Hearts and Hands Award 2009
Daneta Bardsley was honored on November 17th at the Utah Philanthropy Day Luncheon for her dedication and our League.
Daneta is married to Jim Bardsley, Vice President for Health Sciences at the University of Utah, and has two daughters, Denise Barton and Antonia Chiesa, and two-year- old twin grandchildren, Sullivan and Charlotte. Daneta earned undergraduate and master degrees from Louisiana Tech University and a doctorate in psychology and mental retardation from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. She was a facultymember in psychology and special education at Louisiana Tech and later served as research faculty at the University of Oregon, working seven years on a federal technical assistance project inthe South Pacific. Upon returning to Louisiana, she was deputy and then head of the Louisiana State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, head of the Louisiana State Office of Public Health, and finally Regional Administrator of the Office of Family Support providing Medicaid, food stamps, Social Security Insurance, Aid for Families with Dependent Children, and Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training.
Daneta's previous volunteer service includes serving as Faculty Adviser and House Corporation President of Delta Zeta Sorority, President of Caddo-Bossier Habitat for Humanity, member of the Board of Directors of International Volunteers in Urology and Committee Chair of the Princeton Newcomers Club. Currently, Daneta is President of the University of Utah Women's Club and Chair of the Casserole Committee of the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City. Daneta has served on the Junior League of Salt Lake City’s CARE Fair (Community Assistanceand Resource Event), as well as the cookbook and Women Helping Women committees.
Daneta is a Master Gardener, an amateur genealogist, and a cabinet maker and has completed requisite courses to be a home contractor. Daneta was unable to join the Junior League as a young woman because she worked, but she always admired the impact that Leagues have in local communities. She is grateful that the Salt Lake City chapter dropped the age requirements and affords her the opportunity to work with so many dynamic woman who truly want to improve the lives of women and children in our community.
Congratulations, Daneta! And, thank you for the impact you make in the community!
