Where Are They Now? — Lance Garvin

How 20 years can fly! It’s been great to see the posts from everyone, and especially the pictures!

After graduation I attended Snow College where Andy Horton and I were roommates. Following a year at Snow I served a mission to Guayaquil , Ecuador , then returned from Ecuador and attended BYU. I graduated from the Y in April of ‘95 with a BA in Economics. In the summer of ’94, just after swearing off anymore blind dates, Andy Horton and his wife, Stephanie, convinced me to go on one more. They set me up with a girl who they and Vicki Thompson worked with at NuSkin. Little did I know this date would change my life. Darcy Halliday (from Highland , Utah ) and I were married in February of ’95. Thirteen-plus years and five children down the road, we live in Cedar Hills , Utah , just near the mouth of American Fork Canyon . Although being from Utah , I had never heard of Cedar Hills until we started looking for a home here. We love the area and have enjoyed being here for the last 8 years.

Professionally, after graduating from BYU, I started my sales career working for Xerox Corporation, then Mity-Lite in Orem . About 7 years ago I then had a unique opportunity to become involved in two hedge funds. While there I saw the easiest way to become a millionaire in the stock market…start off as a billionaire! Actually it was an exciting place to be, and an experience of a life time! The stock market kept me pretty busy up until the fall of last year when I started working for a training and consulting firm here in Utah.

My family gets together with Andy’s family quite a bit and our two oldest children text message back and forth more than Andy and I ever talk! I am also fortunate enough to still keep in touch with Scott Miller, Jason Forest , Clark Bayles and Howard Snow, although it’s not nearly enough. I also recently heard from Mindy Hafen and Rod Johnson, and I ran into Bill Ackley not too long ago, and have talked with Dave Strunk a few times at the Cedar Hills Golf Course. I also see Mark Whiting and Dan Knight at the gym sometimes. I’ve got a great story about Dan Knight, by the way, even though it may not be as funny now as it was about a year ago—about the time I heard he was taking a couple of anger-management classes. Just jokin’, Dan! It’s actually a pretty funny story. Just don’t honk at him if you see him out running!

So 20 years after high school, the joy of my life is my family. I am extremely lucky to be married to such a great woman. She is a wonderful wife and mother and takes very good care of our family. I adore my children Sydni (12), Jake (9), Justin (8), Liv (5), and Ty aka “The Big Boss” (1). They keep us young, and it’s amazing how as a parent you take more pride in seeing your children’s experiences than you ever did with your own experiences at the same age.

I look forward to catching up with everyone at the reunion, and can’t wait to see you there!