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Show n n. Qb1 Nery nr j Chamber presents Arthur V. Watkins Awards The ProvoOrem Chamber of Commerce held its annual Arthur Ar-thur V. Watkins Outstanding Citizen Awards Banquet last week in the Utah Valley State College Ballroom. A number of individuals were honored at the event, now in its 17th year. The event is named in honor of Senator Arthur V. Watkins. Arthur V. Watkins was born December 18, 1886, in Midway, Utah. He attended Brigham Young Academy, New York University, and Columbia University and receivedhis LLB degree. He moved his family to Orem, where in 1946 he was elected to the United States Senate. Senator Watkins served in Washington D.C. for 12 years, where he became a leading national na-tional authority on reclamation and was instrumental in securing secur-ing approval for the Central Utah Project and other projects vital to the continued growth of Utah. "It is a pleasure, as Orem continues its incredible growth, remembering Senator Watkins' community service as we honor today's outstanding citizens," said Steve Densely, president of the Chamber. CITIZEN OF THE YEAR: Alan C. and Karen Ashton. Once known for international business, Alan and Karen Ashton Ash-ton have been tireless leaders, workers, and donors to ensure that growth also meant an increase in-crease in the quality of family life and opportunities in the community. The Ashtons are driven by the values they exemplify: faith, family, and service. Karen is frequently fre-quently seen in classrooms performing per-forming and teaching storytelling, storytell-ing, while Alan is on the tennis court as Orem High's girls' ten- - nis team volunteer (and only) t coach. Thanksgiving Point, the 5 Ashton farmpark in Lehi, will soon be another educational boon to the area. School children will learn about farm animals and help with farm chores while all ages will enjoy gardens and the ability to take ideas and plants home to create beauty in their own yards. Perhaps their most lasting gift to education and beauty is the City of Orem's new Children's Library, a 35,000-square-foot structure dedicated to helping children and families discover the wonderful world of imagination and knowledge. Karen and Alan Ashton are modern-day heroes. They make pride in the community blossom, and that is the ultimate definition defini-tion of "citizen". BUSINESS OF THE YEAR: PowerQuest. Founded by Eric J. Ruff in 1993, PowerQuest's first product, PartitionMagic for OS2, and DOS, started shipping in March of 1995. Six months later, the company recorded $1 million in sales. PowerQuest intends to continue their success with their upcoming version of Partition-Magic Partition-Magic 2.0. PowerQuest has received awards by popular computer com-puter magazines, including , OS2 Magazine "Editor's Choice Eric Ruff, founder of Tower Quest, was presented with the Dusinessof the Year-Award Year-Award from Cx6 ProvoOrem Chafer of Commerce. t f ( : LI r Outstanding Citizens Karen First Colony Mortgage. o 0 David Voegele, representing State Farm Insurance, presented Community Service to Orem City's DA.R.E. officers. ' 1995" and OS2 Professional "Best Utility of the Year 1995". PowerQuest has grown from just four engineers to over 24 full-time employees with a projected 50 employees by year's end 1996. Companies like PowerQuest give Orem's economy dynamic strength. OUTSTANDING MALE ATHLETE; Jason Gonzalez.; Jason Gonzalez has achieved-success achieved-success both on and off the playing play-ing fields. He is the free safety and quarterback for the Orem High Football team, a pitcher for the baseball squad, and maintains main-tains a 3.899 grade point average to boot. He has helped Orem High to regional championships cham-pionships and state runners-up in football while being voted sophomore Player of the Year in baseball and junior varsity Player of the Year in football. Jason hopes to obtain an athletic scholarship to continue his , education, and has been contacted con-tacted by PAC 10, WAC, and Ivy League schools. BUSINESS MAN OF THE YEAR: Scott E. Wilkins. Well-known Well-known to Orem residents, Scott Wilkins has long been an inspiration in-spiration for success. To neighbors neigh-bors who have shopped in the corner market at 800 West 400 North for the past 47 years, he is the friendly grocer whose 1 honesty and love have touched and helped countless lives. Mr. Wilkins assisted in the 1952 drive to solicit funds for Orem's first ambulance service and donated 18 years to seeing this service succeed. He served as vice president of the Orem Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Winterfest and Summerfest parades. He served 1 - n ft WPt g TP I The Student of the Year Award went to Jennifer Ann Seegmiller. it . 4 , and Alan Ashton (left) were introduced by John Aldrich of ft' I i the Boy Scouts as first aid coun-? selor and as judge at Stan's. Boxing Club. To his wife, Claudia, he has been a loving husband since 1940. Together they are proud parents of two children, and they have six grandchildren. BUSINESS WOMAN OF THE YEAR: Leslie Nelson. When Leslie Nelson left her teaching job at Lehi High School in 1985, she left to pursue a dream. Leslie refined and developed a solid niche in the card industry, marketing her cards to dentists who send out reminders or messages to their patients. It grew as people saw her cards, and she is now working work-ing with realtors as well. In fact, Sendsations Personal Marketing Market-ing has become an industry leader with over 20 different programs ranging from personal logos and brochures to direct mail systems designed to help those real estate agents market themselves more effectively. Leslie believes firmly in giving to others. She attributes