Box 72
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Contains 30 Results:
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
No. 738 Dave Shearer, 2013
File — Box: 72, Folder: 11
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Mr. Shearer is currently the harbormaster at the Great Salt Lake State Park Marina. He has been serving in that post since 1998. He moved to the marina in 1998, living on a boat docked there, and began volunteering with the Park Service on search and rescue until his appointment as harbormaster. Dave grew up in the Salt Lake area and first came to Great Salt Lake on a field trip in elementary school. He started...
Dates:
2013
No. 739 Helen “Ginger” Tuilevuka, 2008
File — Box: 72, Folder: 12
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Helen Tuilevuka (b. 1986) was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She moved to California and also lived in Utah. She spent most of her life in Gallup, New Mexico. She also lived in Las Vegas for a short time and in Ireland with her husband for a while. She moved to Utah her junior year of high school because she wanted to get used to Utah before attending Brigham Young University. Her mother is Tongan Samoan and her...
Dates:
2008
No. 740 Jessica Unga, 2009
File — Box: 72, Folder: 13
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Jessica Unga (b. 1984) was born in Wailuku, Hawaii and raised in Laie, Hawaii. When her parents separated she and most of her siblings moved to Provo, Utah with their mother to be near their mother’s family. She is half Tongan and half white. She has six brothers and sisters and one half brother. Jessica talks about some of the jobs she has had. She did phone surveys with Teleperformance. She worked at a...
Dates:
2009
No. 741 Leslie Unufe, 2008
File — Box: 72, Folder: 14
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Leslie Unufe (b. 1968) was born in Kahuku, Hawaii. She grew up in Laie, Hawaii. She is part Hawaiian, part Samoan. Her family moved to Utah in 1981 so that she and her siblings could have a better education. Leslie describes what she expected Utah to be like and then her first impressions when she arrived. She talks about feeling a big culture shock when she arrived because she was not used to being around white...
Dates:
2008
No. 742 Uinise Wolfgramm Vaenuku, 2009
File — Box: 72, Folder: 15
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Uinise Wolfgramm Vaenuku was born in Palo Alto, California, to Tongan parents who came to the United States in the 1970s. She grew up in the Bay Area in a bilingual home with a strong Tongan cultural atmosphere, and married Jeff, a fellow Tongan American. She worked extensively with senior citizens, and at the time of the interview worked on reservations for JetBlue from home. She and her family moved to Utah to...
Dates:
2009
No. 743 Alaisea Fusi Johnson “Fusi” Williams, 2009
File — Box: 72, Folder: 16
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Fusi Williams was born in Tutuila, American Samoa. Her grandmother raised her in Pago Pago until she was twelve, when Ms. Williams went to join her birth family in Hawaii. Her father was in the US Navy. Her family is strongly religious, and Ms. Williams discusses her faith and she and her family’s LDS service at some length. She credits the Book of Mormon with helping her learn English. Ms. Williams graduated...
Dates:
2009
No. 744 Mike Beck, 2011
File — Box: 72, Folder: 17
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Born in San Francisco, Mike Beck (b. 1969) moved to Salt Lake City with his mother when he was a small boy, after his father died. His stepdad introduced him to the outdoors, and he skateboarded and snowboarded extensively before embarking on his climbing career. Mr. Beck first climbed with Danny Kohlert and Conrad Anker, hung around the old North Face climbing shop, and acquired an immense respect for the climbers...
Dates:
2011
No. 745 Tim Begue, 2014
File — Box: 72, Folder: 18
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Mr. Begue talks about his early life and his first experiences at Great Salt Lake when he went sailing with his family. He worked as a river guide and his boss at one of the companies suggested they go into the brine shrimp business. Tim talks about starting to fish for brine shrimp and the beginnings of the business he started, Prime Artemia. He describes the overall process of brine shrimping, from the work and...
Dates:
2014
No. 746 Dave Bell, 2014
File — Box: 72, Folder: 19
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Dave Bell was born on June 17th, 1970 in San Jose, California, but moved to Salt Lake City during his adolescent years. Dave began climbing in 1985, first bouldering at the Gate Buttress in Little Cottonwood Canyon and shortly thereafter climbing routes at the Dihedrals and the Green A Gully in LCC. Before long, he began to explore Big Cottonwood Canyon, Rock Canyon, and other local crags. Dave discusses some of...
Dates:
2014
No. 747 Philip Bernal, 2012
File — Box: 72, Folder: 20
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Philip Bernal (b. 1944) was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He came to Utah as a gymnast for the University of Utah. After graduating he went back to California but returned to Utah to work at the university. Philip enlisted when he was 21 and explains his decision to join the Reserve. Towards the end of his career in the military, Philip went to Bosnia with a first armored division. He describes their mission...
Dates:
2012
No. 748 Merrill Bitter, 2011
File — Box: 72, Folder: 21
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Merrill Bitter (b. 1953), born in Salt Lake City, was first introduced to the outdoors in Michigan in the Boy Scouts. He got into climbing in the mid-1970s with a course at Timberline Sports instructed by Dave Smith and Mark Freed, and was hooked for life. In a lifetime of climbing he has climbed with numerous well-known Utah climbers, from Bret and Stuart Ruckman, to Jeff Newsome and many others. He remembers the...
Dates:
2011
No. 751 Gordan Douglass and Mindy Shulak, 2010
File — Box: 72, Folder: 24
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Longtime Utah climbers Gordon Douglass and Mindy Shulak talk about their origins, how they got into climbing, their climbing activities in Utah and the West, and the history of Utah sport climbing. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Gordon grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona, and fell in lifelong love with skiing and climbing before he was out of high school. Mentored by Arizona climber Scott Baxter, he remembers hanging...
Dates:
2010
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