Proud to Be a Tidwell: Still Achieving and Failing

By Carolyn Hansen Tidwell

My earlier book called Achieving-Failing showcased my life through the years until my children became adults. This book starts with their adult life and continuing through the life and life choices of their children and grandchildren.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 3, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504921800

Carolyn Hansen Tidwell

I, Carolyn Hansen Tidwell, spent my childhood on a farm in Central Utah. I married a military man, and we travelled a lot, returning to Utah for my golden years. I spent my early married years raising four children and working in federal civil service as a stenographer and case manager for military intelligence. After returning to Utah, I entered the computer arena, becoming a manager in a large law firm. When I reached retirement age, I officially retired but continued working as manager of a senior citizen center. At this writing, I still manage the senior citizen center. My life has been good.

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Contents

CHT – PRELUDE

GENEALOGY

JUSTIN FRANK TIDWELL

JOHN PRESCOTT TIDWELL

STEFANIE ROBERSON TIDWELL

WILLIAM JOSEPH TIDWELL

JEANIE AUXIER PERKINS TIDWELL

SEAN BRYANT TIDWELL

JOSEPH CHARLES TIDWELL

MATTHEW LEE PERKINS

MORGAN ALEXIS MCDANIEL

ANGELA DAWN PERKINS

ADRIANNA DARSHELL PERKINS

DARYION ANTHONY PERKINS

BRIANNA FIELDS

JUSTIN DUECE FIELDS

KAYLEE JORDAN MICHELLE FIELDS

THOMAS KEITH TIDWELL

RUTH ANN KIMBALL KESSLER TIDWELL

JAMIE MARIE KESSLER MATHEWS

MARTY CRAIG MATHEWS

JORDAN CRAIG MATHEWS

MADISON ANN MATHEWS

KORBIN KEITH MATHEWS

TAYLOR WALLACE TIDWELL

CHARM SULLIVAN

TRACE BRAXTON TIDWELL

AMAYA DOMINGUEZ

JENNIE LYNN KESSLER BRALEY

PATRICK RANDALL BRALEY

GABRIEL PATRICK BRALEY

FOSTER LEE BRALEY

CAROLYN SUE TIDWELL REESE

HENRY LEE REESE JR.

PHILLIP ALLAN REESE

HENRY LEE REESE II

ZEPHINIAH PHILEMAN REESE

CARMEN BERGITTE REESE

Hopefully you have already read Achieving/Failing – and if you haven’t – perhaps I can encourage you to do so. Achieving/Failing deals with the author’s youth and her life up until her four children became adults and began life as four new family units. I will address each of my children and their school choices, career choices, mate choices, home choices, etc. and will then talk about their children – my grandchildren and great-grandchildren - later on.

CHT – PRELUDE

I have no regrets concerning the way I have lived my life – having managed to raise four beautiful, successful children, having a fruitful and successful professional life, and maintaining a comfortable financial environment.

As we journey through life we make numerous choices predicated on benefit and possible loss. You choose between what is best for the family as opposed to your professional career; you choose between maintaining a marriage or going for divorce when things get rough – again considering the family. I do wonder what the outcome would have been if I had made other choices. You also choose between being strong and handling everything or being somewhat needy. If you are strong – of course – everyone else benefits – whereas if you are not you may gain the probably needed support. I feel I may have been a little too strong (capable), thereby exempting my family from my feelings – and leaving me a little empty. We were a military family going to Germany right after the war with patriotism strong at that time. While veterans are truly unsung heroes so are the spouses holding everything together.

This book; however, is intended as a historical record – including four generations of ancestry - and a recording of the path each of my children, their children and their children’s children have taken – with humor and sometimes stark reality.

It is interesting as you enter the golden years that while you are financially secure and maintain fairly good health, you also realize that it is time for a new generation to make their mark and it’s kind of sad to see your reign end. I also feel America has become a throw-away society - to include the elderly. Everyone seems to be running in circles to accomplish something while forgetting what should really matter in life – the wisdom of the elderly and the total family. There is totally too much emphasis on putting Mom or Dad in a home somewhere when the family should be caring for and benefiting from them.

GENEALOGY

THE FOLLOWING PAGES WILL ENLIGHTEN YOU AS TO HOW YOU CAME TO BE. YOU ARE ALL DESCENDENTS (NOT YOUR PARTNER) OF CAROLYN MAURINE HANSEN TIDWELL AND WALLACE KEITH TIDWELL.

