and work/family balance books to writing books on grandparenting, ageing, and three-generation family management; and it certainly seems more in sync with where our own lives are - 34 grandchildren and two great grandkids. The "greats" will increase geometrically in the next phase of most of our families! At our annual Bear Lake family reunion this past summer, kids who had been traveling in India decided that festivals where people throw colored chalk at each other are fun--so this family photo has a bit of a different look. See if you can even find Linda and Rick in that menagerie! (Click HERE). We do have one grandson who is a Harvard junior, so we are keeping the Cambridge-connection alive. All the best to all of you cherished, life-long friends, and so sorry we can't be with you this year. I'm playing in the national Clay Court Tennis championships in Virginia Beach, but we will be with you in spirit! Thanks to Kent for keeping us all in touch.

Eyres

PS Our little BYU podcast "Eyres on the Road" (on any podcast app) might interest you since we talk about you occasionally...and we did do a 12-part essay series on Meridian Magazine this summer on a Familycentric view of the Gospel that we think can help some people with their faith crisis. The last of the twelve essays--which ends with links to each of the others--is at https://latterdaysaintmag.com/the-everythingness-of-jesus-how-joy-love-peace-and-beauty-become-portals-to-heaven/#google_vignette

 

 

Bill and Karen Giauque - 2425 North 1000 East, Provo, UT  84604-4168.
Bill phone: 801-420-8354 giauquewilliam@gmail.com (updated 9/4/2024)
Karen phone 801-787-1836 kjuke234@gmail.com (updated 9/4/2024)  

Original 2005 - We left Boston in November 1972 for Monterey, CA, where Bill had a faculty position at the Naval Postgraduate School. Six years later, after Alison and Christopher were born in Monterey (Amy was born in Boston), we left for Provo and BYU. Tim, Maury and Caitie came along in due time. Bill has taught mostly in the MBA program, and Karen has enjoyed raising our family, being with friends, and filling several Church callings.

Update 7/16/12:  Bill retired in 2007, but has found that life hasn't slowed very much. He served as bishop of a YSA ward for three years, and is now gracefully put out to Assistant Clerk pasture. He is also volunteering with the Pioneer Village sponsored by a local Sons of Utah Pioneers chapter, and is part of the Master Gardner program at Thanksgiving Point. Karen served as a Church Service Missionary for a year, working on the Technical Support Hotline for Family Search Indexing. This was a great experience for her. She had a chance to work with a world-wide family history program which is having a major impact on family history among church members and non-members alike. She is now serving as a counselor in our ward's Relief Society.

To go with our six children, we now have three sons-in-law, two daughters-in-law, and fourteen grandchildren. Three granddaughters were born in May and June of this year (2012), all on the east coast. Tim and his wife Carrie live in South Carolina, Maury and her husband Adam are in Columbus, Ohio, and Chris and his wife Shere are in Vermont. The other three kids and families are in Salt Lake or closer, and our diabetic, blind dog died about three years ago. We are delighted with our empty nest as long as we get a chance to be with the kids and g'kids often.

Update 7/17/2015 -  We are still in Provo, a half-block from the temple, and are still healthy and reasonably active.  Bill, after serving as assistant ward clerk in our home ward for a while, has been the ward clerk of a YSA ward for the past two years.  Karen has been a counselor in our ward's Relief Society presidency for nearly three years, and has really enjoyed getting to know the women of the ward better.  We are guessing that this presidency is getting close to being released, which will be kind of bittersweet when it comes.  Bill is also a temple worker, and is a first-hand witness to both the turmoil caused by losing 1/3 of the temple work force to the Payson Temple, and to the wonderful response of local members to the Temple Presidency's call for replacement workers.  And, we are starting to do it all over again in anticipation of the Provo City Center Temple opening early next year.

     Our oldest Amy, and Peter Chamberlain, her husband, adopted a Chinese girl in December of 2013 (after a wait of 7 years!).  Mazie is bright, cute, loving and very, very active.  She likes reading, for example, but the typical story is interrupted by myriad backflips, somersaults, and handstands.  They are living in Saratoga Springs, so we get to see them often.  Alison and Andy Unsworth and their five also live nearby (Daybreak).  We got babysitting duty twice this summer, once when they took a second honeymoon to England in April, and again when Ali accompanied Andy and the Tab Choir on their recent trip to Washington D.C., New York City, Boston, and nearby venues.

     Chris is finishing his Ph.D. at Dartmouth sometime this fall.  Chris is roughing it in a remote cabin in the Vermont woods this summer while his wife and two daughters are camping out in our basement.  Tim and his family (wife and two daughters) are in southern central Pennsylvania, where he is having fun building the prototype of a new machine he has designed.  Maury's husband is in a killer of a residency in St. Louis (neurosurgery), so isn't at home much.  She and her four kids will be with us for two weeks during the first half of August.  Caitie is living and working in Salt Lake City.  We get to see her from time to time, but of course wish it were more.

 

Rod & Beverly Hawes -  700 East Clearvue Drive, Meridian, ID  83646, Home phone: 208-884-3277, r.hawesjr@att.net

New as of 4/27/2010:  Beverly and I have just completed a new home in the Boise, Idaho area but will not officially move back to our roots until we sell our New Canaan home.  We continue to be involved in a number of things but the most fun is the development of the Five Guys Burgers and Fries franchise sites in Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma and eight counties in Northern California.  It is the most fun because our sons do all the work and all we do is eat great hamburgers!!!

Update 7/15/2015 - Beverly and I moved to Idaho last summer after nearly 50 years in the East.  We now live in Meridian, Idaho.  We sold our Connecticut home to a wealthy Chinese man who   wanted all of our furniture and one of our cars.  This made the transition to our new home interesting as we arrived with no furniture including having to replace all of our beds.  We are now finally about settled. All the best, Rod Hawes

KP note 10/11/2021: We note with sadness that Beverly passed away in November of 2019, about two years ago. See her obituary HERE. Rod Recently received a pacemaker and did not feel up to the travel to join us. He asked to pass on his greetings.

