Box 67
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Contains 25 Results:
No. 603 Marian Johnson Gray, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 1
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Gray (b. 1945) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She contracted polio when she was nearly six years old, in August of 1951. She talks about her memories of getting sick, being hospitalized, and time spent in an iron lung. She discusses therapies and treatments used during the course of her disease, memories of various surgeries (including a spinal fusion and several muscle "transplants" that continued into her...
Dates:
2010
No. 604 Verl Lambert, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 2
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Lambert (b. 1912) was born in Alberta, Canada. She discusses her family, work, schooling and marriage. Her son, Dale, contracted polio at age 3 while living in California. Verl talks about his illness, hospitalization, the family being quarantined and Dale's treatment. She was restricted in hospital visits during Dale's 7-8 month stay. Their family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where Dale received surgery and...
Dates:
2010
No. 605 George William McCraw, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 3
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McCraw (b. 1930) is from Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He discusses his family life. He contracted polio at approximately age six, and tells about getting sick. He was taken to a Shriners hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, about 200 miles from his home. He discusses his hospital experience, including treatments and therapies. He was discharged from the hospital in full-length braces and an arm extension. His left leg and...
Dates:
2010
No. 606 Chase Nebeker Peterson, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 4
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Chase N. Peterson (b. 1929) was born in Logan, Utah, to Elmer George Peterson and Phebe Nebeker. His grandparents on his father side were Gus Peterson and Agusta (Aggie) Steward Geddes, and his maternal grandparents were Hyrum Nebeker and Phebe Almira Hulme. His father attended Utah State Agricultural College and then went to the University of Chicago for his masters, and then on to Cornell for his PhD in...
Dates:
2010
No. 607 Hugo Rossi, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 5
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Rossi was born in Boston, but his parents moved the family to the Bronx when he was three months old. He explains that his parents moved because of the free public universities available in New York and their knowledge that they would not be able to afford private universities for him and his brother. He credits his brother with convincing him to stick with mathematics over English when he attended the College of...
Dates:
2010
No. 608 Pierre Sokolsky, 2011
File — Box: 67, Folder: 6
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The son of a professor of Russian literature and language, Dr. Sokolsky had originally wanted to study medicine but serendipitous events led him to study physics at the University of Chicago. Of his projects he is most proud of the Fly's Eye project and his current project, the Telescope Array, where he is part of a group of 130 scientists. He discusses ACCESS, the University of Utah program to train and retain...
Dates:
2011
No. 609 Marion LaVelle Walker, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 7
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Dr. Walker was born in Columbia, Mississippi, in 1942. Most of his time growing up was spent in Clinton due to the moves necessitated by his father's military obligations. He was a very good student in high school as well as an athlete, receiving a scholarship to play at BYU. He played fullback at BYU and undertook studying pre-med. Once he returned from his LDS Church mission he dedicated most of his time to his...
Dates:
2010
No. 610 Robert J. Deitz, 2011
File — Box: 67, Folder: 8
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Deitz (b. 1932) was born in New Jersey. He describes his enlistment in the Navy after the start of the Korean War, and his service as a corpsman with the medical corps of the Marines. It was during his travels for the military that he visited Salt Lake City and was positively influenced by the people and environment. This experience later influenced his decision to attend the University of Utah, where he completed...
Dates:
2011
No. 611 Ashley Patterson, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 9
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Ashley Patterson grew up in Yakima, Washington. Her parents were from the midwest, but they moved west and took advantage of the resources for outdoor amusement. Ashley grew up knowing the benefits of the outdoors. Her parents were also very environmentally conscious and passed that along to their daughter. She feels a strong connection to the west. She went to college in the east and took an environmental history...
Dates:
2010
No. 612 Anne Yeagle, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 10
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Yeagle (b. 1962) was born in Utah and attended Westminster College. She started climbing with friends while attending graduate school at the University of Utah. She had an ex-boyfriend who climbed, and her brother was in a climbing accident when he was young, so she had a bad association with the sport for quite awhile. She thinks there is a climbing culture that consists of "innies" and "outies," and that it can...
