The Ira A. and Mary Lou Fulton Library Advancement board addresses three specific objectives:
Library Advancement Board Leadership
Thom Carter is the Vice President, Government Affairs for Rocky Mountain Power, overseeing government relations in the three-state service territory of Utah’s largest investor owned utility.
Prior to his role with Rock Mountain Power, Thom served as the Energy Advisor to Governor Spencer J. Cox’s and as the Executive Director of the Utah Office of Energy Development. During his time with Governor Cox, Thom developed the State of Utah Energy and Innovation Plan, laying out the next ten years of energy strategy for Utah.
Preceding his service with the Governor, Thom was the Executive Director of the Utah Clean Air Partnership (UCAIR), a nonprofit focused on bringing communities together to improve Utah’s air. During his time with UCAIR, Thom played an essential role in helping the Wasatch Front areas reach attainment for the first time in more than a decade. He also played a vital role in helping individuals, businesses, and communities to find practical solutions to Utah’s unique air quality challenges.
Born in Salt Lake City, Thom grew up in New Hampshire and New Jersey. He received his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and has spent his professional career in a variety of industries across the globe.
Along with his energy experience, Thom has worked in Ohio, Tennessee, Washington, D.C. and New Jersey in public policy and politics. He also spent time in professional sports, including with Major League Baseball growing its operations in Australia.
In his current role, Thom serves on a number of boards and commissions. He was named a Utah Business Forty Under 40 in 2019.
Thom is married to the former Andrea Mayo they have two children.
Library Advancement Board Members
Monte C Bingham is a General Contractor. He founded and is the President of Cedar Valley Homes and Construction LLC. which began in 1997. He’s been building commercial and residential structures for the past 27 years.
He served as Vice President of Phone Directories Company Inc. From 1988 until 1997, which published Phone Directories throughout the United States.
Monte is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Bingham Family Foundation, which helped ignite the beginning of the Roots of Knowledge Stained-Glass exhibit in the UVU Fulton Library.
In 1989 Monte graduated from UVU with a Business Management Degree with dreams of owning his own business. Serving on the Library board allows him to give back to the wonderful college that provided him with the education, that started his adventures in his business life.
Alan Keele was born in Provo in 1942. While his father was in the military serving in India, Alan and his mother lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming with her sister and family. After the war the G.I. Bill of Rights led them to the nearby University of Wyoming in Laramie, where Alan’s father studied music education. Later he taught at Wayne High School in Bicknell, Utah. Alan graduated from Wayne in 1960 and attended the University of Utah as a chemistry student until called as an LDS missionary to Frankfurt, Germany six months after the Berlin wall went up in 1961.
Alan transferred to BYU after his mission time and changed his major to German Studies. He earned his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1971 and returned to BYU where he taught until 2010 before retiring. His academic interests include postwar German literature, opera libretti and film books as literature, and the resistance of a group of LDS teens to Hitler: the story of Helmuth Hübener, the youngest person executed by the Nazis for resistance.
At BYU Alan served as Chair for German and Russian (Astrid Tuminez was a star student in his department), and as a Dean of Honors and General Education. He helped launch the Freshman Academy initiative, and he was Chair of the faculty committee which began and oversaw the construction of the Joseph F. Smith Building.
Since retiring, Alan has taught regularly in UVU’s ElderQuest program and serves as historical advisor to a school attached to the Berlin Youth Correction Facility named for Helmuth Hübener, which uses his life as an inspiration for juvenile offenders on their path to recovery. Most recently Alan was in Lithuania for the filming of a major motion picture based on his books about Helmuth Hübener.
Linda Kay Sellers Keele was born in Rexburg, Idaho in 1941, the youngest of nine children. She attended Ricks College, then graduated in 1963 from BYU in business education. She taught type and shorthand for three years, first at Granger High then at Orem High, where future Utah Governor Gary Herbert was one of her students.
She married Alan Keele in 1966. They have six children and 16 grandkids. They lost a daughter and a granddaughter. They have lived in Princeton, New Jersey; Salzburg and Vienna, Austria; Berlin, Germany; and Provo, Utah. Since 1974, for one half century now, they have lived in the same house in Orem, just a few blocks from UVU.
Jessica Mortimer is co-owner of Cedar Fort Publishing and Media, and her passion for storytelling additionally includes over twenty five years of experience as a performing artist and vocalist. She also actively invests in our local business community with her involvement in commercial real estate and venture capital.
Jessica is a dedicated wife and mother of four and a perpetual student. As an avid world traveler, she draws inspiration from history, the arts, diverse cultures, and the natural world. She is defined by a deep sense of wonder, and considers sincere curiosity to be the root of empathy and a true education.
Macie Savage is a senior majoring in Art and Design from Draper, Utah. She is also pursuing a double minor in Art History and Marketing. Macie is currently the Presidential Intern for Deputy Provost, Kat Brown. Macie has a passion for higher education and has enjoyed her time working at UVU. Before starting her internship, she worked as the Employer Relations Assistant in the Career and Internship Center. Following graduation in May of 2025, Macie plans to pursue a career in Graphic Design and Marketing.
As a Presidential Intern, Macie stands as the student voice in academic policy. She also sits on the committee for Academic Scheduling and serves on the Ira A. and Mary Lou Fulton Library Advancement Board. Some of her internship responsibilities include the Faculty Newsletter, working on faculty issues related to students, and other projects as assigned by the Office of Academic Affairs.
Macie is proud to be a Utah Valley University Wolverine and looks forward to an amazing year at UVU.
Born in southern California, Linda P. Walton has resided in Utah Valley since 1962. Graduate of Edgemont Elementary, Orem Jr. and Sr. Highs, and Utah State University, she has been employed in the field of communications, including media, public relations and marketing. The owner of The Walton Group, Inc., a Provo public relations firm, she is a former director of Public Relations for UVU. She has also been involved in community activities, starting the Utah Valley Interfaith Association, the Food and Care Coalition and as an interfaith Chaplain.
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