Clark & Kathleen Hinckley -  Phone: 801-673-8435, chinckley@mba1973.hbs.edu clark.hinckley@gmail.com

New as of 9/1/2021:  Kent, wish we could be there on the 23rd! But here is a short bio/update on us.

Kathleen and I met in the lobby of the Longfellow Park chapel in February 1973 and were married in October that same year. We lived in New York City, Michigan, and Arizona before coming to Utah in 1994, and have lived in Salt Lake since then (except for missions).

In 2009 I took a leave from my long-time employer, Zions Bank, to serve as president of the Spain Barcelona Mission and effectively retired from the bank at that point, although I continue to serve on the advisory board. In 2015 Kathleen and I were called as president and matron of the not-yet completed Tijuana Mexico Temple, and had an extraordinary experience opening and supervising the temple. Interestingly, since our call as mission president in 2009, Kathleen and I have shared our church callings, whether as mission leaders, temple leaders, Sunday school teachers, or our current assignment teaching a stake religion class. It has been amazing to serve together in our church assignments continuously for 12 years!

Forty-eight years after meeting at Longfellow Park, we have six children and 24 grandchildren. We cherish our memories of Boston and the many friends we still have from that time!

 

Mike and Kaye Jensen - 730 E. Three Fountains #87, Murray, UT 84107, Tel: 801-590-9924 (home), 801-231-2042  (Mike Cell), 801-503-5951 (Kaye cell), mike@utahattorney.com 

(Revised 7/25/2012):  Following graduation, Mike was enticed into a start-up company with two doctors.  It was in Waltham, and we stayed in Belmont where we lived during school.  After successfully bringing to market two medical products, the business was sold to a small public company.  We then moved to San Antonio, Texas where Mike had time to earn his pilot’s license.  The stay there was short lived and we moved to Corning, New York, where Mike worked for Corning Glass.  But, after 10 years, the yearn for a more entrepreneurial environment took us away briefly to New Jersey.  After turning around a small company there, the business was sold.  Mike was then offered the job as president of American Optical in Southbridge, Mass, so we moved to Paxton, Mass.  But again, Mike left to start his own mortgage company.  As the boys began to leave home, we both wanted to move back to our roots in Utah; however, before doing so, Mike, at the age of 51, returned to school at Boston College Law School.  After being a stay-at-home Mom, Kaye went back to work to help support this endeavor.  After Mike graduated, we returned to Utah and have now lived in Murray for the past 17 years.  After being in a solo practice since moving to Murray, Mike recently joined the law firm of Kirton McConkie still practicing elder law.  Kaye retired in January, 2012 after working for 16 years at Workers Compensation Fund as Administrative Assistant for their legal counsel.  Mike hopes to retire in the next few years.  Mike is Stake Executive Secretary and Kaye was recently sustained as second counselor in the Primary.  Our sons, Jeff and Gregg, live close by and between the two of them, we have five grandsons.  Our fun activities include traveling, golf and tennis.  Last September, we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary.

Update 7/16/2015 - "Kaye plays tennis 3-4 times a week plus golf in a ladies league while Mike keeps on working!  Our son, Jeff, and his wife and our three grandsons now live in Sequim, Washington, about 2 hours from Seattle toward the ocean.  As you may note from our photograph, we like to work together in our "office" in Cabo.  Look forward to visiting with everyone."

Update 4/29/2017 - "I am now semi-retired from the practice of law, meaning that I am not accepting any new clients but continuing to represent a very few ling standing clients. This should reduce my workload by more than 50% …. We look forward to attending the next reunion, whenever and wherever it may be."

Update 10/13/2021 - Since 2012, Kaye and I have kept safe and healthy, and we have enjoyed much more traveling (Viking European River Cruise, Jerusalem, Petra in Jordan, Australian Tennis Open and tour, including New Zealand, Punta Arenas, Chile for an aborted flight to Antarctica, and our usual February Cabo stay and March Palm Springs for golf and Indian Wells Tennis Tournament). Also, in the past few weeks we enjoyed an extensive road trip in a rented car (5,000 miles) which ended in upstate NY to celebrate our 60th Anniversary and Kaye's 80th Birthday with our entire family - then we flew home. On our trip, we were hosted by Nolan and Margaret at their home in Potomac, Maryland, and we even played a game of pickleball with Margaret and a niece who was staying with them.

Although we live in a rather conservative, downsized condo, we were fortunate in about 2014 to purchase the lot adjacent to our condo patio fence and turn it into a playground for our grandsons. In 2018, I also had a pickleball court constructed on that property and dedicated it to Kaye. We regularly have a small group over to play pickleball which partly keeps us moving and feeling younger, although Kaye plays tennis 2-4 times a week and also plays in a weekly women's golf league.

Our Wimbledon trip in 2020 and this year's tournament were canceled because of the UK's COVID restrictions (10-day quarantine requirement), but our deposit has been rolled over to next year. Hopefully it will eventually happen.

Shortly after 2012, I was called to be a counselor in our stake's branch with responsibility for the large Intermountain Medical Center (IMC) where we provided a sacrament meeting and served sacrament throughout the entire medical center as well provided visits and blessings. After six years I was released just at the beginning of COVID and the entire branch's activities were closed down and still as of this date have not yet resumed. We have returned to our home ward with rather minimal assignments and callings.

Our son Gregg lives in our same condo project with his two sons, and Jeff and his wife and two sons live in upstate NY and his oldest son lives in Sequim, Washington. All are blessed with their needs.

We look forward to visiting with everyone during the upcoming reunion at the Archibald's Park City home.
 

