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“SERVICE ABOVE SELF” HONOREES FACT SHEET and BIOS

In celebration of its Centennial year, the Rotary Club of Salt Lake City, Club 24, is honoring six community leaders whose extensive community service exemplifies Rotary International’s motto of and commitment to “Service Above Self”.

Through their vision and tireless service these individuals have each made a significant difference in improving our communities, schools, healthcare and family life. The Rotary Club of Salt Lake City is indebted to their efforts and is proud to bestow them with this recognition.

Honorees include:

 Ezekiel Dumke, Jr. – Co-Founder, Katherine W. and Ezekiel Dumke Jr. Foundation  Kem C. Gardner – Chairman, K.C. Gardner Company  Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. – Founder & Chairman, Huntsman Corporation  President Thomas S. Monson – President, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  Beverley Taylor Sorenson – Co-Founder, Sorenson Legacy Foundation  Major General Brian L. Tarbet – Utah National Guard

A one-page biographical sketch for each recipient can be found on the following pages. Ezekiel R. Dumke, Jr. Rotary 2011 “Service Above Self” Honoree

Ezekiel R. (Zeke) Dumke, Jr. was born in 1923 in Ogden, Utah, the son of Dr. E R and Edna Wattis Dumke. Zeke graduated from the New Mexico Military Institute with a commission in the cavalry, and later served with the Navy in the southern Pacific during World War II and with the Army reserve thereafter. In 1950 he graduated from the University of Utah with a B.A. in Banking and Finance, and was a member of Beta Theta Pi.

Zeke was one of the founders and president of Western States Management, the Dr. Ezekiel R. and Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation, the University of Utah Hospital Foundation, the Salt Lake Rotary Foundation, Dumke Insurance Agency, Western States Thrift, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Utah and several mining companies. He has also served as past president of the Museum of Natural History, Red Butte Gardens, the Alta Club, Salt Lake Rotary Club and Salt Lake Art Center. Other board positions include the Salt Lake Country Club, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, University of Utah Hospital and National Advisory Council, the National Parks Concessionaires, Key Bank, Utah Hotel and Motel Association, Utah Pilots Association, Ballet West, and Utah Symphony.

Zeke was a founder of Bullfrog Resort on Lake Powell, where he served as general manager for 12 years. A tireless promoter of Utah Tourism, he is a recipient of the Governors Award for Tourism, the 1977-78 Utah Tourism Award, the 1984 Tourism Achievement Award, and an Honorary Life Membership Award from the Conference of National Park Concessionaires. Zeke has also received honorary doctorate degrees from Weber State University, Westminster College and University of Utah, and is the 1987 Outstanding Community Service Award from the University of Utah Graduate School of Business, and is a member of the National Guard Honorary Colonels.

Along with his wife, Katherine White Dumke, Zeke cofounded the Katherine W. Dumke and Ezekiel R. Dumke, Jr. Foundation in 1988. Although Zeke and Kay have derived great pleasure in providing support to various community organizations, their greatest source of pride are their four children, Betsy Thornton, Claire Ryberg, Zeke Dumke III and Andrea Manship, along with their 14 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.

Kem Crosby Gardner Rotary 2011 “Service Above Self” Honoree

Kem C. Gardner has been recognized as a community builder, civic leader and community volunteer.

COMMUNITY BUILDER: During the past 38 years, Kem has been involved in the development of more than 28 million square feet of commercial projects as President of The Boyer Company for 32 years and, since 2004, as Chairman of K.C. Gardner Company. During the past decade, the companies have secured and retired more than $1billion of construction and permanent financing. Representative projects include the following: OFFICE buildings such as One Utah Center, Vivint Campus, Gateway 1-6, Huntsman Corporation, FL Schmidt, Adobe Software, Myriad Genetics Corporate Campus, and Portico Office Campus; MEDICAL such as St Luke’s in Meridian and Nampa, Idaho; GOVERNMENT such as Department of Energy, Veterans Administration, and Internal Revenue buildings; RETAIL/MIXED USE such as The Gateway, The District, Draper Peaks, Red Stone, and The Commons of Sugar House; INDUSTRIAL such as the 1,000 acre master planned Business Park of Ogden (BDO); and RESIDENTIAL such as The Cottonwoods, River Walk, Sunset Hills, Farmington Ranches, and Hill Air Force Base Military Housing.

