Mona Marie Elien

Background

Elien, Mona Marie was born on June 13, 1932 in Atwood, Kansas, United States. Daughter of Lawrence Wallace Berry and Adele Wright.

Education

Bachelor of Science, U. Arizona, 1961; graduate, Swiss Mountain Climbing Institute, Rosenlaui, 1963; postgraduate, Northern Arizona U., 1966-1967; postgraduate, Arizona State University, 1967-1969, 86-87; Master of Public Administration, Arizona State University, 1981.

Career

Customer relations representative, Arizona Public Svc. Company, Casa Grande, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1961-1967; owner/operator, Mona's Clipping Svc., Phoenix, since 1969; various positions, City of Phoenix, since 1974; contract manager, Phoenix Comprehensive Employment Training Act/PSE/PNP, 1978-1981; planning and development assistant, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, since 1986. Staff assistant 1988 Citizens Bond Committee for Aviation, Phoenix, 1987-1988.

Chairman aviation Department CSFD, 1996.

Achievements

• Mona Marie Elien has been listed as a noteworthy Air transportation professional by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

President state home economics related occupations advisory board Arizona State University, 1983-1984. Member Phoenix City Manager's Women's Issues Committee, 1989-1991. Pres.elect Tri-City (Arizona) Zonta International, 1964-1965.

Volunteer speaker's bur.Phoenix Cmty. Alliance and Preparatory Academy Partnership, since 1992. Member Executive Committee Cmty.

Svc. Fund Drive, Phoenix, 1984-1986, 97-. Member precinct committee Yuma County Democratic Committee, 1958. Member employee-of-year committee Phoenix Aviation Department, 1993, co-chairman, 1994.

Member Super Bowl XXX Host Committee, 1996. Volunteer City of Phoenix Visions and Values Seminars. Member ASPA (life; Phoenix chapter awards banquet committee 1991, 92, 98, 99, national committee 1990-1991, Task Force Nonviolence, 1998), American Association Family and Consumer Sciences (life), Arizona Home Economics Association (president northern region 1965-1967), Sinagua Society Museum Northern Arizona, Satisfied Frog Gold Mountain Club, Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce (chairman Indian princesses, retail merchants sect.1965-1967), Southern Arizona Hiking Club, Desert Botanical Gardens, Swinging StarsSquare Dance Club, Delta Delta Delta.

Connections

Married R.J. Wright, January 1952(divorced 1957). Married J.P. Kobus, November 1968 (divorced 1991). Married Robert Louis Tour, October 3, 1992 (wid.

September 1998).

Father:

Lawrence Wallace Berry

Mother:

Adele Wright

Spouse:

Robert Louis Tour

Spouse:

R.J. Wright

Spouse:

J.P. Kobus