词条 | Sheri L. Dew |
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| name = Sheri L. Dew | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|11|21}} | birth_place = Ulysses, Kansas, United States | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | residence = | education = | alma_mater = Brigham Young University | occupation = | employer = | organization = | notable_works = | title = | parents = Charles and JoAnn P. Dew | relatives = | awards = | signature = | website = | position_or_quorum1 = Second Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency | called_by1 = Mary Ellen W. Smoot | ordination_reason1 = | predecessor1 = Aileen H. Clyde | successor1 = Anne C. Pingree | start_date1 = {{start date|1997|04|05}} | end_date1 = {{end date|2002|04|06}} | end_reason1 = }}Sheri Linn Dew (born November 21, 1953) is an American author, publisher, and president and chief executive officer of the Deseret Book Company, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dew has also been a religious leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and an inspirational speaker. In 2003, she was described as “the most prominent single [unmarried] LDS woman right now.”[1] Deseret Book Company owns two retail chains (Deseret Book and Seagull), two publishing companies (Deseret Book and Covenant), an events division (Time Out for Women), a digital division, a magazine (LDS Living) and a film-distribution company (Excel). Personal lifeDew was born November 21, 1953, in Ulysses, Kansas, to Charles and JoAnn Peterson Dew. The oldest of five children, she grew up on a "sprawling grain farm" and attended local schools.[2][3][4] Of this time, she has said: I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals. I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. . . . On the farm you learn early that you reap what you sow. . . . I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years. My work has helped because I’ve had to interview people from all walks of life.[2] Dew told interviewers in 2002 and 2004 that as a teenager she was 5 feet, 10 inches tall and was a standout in high school basketball, averaging 23 points and 17 rebounds a game.[2][3] A Bloomberg Businessweek reporter wrote in 2012 that Dew had the "friendly, no-nonsense manner" of a high school basketball coach."[4][9] Another writer noted in 2010 that Dew's "confident and collected demeanor always kept her on task." [10] She learned the piano and traveled on three USO tours to Alaska, Europe, the Mediterranean and Asia as an accompanist during her college years at Brigham Young University (BYU), where she earned a bachelor's degree in history, with an emphasis in American religious history.[2][4][4] She was held back by her shyness from trying out for the 1971 women's basketball team and only learned some thirty years later that BYU had gone through the season one player short that year. "That was a very interesting lesson," she said. "I thought I was good, but I'll never know. My fear and shyness paralyzed me. My whole life I've felt like I didn't quite measure up. ... It's one of my biggest regrets. I've never gotten over it."[4] Dew is close friends with Wendy Watson Nelson, and they presented together at the 2016 RootsTech conference.[5] CareerBeginningAfter graduating from BYU, Dew moved into the publishing business associated with the LDS Church, starting out as an assistant editor at Bookcraft beginning in 1978. She spent the next six years as an editor and associate publisher at This People magazine.[2][4] Deseret BookDew joined Deseret Book in 1988 as an associate editor and became director of publishing in 1989, vice president of publishing in 1993, and executive vice president in 2000. She was named the president and CEO of the company in March 2002, succeeding Ronald A. Millett. At the time Deseret Book consisted of a retail chain of some 40 stores and a publishing division.[6] Bloomberg Businessweek reported in 2012 that Deseret Book was a "flailing" business when Dew took it over but that she "pulled the publisher and distributor out of the red 10 years ago."[7] In 2002 the company launched its Time Out for Women event series,[8] and in 2004 it acquired Excel Entertainment, which brought Deseret Book into film distribution. Some of Excel's films include Saints and Soldiers, Forever Strong, The Work and the Glory, Seventeen Miracles and Airborne Creed.[9] In 2006 it acquired the Seagull retail chain of twenty-six bookstores and Covenant Publishing, which publishes and distributes books, games, and gifts.