ABOUT ME

I arrived with all my fingers and toes in western Oregon. I lived in Boise, Idaho, then moved to eastern Oregon where I graduated from Ontario High School.
I attended Brigham Young University, majoring in communication, with a specialty in advertising and public relations. Between my third and fourth year, I married a beautiful junior named Judi Rogers. She was majoring in home economics education, graduated in 1971, and delivered our first daughter two months after graduating. 
I joined the BYU’s Air Force ROTC detachment. That provided a minor in Aerospace Studies, and added a fifth year of classes.  I graduated from BYU the same week I was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force in 1972.
We moved to California to serve nearly three years on active duty as an information officer at Mather AFB, near Sacramento. During that time, we welcomed two boys to our home, and I earned my master’s degree in business administration at night school from Golden Gate University.  I received my MBA the same week I resigned my commission.
We moved to rural Georgia, then into Atlanta, where over three years, we welcomed another daughter and a son. We then moved to International Falls, Minnesota, staying nearly three years. Another son joined our family.  Then we were recruited back to Utah.
I have spent about 24 years in public relations and marketing communications working for various entities, including Boise Cascade, the Mead Corporation, Zions Bank, etc. I’ve spent another 15 or so years in general business management, including my entrepreneurial effort marketing organic insecticide.
On the side, I enjoy doing freelance work as a Portuguese language translator and interpreter in hospitals and clinics.
With about half of our 16 grandchildren living in Utah, we enjoy being with them. They grow up, very aware of “The Tickle Monster.” I do a bit of gardening, practice the piano now and then and have recently taken up sketching.
I taught business classes for eight years at the University of Phoenix, but I am now very excited to teach at Copper Hills High School.