 

Wynn and Pam Johnson - 852 Northcliffe Drive, Salt Lake City, UT  84103, Tel: 801-355-7206, wynnjoh@aol.com 

Original 2005 - Army Security Agency 1969-71; taught Finance at U of U and did classwork for PhD in Urban Economics at UCLA , 1971-78; developed and invested in real estate and built 30 alternative energy power plants, 1979-present.  Pam and I are basking in the joys of grandparenthood with six sons, four daughters-in-law, and thirteen grandchildren.

Update 4/29/2010:For the website I've attached a pic of me and Pam with our bikes on the bank of the Danube last Sept.  By this Sept we will have 14 grandsons and 7 granddaughters.  Professionally, I'm trying to do one more small power plant on the site of a western refinery.

Update 8/10/2012 (from Morrie's blog): Sorry we were otherwise engaged.  Please keep us on the list.

We have just returned from a year teaching in the Business Management department at BYU Hawaii, through the Willes Entrepreneurship Center. Great Experience, students from 70 countries, lived on the ocean in Laie, taught Dating Class in our assigned singles ward (“tips from the 60′s”), weekly “geezer doubles tennis” with other senior missionaries including Steve and Margaret Wheelwright. Best experience, teaching social (pam) and business (wynn) entrepreneurship with help from the Holy Ghost. Give us a buzz and we’ll explain how you could do this too…10 hr days, no expenses paid! (We did get office space, teaching assistants, and free paper.) 801.631.2466

 

Bill & Bonnie Lloyd

In Memoriam - Bill and Bonnie have both passed away (see 6/6/2021 note below). We are keeping the following posts on the site in their memory and for reference. They are missed. See Bill's obituary HERE and Bonnie's HERE.

Original 2005 - Bill is "in mortal combat with cancer" right now and is unable to make it to our reunion.  Our thoughts and prayers are with him and with the family.  Here's his report (then see below for update):

Cancer has prompted my retirement from active business pursuits in order to pursue with greater concentration, family needs and service opportunities in public and church contexts.

 

After 18-years of real-estate development activities throughout the Southeastern U.S., our family re-located in 1987 from Nashville to our ancestral home in Salt Lake City.  We left many fine friends and fond memories in the Southeast, as well as many residential, commercial and industrial development projects my companies developed there.  The Fox Den Country Club/Community and Boxwood Square developments in the Knoxville area (Marteq Corp. and American Development Corp.), and the dozen Outlets Ltd. Malls in the southern states (Company Stores Development Corp.) are my favorites to re-visit.  CSDC was the first enterprise I am aware of to develop new mall construction entirely for factory outlet stores.

 

Our relocation to Utah was prompted by urgent family concerns.  Bonnie’s father passed away within a week of our family’s arrival in SLC, and my father’s passing followed in less than a year.  None of our siblings had remained in Utah.  Bonnie and I and our 6-children enjoyed caring for my mother until her death, 3-years ago.  We are still privileged to share in the relatively active life of my 93-year old “mother-in-love.”

 

After developing the Harvard Park residential community we now live in, I made a career change to emergency communication services.  I raised venture capital to enable the inventor of Emergency Medical, Fire and Police Dispatch System protocols, Dr. Jeff Clawson, to quit his day job.  We have subsequently built Priority Dispatch Corp. into an international systems training and implementation enterprise.  PDC has its Priority Dispatch Systems in place in public safety dispatch centers throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.  Foreign language operations are expanding into Latin American, European, Asian and Near Eastern countries.

 

Faith, prayers and practice of our Christian religion, reinforced by the faithful and loving support of family, friends and neighbors reinforce motivation and optimism in pursuit of the medical and supplemental responses to my disease, as well as our motivation and optimism in making the meaningful most of whatever extension of mortality we may enjoy together.  The remarkable recovery and extension I have already been blessed to experience is a powerful evidence to me of God’s love and of the power of faith in our atoning Savior, Jesus Christ.  All glory to His name and to His restored Gospel.  The sting of mortal death is swallowed up in Christ’s Atonement, which also inspires a brightness of conviction in His promise of Eternal Life.

Update 8/11/05 from Bill: We hope all went well last night.  My CT Scan this week was fairly encouraging, indicating that the therapy I am following appears to be doing some good in stabilizing my body's resistance to the cancer that has metastasized to my lungs.

Update:  Bill passed away in April of 2009.  We shall miss him.

Update 8/16/2012 from Bonnie:  Kent:  I was in Australia and New Zealand visiting my daughter/son-in-law and family.  I would love to keep being invited to events and want to thank you for including me.  Sorry I was not able to get back to you before now.  Bonnie

Update 7/4/2015 - Looking forward to seeing everyone and learning what their "bucket list" includes.  I don't know if you are aware but I have multiple myeloma and have been treated for the past 3 years. Most recently I went through a stem cell transplant and am on maintenance chemo at the present.  To say the least, losing one's hair was not on my list, but I am feeling mostly well and enjoying life.

Sad Note 6/6/2021 - We received the following note from Christine and George Durham's uptate: "As most of you probably know, Bonnie Lloyd passed away on May 21, 2018 after a six year courageous battle with multiple myeloma. She and her late husband Bill are/were a remarkable couple! We miss them and acknowledge the joy that must be theirs to be together again."

 

Bishop James & Dorothy Lyon - 4335 Mile High Drive, Provo, UT 84604, Jamie cell: 801-822-1633, Dorothy cell: 801-822-1628, jkdalyon@gmail.com

In Memorium - Jamie passed away on July 21, 2022. Click HERE to view his obituary.

2005 - Dorothy is out of town for the reunion but Bishop Lyon hopes to join us.  Jamie is Professor of German Literature and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at BYU.  They have been at BYU for 11 years.  Prior to that, he was Provost of Fifth College, University of California, San Diego. 

