Box 70
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Contains 28 Results:
No. 674 Sean Forsgren, 2010
File — Box: 70, Folder: 1
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Sean Forsgren was born in Tremonton, Utah and grew up in Garland and Salt Lake City, Utah. Sean comes from a family that has a history of serving its community and country ranging from military service in Korea to municipal roles as firefighters and police officers. He describes his childhood in Utah as rough because of family, legal and community problems. Because of these difficulties he sought out his own sense...
Dates:
2010
No. 675 Lawrence Lopez, 2010
File — Box: 70, Folder: 2
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Lawrence (b. 1970) decided to join the military in order to pay for school. He enlisted in the Army to become a tanker after talking with a recruiter and watching a recruitment video. He describes his training, what a shock it was, and how much he liked firing the tank. From basic training he went to Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. In June 1990 he was deployed to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. He talks about the...
Dates:
2010
No. 676 Howard Lamar, 2012
File — Box: 70, Folder: 3
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Howard Lamar(b. 1923), Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and 1972 president of the Western History Association, remembers his career at Yale and involvement in the Western History Association, and shares his thoughts on the state of Western History and directions the Association might take. Dr. Lamar, a Southerner who went North to do Western history, mentored a number of the major voices in the field...
Dates:
2012
No. 677 Robert M. Utley, 2012
File — Box: 70, Folder: 4
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Robert M. Utley (b. 1929), former Chief Historian of the National Park Service and a founder of the Western History Association, remembers the WHA’s founding and reflects on its subsequent evolution from an organization created as a bridge between academic historians and history buffs to a strongly academic group with a professional journal. Deprecating his role founding role by saying that he was chosen because he...
Dates:
2012
No. 678 Barry Wessler, 2012
File — Box: 70, Folder: 5
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Dr. Barry Wessler, a pillar of the telecommunications and supercomputing community, talks about his career in information technology. With a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from MIT, he worked for three years at ARPA, before coming to the University of Utah for his PhD in computer science. Dr. Wessler’s work at ARPA was in the Information Processing Techniques Office. After completing his degree at the University...
Dates:
2012
No. 679 Don Olsen, 2012
File — Box: 70, Folder: 6
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Don Olsen(b. 1930) was born in Bingham Canyon, Utah. His father was a miner in Bingham city until economic circumstances forced them to move in with his father’s parents in Axedale, Utah. There they raised vegetables and a cow. The mines reopened in nineteen thirty seven but his father couldn’t find a job there, so he found a job in Park City. His father was diagnosed with silicosis of the lung, so they moved back...
Dates:
2012
No. 680 Melissa Moeinvaziri and Christopher Begue, 2009
File — Box: 70, Folder: 7
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Mr. Begue (b. 1960) was born just outside of New York City. His first climbing experience was in Chamonix, France when his au pair took him to the Pyrenees. He loved it and he knew he was good at it. Growing up his family also lived outside of Chicago, in North Carolina, Wisconsin and Minnesota. He sought out any way to pursue his passion for climbing. He moved to Colorado to go to school. There he found a...
Dates:
2009
No. 681 Richard Normann, 2011
File — Box: 70, Folder: 8
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Richard Normann, professor of bioengineering at the University of Utah and former department chair, remembers his childhood, education, and his long career at the University of Utah. He pays particular attention to his background, and to his scientific accomplishments, most saliently the Utah Electrical Array. Born in Oakland, California, in 1943 to Danish parents, Normann first got into engineering helping his...
Dates:
2011
No. 682 Lindsay Tuaileva, 2008
File — Box: 70, Folder: 9
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Lindsay Tuaileva (b. 1988) has lived in Orem, Utah her whole life. Her father is Tongan and her mother is from Tooele, Utah. She has three brothers and four sisters. Her father moved to Hawaii to take advantage of better opportunities for work, and then later moved to California to go to college and play football. He met his wife at an LDS church gathering while in California and they moved to Utah together and got...
Dates:
2008
No. 683 Gaylene Fale, 2008
File — Box: 70, Folder: 10
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Gaylene Fale (b. 1978) was born in Tamavua, Fiji. She was raised in Fiji but her ethnicity is Rotuman. She has a twin sister and two brothers. Gaylene and her sister moved to New Zealand to live with her uncle and attend high school. After high school they moved to Hawaii to attend university at BYU Hawaii. Gaylene and her sister wanted to go to universities in New Zealand but her mother insisted that they try BYU...
