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Caril Roblyer Jennings

She and her husband of 46 years, artist LeRoy Jennings, live in Ogden. She has a daughter (1970), son (1974), granddaughter (2008) and grandson (2011). She has worked as a credit manager, journalist, secretary, and arts promotion and marketing director, and community volunteer.

She retired from Weber State's Department of Performing Arts, where she served as marketing director for 17 years and secretary prior to that. Retirement has stopped the paychecks but not the work in the arts and community history.

Currently, she is the director of Universe City Lives, an arts advocacy organization. She also helps market and produce Jazz at the Station, a monthly performance at Ogden's Union Station on the second Wednesday of every month. She assists with Weber Reads, the WSU Greek Festival and the WSU Gospel Music Festival. She has won the Mayors Awards in the Arts for Arts Advocacy. She is a change leader for the Utah Division of Heritage and Arts.

She keeps in touch with performing by appearing in theatre productions and readers' theatre. Her favorite role was Ma Joad in WSU's production of "Grapes of Wrath" and Good Company Theatre's recent "Vagina Monologues." She has also sung with the Ogden Community Choir and WSU Choirs in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9; Mozart's "Requiem" and Vivaldi's "Gloria," all thrilling experiences. She shared the stage with her daughter, who played in the orchestra on the Beethoven.

She is currently volunteering in the WSU Archives, documenting various Ogden City projects, most recently the Ogden segment of the Bonneville Shoreline Trails; adapted scripts for all of Aristophanes' comedies; and local visual artists active 2000 to the present. Endless other topics and interests guarantee a busy future.

She has lived in Los Angeles and "The Middle of Nowhere, Canada" and decided that Ogden is just right. She and her family have operated two art galleries in Ogden, most recently Universe City (2004-2011).

Universe City Lives is the vehicle for continuing to produce arts and humanities exhibitions and lectures in Ogden, most recently at the Myra Powell Gallery in Ogden's Union Station in September. Her next production is scheduled in February 2016 in the WSU Shepherd Union Gallery . She will tie her Jazz at the Station program with Ogden history: Jazz FROM the Station: 25th Street, Desegregation, and All that Jazz.

While working as the WSU Performing Arts Department Secretary, she finally graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Integrated Studies in Philosophy, Anthropology and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She has presented papers at professional conferences including Geography, Art History, and the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.

She is an avid gardener, providing a lovely playground for her grandchildren, who live right next door, and the other neighbor children who come to play. (Win for Gramma!) She enjoys cooking and is spending retirement learning cuisines from around the world and teaching her grandchildren how to cook. She is a cancer survivor.

She is still wondering how 50 years has gone by so quickly.

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