b'1999 State of Idaho Scholarship RecipientScholarship FoundationWhere isJillian Spaulding by Kathy Michaelis, Lacy Now? WPMA ScholarshipSF Rexburg Idaho,CoordinatorJillian Spaulding always wanted to teach!Madison High School Graduate As a senior at Madison High school in Rexburg, Jillian SpauldingIdaho, she wrote: I have always tutored younger1999 Scholarship Recipientfriends and have helped them with their mathemat-ics. The satisfaction it gives me is like nothing else that I have ever felt.Following her graduation from high school, Jill at-Jill received thetended Utah State University in Logan Utah, majoring WPMA Scholarshipin Mathematics Education. She spent her first few for Idaho in 1999,years taking general education and higher-level math applying throughclasses. While completing her general ed courses Bowen PetroleumJill discovered a love for business classes, so she in Rexburg, whereswitched her degree to finance in 2001. She applied to her father Danielbe a Resident Assistant for USU housing, and during Spaulding workedher interview she met her future husband, Dan Lacy, Dan and Jill Lacy as a manager. who was working as an RA at the time. Jill and Dan were married in December 2001. Jill graduated from Madison High School in Rexburg in June 1999 with a 4.0 GPA, ranked first in her classJill continued her schooling, earning a bachelors of over 300 students. Her love of mathematics led Jilldegree in May 2003, one month before their first to take all the honors math classes offered at her highdaughter was born. She chose to stay home with school, as well as an advanced mathematics course atthe baby while Dan worked to finish his degree. Ricks College. Her math teacher wrote: Jill is one ofJill helped him with his online accounting class by the elite academically in mathematics. She ranks inreading his textbook each day, and prepping a lesson the top 1% of students. More impressive, however, isthat she would give him each night when he returned her desire to explore or apply her math skills. home. Jill and Dan would work through the problems As a senior, Jill was voted a Top Scholar by theuntil he understood them. Once they got through a University of Idaho Alumni, and was named runner- chapter, Dan would go and take his test; then they up in the Hugh OBrien Youth Leadership organiza- would repeat the process. Jill loved working with tions competition.Dan this way. Dan soon earned a bachelors degree in management, but realized that he really wanted to be a A desire to be involved led Jill to join Madison Highsteacher, so he continued his schooling and was able to Ski Club, Key Club, Future Homemakers of America,finish a second degree in just three semesters.and National Honor Society, where she served as Pub-licity Manager one year. Jill worked on the yearbookJill had their second daughter and Dan finished his staff, where she was responsible for the sophomoreteaching degree in 2005. The family moved tosection of the book. She also participated on the girlsFarmington, Utah where Dan completed his student fast pitch softball and track teams, and served as man- teaching and began his career at Centerville Jr. High ager for both the boys and the girls basketball teams.school as a Spanish and English teacher. 52 www.wpma.com / Autumn 2019'