Box 71
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Contains 26 Results:
No. 702 Janet Kotra, 2008
File — Box: 71, Folder: 1
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Janet Kotra (b. 1955) of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission discusses the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site. A scientist with a PhD from the University of Maryland, Dr. Kotra was born in Tacoma Park, Maryland, and aside from living in Hawaii as a young woman and while pursuing her bachelor’s degree, has lived in the DC area for much of her life. Dr. Kotra’s interest in public policy and abiding...
Dates:
2008
No. 703 Clyde Milner, 2012
File — Box: 71, Folder: 2
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Clyde Milner, longtime editor of the Western Historical Quarterly and professor of history at Utah State University and then Arkansas State University, remembers his career and his time at the WHQ. Professor Milner started at Duke University in religious studies, received a PhD in American Studies from Yale, and worked with famous Western historian Howard Lamar. Hired before he completed his degree, he taught at...
Dates:
2012
No. 704 Gustav L. Seligmann, 2012
File — Box: 71, Folder: 3
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Gustav L. Seligmann, professor of history at University of North Texas and a lifetime member of the Western History Association, remembers his career and relationship with the WHA. A military brat, he attended school in Bremerhaven, Germany, Virginia, Oklahoma, and the New Mexico Military Institute. Dr. Seligmann’s family came to new Mexico in the 1850s and he remembers his father describing a scene when he was a...
Dates:
2012
No. 705 Edward Swift, 2011
File — Box: 71, Folder: 4
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Edward Swift was born in Massachusetts on June 1, 1960, but currently resides in coastal Oregon. Following the tragic passing of his wife Renee, Edward traveled to Massachusetts to spend time with his sister. On his way back to Oregon, he stopped in New York City to learn about Occupy Wall Street. He became involved in the movement, and continuing his trip westward, he visited Occupy encampments in Saint Louis,...
Dates:
2011
No. 706 Amy Tolutau, 2008
File — Box: 71, Folder: 5
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Amy Tolutau, daughter of a Hawaiian and Filipino man and a white woman from Alaska, was born in Arizona and grew up in a small town, Wickenburg. The youngest of seven children, she remembers being the only Polynesian family in town, a matter of some novelty in a town whose ethnic makeup was almost exclusively Hispanic and white. Her father's family did not approve of his marriage, and Ms. Tolutau grew up far from...
Dates:
2008
No. 707 Jennifer Viereck, 2009
File — Box: 71, Folder: 6
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Jennifer Viereck was born in Plymouth, New Hampshire in 1952. Shortly after her birth she moved with her parents to southern Alaska where she spent her early years. Viereck discusses the ethical, moral and cultural impacts that correspondence with her “name father” John Olaranna (same as her middle name) had on her as he taught her to be a “good Inupiat” in his letters. Based on that background she describes her...
Dates:
2009
No. 710 Tevita Hafoka, 2008
File — Box: 71, Folder: 9
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Tevita Hafoka (b. 1965) was raised by his aunt and uncle in Tonga. He grew up all over Tonga. When he was a teenager his family moved to Hawaii to take advantage of better opportunities there. Tevita describes what it was like to arrive in Hawaii. He lived in Maui because his brother-in-law had a business there. Tevita then moved to Texas to live with his sister. A job opportunity came up in San Diego and he took...
Dates:
2008
No. 711 Karalyn Henderson, 2008
File — Box: 71, Folder: 10
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Karalyn Henderson (b. 1983), of Honaunau, Hawaii, was born at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. Her mother is Hawaiian and Filipino, and her father German and Tongan. Her parents met at Sea World, where they both worked, married, and her mother, raised Catholic, soon converted to her father’s Mormonism. Ms. Henderson spent most of her childhood in Utah, until her family briefly moved to California to help her...
Dates:
2008
No. 712 Robert “Lono” Ikuwa, 2009
File — Box: 71, Folder: 11
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Robert Ikuwa (b. 1977) was born in Honolulu, Oahu. He is the youngest of four children. They grew up in Kona, Hawaii. Robert left to go to Kamehameha schools. He joined the Mormon Church and served a mission in Japan. He did his undergraduate at BYU Hawaii, his Master’s at BYU Provo and is currently studying for his PhD at BYU Provo in education leadership. He teaches Hawaiian at BYU and Japanese at the Missionary...
Dates:
2009
No. 713 Sarah Ioane, 2008
File — Box: 71, Folder: 12
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Sarah Ioane (b. 1984) was born in Provo, Utah, and at the time of the interview had spent her whole life there. One of eight children, her parents were Mormon converts who met in Virginia when her father was in the Navy. Her mother is mostly white but one eighth Choctaw, and her father, from Kailua, Hawaii, is Hawaiian, Chinese and Japanese. Her parents suffered substantial racial unpleasantness from family when...
