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Show Tfrw S;lt l ake Tribu, Sunday, March 4, 1979 II 1 1 Business Portrait: She Dreamed of Malting Better World Life is short. I believe in living it to the fullest," she says. In a brief 34 years, Deedee Corradmi has done just that: Education by stem French nuns in Lebanon, flight under the shell fire of a Middle East war, college in New Jersey, marriage, motherhood, divorce, a job as a congressional aide, a near fatal disease, and now a partnership and executive vice presidency of Bonneville Associates. Bonneville Associates is a Salt Lake-base- d government relations and managerial and financial assistance consulting firm. ' Its major client is the Western .Regional Council, an affiliation of corporate and chief executive officers m eight Western states Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming. Strong Voice for West The council was formed to give the .Western states a unified and strong voice in national decisions affecting f those states. She has vivid memories of the squalor and crowding in the Palestinian refugee camps. Her nursery school classmates were a mix of Moslems and Christians. In grade school, in a pinafore uniform, she sat on a wooden bench facing nuns who demanded flawless memorization of dates and places, insisted upon proper posture and who would force you to stand behind a closed door if you were bad. She accompanied her father to Arab villages, where he, as guest of honor, was presented the choicest portion of the head, the barbecued sheep brains, tongue and eyeballs! The hut walls were of mud. But their occupants were not poor." For the dirt floors had been carefully swept. And they were rich in spirit, humor and warmth, and far more sensitive to their politics and government than the typical affluent American. She became as conversant in Arabic and French as in English. Famous Guests Dinner guests in the McMullen home included such as Dr. Paul Dudley White, President Eisenhowers physifounder Henry cian, and Time-Lif- e Luce. By the time she was 12, she had shaped her primary goal: To make the world a better place. But she suffered a bad case of cultural shock when the family moved to Brunswick, Maine, in 1958. For such noble sentiments were of scarce concern to Brunswick junior high schoolers whose chief preoccupations were sports, small talk and dating. As a high school student, she found Bow-doi- n sanctuary at the nearby attended she where night College, lectures and acted in college plays. Sometimes, in the role of adult, she would find herself uttering words and double entrendres with implications and meanings she did not understand until later years. Meantime, having corresponded with Maine Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, she determined that government would be the best vehicle for her to realize her dream of making the world better. But at Drew University, a small liberal arts college, at Madison,, N.J., she found herself pulling straight Cs in politics. Eastern congressman hasn't the remotest idea of the water problems An facing the West, says Ms. Corradini. Council assignments and other work , involved Ms. Corradini in 200,000 miles of flying last year on weekly trips to Washington, D.C. One of the major accomplishments of ; vBonneville was to get Congress to recognize the particular mountain and valley characteristics of Western states in amendments to the Clean Air Act. The result: Though stack emissions of Western industries might sometimes impinge upon mountainside national forests, Western industry was not compelled to face a more exacting emission standard than flatland indus-- . try. !j Not a 1 I 1 Feminist Ms. Corradini, who now earns a tidy income and owns a home on the Upper Avenues of Salt Lake City, does not view herself as a She preferred .w t ' rvt . - y i -- s , v. z , 1 t 71 i $ , - - 1 & ' T. i -- Turned to Psychology Rather shattered by seeming failure, she turned to psychology, where she earned straight As. rough-and-tumb- sports over dolls. ' And while children in the U.S. were having their impressions shaped by the fantasies of television, young Deedee was confronting the realities of the Middle East. Throughout her college years, her friend and date was Paul Corradini, a lanky and handsome fellow student from Elmira, N.Y. d four years It was a fun-fille- , LJ VXF7J- " wfrjrjt rw Deedee contacts nrLiMis&l Corradini cultivated in Utah a! capitals for friendship, and for professional growth. and nation- - games, dances, fraternity bashes. They were married the day after graduation. Both pressed on with their education she toward a masters in psychology, and he toward a law degree. Ms. Corradini got her first look at Utah m a visit to Salt Lake City to see her parents. 1 She was smitten by the city and the mountains. She and Paul both transferred to the University of Utah to complete their advance degrees. She got her degree first, then joined the Utah Board of Education as a research assistant. Later, she was invited to do public relations for the director of rehabilitation services. Though I did not know what public relations meant at the start, her office won two national awards from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. First Taste of Politics She also got her first taste of politics as delegate to the 1958 Dem "ratic state convention. When Paul had taken his law degree, the couple returned to his hometown, Elmira, where he would begin his practice. It was 1968 the eve of the environmental and ecology movement. She and two friends founded an organization, Ecology Clues for the Housewife. They rustled free news space and spots on local radio and television. The program was an outstanding success. But from the start, she had hated Elmira. She found it a small, ingrown I VJflSCS The Salt Lake Board of Realtors announced that real estate properties were sold over the boards Multiple Listing Service last week, totalling 3 m3G 8TQAG C3AB $14,285,955. 