Update 7/15/2015 - Jamie and Dorothy are at a family gathering out of state and regret that they could not join us.  On May 31, 2014, Jamie suffered a hemorrhagic stroke which left him quite debilitated.  After several months in hospital rehab, he returned home on October 14.  With the help of Dorothy and a caregiver and with physical therapy he is slowly recovering and is now able to walk with some help.  His speech, memory and (as Dorothy attests) his sense of humor are all intact.  They hope to join us in future reunions and would love contact with any of us in the meantime.

 

Randall and Margaret Mackey - 1172 East 100 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84102; Home 801-582-4237

In Memorium - Randall passed away on August 20, 2024. Click HERE to view his obituary.

 

Steve and Margaret Nadauld - 2870 Wild Mare Way, Heber City, UT  84032.  Steve Cell: 801-694-7489. Margaret Cell: 801-891-8875. swissnadaulds@hotmail.com   

Synopsis 9/19/2024 - Following graduation from HBS Steve went to work for a Wall Street bank, taught briefly at the U of U then received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1976. He taught Finance and Real Estate at BYU and was director of the MBA program there. He served as CEO of Intermountain Milk producers and then was president of Weber State University. He fulfilled a five year calling as a general authority seventy. Upon his release Margaret served as the General Young Women President for the church. Following their full time church service they were called to be mission leaders in the Switzerland Geneva mission.

He also served as president of Dixie State University (now Utah Tech) and retired in 2014.

We built a home in the Heber Valley where our family of seven sons and wives, 32 grandchildren and seven great grands love to gather. We figure we can run about 6 grandkids to the acre here. Margaret calls it “Grandpa’s Resort.”

 

 

John & Betsy Nagel - 4280 Wander Lane, Salt Lake City, UT  84124, Tel: 801-274-2358 (home); 801-349-9773 (John); 801-550-2637 (Betsy), jwnagel0940@gmail.com , betsynagel@gmail.com  

Original 2005 - Since Boston:  We have moved and moved and moved.  Our path includes San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Denver, Philadelphia, Denver again, New Orleans, and now Salt Lake City - hopefully our last stop.  Neither of us has ever lived in Salt Lake before, except for Betsy's U years.  It has been culture shock of sorts to live where everyone has their teeth and speaks English.  John has had a variety of jobs, beginning with Arthur Andersen (when that was an honorable thing to say) that have involved designing financial management and control systems.  Currently he is managing a small, private investment fund.  Betsy has taught music during much of the last 20 years.  She was on the faculty of the Music Preparatory Division at Loyola University in New Orleans and now holds a similar position at the U of U.  She also has a full schedule of private piano students. We taught our five children that you could be happy living anywhere.  And so they do. We recently gathered our family, now numbering 18, for a wonderful reunion in Washington, D. C.  We both hope to retire within a couple of years and serve a mission.

Note from 6/15/2015 - We would love to participate, but your scheduled dates are problematic.  July 19 is definitely out for us as we will be in Colorado for a wedding -- our daughter Catherine!  We are staying in Colorado with the non-honeymooner portion of our family for a few days of reunion after the wedding

Update 10/15/2021 - We have established a new record of longevity, having lived in the same house in Salt Lake for the past twenty-two years, the longest by far that we have lived anywhere. I guess we can now say we are from Salt Lake. In 2010 – 2011 we made a temporary relocation to serve a CES mission in the Houston area. For a year-and-a-half we managed the Institute at Sam Houston State College in Huntsville with a quick mid-mission trip home for the marriage of our youngest daughter, Anna.

After returning, we were able to work in the Salt Lake Temple until it closed for renovation and just in time to stay cooped up for COVID-19. Thankfully, we continue to stay healthy. Our travels consist mostly of trips for the baptisms and now mission farewells and homecomings of our 20 grandchildren, ages 6 – 21. Our 5 children and their families are in Ohio, Colorado, California, and Park City and Lehi, Utah.

Betsy is still (and forever?) teaching piano and organ lessons. John enjoys occasional consulting opportunities and is happy to be back as an ordinance worker at the Jordan River Temple.

 

Mac and Leslie Oswald - 1625 E. 1940 North, Lehi, UT 84043, Mac cell: 801-403-8034, Leslie cell: 801-403-8030 macoswald@gmail.com

Note from 10/14/2021:We can't make the October 22nd gathering, but can you include us in future mailings/events?

 

David Owens and Elaine Flake Owens - 1050 Oak Hills Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 david.owens.atty@gmail.com

Original September 2024:Thanks to George and Christine Durham for inviting us to join with this delightful group even though we might be seen to have "aged out." I graduated from HLS in 1965 and Elaine was teaching in the Boston public schools in the spring of 1965. We dated but went our separate ways. I married Georgia Garff in 1969 and she married Lawrence Flake in 1968. I have six children, twenty-one grandchildren and one great grandchild. Elaine has eight children, forty-two grandchildren, and six great grandchildren. Georgia died on December 13, 2022 of pancreatic cancer, and Lawrence died on October 28, 2022 of sepsis and other causes. We were married at the Springville Art Museum on February 3,2024. I practiced law in San Francisco, served as an army intelligence officer, including a tour in Vietnam, and had a practice in Walnut Creek, California, until we moved to Salt Lake in 2011. I served on two high councils, nine years in a stake presidency and five as bishop. Lawrence was a retired BYU religion professor and author. They served as mission leaders in Independence, MO, taught at BYU HI, and Jerusalem, and travelled extensively for work and pleasure. Elaine has a masters degree in English from BYU, taught in the religion department and has published a book on organizing family reunions. We spend our time trying to keep up with family and travelling between her ranch in Hobble Creek Canyon Springville, my condo in Salt Lake, and my cabin at Hebgen Lake Montana. We are still smitten as newlyweds and are proving the truth of Lehi's teaching that one needs the bitter to taste the sweet.

 

Tom and Louise Plummer - 150 E. First Avenue, #501, Salt Lake City, UT 84103, Tel: 801-699-2930 (Louise),   louiseplummer@gmail.com 

In Memorium - Tom passed away on March 5, 2023. Click HERE to view his obituary.

