Sidney LaMarr Jenson

I met Sid in 1980 when, as a newly minted Federal employee, I was directed to attend a report-writing class he had been retained to teach in Albany, NY. It was one of the most valuable and memorable courses I've ever taken. Years later, as a reports specialist at the U.S. Geological Survey in the early 1990s, I was instrumental in bringing Sid to New Jersey to teach an updated version of the course to the authors whose reports I was then overseeing. We told Shipley we would not accept a...

I will miss Sid. I first met him in Laie in 1977 where we taught English together at BYU--Hawaii. Later on Sid and I worked as consultants for Shipley Associates. There Sid taught me about business and technical documents, dealing with clients, and how to keep learning about the world of professional communication. Once a year we met for a round of golf as his home course near Farmington, Utah. Visiting us in Laie, he wore a Japanese kimono while playing croquet in our back yard. I...

Sid was a true gentleman. As a friend, mentor and fellow ski instructor we could not have had a more delightful companion, with his ready wit, great sense of humor and entertaining repartee. As a skier his expertise was always my ideal,. He seemed to levitate when conditions became tough, always as smooth as silk.
Velma, you have my utmost admiration for your love and devotion to this special human being. Sid wanted not to live forever but to remain forever young, even as he faced the...