Box 72
Container
Contains 30 Results:
No. 738 Dave Shearer, 2013
File — Box: 72, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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 Phillip Bernal, 2012
File — Box: 72, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
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