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No. 724 Bonnie Baxter, 2013
File — Box: 71, Folder: 23
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Bonnie Baxter is a professor of biology at Westminster College in Salt Lake City and the director of the Great Salt Lake Institute. Fascinated by science from a young age, she pursued work in genetics and DNA. Her interest has always been in liberal arts education, which is how she found Westminster College and in turn began her relationship with Great Salt Lake. She studies halophiles (salt loving bacteria) and...
Dates:
2013
No. 725 Mata Brown and Finau Conklin, 2008
File — Box: 71, Folder: 24
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Twins Mata Brown and Finau Conklin were born and raised in Fiji. Their uncle, Sitiveni Rabuka, was the prime minister of Fiji. They attended college in Hawaii and Utah, starting at BYU-Hawaii and the Polynesian Cultural Center. Mata received a BA from BYU in political science, and Finau took hers in social work. Both are LDS and describe their conversion to that faith, including their experiences with the Methodist...
Dates:
2008
No. 726 Semisi Brown, 2009
File — Box: 71, Folder: 25
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Semisi Brown was born and raised in Salt Lake City. He has eleven brothers and two sisters. He is married and has four boys and his family currently lives in Provo, Utah. Both of his parents are Tongan. He works for a web design company. He talks about the name Brown and where it came from. Semisi talks about what it was like to grow up in a large family. He had a lot of hand-me-downs and had to learn how to share...
Dates:
2009
No. 727 Janet Fireman, 2013
File — Box: 71, Folder: 26
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Janet Fireman, past president of the Western History Association and California public historian, talks about how and why she became a historian and how and why she chose to study the American West. She describes her relationship with her father, who was a journalist interested in Western history and also taught at Arizona State University. Dr. Fireman talks about her education and the traveling she has done for...
Dates:
2013
No. 708 John Gregory Francis, 2011
File — Box: 71, Folder: 7
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Mr. Francis (b. 1943) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 10. He discusses his growing up years in Sacramento, California, as well as his educational experiences. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a doctorate from University of Michigan, with post graduate work at the University of Essex and Oxford. He discusses his educational experiences and influences. Mr. Francis...
Dates:
2011
No. 709 Crystal Hafoka, 2009
File — Box: 71, Folder: 8
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Crystal Hafoka was born in 1987 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her father was German-Hungarian and her mother is of Maori and Tahitian descent. Both her parents were in the military so Crystal and her siblings were raised in both Germany and Hawaii. Crystal has maintained a close connection to her South Pacific heritage through dance and she has performed all over the U.S. and internationally with troupes from the...
Dates:
2009