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Contains 23 Results:
No. 784 Alexander Lemons, 2010
File — Box: 74, Folder: 1
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Alex Lemons (b. 1979) was born in Provo, Utah but spent most of his childhood in Colorado. Alex’s family moved back to Utah in 1994 and he graduated from Alta High School in 1998. He went to Westminster College and eventually graduated with a double major in History and English. After he graduated he began to think of going on to graduate school but wanted to do some kind of service first. Originally he looked to...
Dates:
2010
No. 785 Dennis Nazari, 2012
File — Box: 74, Folder: 2
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Dennis Nazari was born in California in 1963. He moved to Utah as a teenager and quickly became involved in the formative stages of snowboarding. He was the founder of the now legendary Salty Peaks snowboard shop in Salt Lake City and was a member of the original Salty Eight snowboard team. He received sponsorships from various companies and competed nationally and internationally. He currently lives in Salt Lake...
Dates:
2012
No. 786 Moli Ngatuvai, 2009
File — Box: 74, Folder: 3
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Moli Ngatuvai (b. 1938) was born and raised in Tonga. He went to school and served a Mormon labor mission there. He attended BYU Hawaii and BYU Provo. He returned to Tonga and became a teacher in Liahona where he married his wife. They have six children. They moved to America so Moli could earn an advanced degree and decided to stay and raise their family. Moli talks about growing up in Tonga with his brothers and...
Dates:
2009
No. 787 Sioana Ngatuvai, 2009
File — Box: 74, Folder: 4
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Sioana Ngatuvai (b. 1938) was born in Pangai, Ha’apai, Tonga. She talks about what it was like growing up in Pangai with her siblings and some of her experiences at primary school and high school. In primary school the students would get hit on the fingers with rulers if they misbehaved or answered a question incorrectly. Sioana misbehaved and had a lot of fun in high school because she was so far away from her...
Dates:
2009
No. 789 Eric Hodge and Nigel Roberts, 2010
File — Box: 74, Folder: 6
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Mr. Hodge, from Australia, and Mr. Roberts, from New Zealand, talk about traveling to Utah to climb King’s Peak. They describe preparing for the climb and the climb itself. Eric and Nigel also discuss their formative experiences as outdoorsmen and developing a love of climbing. They talk about traveling all over the world to climb numerous peaks, their goals, and the challenges they’ve faced.
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Dates:
2010
No. 795 John Netto, 2012
File — Box: 74, Folder: 12
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John Netto was born in New Haven, Connecticut and was raised between Connecticut and Utah. He is currently the CEO of Kenobi and he gives a brief history of the company and describes what they do there. John talks about his family and how they grew up poor. John explains how he came to be involved in activism. He started working with a Presbyterian minister, who is now his wife. He started working directly with the...
Dates:
2012
No. 796 Walter Nugent, 2014
File — Box: 74, Folder: 13
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In this interview, Walter Nugent discusses his career as a western historian. He describes his early education and his introduction to western history. He discusses a few of his publications and the research that went into them. Dr. Nugent then talks about his affiliation with the Western History Association, including his time as president. He also talks about a few memorable sessions at the Western History...
Dates:
2014
No. 797 Tara Bueche Robbins, 2011
File — Box: 74, Folder: 14
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Tara Bueche Robbins is a realtor who became involved with Occupy Salt Lake City after reading about the movement, in New York City and elsewhere, on alternative news websites. Originally, she was drawn to the protest by its challenge to the “Big Bank” system that has played such a significant role in the decline in the American economy. Since her initial involvement, like most people participating in Occupy, she...
Dates:
2011
No. 798 Tim Strong, 2013
File — Box: 74, Folder: 15
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Utah snowboarding pioneer Tim Strong credits his introduction to snowboarding to the Air Force, which put him in Utah in 1982, and an article in Playboy about Winterstick snowboards. An east coast surfer, he found the transition natural, and soon transitioned from a Swallowtail to the game-changing Sims 1500 FE with metal edges. Mr. Strong remembers that the first resort in Utah to allow snowboarding was Alta, for...
Dates:
2013
No. 799 Stewart N. Thorpe , 2012
File — Box: 74, Folder: 16
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Stewart Thorpe is a native of Salt Lake City. He is studying communications at the University of Utah. He became involved with the Occupy Movement when somebody invited him to an organizing meeting for Occupy Salt Lake City. Stewart talks about other activism groups and movements he has been involved with and explains why he is a part of the Occupy Movement. He feels it is a movement that is criticizing the core of...
