Retiring MSD employees

 Delwin Carter has lived in Morgan Valley all his life (70 years). He first lived in Devil’s Slide where his dad worked at the cement plant until he started school and his family moved to Morgan. At that time school was kindergarten through sixth grade and seventh through twelfth grade. 

Carter was married right out of high school and they had their first daughter the same year.

After a couple of years of trying to make a living, Carter joined the army and went to Fort Knox, Kentucky for basic training. Then he went to Fort Bliss, Texas to learn his job. Carter was trained to shoot down enemy aircraft from a tank. Carter was sent to Fort Carson where he trained for one year. Then he went to Vietnam for nine months. After Carter left Vietnam, he was sent to Berlin, Germany to protect the wall there.

After Carter left the military, he worked at Hill Air Force Base. He went around the world teaching and training other people how to work the aircraft. After 20 years Carter retired from his job. 

He worked other jobs for a couple of years before he was hired at Morgan High School. After working at MHS for 15 years, Carter came to Mountain Green Middle School working another five years as a custodian. After 20 years of working for Morgan Schools, Carter retired at the end of the 2024 school year. 

 Wendy Alvey Jensen grew up in Holladay, Utah. She attended Holladay Elementary which has since been turned into the local police station. After graduating from Olympus High School, where she was Latin Club President and editor of the literary magazine, she attended Dixie College for one year on a softball and basketball scholarship. She then transferred to Idaho State for two more years to play softball. She transferred to the University of Utah where she ran a neighborhood preschool and graduated in Early Childhood Education.

Jensen began teaching in Granite School District. She taught Kindergarten for five years, second grade for three years and coached Jr. Jazz before taking time out to serve a mission in North Carolina. 

Upon her return from her mission, she resumed teaching at Granite and coaching Jr. Jazz for another 12 years. She became a certified Reading Recovery teacher and moved with her family to South Carolina. She stayed home with her children for the next 12 years.

Jensen said they moved to Morgan from South Carolina because it felt right. “We love the beauty, the mountains, the people, and the fact there is not a stoplight in the county.” Once in Morgan, Jensen worked as a reading aid at Mountain Green Elementary until she was hired to teach the all-day kindergarten. For the past nine years, she taught first grade at MGES. After more than a decade of working for Morgan School District, Jensen retired at the end of the 2024 school year.

“I have worked with lots of people over my career, but none have I learned more from or enjoyed more than my gifted and dedicated colleagues at MGES,” said Jensen. “They are truly and simply, THE BEST!”

“I became a teacher because I enjoy working with kids. My favorite thing is to help kids have ‘AH-HA’ moments,” said Jensen. “I love following their curiosity as they learn to make sense of the world and hope I always provide fertile ground for use of imagination.”

Jensen and her husband have four children and four grandchildren scattered about the country – Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, and Murray, Utah. “We are a blended family that began when our oldest son lined us up the year after I taught him,” said Jensen. “I used to ask kids if they found me a man in their Christmas stockings or Easter baskets or ... at the beginning of a new school year, if former students, had discovered me a man anywhere in their travels. In August of 1989, Karl Jr. stepped up and said, ‘Yes, my dad!’ Crazy and true! That was the inception of our 32-year marriage.”

In their spare time, the Jensens love to golf, travel, watch their kids/grandkids play sports, read, bike, hike and garden. “I like staying in touch with former roommates, teammates, and friends,” Jensen said. She loves to read a good book and see a good movie – especially if they are historical or about real people.

 Stephanie Bauer grew up in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Skyline High School, she attended the University of Utah studying early childhood development. 

After getting married, she moved with her husband to the Washington, D.C. area and started a family. Bruer was a stay-at-home mom until her youngest child was in high school. She worked at an elementary school in Iowa that was a magnet school for special needs children. She worked there for about 10 years before moving back to Utah. 

Bruer was hired nine years ago at Morgan Middle School where she worked with children in Special Education from mild to severe for four years. She moved to Mountain Green Middle School when it opened five years ago where she has worked with resource students in reading and English. “I spent a year coming early to help students individually with whatever their needs were,” said Bauer.

After nearly a decade working with Morgan Schools, Bauer retired at the end of the 2024 school year to spend time with her grandchildren and write another book.

She has a special talent for quilting and sewing which he does in her spare time along with spending time with her six grandchildren.

If she could travel anywhere in the world, it would be Japan because her dad served a mission there, and they also attended the Japanese branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City when they were kids.