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Show Y Thursday,April 24, 2003, Page A4 Times Ni Orem developer serving as chair of IHC Board CLYDE E. WEEKS, JR. Times Correspondent Merrill Gappmayer, Orem native and prominent real estate developer, has been named chair of Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City, following service as a trustee for IHC and its hospitals since 1977. When the Orem , Community Hospital was opened in Orem, Gappmayer was asked to serve on its board of directors. Later, when Board Chair DeLance Squire took office as Mayor of Orem, Merrill Gappmayer succeeded him, as chair of that hospital board. Some time after that, the Utah Valley hospital was also placed under Gappmayer's board of directors. direc-tors. In 2000, the American Fork Hospital was placed in the group to form the Urban South Region of Intermountain Health Care, where Gappmayer continued contin-ued to serve as board chair. "I have loved being a part of IHC's team. It is great to be a part of a group like this, that does so much to benefit the community," he said last week. Gappmayer also served on the Executive Board of Intermountain Hospital Corporation. Gappmayer has been part of a historical hospital expansion and replacement project throughout IHC. In his region, alone, that effort totals some $120 million, and involves two hospital campuses. In 1996, he was honored as IHC's William N. Jones Trustee of Excellence and was named Trustee of the Year by Modern HealthCare. There are weeks when Gappmayer logs as much time as a volunteer health care leader as he does in his own Orem real estate development devel-opment business. 1.1 t Gappmayer is a problem-solver. problem-solver. When he was a young Orem farm boy, living near Main Street on 1200 South Street, he solved the problem prob-lem of swiping watermelons, while not getting caught by the farmer with the shot gun. H e and his friends would expertly throw the pil-f pil-f e r e d melons into the nearby canal and retrieve them a few blocks away, where t h e farmer could not catch them red-handed, so to speak, with the evidence. Gappmayer has long-since long-since repented of his boyhood boy-hood peccadilloes, but his spirit of innovation and initiative ini-tiative have carried him forward for-ward in this community to a lifetime of service and achievement, that are well rooted in the Orem soil which his fruit-growing father cultivated. His father, Roy H. Gappmayer, was a well-known well-known and respected fruit farmer in Orem during the 1930s and 1940s, having served as a member of the Orem Town Board from 1936 through 1937, as well as serving as bishop of the LDS Timpanogos Ward. Merrill Gappmayer was one of five children of Roy and Florence Gappmayer, which included brothers, Leland, Richard and Lewis, Merrill Gappmayer and sister, Beatrice. They all worked on the Gappmayer farm and learned well the Orem work ethic. After graduation from Orem High School in 1960, Gappmayer attended and graduated from Brigham Young University and mar ried his sweetheart, sweet-heart, Marie Healy, daughter daugh-ter of Lester and Melpha Healy of Orem. Gappmayer entered the teaching profession pro-fession and taught at Orem Junior High School for three years. Meanwhile, he enlisted some of his teaching friends in helping him to build a four-unit four-unit apart ment complex at 400 East 800 North in Orem. For a time, he also operated operat-ed his father's farm on 1000 East. Then, foreseeing the burgeoning need for rental housing in Orem, Gappmayer conceived the idea of building Orem's first planned unit development on the Gappmayer farm property at 100 East 1200 South. In 1968, he established Vista Enterprises in Orem to manage his land development develop-ment and construction activities. activ-ities. Platting out lots for 48 rental units, Gappmayer built the first four of them, himself, and then contracted with Dean & Peay Construction Company to build the rest. The rental units were quickly occupied and named Starcrest Apartments. rrra Automotive ftmstres I-CJH i GOLD ! hciASS:; SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Open Mon-Fri 8am - 5pm FOREIGN & DOMESTIC TOWING AVAILABLE FREE ESTIMATES PRECISE COLOR MATCHING 226-2969 FAX: 226-6221 354 South State Street, Orem E3 t i 4 88 Your Link Back To The Road. "THE DEFINITION OF QUALITY & WORKMANSHIP" EXPERTS IN INSURANCE CLAIMS HANDLING WE WORK WITH ALL INSURANCE COMPANIES UNIBODY & FRAME REPAIR 1 & 2 Bedroom with Full Kitchen & Balcony Washer & Dryer in each unit Educational and Cultural Activities Chauffeured Transportation Storage Space Onsite Beauty & Barbershop Computer Lab & Library Maid Service SummeifieLct 'Retirement Community k VQHjfc. -nmttnii nm -tZ - v. Now Open CrM 434-75S1 io 6cl)edule a ii6it ia out IXmu fletiretiietti (ZoiiiiiihuHij With a seeming abundance abun-dance of energy and public concern, Gappmayer became a member, and later president, presi-dent, of the Orem Kiwanis Club. He also ran for election to the Orem City Council, where he notably served from 1976 through 1980. Both in the public arena and in his religious life, Gappmayer inspired the confidence of other