Utah State University Eastern Magazine

The tail end of 2018 brought a new era to Utah State University Eastern campus, with Greg Dart taking the helm and many exciting changes afoot.

From coaching a successful high school drill team at Cottonwood High School in Salt Lake City to developing a successful college dance team at Utah State University Eastern.

The reason Carlson, an English and history teacher at Carbon High School and College of Eastern Utah class of 1998, won the 2018 Carbon School District’s Teacher of the Year award is her bona fide kindness.

Caught in a whirlwind of heartache, Clyde needed to find his place in the world. Retired from his dental practice, grieving and wondering where he fit.

A man, whose education was cut short when he was drafted into World War II, is giving back to Utah State University Eastern by establishing an endowed scholarship at the Price college.

USU Eastern honored five individuals with ties to College of Eastern Utah at its Legacy dinner hosted in the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center in April.

Frank Peczuh feels that Carbon and Emery counties are in a silent crisis that is just as serious as a dramatic catastrophe.

Smurthwaite’s life is immersed in sports after being named director of development for Aggies Unlimited, the fundraising unit for the Utah State Athletics in July.

“I’m living the dream: I have four kids, an amazing wife and a broken-down minivan,” quipped Jonathan Thayn, CEU alum ‘97.

Utah State University Eastern’s assistant professor of art, ceramics and sculpture joined USU’s art professors in Logan in September to build an outdoor structure designed by internationally acclaimed sculptor, Patrick Dougherty.

At 90, College of Eastern Utah’s legendary debate coach Neil Warren, still misses teaching every day.

If you resided in Utah in the decades between 1996-2016, you probably heard about the Warburton sisters from Helper, Utah, who put Carbon High School on the women’s sports map.

Chandler Vincent was named the top welding competitor in the United States and the fifth best in the world at the WorldSkills competition.

At an early age, Jason Dunn learned that the power to overcome challenges starts with mental focus.

One cannot talk about higher education in Price, Utah, without mentioning LaVell and Mayzell King.

Nine students from Utah State University Eastern Blanding spent two weeks in Cambodia during their summer break helping promote health programs and sharing cultures with the local Cambodians.

On a quiet stretch off highway 123, just outside East Carbon, Utah, Timothy Riley, Utah State University Eastern Prehistoric Museum anthropologist, felt at home.

“We want native students to know that they can achieve success."

Paige Petersen, appointed to the Utah Supreme Court in November, is proud to have USU Eastern (CEU) on her resume next to the University of Utah and Yale Law School.

The name Jan Young has been synonymous with Utah State University Eastern – and before that College of Eastern Utah – for 34 years. Anyone who had business with, interacted with, worked at, or attended the institution, knew Jan Young.

A rare opportunity to see an exact replica of the Pietà is available to without airfare or the exhausting trip to Rome.

The buzzer sounds, a horse and its rider stampede from the chute. Mud flies, hearts pound and crowds cheer.

A chance encounter with western actor John Wayne in 1978 propelled Carbon County native Gary Prazen into international fame for his realistic bronze sculptures.

Schedules, exams and textbooks became almost non-existent fall semester for five Utah State University Eastern student athletes from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria wiped out much of their homeland.

The art of billiards is the ability to imagine, focus, anticipate and predict the force of one object upon another. This axiom did not come from

When the chancellor’s assistant called Larry Severeid to tell him that he was chosen to receive the prestigious Upon Their Shoulders award at Utah State University Eastern’s annual Founders Day dinner, he wasn’t thrilled.

The naming of a new dinosaur and a new Utah-original dinosaur are among some of the bare-bone essentials that have emerged in recent weeks from Kenneth Carpenter, director and curator of paleontology at Utah State University.

Thirty-four-year-old Jonas Harmon looks more like a body builder than a man chasing the No.

Nancy Takacs, Utah State University Eastern English department member from 1986 to 2008, is receiving high praise for her newest book of poems, Blue Patina

Grab the fire extinguisher. Utah State University’s birthday cake had 128 candles — plus 79 from USU Eastern and another 39 from USU Eastern Blanding. It was all part of the March 4th combined celebration of the founding of three institutions March 4.

Perez's goal was to have a guitar made from the campus tree when the new building was completed over the next 14 months.

History writers can be history makers too, such as when Bob McPherson became the first Utah State University Eastern faculty member not housed on the Logan campus to receive promotion and tenure as a full professor back in 2012.

You will want to cut Josi Russell a little slack when she resumes her duties in the fall as associate professor of English on the Utah State University Eastern Blanding campus.

Crediting his mother for instilling the value of education, Ryan Cano prepares to attend the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Wallace Stegner in Wolf Willow talks about the importance of place and how it provides its own form of identity when he said, “I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.” Put another way, “Our where determines our who,” says Reg Saner.

Forty years coaching 1,560 games, with 26 of those years spent at Utah State University Eastern and Dave Paur said if he had the chance, he would do it again. “Absolutely, if I had to do

My how the time has flown since that little party in March of 2010 at the Utah State Capitol.

He was a bit anxious when he first started teaching at Carbon College. In fact, ask him today and he tells you he was downright belligerent and angry.

Jason Olsen’s poetry career as a writer began with a toothache.

Utah State University Eastern is well represented in the Utah House of Representatives with three of its alum­ serving as elected members.

From the first class of 1938-39, the college sponsored a student newspa­per. Going through four name changes, "Carbon College News," "Carbonicle," 'The Golden Eagle" and "The Eagle," its philosophy remains the same: the inde­pendent voice of the student

Kris Sansford, a Utah State University Eastern graduate, set a world handcycle record.