Deidre Nelson, Wasatch Academy
Dec 9, 2025, 1:42 PM
“I would like to nominate Deidre Nelson for best of teachers. She got her degree while holding down the fort with five teenagers. She has taught several grades and is now loving life as a teacher at 𝑊𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ Academy in Holladay. When she left Carden School last year the kids wept. Staff had to be called in to comfort them on the last day of school. She is a gentle giant of a teacher. The kind that you always remember even in old age. At her new school she is hourly so not paid during Christmas break. Difficult. The funds would be so so welcome right now. I hope she can be rewarded!”
– Dotty Ralphs
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