About Utah: She helped pioneer putting the human in resources

SALT LAKE CITY —This past Tuesday in a banquet room at the Grand America Hotel, Frances Hume was honored for outstanding performance in a career she couldn't even dream about when she was a girl.Because it hadn't yet been invented.Frances works in human resources — H.R. in the modern lexicon. When she was growing up in the little town of Benjamin in Utah County in the 1960s, H.R. stood for home run, if it stood for anything at all.There certainly was no major for it in 1971 at Utah T