Original 2005 - Tom is professor of German and chairman of the German Department at BYU.  Louise teaches creative writing in the English Department.  They have individually and jointly published several books and do some team teaching at the Y.  They were still in Canada at the time of the reunion.

Update 10/7/2021 - Hi Kent, We’ve just survived Covid, and I’m just not going to get into a space with other people for a while. We love all the folks who will be there, please give them our best.

(KP note: Bracys sent us a little more detail about Tom's Covid battle. Tom said it would be OK to share here.):" As you might know, Tom and Louise Plummer went to a family reunion recently where all the attendees had been vaccinated. It was supposed to be outside, but weather drove them into a church nearby. Three couples came down with Covid after the party. Tom had a rugged time of it — spent six hours in an ER trying to get his breathing and strength back, and is still not fully recovered. Louise came down with a lighter case the next day — but she still had to spend time in an ER. They have bowed out of the reunion."

(Sorry to miss both Bracys and Plummers, but we fully understand - KP)

 

Kent & Keena Price - 2344 E. Valley Drive, Eagle Mountain, UT  84005, Kent Cell: 801-554-0015, Keena Cell: 801-885-0045, khprice@aol.com , keenaprice@aol.com, website: www.kprice.com 

Original - 8/9/2005 - Five children, 13 grandchildren and counting ….  two more on the way.  Our youngest ties the knot later this month and will graduate from BYU in December.  Kids will then be scattered across the country - Oregon, Arizona, Iowa, and Connecticut.  My career has been primarily manufacturing and general management and has included owning our own manufacturing company in the aerospace industry.  We lived in California (6 years), Germany (6 years), Michigan (18 years) and Utah (the last 4 years).  In 1981, I took a one-year sabbatical from the real world as a visiting faculty member at BYU’s Marriott School.  I recently developed and patented a new electronic instrument for the heavy trucking industry (see www.gearmaster.com) and am now devoting full time to bringing it to market.  If it makes it, we can retire and go on a mission; if not, I get to go back to work…  I keep my flight instructor rating current for both general aviation and ultralight aircraft and normally fly several times a week, usually from our back yard (see www.priceaero.com).  Keena continues as an active RN and works at a rehabilitation and care center in Draper.  We still keep pretty busy in the church.  Interesting tidbit: Charlie Stoddard and I took turns as each other’s stake president (nine years each) in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  We love grandparenting but wish our kids were closer.     

Update 4/30/2010:  Main change is that we have gone from 13 grandchildren to 25 with another on the way.  Must be in the water....  The kids are even more widely scattered: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Michigan and now, Australia.  I'm still pursuing GearMaster and flying quite a bit.  Keena is now working part time at a Dialysis clinic.    More, for those who can stand it, at www.kprice.com.    

Update 7/23/2012:  Not much change.  Grandkid count now at 27 with 2 more underway.  Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Update 7/14/2015:  Doing all we can to avoid letting the calendar determine our age.  I still teach at the local community college and continue to do a lot of flight instruction.  Keena is still active as a charge nurse at a dialysis clinic.  32 grandkids - I think we're nearing the end.  Great 5-week trip last year to Australia (son and family) and Dubai (friends).  Keena and I got SCUBA certified for the trip and wanted to dive the Great Barrier Reef.  But all diving was cancelled due to a cyclone while we were in Cairns.  So the Reef stays on our Bucket List for now.  We hope to get "down under" again in the near future.

Update 10/11/2021:  I try to avoid giving a direct answer when asked about my age. Instead I just mention that I recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of turning 30. Sounds better that way.

Keena and I both became "Covid Graduates" at the end of last year, possibly as a result of her continuing part time work as a dialysis nurse. We were glad to get vaccinated in March and have had multiple negative tests in the meantime. For both of us, our Covid infection was fairly mild but the after effects of fatigue and weakness coincided with the passing of Keena's mother in January. As the main caregiver for the last several years, Keena now became involved in round-the-clock care which took its toll and resulted in near PTSD symptoms. In the end, her mom passed peacefully amid miracles and family support and left Keena with a new appreciation for challenges and overcoming.

For my part, I'm trying to figure out if I can blame my propensity for taking naps on Covid or if I have to admit to some laziness. I've survived a couple of recent surgeries (foot and eye) and I have a knee which is talking to me about getting some attention. But other than that I feel pretty good. I "officially" retired over 15 years ago but still keep busy with several part time jobs and activities. Among them:

Flight Instruction - I'm currently the only active FAA certified instructor for powered parachutes in Utah. This results in more students than I can handle. I'm trying to cut back on this and am in the process of training other instructors.
Manager of the local airport - This doesn't pay anything but keeps me involved in the local aviation community and allows me to advocate for keeping the airport viable in the face of rapidly expanding housing and commercial development.
Driving - This is a strange one. Ever since starting to drive farm equipment at age 10 I've always loved operating vehicles and machinery from tractors to airplanes. Developing the GearMaster allowed and required me to get a Commercial Driver License. Now, up to a day or two a week, I'll hop into a FedEx semi truck with double or triple trailers and haul them around the western states. Kind of weird but I find it cathartic and enjoyable. I'm also a substitute instructor in the CDL program at the local community college.
Firefighting - For the last eight years, I've spent part of my summers on support teams fighting wildfires. I take a tank truck with a few thousand gallons of gasoline and diesel to the base camps and keep the firefighting vehicles and equipment fueled up. I camp out with the hotshot crews but stay a pretty good distance from the flames. (If interested, see some posts on firefighting HERE.)

We both enjoy activities with our 5 kids and 32 grandkids. We recently traded our 30-year old motor home for a "newer" 20-year old one and have been using it to visit and take trips with our four stateside kids and their families in Washington, Oregon, Idaho & Utah. Unfortunately the motor home is not amphibious so we'll have to visit our Australia posterity by air when Covid allows.

