The Salt Lake Tribune
April 1, 2007
Mary Dawn Bailey 1936 ~ 2007
Mary Dawn Bailey died March 26, 2007 in Chapel Hill, NC from brain cancer. She was born Nov. 30, 1936 in Salt Lake City. A descendent of pioneers, she was daughter of late Utah state Senator J. Arthur Bailey and Ruth Johnson Bailey, formerly of Logan, UT. She long remembered the souvenirs sent by her father from the 1948 Democratic National Convention he attended with former Utah governor Carl Rampton. Her father's former law partner Wally Sandack was a strong family friend after her father's premature death in the late 1940s. Ms. Bailey attended East High School in Salt Lake City and graduated with high honors from the University of Utah in 1959. After raising three children and teaching secondary school in the U.S. and Japan, she earned an M.S. from the University of Michigan in 1972. She served 22 years at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she was Associate Director of the Urban Institute and a program director at the Graduate School. She taught Women's Studies and Environmental Studies. She was twice named the university's Administrative Woman of the Year. Besides a passion for family and friends, she was enthusiastic about bicycling and the Chinese language. She bicycled across the US West to East and South to North. At age 61 she cycled from California to Florida with 14 other senior women. At age 68 she completed cycling the Great Divide mountain bike trail from Mexico to Canada. A lifelong student of the Chinese language, she was an exchange professor in Taiwan and traveled to China 17 times, writing about her experiences. She re-met spouse Paul Van Dam at their 45th East High reunion in 2000. Over the next six years they traveled extensively. She became an accomplished sailor and they covered most of the Carribbean. She experienced a political campaign when Paul ran for US Senate in Utah in 2004. She described these adventures as "frosting on the cake" of her life. She served, she shared, she loved and she had fun. Authentic is how she liked to be described. "You get out of life what you put into it," was her motto.
Ms. Bailey is survived by her spouse, R. Paul Van Dam; sons, Richard L Liston of Dayton, Ohio and Scott A. Liston of Cincinnati, OH; daughter, Cynthia D. Liston of Chapel Hill, NC; brother, Lynn Reed Bailey of Boulder, CO; and sister, Penny Bailey of Asheville, NC. She is also survived by four grandsons and three granddaughters. A memorial service in Salt Lake will be announced.
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Mary Dawn Bailey 1936 ~ 2007
Memorial Service to be held Thurs, June 28th at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on 13th E. and 6th S.
April 1, 2007
Mary Dawn Bailey 1936 ~ 2007
Mary Dawn Bailey died March 26, 2007 in Chapel Hill, NC from brain cancer. She was born Nov. 30, 1936 in Salt Lake City. A descendent of pioneers, she was daughter of late Utah state Senator J. Arthur Bailey and Ruth Johnson Bailey, formerly of Logan, UT. She long remembered the souvenirs sent by her father from the 1948 Democratic National Convention he attended with former Utah governor Carl Rampton. Her father's former law partner Wally Sandack was a strong family friend after her father's premature death in the late 1940s. Ms. Bailey attended East High School in Salt Lake City and graduated with high honors from the University of Utah in 1959. After raising three children and teaching secondary school in the U.S. and Japan, she earned an M.S. from the University of Michigan in 1972. She served 22 years at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she was Associate Director of the Urban Institute and a program director at the Graduate School. She taught Women's Studies and Environmental Studies. She was twice named the university's Administrative Woman of the Year. Besides a passion for family and friends, she was enthusiastic about bicycling and the Chinese language. She bicycled across the US West to East and South to North. At age 61 she cycled from California to Florida with 14 other senior women. At age 68 she completed cycling the Great Divide mountain bike trail from Mexico to Canada. A lifelong student of the Chinese language, she was an exchange professor in Taiwan and traveled to China 17 times, writing about her experiences. She re-met spouse Paul Van Dam at their 45th East High reunion in 2000. Over the next six years they traveled extensively. She became an accomplished sailor and they covered most of the Carribbean. She experienced a political campaign when Paul ran for US Senate in Utah in 2004. She described these adventures as "frosting on the cake" of her life. She served, she shared, she loved and she had fun. Authentic is how she liked to be described. "You get out of life what you put into it," was her motto.
Ms. Bailey is survived by her spouse, R. Paul Van Dam; sons, Richard L Liston of Dayton, Ohio and Scott A. Liston of Cincinnati, OH; daughter, Cynthia D. Liston of Chapel Hill, NC; brother, Lynn Reed Bailey of Boulder, CO; and sister, Penny Bailey of Asheville, NC. She is also survived by four grandsons and three granddaughters. A memorial service in Salt Lake will be announced.
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Mary Dawn Bailey 1936 ~ 2007
Memorial Service to be held Thurs, June 28th at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on 13th E. and 6th S.
