Maple Canyon With The Student Body Officers

The Snow College student body officers spent a week in Ephraim this month training and preparing for the school year. They asked me to join them for an afternoon hike up Maple Canyon, a work class rock climbing destination, a few minutes from Snow College. Of course it didn't take me long to say yes to that request. We had a great day; some of the students faced significant fears (of heights) and did very well. We hiked up Box Canyon, climbed the "water fall" and then rappelled back down. These are a couple shots I took. What a fun day. Spending time with good students is among my favorite things about being a college president.

College Wedding

All in the day of a college president's family. Two of our students from Hong Kong were married last week. And without any family on this side of the Pacific, Kathy and I hosted them for the day at our home before and after the temple. All of our family were involved from Allie doing the bride's hair to Naomi and Abby serving at the wedding breakfast/open house. They were married in the Manti Temple a few miles from campus. We served Cantonese and American food. It was a very fun day. And, of course, I took more than a few pictures. Here are two of the pictures taken at our home.

Our New Karen H. Huntsman Library!

I took these pictures of our new Karen H. Hunsman Library this morning. It is almost complete. It has dozens of small group study rooms, a Borders-like cafe (you can eat anywhere in the library), a large outside terrace off the third level for good weather studying or group events, a large fireplace surrounded with beautiful fossil stone, updated technology, two high tech auditoriums, oh, and, books! It is expected to be a Gold LEED certified building (very green). In front of the library is our Heritage Plaza and in the middle stands our namesakes, Lorenzo and Erastus Snow. I should mention the project came in several million dollars under budget.