Allan grew up in Littleton, Colorado as the youngest of two children. After studying theater extensively in high school, he decided to pursue a degree in Film Directing from BYU. While still in school, Allan founded a boutique advertising agency and launched campaigns for national clients. The highlight of his scholastic career was writing and directing three commercials for Meadow Gold Dairies, Inc, which aired on Superbowl Sunday and on regional prime time television. Feb. 2000: Managing an advertising agency in Provo, Utah.

Darcy Stapleford was born in the Holy Cross Hospital on March 24 1987, to George and Lesa Stapleford. She was attracted to the arts from an early age, in particular visual arts, but also enjoyed theatre and film. Always an outsider at school, and being a non-Latter-day Saint in a town that was 90% LDS, she never quite fitted in, preferring to be by herself at home expressing herself in visual arts.

She is currently creating abstract paintings, working with acrylic on canvas. From December 2000 to the present day, she works at a volunteer theater company called Stageright in Salt Lake City. She loves animals and so far has had three cats, thirty-five dogs, three lizards, two snakes, a rabbit, two birds and many fish. She has also worked at Wasatch Humane Society during the summer of 2001.

Darcy is now attending Bountiful High School and taking all visual, theatrical, and screen art classes. She has worked on a video biography on Channel 2's Brian Mullahy and has made a movie trailer for an as yet unmade movie (The Thief in The City Unamed), but is extremely short of funds and experience. She has written three unpublished books: Pharaoh's Maze, The Thief in The City Unamed and Thief Judgement.

Darcy hopes to become a screenwriter, director, producer, and art director.

Seven people will be honored during Homecoming 2002 with university awards for their extensive devotion and service... Elder Alexander B. Morrison and Jesse E. Stay will be presented with Honorary Alumni Awards. This award acknowledges those who have not attended BYU but who have rendered significant service to the university...

Stay, of Huntington Beach, Calif., spent 27 years as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and retired as a colonel. He received degrees from UCLA and George Washington University. His BYU affiliations include being the first professor of air science at BYU, an assistant director at the Department of Motion Picture Productions, and director of media productions. He retired from BYU in 1984. Among his honors are the USAF Legion of Merit, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, eight Air Medals, the Air Force Commendation Medal, several awards for educational films, and the Silver Beaver from the Boy Scouts of America.

Doug Stewart brings with him a distinguished career in stage and film. He received his MA degree from BYU in 1968. He went on to become the associate producer of the film, The Fearmaker. In 1973 Doug won first place in the Utah Playwriting Contest for his book and lyrics to Saturday's Warrior. He also wrote the screenplay for Where the Red Fern Grows, which starred James Whitmore and Beverly Garland and won the Blue Ribbon Box Office Award, parent's Magazine Citation, and awards from McCall's and the Motion Picture Association. He also wrote the screenplays Seven Alone and Against a Crooked Sky, which starred Richard Boone. In 1976, he was commissioned by the LDS Church to write the book and lyrics for the Bicentennial Musical, Threads of Glory, part of which was performed at Ronald Reagan's Inauguration in 1981. In 1978 he formed his own production company which toured shows throughout the nation, and continues to license shows world-wide. In 1983 and 84, he co-produced the films Solo and The Red Fury. Other musicals to his credit include Latter-Day Ruth, Star Child, A Day, A Night & A Day, Dream Street and Almost Perfect. In 1991 Doug first shared his dream of producing the outdoor musical UTAH! The magnificent Tuachan Amphitheater and Center for the Arts are the result of that dream. Doug currently serves as President of the Mormon Arts Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging LDS artists to produce works of arts equal to the best the world has created. Doug and His wife Mary are the parents of eight children, and reside in St. George, Utah.

NEW YORK - Norma Storch, a white woman whose decision to have her 4-year-old mixed-race daughter raised by a black couple became the subject of an Emmy Award-winning documentary made by the daughter in adulthood, died Aug. 28 at her Manhattan home. She was 81.

The cause was cancer, said the daughter, June Cross, producer of the documentary "Secret Daughter," which PBS broadcast in 1996.

The film was heralded as a searing look at race relations in the 1950s and '60s, and drew praise for its emotional rawness and the bravery of both mother and daughter. Other reviews suggested that the documentary's power came from a mother's willingness to reject her daughter and then rationalize it.

Cross said in an interview last week that this impression properly reflected the documentary but not their real relationship. She said that tensions were exaggerated for dramatic effect.

But for almost 35 years, Mrs. Storch and her husband -- the actor and comedian Larry Storch, who starred as Cpl. Randolph Agarn in the 1960s comedy series "F Troop," -- indisputably lived a lie. They told friends and acquaintances that the black girl who visited them at their Hollywood home was their adopted daughter, who lived with a black family for most of the year.

The truth was that Cross was the child of an affair Mrs. Storch had had with Jimmy Cross, a black song-and-dance man who was Stump in the well-known performing team Stump and Stumpy.

