Box 67
Container
Contains 25 Results:
No. 613 Andrew Burr, 2010
File — Box: 67, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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