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Lorayne Hilton Frank

Where has the last 30 years gone? I went back to our 20 year class reunion book and looked up what I wrote at that time. Then I read what EVERYONE else wrote. It was really interesting, funny, sad, crazy, witty, etc. My 30 years will be pretty much like everyone else's I suppose. Up and downs, happy and sad times and getting older. Let's see - after being single again for a number of years, I married my best friend and love of my life, Gary Frank. He was a star football player from Olympus and graduated in 1959. We have been married for 26 years. When I turned 55 I had worked for the State of Utah for 35 years and decided to retire. I have worked for Governors Rampton, Matheson, Bangerter and Leavitt. I had a wonderful career but was tired of politics. I was a political appointee for 27 out of the 35 years I worked. Among other duties, I was the Director of what is now called Homeland Security for 20 years and responded and coordinated relief efforts to airplane crashes, hazardous materials incidents, the big floods of 1983, 1984 and 1986, droughts, mine disaster that claimed 27 lives, earthquakes and every other emergency you can think of. Flew to Belarus (Russia) to work on off-site preparedness concerning destruction of our chemical munitions as per a treaty with the Russian government. For six years I was an Associate Professor at the University of Utah in the Department of
Geography teaching disaster management. I was the Chairman of many committees, most notably - Chairman of the Western Seismic Policy Council which represented 18 governors dealing with seismic policy; Chairman of the National Emergency Management Training Academy at Emmitsburg, MA and Secretary to the National Emergency Management Association for 18 years. My daughter, Deana, and her family are doing great. They travel alot and are involved in a lot of outdoor sports. Her husband owns his own business and pretty much can do what they want. My son, David, died 9 years ago from complications of diabetes. He was a wonderful young man and was 34 when he died.
What am I doing now? For the past 5 years, I have worked for Nordstrom at Fashion Place in Customer Service and love it. My husband and I like to travel to Hawaii for a couple of weeks every couple of years and really enjoy it.

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