JAY BRYANT TAGGART Jay Bryant Taggart was bom 21 May 1928 in Ogden, Utah, to Cordon Jay and Myrtle Stratford Taggart. He was raised with his two brothers, Albert and Blaine, in Ogden, Utah, Twin Falls and Pocatello, Idaho, graduating from Pocatello High School in 1946. Jay's father was a warehouseman for Scowcrofts & Sons in Ogden, Twin Falls, and Pocatello. The family returned to live in Ogden in 1946. It was then that Jay joined the Army. He served as a paratrooper in Japan with the occupational forces. Returning from Japan, he worked for Commercial Security Bank as a cashier and bookkeeper. Then in late 1948, he went to France for two and on-half years as a missionary, returning home in May of 1951. He then enrolled in Weber College and attended one year. On 11 June 1952, he married Nadine Carver of Plain City, Utah, in the Logan Temple. He then attended the University of Utah for three years, graduating in 1955 with a BA in Social Studies and French. It was during these three years that his first two children were bom—Nancy in 1953 and Brycejay in 1954. He began his teaching career at South Ogden Jr. High School in the fall of 1955. He lived in Plain City for seven years, moving to Riverdale in 1962. While in Plain City, Mark Carver Taggart and Jan Taggart were bom. Just prior to this time he also transferred to Weber County High School to teach history and French. During the school year of 1962-1963, he attended Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois (just ten minutes from Chicago). His fifth child, Diana, was then just two weeks old. Prior to leaving for Northwestern, he had been teaching at the newly opened Bonneville High School in Washington Terrace. He returned there in 1963 as the vice-principal. In 1964, Bonnie, his sixth child, was bom. The next year, he received his Masters Degree in Education at Utah State University. In February of 1966, he left Bonneville High School and went to the Central Office ofthe Weber County Schools as director of federal funds for team teaching. In the fall of 1967, he became principal of Bonneville High School. By this time James Royal, the seventh child, had joined the family, necessitating a larger home in South Ogden. While there, Scott Jay, the eighth, and Blaine Albert, the ninth, were bom.