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Show T L0TC-007 AH EDITION OF T 1 Im'!.: 4006 V, UT 84101-1277 YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2003 50 CENTS Max Curtis named Arthur V Watkins Outstanding Citizen The annual Arthur V. Watkins Banquet will be held tonight to honor citizens that have contributed to the better or Orem. The Banquest will be held at the Grand Ballroom at Utah Valley State College. Named the Outstanding Citizen is Max R. Curtis. He was born and raised in Ogden. After high school graduation he enlisted in the US Marine Corp and later gradated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He then went on to receive his Masters Degree in Business from the University of Utah. After graduation, he worked for six years with Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator Company as Sales Engineer. He began employment with United States Steel Corp. at the Geneva Works in 1956 as Foreman of the Instrument Shop and Field. During this time he was asked to go to Italy as one of four men from the corporation corpora-tion as advisors to the Italian Steel ' " ,. , III 11.11 Max R. Curtis Arthur V. Watkins Outstanding C'itien Corp., Italsider, and worked in their plant at Piombino, Italy, for three months. During these same years he served as the US Steel Representative to the Orem Chamber of Commerce, and President Electm, and then as President of the Provo-Orem Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce in 1979. Max has served on several civic committees including The Community Progress Committee, the Naming Committee for the Mountain View High School and several years with the United Way. He served as a a member of the Board of Directors of the Industrial Development Association, and on the Orem Summer Festival Committee. He has also served as the Utah District Chairman of the Iron and Steel Industry (AISE) and as National Director for this organization organiza-tion and District Vice President for the Instrument Society of America (ISA) Max married Marilyn McEntire and they have five children, twenty-one twenty-one grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. See other winners on Page A6 Kevin Rollins1 "Soul of Dell11 defines company1 s culture CLYDE E. WEEKS. JR. Times Correspondent Part 3. Talk with Ralph and Betty Rollins about their family and they will tell you they are very proud of their four children. Their daughter, Anita, is the marketing director at Dell Computers Corp. Their son, Craig, is an executive at Hewlett-Packard. Their son, Kyle, is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Brigham Young University. Their otherson, Kevin B. Rollins, is president and chief operating officer of Dell Computer Corp in Austin, Texas. His company ranks No.l in the United States, where it is a leading supplier of personal computers to business customers, government govern-ment agencies, educational institutions and consumers. The company was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell, the computer industry's longest-tenured longest-tenured chief executive officer, offi-cer, on a simple concept: that by selling personal computer systems directly to customers, cus-tomers, Dell could best understand their needs, and efficiently provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs. "Whether an order is for just one computer, or 10,000, each one is custom-made to the specifications of the buyer. Our award-winning service and support team is just a phone call away 24 hours a day, 365 days a year," Kevin said. Although industry experts saw growth at Dell as phenomenal, phe-nomenal, in 2001 Kevin perceived per-ceived that Dell's morale was suffering. "Company sales were on a plateau, the stock was down, and the company was stagnant," stag-nant," he said. "I sought ways to improve our culture to weather the storms." In 2001 Rollins launched the "Soul of Dell," a corporate cor-porate philosophy phi-losophy that defines the kind of company com-pany Dell is, and aspires to become, serving as a guide for its actions around the world, and forming the basis of its "winning culture." The core elements of the Soul of Dell are: We believe in creating loyal customers by providing a superior experience at a great value. J ,;. ' ., . (Ml Kevin B. Rollins, Orem High School Alumnus, president and chief operating officer of Dell Computers. We believe our continued success lies in teamwork and the opportunity each team member has to learn, develop and grow. We believe in being direct in all we do, operating without with-out ineffi cient hierarchy hierar-chy and bureaucracy. We believe in participating responsibly in the global marketplace and contributing con-tributing positively in every community com-munity we call home, both personally person-ally and organi za-tionally. za-tionally. We have a passion for winning in everything we do. We are committed to operational excellence, superior customer experience, leading in the global markets we serve, being known as a great company com-pany and a great place to work, and providing superior shareholder value over time. As part of the Soul of Dell, Kevin has been seeking business busi-ness proposals and ideas from Dell's own employees. ( Y If hf. . J&m B 1 " 1 g - - .'