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Dianne Clyde Carr

    After high school, I attended BYU, graduating in Food Science and
    Nutrition. A month after graduating, I married Wallace Carr in the Manti
    Temple. After we were married, we moved to the Bay Area in Berkeley,
    California, and I completed a one-year clinical internship to become a
    registered dietitian, rotating among 4 large hospitals. Wally attended San
    Francisco State University while I finished my internship, and then com-
    pleted his degree at BYU while I worked at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City.
        We moved to Fresno while Wally completed his Master's Degree at
    Fresno State University, and I worked at Valley Children's Hospital. After
    graduation, we moved to the San Lorenzo Valley in the redwood forests
    just east of Santa Cruz CA. We loved the beautiful area where we lived,
    and Wally liked his job as a psychiatric social worker, but we decided Utah
    would be a better place to raise our family, so after 8 years we moved back
    to Springville in 1977. Wally and I have had 5 children: Julie, Michael, Daniel, Mary Ann and Wendy. Mary Ann was born prematurely and died shortly after birth. Currently, we have 12 grandchildren, and our sons and their families live in Vermont and Texas, and our daughters in Herriman and Salt Lake, Utah. All of our children graduated as Springville Red Devils.
    My work experience has been quite varied. I worked a few hours a week at the Felton Library in CA which was housed in a picturesque old Presbyterian Church. In Utah, I was the Director of the Parent Resource Center for Nebo School District. That was a part-time job, and about the same time I started working as a consultant dietitian to various health care facilities, including Sanpete Valley Hospital and several nursing and group homes. Then about 25 years ago, I began rewarding work at a couple of adolescent treatment centers, working with young people from all over the U.S. with eating disorders, substance abuse, behavioral and other issues. I retired in 2011.
    Since that time, my husband and I have been serving as LDS Employment Resource Services missionaries. We have really enjoyed helping people find employment and educational resources. I have also enjoyed serving in all sorts of callings in the LDS Church, my favorites being the Young Women's programs.
    I enjoy being involved in the community. I have been on the Board of Trustees at the Springville Museum of Art for many years, currently serving as the Treasurer. I served a term on the outreach panel of the Utah Arts Council and was elected to the Springville City Council for two 4-year terms—challenging, but very rewarding and interesting. I was the President of Women in Leadership of Utah County, and recently I was appointed by the Utah County Com-missioners to the Utah County Board of Health.
    In my spare time, I love to travel, and Wally and I have traveled to all but one of the continents. I am still an avid reader and belong to several reading groups. I was in community theater for several years while my children
were involved, and my two most memorable roles were as Eulalie McKecknie Shin in The Music Man and the Wicked Witch of the West
in The Wizard of Oz. I also enjoyed sewing costumes for the theater. Wally and I are life-long learners, and we love learning and doing new things, from riding in a hot air balloon, to going to Mormon History Association Confer-ences, to learning new dances at the Monterey Jazz Festival. I am working on some family histories. The major things in my life,
however, are faith, family and friends.
Nothing equals them in importance!
    Thanks for being my friends.    

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