Bio of Randolph Creager

Family: Married Janine Simons Creager. Four children: John Randolph (15); Michael Benjamin (13); Adam Martell (10); Sariah Janetta (8). John, a sophomore at Davis High School, is taking a number of AP classes and is looking forward to taking Architecture classes at the Davis Applied Technology Center during his junior and senior years. Michael, attending Farmington Junior High, has played the cello for a number of years, having started in elementary school while family was living in Maryland. Adam, attending Reading Elementary (in Centerville), learning how to play the piano, having completed three years of lessons. Sariah, recently baptized by her father, is attending Reading Elementary, and keeps up with her brothers in shooting baskets!

Church: Upon on my return home from the mission field, was called to serve as an assistant ward clerk, taking care of the finances. From then to now, have served in various positions, except for Young Men and Primary, even was an ordinance worker in the Washington DC Temple. Currently serving as an assistant high priest group leader.

Education: BS - Accounting (Weber State University, 1980); MAcc - Information Systems (Brigham Young University, 1982)

Work: After graduation, worked for Arthur Andersen & Co (Management Consulting Division; later know as Andersen Consulting, and then as Accenture) in Salt Lake City and Portland, OR; moved from Andersen to Price Waterhouse (then PricewaterhouseCoopers, and now part of IBM Consulting Services) in Portland, OR, Kansas City, KS, Columbia, SC, and Baltimore, MD, and Arlington, VA; departed from PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2000, returning to Salt Lake City, working for a pharmacy benefits management company, keeping track of the computers. During my various stops or by commuting, worked in Salt Lake City, San Francisco, San Diego, Fresno, Portland, Spokane, Vancouver (BC), Kansas City, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Columbia (SC), Linthicum (MD), Baltimore, New York City, Washington (DC), etc.

Hobbies: Enjoy road trips that include historical sites and outdoors locations. Have traveled the equivalent of three round trips across the USA, up and down the East coast, including the Maritime Provinces, and the West coast, including California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alberta. Try to spend a day or two on the Oregon coast each year (while in the West).

Community Service: Have spent no time in jail. Don't litter. Try my hardest to obey the traffic laws, including the speeding stuff. Usually, moved on to the next town before I was asked to move. Often vote, regardless of the fact that the outcome was somewhat known or expected.

Comps: Robert Connell, Elmer Barrientos, Kent Thompson, Don Pulver, Robert Lunnen, Tony Colindres (for a bit), Steve Ostler (for a week), John Hogan, Todd Greenlee, Mario Jimenez and Daniel Purnett (OK, not officially, but enough time to consider both as a companion!), David Johansen, Kenneth Minch, Clinton Randall, and Michael Burton and David Riley (OK, the last two also were not official but I encountered them on about every stop), and who knows who else.

Areas Served: Managua (Las Brisas and some place with Don Pulver), San Pedro Sula (towards the mountains), Pedregal / Tocumen in Panama, mission office in San Jose/Los Yoses, visited most locations of the mission while performing financial and some membership audits of the branches and districts.

Memories: Was present in the mission office for the Area Conference and when the first stake in the mission was organized. And of course, Hilda, wonderful Hilda, who picked up after the Elders in the mission office. She was a delight. Also, enjoyed both mission presidents and their wives; of particular note, I remember quite distinctly my first meeting with President Muren (in Panama, when touring the mission as a new mission president). He knew much about me, greeting me by stating, "Well, Elder, you should have spent more time in my missionary preparation class; I guess I will see what I can do with you now." President Muren had been an Institute instructor at the Weber Institute and I periodically attend his class, not being officially enrolled.

Elder Clinton Randall and I taught a sister near the mission office. She was willing to listen to our message. She didn't appear headed for baptism. In between visits with her, she was in a significant car accident in which she was thrown from a convertible car, which rolled over, and she slid across the ground on her front side. She received minimal injuries; facial injuries were limited to having her lower lip torn back and gums damaged by dirt and gravel (enough said, she should not have survived). Recognizing that she had been protected by divine intervention, as soon as she was able, she was baptized a member of the Church, and later her children and other family members were baptized.