[10] In June 2011 the company introduced Deseret Bookshelf, a free e-reader application for Apple and Android mobile devices, with nearly 1,500 digital titles for purchase. On a personal level, Dew noted that the Bookshelf app had "changed the way I research and study the gospel" because "I can always have my full library with me." The app allows the researcher to search all Deseret Book titles at one time as well as other associated Gospel references.[11] BroadcastingDew is a director of the Bonneville International Corporation,[4] a broadcasting organization owned by the LDS Church. Public activitiesPolitics, government, and charityDew is a member of both the BYU Marriott School of Management’s National Advisory Council and the President’s Leadership Council for BYU-Hawaii. In March 2003 the White House appointed her a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls at the United Nations.[12] Dew has said she has a greater liking for Republican political positions, particularly on social issues, explaining that "I am a Midwestern farmer's daughter," but that she has "many, many times" voted for Democrats. She has been asked to run for political office, but said she is so shy she "can't even ask for the full can of apple juice on the airplane" so she couldn't very well ask for votes.[26] After a 1999 trip to Ghana, Dew began to spearhead Chapters of Hope, a program to send children’s books to impoverished areas of the world. Through 2011, nearly 50,000 books had been shipped to Ghana, the Pacific Islands, Russia, Eastern Europe, Zimbabwe and elsewhere by that organization.[13] LDS ChurchDew was a counselor to Mary Ellen W. Smoot in the general presidency of the women’s Relief Society from 1997 to 2002,[14] the first unmarried woman called to this position in the LDS Church.[15] As an author, Dew was the authorized biographer for two LDS Church presidents, Ezra Taft Benson and Gordon B. Hinckley. Since 2009, Dew has contributed to the Mormon Channel's Conversations program, where she has interviewed some high-profile members of the LDS Church.[16] Cancer survivorIn 2006, Dew was diagnosed with breast cancer, revealed as "three tiny spots, almost invisible to the naked eye," and since 2010 she has been active in promoting awareness of the disease among Utah women. "I'm actually a poster child for early diagnosis," Dew said.[17] Motivational speakingTopicsDew has given motivational speeches to audiences in the United States and around the world, traveling in Colombia, Africa, the Philippines, Cambodia, Ecuador and Japan. Some of her speeches have included:
2004 Republican National ConventionDew opened the 2004 Republican National Convention with a prayer after, she said, she had received a telephone request from "out of the blue and after she "had to ask myself if this would appear too partisan, and I decided it was never inappropriate to pray." She said she thought it "remarkable" that an LDS Church member was invited for the honor, "and even more so a woman."[32][33] Same-sex marriage{{See also|Homosexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints}}Dew "drew criticism"[34] resulting from remarks she made on February 28, 2004, at a Washington, D.C., meeting of the Family Action Council International,[35] an interfaith group.[36] According to Lee Davidson, a Deseret News reporter who was present, Dew quoted a statement by journalist Dorothy Thompson in 1941: saying that before World War II would be over, every person would either stand for or against [German dictator Adolf] Hitler—and that trying not to make any choice was in fact making one, for Hitler. The next month the Gay & Lesbian Mormons organization, which is not officially affiliated with the LDS Church, issued a statement expressing “outrage” at Dew's remarks,[35] and in September of the same year the president of the Human Rights Campaign and the strategic director of the National Black Justice Coalition called on President George W. Bush to repudiate Dew's “deeply offensive comments about GLBT Americans.”[38] In April 2005 Dew said that her point had nothing to do with Hitler. “I wasn't comparing anybody to Hitler,” she said. “Hitler is irrelevant to the point I was trying to make.” “I have friends living an openly gay lifestyle with kids,” she added. “In every instance, they are caring parents who love their kids and their kids love them. They know I feel it's not my prerogative to judge them. It's their right to choose. ... Those that deal with same-sex attraction have my respect.”[34] Awards
WritingsShe has authored several books, including the biographies of two presidents of the LDS church — Gordon B. Hinckley and Ezra Taft Benson. She also has written a biography of the 1985 Miss America, Sharlene Wells. All of her works were published in Salt Lake City by Deseret Book.