Update 9/25/2023 - Not much recent chage. Keena finally retired from nursing at age 76 and is keeping busy with yard and family activities. I am still flying, driving, teaching and managing the airport. I haven't been called out for firefighting the last couple of years but remain on the call list if needed (see link in 10/11/2021 update).  We're both still in pretty good health and enjoy motor home trips and riding around on our new E-bikes.

For a little more recent detail and some pictures, check out our last Christmas letter at www.kprice.com/ch23.pdf or previous ones by changing 23 to a different year.

 

Lorin and Judy Pugh - 2488 Charros Drive, Sandy, UT  84092, Tel: 801-495-0444,  judithpugh@comcast.net 

Original 2005 - Lorin just retired from Cummins engine company and is still working with Thermoking.  He is also currently serving as stake president.  Lorin and Judy have adopted and are raising their grandchildren, ages 9 and 11, and have loved having them in the home for the last 8 years.  They regret that they could not make it to the reunion but look forward to the next one.

Update 7/14/2015 - "The gathering and sharing of bucket lists sounds very fun, but we have a conflict that night and can't attend.   Have a great time."

 

Noel and Sydney Reynolds - 438 South 1000 East, Orem, UT  84097 - 801.602.0308  nbr@byu.edu, sydneyssr@gmail.com 

Update 7/15/2012:  Thanks for the invite; love the collage picture (where were we that May??). We will be in Guatemala that Sunday and so unable to attend. We'll be visiting our daughter Rebecca and family (7 kids) who are spending two months down there to learn Spanish and to learn a little about the world outside of Norwell, MA. Rebecca is married to Luke Lambert, son of Kitty and Brent Lambert (Mass General opthamology). Rebecca and Luke actually met in the nursery of the Cambridge Ward back in the day -- so we might count that as a mini-mini-reunion. They didn't remember that fact when they met again in NYC while both were attending Columbia in graduate programs. HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME! We'll hope to be present at the next reunion.

Update 9/20/2021:  After leaving Harvard (1970) Noel taught in the Philosophy Dept. at BYU where he later served as Department Chair. After a sabbatical back at Harvard 1976-77 (good timing for the 200th Anniversary events) he returned to BYU and joined the Political Science Department while continuing to teach Philosophy of Law and Book of Mormon. Two other sabbatical years were Edinburgh University (85-86) and BYU Jerusalem Center/Hebrew University (92-93). Great family experiences. Served twice as an Assoc. Academic V.P. at BYU under Jeff Holland and Merrill Bateman respectively.

He served as a Bishop three times, Stake President at BYU, Mission President in Fort Lauderdale, Temple President at Mt. Timpanogos. Sydney served 5 years on the Primary General Board and 5 years in the Presidency. We served a mission at BYUH -- Noel taught Book of Mormon; Sydney taught Foundations of the Restoration (2020--A great year for the topic, but not so good for the Covid). We went home with the other senior missionaries in March and finished classes online.

Currently Temple and Family History leader in the ward and sealer (Noel) and sealing office assistant (Sydney) in the Provo Temple. Eight sons and three daughters graduated from BYU. Post grad degrees from Columbia (2), Cambridge U. England (1), UT-Austin (1), UCLA Dental School (1), AT Still Osteopathic Medicine (1), BYU Law School (1), Univ. of Washington (1). Sixty-one grandchildren and 4 greats. Favorite occupation – doing research and writing on the Book of Mormon. Noel’s published and pre-publication papers can be accessed in PDF format at ScholarsArchive, a service of the BYU Library: Click HERE

Update 9/4/2024 - (Re: 9/19/2024) We have a conflict on that date so will have to wait until next year. Thanks for keeping this going.

 

Dick and Paula Spencer - 2587 W. Rio Lobo Drive, St. George, UT 84770, Tel: 801-889-7377, rpselamex@yahoo.com 

Original 2005 - Dick is doing consulting in the oil business and continues to represent several entities in Mexico.  Dick and Paula have five married children and six grandchildren.  They are currently on a service mission to a Spanish speaking ward in the St. George area.

6/30/2015 Note - "Paula and I would like to thank you for thinking of us and informing us regarding the Boston Mini reunion.  Unfortunately, Paula and I will be out of town that Sunday.  Hopefully, we can attend the next get together.  Please tell everyone hello and give our regards,  Dick Spencer" Click here

 

Lloyd Stewart - P.O. Box 1821, Vernal, Utah 84078 or 7205 Station Creek Way, #5i, Midvale, Utah 84047, Cell Phone: 801-440-3508, Lwstew@gmail.com 

See Vickie’s account for life after Boston until we went our separate ways.  After my financial train wreck and divorce, life was not so good for quite a while. Ten years on and things are much better.  Vickie re-married. I like her new husband.  When I have Sunday dinner with them I tell her what fine taste she has in men. We get along great now that she has no expectations of me. I inherited my mother’s little farm house in Vernal, Utah where I go to escape the big city but I really work and live in Salt Lake where I’m C.F.O. and Chief Anglo-Saxon of a new U.S. company formed by a group of wealthy Koreans who say they will pay me a lot of money when I make their company a lot of money.  I travel to Asia frequently. I haven’t yet re-married but not because I don’t believe in the institution.  I had thought I would wait until I recouped my lost fortune before venturing again into matrimony. However, since at my current trajectory this will not occur until well into the Millennium, I may need to rely on you my dear Boston friends to introduce me to some worthy single woman of your acquaintance.  I appreciate the trepidation this may cause you, sort of like turning your best non-Mormon friend over to the missionaries. However, it’s for a worthy cause. My needs are modest.  Hers may not be, which might be a problem. Someone between the ages of 25 and 75, attractive, smart, interesting and of good character.  However-- plain and deferential might work if she’s a good cook and kind to animals. You know how to get in touch with me. (Click here for expanded version)

