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Humanitarian and Engineer Jack Keller Remembered

Jack and Sally Keller, Jack Keller
SALLY KELLER
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UTAH PUBLIC RADIO

Stored in the Fife Folklore Archives on the Utah State University campus are seven boxes containing information and oral history recordings from 39 members of Cache Community Connections.  Among those recordings are comments from long time Utah Public Radio friend and member Jack Keller who spoke about his years volunteering with the Northern Utah religious and civic community organization.

On Nov. 10, we received word of Jack's passing. Recognized as a humanitarian who traveled to third world countries finding ways to make water available for farmers, Jack was a founder of Keller- Bliesner Engineering. In 1980, Jack referred to his career as an irrigation engineer as a love affair.

At 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.