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Show Campbell earns award are a lot of deserving people," she said. Five other finalists were chosen with Campbell. They were Kenneth Martinez, Tooele Job Service; Mary Betts, assistant director, Industrial Accidents, Industrial Commission; John D. Gunderson, maintenance engineer, Utah Department of Transportation, Ogden; Sergeant Jon N. Key, Protective Services, Public Safety; and Brett W. Johnson, conservation officer, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Price. Campbell received a $1,000 U.S. Savings Bond and a plaque. The other five finalists also received plaques. . Campbell says her biggest goal for the center is to get more young people out to the activities. She said that the high school students and those in their early 20's are main-streamed main-streamed and often don't realize what the center has to offer. The center provides classes on everything ranging from leadership classes to learning how to use a phone for the deaf. They hold fundraisers fun-draisers for the center and activities for the deaf along with lunches and many other opportunities for the deaf and hearing alike. Both Campbell's parents are deaf, and with only one sister she said childhood was hard because of all the responsibility put upon her. Her parents were very independent, though, so it wasn't as difficult as it could have been, she said. Campbell said the award is "a little embarrassing and humbling." "It's nice to be recognized but there By MICHELLE EMERY Beth Ann Campbell, director of the Utah Community Center for the Deaf in Bountiful, has been awarded award-ed the Earl Conder award by Gov. Norm Bangerter. The award is given annually to an outstanding public employee that "exhibits outstanding attributes and demonstrates the high caliber of employees working for the state system," said Gov. Bangerter. Campbell was the first nationally certified professional interpreter in the United States and also helped develop the concept of co-therapist, someone that helps with psychiatrists and deaf patients. She has been a professional interpreter for 15 years covering courts, lawyers, doctors, meetings and other events requiring interpreters. She has been director for the center for almost six years and finds her job to be "challenging." She said there have been some hard times along the way but "it was worth it. I've got a great staff that is so supportive of me," she said. She also commends Gene Stewart, administrator ad-ministrator for the state programs for the deaf, who she says 'puts up with her. ' ' |