Box 73
Container
Contains 26 Results:
No. 768 June K. Lyman, 2009
File — Box: 73, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
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. 769 Paul Madsen, 2010
File — Box: 73, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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. 772 Joseph Earl Simmons, 2010
File — Box: 73, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
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
No. 773 Ma’afu Suliafu, 2008
File — Box: 73, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Ma’afu Suliafu (b. 1978) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. His parents moved from Hawaii to Utah because Ma’afu’s mom went to law school at the University of Utah. Ma’afu’s parents weren’t expecting to have a child and they initially planned to give him up for adoption. They decided to keep him instead. When Ma’afu was four his parents sent him to Hawaii to be raised by his grandparents. After a year, though, his...
Dates:
2008
No. 774 Genevieve Atwood and Don Mabey, 2014
File — Box: 73, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
Genevieve Atwood and Don Mabey discuss their involvement with Great Salt Lake. They talk about their early experiences with the lake and when and why they became interested in it. Each describes their educational training and interests in science. Atwood discusses her career with the Utah Geological Survey, her contribution to several boards involved with Great Salt Lake, and her time in the Utah State Legislature....
Dates:
2014
No. 775 Kevin Ciampini, 2013
File — Box: 73, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
Snowboarding pioneer Kevin Ciampini reflects on his snowboarding life and the sport’s early days. Born in San Francisco, Mr. Ciampini grew up in Ogden. His father worked at Hill Air Force Base. He was always active and athletic, and raced BMX before he started boarding in 1978 with Wintersticks. He remembers that only Beaver Mountain allowed snowboards at first, and reminisces about selling his radio to go boarding...
Dates:
2013
No. 776 Lynn de Freitas, 2013
File — Box: 73, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Lynn de Freitas is an avid birder and environmental activists who focuses on the ecosystem of Great Salt Lake. Currently she is the Executive Director of Friends of Great Salt Lake, a non-profit organization that works to preserve and protect the ecosystem of the Great Salt Lake and works to educate and create public awareness about issues concerning the Lake and its environments. Lynn began her involvement with...
Dates:
2013
No. 777 Randy Dryer, 2012
File — Box: 73, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
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