wellness in the workplace.

President Eisenhower creates the President’s Council on Youth Fitness with cabinet-level status,specifying “one” objective for the first Council to be a “catalytic agent” concentrating on creating public awareness. A President’s Citizens – Advisory Committee on Fitness of American Youth, the equivalent to today’s Council, is confirmed to give advice to Council.

President Kennedy changes the name to the President’s Council on Physical Fitness to address all age groups and amended the Executive Order by one objective – enlisting the aid of citizens, civic groups, etc.

President Nixon issues an executive order to charge the Council with informing the general public of the importance of exercise, and assisting business and industry in establishing sound physical fitness programs. Executive Director of the Council, C. Carson Conrad, spearheads an initiative to establish state councils to promote physical fitness and health.

With the support of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and local community leaders, Utah Governor Calvin L. Rampton establishes the Utah Governor’s Council on Health and Fitness.

A state wide survey is conducted and established the value of focusing on the workplace to most effectively promote health and fitness in the population. The council is renamed The Utah Council for Worksite Health Promotion (UCWHP).

After functioning from its inception under the auspices of the Utah Department of Health’s Bureau of Health Promotion and Protection the Utah Council for Worksite Health Promotion becomes an independent, community based, volunteer, non-profit organization.

The council is renamed the Utah Worksite Wellness Council to underscore its more holistic approach to employee, family and community health.