Chipman was born in American Fork, Utah, on December 30, 1934, to Clarke and Asenath Moyle Chipman. After several years in American Fork, his father took employment with Kennecott Copper on the Bingham Garfield railroad, and the family moved to Magna. Chipman graduated from Cyprus High School in 1953, attended BYU for a year and a half, and then went to Australia as a missionary for two years for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After a sailing adventure and travels in western Europe with friends following his service, Chipman returned home and finished his college education at the University of Utah. His first job was with Santa Clara County Welfare Department in San Jose, Calif., working with foster children and unwed mothers. Following the death of his brother-in-law in 1967, he returned to SLC to help his sister Ardith, who was left with five young children. At that time, he obtained a job as a social worker with the Jordan School District. He spent his last 15 years as a counselor at Alta High School before retiring in 1995.

Although he received little formal art education, Chipman took classes from other Utah artists and, having his summers free, began traveling to Spain, Mexico, and Italy, sketching, painting, and studying the languages. He dabbled in oils, but his favorite medium was watercolor, which he used to craft bright, realistic scenes of Italian villages and Salt Lake cityscapes. More recently he became fascinated with Utah’s Sudanese refugees, painting portraits of dignified, dark-skinned women in their traditional clothes while establishing scholarships for their children and orphans of the Sudanese civil war. Perhaps the most prominent sale of his art was the purchase of six of his “Sudanese” portraits by the Salt Lake Airport. In recent months, as his health failed him, Chipman donated his sizeable art collection to the Art Access Gallery, the Utah Arts Council, and the Fairview Museum of History and Art. Chipman was actively involved for many years with the Utah Watercolor Society and the Utah Arts Council, and spent 20-plus years working with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company on their advisory board, traveling to Singapore and Bali for several weeks with the company.

Bevan Chipman is survived by his sister, Ardith C. Petersen, and his nephews and nieces. Interment is at the American Fork cemetery, at Chipman Lane. In lieu of flowers, donations would be appreciated to the Fairview Art Museum of History and Art, P.O. Box 1571 Fairview, UT 84629, or the Zion’s Bank Bevan Chipman Sudanese Donation Account, an education scholarship fund established by Chipman for his Sudanese friends.

Edited from a 9/14/2007 article and the notice published from 9/12 - 9/13/2007 in The Salt Lake Tribune.

Elizabeth Roths Hayes was born July 3, 1911, in Ithaca, New York, to Emily Roths and Leslie Hayes. She was an only child, and although she never married, she developed a large family of friends, mostly from the faculty and students of the Modern Dance Department at the University of Utah.
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Betty held a B.A. from West Virginia University, an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, and an ED. D. from Stanford University. Prior to coming to the University of Utah, she taught in college programs in Fairmont, W.Va., and Rockford, Ill. Her teaching career at the University of Utah spanned 48 years, most as director and chair of Modern Dance. She founded and built the department, adding the dance major in 1953, and developed a high school certification program for the state. She also wrote four books on teaching dance and dance composition/ production that were mandatory texts in the field for many years. Hayes retired from the University in June 1988. The Hayes Christensen Theatre at the Marriott Center for Dance on the U of U campus is named in honor of both Betty and Willam Christensen, founder of the U’s Ballet Department.

She twice served as president of the National Dance Association, and was a charter member and president of the National Council of Dance Administrators. Her lifetime of work earned her 23 honors and awards given nationally, by the State of Utah, and by the University, including the Honorary Alumnus Award from the U. in 1993.

Hayes also traveled around the world several times, and was lucky enough to visit many places before they became tourist attractions. The history of the arts was also a passion, and she was able to photograph many of the illustrations for her book The Evolution of Visual, Literary and Performing Arts, which was published when she was 93.

Betty is survived by a cousin, Sheila Carnes (the last of the family), as well as many friends, the closest of whom include Jon Scoville; Tandy Beal; Donna, Ken, Ruby and Ian White; Shirley and Rhees Ririe; Joan Woodbury; Abby Fiat; Marcia Lloyd; Sybil Huskey; Loa Clawson; Anne Riordan; Anne Mathews; Margaret Tcheng Ware; Jan Day; Jan Hypes; Susan McLain Smith; and Ellen Bromberg. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Elizabeth R. Hayes Scholarship at the University of Utah Development Office. As she requested, her remains were cremated and will be scattered on the graves of her parents in Ithaca, N.Y.

Calvin Lewellyn Rampton was born in Bountiful, Utah, on November 6, 1913, to Lewellyn S. and Janet Campbell Rampton. Following his graduation from Davis High School in 1931, his plans for college were dramatically altered by his father’s sudden death. To support his mother, brother Byron and sister Virginia, he took over the family’s automobile business. The sale of this business in 1933 allowed him to enroll at the University of Utah. After graduation, he attended George Washington Law School in Washington, D.C., where he studied at night to allow him to work full time as administrative assistant to Congressman J. Will Robinson. It was while in Washington that he met and fell in love with his life partner, Lucybeth Cardon. They were married in 1941. A move back to Utah was followed by the birth of daughter Margaret (Meg), the first of their four children. The onset of World War II suspended family and professional responsibilities as he served in Europe until the war’s end as chief of the Army Claims Commission in Paris, where he obtained the rank of major. He would ultimately become a full colonel in the Army Reserve. Following the war, he returned to family and the practice of law. His specialty of civil trial practice earned him a fellowship in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Rampton said in a recent interview that he became a Democrat “at the knee of my maternal grandfather, who would hold me on his lap and tell me the virtues of low tariffs over high tariffs. I had no idea what he was talking about, but I knew I loved it.” Cal’s life became periodically punctuated with candidacies as a Democrat for various political offices, efforts that uniformly ended in defeat until, in 1964, he was elected governor, breaking a 16-year Republican grip on Utah’s statehouse. Progressive in his philosophy, pragmatic in his approach, and compassionate in his manner, Rampton soon enjoyed the admiration and support of the electorate, and he was elected to and served three terms from 1965 to 1976, securing a Democratic stronghold that lasted through his three terms in office and another eight years under the late Scott Matheson, whom Rampton mentored and helped get elected in 1976. Rampton modernized state government, invented Utah’s economic and tourism development model, and renovated and expanded college and university campuses in preparation for the onslaught of baby boomer students. He believed that the pathway to our future passes through the education of our young. His competence was recognized far beyond the borders of Utah as he was entrusted with numerous regional and national responsibilities, including heading up the Education Commission of the States, the National Governors Conference, the Four Corners Regional Council, and the Council of State Governments.

As to leisure, there was nothing that he relished more than a game of golf with his cohorts at the Country Club, followed by libations and a game of gin rummy. The Alta Club was his choice for political dialogue with the Damned Old Democrats. He was also an avid reader until eyesight failed, favoring biographies and mysteries. Following his retirement from public office he returned to the practice of law at Jones, Waldo, Holbrook and McDonough, where he practiced until he was 75.