 

Chuck & Jan Stoddard - 3330 Oakdale, Hickory Corners, Michigan 49060 & 815 Mountain Holly, Park City, Utah 84098, Chuck cell: 269-719-5441, Jan cell: 269-425-8275, ccstoddard@msn.com         

Original 2005 - Since graduating from HBS in 1969, Jan and I spent three years in New York City  (working for Citibank ) and 18 months in Los Angeles ( working for a mutual fund company ). In 1973, we moved to the center of Zion ( Grand Rapids, Michigan ) and have lived there ever since, working for three banks. Unfortunately for Jan, the last bank ( which we started in 1987 ) was sold in 2002, resulting in my spending more time at home. However, I am enjoying serving as President of the Gerald R. Ford Council, Boy Scouts of America (on the condition that I wouldn't have to attend any overnight campouts ) and starting a venture capital group (see http://www.grandangels.org/ ). We have been blessed with four terrific children: Stephen ( 36 - married to Kim and they have three daughters ), Heber, Utah; Howard (33), Driggs, Idaho; Debi (30), Denali, Alaska and Philip ( 27), Fort Collins, Colorado. We now divide our time living in Hickory Corners, Michigan and Park City, Utah.  

Update 6/30/06:  Just as Chuck and Jan were finishing their new house in the Park City area (615 Horsetail, Kimball Junction, UT), they were called to preside over the California, Santa Rosa Mission.  So their address for the next three years will be: 3220 Cobblestone Drive, Santa Rosa, CA  95404.  Tel: 707-579-1718.  They will keep the same email as before:  ccstoddard@msn.com - KP

Update 4/27/2010: Since returning from the Santa Rosa California Mission last July, we have been splitting our time between Gull Lake (Hickory Corners, Michigan) and Park City, Utah. My main goal for 2010 is to write and publish my memoirs for our grandchildren and their posterity. Our four children are as follows:  Stephen married to Kim and living in Heber, Utah with their three daughters; Howard living in Driggs and Sandpointe, Idaho; Debi married to Randy Wright and living in Anchorage, Alaska and expecting twins this fall; Phil living in Fort Collins, Co.

Update 7/24/2012: Son Howard married Kimberley Anderson August 2011; he owns an Alaskan helicopter skiing company in Valdez, Alaska yet still lives in Sandpoint, ID - anyone want to go heli skiing ? Daughter Debi blessed us with identical twin grandsons in Sept 2010 & now lives in Rathdrum, ID with her husband Randy. Son Phil lives near us at Gull Lake. I published my autobiography, " Isn't Life Grand ? " as a legacy for our grandchildren. Now I am busy raising $ for my high school classmate, Mitt.   Jan & I look forward to going to Republican Convention in Tampa in Aug & then his innaugeration in January.

Update 7/14/2015 - I hate the word " retired "; so instead I say that I am "rewired. "  Since officially retiring from a full time job as a bank CEO in 2002, we are just as busy now as we were before; fortunately we have more flexibility in deciding how we spend our time. 

We still split our time between our lake house (Gull Lake which is Hickory Corners Michigan) and our mountain house (Park City Utah). In Michigan I am still active with Grand Angels (see www.grandangels.org) and attend all Michigan State home football and basketball games while Jan throws pots at the Kalamazoo Institute of Art. In Utah, we enjoy our three granddaughters in Heber (the oldest is currently serving a mission in Seattle Spanish) and our two identical grandsons who live near Coeur d'Alene Idaho. I play golf at Glenwild where we live while Jan does family history research at the Family History Library in Salt Lake. We attend the Temple weekly for her ancestors as she is still the only member of her family in the Church.  As we have passed the seven decade mark, we are increasingly grateful for the blessing of health. Two years ago, Jan had two operations for a cerebral spiral fluid leak. Currently she is dealing with a pinched nerve ( I didn't pinch her ). I had surgery for an enlarged prostate last year. The foregoing is probably TMI ( too much information ); however we share it with you with the hopes that you won't experience these conditions. If you do, we would be happy to commiserate with you. 

Update 9/27/2021: As they say, "It is better to be seen than viewed." Each passing day we are most grateful for our health; Jan had a triple bypass in March 2020 but seems to have fully recovered. Because of covid, we have significantly reduced our travel schedule but still have been able to visit grandchildren in Bend Oregon, Sandpoint Idaho and Heber Utah. We continue to split our time between our homes in Michigan ( Hickory Corners - Gull Lake ) and Park City Utah. In 2010, I wrote my autobiography. Since ten years have passed, I wrote an addendum in 2020; hopefully I can do it again in 2030. I invite you to write your memoirs for the benefit of your descendents. Further I hope that you might post it in the Memories section in Family Search.

    

 

Morris & Dawn Thurston - 9752 Crestview Circle, Villa Park, CA 92861
Morrie Cell: 714-514-1235, Email: Morristhurston@gmail.com
Dawn Cell: 714-423-6550, E-mail: thurstondawn@gmail.com
Websites: https://www.morristhurstonauthor.com
https://www.MemoirMentor.com/index.htm
https://writingmyroots.com

After Morrie graduated from law school, he accepted a position with Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles. Dawn went back to college and graduated with a BA in English from UCLA three years later. By that time, we had two children. Eventually we had six, but two died as infants. In 1977, Morrie transferred to Latham & Watkins’ Orange County office, became a partner in the firm, and we moved to Villa Park, the smallest city in Orange County. When the children were mostly in college, Dawn returned to school and got her MA in communications from Cal State Fullerton. She then embarked on a twenty-year career teaching life story writing at Santiago Canyon College, where she was teacher of the year in 2008.

