About Mrs. Dorsey

Mrs. Dorsey was born in Rupert, Idaho.  Her parents farmed near the town of  Burley.  They later moved to farms near Dietrich, Idaho (close to Shoshone), Jerome, Filer (between Twin Falls and Buhl), Richfield (close to Dietrich), and then to Darlington (near Arco and Mackay).   She grew up doing farm work and enjoying being outdoors.  She has two younger brothers, and they both live in Idaho west of Boise.

       

In junior high and high school she fenced and played basketball and participated in pep club and other clubs, and drama and speech events.  She also really liked school and got good grades. Her junior high was seventh and eighth grade and there were 17-18 students.  She went to three different high schools. The first one had only 33 students in the four grades of high school.  The largest one had about 500 students altogether.

Dietrich, Idaho Junior High -- Seventh and Eighth Grade 

From the Filer, Idaho High School yearbook

She went to Ricks College (now BYU Idaho), then to BYU in Provo.  She had wanted to be a teacher since she was in first grade, but in college she had to decide what she wanted to teach.  All through high school she had thought she'd want to teach English and drama, but in college she loved her science classes so much that she almost became a science teacher.  She did decide, though, to go back to majoring in English Education and minoring in speech and drama.  While living in California, she got to teach environmental education which included a lot of science and a lot of fun field trips!

After she was married, her family lived in Groton, Connecticut (her husband was stationed in the Navy);  Springville and Provo, Utah (while she and her husband attended BYU),  San Jose, California; Meridian, Idaho; and then locally in Highland, near the American Fork Boat Harbor, and in American Fork.


Places she loves include Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons (especially camping on Jenny Lake), Yosemite, the Olympic Rain Forest, and the Redwood forests in California.

This is her youngest daughter as a teenager at Jenny Lake.

Some other fun places she's been include U.S. historical sites, Disneyland (the first time she went was when she was thirty years old), a cruise down the west coast of Mexico, and on a trip to Israel and Jordan, with a stop in Rome on the way home.

On a trip to Boston with a group of
history and English teachers.

Disneyland with one of
her granddaughters. 

Jerusalem
On a trip to Israel
we saw lots of sites, and Ms. Dorsey swam in the Mediterranean,
 the Sea of Galilee, the Red Sea, and the Dead Sea.
One of her most memorable (and embarrassing) experiences of all time
was when she got stuck in the mud in the Dead Sea
and needed to be pulled out by the lifeguards and some friends.
It was also a very windy day, so the waves splashed the salty water in her eyes,
and she could tell you that was painful.
But overall the trip was great!  

She and friends spent a weekend in Rome.  

She loves to hike when she gets the chance. 
This is at Cecret Lake near Alta. 

She loves gardening. 

She is a bird-watcher. 

She loves going to the Utah Shakespeare Festival. 

She has six children and ten grandchildren.

Ms. Dorsey with her youngest daughter and her grandsons
Teddy and Kaladin at this year's fairy tea party at the Provo Library

Six of her grandchildren:
Dallin, Gage, Teddy (again), Avi, Kaladin (again), and Kathryn.

This is my oldest daughter's family.  They live in El Paso, Texas,
but spent their spring break in Hawaii -- their first trip there.
The children are Avi (9th grade), Mason (the baby), Kaitlyn (just turned four),
and Jaxon (seventh grade). 

She loves to read!
She is currently reading The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series and the first book in Land of Stories and Fish in a Tree.

And I enjoy coaching our American Fork Junior High Mock Trial Team!