NAMI volunteer,
served on the NAMI Utah state board,
president of NAMI Utah County affiliate,
former member and chair of the Utah State Board of Mental Health
B.A. (1965) and M.A. (1967) degrees from Brigham Young University, Ph.D. in English at Purdue (1971)
Professor of English at Brigham Young University, Chair of the Church College of Hawaii's English Department, first Chair of the newly organized Division of Communication and Language Arts, and Vice-President and Academic Dean, headed the Hawaii Department of Education Secondary English Project Review Committee