People from Draper, Utah - Wilson W. Sorensen, Douglas R. Stringfellow, Kendall D. Garff, Lauritz Smith, John R. Park, Jonathan C. Coon (Paperback)

Chapters: Wilson W. Sorensen, Douglas R. Stringfellow, Kendall D. Garff, Lauritz Smith, John R. Park, Jonathan C. Coon, Howard A. Stephenson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wilson Woodruff Sorensen (August 8, 1916 July 30, 2009) was the president of Utah Technical College (now Utah Valley University, or UVU) from 1946-1982. Sorensen was born in Draper, Utah, and raised in Draper and Deseret, Utah. He graduated from Jordan High School in Sandy, Utah. As a young man and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church or Mormon Church) he served as a missionary in the California Mission. Later in life he would continue activity in the LDS Church, serving as a Bishop and in a stake presidency. He married Helen Howard in 1942 in the Salt Lake Temple. They had four children and raised their family in Provo, Utah. Helen died in 2000 and their daughter Kathy died in 2001. Sorensen graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah with a bachelor's degree in industrial arts and a master's in educational administration. After graduation, Sorensen taught industrial arts at Granite High School in South Salt Lake, Utah. He was hired by Central Utah Vocational School to purchase supplies to train workers in arms and ammunition manufacturing during World War II. Although he had an educational background, Sorensen was a carpenter by trade, which made him attractive to head the growing trade school as it became a state funded institution. When Sorensen started at the institution it had under 1,000 students. By the time he left there were over 5,500 students and it had moved campuses twice, arriving at its current location in Orem, Utah under the name Utah Technical College. Sorensen was succeeded as president of the school by...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2381794