A few months after high school graduation I left for Ecuador in South America to serve an LDS mission (Scott Smith and Jody Lewis also served in the same mission). After the mission my goal was to play football at a small junior college, but Coach Mike Jones offered me a scholarship to run track at the University of Utah so I became a Ute. I met a young lady (Tammy Gifford) with the prettiest brown eyes and eight months later we were married. We have been married for almost 27 years (she still has those pretty brown eyes). My task each day is to get her to laugh or smile and now as an old fat guy some days are tougher than others.
...family and gray matter...
My wife and I have six children, Jamie (25) who is married and living in west Kaysville (Jamie and Kelly Willden), Ryan (23) University of Utah student who is trying to teach me Mandarin Chinese (not going very well, things just don’t stick in the gray matter like they did when I was in college), Casey (21) just returned from an LDS mission in the Philippines (now I am also taking Tagalog lessons with same non-stick results), Jennifer (18) just graduated from Layton High and is working as a CNA in Bountiful, Matt (16) my parents revenge child and Sarah (13) where most of my gray hair comes from. It looks like all my children will be Layton High graduates (four so far plus my wife) with me being the only Dart in the family. However, they all have brown eyes so ...I assure them their must be some allegiance in them to Davis High.
...college and the work history stuff.
I graduated from the University of Utah in 1985 with a degree in physics and hired on with a company as an electrical power engineer (went back to the Uof U and took those engineering classes). Found some spare time and went to Westminster College in Salt Lake and received an MBA in 1999. I have been with the same company for almost 25 years and currently work as one of the directors. I travel around the western United States and western Canada working with electrical utility systems regarding their transmission system planning and operations. Ok ...I know it all sounds boring ...but it will make retirement that much nicer.
My thanks to the 30yr Reunion Committee for all their hard work!!!