CIVIC LEADER: Kem has served as Chairman of the Salt Lake Chamber. He has chaired several transportation initiatives. He was an originator and Chair of the Salt Lake Airport Authority and involved in the establishment of the Delta Hub. He has served as a member of the Utah Air Travel Commission. Kem has been involved in higher education serving as Chair of the Utah State Board of Regents and Chair of the Utah Liaison Committee of the Regents and the State Board of Education. He served as Chair of the Utah Partners and on the National Advisory Committees of Southern Utah and Weber State Universities. Kem was an incorporator and Finance Chair of the Salt Lake Bid Committee for the 1998 Olympic Winter Games. He served as Chair of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Ambassadors with fundraising responsibility for the Games. He organized the Salt Lake Olympic Aid Committee (now Right to Play) and serves as a USA Trustee. Kem served on the Executive Committee of Bonneville International from 1996-2010. In 1971-74, Kem was Administrative Assistant to US Senator Frank E. Moss.

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER: Kem has served as a volunteer trustee on the non-profit Intermountain Healthcare Board of Trustees since 1982 and is the current Chair of the Company and its related entities. He serves on the Board of the Huntsman-Intermountain Cancer Care Program. He chaired the fundraising campaign for the Intermountain Medical Center. Since 1998, Kem has served two terms as Chair of the Salt Lake Area United Way and serves on the Executive Committee. He currently chairs a United Way Community Impact Initiative to establish Neighborhood Centers in the Greater Salt Lake Area. Kem is a member of the Utah Symphony Board and has served on the Pioneer Theatre Company Board. Kem and his wife, Carolyn are Benefactors of the University of Utah and Weber State University.

Kem received his Bachelor of Arts (1967) and Juris Doctorate (1970) Degrees from the University of Utah. Kem and Carolyn are the parents of 7 children and 22 grandchildren. Jon M. Huntsman Rotary 2011 “Service Above Self” Honoree

Jon M. Huntsman is founder and Chairman of Huntsman Corporation, a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals.

Forty years ago, Mr. Huntsman began a small entrepreneurial plastics packaging business. Today, its operating companies manufacture products for a variety of global industries, including chemicals, plastics, automotive, aviation, textiles, footwear, paints and coatings, construction, technology, agriculture, health care, detergent, personal care, furniture, appliances and packaging. Originally known for pioneering innovations in packaging and, later, for rapid and integrated growth in petrochemicals, Huntsman today has more than 12,000 employees and operates from multiple locations worldwide. The Company had 2009 revenues of approximately $8 billion.

Mr. Huntsman earned his undergraduate degree at The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and subsequently earned an MBA from the University of Southern California. He has been awarded thirteen honorary doctorate degrees at various universities.

Mr. Huntsman was a U.S. Naval Gunnery Officer. He served under President Richard M. Nixon as Special Assistant to the President and as White House Staff Secretary.

Jon Huntsman authored a book on corporate ethics entitled, Winners Never Cheat: Everyday Values We Learned as Children (But May Have Forgotten). The second edition is entitled Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times, which made the Wall Street Journal’s Best Sellers list.

Mr. Huntsman is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost concerned citizens and philanthropists. His lifetime humanitarian giving, including contributions to the homeless, the ill and the underprivileged, exceeds $1.2 billion and has assisted thousands, both domestically and internationally.

The Salt Lake Tribune (Jan 1, 2000) included Mr. Huntsman among “The 10 Utahns Who Most Influenced Our State in the 20th Century.” In 2001, Mr. Huntsman was presented the Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2003, he received the Humanitarian of the Year Award. The Chronicle of Philanthropy placed Mr. Huntsman in the second place position on their 2007 list of largest donors. (Dec 2007) And in November, 2008, the American Cancer Society presented to Mr. Huntsman its Medal of Honor for Cancer Philanthropy. In 2010, he received a Charity Award at the Restoring Honor Rally and was inducted into Idaho’s Hall of Fame.

