Weber State College Comment, 42 July 1987, page 10 E. LaMar Buckner was honored as a recipient of the National Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award from the United Way. The award is given to honor outstanding volunteer service. Buckner was selected | as the representative for the - Alumnews 69 state of Utah. Buckner received the award, presented by former President Gerald Ford, during a special ceremony at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Buckner was nominated for the award because of the quality and effectiveness of his volunteer service. He has been heavily involved in volunteer activities for many years. He was one ot the key persons who helped consolidate the Red Cross, Community Chest and Boy Scouts into the United Fund of Northern Utah. He has served as president of the United Way of Nor thern Utah and the Greater Ogden Arex Chamber of Commerce. He was in the Utah State Legislature for 10 years, four years as assistant majority leader. Buckner is chairman of the board of BucknerRadmall Insurance Counselors and Charter Life Underwriter. He was president of the WSC Alumni Association in 1958, and received the Distinguished Alumnist Award in 1983. He was on the presidential selection committee at Weber State for Pres. Stephen D. Nadauld, and served four years on the state’s Board of Regents. 63 James L. Case, an associate professor of speech and hearing science at Arizona State University, has been appointed to serve as the speech-language pathologist on_ the Southwest Craniofacial Team based in Phoenix. The team, comprised of craniofacial, maxillofacial ® and plastic surgeons, orthodontists and other related professionals, evaluates and treats patients with severe head and neck deformities such as craniosynostosis, cleft lip and palate and rare “syndromes with craniofacial involvement. He has authored two books on speech and voice disorders and was chosen as the outstanding teacher in the College of Liberal Arts at ASU. 12 Don R.S. Davis is currently the head wrestling coach and also teaches at Gooding High School in Jerome, Idaho. His team recently placed fifth in state competition, and two state champions came from his team. This marks the first time Gooding High School _ has had a state wrestling champ. Davis and his wife, Audrey, children. have five "73 Duard Gravis is a contract analyst with the County of Santa Clara Department of Social Services/JTPA Employment and Training Administration in California.. He manages approximately $2 million in training contracts. He and his wife Linda and their two children live in San Jose, Calif. Arnold K. Garr was awarded a Ph.D. in American History from Brigham Young University at the April 1987 commencement. He is currently the director of the L.D.S. Institute of Religion at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His dissertation was titled ‘A History of Liahona, The Elders’ Journal: A Magazine Published for "714 He received his master’s degree from Utah State University in 1974. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Alpa Theta honor societies and Rotary International. He and his wife, Cherie Burns, ’68 have five children. Stephen C. Spurlock has been named vice president and’ commercial loan of* ficer at Commercial Security Bank’s main office in Ogden. His responsibilities 64 65 University of Wyoming and } Ruth E. Turner was elected to the position of American Association of University Women Utah Division program vice president for the 1987-88 term during the division’s annual conference. Miss Turner also spoke on the subject of ‘Religion and Ritual’’ at the conference. She is currently a librarian at Weber State. ’65 Jack R. Reese was named by Delta Airlines as station manager in Bozeman, Mont. following the merger of Delta and Western air lines. A native of Price, he is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. Reese was customer service manager for Western at Bozeman since 1983. With his new assignment he will be responsible for Delta’s passenger and cargo services. Dennis C. East has been appointed by Semperit Tire of Austria as president of their U.S. subsidiary. East was selected based on his three years of excellent performance with Semperit as western regional manager. This, coupled with his loan officer and a cashier. aD "716 "71 71 Debbie J. Mester completed gg requirements for a master’s Lyle E. Harbertson has been named assistant vice president and manager of Commercial Security Bank’s Five Points Office in Ogden. He has completed the American Bankers Association National Retail Banking and ; Commercial | Lending He of its of Barbara Joseph Carver has traveled for the last six years through Alaska, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. She and her husband, Dennis I. Carver, ’79, recently had their fourth daughter. She worked for a time as an accountant and as a high school math teacher, but is now a full-time homemaker. Arthur F. Browneil has