James N. Clarke: Wendy Nelson is an exceptional choice for UVU commencement speaker
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Wendy Nelson speaks to Indonesian members in Jakarta.
By James N. Clarke | Special to The Tribune
| April 23, 2021, 5:30 p.m.
Wendy Watson Nelson may be best known as the wife and companion of the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but she is so much more.
There are two doctors in the Nelson family Dr. Russell M. Nelson and Dr. Wendy Watson Nelson. The latter has spent a lifetime as both an educator and practitioner of physical and mental health throughout North America and abroad. As an educator, Nelson began her career teaching 40 years ago, in her native Canada, as an assistant professor at the University of Calgary, then finishing her Ph.D. just three years later in family therapy and gerontology. More than a decade earlier, however, Nelson began practice as a registered nurse, which provided