Box 72
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Contains 30 Results:
No. 748 Merrill Bitter, 2011
File — Box: 72, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
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. 749 Tony Calderone, 2011
File — Box: 72, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
Rock climber and guidebook author Tony Calderone (b. 1966) was born and raised in upstate New York. He learned rock and ice climbing as a boy, and mostly climbed the Gunks, though he traveled all over the East and some in the West before moving to Salt Lake City in 1991, inspired by Climbing and Rock and Ice magazines’ Utah coverage. A self-described traditional climber, Mr. Calderone remembers that in the mid ‘90s...
Dates:
2011
No. 750 Matt Coolidge, 2011
File — Box: 72, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
In this interview, Matt Coolidge (b. 1966) describes his early travels in and experiences of the west. He talks about becoming involved in the art world. Mr. Coolidge then discusses founding the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover. He lists the people involved in the beginning and the process of starting the organization. Matt describes the Center and its environment. He talks about some of the artists...
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. 752 Craig Haskell, 2010
File — Box: 72, Folder: 25
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Haskell (b. 1953) describes growing up in Payson, starting his family and building a home in Payson. He talks about his career working for UDOT as well as Geneva. After being laid off at Geneva and before returning to UDOT he was recruited into the National Guard. He was thirty-one years old. He enlisted for six years and then decided to do more. He then considered joining the Air Guard but was declined because of...
Dates:
2010
No. 753 Sheldon Holgreen, 2010
File — Box: 72, Folder: 26
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Sheldon had an interest in the military since he was a boy. In high school a recruiter took him and some others to Camp Williams to blow up demolitions and drive Humvees and Sheldon was hooked. He signed up on his eighteenth birthday and showed up for basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina in July 2003. Sheldon found it difficult to train with some of the less disciplined people but he enjoyed training and...
Dates:
2010
No. 754 Hikmet Loe, 2013
File — Box: 72, Folder: 27
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Hikmet Loe is an artist, writer, and teacher who draws her inspiration from the land. Born and raised on the east coast, Loe moved to Utah in the early 80’s. In the 70’s, Loe received her undergraduate degree in Art History from Penn State, and later received her master’s in Art History from Hunter College in New York City. Loe master’s thesis, An Intermittent Illusion: Local Reaction to Robert Smithson’s Spiral...
Dates:
2013
No. 755 Clayton Miller, 2010
File — Box: 72, Folder: 28
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When Clayton was fourteen he was very interested in and affected by Desert Storm. He served a mission for the LDS church in Arizona and he talks about the importance of service in his life. He moved to Utah and was influenced by conversations he had with a coworker to join the National Guard in 1998. Clayton talks about his basic training experience where he was appointed platoon guide. After that he went to Fort...
Dates:
2010
No. 756 Dee Rowland
File — Box: 72, Folder: 29
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Dee Rowland talks about her early life and the experiences that led her to become an environmentalist. She discusses her work as the government liaison for the Catholic Diocese and the Catholic Church’s stance on environmental issues. Mrs. Rowland also describes the work she has done with the League of Women Voters. She talks about her involvement with Peace Links in opposition to nuclear weapons and nuclear...
Dates:
1983-2018
No. 757 Janine Smith, 2012
File — Box: 72, Folder: 30
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Janine Smith was born in Price, Utah, lived in Colorado, Illinois, Alabama, and Mississippi, but mostly lived in Arizona and Utah. She was enlisted in the Air Force for nine years up to master sergeant, which she spent at Hill Air Force Base. She was commissioned about four years prior to the interview at McChord Air Force Base in Washington, which is her unit presently. She is a second lieutenant. Janine describes...
Dates:
2012