Barbara Luke

Barbara Luke was born in Alaska before it became a state, and attended BYU High School in Provo before she became a humanist. Her family moved from Anchorage to Provo when she was three, and she grew up in Provo while her father became "Mr. Daily Herald" as the city editor of the Provo newspaper.

After graduating from a parochial school, as she calls BYU High School, she went on to BYU to pursue her love of dance, but she was lured away at the tender age of twenty to teach dance at a private girls school in Connecticut. There she stayed for the next thirty-five years, marrying, raising a son, and teaching.

It was in the east that she found her girlhood religion wanting, joined an ethical society, and realized whenever she heard humanists speak that she was a humanist. Upon retiring four years ago and returning to Provo to be a companion to her mother in the same house she grew up in, she learned of Humanists of Utah through the Unitarian Church and joined.

Barbara returns to Connecticut each summer to teach "music and movement" in a women's art camp. Her other activities are diverse: she works part time for Head Start, plays the recorder with a group, roller blades, hikes, sings with a chorus, and once played bells with a group in Greenwich, Connecticut. And she raves--really raves--about her two beautiful cats. Now if we could just get her to take an interest in something!

--Earl Wunderli