Norma Storch fled Cross soon after their daughter's birth in 1954, because of his drinking, drug use and violence toward her, she said. As June matured and her complexion darkened, she and her mother encountered racist reactions, including a petition from residents of their Manhattan building demanding that they leave.

Norma Storch asked two friends, a middle-class black couple in Atlantic City, N.J., to raise June. After they took her in, Norma Storch cried every night, developed shingles and wrote daily letters to the girl, according to the documentary.

Norma Greve was born on April 6, 1922, in Pocatello, Idaho. Her mother moved from place to place, married seven times or so, and from time to time vanished completely. From the time Norma Storch was 9 until her marriage, she used the last name Booth, the name of one of her stepfathers.

Carrie literally came out of nowhere to "dazzle" us with her talent. The Book of Mormon Movie will be Carrie's acting and film debut. Carrie is a 2-time All-State track athlete in the high hurdles and intermediate hurdles. Carrie was also 2-time All Conference in track. She broke the UVSC High Hurdle record, Outdoor and Indoor! Carrie was part of the 4 by 100 relay team that broke the school record.

In addition to being a champion athlete, Carrie is also an experienced model. Carrie has always had the ability and the desire to act but never pursued it.

Katie Stuart first became involved in the entertainment field through baby beauty pageants where her love of performing really came to life. She began doing commercial ads as a child and some of them include Pet Co. and Invisalign braces. She was a series regular ("Sarah") on the childrens show "Adventures with Kanga Roddy" at age 11. She soon moved onto a recurring role on the primetime soap "Titans" and eventually a heavy-recurring and quite prominent role on ABC's "General Hospital." She is now 20 years old and beginning a major film career. On top of that, she is a singer/song-writer and a college student at USC. She currently lives with her brother Ken in Los Angeles, California.

10 years hands on experience in the professional live and studio audio engineering market. Good understanding of electronic principles gained through schooling in electronics at ITT. Strong troubleshooting and repair skills gained through experience repairing electronic musical instruments at Summerhays Music. Extensive knowledge of internet and electronic audiovisual communcations through experience as the owner of an audiovisual/internet development based business. As a business owner I have also learned how to manage projects in order to complete them in a timely and cost effective manner.

Mack Swain was born in 1876 and soon became a talented vaudevillian. In 1913 he was hired by Mack Sennett and appeared in a few Mabel Normand pictures until a year later he became even bigger when Chaplin, Charlie arrived at the Keystone Studio. Swain later created a character by the name of Ambrose whom he appeared with Mr. Walrus (Played by comic Chester Conklin) most memorably in "Love Speed & Thrills" (1915).

After that his career began to go downward until Charlie Chaplin rescued it in 1921 and he later appeared in his masterpiece "The Gold Rush" (1925). After "The Gold Rush" he appeared in many Hollywood productions such as Lon Chaney's "Mockery" and "The Last Warning" (1929).

In 1932 he appeared in the academy award nominee for best short "Stout Hearts and Willing Hands" which also co-starred former keystone actors such as Chester Conklin, Hank Mann, Harold Lloyd, Bobby Vernon, Ben Turpin and Owen Moore. He retired from then onwards and died in 1935.

Professor Janet L. Swenson is Chair of Design & Technology and resident Costume Designer for BYU's Department of Theatre & Media Arts. During her nearly 30 years at BYU, she has designed over 200 productions, including musicals, operas, Shakespeare and film. For the past 15 years she has also designed for BYU's international touring group, The Young Ambassadors. Professionally, Janet served 15 years as Resident Designer at Robert Redford's Sundance Theatre and has designed at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival for the past 10 years. Other professional credits include work at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, PTTP at the University of Wisconsin, the Tuacahn Center for the Performing Arts and the Skylight Opera Theatre in Milwaukee. She has also designed many summer seasons in Wyoming at both the Pink Garter Theatre and Jackson Hole Playhouse. Professor Swenson teaches courses in costume design as well as supervising and teaching in the department's extensive makeup program. She is the recipient of many awards, including the prestigious Karl G. Maeser Award for creativity in 1996. Janet just completed the biggest project of her career -- designing and supervising construction of 2,500 costumes for the LDS Church's production of Light of the World, which played to sold-out houses in the 21,000 seat Conference Center throughout the 2002 Olympics. She is a member of IATSE, AFTRA, USITT and the Utah Council of the Arts, and is the National Archivist for Theta Alpha Phi.

Paul Swenson (B.S., Utah State U), journalist/arts critic/editor, currently analyzes screenplays for Leucadia Film Corporation in Salt Lake City. He was (founding) editor of Utah Holiday magazine from 1971 until 1989, where he also was a film critic. He was a reporter and arts critic for the Deseret News for 13 years.

Veteran producer, Swofford produced the IMAX box office hit Mysteries of Egypt for National Geographic, Olympic Glory with Frank Marshall, and Amazon, which received a nomination for an Academy Award. His company, Vineyard Productions, has produced seven other IMAX films and Swofford has personally produced seven independent films. He has produced in 31 foreign countries, including 6 months in Japan for Columbia Pictures. This wealth of experience makes him one of the most successful event film producers today.

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