Marilyn Miner
Marilyn S. Miner is an accredited financial counselor and trainer in the BYU Financial Aid and Scholarship Offices, where she has worked for 10 years.

She enjoys the time spent with her posterity as well as learning, traveling, and playing the violin. She is the mother of seven children, all of who also play instruments and enjoy performing together.

Karen Bueler
Karen Bueler of the American Institute of Medical & Dental Technology is vice-chair of the Publications Committee. She will step into the editor position January 2005.

Karen Bueler is presently the campus director for the American Institute of Medical-Dental Technology in St. George. She has a BS in nursing from BYU and worked early in her career with premature infants, doing research at Stanford Medical Center and setting up preemie intensive care units at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.

She taught nursing for a short time at the University of Cincinnati. The next 18+ years were spent being a mother to seven sons. She returned to the working world as manager of a dental practice in Arizona for several years and a large group practice in St. George, before joining the American Institute. Financial aid is a big part of what Karen does at the Institute. She attended the RMASFAA training and leadership in Denver this past summer and learned more about financial aid than she thought was possible.

Donna Brown
Donna has worked at the Davis Applied Technology College for 13 years. She joined the Financial Aid and Scholarship Office in 1998 as the financial aid advisor. It is a three-person office, serving about 500 students per year. She is the primary advisor on federal aid programs, assisting students with their applications and ensuring that they receive their grant payments on a weekly basis.

Donna is married and has 3 grown children—two boys and a girl. One son is married, the other one is almost married, and her daughter is still living at home while she's attending school. She also has three gorgeous grandchildren; Taylor, Klay and Raegan.

She enjoys gardening, creating floral arrangements, shopping, and hosting her grandchildren for sleep-overs. Her newest hobby is appeasing her husband's mid-life crisis by riding 4-wheelers on the sand dunes.

Ronell Crossley
After leaving big wonderful Wyoming and earning a BS in Business Management from Brigham Young University, I moved to Cedar City and worked as the Assistant Director of Financial Aid at Southern Utah State College, 1984-1985. After a very brief stint with the Treasury Department in 1986, I returned to the world of financial aid at ITT Technical Institute in Murray,1987-1999.

Also during that time, I worked part-time for Sherman Kendall's Academy of Beauty Arts and Sciences, learning about clock hours.

Next on the tour was UHEAA where I began as a School Services Officer in September, 1999 to June, 2002. Currently I work with Mike Johnson in UHEAA's Policy and Research area where, of course, I research regulations and policies to answer questions regarding federal and guarantor policies.

Some of my volunteer time included tutoring fifth graders at Fremont Elementary School in Murray for an hour each week for six years.