Ryan "Candyman" Candland

http://candlandr.googlepages.com/

Matt Hughes -

Recently I was thinking that maybe it would be a good idea to create a forum where we could exchange the photographs that we took during our time in Israel. I was thinking that I could create a picasa web album and provide the log in information to anyone who would like to include some of their own pictures or download those that others have posted. I think it would also be great to create some kind of forum where video could be shared. I'm not sure exactly how that could be arranged but if anyone has any ideas let me know. If anyone out there is interested in sharing their pictures let me know and I will go ahead and create the web album and provide the log in information by request. Marhaba and Shalom!

Matt Hughes

Mass Email Sent

Yesterday I sent a mass email to all the email addresses we have on file. If you didn't receive the email then you may want to 1. Check your Junk Mail Folder 2. Confirm your email address with what we have on file for you.


Enjoy the Reunion!

Fall 1999 Timeline

August 23, 1999 Jerusalem Center Orientation in Provo, Utah
August 24, 1999 Depart USA for the Holy Land
August 25, 1999 Arrive at the Jerusalem Center
August 26, 1999 City of Jerusalem Walk. For most this is the first time to the Garden Tomb and Garden of Gethsemane
August 28, 1999 Saturday, the Sabbath Day

September 6, 1999 Jericho Field Trip, Nebi Samuel, Gibean, St. George Monastery, Herodian Aquaduct, Mount of Temptation, Jericho
September 9, 1999 Jerusalem City Trash Strike begins
September 10, 1999 Grape Stomping
September 12, 1999 Trip to Beach at Tel Aviv
September 13, 1999 Bethel, Ai, Shiloh, Samaria, Jacobs Well Field Trip
September 16, 1999 Ehud Olmert, the Mayor of Jerusalem speaks at a forum in the Jerusalem Center. He later became the Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009.
September 20, 1999 West Bank Fieldtrip
September 24, 1999 Midterms in Dr. Greens Class
September 26, 1999 Dome of the Rock Fieldtrip and Group Picture
September 27, 1999 Qumron – Dead Sea Scrolls, Ein Geddi, Masada, Dead Sea Fieldtrip
September 30, 1999 Walter Rogers from CNN spoke in a Forum to us

October 3, 1999 Depart for the country of Jordan
October 4, 1999 Petra
October 5, 1999 Amman, Jordan
October 6, 1999 Return to Jerusalem Center from Jordan. Jeff Lind and Johnny Miller both opened their mission calls when we returned to the Center.
October 8, 1999 Bedouin Tent Dinner
October 9, 1999 Elder Hartman Rector Jr. Fireside
October 11, 1999 Hebron, Lachish, Valley of Elah Fieldtrip
October 17, 1999 Trip of the City of David, Warrans Shaft, Hezekiah’s Tunnel, simulated Seder
and Passover Dinners
October 21, 1999 Last day of Brother Nazzal’s class. He concluded with his testimony and the
class stood and applauded as he walked out the back door.
October 22, 1999 Informal Talent Show
October 24, 1999 Morningside at the Orson Hyde Gardens overlooking the Old City. 158 years since Orson Hyde dedicated the Holy Land.
October 31, 1999 Wadi Kelt Walk and Halloween Party

November 1, 1999 Drive to Neweba, Egypt
November 3, 1999 Watch the sunrise from Mount Sinai
November 6, 1999 Fireside with Brother Schwendiman who was the Director of the building of the Jerusalem Center
November 10, 1999 Final in Brother Green’s class
November 11, 1999 Bethlehem Fieldtrip
November 17, 1999 Drive to Caesarea Maritima, Haifa, Mt. Carmel, and En Gev on the Sea of
Galilee
November 18, 1999 Meteor Shower at 4am in the dark of the Sea of Galilee
November 19, 1999 Tiberius, Mount of Beatitudes, St. Peters Church, Capernaum, Jordan River Fieldtrip
November 21, 1999 Mount Tabor, Armageddon Valley, Nain, Megiddo Fieldtrip
November 25, 1999 Thanksgiving Day at Galilee
November 26, 1999 Depart Galilee, visit Nazareth, and return to the Jerusalem Center

December 1, 1999 Upper Room, Last Supper Reinacted, Last Week Walk through Bethany and Bethpage Fieldtrip
December 5, 1999 New Testament Final
December 6, 1999 Last Day in Jerusalem. Final Testimony Meeting and farewells
December 7, 1999 Some fly home while others drive to Egypt
December 8, 1999 Sphinx, Pyrimids
December 9, 1999 Fly to Luxor, Visit the Karnak Temple and Valley of the Kings
December 11, 1999 Return to Cairo. Alabastor Mosque, Cairo Museum and farewells.
December 12 and 13, 1999 Fly back to the USA

