Please celebrate the life and passing of Paul “Clynn” Jennings, Ph.D., 72, in your own fashion.

Services have already been held in Denver, Nova Scotia, Vancouver, Salt Lake City, and Evanston. 

Clynn was born February 7, 1934 in Murray, UT to Walter and Hettie Jennings. He was raised by his father’s sister and her husband, Mildred and Roy Reeder, in Sandy and Midvale Utah. He received his degree from Jordan High School in 1952.  At Jordan he was the Coeditor of the Yearbook. He liked our logo that was a take off of the yearbook's theme.

Paul earned a B.A. at the University of Utah in 1960.  At the University of Texas in Austin he earned an M.A. in 1964 and his Ph.D. in 1966. 

Doctor Jennings taught experimental design at the following institutions: the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada; the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto; and the Dept. of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. 

Paul was Director of the Division of Research and Planning at the Vermont Department of Corrections while waiting to begin one of his many ‘retreads.’ 

He completed a one year clinical internship plus additional months of supervised work at the Human Resources Center of Volusia County, Daytona Beach, Florida. 

Next he moved to St. John’s, Newfoundland, to coordinate in-home support services for the mentally handicapped. In March 1997 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) did a 30-minute interview with Dr. Jennings about the various aspects of his program. This program won  an award for community awareness that year. 

He worked with children and their families in Kearney, Nebraska at the South Central Community Mental Health Center. 

Paul completed another ‘retread’ in the next few months as he designed and developed a Community Psychology Option in the Graduate Diploma in Social Sciences for the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT) in Perth. 

Doctor Jennings returned to the US to accept a position as Clinical Director of the North Central Mental Health Center in Minot, North Dakota. After several years there, he became the Executive Director of the Washakie Mental Health Services program in Worland, Wyoming. He moved to Evanston, Wyoming, to complete a one year interim director’s position for the local mental health center before becoming a staff psychologist at the Wyoming State Hospital, where he ‘retreaded’ again in order to be able to provide neuropsychological and forensic evaluations.

 He appreciated (in no particular order!) fast cars and parking lot gymkhanas, downhill skiing, classical and bluegrass music, listening to NPR (especially Garrison Keillor), schmoozing with friends, dancing to ‘30’s & 40’s music, and traveling. 

When he died on October 14, 2006, he was survived by his ‘best’ spouse of 28 years and one week, Nikki, plus multitudes of family (adopted and otherwise) and friends. 

Memorials may be made to the Psychology Department at the Wyoming State Hospital, attention Don Rardin. 

When Otto made phone contact with Clynn (as we knew him in school), he began to plan to attend the reunion. We talked about our times together from first grade through Jordan. He said it was good to hear his name pronounced as it always was during his youth.