Bill Galvan “I started drawing my own comics when I was in high school, photocopied 8 x 11″ pages stapled together for my friends. From there, I moved on to doing a regular comic strip for our college newspaper at Southern Utah University. That’s...
Arnold Friberg “Friberg, whose Swedish father and Norwegian mother were both Mormon converts and immigrants to America, began drawing at a young age. By the time he was eight, he had aspirations to be a newspaper cartoonist, but after studying at the Chicago...
Helaman Ferguson Ferguson is an abstract artist who … expresses his mathematical conceptions as sculpture. He has discovered the common ground of mathematics and art upon which he has placed his own creativity. –Richard Waller, Director of the Marsh Art...
Brian Fairrington Born and raised in Arizona, Fairrington’s award winning editorial cartoons are nationally syndicated to over 800 newspapers and publications in America with Cagle Cartoons. His cartoons have appeared in the New York Times, USAToday as well as...
Avard Fairbanks Ph.D. (1897-1987) He was one of America’s distinguished sculptors of the 20th Century. In his career he created over 100 public monuments. (Four are found in the U.S. Capitol Bldg. in Washington, D.C.) He studied in New York, Paris, and Italy,...
Simon Dewey Simon Dewey, the only son of a London bus driver, left school at the age of seventeen to pursue his artistic dreams. He studied at a London art college before launching his career. In 1999, he entered the world of published fine art and soon became one of...
Donna Dewberry Painter She is a self-taught artist from Florida. She is recognized throughout America, Europe and Asia as the innovative creator of the ONE Stroke painting technique. She shares her techniques with others through a television show available on PBS. ...
Brian Crane Brian Crane’s daily comic strip “Pickles” was syndicated in April 1990 and the Sunday version was launched the following year. In 1995, PICKLES was nominated for “best comic strip of the year” by the National Cartoonists...
Kim Corpany Kim Corpany grew up on the backs of her family’s horses in Morgan, Utah. Her mother is an artist and art teacher, so to keep Kim out of trouble and quiet in church and other meetings she would give her daughter pencils and paper to draw on. Kim...
Richard Comely Comic Artist Captain Canuck creator Captain Canuck was “born” in 1971 when art student Ron Leishman met Richard Comely. They soon became friends and both being artists, Ron suggested the idea of doing a Canadian superhero comic book series....
Earl Bascom Sculptor and Professional Cowboy In life he followed faithfully his own philosophy, “If you want to be a champion bullrider, you have to ride the toughest bull.” He was born in Utah and raised in Alberta. He started rodeo in 1916 at the age of ten. He was...
Michael Allred Comic Artist “Zane” Michael Allred has done many things in life. So much, in fact, that some might call him a “Renaissance man”. A quick look at his resume reveals work as an artist, writer, film-maker, actor, musician, producer...
Ray Zinn CEO, Micrel Semiconductor Building on its strength as an innovator in process and test technology, Micrel has expanded and diversified its business by becoming a recognized leader in the high-performance analog power control and management...
Mark Willis CEO, Times Mirror Some expressed skepticism that a cereal company executive and economist could run a communications business. Willes championed breaking down barriers between news and advertising operations to allow the Los Angeles Times to market itself...
Christopher L. Wight counsel, Myriad Genetics Myriad Genetics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapeutic and diagnostic...
Kay Whitmore (1932-2004) CEO, Eastman Kodak He was president of Kodak from 1983-1993. He was described as a man of “incomparable integrity.” He served as president of the England London South Mission from 1994-1997. He served another mission in California until...
J. Douglas Whisenant Senior Vice President, Gas Pipeline, Williams Williams’ roots go back decades before television and the Internet, when two brothers named Williams began building the energy infrastructure needed to drive a new era of American prosperity....
Mark J. Wattles CEO, Hollywood Entertainment From a single store in Portland, Oregon, in 1988, Hollywood has grown to become the world’s second largest video chain, with more than 1,800 stores. On 03 Feb 2005, he abruptly resigned amid a bidding war for his...
Dieter F. Uchtdorf senior vice president, Lufthansa German Airlines Born 1940, in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. Senior vice president for flight operations and chief pilot for Lufthansa German Airlines, and check and training captain for Boeing 747s; received wings as a...
Kay Toolson CEO, Monaco Coach Headquartered in Coburg, Oregon, with additional production facilities in Bend, Oregon and Elkhart and Wakarusa, Indiana. They’ve been a public company since 1993. It is one of the fastest-growing manufacturers in today’s...
Donald L. Staheli CEO, Allied Mills Inc CEO, Continental Grain Co. He was CEO of Allied Mills Inc. from 1969-1977. He was CEO of Continental Grain from 1988-1997. On 05 Apr 1997, he was sustained to the second quorum of the...
James L. Sorenson CEO, Sorenson Media His company developed the world’s leading video compression technology, used by Apple Computer, Disney, MGM, and a growing mass market...
L.E. Simmons Chairman, Oil States International Oil States International, Inc. is a leading provider of specialty products and services to oil and gas drilling and production companies throughout the world. We operate in three principal business segments — offshore...