August 21-22, 2009 Ten Year Reunion in Provo, Utah

Director of our Jerusalem Program

Brother R. J. Snow 1937 ~ 2006

Obituary

We lost our husband, father, and "Papa" very suddenly as a result of injuries sustained in an auto accident on June 6, 2006, in Provo, Utah. R.J. (Reuben Joseph) was born on October 15, 1937, to Glenn and Laura Gardner Snow. He attended public schools in St. George and later in Washington D.C. where he graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School. He returned to the "red hills of home" each summer and worked in Pine Valley on his uncle's ranch.

He attended Dixie College and was student body president, after which he served as an LDS missionary in France, Belgium and Switzerland. After his mission, he studied at the University of Utah where he received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in history. He married Marilyn Melville in 1962 after they met during their summer jobs in Washington, D.C. He received a second Masters Degree and a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in Illinois. A year of postdoctoral research followed at the University of Oregon, followed by a faculty appointment at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The entire family traveled to the University of Bordeaux in France where R.J. served as Associate Director of the Study Abroad Program for two years. In 1971, R.J. joined the administrative team of Dr. David P. Gardner at the University of Utah where he served as Assistant to the President, then simultaneously as Vice President for University Relations and Director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics and as Associate Professor of Political Science. In 1985, R.J. accepted a position as President of the Jacobsen Company, a parent company to Jacobsen Construction.

In July 1987, R.J. and Marilyn and their family were called to preside in the South Africa Johannesburg Mission of the LDS Church. R.J. joined Brigham Young University in 1990 and served as Student Life Vice President, later as Advancement Vice President and then as director of the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies in Israel from 1998-2000. They returned to Provo in the Summer of 2000, where R.J. maintained his current faculty assignment as Professor of Political Science where he has focused the past few years to teaching African politics, American government and public policy and serving as the 2004 Faculty Advisor for the BYU Washington Seminar program.

During the reconstruction of the LDS Nauvoo Temple, R.J. and Marilyn served a two-year mission together as Directors of Public Affairs and he as Manager of Nauvoo Restoration Inc. R.J. was committed to volunteerism and civic engagement and served on literally dozens of boards of directors and committees including the Provo-Orem and Salt Lake Area Chambers of Commerce, the Utah Symphony, the Utah Affiliate of the American Diabetes Association, and both the United Way in Salt Lake and Utah County. He was a former member of the Utah Governor's Commission on Women and Families, the Board of Directors of The Deseret News, and the Advisory Board to KSL Radio and Television. Currently, he has served on the Dixie State College Board of Trustees. His circle of influence positively affected scores of people worldwide through education, civic and church activities. With many titles over his lifetime, his favorite was "Papa" to his five loving grandchildren- Callie, Laura, Sara, J.J. and Julia. They will miss him deeply and he loved them more than words can say. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn; children, Gina (Burnett) Thackeray, Laura Snow, Scott (Brittany) Snow, Noelle (Jay) Robinson. A memorial service and celebration of his life will be held on Monday, June 12, 2006 at 12:00 noon at the Provo Oak Hills Stake Center located at 925 E. North Temple Drive (2200 North) in Provo. In lieu of flowers, donations are encouraged to the R.J. Snow Public Policy Internship at the Hinckley Institute of Politics or your choice of local charitable nonprofit organizations or Utah institutions of Higher Education.

Sheep With Lost Email Addresses

Thanks to those who have sent in lost email addresses! Our list is getting shorter.

1. Below is a list of persons who went to Jerusalem with us that we have NO email address listed for them. Can you help us find them?

(If a name is not on this list that does NOT imply we have a CORRECT email address listed for them, but we do have something listed for them even if it is many years old. If you didn't receive an email from Bracken around August 4 and August 16 then I don't have your correct address - or it went straight to your junk mail.)