The Salt Lake Tribune
April 1, 2007
Mary Dawn Bailey 1936 ~ 2007
Mary Dawn Bailey died March 26, 2007 in Chapel Hill, NC from brain cancer. She was born Nov. 30, 1936 in Salt Lake City. A descendent of pioneers, she was daughter of late Utah state Senator J. Arthur Bailey and Ruth Johnson Bailey, formerly of Logan, UT. She long remembered the souvenirs sent by her father from the 1948 Democratic National Convention he attended with former Utah governor Carl Rampton. Her father's former law partner Wally Sandack was a strong family friend after her father's premature death in the late 1940s. Ms. Bailey attended East High School in Salt Lake City and graduated with high honors from the University of Utah in 1959. After raising three children and teaching secondary school in the U.S. and Japan, she earned an M.S. from the University of Michigan in 1972. She served 22 years at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she was Associate Director of the Urban Institute and a program director at the Graduate School. She taught Women's Studies and Environmental Studies. She was twice named the university's Administrative Woman of the Year. Besides a passion for family and friends, she was enthusiastic about bicycling and the Chinese language. She bicycled across the US West to East and South to North. At age 61 she cycled from California to Florida with 14 other senior women. At age 68 she completed cycling the Great Divide mountain bike trail from Mexico to Canada. A lifelong student of the Chinese language, she was an exchange professor in Taiwan and traveled to China 17 times, writing about her experiences. She re-met spouse Paul Van Dam at their 45th East High reunion in 2000. Over the next six years they traveled extensively. She became an accomplished sailor and they covered most of the Carribbean. She experienced a political campaign when Paul ran for US Senate in Utah in 2004. She described these adventures as "frosting on the cake" of her life. She served, she shared, she loved and she had fun. Authentic is how she liked to be described. "You get out of life what you put into it," was her motto.
Ms. Bailey is survived by her spouse, R. Paul Van Dam; sons, Richard L Liston of Dayton, Ohio and Scott A. Liston of Cincinnati, OH; daughter, Cynthia D. Liston of Chapel Hill, NC; brother, Lynn Reed Bailey of Boulder, CO; and sister, Penny Bailey of Asheville, NC. She is also survived by four grandsons and three granddaughters. A memorial service in Salt Lake will be announced.
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Mary Dawn Bailey 1936 ~ 2007
Memorial Service to be held Thurs, June 28th at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on 13th E. and 6th S.
April 1, 2007
Mary Dawn Bailey 1936 ~ 2007
Mary Dawn Bailey died March 26, 2007 in Chapel Hill, NC from brain cancer. She was born Nov. 30, 1936 in Salt Lake City. A descendent of pioneers, she was daughter of late Utah state Senator J. Arthur Bailey and Ruth Johnson Bailey, formerly of Logan, UT. She long remembered the souvenirs sent by her father from the 1948 Democratic National Convention he attended with former Utah governor Carl Rampton. Her father's former law partner Wally Sandack was a strong family friend after her father's premature death in the late 1940s. Ms. Bailey attended East High School in Salt Lake City and graduated with high honors from the University of Utah in 1959. After raising three children and teaching secondary school in the U.S. and Japan, she earned an M.S. from the University of Michigan in 1972. She served 22 years at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she was Associate Director of the Urban Institute and a program director at the Graduate School. She taught Women's Studies and Environmental Studies. She was twice named the university's Administrative Woman of the Year. Besides a passion for family and friends, she was enthusiastic about bicycling and the Chinese language. She bicycled across the US West to East and South to North. At age 61 she cycled from California to Florida with 14 other senior women. At age 68 she completed cycling the Great Divide mountain bike trail from Mexico to Canada. A lifelong student of the Chinese language, she was an exchange professor in Taiwan and traveled to China 17 times, writing about her experiences. She re-met spouse Paul Van Dam at their 45th East High reunion in 2000. Over the next six years they traveled extensively. She became an accomplished sailor and they covered most of the Carribbean. She experienced a political campaign when Paul ran for US Senate in Utah in 2004. She described these adventures as "frosting on the cake" of her life. She served, she shared, she loved and she had fun. Authentic is how she liked to be described. "You get out of life what you put into it," was her motto.
Ms. Bailey is survived by her spouse, R. Paul Van Dam; sons, Richard L Liston of Dayton, Ohio and Scott A. Liston of Cincinnati, OH; daughter, Cynthia D. Liston of Chapel Hill, NC; brother, Lynn Reed Bailey of Boulder, CO; and sister, Penny Bailey of Asheville, NC. She is also survived by four grandsons and three granddaughters. A memorial service in Salt Lake will be announced.
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Mary Dawn Bailey 1936 ~ 2007
Memorial Service to be held Thurs, June 28th at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on 13th E. and 6th S.
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