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    • Latter-day Profiles with Dennis Packard

    • Dennis Packard is a professor of philosophy at BYU and a co-producer of Fire Creek. Fire Creek is BYU’s first feature film released in theaters. The film was a collaborative effort among students and faculty at BYU. Packard has been involved in many productions including working as a producer on Songs of Praise and Remembrance and Experience Shakespeare for PBS and working on the writing committee for Savior of the World and Nauvoo Pageant.

    • Latter-day Profiles with Dan Burr

    • Dan Burr has illustrated for magazines and produced young adult book jackets for 20 years. The last several years he has concentrated on children’s picture books and has seven titles published. He also works with the Church magazines producing illustrations for the Ensign and Liahona.

    • Latter-day Profiles with Jon M. Huntsman

    • Jon M. Huntsman is chairman and founder of Huntsman Corporation. He started the firm with his brother Blaine in 1970. By 2000, it had become the world's largest privately held chemical company and America's biggest family owned and operated business, with more than $12 billion in annual revenues before going public in early 2005. He was a special assistant to the president in the Nixon White House, was the first American to own controlling interest of a business in the former Soviet Union, and is the chairman of the Board of Overseers for Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his alma mater. Mr. Huntsman also served on the boards of numerous major public corporations and organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Red Cross. The Huntsman businesses fund the foundation that is the primary underwriter for the Huntsman Cancer Institute, a leader in the prevention, early diagnosis, and humane treatment of cancer. In 1996, Elder Huntsman was called by President Gordon B. Hinckley to serve as an Area Seventy. Currently, he is a member of the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy of The Church. From 1980 to 1983, he was president of the Washington D.C. Mission.

    • Latter-day Profiles with Roger & Heidi Merrill

    • 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false   Roger and Heidi Merrill are the owners and operators of the Playmill Theater in West Yellowstone, Montana. The Merrills and their children have been part of the theater for many years doing everything from directing and acting to sweeping the floors and selling concessions. Every summer students from BYU-Idaho and BYU-Provo audition to be part of the cast. The Playmill attracts audiences from around the world.

    • Latter-day Profiles with Barry Hansen & Mark Bennion

    • Barry Hansen has always loved communicating through music and art. As a child he played the clarinet, piano and trumpet while constantly doodling in the margins of his schoolwork. He found a way to do both at Brigham Young University. While majoring in graphic design, he studied voice and sang with BYU’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble. Barry has sung professionally since 2001. His studio vocals are featured on over a dozen albums and he has released one solo album, My Soul Hungered, as well a mini-album entitled One Step Closer . A member of the Faith Centered Music Association, Barry is a past nominee for both Studio Vocalist and Male Vocalist of the Year. He performed in two televised Pearl Awards broadcast. Barry was one of six finalists in the Winter 2009 Mormon Times Showcase Song and Video Contest. A freelance graphic designer (see hansencreative.com), he is also a four-time nominee and a Pearl Award winner for Album Design. Barry’s music both inspires and entertains. He loves to teach and often combines his songs with personal stories when presenting to youth and adult groups. Barry and his wife Marian recently moved from Utah to Idaho Falls, Idaho, and are the parents of eight children. Barry's music is available on iTunes, LDSTunesNow.com, and PositiveMusicandDownloads.com. Mark D. Bennion grew up inWisconsin, Utah, and Idaho. In college, he majored in English and minored in Korean. Upon graduating from BYU, Mark lived in Jerusalem for a year and studied at the Hebrew University. After his time in the Holy Land, he attended the MFA program at the University of Montana and graduated from there in 2000. Mark teaches writing and literature classes at Brigham Young University–Idaho. He recently published his first book, Psalm & Selah: A Poetic Journey through The Book of Mormon. The book is a collection of narrative and lyrical poems that bring the lesser-known characters of The Book of Mormon to life. Currently, he and his wife, Kristine, are raising their family in the Upper Snake River Valley.  

    • Latter-day Profiles with Ron Barker

    • Ron Barker / Associate Pac-10 Commissioner Ron Barker is the Associate Commissioner for Governance and Enforcement in the Pac-10. The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference that operates in the western United States. Its members consist of 10 well-known universities also found in the west. Barker worked for Novell as a software piracy investigator and then for the NCAA as an enforcement official before taking his current position with the PAC-10.

    • Latter-day Profiles with Chad Lewis

    • Chad Lewis walked- on to the BYU football team and was a four- year starter as a tight end. While he played for LaVell Edwards, BYU finished in the top ten two times, with a rank of 10th in ’94 and 5th in’96. Following his career at BYU, Chad entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent, making the team with the Eagles. He spent time with the Philadelphia Eagles, the St. Louis Rams, and then back with the Eagles, where he became a starter. He was selected to the Pro Bowl three times and helped his team get to the Super Bowl once. Chad and his wife, Michelle, have seven children and live in Cedar Hills, Utah.

    • Latter-day Profiles with Dr. Donald Hilton

    • Donald L. Hilton Jr. is the author of “He Restoreth My Soul”, one of the most informative and helpful books written to date on the subject of sexual/pornography addiction. This is a must read book by all who have been afflicted by pornography, which is clearly the “plague of this generation”.          Donald L. Hilton, Jr. has practiced medicine for fourteen years in San Antonio, Texas, specializing in neurological surgery.  Dr. Hilton graduated from Lamar University with highest honors, and from medical school at the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston with honors, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society.  He completed his neurosurgical training at the University of Tennessee at Memphis in 1994, is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, and is a diplomat of the American College of Surgeons.  He has been named to Best Doctors in America.           A pioneer in the field of minimally invasive spinal surgery, he has published book chapters and journal articles with original contributions in this field, and lectures nationally and internationally.  He teaches courses on this topic at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio.           Brother Hilton and his wife, Jana, currently serve as LDS Family Services program coordinators in San Antonio for those who struggle with pornography and sexual addiction, as well as their spouses.  He and his wife are the parents of five children and have two grandchildren.

    • Latter-day Profiles with Chad Lewis

    • Chad Lewis walked- on to the BYU football team and was a four- year starter as a tight end. While he played for LaVell Edwards, BYU finished in the top ten two times, with a rank of 10th in ’94 and 5th in’96. Following his career at BYU, Chad entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent, making the team with the Eagles. He spent time with the Philadelphia Eagles, the St. Louis Rams, and then back with the Eagles, where he became a starter. He was selected to the Pro Bowl three times and helped his team get to the Super Bowl once. Chad and his wife, Michelle, have seven children and live in Cedar Hills, Utah. This episode was originally scheduled to air on February 3rd at 11 p.m., but was preempted by a BYU-Hawaii basketball game. 

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