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No. 728 J. Wallace Gwynn, 2013
File — Box: 72, Folder: 1
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J. Wallace Gwynn (b. 1940) was employed by the Utah Geological Survey (UGS) for thirty-four years as the geologist primarily assigned to the Great Salt Lake. In this interview, Dr. Gwynn talks about his experiences with the UGS and his work with the Great Salt Lake, including topics on the brine, lake minerals, salt mining, oil exploration and the impact of the mid-1980 high water years on the lake and his work....
Dates:
2013
No. 729 Peter Iverson, 2013
File — Box: 72, Folder: 2
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Regents’ Professor of History at Arizona State University Peter Iverson talks about his youth, his academic career as a historian of Native America, and his presidency of and involvement with the Western History Association. Dr. Iverson took his PhD at the University of Wisconsin, and taught at Navajo Community College and the University of Wyoming before finally settling at Arizona State University. He discusses...
Dates:
2013
No. 730 Mary Latu, 2009
File — Box: 72, Folder: 3
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Mary Latu (b. 1981) was born in Hawaii and lived there until she was nine years old when her family moved to Provo, Utah so her dad could attend BYU. When she was seventeen her family moved back to Hawaii because her dad got a job at BYU Hawaii. She now lives in Provo with her husband and two children. She describes growing up in Hawaii with her family, going to school, and the culture. She compares growing up in...
Dates:
2009
No. 731 Aselika T. Lolohea, 2009
File — Box: 72, Folder: 4
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Aselika Lolohea was born and raised in Tonga. She remembers corporal punishment in school, and how she liked attending Liahona High School because there was no more corporal punishment. She discusses her youth in Tonga in the 1950s and 1960s. She graduated Liahona High in 1970, and served an LDS mission all over the Tonga area from 1971 to 1972. She recalls not being allowed to speak Tongan at Liahona. In 1976 Ms....
Dates:
2009
No. 732 Janella Moala, 2008
File — Box: 72, Folder: 5
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Janella Moala (b. 1983) was born in Provo, Utah. In 1983 her family moved to Texas were she spent most of her life. She went to school in Hawaii. She is Mormon and went on a mission to Brazil. Janella’s father is Tongan and her mother is English, Dutch, Danish, and Scottish. Her father went to medical school in Fiji and then to moved to Hawaii to go to school there at twenty. Her mother was raised in Idaho. Her...
Dates:
2008
No. 733 Katerina Moala, 2009
File — Box: 72, Folder: 6
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Katerina Moala (b. 1977) was born in Tonga. She lived there for about two years and then her family moved to Samoa so that her mother could take care of Katerina’s grandparents and she was raised there her whole life. She has also lived in Hawaii, California, and currently lives in Utah. Her dad is Tongan and her mom is Samoan. Katerina grew up speaking Samoan in the home. She was required to learn English in...
Dates:
2009
No. 734 Sela Nock, 2008
File — Box: 72, Folder: 7
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Sela Nock was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in the eastern United States. Her mother is Tongan, born in Hawaii, and her father a Caucasian from Pittsburgh. Her mother’s family were traveling dancers, and Sela also grew up dancing. Her family moved a lot due to her father’s work. She moved to Utah as an adult and at the time of the interview attended Utah Valley University. Ms. Nock discusses her...
Dates:
2008
No. 735 Alan Prasad, 2008
File — Box: 72, Folder: 8
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Alan Prasad was born to a family of mixed Indian-Portuguese-Anglo descent and raised in Fiji. He attended BYU-Hawaii and received a business degree, moved around the United States, and at the time of the interview was in a medical diagnostic program at Weber State University. He came to Utah in 1992. Mr. Prasad met his wife at BYU-H. He converted to the LDS faith as a child, though his parents remained Hindu. He...
Dates:
2008
No. 736 William D. Rowley, 2013
File — Box: 72, Folder: 9
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Bill Rowley (b. 1939), Griffen Chair of History at the University of Nevada Reno, was born in Iowa, then moved to Washington with his family as a child. He attended the University of Nebraska before arriving at the University of Nevada Reno, where he stayed his entire career. In 1973 Dr. Rowley took over the executive secretaryship of the Western History Association, a post he held for sixteen years. He discusses...
Dates:
2013
No. 737 Laina Said, 2008
File — Box: 72, Folder: 10
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Laina Said was born in Raiatea, French Polynesia. Raiatea is part of the group of islands that includes Tahiti. It is the second most important island in French Polynesia because the hospital is located there and people from the surrounding islands go to Raiatea for medical attention. Laina lived in Raiatea with her family of six brothers and sisters until she went to university in Tahiti. She didn’t do very well...
Dates:
2008