Box 73
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Contains 26 Results:
No. 758 Clay Watson, 2010
File — Box: 73, Folder: 1
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Climber and physical therapist Clay Watson (b. 1971), born in Florida, grew up mostly in Georgia and Florida in an Army family. He got into climbing and river guiding while an undergraduate student at Brigham Young University, working for Worldwide Rivers among others, and fondly remembers intellectual conversations with his rafting passengers. He started climbing at Rock Canyon, and worked with Mark Kehoe and...
Dates:
2010
No. 759 Stephen Willis, 2012
File — Box: 73, Folder: 2
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Stephen Willis (b. 1983) was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and though his family moved around when he was young he spent most of his time in Louisiana. He describes living in Shreveport. He joined the military right after high school and was shipped to Fort Carson Colorado. Stephen describes his experience at basic training and his training experience in Death Valley, California. Stephen was deployed to Iraq in...
Dates:
2012
No. 760 Abinadi Burns, 2012
File — Box: 73, Folder: 3
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Abinadi Burns (b. 1985) was born and raised in Georgia. His father is African American and is from Georgia and his mother is Samoan. Burns’ mother was on a Mormon mission in Georgia when she met his father. He talks about how they met, dated, and got married. He goes to university at BYU in Utah. Burns has six siblings but three of them are half siblings.
Burns’ mother was the first of her family...
Dates:
2012
No. 761 Frances Darger, 2012
File — Box: 73, Folder: 4
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Frances Johnson Darger (b. 1924) played sixty-nine seasons with the Utah Symphony. Born and raised in Salt Lake City, she grew up in a very musical home with four sisters. Her mother was an opera singer. She learned violin and played in the Stewart School Orchestra, graduating in 1939. A friend of Walker Wallace, Darger attended East High School and then took a bachelor of arts in English from the University of...
Dates:
2012
No. 783 Ellen Labotka, 2014
File — Box: 73, Folder: 26
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Ellen Labotka (b. 1968) was born and raised in Riverside, Illinois. She graduated from Utah State University in Recreational Resource Management. She has worked as a ranger for the Utah State Parks department for more than twenty years. Ellen talks about her early interest in the outdoors and how she got involved with the Parks department. She tells about her time spent at Starvation Reservoir, Jordanelle State...
Dates:
2014
No. 766 Stan Larson, 2011
File — Box: 73, Folder: 9
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In June and July 2011, Stan Larson, former curator of the Manuscripts Division at the Marriott Library, sat down with Karen Carver and Liz Rogers to complete Interview 251, which he had done in 1989. Dr. Larson spends these interviews reminiscing on memorable collections he was part of acquiring or worked with over his long tenure at the Marriott.
In the first interview he briefly discusses the...
Dates:
2011
No. 767 Sarah LeMire, 2013
File — Box: 73, Folder: 10
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Sarah LeMire (b. 1979) was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She studied English and Russian at University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and graduated in 2001, enlisting in the Army in January 2002. LeMire, who held the Military Occupational Specialty of 98G, took her basic training at Fort Jackson, then studied Arabic at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, before attending further training at Goodfellow...
Dates:
2013
No. 769 Paul Madsen, 2010
File — Box: 73, Folder: 12
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Paul Madsen (b. 1960) was born in Onekama, Michigan and moved around to several different states while he was growing up. Madsen’s father had served in the Navy and from a very young age he remembers being fascinated with mechanics in general. When Madsen was going to high school in Charlotte, North Carolina he applied to all the major military academies hoping to get into the air force academy. Finally Madsen was...
Dates:
2010
No. 770 John Reed, 2013
File — Box: 73, Folder: 13
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Lieutenant-Colonel (Ret.) John Reed, US Army Reserve, discusses his deployment to Iraq and service with MNSTC-I in 2007-2008. A combat engineer, LTC Reed was working as a history professor at the University of Utah at his time of deployment. He discusses his motivations for joining the Army Reserve and fills in some background before moving to the interview’s primary topic. He touches on his state of physical and...
Dates:
2013
No. 771 Josh Scheuerman, 2011
File — Box: 73, Folder: 14
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Josh Scheuerman was born in 1978 in West Valley City, Utah. He began snowboarding when he was thirteen years old on a plastic snowboard purchased from Shopko. He was one of the early riders at many of the resorts as they began to allow snowboarders on their runs. He worked for several resorts in Southern Utah and along the Wasatch Front and he taught and volunteered with the Burton Chill program that provides...