been named vice president and manager of the Utah Division of First Security Bank. Brownell was formerly assistant manager. degree in educational communications and technology from Western Oregon State College in June of this year. She has 16 years teaching experience in Nevada, Utah and Oregon, and presently is the library and media teacher in Judson Middle School in Salem, Ore. Kendell Geiger, the loan originator with Knutson Mortgage Corp. of Salt Lake City, has been assigned mortgage financing responsibility for two Utah counties. He has been active in real estate sales and financing in Jackson, Wyo., and in Park City, Utah. He previously was a member of the Ogden Board of Realtors in 1979. Schools, both. of which | were _held . at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla. has been a member of the American Institute Banking and has participated in many of educational courses. He is also a member Robert Morris Associated. background and understan- | ding of the America 4 market makes him the right man to leaa Semperit, said Gunter Sieber, chairman of the tire company. The company is headquartered in New Jersey, and is a major producer of radial car and truck tires. East is a native of Ogden and graduated from Ogden High. East and his wife, Karen Nielsen, a former WSC student, currently reside in Colorado Springs, Colo. John H. Geilmann has opened a new law office in Roy, Utah. He was formerly a corporate attorney for Flying J. Inc., of Brigham City, Utah. The areas of his practice will include wills and probate, business matters, juvenile law and trials and appeals. He earned his law degree from Mercer Univ. in Macon, Ga. While a student he was a member of the Moot Court Board and the Intra-state Mock Trial Team. He and his wife, the former Cindy Jarrett, live in Roy, Utah. Dennis Ball was named branch manager of the Goldenwest Credit Union in Ogden. He is a sixyear veteran of that company, having served as assistant branch manager at the west office, as a of the banks major customers. He attended the | the University of Utah @ before graduating from Weber State. In August of 1986 he completed a three-year residency program taught at the University of Washington in Seattle and graduated from the Pacific Coast Banking School. He also graduated from the National Commercial Lending School and the Robert Morris Associates’ Omega Commercial Loans to Business course. He is a member of the American Institute of Banking and other professional organizations. He also holds memberships in the Ogden Chamber of Commerce and the Ogden Spikers. He is a former member of the Ogden Kiwanis Club and Junior Achievement of Ogden. He is married to the former Margaret Gardiner of Ogden and they have two children. Currently they reside in Ogden. assistant vice presiSecurity Bank’s inin Ogden. He has 1978 when he joined program. Following was named assistant of the bank’s South Kristen Hurst-Hyde performed the role of ‘“‘Aldonza’’ in the Virginia Opera Company’s production of ‘‘Man of LaMancha,”’’ a role she first performed while a student at Weber State. She also performed the role of Ma Moss in Aaron Copland’s opera ‘‘Tender Land’’ at the Song Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn. include working with many Thomas E. Lightfoot, a U.S. Air Force reserve colonel, was recently assigned as deputy commander for transportation in the 349th Military Airlift Wing, at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. He will have command responsibilities for nine aerial port squadrons located on _ the western coast of the United States, in Hawaii and in Guam. James D. Urry was named dent and manager of First stallment loan buy center worked with the bank since the management training several bank assignments he vice president and manager Ogden area. Robert V. Glasmann, Jr. has earned a doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He received his master of arts degree in choral conducting and literature from the University of Northern Colorado at Greeley in 1974. He currently resides in Madison, Wis. the Mormon Missions of America, 1903-1945.” 70 Mark R. Baron recently was promoted by the U.S. Forest Service to district fire management officer on the North Kiabab Ranger District of the Kaibab National Forest in Arizona. This forest is the largest and most productive timber district in the Southwestern Region. He has also been selected to represent the Forest Service on a national interagency committee to. develop a new fire suppression course titled ‘‘Fire Suppression Tactics.’’ He serves on the Fredonia, Arizona City Council as public safety councilman. He and his wife, the former Fay Baron, live in Fredonia, Ariz. 718 Renee Allen O’Brein received her master’s of science degree in range science from Utah State University in June. She currently works at the USDA Forest Service Intermountain Research Station in Ogden. She and her husband, Robert M. O’Brein, ’78, live in Clinton, Utah.