Dates:
2012
No. 802 Rachel Carter, 2011
File — Box: 74, Folder: 19
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Rachel Carter was arrested during the Salt Lake City Police Department’s raid of the Occupy Salt Lake City encampment at Pioneer Park on November 12, 2011. Interestingly enough, the previous night was her first night camping at the park, and she made the decision to camp due to her disagreement with the announcement that the park would be evacuated. She has been politically active for a number of years, beginning...
Dates:
2011
No. 803 James Lynn Crane, 2011
File — Box: 74, Folder: 20
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Mr. Crane was born on August 1st in Murray, Utah. His family lived in Herriman, Utah, where he has lived for the majority of his life. Mr. Crane served as mayor of Herriman from June 1999 at the time of the incorporation of Herriman into a city. He served as mayor for just over ten years. Mr. Crane describes his childhood living in Herriman and also spending summers, and eventually his high school years, in Idaho...
Dates:
2011
No. 804 Jeff Davis, 2012
File — Box: 74, Folder: 21
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Jeff Davis was born in 1968 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was among the first snowboarders from Utah to compete on national and international circuits and was a member of the original Salty Eight snowboarding team sponsored by Salty Peaks. He also received sponsorships from many of most innovative snowboard gear companies as they came onto the scene, including Burton, GNU, and Nitro. He spent over a decade coaching...
Dates:
2012
No. 805 Gail Fish, 2011
File — Box: 74, Folder: 22
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Gail Fish is from Florida. She discusses her involvement with Occupy Salt Lake City, at protests and organizer meetings. She talks about her motivations for becoming involved and the goals of the movement as she sees them. Gail also talks about her future plans to participate in Occupy Salt Lake City and plans that the movement itself has.
Project: Occupy Salt Lake oral history project.
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Dates:
2011
No. 788 Don Paul, 2013
File — Box: 74, Folder: 5
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In this interview, Don Paul talks about his formative years and his parents’ influence on his love of the outdoors. He describes his first experiences exploring the Great Salt Lake. Mr. Paul then discusses his education, which led him to a career as a biologist. He worked as a conservation officer for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, and then later as an information specialist. Mr. Paul also worked on a...
Dates:
2013
No. 790 Terry Tempest Williams, 2014
File — Box: 74, Folder: 7
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Terry Tempest Williams talks about her family’s history in Utah and growing up near Great Salt Lake. She describes developing an interest in nature at an early age. Mrs. Tempest Williams discusses her self-education, her mentors, and her time as a student at the University of Utah. She talks about her work with the Utah Museum of Natural History and her career as an educator. Mrs. Tempest Williams talks about the...
Dates:
2014
No. 791 Candice Kalamafoni, 2008
File — Box: 74, Folder: 8
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Candice Kalamafoni, the youngest of four, was born in Arcadia, California, and raised in Pasadena and, briefly, Hawaii, attending Kaiser High School in Honolulu for her senior year. Hawaiian and Samoan, she felt out of place in Pasadena where there were few Polynesians. After her senior year of high school, Candice returned to California and attended City College in Pasadena while working different jobs. Shortly...
Dates:
2008
No. 792 Elizabeth Mathias, 2014
File — Box: 74, Folder: 9
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Elizabeth Mathias talks about her first experiences with the military and her family’s history of military involvement. When she was a junior in high school she went to a summer camp at the Air Force Academy and decided to pursue a career in the Air Force. After her time at the Air Force Academy, she was assigned to earn her Master’s degree at Pennsylvania State University. Elizabeth talks about her experiences in...
Dates:
2014
No. 793 Victor Method, 2012
File — Box: 74, Folder: 10
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In this series of three interviews Victor Method describes the things he has gathered for the visual archive. He then talks about events surrounding Vilamoura in 2006, one of which was a sponsorship deal the women ski jumpers earned with Visa. In 2008 the women ski jumpers were invited to jump at the inauguration of the Canadian National Championships, where Lindsey Vonn set the record for the hill. Victor then...
Dates:
2012
No. 794 Joyce Mitchell, 2012
File — Box: 74, Folder: 11
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Dr. Joyce Mitchell, nationally prominent in the field of bioinformatics and retiring head of the University of Utah’s Department of Bioinformatics, discusses her life and long career, first at the University of Missouri and ten at the University of Utah. A Wyoming native, she attended Stephens College in Missouri and then earned a PhD in population genetics at the University of Wisconsin. She spent twenty-five...
Dates:
2012