Paul Hurst
550 South 700 West
Payson, UT 85641
Ph:  801-465-0530

Cell 801-361-2452

Fax: 801-465-1759

Email: Hurst0530@msn.com

Spouse:  Dorothy

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Children: 12

Grandchildren: 25

Great Grandchildren: 6

After graduating from high school I attended Snow College for one year and then decided to join the Air Force to have the military GI bill pay for the rest of my education.   Unfortunately, because of the bone disease in my right him, that I had when I was younger, the Air Force Discharged me before I had been in long enough to earn any service time for educational benefits

I worked several years for a company that made dynamite during which time I met my future wife and got married.  Shortly after our marriage, the building that I had been working in blew up killing two of my co-workers and putting me out of a job.  My wife and I decided that maybe I needed to go back to school and get an education in a field that was a little less dangerous.

I graduated from BYU in 1963 with a bachelors degree in accounting and with a wife and several children took a job working for the General Accounting Office as an auditor for the federal government in Los Angeles. After five years of working with the government and spending many weeks away from my family on job assignments, I decided that maybe that wasn’t the life I wanted for me and my family. So, we moved back to Payson. I went to work for Kennecott Copper at their Dividend mine and enrolled at BYU to work on getting a teaching certificate. After another year of schooling I decided that maybe teaching wasn’t my field and took a job with Utah State as a business manager for the Department of Human Services division of Child and Family Services in Provo.

In 1977 I completed a masters degree from the University of Utah in Human Resource Management.

In November 1999 I retired from the state and have been enjoying myself spending time with my family and traveling around the western states. When I retired everyone said that if you don’t have hobbies or a part time job you will really be bored. So far, I haven’t had a problem with not having something to do. I now wonder how I ever had time to work a full time job. During my years living in Payson, I have built two homes, one of which we are presently living in, and remodeled several others.

Our present home is a work in progress with new additions and projects nearly every year. We are presently planning sports court and a work shop on the back of our lot and plan to have them built by the end of the summer.

Our family likes to have family get-togethers as often as we can find a reason to have one, which isn’t really very hard with birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, baby blessings, baptism and etc. We like to camp and go boating with our family. We bought a timeshare a few years ago and have enjoyed making use of it to take week long trips to various places.

Fun things we’ve done over the past fifty years - enjoyed my family, building and remodeling homes, working on projects with my children.

Fun things I hope to do in the future. Sometime in the near future my wife and I plan on going on a mission for the LDS church.

I’m not sure at this time if my wife and I will make it to the reunion, but if we do there will be two of us.

I think it would be hard to find a place to have a dinner for so many people. I would like to spend time socializing with old classmates.

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