Jocelyn Young

U of U graduating in 1977; worked at Utah Repertory Dance Theatre as Company Manager until left to visit Alaska in 1980 for the summer. Never left.
Married Gil Dammond in 1984. Just downsized into a smaller house to have more time for travel, enjoy our time!

I'm sure other people have stories about my embarrassing moments; luckily I've repressed most of those. I think I enjoyed Dance Club and class more than anything. Felt the most alive. Made the mistake of signing up for too many activities Senior year and mostly couldn't wait to graduate!

Thinking about a place in SLC to use when we visit family. We have an apt in NYC that we're going to give up in June.

Yes

We used to make annual trips to see family and make sure our daughter knew her cousins, but we come less often now and for shorter time periods. It's harder to come back when the family home is no longer available to hang out.

The weather is better in SLC than Anchorage, so we're thinking that might be an option. Some of my best friends from college are still in SLC so that's a consideration too.

Yes - Kris Bywater Bell and I are still close.

I had plans to go to graduate school, but my journey brought me to Alaska, where I stayed.

College - intermittently. Took forever to graduate.

When I came to Alaska for the summer I applied for a job running the Alaska State's Artists in Schools program. From 1980 - 1995 I ran the program, visited lots of parts of Alaska, visited remote villages and had a fabulous experience. In 1995 I moved on to direct the Municipality of Anchorage 1% for Art or Public Art Program working at the Anchorage Museum. It's been a great job. Not sure What I'll do next!

I feel fortunate that I have been able to do so many things I've always wanted to do. I have always wanted to go to Europe, pick up a car and drive it around. Always wanted to see Petra in Jordan.

How can I re-count these? There are tons of them; I have loved the traveling I've done and adventures I've enjoyed with friends and family. I feel very fortunate that I have made a very full life of close friends far away from my original home. Not many people have the opportunity to grow and pick their friends and fulfill their life all according to their own judgements and decisions.

Married Gil Dammond in 1984 in Anchorage, Alaska. Gil was born and raised in NYC, NY and family is all from Egypt. So while I'm from a typical Utah, mixed Welsh/Danish/English bloodline, several times removed, his is much more pure and distinctive. He is impressed that Brigham was my Great Great Grandfather and loves to share that information with other people!

None

Travel
Try to find things in my house that we've downsized too! Half our stuff is in storage so it's a continuous battle.
Cross Country ski
Knit
Garden
Camp
Collect art
Hang out with friends!

Yes

Yes - last year I went to China for a month with my three sisters and we stayed in Hostels and it was a blast. We all just went to NYC for a week. We try to do a big sister trip every other year and a local one each year. We've been to Hawaii, Mexico twice, Italy and lots of place in US. Always fun.

Went to Egypt with Gil, Celine and my mother in law in 2002 and it was great traveling with her. It was her first trip back to Cairo since she left in 1950.

Had a fun trip to Turkey in 2004 with friends. Visited family in Rome, which is the only way to hang out in Rome. Celine spent the summer in Barcelona so we spent time in Spain touring Spain and listening to her speak Spanish fluently. We're headed to Prague in May to see her at the end of her study abroad program.

Not sure - China felt the furthest away culturally, but so did the Phillipines went I visited there in 1984.

Tough one.

Petra, Jordan
Greek Islands
Sicily
Cyprus
Fiords of Norway
Churchill to see the Polar Bears
Still love red rocks of Southern Utah

Depends on the day and time.

Some, not too noticeable.

I think I'm pretty predictable- most of my friends are artists; I go to lots of Museums and have an extensive art collection. Not sure if that's a surprise though.

Jo in School - Jocelyn in real life.

There are lots - mostly just glimpses of people doing things that seem to flash through my brain. I remember a flannel dress Kay Epperson made that I thought was really cool. I remember Martha Raddatz getting her new orange Fiat; A resource room that became a broadcast room; flexible scheduling that allowed me to go work at Steve Sunderland's mother's day care in the afternoon. Taking Computer Science to get out of a Chemistry requirement from Miss Bell and the computer filled up the entire room and we spent weeks on the binary system; The fabulous front entry of the school that was architecturally irre-replaceable.

Can't believe we got up for those super early morning Pep Club practices or that we wore those horrible red wool outfits from Stevens and Brown. My daughter wore mine for Halloween this past year! Complete with pom-poms!

Graduate in December and travel for our final semester.

We've become Wisconsin fans and I watched them play in the Rose Bowl mostly looking for Gil and Celine, my husband and daughter who went to the game.

All artists or architects:
Karim Rashid
James Carpenter
Antony Gormley
David Chipperfield

My daughter says we should be paying for "Memories not Things", so I decided that is my new goal. She's so wise.

All of the above. I think that's a weird combination of questions.

Haven't we all?

Only n Junior high or high school- although the laughing thing has happened more recently.

Annually at the mistletoe.