Bette Jo Kevern Lee

I attended the University of Utah where I was a member of the LDS Festival Folkdancers. I graduated in 1972 with a BS degree in Medical Technology after completing a year internship at St. Mark's Hospital School of Medical Technology. My husband completed his degree at BYU and graduated in 1975 with a major in Communications. We moved to California for about four years and then returned to Utah. Work then took us to Tulsa, Oklahoma, Buffalo, New York, Joplin, Missouri and Waterville, Maine. Both my husband and I went back to school in Maine and earned our MBA's.

In 1997 I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer which was successfully treated with surgery and radioactive iodine. I have been cancer free for over 20 years.

In 2006 I returned to Salt Lake to care for my father who had terminal cancer. After his passing we moved back into the family home, where we lived until 2011. We were off to Texas to be closer to grandchildren.

We have 19 grandchildren who we do not get to see enough since they are all over the country, but cherish every minute we have with them.

I am currently the Education Coordinator for Laboratory Support Services at the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray.

I look forward to seeing you at the reunion.

Since the reunion we have moved to Texas where I worked as a Supervisor for Texas Health Resources (home to the first Ebola case in the US). I have retired and in August my husband and I will be moving to Tianjin, China to teach English. We have not received specific assignments as of yet, but I will be at the Medical School at Nankai University. We are looking forward to this new adventure!!

We have just received a mission call to serve in the Vietnam Hanoi Mission. We enter the MTC January 15, 2018. We are excited to return to Asia and work with the people there as well as the mission president who is a former Stake President we served with in Maine.

I remember the pep rally with the competition between the boys and girls with the shaving cream and did I get creamed! As I remember Mark Blackhurst and Tom Wharton played a big role.

The musicals were something I looked forward to every year, as well as the Dance Concerts.

Miss Howe was one of my favorite teachers, and I am sure it was a shock to all in the Calculus Class when I passed the AP Calculus Test.