Dates:
2010
No. 613 Andrew Burr, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 11
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Burr (b. 1977) grew up in Sonoma County, California. He is currently the Senior Contributing Photographer for Climbing Magazine. He started climbing while he was living in Tempe, Arizona, after finishing high school. Andrew moved to Salt Lake City in 1999 and immediately began to climb in the Wasatch Mountains. He discusses his first climbs in the Wasatch, including the West Slabs of Mount Olympus and the...
Dates:
2010
No. 614 Nancy Feagin, 2011
File — Box: 67, Folder: 12
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Feagin (b.1966) was born in Washington, D.C., but spent her formative years in San Francisco, California, and Jackson, Wyoming. When she moved to Jackson, she competed as a ski racer for her high school, and around the same time, she learned to climb in the Tetons. After graduating from Duke University with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, she returned to Jackson, worked briefly for a software company, and then...
Dates:
2011
No. 615 Tom Kimbrough, 2008
File — Box: 67, Folder: 13
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Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Kimbrough (b. 1938) spent his teenage and young adult years in Chattanooga. The area was rich in sandstone formations which gave him a lot of cave exploring activities as a youth. He started exploring caves across the region of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia but eventually wanted to also climb. He started climbing in 1960 and got drafted shortly after. In the army he found a friend,...
Dates:
2008
No. 616 Ron Olevsky, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 14
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Olevsky (b. 1954) was born in New York City, and grew up in rural Connecticut, where he developed an enthusiasm for the outdoors. Ron spent a summer in Switzerland in 1968 and was exposed to climbing for the first time. In 1970, he worked on a ranch in Wyoming, and eventually he hitchhiked to Boulder, Colorado, enrolling shortly thereafter at University of Colorado-Boulder and climbing extensively in Rocky Mountain...
Dates:
2010
No. 617 Stuart Ruckman, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 15
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Ruckman (b. 1966) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Stuart shares how his family, particularly his father, played a significant role in introducing him to the outdoors. Some of his initial explorations included a hike to the top of Mount Olympus when he was five years old, backpacking trips in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains, and a successful summit attempt on the Grand Teton when he was twelve. Stuart discovered...
Dates:
2010
No. 618 Rachel Mathey, 2008
File — Box: 67, Folder: 16
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Mathey grew up at the base of the Wind River Mountains in Green River, Wyoming. Her parents took the family camping and she spent a lot of time in the outdoors when she was young. She credits those experiences camping with her family as the most influential factor in developing her passion for environmental issues. Her parents encouraged her to develop her spiritual side by connecting with nature. Rachel also took...
Dates:
2008
No. 619 Blaine Miller, 2009
File — Box: 67, Folder: 17
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Blaine (b. 1947) was born in Richfield, Utah, but spent his early childhood moving around as his father continued his education and took up student teaching employment. They eventually settled in Layton. He graduated from Weber State with a major in history and a minor in anthropology. He has worked for the Park Service in Montana and with the Bureau of Land Management as an archeologist. The loss of archeological...
Dates:
2009
No. 620 Pam Miller, 2009
File — Box: 67, Folder: 18
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Pam was born in Lovell, Wyoming. She is the oldest of 5 children. Her parents' struggle because of their lack of education provided her incentive to pursue higher education. She remembers visiting her grandmother at work at the library and always reading many books. Her grandmother would also give her cast off books which she read. Her father died in an accident when she was in high school and the family struggled....
Dates:
2009
No. 621 Michele Straube, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 19
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Straube (b. 1952) was born in Toronto, grew up in New Jersey, and now resides in Utah. She was a practicing lawyer for over fifteen years in Pennsylvania, Alaska, and Utah with emphasis upon environmental issues. For the last decade, she has focused her efforts on dispute resolution, mediation, and facilitation. Straube specializes in collaborative problem-solving. She is currently the director of Salt Lake Mayor...
Dates:
2010
No. 622 Janice Lee Cootey, 2011
File — Box: 67, Folder: 20
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Cootey (b. 1945) was born in Somerville, Massachusetts. She contracted polio at age nine in Wilmington, Massachusetts. She describes getting sick and being taken to Boston Children's Hospital. She talks about the treatments she received there, which included penicillin injections, and relates her vague recollection of an iron lung. She talks about her physical condition upon discharge, which mostly affected her...
Dates:
2011