Analecia Adams
Justin Allen
Amanda Ashton
John Barnes
Megan Benson - maybe now with "Nordgren" as a last name
Benji Bikman
Jennifer Birtcher
Peter Blair
Eliza Boyer
Joseph Brown
Rachel Crane - now Martinez
Susan Domer
Amy Ellis - maybe "Bates" now
Jennifer Evans
Kathryn Fenn
Stacey Godfrey
Sara Hanson
Sarah Hart
Aaron Heaton
Nancy Holt
Brooke Huish
Rachel Hunter
Douglas and Rebecca Hut
Charity Johnson - maybe now "Checketts"
Brinn Klein - maybe now "King"
Jenny Kunz
Colette Labrum
Peter McBean
Amber Michel - maybe now "Parkinson"
Jonathan Miller
Rebecca Millet
Carrie Parker
Elyse Peterson
Melanie Petersen
Tasha Radman
Marja Rawlings
Deborah Reeder- now Hauck
Emily Rhodes
Jason Rippon
Kelly Sainsbury
William Sandberg
Ranae Stephens
John Stone
Hilary Sutton - maybe now "Western"
Josh Sybrowsky
Elizabeth Thomas
Emily Tidwell - maybe now "Mortensen"
Rebecca Wilde
Karen Wiley - maybe now "Andersen"
Shelley Wood

Teachers:
Sommerfeldts
Huff
Stevens
Sandberg
Thompson
Roweberry
Sister Snow
Hickman
McBride
Van Orden
Stevens
Springer
Arnold Greene
Brother Nassal

Thanks to your help within one day we found 10 of 73 lost email addresses! I remove the names from this list once someone sends me their email address.

Of the 100+ people we do have email address for, we probably have old/wrong email addresses for half. For some people I have 3 different email addresses listed.

We don't expect to send many emails. This blog will be the main way to communicate. We just want to spread the word about the blog and email is most convenient.

Maiden Name Questions

Below is a list of names I was given of people who supposedly went to Jerusalem with us, but the last names are different than anything on our records - most likely because they got married and changed. Can any of you comment and confirm who they are?


Kerry S. Green
Heather B. Taylor
Evan J. Criddle (Did we have an Even in our Program? Sorry if I forgot who you are - it has been 10 years)
Janelle D. Parkin
Michelle M. Anderson
Sharla M. Borrowman (Did we have a Sharla in our program?)
Rachel H. Baldwin - (Rachel Hunter??)

Julie Wheeler Boyer

Six weeks after returning from Jerusalem I married Ryan Boyer in the Portland, Oregon temple (I was one of the engaged ones at Jerusalem). During the next year and a half we finished our bachelor degrees at BYU. I gave birth to our first daughter two weeks after finishing my last class. We then moved down to Arizona, where he's from, so he could attend law school. While he was in school, I tutored students with ADD, ADHD, and other learning disabilities while juggling my mother duties.

We currently live in Mesa, AZ (love it about 8 months of the year!) and we have four beautiful daughters--ages 8, 6, 3, and 1. (Yeah, can go ahead and sympathize with my husband--he's a little worried about surviving life 10 years from now.) I enjoy staying at home with my children and being involved in their busy lives with soccer, music, dance, and school. I've learned its important to still take time for myself and love running, gardening, and reading when I need a little "me-time." As a family we love going to the beach, bike riding, swimming, and working in the yard (okay, my kids don't like it but they still have to do it!).

On the 15th of August our oldest daughter will be baptized. Am I old enough for this? We have loved seeing her enthusiasm and supporting her in this big step. I feel like its opened another season of parenting and is been great!

I refer back to my Jerusalem learning experience all the time. I was on the brink of a huge transition in my life and Jerusalem gave me the opportunity to grow as an individual and prepare for future roles in my family and church. I admire and have the highest opinions of those I met in Jerusalem. What a group of achievers and determined people! I regret that I will not be able to attend the reunion since I already took a long trip to Utah earlier in the summer and my kids will be in school, making another trip difficult. Best wishes. Do some grape stompin' and have fun!

Julie Wheeler Boyer
julieaboyer@msn.com

Laura (Paulsen) Howe

This is me (book jacket photo style)

This is my family

Here are my responses to the top 10:

1. I did get married. Tyler Howe. He has adorable curls. We have two boys: Talmage and Asher.

2. After my mission to Quebec, I've lived in Provo and Salt Lake. Oh, and a brief stint in Philadelphia.

3. I got a MA in Art History.

4. I teach art history and writing at BYU Salt Lake Center. I count motherhood as my intense volunteer work.

5. You can contact me on my blog: www.howethoughts.blogspot.com

6. Favorite memories? Walking through Damascus gate barefoot with Shawnee. Learning to sing alto. "Hello Norman." The guy dressed as a Christmas tree on Ben Yehuda St. Reading the New Testament in Galilee. Learning about the house of Israel, something that's become such a pillar of my testimony that I can't talk about it without obnoxiously waving my hands about. Being a Palestinian superhero for Halloween. Dangerous Defdaha. So very many.

