Box 41
Container
Contains 7 Results:
No.334 Virginia Kelson, 1988
File — Box: 41, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Kelson (b. 1929), founder and former director of the Phoenix Institute and publisher of , recalls her youth in Salt Lake City, schooling at the University of Utah, marriage, and community service. She discusses her reasons for founding the Phoenix Institute, an organization devoted to helping women on welfare find and train for nontraditional jobs, and outlines several of their programs. She also talks about how...
Dates:
1988
No.335 Sylvia Burt Durrant, 1991
File — Box: 41, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
- Durrant (b. 1908) recalls her early life, education, teaching at the University of Utah and the YWCA. She also discusses the teaching career of her husband, Stevan Durrant and happenings in the Biology Department, University of Utah, 1930s-1960s. Included are reflections on their father by Sue Marilynn Durrant and Steve Durrant Jr.
- Interviewer: Everett Cooley
Dates:
1991
No.336 Geoffrey Symcox, 1988
File — Box: 41, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
- Symcos, a professor of history at UCLA, discusses his memories of Fawn McKay Brody.
- Interviewer:Newell Bringhurst
Dates:
1988
No.337 Everett L. Cooley, 1988
File — Box: 41, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Everett L. Cooley (b. 1917) recalls his association with Fawn McKay Brodie. He discusses meeting her in the 1960s when he was director of the Utah State Historical Society, her speeches to various groups in Utah, 1960s-1970s, her writing, her friendship with Dale Morgan, her views on Mormonism, relations with her family, and the gift of her papers to the Marriott Library, 1970s.
Interviewer: Newell...
Dates:
1988
No.338 Vernal Holley, 1991
File — Box: 41, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
- Vernal Holley (b. 1924) discusses his research on the Spaulding Theory, his church activities and excommunications. He also talks about his life after being excommunicated.
- Interviewer: Lorille Miller
Dates:
1991
No.339 William L. Stokes, 1985
File — Box: 41, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
W.L. Stokes discusses his early life in Eastern Utah, his interest in dinosaurs and geology, graduate education at Princeton, friendship with henry Eyring, his tenure at the University of Utah in Geology, difficulties with university adminiszstration, religion at the University of Utah, the attitudes of certain General Authorities towards Science and Evolutions vs. Creationism, and the theological strengths of...
Dates:
1985
No.340 Marcus R. Cooley, Jr., 1984
File — Box: 41, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
- Marcus Cooley, whose father, Mark, was the oldest son of Andrew Wood Cooley and Ann Hazen, recounts family stories about "Grandpa Cooley."
- Interviewer: Lyle Cooley
Dates:
1984