Biography

June 2025

Dale is so grateful to serve on the NDPA board. He has pledged to work hard with the other members of the board to support this great school and prepare our awesome students for a competitive and ever changing world.

Dale was raised in Roundup, Montana and spent his childhood working alongside his dad building electrical power lines, farming, ranching and training horses. Of course, he would hunt and fish when he wasn't working! Dale attended Ricks College for a year prior to an LDS mission to South Korea. After completing his Associates degree at Ricks, he transferred to BYU and completed his teaching degree in 1977. During his time at BYU, he worked as a painting contractor and school bus driver.

Dale's first teaching job was in Newberg, Oregon at Renne Middle School, where he taught 6-8th grade Industrial Arts for 4 years. He moved his family back to Utah in 1982 to attend graduate school at BYU. In 1984, he completed his Masters of Education in Educational Leadership and was hired to teach in the wood shop at T.H. Bell Junior High, one of nine Weber School District’s junior high schools. He loved that assignment so much he stayed for 10 years. When Rocky Mountain Junior High school in Hooper was completed in 1994, Dale opened the metal shop and taught there for 7 years. During all these teaching years he did painting and construction as a second job.

In 2001, Dale was selected as an administrative intern and was assigned to Weber High School, where he worked for 2 years as an intern and 2 years as an assistant principal. His next assignment was Bonneville High and he spent one year as a Bonneville Laker assistant principal. From 2006-2008, he was assigned as principal of North Ogden Junior High. It was then his privilege to serve as principal of Roy High School for two years. Dale's next assignment was in the district office for one year as Supervisor of Secondary Education where he had a variety of duties including athletics, fine arts, driver education, trust lands plans and others. Dale was then assigned to be the CTE Director and loved that assignment for four years. His last assignment in the Weber School District was Director of Facilities and Operations, which included transportation, custodial services, maintenance and new facility construction. Dale retired on June 30, 2016. He has been fortunate to serve as the principal at Syracuse Arts Academy Antelope K-9 campus for the past year.

Dale and his wife Jill are the parents of 10 children and 20 (almost 21) grandchildren. They have lived in Clinton for 22 years and plan to spend their golden years there enjoying their family and friends. In fact, they love Clinton so much that they purchased their new home lot in the Clinton City Cemetery!