THE NEXT FEW PAGES START WITH THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS OF CAROLYN AND WALLACE AND THEIR JOURNEY FROM DENMARK, WALES AND ENGLAND TO THE USA AND TO EACH OF YOU.

THESE PAGES ARE A GENEALOGY AND ARE NOT REALLY PERSONAL BUT SHOW YOU YOUR HERITAGE.

STARTING WITH THE CHILDREN OF CAROLYN AND WALLACE YOU WILL BE TREATED TO INDIVIDUAL IN-DEPTH VISIBILITY INTO YOUR LIVES AND THOSE OF YOUR CHILDREN.

THIS BOOK IS A HISTORICAL RECORD AS WELL AS A HUMOROUS READ. ENJOY----------------

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JUSTIN FRANK TIDWELL             [e-mail]

443 East 3475 North                     801-710-2557

North Ogden, UT 84341               435-713-3066

PROFESSIONAL:

2007-Present: Contracts Group Manager, Utah State University Research Foundation (USURF), Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL), North Logan, UT

•  Expertise in the private, public & non-profit sector leadership

•  Subject Matter Expert in Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), DOD FAR supplements (DFARS), UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), International Commercial Terms (INCOTERMS), Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), DOD Grant & Agreements Regulations (DODGAR), Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), US Code (USC) Title 41- Pubic Contracts & related contract formation & fiscal law policy

•  Provide Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) support

•  1 of 14 DOD sponsored University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC), Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is primary sponsor

•  $220M in external sponsor provided R&D revenue to USU for 2014

•  USU consistently ranks in top 10 nationally in university based aeronautical engineering research, ranked 1st & 2nd in the nation for 2004 & 2008

2004-2007: Section Chief & Senior Contracting Officer, Offutt Air Force Base, NE & Strategic Planning & Action Officer, Hill Air Force Base, UT

•  Led section of Contracting Officers & staff supporting United States Strategic Command Headquarters (USSTRATCOM)

•  Acquired classified services for intelligence, war planning, war gaming, missile defense, global command & control & space operations

•  Portfolio of USSTRATCOM responsibility accounted for $1.75B in value

•  Acquisition management responsibilities the most challenging at USSTRATCOM

•  Warrants, Air Force Space Command (AFSC) & Air Combat Command (ACC)

•  Served on Air Force Material Command (AFMC), Ogden Air Logistics Complex (OALC) Commanding General’s staff

•  Served on OALC Contracting Policy Committee

•  Knowledge of strategic Air Force depot operations planning

1989-2004: NASA & Advanced Technology Contracts Department Manager, Orbital-ATK Space Systems Group, Brigham City, UT

•  Increasing responsible Contracts & Program Management assignments

•  Managed international rocketry & energetic material R&D programs

•  Managed multibillion dollar contractual relationship with NASA for Reusable Solid Rocket Motor (RSRM) element of Space Shuttle program

•  Aerospace Industry Association (AIA) Procurement Techniques Committee member, developed industry positions on federal acquisition regulatory policy

•  $375M in yearly revenue from portfolio of programs, $1.5B backlog

PROFESSIONAL, cont:

1987-1989: Contract Administrator, BAE Systems, Wayne, NJ

•  Mid-level practitioner

•  Supported Army M-1 Abrams Tank & Tactical Missile Systems (ATacMS) programs

1984-1987: Postgraduate Acquisition Management Intern, Navy Material Command,

Naval Plant Representative Office (NAVPRO) at UNYSIS Corporation, Great Neck, NY

•  Supported Navy Harpoon, Trident & Aegis System Program Offices (SPO)

•  Select rotational professional development assignments

•  Academic component accomplished though Army Logistics Management College (ALMC) & Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT)

•  Corporate Administrative Contracting Officer (CACO) staff member

EDUCATION:

Graduate Certificate: Air Command & Staff College, Air University

•  Joint Professional Military Education (JPME)

Graduate Certificate: Public Administration, University of Utah

•  Pi Alpha Alpha Honors

Bachelor of Science: Political Science, Weber State University

•  Magna Cum Laude

•  Pi Sigma Alpha Honors

•  Philosophy & Political Science Departmental Honors

Associate of Science: Management, Salt Lake Community College

•  Phi Theta Kappa Honors

OTHER:

TSSCI/TK/SI Clearance

DAWIA APDP Level III Certified, Contact Management

Fellow, National Contract Management Association

•  Chapter National Director, President & Vice President of Programs

JUSTIN FRANK went straight from high school into the Air Force for six years. He realized early on that would provide him with the means for his education and still give him a touch of