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Buy Direct From profit-and-lo- phoned: Would she like to do some speech writing for him? She would! Congressional Aide In 1972 she joined the campaign of Democratic congressional aspirant and Wayne Owens, then accompamed him to Washington as an aide after he scored victory over the Republican incumbent Sherman Llovd. It was an incredible two years. I learned more than I could have anywhere else in the world. She met the high and the mighty. She lunched with Washington columnists. She learned of the power wielded by congressional aides. She, herself, she says, quietly orchestrated the long- - 'WT- e- Manufacturer Found Business Exciting real exposure to the hard disciplines of the business to world statements, to the bottom line.' . . I had never through business could be so exciting. In 1977, Mr. Hixson helped found Bonneville Associates. Ms. Corradini joined Bonneville as a partner and executive officer shortly thereafter. Earlier this year, Mr. Hixson resigned his Snowbird post to become fulltime chairman of Bonneville. And it was her first 1,500 to 2,000 I as tm FEATURING: astute." Shortly thereafter the governor PRIME DETAIL SPACE AVAILABLE F0D DENT 487-323- 2x4 construction nver-runnin- ANNOUNCING aaJL With Option To Buy p g trips, climbed mountains and thought a lot. In September, 1975, she heard about job as an assistant to the Snowbird resort president, Raymond L. Hixson. She was interviewed in Dallas by Snowbird owner Richard D. Bass and by Mr. Hixson. It was her first encounter with Mr. Hixson, a former vice president for university relations at the University of Inc., Utah, past president of Pro-Uta- h and chairman of the Federal Research I found him absolutely Committee. She wrote the script for local television show The Faces of Poveity. Lucybeth Rampton, wife of then-GoCalvin L. Rampton, read the script. z: "sabbatical." h 3. LEASE The most Important thing we have to sell Is customer satisfaction. After all, you dtdnl come to buy an ordinary car . . , and you should expect the amenities that come standard with the purchase of America's number 1 selling luxury automobile. City for a three-montShe went on top-rank- , Sabbatical Three-Mont- h After the election, she worked briefly for another congressman, then exhausted by nearly three years in returned to Salt Lake Washington Through the years, she and her former husband have remained good friends. She is proud to note he is now a Justice Department lawyer. Two years ago, he remarried. And though the blonde Ms. Corradini could be easily described as "vivacious and attractive," there is no one man in her life now. She dates several. But: For now, Id rather be alone." Landed Job With State 8hrtlv after her return to Salt Lake City, she landed a job with the Department of Community Affairs in the governors office. The job exposed her to an aspect of Utah never mentioned in state publicity brochures Utahs hidden poor." It turned me upside down. I used to believe that people could 'bootstrap' themselves out of poverty. Now, I linked the problem of poverty to that of r3Tr 214 , - own. Realtors List Sales - delayed Senate ratification of the Geneva Protocol of 1925 on chemical warfare. Work relationships typically evolved into friendly relationships. Fnends now include many former aides and congressmen who have worked themselves a into even greater posts of influence circumstance, she says, of immense help in her present job. Rep. Owens was defeated in a 1974 bid for the Senate after a bitter contest vith Republican Jake Gam. Ms. Corradmi says she was able to divorce the rhethonc and vitriol of the campaign from her personal feelings about the contenders. I still consider myself a friend of Jake Gam. role-playin- g 4 n t : gossipy Peyton Place." She became more and more pained by as country club wife and Junior Leaguer. She and her husband, she felt, had become two different persons." Friendly Divorce She made a break, leaving for Salt Lake City for a trial separation to see if things could be worked out. After a year, there was nothing to be worked out. A friendly divorce followed. What seemed to be a singular and lonely decision on her part had implications she had not plumbed. Hers apparently was not the only discontent in Elmira. Within a few months of her departure, several of her Flmira fnends had begun separation or divorce actions. She arrived in Salt Lake City with three suitcases, her son and daughter and few hundred dollars. She got child supiHui from the divorce, but asked for and no alimony. She was determined confident - she could survive on her 'Y all-ma- le liberated woman" or feminist. She was bom Margaret Louise McMullen in Providence, R.I., on April 11, 1944, the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Horace McMullen. In 1947, the Rev. McMullen went to Lebanon as a missionary. He later was president of Aleppo College in Syria In Lebanon, he was principal of the Near East School of Theology. (Rev. McMullen recently retired as pastor of the Holladay United Church of Christ.) From the start, she was taught to believe that she could grow and achieve without limit. i 1 8 J4 .jm rn, 4, 9. |
