Box 70
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No. 694 Anne Butler, 2012
File — Box: 70, Folder: 21
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Emeritus professor of history at Utah State University, Anne Butler, remembers her academic career with emphasis on her membership in the Western Historical Association and her time as editor of the WHA’s organ the Western Historical Quarterly. Raised in Massachusetts, Dr. Butler discovered her love of the West and Western history in childhood, and, as a single mother of two in the 1960s, embarked on a college...
Dates:
2012
No. 695 Skylar Church, 2011
File — Box: 70, Folder: 22
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Skylar Church, activist son of an understanding but hardly radical family, discusses the Occupy Salt Lake City movement. He recalls that the movement grew enormously following the creation of an Occupy Salt Lake Facebook forum, reporting that the movement grew by five thousand people in one day. His interview especially stresses the harmonious aspect of the movement, and he discusses the Occupiers’ democratic...
Dates:
2011
No. 696 Peter Corroon, 2012
File — Box: 70, Folder: 23
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Mr. Corroon (b. 1965) was born in New York City, grew up in Long Island and later Connecticut. He describes his family. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied civil engineering. He studied real estate development and investment at New York University and received his master’s degree there. He later graduated from law school in San Francisco. He describes his employment and activities during...
Dates:
2012
No. 697 Gale Dick, 2009
File — Box: 70, Folder: 24
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Gale Dick (b. 1926), former professor of physics at the University of Utah, talks about the history of Salt Lake area activist group Save Our Canyons, which he has been involved with since its inception. Born and raised in Oregon, he served two years in the Navy at the end of World War II and afterward attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he fell in love with the mountains and embarked on his career and...
Dates:
2009
No. 698 Steve Erickson, 2009
File — Box: 70, Folder: 25
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Mr. Erickson was born on February 28, 1953 in Libertyville, Illinois. He discusses his early life including memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He discusses his activism as a student at Columbia during the Vietnam years and his eventual move to Salt Lake City. Describing himself as a “gunslinger for peace” he sees the most pressing issues of the world today as those...
Dates:
2009
No. 699 Ipo Hemaloto, 2009
File — Box: 70, Folder: 26
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Ipo Hemaloto (b. 1968), daughter of a Samoan man and a Japanese, Hawaiian and German mother, grew up in American Samoa. Her father was a lawyer, and her mother, a teacher and ultimately a PhD in history. Her family is Mormon; she believes her grandparents on both sides were converted. Her parents met at BYU-Hawaii. Ms. Hemaloto remembers growing up somewhat better off than her fellows, perhaps because her mother...
Dates:
2009
No. 700 Sarah Hendrickson, 2012
File — Box: 70, Folder: 27
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US Ski Team jumper Sarah Hendrickson (b. 1994) grew up in Park City, Utah. She was inspired by the 2002 Winter Olympics, and started jumping at Canyons Resort near Park City because Park City was full for the Olympics. She describes her routine, her life growing up and finally switching from public school to the Winter Sports School, and competition. She won a World Junior Championships bronze medal in 2010, and...
Dates:
2012
No. 701 Tuailoto Ioane, Jr., 2008
File — Box: 70, Folder: 28
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Tuailoto Ioane, Jr., was born in Virginia, spent his first five years in Panama, and then grew up in Virginia, following his father’s military career. The only boy in a three-child family, he was the son of a Samoan man and a Canadian or Vermont woman. He joined the LDS Church in his teens, and spends some time discussing his and his family’s conversion and their relationship to the Church and religion in general....
Dates:
2008