the people around her with helping help-ing her succeed. It is obvious, though, that Leslie Nelson has forged her dreams for herself, and has successfully met the needs of those many people and businesses she serves. OUTSTANDING FEMALE ATHLETE: Lori Henry. With an All-State basketball bas-ketball and track accomplishment accomplish-ment under her belt, Lori Henry's athletic ability is not to be taken lightly. Add to her list of accomplishments two defending defend-ing state championships in discus and shotput and Lori Henry becomes one of the all-around all-around athletic elite in Utah. Lori is a senior at Mountain View High School, where she has twice led the Bruin track team to the state champion- , ships. All of Lori's coaches agree that she is wonderful to work with. They are impressed with her natural leadership abilities, as well as her great athletic talents in different sports. Lori is looking forward to college, where she hopes to continue ... sports participation. OUTSTANDING TEACHER: Cynthia Clark. Cynthia is an art teacher at Orem High School. She has worked hard and has built an incredibly successful art program pro-gram at OHS. Under her guidance, art instruction has progressed to a level where her students are consistently receiving receiv-ing honors and recognition for their art work. Cynthia was instrumental in-strumental in implementing the Advanced Placement program in art and because of her teaching teach-ing abilities, her students have I""'""' " """ i the award for Outstanding fared very well in passing the tests and receiving college credit. She has also worked very, hard in assisting the principal with special projects, including Orem High's Centennial program. pro-gram. Above all of these kudos, Cindy is, most importantly, loved and respected by her stu dents. Even those who often struggle in academic areas excel in her program and remain in school. She has built and molded many failing students into high-s high-s ly successful students by caring and praising them. Cindy is our outstanding teacher for a good reason. OUTSTANDING STUDENT: STU-DENT: Jennifer Seegmiller. Jennifer Seegmiller of Orem High School maintains a 3.93 GPA while involving herself in as many extracurricular activities ac-tivities as she can. She is heavily involved with the debate program, pro-gram, and is now overseeing a novicementor program and is a leader in after-school help labs. In addition to debate, she joined a mock trial team, and currently leads the "A" team as head lawyer. This would certainly be considered a heavy extra-curricular load for most, but in addition ad-dition to this, Jennifer has become be-come heavily involved with Health Occupations Students of America, and represented the state of Utah at their 1994 conference con-ference in Louisville, Kentucky. Add to this her membership in Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), and her schedule at school has Jennifer more busy than most. OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY COM-MUNITY SERVICE: Sgt. Doug Edwards, Sgt. John Ames, Sgt. Charlie Wakamat-su, Wakamat-su, Officer Bill Young. D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Resis-tance Education) has been operating successfully in the City of Orem since 1989, thanks to these officers. After soliciting support from local businesses, a 4x4 truck was donated to the city by Doug Smith Chrysler. The truck became the D.A.R.E. vehicle as a reminder to all . D.A.R.E. students what they " were taught in the 17-week ' course. In addition to teaching the ; course, these men provide ' fingerprinting merit badge seminars, self-protection lec- ' tures to young women's groups, drug and gang lectures, police ride-alongs for youth groups, career lectures, and a Safety City seminar at Universitv Mull OUTSTANDING CON-TRIBUnON CON-TRIBUnON TO HIE CULTURAL CUL-TURAL ARTS: Edward A. Sandgren. His love of music has been withhimhis entire life. As a loved high school choir teacher, Mr. Sandgren's choirs were selected to represent the The ProvoOrem Chamber of Commerce honored the recipients of the annual Arthur V. Watkins Outstanding Citizen Awards at a banquet held to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the Orem community. com-munity. Arthur Watkins (pictured), son of Arthur V. Watkins, gave a tribute to his father at the November 16 event 1 j! f ! 1 i r i silt V ( . 1 v. V . - -,rr i Jason Gonzalez and Lori Henry were honored as Athletes of the Year. -.w,.-.,-- i. J ' r j m 0m j Leslie Nelson was named Business Women of the Year. i T Edward Sandgren (left) accepts an award for outstanding contributions to the cultural arts from Gareth Seastrand (right). truss?? ty,-'m '.yf-i&ssmswtw wwywswzp Scott Wilkins was honored as Utah Music Educators Association Associa-tion and the Music Educators National Conference in concert at San Diego, California; Anaheim, California; and Miami Beach, Florida, on several different dif-ferent occasions. The National Federation of Music Clubs and the National Music Council selected his choir to represent Utah at the Kennedy Ken-nedy Center for Performing Arts at Washington, D.C, as part of the National Bicentennial Parade of American Music in t i P -7 JL - 7.. ,5 V;4 vidt'"- CJM J.' I V. 1 T - Educator of the Year was Orem High School's Cynthia Clark 1 4 : km TBS Business Man of the Year. 1976, and the Diamond Jubilee Convention at Atlantic City in 1973, representing the Golden West "Region of the United States. Mr. Sandgren has studied with many of the world'i greatest teachers, conductors and soloists in private study all around the world. His talents and abilities to teach and develop his students have left t lasting impression on the cul tural expression of his com' munity. 'U .'!: wo |