Dates:
2011
No. 777 Randy Dryer, 2012
File — Box: 73, Folder: 20
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Randy Dryer, former chair of the University of Utah’s Board of Trustees, gave two interviews. The first focuses on his time as a trustee, particularly his application of crisis management, and the second on his teaching and work with the honors college. A journalism major at the University in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he soon encountered the occasionally uncomfortable relationship between the campus...
Dates:
2012
No. 778 Richard Etulain, 2014
File — Box: 73, Folder: 21
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Richard Etulain discusses his early life and interest in western history. He describes his education and his early career as a western historian. Dr. Etulain then recounts his early experiences with the Western History Association, including his time as president of the association. He talks about some memorable sessions of the Western History Association annual meeting. Dr. Etulain also explains some tensions he...
Dates:
2014
No. 781 Charles A. Evans, 2014
File — Box: 73, Folder: 24
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Dr. Evans discusses his early life and his time as a student at the University of Utah. He worked as a research assistant in the Bureau of Economic and Business Research. Dr. Evans was involved in obtaining land from Fort Douglas for the University of Utah. He describes his involvement with the development of Research Park over the years, his responsibilities and accomplishments and the people he has worked with....
Dates:
2014
No. 782 Steve Kaufusi, 2008
File — Box: 73, Folder: 25
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Mr. Kaufusi was born in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, and moved in Salt Lake City in 1972 at age eight. He describes his early life in Tonga and his initial reaction to Utah. In Utah, his father worked in construction and landscaping; his mother worked occasional odd jobs until illness forced her to stop. He went through the Salt Lake City school system. He describes the Polynesian community in Salt Lake and his family's...
Dates:
2008
No. 762 Jay Harland (pseudonym), 2009
File — Box: 73, Folder: 5
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Jay Harland (pseudonym) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1980, where he has spent most of his life. He joined the ROTC program at West High School and that is where his military career began. He joined the Marines because of their reputation for being the toughest military branch and he left for boot camp right after graduation. Jay describes his training experience at boot camp in San Diego and at Camp...
Dates:
2009
No. 763 Ula Inoye, 2009
File — Box: 73, Folder: 6
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Ula Inouye was born in Western Samoa and raised in American Samoa. She is from a family of thirteen. Her father is Samoan and her mother is Samoan Chinese. She is married and has a daughter. She lived in American Samoa until 2000 when she moved to Hawaii because her parents wanted her to have more opportunities, especially for a good education. After that she moved to Utah where she has lived since. She moved to...
Dates:
2009
No. 764 Jared Jones, 2009
File — Box: 73, Folder: 7
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Jared Jones was born in Alabama where his father was attending flight school for the Army. He grew up around aviation and developed an interest in it early. His family eventually moved to Park City, Utah. After graduating high school Jared went to the Air Force Academy but decided to come home to Utah to pursue different interests. He joined the National Guard and was in the same unit as his father. Jared describes...
Dates:
2009
No. 765 Alexis Kelner, 2009
File — Box: 73, Folder: 8
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Alexis Kelner recounts his family’s history. They left Latvia, lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany and then moved to the Utah. Alexis describes many mountaineering and ski touring experiences. He talks about his involvement in starting the Save Our Canyons organization. Alexis describes the early days, several of the important moments in the organization’s history, and its present status. He explains his...
Dates:
2009
No. 768 June K. Lyman, 2009
File — Box: 73, Folder: 11
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June and her children, Mary Lee Madison and Marty Lyman, discuss their experiences and impressions of life at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, starting in 1971, specifically the events of the American Indian Movement (AIM) insurrection at Wounded Knee. June’s husband, Stan, was superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She was employed by the school district and worked at Chadron College. They retire...
Dates:
2009
No. 772 Joseph Earl Simmons, 2010
File — Box: 73, Folder: 15
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Joseph joined the Marine Corps after graduating from high school. He describes basic training and the initial shock of it. Joseph was in basic training on 9/11 and talks about the atmosphere after the attacks. After finishing School of Infantry Joseph’s unit was deployed on a Homeland Security mission in Southern California. Joseph describes his deployment at Camp Pendleton in Southern California. At the end of his...
Dates:
2010