References1. ^Eric Samuelsen, quoted in "Play Examines Singles Stigma" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050316214234/http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/42545 |date=2005-03-16 }}, BYU NewsNet, 24 February 2003. 2. ^1 2 3 4 "Sheri L. Dew, Second Counselor, Relief Society General Presidency," Ensign, May 1997, p. 109. 3. ^1 "Sheri L. Dew," MormonWiki 4. ^1 Bloomberg Business Week profile 5. ^{{cite news|last1=Sterzer|first1=Rachel|title=RootsTech 2016: Close friends Wendy Watson Nelson and Sheri Dew discuss family history|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865647488/RootsTech-2016-Close-friends-Wendy-Watson-Nelson-and-Sheri-Dew-discuss-family-history.html|accessdate=5 April 2018|work=DeseretNews.com|date=11 February 2016|language=en}} 6. ^"Deseret Book Appoints New President," Church News, March 2, 2002 7. ^1 Caroline Winter, "How the Mormons Make Money," Bloomberg Businessweek, July 18, 2012 8. ^About Time Out for Women {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120810031206/http://deseretbook.com/timeout/about |date=2012-08-10 }} 9. ^[https://archive.is/20070429124726/http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/53573 Janae Ashton, "Deseret Book Announces Acquisition of Excel Entertainment Group," Universe, Brigham Young University, November 15, 2004] 10. ^"Deseret Book Buys Seagull and Covenant Communications," KSL.com, December 28, 2006 11. ^Ryan Morgenegg, "Deseret Bookshelf: Learning the Gospel Like Never Before," Church News, March 10, 2012. 12. ^"Dew, Sheri L.," World Congress of Families {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708183851/http://www.worldcongress.org/WCF/wcf_spkrs_bio.htm |date=2012-07-08 }} 13. ^"Chapters of Hope," Deseret Books 14. ^"3 New Leaders for Relief Society," Church News, April 6, 2002 15. ^1 2 3 4 5 Doug Robinson, "Sheri Dew: Living the Unexpected Life," Deseret News, October 28, 2002 16. ^Programs, Mormon Channel {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706133956/http://mormonchannel.org/programs/conversations-episode-1?lang=eng |date=2011-07-06 }} 17. ^1 Wendy Leonard, "Sheri Dew Inspires With Story of Breast Cancer Survival, Encourages Mammograms," KSL.com 18. ^Sherri L. Dew, "The Power of Virtue", Church News. 19. ^1 Full text {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20130416045450/http://www.worldcongress.org/wcf5.spkrs/wcf5.dew.htm |date=2013-04-16 }} 20. ^BYU Women's Conference 21. ^Brigham Young University 22. ^Brigham Young University {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807140046/http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=4525 |date=2007-08-07 }} 23. ^Avery McKinney, Universe, BYU, December 9, 2003 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301062702/http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/47285 |date=March 1, 2007 }} 24. ^BYU Women's Conference, 2001 25. ^Ensign, November 2001 26. ^LDS General Conference, 2000 27. ^{{citation |url= https://www.lds.org/ensign/1997/11/are-you-the-woman-i-think-you-are?lang=eng |title= Are You the Woman I Think You Are? |first= Sheri L. |last= Dew |date= November 1997 |journal= Ensign }} 28. ^Video of speech at BYU {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817210947/http://byutv.org/watch/8736ab52-e17e-48a4-b3a6-7ccc923f3574 |date=2012-08-17 }} 29. ^Church News 30. ^Church News 31. ^Audio recording 32. ^1 Jerry Spangler, "Prayer by Dew Gets GOP Going," Deseret Morning News, August 31, 2004 33. ^Text of Dew's invocation opening the Republican National Convention, August 30, 2004 {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20121209103345/http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/08-30-2004/0002241033&EDATE= |date=December 9, 2012 }} 34. ^1 Tad Walch, "Lack of Morals Called Recipe for Family Disaster," Deseret News, April 6, 2005. 35. ^1 "Anti-Gay Coalition Meets Near Washington DC," Affirmation Gay and Lesbian Mormons, March 14, 2004 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724201501/http://www.affirmation.org/newsroom/2004_03.shtml |date=July 24, 2012 }} 36. ^1 Lee Davidson, "Deseret Book President Attacked Unfairly," Deseret Morning News, March 17, 2004. 37. ^Another version of this statement is at Peggy Proctor, "What It Means to Be Anxiously Engaged in the Political Process," Meridian magazine, April 27, 2009 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403231325/http://www.ldsmag.com/article/4321 |date=April 3, 2013 }} 38. ^"Gay Leaders in US Call on Bush to Repudiate Inflammatory Speakers," UK Gay News, August 30, 2004 39. ^"Utah Genius Awards Honor Sheri Dew, Patent Holders," KSL.com 40. ^LDS Women's Book Review 41. ^ByCommonConsent.com 42. ^Goodreads.com review 43. ^Goodreads.com review 44. ^Open Library listing 45. ^Open Library listing 46. ^Goodreads.com review 47. ^Goodreads.com review 48. ^Goodreads.com review 49. ^Goodreads.com review 50. ^Goodreads.com review Further reading
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