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Sharon and Paul also own the company Utah Shelter Systems, which manufactures and equips multi-hazard home and corporate shelters. Our company also offers consultation in the production of concrete shelters and the refurbishing and updating of existing shelters.

Paul is a graduate of the Missouri Military Academy and attended the New Mexico Military Institute. Pau and Sharon attended classes at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Pennsylvania and studied shelter design and construction in Switzerland.  They have lectured widely throughout Utah and the United States. They have given lectures at the Brigham Young University, and Sharon taught a National Securities Affairs class in 1993 at the University of Utah. Paul had 25-years’ experience working in a local aerospace firm. Paul and his wife, Carolyn, reside in Salt Lake City and are the parents of 4 children.

Sharon graduated with a master’s degree in nuclear engineering in 1993 from the University of Utah. She also graduated with a bachelor’s degree in education with a major in mathematics and a minor in physics.  Sharon and Paul are advisors to ‘The American Civil Defense Association' (TACDA). Sharon and Paul are both regular contributors to the Journal of Civil Defense, which is a national magazine produced by ‘TACDA’.  Sharon and her deceased husband, Edson, are the parents of 6 children.  

Paul and Sharon are the founders of the non-profit organization, Civil Defense Volunteers of Utah (CDVU).  It was founded in 1987 and they have been helping to teach civil defense skills to the general public, through this organization for nearly 20 years.  This organization, now under the direction of the current president, Jay Whimpey, holds monthly meetings free of charge to the public at the City and County building in Salt Lake City, where they teach nuclear weapons effects, winter survival, first aid, shelter building techniques, and many other subjects pertaining to preparedness. For more information on establishing civil defense volunteer groups, contact ‘The American Civil Defense Organization’ (TACDA) at www.tacda.org telephone: (800)-425-5397.