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Show VERVENE (VEE) Appointed 1971 Elected "It's a big, over." wide, wonderful CARLISLE to 1973 1975-1979 world--people are the same, the world That's Vee Carlisle's philosophy and she had the opportunity to find it out in person. Manila, Bermuda and Rome are familiar places where she has wal ked, and lived. Ambassador Ell sworth worked, Bunker was her "boss" in Rome, followed by Ambassador Cl are Boothe Luce, the first female Ambassador of the United states. In the Far East, she worked for Admiral Raymond Spruance and career Ambassador Julian Harrington in the days of the "Ugly American," when the Huks were ambushing and harrassing the Filipinos. She met Sukarno of Indonesia, Magsaysay of the Phi 1 ippines, Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia, Bob Shaplen of TIME, Edward Stettinius, Harry Reasoner, and others who came to the Ambassador's desk. Which is quite an accomplishment for a 17 year old girl who went to work right out of high school to support her mother and five younger children. - to become a lawyer, but fate stepped in and changed her father died suddenly and instead of college, she went to work. When a job ceased to be a challenge, she moved to another, never burning her bridges and al ways doing her best. When her responsibilities lifted, she fulfilled s second ambition when she entered the Foreign Service of the State Department and literally "worked her way around the world." It was her education. After her third tour,she decided to "pick up her roots". Three of her four sets of great grandparents arrived in Salt Lake Valley before 1854; the fourth came right after the railroads connected in 1869. wanted Vee plans. Her returned to Salt Lake City and ,worked as secretary to the State Appropriations Committee; as an executive secretary to a county commissioner; then as an executive secretary for the State (later Community & Economic Department of Development Services Development), which she especially enjoyed. Like the majority of she ran into discrimination. Doors were closed to women who work, there was no opportuni ty to move her because she was a woman; She Senate ahead. Then, opportunity knocked! In 1970, Gilbert Shelton, new president of Tracy Collins Bank & Trust, needed an executive secretary. After one year, he offered her the position of Consumer Services Officer, with full power to develop the Consumer Services Center, Women's In 1974 the Midtown Branch. Division at 465 East 2nd So., became an Assistant Vice President (the only one in Utah). as CEO the credited staff rose to four, responsible for by third of the accounts in the bank. In July 1971, Hill she Her one Representative Sandra Peterson of the Capitol resigned and went to Washington D.C. Vee was State District, 167 |