- V So many ideas have bubbled up, Dell is currently implementing imple-menting more than 1,000 employee suggestions. Kevin's global perspective and prominence in world trade interests led to his appointment in April 2003 by President George W. Bush to serve on the United States Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation. In this capacity, he serves with other industry leaders to offer counsel to U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoelick on matters of policy effects on national interests. Meanwhile, Dell Computer President Kevin Rollins and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell startled the technology industry on Sept. 25, by unveiling plans to undertake a major drive into consumer electronics, selling Dell DJ, and flat-panel TVs on its popular Web site and creating an online music downloading store. Dell's dramatic entry into consumer electronics is seen as being likely to alter markets. mar-kets. Kevin said Dell plans to drive down consumer electronics elec-tronics prices through manufacturing manu-facturing economies and selling sell-ing directly to customers. The new MP3 player will be available later this month and the flat-panel computer monitorTV will on the market mar-ket by early November. Legacy Of Orem Orchard Film Tonight-Public Tonight-Public Invited Muire-Roberts Fruit packing plant located at 4th South and Orem Blvd., was formerly used by local fruit orchard owners for shipping their fruit all over the country. coun-try. The public is invited to v:ew the legacy of Orem orchards film tonight, October 23, 2003 at the Orem Heritage Museum in the SCERA Theater east wing (upstairs). The free one-hour film begins at 7 p.m.. The BYU produced film "The Best Crop" is a scenic history of orchard farming in Orem, sometimes some-times noted as the "fruit bowl of Utah County." i f - 1 1 Shown riding her electric scooter up the curb ramp at 200 East 1200 South, In order to navigate the sld ewalks In her neighborhood, Is Dora May Fanelll, who has lived in the same home at 204 East 1200 South all of her life. Orem provides access to many handicapped CLYDE E. WEEKS, JR. Times Correspondent Dora May Fanelli was born Aug. 23, 1926, in the brick home located at 204 East 1200 South Street, and she has lived in that same home for most of her life. She attended the Spencer Elementary School at 811 South State Street, as well as Lincoln High School at 355 East 800 South Street. As a child, she lived a stone's throw from the Curtis Station, one of the four train stations at which the Orem Iriterurban Railroad stopped to pick up and let off passengers for over 40 years. Running in front of her home was the Curtis Irrigation Ditch, which carried water through her neighborhood to the orchards and farms, around which her home was surrounded. The road onl200 South Street, remained unpaved and without sidewalks, until nearly a half century ago. At that time, the Curtis ditch was covered by a concrete con-crete sidewalk and the road, itself, was paved with asphalt. The home Dora Mae still lives in today was built by her grandfather and became the family home of her parents, Lewis and Isabell Gappmayer. She had two brothers, Bill and George Gappmayer, and one sister, Margaret. She married Steve Fanelli. They had three adopted children, Mary, Sam and Steve, and later, they divorced. Dora May worked after graduating from high school at the State Bank of Provo, as well as for a short time in California. Returning to Utah, she was employed at First Security Bank for four years. In 1973 she went to work as payroll manager and cashier at Nature's Way and Rainy Day Foods in Utah County, where she served for twenty years. For most of her life, Dora May Fanelli had no trouble walking or getting around in her car. She loved to travel, and to attend meetings of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers to which she belonged. But in recent years, she has experienced the devastation of neuropathy, neu-ropathy, a disease that progressively pro-gressively deadens the sensation in the extremities, extremi-ties, usually the legs. Ordinarily a very active person, Dora May Fanelli found herself becoming increasingly housebound as her mobility became increasingly limited. A wheelchair became her means of getting around in her home, but navigating a wheelchair outside her home was really not a viable solution to her problem. prob-lem. Fortunately, she learned that she qualified for an electric scooter as a Social Security benefit. Designed for active people to stay active, the scooter is powered pow-ered by a battery that is regularly re-charged to maintain its power. Designed, mainly, for use on sidewalks and other level surfaces, the electric scooter is a boon to those who are able to use it out-of-doors, where there are no obstructions to travel. Since the most frequent obstructions for electric scooters are elevated sidewalks, side-walks, curbs and gutters, there were few cities in the United States, prior to 1990, where handicapped people could effectively use the electric scooters. That fact, along with many, many other difficulties difficul-ties being experienced by handicapped people in America, resulted in the passage by Congress, of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, whose fundamental purpose pur-pose was the integration of individuals with disabilities disabili-ties into the mainstream of society. That legislation has had a wide-ranging affect on addressing the Continued on page A6 ALPINE 3 CREDIT UNION y IM liiviwioti to Residents of Unc Goutiw c You can now eniov memiwchin with ALPINE CREDIT UNION O-UiSOD ONCUA OREM AMERICAN FORK LEHI Membership And Eligibility Required |