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Show Section B The Salt Lake Tribune @ DILBERT/IAN/B-2 PHONY BEVIEW/ WHERE ON EARTH? Utahstudents “SpeakOut’’ on wherethey wouldlike to live/B-2 UTAH LIFE MONDAY, NOVEMBER2, 1998 everyday heroes acts that count a Best seatin David Delthony's chairs the house echoed the southern Utah landscape long before he Margarita Ruiz (left), Nancy Ryan, moved there. Hilda Paredes and Maria Avila BY TAYLOR SYPHYUS Nancy Ryan, 30, spends her days at the University of Utah as an elementary-education stu- dent and purchasing manager for the biochemistry department. Thursday nights, she crosses the valley to the Guadalupe Schoolin west Salt Lake City to teach English to three women from Mexico. They gather around an old woodentable in what doubles as a small kitchen as Ryan guides the women through reading and writing exer- cises. Pronunciation drills are second nature. Hilda Paredes reads and writes well — she has been in the United States more than 15 years and at the Guadalupe School for two. She recently earned her U.S. citizenship. Margarita Ruiz better understands her English-speaking daughters, and Maria Avila, who rarely spoke when she began the course, was just promoted to a supervisor at work because of her improved Eng- Trent Neleon/The Salt Lake Tribune lish. “We're not here to make them Shakespeares,” Ryan says. ‘We're here to teach them how to survive at the bank or at the doctor’s office — everydaythings we take for granted.” With tutors like Ryan, the Guadalupe Schools’ 100 students have an 80 percent yearly attendance rate. Ryan’s three students are thrilled to spend every Thursday night with her. “She’s always happy, no matter what,” Par- edes says as Ruiz and Avila nod enthusiastically. “She is patient with us. It helps us learn better.” Delthony glues and clamps together 25 Ryan became involved with the Guadalupe Schoolafter a class assignment 18 months ago required her to observe English being taught as to 30 layers of wood, aboveleft, then strong desire to learn and decided she wanted to sculpts them with a chainsaw,right. The a second language. She admired the students’ be part ofit. “Tts kind of selfish, really,” Ryan says. “It sanded andfinished product is at left. makes you feel good when you know youre help- ing someone, lly when they're trying 20 nontraditional furniture. In fact, his chairs hard to learn. No matter how my day has been, being with these womenalways energizes me.” Besides tutoring, Ryan gets involved personally with her students. She has metall of Paredes’ eight children and 24 grandchildren at various took more like sculptures than furniture. But they are functional — as well as comfortable and ergonomically correct. brate birthdays and share favorite homemade dishes. ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Ryan says her friendship with the women teaches her something in return. While the students struggle to obtain such essentials as food ESCALANTE — Long before David Delthony moved to southern Utah, he was sculpting furniture reminiscent of the red-rock have, Ryan says. It is a lesson she takes home ev- Hehad notyet seen the hollowed-outcliffs of the Kaiparowits Plateau when the designs and a place to live, they are happy for what they ery week Delthony’s furniture designs are ever evolving, and eventually the landscapes around his Escalante home may influence them. Until now, his primary influence has been the work of sculptor Henry Moore. “T admired him whenI wasin college and did some sculpting,” Delthony says. “The BY JOAN O'BRIEN Paredes family parties. The four women cele- country. hollow forms,the use of going around space, forming in space, that’s what impressed me. That's something I try to do in my work.” of his signature chairs and desks began evolv- Do you know an Everyday Hero? Taylor Syphus welcomes email at syphus@lgcy.com. my 2 cents Mark Austin, owner of Boulder Mountain ing in his mind. He had notyet hiked through Lodge and an admirer of the sculptured furniture, sees Delthony’s move to Utah as simply natural “David is attracted to very organic forms,” he says. Those “biomorphic” forms can be foundin his work, just as they can be found in southern Utah slot canyons. “Tf you are in Peek-a-Boo or Spooky canyous, you are in a David Deithony piece of slot canyons carved by wind and water. Still, his flowing wood furniture seemsin- spired by Utah sandstone. Butthatis not really a coincidence. It’s just that nature avoids straight lines, and so does Delthony. “{ had become a master cabinet maker in a plece of utah's mind ee The opera, theater league and symphony seem to allow the latecomers an extra 10 minutes. Don’t they realize the latecomers have caught on to this end are now 20 minutes late? Germany,” says the New York-born Delthony. “The only thing was,I didn’t like working with straight lines, and normally cabinet work is straight lines.” furniture,” Austin says. So he left his job making rustic traditional farniture and began designinghis thoroughly ‘Trent Nelvon/The Salt Lake Tribane which hesold in Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States. Butthe city changed dramatically after the Berlin wall came down in 1989: It was quickly becoming too expensive and crowded. Delthony and his German-born wife, Brigitte, realized they would have to move. “We knew we had to make a change sometime. ... We hadn’t even thought about coming to the States. We thought about Scandinavia or southern Germany,” says Delthony, who has spoken Germanfor so long that his English is sometimes halting. Tt was about this time the couple took a Delthony developed his art in Berlin, vacation in the Southwest, making a point to where he had resided since 1972. His oneman shop produced eight to 10 pieces a year. See BEST SEAT, Page 8-2 For the 98:percent who are always on time, please aecommodate us by starting on time! ~ Janet, Salt Lake City a He who has a consensual sex affair with a woman and blabs it around is a despicable cad. He who insists that the serwal affair be revealed to the world is a more lowly despicable cad. Bob Fadeck, Salt Lake City 5 As 300n as a road is resurfaced, widened or newly completed, someone sprays multicolored lines and arrows on it. That means a utility company (or city) is coming to dig it up. They CELEBRITY STRIKE PESES Whether they are famous dogs in their own right — or dogs of celebrity owners — doesn’t matter. 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