Mr. Huntsman and his wife, Karen, founded the Huntsman Cancer Institute in 1995 to accelerate the work of curing cancer through human genetics. The Institute is now one of America's major cancer research centers dedicated to finding a cure for cancer, as well as a state-of-the-art hospital treating cancer patients.

Jon and Karen Huntsman are the parents of nine children. They have 56 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. President Thomas S. Monson Rotary 2011 “Service Above Self” Honoree President Thomas S. Monson has served as the 16th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints since 3 February 2008. He had served as a counselor in the First Presidency of the Church since 10 November 1985. He was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on 4 October 1963 and ordained an apostle on 10 October 1963 at the age of 36.

President Monson served as president of the Church’s Canadian Mission, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, from 1959 to 1962. Prior to that time he served in the presidency of the Temple View Stake in Salt Lake City, Utah, and as a bishop of the Sixth-Seventh Ward in that stake.

Born in Salt Lake City on 21 August 1927, President Monson is a son of G. Spencer and Gladys Condie Monson. He attended Salt Lake City public schools and graduated cum laude from the University of Utah in 1948, receiving a degree in business management. He did graduate work and served as a member of the College of Business faculty at the University of Utah. He later received his MBA degree from Brigham Young University. He has received seven honorary degrees.

President Monson served in the United States Navy near the close of World War II. He married Frances Beverly Johnson on 7 October 1948 in the Salt Lake Temple. They are the parents of three children, with eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Professionally, President Monson has had a distinguished career in publishing and printing. He became associated with the Deseret News in 1948, where he served as an executive in the advertising division. Later he was named sales manager of the Deseret News Press, one of the West’s largest commercial printing firms, rising to the position of general manager, which position he held at the time of his appointment to the Quorum of the Twelve in 1963. He served for many years as chairman of the board of Deseret News Publishing Company and is a past president of Printing Industry of Utah and a former member of the board of directors of Printing Industries of America.

With his broad business background, President Monson served for many years as a board member of several prominent businesses and industries. He currently serves as chairman of the LDS Church Board of Education and Board of Trustees.

For many years, President Monson served as a member of the Utah State Board of Regents, and he was an officer in the Alumni Association of the University of Utah.

In December 1981, President Monson was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve on the President’s Task Force for Private Sector Initiatives. He served in this capacity until December 1982, when the work of the task force was completed.

President Monson was awarded the University of Utah’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1966. Since 1969 he has served on the National Executive Board of Boy Scouts of America. He is a recipient of the Boy Scouts of America’s Silver Beaver Award (1971), its prestigious Silver Buffalo Award (1978), international Scouting’s highest award, the Bronze Wolf (1993), and the Silver Fox Award from Scouts Canada (2011). In 1997 he received the Minuteman Award from the Utah National Guard. In 1998 he and Sister Monson were each given the Continuum of Caring Humanitarian Award by the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph Villa. In 2000 he received the Joseph and Hyrum Smith Award as “Communicator of the Year” from the LDS Public Relations Society. In 2005 he was presented with the Legacy of Life Award by the Heart and Lung Research Foundation, which is an entity of the Deseret Foundation. In 2007 he received Rotary’s Worldwide Humanitarian Award. Beverley Taylor Sorenson Rotary 2011 “Service Above Self” Honoree

Beverley Taylor Sorenson is a tireless champion of education and the arts. In addition to raising eight children of her own, Mrs. Sorenson has influenced the lives of thousands of Utah elementary students through her passionate commitment and generous contributions.

Mrs. Sorenson’s childhood was marked by the Great Depression, which taught her the value of hard work, sacrifice and love. Despite persistent challenges, the Taylor family home was filled with literature, music and dance. Beverley worked her way through an education degree at the University of Utah, sorting mail six hours a day after school. Upon graduating in 1945, she taught kindergarten at a Quaker school in Brooklyn. While in New York, she met her future husband, the legendary inventor and entrepreneur James LeVoy Sorenson.

For many years, she has been concerned about the lack of arts education in Utah schools — particularly elementary schools. During a visit in 1995 to Lincoln Elementary, a Title I school in one of the Salt Lake City’s roughest neighborhoods, she saw the dramatic effect a high-quality arts program could have on children. This experience, coupled with concern for a grandson who was struggling in school, motivated Mrs. Sorenson to devote her time and resources to creating Art Works for Kids. More than 15 years later, the organization has helped elevate the educational experience of more than 100,000 Utah children.

