Donald K. Jarvis

Candidate for Utah House of Representatives District #63

Don Jarvis is an experienced educator, administrator, and community activist.

He is active in community and church. A member and a director of the Provo Rotary Club, he also volunteers as a supervisor for Provo School District's adult English as a second language program. His family has supported the Provo Food & Shelter Coalition for over twenty years. He has served three missions for his church, one as mission president in Moscow, Russia, and has filled many church assignments from bishop to home teacher.

He participates in local politics and now heads Utah County signature gathering for the non-partisan ethics reform initiative. In the 1970s, he served as Wasatch Neighborhood Chair, in 2008 ran for the Utah Legislature, and in 2009 was executive director of the Utah County Democratic Party.

Jarvis taught at Brigham Young University from 1970 to 2004, where he also founded the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, established the Foreign Language Residence, directed General Education, and chaired the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages. He published widely on language teaching and faculty development, headed two national organizations for Slavic professors and consulted for government agencies and universities, including West Point Military Academy and Utah Valley University. Early in his career he taught high school in Beaver and in Salt Lake City.

Don and his wife Janelle have deep roots in Provo. They have lived here for forty years, where they raised six children. They have twenty-three grandchildren, fourteen of whom live in Provo.

Telephone: 801-377-6133
Email: jarvisdk@gmail.com

Jarvis Family Reunion 2009. Click on photo to enlarge it.