The Jets are a Tongan American family band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The family has 17 children: 15 by birth, and two, Eddie and Eugene, by adoption. The children attended the School District 281...
Anthony Wilford Brimley, an American actor and talented jazz singer who recorded several albums and played successful club engagements, was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often referred to as “the Mormon Church”). The albums that he...
Amy Schultz Johnson is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often referred to as “the Mormon Church”). She is also the daughter of the late Charles Schultz, best known as the creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip. In today’s society, there are...
Have you ever seen a beauty pageant contestant drop and give you 20 push-ups in their little black evening dress?Well, probably not until you watched the 2008 Miss America pageant.When Miss Utah Jill Stevens, affectionately known as G.I. Jill, was eliminated from the...
Orrin Grant Hatch, a lifelong devout member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born on 23 March 1934, in Homestead, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. He was the son of Jesse Hatch (1904–1992), a metal lather, and his wife Helen Frances Hatch...
Tami Schellenberg, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often mistakenly referred to as the “Mormon Church”), worked as a professional photographer for eight years. She is often asked for advice on how to take high-quality photos. As she and...
Troy Dunn, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a 54-year-old American television personality, producer, and public speaker who specializes in creating and producing television that generally includes reuniting people with long lost loved...
Elimination from NBC’s “The Voice” isn’t the end of the road for Ryan Innes, Jon Peter Lewis, Ryan Hayes and Amy Whitcomb—all members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sometimes inadvertently called the Mormon Church—it’s just the beginning,...
Brett Keller Chief Marketing Officer, priceline.com Inc. Priceline.com is an Internet-based transaction service that offers leisure airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, packaged vacations and cruises. Brett Keller was promoted to Chief Marketing Officer in...
Ray Dwayne Rolfson and his wife Julia, both members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often mistakenly referred to as the “Mormon” Church) are dear and personal friends of this author. Dwayne (as he is called by family and friends) has long been an...
Ruth V. Watkins is about to make history. On Thursday, 18 January 2018, the Utah State Board of Regents unanimously voted her as the 16th president of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. Not only will she begin her presidency in the spring, but she also...
He was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until he was assassinated on Thursday evening, 4 April 1968, while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the...
There are perhaps very few people, the world over, both children and adults, who are unfamiliar with A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories. Just the mention of the name, Winnie the Pooh, causes the theme song to play in a person’s head on eternal repeat. The stories of...
We first met Paris Demario Thomas, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a little more than a decade ago when he was featured in a YouTube video as part of the Church’s “I AM A Mormon” campaign. Since then, through the help of a good friend, he...
Thurl Lee Bailey was born in Washington, D.C. on 7 April 1961. He is a graduate of Bladensburg High School in Bladensburg, Maryland. Family is extremely important to Bailey. He is a devoted family man with six children. He and his wife Sindi currently live in Salt...
By Rebecca I attended Brigham Young University (BYU) the same time as the famous Mormon athlete Jimmer Fredette. I remember the hostile debates throughout Utah in response to another student’s article in The Daily Universe (school newspaper at BYU), who complained...
In 2014, Jonathan and Kylene Jones, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often referred to as the “Mormon Church”), wrote a book called “The Provident Prepper.” Ever since writing the book, the couple has maintained that their food storage...
Krešimir Ćosić, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born on 26 November 1948 in Zagreb, the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. He is the son of son of Ante and Darinka Ćosić. He was raised in Zadar, Yugoslavia, now...
Jodie Jones, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often mistakenly referred to as “the Mormon Church”), is a devoted wife and mother. In 2012, she was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. Shortly after her diagnosis, she and her husband...
Kuinini “Nini” Manumua is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often referred to as “the Mormon Church”). She was born in American Samoa but spent the first 10 years of her life in her parents’ home country of Tonga. When she was 10, her...
Republican Utah First elected to the US Senate in 1976. In 1976 in his first run for public office, he was elected to the United States Senate, defeating Democrat Frank Moss, a three-term incumbent. Among other issues, Hatch criticized Moss’s 18-year tenure in...
Albert Robert “Bob” Inama was a returned missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a college student at Utah State University. In 1959, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, which meant that he had to put his schooling and career...
The largest management and leadership development organization in the world. Stephen R. Covey is perhaps best known as the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which is ranked as a No. 1 best-seller by the New York Times, having sold more than 12 million...
“The time is always right to do what is right. . .. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. . .. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. . .. Injustice anywhere is a threat to...