Mrs. Sorenson and her husband, who passed away in January 2008, have been ardent supporters of the arts and education through the Sorenson Legacy Foundation and other philanthropic efforts. Mrs. Sorenson has been a particularly influential advocate for high-quality arts education, encouraging legislators to bring innovative arts curriculum to all elementary school classrooms.

In 2008, she achieved a major milestone when the Utah legislature passed the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program. Today, this initiative supports arts education in more than 50 elementary schools throughout the state.

Mrs. Sorenson has long been a major catalyst in fostering strong arts education curriculum. Through a series of grants and endowments, she has helped fund arts education programs at four of the state’s top universities: the University of Utah, Southern Utah University, Utah State University and Brigham Young University. The most recent gift to the University of Utah will anchor the construction of the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts and Education Complex. A principal goal of the new interdisciplinary educational complex will be to research and facilitate teaching methods for integrating arts education into the traditional core curriculum subjects: math, science, history and language arts.

Today, Mrs. Sorenson continues to work with public and private entities, parents, educators and business and community leaders to realize her dream of bringing the joy of arts learning and engagement to every elementary school child in Utah. Major General Brian L. Tarbet Rotary 2011 “Service Above Self” Honoree

Major General Brian L. Tarbet was appointed as the Adjutant General of Utah, effective 1 October 2000, with responsibility for the 6500 Soldiers and Airmen of the Utah National Guard and the Veteran’s Affairs Division of Utah.

Major General Tarbet was born June 7, 1949 in Logan, Utah. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Utah State University in 1973, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Utah in 1978, and was a National Security Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, in 1999. His military education includes the Adjutant General Officer Basic Course; 6th U.S. Army Tactical Intelligence Staff Officer Course; Military Intelligence Officer Advanced Course; 6th U.S. Army Counter-Terrorism Course; United States Army Command General Staff Officer Course; Military Intelligence Pre-Command Course; and resident United States Army War College.

Major General Tarbet began his military career as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve March 23, 1973, and served on active duty from September 1973 to July 1975 and then joined the Army National Guard as a First Lieutenant in September 1976. From 1976 to 1982, Major General Tarbet served in various language sections of the 142nd Military Intelligence Battalion. He became the Central European Platoon Leader, Company A, 142nd Military Intelligence Linguist Battalion in 1982; Assistant Operations and Training Officer, 142nd Military Intelligence Battalion, 1984; Operations and Training Officer, Headquarters 142nd Military Intelligence (Linguist) Battalion in 1988; and the S-3 Officer, 300th Military Intelligence (Linguist) Brigade in 1988. He assumed command of the 142nd Military Intelligence (Linguist) Battalion, 1989 and became the Deputy Commander, Headquarters 300th Military Intelligence Brigade Linguist, 1992. Major General Tarbet became the Brigade Commander, Headquarters 300th Military Intelligence Linguist Brigade in 1993, and Commander, 97th Troop Command, Utah State Area Command, 1996. He assumed his duties as Adjutant General in 2000.

In 2002, he commanded the 4500 National Guard troops from 25 states which provided security to the Winter Olympic Games held in Salt Lake City. Since September, 2001, Major General Tarbet has directed the mobilization, deployment and re-deployment of virtually all units of the Utah Army and Air National Guard in support of the global War on Terrorism. He is a former member of the Secretary of the Army’s Reserve Forces Policy Committee.

Major General Tarbet’s awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal (2nd Award), Army Achievement Medal, Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal (8th Award), National Defense Service Medal (2nd Award), Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal (3rd Award), and the Army Reserve Component Overseas Training Ribbon. State awards include the Utah Medal of Merit (2nd Award), Utah Joint Staff Medal of Merit, Utah Achievement Ribbon (2nd Award), State Partnership Award (7th Award), the Utah Service Ribbon (3rd Award), the 2002 Winter Olympic Games Service Ribbon, and the Utah Basic Training Ribbon.

Major General Tarbet and his wife, the former Mary Stewart, reside in Kaysville, Utah. They have three sons, Nicholas, Christopher, and Alex and two daughters, Kate and Brooke.