Dates:
2008
No. 684 Charles Law, 2012
File — Box: 70, Folder: 11
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Charles Law, U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant (retired), discusses his military service, with particular focus on his time as an atomic monitor during test shots on the Marshall Islands and at Camp Mercury, Nevada, in the 1950s, where he witnessed over forty atomic detonations. He describes the shots and decontamination procedures in detail, along with environmental contamination and hazards in Nevada and the...
Dates:
2012
No. 685 Ted Major, 2012
File — Box: 70, Folder: 12
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Ted Major (b. 1920), born in Salt Lake City, remembers his long life, with an emphasis on skiing, his Teton Science School, and ecology. Born to a Mormon pioneer family with roots in Denmark, Major grew up skiing, particularly at Alta. A graduate of East High School in Salt Lake City, he was friends with Ginny Huidekoper, who had such a large impact on Jackson Hole skiing and belonged to Mr. Major’s Little Kandahar...
Dates:
2012
No. 686 Bill Conrod, 2009
File — Box: 70, Folder: 13
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Bill Conrod, born in Germany in 1948 to an American soldier and his family, grew up in Salt Lake City. He began skiing at an early age, and toured with the Wasatch Mountain Club. He spent his youth climbing and skiing, and pursued a career with the National Park Service. He was also a president of the Ute Alpine Club at the University of Utah. Conrod first discusses skiing methods and equipment, and backcountry...
Dates:
2009
No. 687 Drew Bedford, 2010
File — Box: 70, Folder: 14
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Drew Bedford was born on August 2, 1964 in Toronto, Ontario, but grew up in Seattle, New Jersey, and upstate New York before his family settled in Charlottesville, Virginia during his teen years. Drew skied throughout his childhood before discovering a passion for climbing when he was thirteen years old. Throughout his high school years in Virginia, Drew climbed as much as possible, despite a relative shortage of...
Dates:
2010
No. 688 Stacey Allen, 2011
File — Box: 70, Folder: 15
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Stacey Allen runs the kitchen for Occupy Salt Lake. She is not politically involved with the protests. She got involved as a volunteer because she was living at Pioneer Park with her husband and saw that they needed help with the kitchen. Because she has experience working in kitchens she decided to take over. The protest has a lot of support from local businesses who donate food, tents, blankets, and supplies....
Dates:
2011
No. 689 Jesse Fruhwirth, 2011
File — Box: 70, Folder: 16
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Jesse Fruhwirth, a journalist, activist, and prominent member of the Occupy Salt Lake City movement, shares his memories of the early period, the occupation of Pioneer Park and the subsequent police raid. Mr. Fruhwirth’s comprehensive interview begins with his background as an activist, liberal son of Republican parents in North Dakota, who became increasingly disillusioned with the American political...
Dates:
2011
No. 690 Kimberly Kasey, 2011
File — Box: 70, Folder: 17
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Kimberly Kasey was born in 1970 at Walson Army Hospital in New Jersey, and moved to Utah as a child when her grandfather took an assignment as a contractor for the Air Force. Kimberly became involved with the Occupy Salt Lake movement, taking part in marches and rallies. After Pioneer Park was closed to the movement, Kimberly became a liaison between Occupy Salt Lake and Occupy Ogden. She describes the excitement...
Dates:
2011
No. 691 Ryan Pleune, 2012
File — Box: 70, Folder: 18
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- Ryan Pleune talks about when he first decided to become politically active. He describes his involvement with the Occupy Salt Lake City movement and the Occupy camp that was set up in Pioneer Park. Ryan also talks about his work for the Move to Amend movement.
- Project: Occupy Salt Lake City.
- Interviewer: Anna Thompson.
Dates:
2012
No. 692 Seth Walker, 2011
File — Box: 70, Folder: 19
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Seth Walker, a traveling poet and activist, traveled from Michigan to join the Occupy Salt Lake City movement and is currently part of the Federal Reserve front. Though he has spent a number of years on the road, Seth views Salt Lake City as a sort of home. He speaks to the diversity of tactics of the protesters and the consensus model practiced by Occupiers at the Fed. More importantly, Seth shares abstract...
Dates:
2011
No. 693 Sarina Brown, 2009
File — Box: 70, Folder: 20
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Sarina Brown grew up in Hawaii. Her family moved to Oregon when she was in ninth grade and she now lives in Utah with her husband and four boys. She describes growing up in Hawaii where her family lived two miles from civilization. When her family moved to Oregon she experienced culture shock because it was so different from Hawaii. Sarina has six sisters and seven brothers. She talks about growing up in a huge...
Dates:
2009