Morrie's law firm grew to become the second largest in the world and Morrie ended up specializing in trademark and copyright litigation. Dawn and Morrie jointly wrote a book titled Breathe Life into Your Life Story , which became one of Signature Book’s bestsellers. Dawn became a member of the board of the Association of Personal Historians and has lectured all over the country on family and personal history writing. Both Morrie and Dawn also taught at BYU Education week for many years. Morrie has presented at numerous Mormon History Association conferences, mostly on the legal cases of Joseph Smith.

While still working as a lawyer, Morrie published a history of his Norwegian immigrant ancestor, Tora Thurston, and the personal history of his father. Following his retirement, Morrie served for a few years as a consultant to the Joseph Smith Papers Project and published an article in BYU Studies titled The Boggs Shooting and Attempted Extradition: Joseph Smith’s Most Famous Case which received an award of merit from the Mormon History Association. He also wrote a chapter in the book Why I Stay: The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons. Other books Morrie has more recently published include a history of his great-grandfather’s mission to Australia and a fifty-year history of the Thurston’s Anaheim Sixth Ward.

In 2014 Dawn published a book about her paternal ancestral line titled The Parrett Migration: Their Story is America’s Story , which won the National Indie Excellence Award for historical biography.

This year we have done what we have been counseling others to do for the past thirty years: published our own life stories. Morrie’s is a memoir of his Norwegian mission titled Daylight at Midnight. Dawn’s, which will be off the press next month, is titled In My Life.

The Thurstons are on the board of the Miller Eccles Study Group and that organization’s meetings were held in their home for more than a decade. They were privileged to host the authors of most of the important books on Mormon subjects that were published during that time. Morrie has been on the board of directors of Dialogue Foundation since 2008.

Morrie was active during California’s Prop 8 campaign seeking to correct the misleading materials that were being circulated by the proponents of that proposition. He later appeared on panels at Utah Valley University, Utah State University and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on the subject. His reasoning was echoed by the legal decision that found Prop 8 unconstitutional. When the issue reached the U.S. Supreme Court, he published an in depth online article analyzing the Church’s brief supporting the ban on same-sex marriage.

We have four children and five grandchildren and feel fortunate they all live in Southern California. When Morrie retired, we purchased a second home in Park City and enjoy getting away to the mountains a few times a year. We also love to travel and are thankful that we’re physically able to take at least a couple of overseas trips per year, having now visited every continent.

We are both avid photographers and our travel provides a nice outlet for that passion. We enter our photography and digital scrapbooks in competitions at the Orange County Fair. Morrie has an Adobe Portfolio page displaying photos from some of their travels as well as photos from our Boston group reunion of 2021. In the last few years, we have enjoyed getting back to playing golf. In our leftover time, we like to follow the Dodgers and watch movies and television shows. British and Nordic noir mysteries are among our favorite genres. And, of course, we love to connect with old friends from the Boston area!

 

Marvin & Sandy VanDam - 4295 Rowland Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84124, Marv cell: 801-505-1478; Sandy cell: 801-505-2104, vandam.marvin@gmail.com, vandam.sandy@gmail.com  

Original 2005 - Our last child married two weeks ago, so it must be a few years since we began in Boston.  (Six living children, all of which are wonderfully married and doing good things---our greatest blessing.)  From Boston it was Philadelphia investment banking and then computer engineering, then European president of the computer engineering company, first in France and thereafter in England, then to Salt Lake City as Church Budget Officer and Controller reporting to President N. Eldon Tanner, then management of Church operations in Europe, then mission president in The Netherlands and Belgium, then some time in Utah state government (Director of Business Relations), then several years with a regional foods company, and finally now back in Church administration as director of the Church's operations in the North America Southwest Area.  (My first love, professionally, is Church administration.)  We've had marvelous experiences and have been much blessed.

P.S.  We were at the Red Sox' final (losing) World Series game in 1967 and have suffered with those good brethren and Bean Town ever since---until last fall when my offices turned into a jubilant Red Sox shrine.  Just keep the faith:  Impossible Dreams do happen.

Update 7/6/2015:  After serving just a few months on a proselyting mission in the Netherlands, Marv and Sandy wrote the following:

"The Church has called us to serve as president and matron of the The Hague Temple in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands.  We're grateful for this opportunity for continuing service. We'll have completed nearly a year of our mission and will miss it greatly. Our branch in Den Helder is peaceful and happy, and our missionary proselyting--the daily opportunities for teaching and testifying--have been sweet. We're instructed to return to Salt Lake City soon for preparation, training, and the seminar for new temple presidents mid-October, after which our three-year term will begin.  Met veel liefs en beste wensen, (Our love and best wishes,) Elder Marvin and Sister Sandy"

Update 9/10/2021 - We returned nearly three years ago from our proselyting mission year (door and street contacting; branch president) and then our three years in The The Hague Netherlands Temple. The Church in The Netherlands and Belgium has long been a spiritual home to us, which we greatly miss.

Now, after a second heart pacemaker, two new knees, and a rebuilt back for Marv, we've fixed up and settled back into our home and Dutch flower and vegetable gardens in Holladay (down off Mt. Olympus) in the Salt Lake Valley.

We both serve in the Jordan River Temple and enjoy a constant flow through our home of family (30 grandchildren) and friends (having lived in Philadelphia, France, England, Salt Lake, Germany, and The Netherlands--since Boston).

Update 9/10/2024 - Dear Boston Friends,

Marv and I are grateful and feel so blessed by your association, thanks to Kent and Keena, going on now for over six decades! We delight in reading and re-reading your biographies and following just a little the impact you have made in your various fields of endeavor since we first met in Cambridge and Boston with our lives before us.

Marv was diagnosed a couple of years ago with a debilitating condition known as Hydrocephalus, or water on the brain, causing problems with mobility, body functions and cognition. Marv is limited, making it impractical for him to attend these wonderful Boston group events.

May you know and feel of our ongoing love, respect and gratitude for your friendship and influence for good in our lives. Marv and Sandy Van Dam