Meg Hayes, Brigham Young High School Class of 1965. Senior Class Social Chair. Spanish Club, French Club, Pep Club, Ski Club President, Forensics, Newspaper Staff, Wildcat Yearbook Art Editor, Seminary 4 years, Twirler. BYU BA Art and Teaching Certificate 1970. First married: Dean C. Guinn. Second married: Rich Allen.

I was a BYU graduate in 1970 in Art Education and French. Dean C. Guinn of Denver, Colorado and I married in 1972 after his graduation from BYU in German and English Education and a stint in the Army in Munich, Germany. We had six children: Sarah Jane, Peter, Hanni, Jenny, Alison and Patrick. We lived in Provo and Edgemont for 19 years in Cameron's and Frischknecht's neighborhood. Dean was a business partner at Provo Village Sports Den and The Post Horn. In 1991 we moved to Sandy, Utah. Dean taught at the Waterford School for 15 years. He passed away suddenly January 12, 2002. He was a great teacher, coach, husband and friend. My neighbor Rich Allen and I married in 2003. His wife Phyllis (Cutler) had Alzheimer's disease, passing away at the early age of 62. They also had six children. Rich was in business management and is mostly retired now in 2005. I taught art to children at Waterford School for seven years and am a substitute teacher there. Amazingly, life goes on and is good.
--Meg Hayes, 2005

Dean C. Guinn died suddenly Saturday, January 12, 2002 while doing what he loved best: spending time on the ski slopes with his family and friends.

Dean was born Dec. 1, 1944 to Charles Harrison Guinn and Dorothy Ann Tanner in Dragerton, Utah.

His family moved to Denver, Colorado, where he was raised. He left Colorado to attend BYU. He interrupted his education to serve an LDS mission to central Germany, before graduating with a degree in German and English. After touring with the USO in the Orient, he served two years in military intelligence with the U.S. Army in Munich, Germany.

Upon his return, he completed his education and married Margaret Ann (Meg) Hayes in the Salt Lake Temple. In Provo, he became part owner of the Provo Village Sports Den and later the Post Horn clothing store; he also helped establish the Sundance Ski Team. In 1986, Dean became a member of the faculty of the Waterford School, where he taught German and served in a variety of administrative and coaching positions.

In 1988, he moved from Waterford's Provo campus to its Sandy campus. Notable among the many contributions he made to the school was the ski program he founded and on which he lavished his time, energy, enthusiasm, and expertise. This year Waterford awarded him the Educator Prize, its highest honor.

Dean's life was spent in service. He enriched the lives of hundreds of young people who grew to love German, travel, skiing, soccer, the banjo, bratwurst, and 1960's rock and roll. He will be remembered for his generosity, for his contagious laugh and happy-go-lucky spirit, for leading summer trips to Europe, for coordinating ski race camps at Mt. Hood, and for the joy with which he lived his life.

Dean is survived by his wife, Meg, and their six children: Sarah, Peter, Hanni, Jenny, Ali, and Patrick, of Sandy; and by his mother, Dorothy; and brothers, James and David Guinn, of Denver, CO. His father, Charles; and sister, Charlotte, preceded him in death.
Memorial services were held Saturday, Jan. 19, 2002. Interment, Pleasant Grove City Cemetery.

The family suggests contributions to the Dean C. Guinn Fund, a trust fund for his children's education, at the Waterford School, Sandy, Utah.

[Deseret News, Thursday, January 17, 2002]