Dates:
2008
No. 714 Randall J. Olson, 2013
File — Box: 71, Folder: 13
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Dr. Randall J Olson (b. 1947), CEO of the University of Utah’s Moran Eye Center, discusses his life and career in four interviews. The first two cover his childhood, education and early career; the last two, his time on the faculty of the University of Utah. He was born in Glendale, California, to a father from Utah and a mother from southern California. His father served in the Pacific Theater of World War II. A...
Dates:
2013
No. 715 Sam Porter, 2010
File — Box: 71, Folder: 14
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Sam Porter was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He talks about joining the Marine Corps while he was attending junior college. He joined because he wanted an air contract but because of health reasons switched to a ground contract after graduating Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Virginia. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant and went on active duty after graduating college. He ended up as a signal...
Dates:
2010
No. 716 Clark Spence, 2013
File — Box: 71, Folder: 15
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Clark Spence, well-known Western historian and retired professor at the University of Illinois, remembers his early academic career, how he became interested in Western history, and his long association with the Western History Association. A Montanan by birth, raised in Idaho, Dr. Spence had planned to be an engineer but came home from World War II with different ideas. He credits Colin Goody Koontz at the...
Dates:
2013
No. 717 Mary Lee Spence, 2013
File — Box: 71, Folder: 16
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Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois and first woman president of the Western History Association, Mary Lee Spence, discusses her role in the WHA and shares her thoughts on the organization. A physics major at the University of Texas, she soon switched to history and later became interested in Western history, particularly influenced by her advisor at the University of Minnesota, Ernest...
Dates:
2013
No. 718 Christopher Spurrier, 2010
File — Box: 71, Folder: 17
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Mr. Spurrier was born in Provo, Utah. He discusses his family. He joined the National Guard in Utah while in high school. He describes his boot camp experiences at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. He was assigned to be a combat engineer with the Utah National Guard’s 1457th Engineer battalion, Headquarters Company. He relates his experiences with his unit, including working during the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City,...
Dates:
2010
No. 719 Pasi Suguturaga, 2008
File — Box: 71, Folder: 18
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Pasi Suguturaga (b. 1983) was born and raised in Makakilo, Hawaii. Her father is Fijian and Tongan, and her mother is Tongan, Samoan, Swiss, German and Jewish. When Pasi was twelve she moved to California with her father. After high school Pasi went to the University of Utah for a short time, then moved back to Hawaii to go to a community college there. She then decided to go on a mission for the Mormon Church and...
Dates:
2008
No. 720 Norman Thompson, 2009
File — Box: 71, Folder: 19
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Norman Thompson was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is married with two children. He currently lives in Hawaii and attends BYU Hawaii, where he majors in English and minors in political science. He is part Maori, part Hawaiian, and part Samoan. His father’s family is from Samoa but he grew up in California and Hawaii. His mother is from New Zealand. His parents are divorced. He is the oldest of three brothers and one...
Dates:
2009
No. 721 Rena Thompson, 2009
File — Box: 71, Folder: 20
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Rena Thompson was born and raised in Kahului, Hawaii. She is the middle child in between two sisters. She is married and has two children. She works at Kahuku Elementary School. She is Hawaiian, Filipino, French, Irish, Polish, and Portuguese. Her dad is Hawaiian, Portuguese, and Caucasian and her mom is Filipino and Caucasian. Rena talks about going to Kamehameha High School in her senior year. She discusses the...
Dates:
2009
No. 722 Elsie Toluta’u, 2008
File — Box: 71, Folder: 21
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Elsie Toluta’u was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. When she was three her family moved to Utah. They then moved to Tonga when she was five and they lived there for five years. Then her family moved back to New Zealand for nine years. After she graduated from high school, her family moved back to Utah. Elsie also lived in Tennessee for a year and a half while on a Mormon mission and she lived in Hawaii for four...
Dates:
2008
No. 723 Ted Wilson, 2011
File — Box: 71, Folder: 22
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Ted Wilson (b. 1939) discusses being hired to work at the Grand Tetons. He was chosen to be a part of the Tetons rescue team because of his rescue skills. He describes a few rescues he was a part of. After one rescue, the sheriff’s office, who hadn’t done anything to help, took all the credit for rescuing a group of kids. The most harrowing, and most famous, rescue Mr. Wilson took part in was a three day rescue on...
Dates:
2011