people with whom he has worked in a variety of settings. Along the way, he received from the Orem Chamber of Commerce the Arthur V. Watkins Outstanding Citizen Award, recognizing his community service. Coincidentally, his father, Roy Gappmayer, was the very first recipient of that same award, given several years earlier. In 1970, he saw an opportunity oppor-tunity to fill the need for office suites in the south part of Orem. He built University Plaza at 1160 South State Street, a development, devel-opment, consisting of three separate buildings, comprising compris-ing 52 office and retail spaces. Over the years, that facility has served as the home for many businesses in Orem. Gappmayer left the teaching teach-ing profession many years ago and directed his efforts to both residential and commercial com-mercial development in this community. After a long hiatus from his educational pursuits, Gappmayer returned to the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, and received the master's in business administration in 1993. Over the years, he has built many upscale custom homes and earned a reputa-, reputa-, tion for quality and value with those, for whom he has provided housing. Some 25 years ago, Merrill and his brother, Richard, purchased the site of the Mt. View Trailer Court at 1609 North State Street. When the trailer court closed eight years later, they made plans to convert that prime commercial corner into an upscale State Street shopping center: Cross Pointe Plaza. Blessed by loving wife, Marie, and their eight children: chil-dren: David, Kurt, Reed, John, Melissa, Emily, Christian and Erin, Merrill Gappmayer enjoys gardening, garden-ing, horse raising and riding, community involvement, travel and health care issues. Gappmayer has come a long way from his early boyhood boy-hood days, when he was swiping ripe watermelons from a farm and casting them in the canal to retrieve later, downstream. Now that his own life is a bit farther "downstream," one wonders what achievements achieve-ments he might be accomplishing accom-plishing next. Local woman honore( by Health Departmen The Utah County Board of Health and the Utah County Health Department recognized recog-nized Gayle Judd for her service at the Utah County Commission meeting Tuesday, April 8, 100 East Center St., Provo. Judd was given the Health Department's award for outstanding out-standing contributions to promoting the health and well-being of Utah County. Judd was recognized for her lifelong volunteer service and many years of community communi-ty services with both local and state PTA, the Utah Alcoholism Foundation, local hospital boards and the Utah County Board 0f r which she chaired for , her 10 years on S She was a vocal met' Utahns For Better Health. According to u Department officials 50 years of volunteer',! in many different cap J has improved the ll many in Utah c. Recently, she was awa , the Governor's Point of Award. A native 0fT Judd moved to P Grove with her husha M. Judd, in 1953. She " mother of five children. 16 "iw: ( 'A e Utah County Association Realtors awards Bill Brov The Utah County Association of Realtors recently awarded real estate broker Bill Brown the Excellence in Real Estate at its annual awards luncheon. This award is given because of Brown's service to the community, local and state Realtor association and longevity in the business, 39 years. Brown has been a Realtor since 1964 and established Bill Brown Reality, Inc. in 1969. By 1978 he had nine offices, making the company the largest real estate organization organ-ization in Utah. He merged with Mansell and Associates in 1987. Ten years later Mansell bought out Brown's interest. He now operates Bill Brown Realty, Inc. in Springville, with a satellite office in Orem. He remains active in assisting people who want to buy or sell real estate, including developers of new homes. Winning awards is not a new experience for Brown. He was Utah County Realtor of the Year in 1973 and 1980, .K in I In tht :jd a ; : ::hes t( 1 -jaer K I' Id th' .s aw Sillsii ran an Bill Brown the only Utah County Eea: to win that designation he: In 1981 he was awarded Utah Sate Realtor of the I designation. In addition to his atriec :lninn km I ii basi iT-Wa :ieJwi' liz T estate activities, Brown his ano fostered a love for the ti ater. He founded the V: Institute for the Perforrct' Arts in 1996 in Springr. where he volunteers as m aging director. He and his wife have six children grandchildren. SCERA Board names Daryl Berlin Interim CEG The SCERA Board of Directors has named Daryl Berlin as the interim CEO of the SCERA Corporation on a 30-day contract while negotiations continue for Berlin to be retained on a permanent basis. The need for new executive execu-tive leadership at SCERA came on the heels of the recent announcement made by current President Norm Nielsen that he will retire May 2. The SCERA Board felt the need for a transitional contract with Berlin while the two parties worked out some final details for the long term. Joyce Johnson, Chair of the SCERA Board, says "Daryl will be a tremendous hi asset to SCERA. 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