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Utah Women's Walk Oral Histories Directed by Michele Welch UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY Utah Valley University Library George Sutherland Archives & Special Collections Oral History Program Utah Women’s Walk Oral Histories Directed by Michele Welch Interview with Jaclyn Hunt Herrin by Jessica LeClaire Hudgins October 2, 2010 Utah Women’s Walk TRANSCRIPTION COVER SHEET Interviewee: Jaclyn Hunt Herrin Interviewer: Jessica LeClaire Hudgins Place of Interview: Jaclyn Herrin’s parents’ home Lehi, Utah 84043 Date of Interview: 2 October 2010 Recordist: Jessica Hudgins Recording Equipment: Zoom Recorder H4n Panasonic HD Video Camera AG-HM C709 Transcription Equipment: Express Scribe Transcribed by: Jessica Hudgins Audio Transcription Edit: Lisa McMullin Reference: JA = Jaclyn Hunt Herrin (Interviewee) JE = Jessica LeClaire Hudgins (Interviewer) Brief Description of Contents: Jaclyn Hunt Herrin tells about her life growing up in Lehi, Utah, where she only had sight out of her left eye. Jaclyn is the daughter of Randy Paul and Lisa Hunt. Jaclyn had various eye surgeries growing up and to this day has a major eye surgery every five years. Jaclyn began her piano studies at age four with Dr. David Glen Hatch. She enjoys playing the piano today and teaching her own students. At the age of twenty Jaclyn became the 54th Miss Utah, and the only Miss Utah to this day with a physical disability. Jaclyn became one of the most popular Miss Utah's in its pageant history with her compelling story and her drive for community service with her personal platform Share Your Life, Share Your Decision: Organ, Eye, and Tissue Donation. Jaclyn humbly tells about the prestigious awards she won from her services in her community outreach and wants everyone to know you can always sign up as a donor at www.YesUtah.org. Jaclyn won the Quality of Life Award three times, twice at Miss Utah and at Miss America. During Jaclyn's pageants she challenged her limits to capture the titles of Miss Lehi 1999-2000, Miss Utah County 2000-2001, Miss Utah 2001-2002, and placing as a semi-finalist at Miss America 2001. Jaclyn also recalls on being Miss Utah and at Miss America when September 11th occurred and serving at the 2002 Utah Winter Olympic Games. Jaclyn became the recipient of $39,500 in scholarships to fund her education at Brigham Young University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English editing. Today Jaclyn is the mother of Clairessa(??) Herrin (age 5) and Kyle Herrin (3 age) and the wife to Taylor Herrin of 8 years on December 21, 2010. NOTE: Interjections during pauses or transitions in dialogue such as uh and false starts and starts and stops in conversations are not included in this transcript. Changes by interviewee are incorporated in text. All additions to transcript are noted with brackets. Clarifications and additional information are footnoted. Audio Transcription [00:00] Beginning of interview JE: This is Jessica Hudgins, and I am interviewing Jaclyn Hunt Herrin at her parents’ house in Lehi, Utah. It’s about 5:15 p.m. It is Saturday, October 2, 2010. We’re just going to talk about the life of Jaclyn Hunt and her contributions to Utah. JE: Okay, Jaclyn, first question, just want to know when and where were you born? JA: I was born, that’s a good question, (laughs) in Provo on April 30, 1981. JE: And so where did you grow up? JA: I grew up in Lehi, [Utah]. I lived in the same house my whole life and never moved until I got married. JE: Can you tell me about your parents and your brothers and sisters and where you fit into your house? JA: Okay, my parents also lived in Lehi their whole lives. They met each other at church just like people do. (laughs) And from the time they were like two years old, they had known each other. It was a small town. I have one older brother and two younger brother and sister who are twins; they’re three years younger than I am. JE: How has your vision impairment impacted your and your family’s lives? JA: I think it’s been a financial impact. Originally, it was very hard for my parents to all of a sudden have a baby who had to have doctor’s appointments every other week and surgeries twice a year, and so from the beginning it’s been financially hard. It still is financially hard for my husband and I to pay for all of the problems. But on the reverse side, I think that a lot of the life experiences that I’ve had could of made me quite a shallow person, and I think of nothing else, it’s has grounded me and helped me to become more empathetic and understanding of others and the weaknesses that they might have. So in that sense I’m pretty grateful that I have that grounding point in my life. JE: How did your family find out about your vision impairment? JA: When I was two weeks old, my mom mentioned to the doctor that she didn’t think my eye was as clear as it ought to be. They didn’t check the cataract; they did check for it; they just didn’t see it. And so when I was two weeks old, they had it removed, the lens of my eye removed. Utah Women’s Walk: Jaclyn Hunt Herrin 2 JE: Besides your eye problems, you are also very talented in the piano. Can you tell me when you started playing the piano? JA: We think I was probably about four; my older brother started when he was in kindergarten, and I wasn’t about to let anyone outshine me. (laughs) So I started playing before I started kindergarten, and I had to quit my lessons when I got married because they were too expensive—until I was twenty-one years old; I was quite the dedicated student, I think. JE: Was it ever hard seeing the notes and the keys in playing the piano? JA: No, kind of the best part was I always had to have my right hand perfect and memorized because I couldn’t rely on sight to find it. So I find that I second guess my left hand a lot more because I can see it and think, Oh I think it’s A, but my right hand just does what it does, and I never have to think about it. JE: Well, at your piano teacher’s house they had a certain picture hanging up there, can you tell me what picture that was? JA: Yeah, when I was probably in fifth and sixth grade, my piano teacher had a picture, and she was Miss Lehi. She had big blue sequined puffy sleeves, and it just seemed to be the most lovely thing. And I had been to the pageant before and seeing that reinforced me and made me think I needed to be the person with my picture on that program, not necessarily to be famous, just to become someone worthy of having their picture on the program. JE: Well, you also met Miss Utah 1999 Vanessa Ballam, and she helped you in becoming Miss Utah. And then you also played piano with another young woman who became Miss Utah. Can you tell me more? JA: Yes, I was fortunate to meet a lot of key people in my life. When I was Miss Lehi, we spent the day with the current Miss Utah, and it was Vanessa Ballam. And I think until that point we hadn’t realized that Miss Utah could be effective for creating change in her community. And it was interesting for me to see how people looked at her and followed what she had to say, and again how gracious she was and how everyone seemed to be just drawn to her. And it made me think that there was something more to this than having your picture on the program. (laughs) And then I competed that year at Miss Utah and Jami Palmer won. I became friends with her, and she helped me be able to be in her piano class and study with David Glen Hatch, [and] also gain a friendship there, so that was fortunate and lucky. (laughs) JE: What exactly made you try out for Miss Lehi? That was your first pageant? JA: I wanted to be Miss Lehi my whole life from the time I was ten. I just knew that that would be the thing for me, and I don’t think I ever questioned anything more. And it wasn’t to be Miss America, and it wasn’t to be Miss Utah. It was just kind of the culminating experience of growing up. I think was the reason I wanted to enter that. Utah Women’s Walk: Jaclyn Hunt Herrin 3 And then of course, I found my platform, organ, eye, and tissue donation awareness and that really made me see that it was more than just the one night of the pageant—that it was the rest of the year that mattered. And so as I went on to become Miss Utah County, it was really the driving force behind my wanting to be Miss Utah—was to be able to promote this platform—and seeing how easy it would be for a Miss Utah to create change by this spokesperson for organ donation. JE: When you tried out for Miss Lehi, everyone thought that you couldn’t win because somebody was competing in the pageant, can you tell me about that? JA: There was a girl who I think everyone thought that she would win because all of her sisters had been—had won.
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