7. I wish I had known . . . I don't really know. I'm just grateful for what I learned.

8. This one is actually pretty cool. Tyler's cousin is slated to teach at the JC in two years so we're planning on going there for our 9th anniversary. Now I can be as cool as the Doug and Becky and Jeremy and Amy. I'm excited to show Tyler the Wailing Wall, the Dome of the Rock, the Garden Tomb. Hopefully we'll make it up to Galilee.

9. I got to know amazing people. Very influential. And I'm grateful to have background knowledge that makes reading the scriptures easier. And I gained a testimony of reading the scriptures. All good things.

10. I'm not specifically goint to solicit money, but if you'd like to slip some cash under my door, I'm willing to look the other way.

Love to you all.

Instructions On How To Post to This Blog

This public site has been created for all Fall 1999 Jerusalem Center Students to reconnect. Tell us about yourself and your happenings the past ten years.

1. If you would like to have something posted to the blog please email your TEXT and PICTURES to byubracken at hotmail

Up to 5 pictures, 8MB total.

If you have any announcements you would like posted you can also use the email address above.

2. You can leave COMMENTS on any of the posts on your own.

3. The Unofficial Reunion Committee Elves are working hard in their "spare" time to improve this blog. If you have suggestions please contact them at the email address above. Thank you Angie for starting and running it!



To those who may be a little bashful, the following is a top 10 list of things to post about your life for the past 10 years:

1. Post about your family, if you got married, had children...
2. Post about the places you have called home over the past ten years...
3. Post about any further education you obtained...
4. Post about your occupation, paid, unpaid, volunteer work...
5. Post about how we can contact you, email, phone, personal blog, website... Remember this is a public blog, so if you are trying to avoid the boogie man or the tax man you might want to be careful with this one.
6. Post about your favorite memories from the Fall 1999 JC ten years later.
7. Post about what you wished you would have known when you went to the JC ten years ago.
8. Post about what you would see if you could go back to the JC and what you would do there.
9. Post about how being a member of the Fall 1999 JC has influenced you during the past ten years.
10. Please don't post requests for money, job solicitations, political commentary, Obama jokes, or marriage & parenting advice.

Professor Green’s Retirement Party August 15th

Arnie Green is being thrown a surprise retirement party and any/all JCers are invited. It's Saturday, Aug. 15th anytime from 5-7pm with a program at 6pm at Mt. Timpanogus Park up Provo Canyon (immediately after Canyon View Park, sign on right, entrance on left, if you get to Squaw Peak, you've gone too far.)

If you would like to contribute to a booklet of memories/thoughts being put together as a tribute to him, contact Geni Green at geni757@gmail.com or call 919-247-0327.

Beauty and the Beast starring Ivey Mitchell as Belle

August 21, 22
During the weekend of our reunion if you are looking for an excellent event to attend to do with your family before the 5pm event, our very own Ivey Mitchell will be playing Belle in a huge production of Beauty & the Beast matinee that Saturday at 2pm in Draper (Juan Diego school: 11800 S. 300 E.) with a "meet the characters" costume party at 1pm. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for 12 and under and on sale at the door or online at

www.draperartscouncil.org

This show is outstanding for all ages: huge sets, gorgeous costumes, live orchestra, impressive action/dance numbers, etc...

Jerusalem Fall ‘99 Reunion

Reconnect with all of your Jerusalem friends. Can you believe that it has been 10 years!

Registration is now available at http://alumni.byu.edu/reunions please rsvp as soon as possible. The cost is $20 per person for the Friday evening event. This also covers additional fees for the weekend.

Friday August 21st

Registration: 5:30 - 6:30 pm Hinckley Alumni Center

Dinner: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Dinner & Program

Come join all your friends from the BYU Jerusalem Center for a fun filled evening of reconnecting, catching up, excellent dinner, and keynote speaker. Catering will be serving a House Garden Salad, Herb Roasted Breast of Chicken, and Baklava for dessert.

Saturday August 22nd

Family Potluck: 5:00 pm Canyon View Park in Provo Canyon

Bring your favorite dish and outdoor activity equipment. This will be a great opportunity for the next generation of Jerusalem students to play together and become acquainted!

Registration is now available at http://alumni.byu.edu/reunions so check it out!

We don’t want anyone to miss out so let all of your friends who went with us to the Jerusalem Center know about this event. Let’s take this opportunity to reconnect and remember our great memories.

If you received this email from a friend, go to http://update.aa.byu.edu/ to update your information.

For additional information contact Matt Matayoshi at matt@masonedc.com . Please contact me if you have any questions.

Best Regards,

Matt Matayoshi