Each month the Rexburg Area Chamber of Commerce will be featuring a guest artist from the Upper Valley Art Guild.Please stop by to view some of the beautiful artwork on display in our conference room. This month the artist of the month is Donnell Hunter
Donnell Hunter
Was
born in Rigby, Idaho,
attended schools in Idaho and Washington, graduating from RigbyHigh School.
He
attended RicksCollege, graduating in 1954 with a BA in
Mathematics and Biological Sciences.
Subsequently
he obtained graduate degrees from UtahStateUniversity
(MS in English 1960) and University
of Montana (MFA in 1981.)
He
was Assistant Librarian at RicksCollege 1955-59 and
taught in the English Department 1960 to 1993 except for 1964-66 when he was
Assistant Professor of English at Church College of Hawaii.In 1988-1989 he was a visiting professor in
creative writing at BrighamYoungUniversity.
He
married Nita Kearsley.They are parents
of eight children, grandparents of thirty-one and great-grandparents of
twenty-seven.
He
retired from Ricks in 1993 to preside over the Mexico Veracruz Mission.He and Nita were Area Welfare Agents in
Central America from 1988-2000 and presided over the SantiagoChileTemple from 2001-2004.
