Week 5 - Personal History

5. What do you see as your personal strengths?

 MOM:

I believe that one of my personal strengths is my sense of humor.  I love to laugh and tell jokes. My children and grandchildren can testify about my sometimes sarcastic sense of humor.  I try to see the humor in all kinds of situations.  Another personal strength is how much I love and adore my children and grandchildren.  I love to be with them and do activities with them.  I love to learn, and I love to read all kinds of books.  I also try to be honest and trustworthy. Another personal strength is the fact that I believe in my religion.  I have a testimony of the truth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  I was married in the Salt Lake Temple on August 10, 1971.  Currently, I am ward librarian with Jenny.  

 

JACKIE:

I see my personal strengths are in art and being kind.   I enjoy the arts and I am glad that my hobby was strengthened through going to classes and learning art in school.  What I love the most is oil painting, and painting from photographs.   The painting becomes one of a kind with brush strokes and color.   I have been shy most of my life, but along with art, since it art is a quiet activity, I feel that I am sensitive, kind, and a caring person.   It seems others in the media are not this way, and are only very selfish.   Anyway, art and my personality has helped me become more talkative now, but also remain grounded in what is most important in life.   I also feel a personal strength is to be LDS.   I am so happy to be a part of this religion.  It means so much more then just knowing that we have the Book of Mormon to read and understand.   With being LDS I find that happiness and optimism have been a huge part of how I look at Art, and the future.  

 

STACY:

My personal strengths are that I am organized, creative, funny, kind and have a love for learning.  I enjoy organizing and scheduling things.  That probably is what makes me a great project manager at my work.  I like to be creative with design, graphics and color.  I have the same sarcastic humor as my mother.  My son Johnny is also funny and sarcastic too.  We love to laugh and find humor in things.  I am kind and have empathy for others.  I love my family and friends and try to be kind to them and make sure others are kind to them too.  I love learning new things.  I did go to college for a total of 8 years and achieved two master's and a bachelor of science with a minor in business.  I am still studying now.  I got my architect's license, I am a  LEED accredited professional and I am working on my Interior Design certificate now.  I think it is always good to keep improving and learning new things.   

 

 

 

Week 4 - Personal History

Question:

What college did you go to?

What did you study?
What memories do you have of those years?​
MOM:
I went to the University of Utah.  I studied English and history.  I was a history and English graduate.  I loved the University of Utah.  I went to all of the games and met my future husband there in a skiing class at Alta.  I passed him going up the mountain to Alta and he remembered my face when I passed him.  He later asked me if I had a red Mustang, and I said yes.  He then said that the white Scout was his that I passed.  I remember laughing about that.  He then asked my friend, Sherma, and me to have hot chocolate with him after class.  Of course, we said yes, because who can pass up free food.  So, as you can see, I have very fond memories of the U.  I even went back after I had four kids and was teaching full time and got my Masters in Education specializing in Gifted Education.  What a wonderful time I had at the University of Utah. 

JACKIE:
What college did you go to?

I went to the University of Utah in Salt Lake city to get my Bachelors of Art Education, (BFA) , and then in 2000 to do a few courses in Interior Design through the LDS Business College.

 

What did you study?

I studied Art Education.  A variety of Art classes such as watercolors, Oil painting, sculpture, photography, and Art history.   Also, I took various education classes, like; 'know yourself and the university',  American Indian and culture, Women studies, and Food and Nutrition.  Stacy and I took a ballroom dance class once.   In Interior Design, I took Textiles, and Placement Design (how furniture can be arranged), and Color Theory.  

 

What memories do you have of those years?​

Very fun and very challenging.  I think the main thing was Stacy and I were together 24/7 so a lot of memories I have was how we got on each others nerves.   She'd tease me how I walked swinging my arms, studied, or how I read my books (under a blanket in my room.)   Stacy and I also worked together!  We worked at the Olpin Union at the U of U Information desk, and went to the Theta LDS sorority together once a week after work.   Other classroom memories, was how I did not do so well at 'Know yourself and the university.'    (Guess I didn't know my university...ironic since I was giving information out to all the students and faculty)  I did not do so well on the written exam basically.  And Art History was hard, but I managed to pass both to get the credits to graduate.   Some other memories was how I liked the extension classes in the Sandy, UT location.   It was nice to go there after Dillard's just around the corner.   Then after graduating the U of U, the LDS Business college, was so different in how each class was started off with a prayer and a song from the hymn book.  I felt reverence there, unlike the University of Utah, where everyone was the same religion, and upheld the same moral values.  

STACY:
I went to the University of Utah.  I got a bachelors of science in architectural studies with a business minor.  I also got two Master's degrees.  One was in Architecture and the other Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing.

I have a lot of memories while I attended the U.  I was there for a total of 8 years, from 1995-2003.  I met a lot of lifelong friends who I worked with at the Union building - Oanh, Deidre, Krista and Mike Slipsky.  I also met some great friends during architecture school - Stacey Lund-Walker, Courtney and Annie.  During MBA school I made some great friends - David Rebol, Jim Campbell and Steve Beningo.  I enjoyed my time at college.  It was fun and also challenging.