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No. 807 Raymond F. Gesteland, 2013
File — Box: 75, Folder: 1
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Ray Gesteland grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, with two older brothers. After high school, he attended the University of Wisconsin where he focused on science. He stayed at Wisconsin to do a master’s degree. His project was in nutrition and he had a herd of thirty cows to look after and research. Dr. Gesteland then went on to do his graduate work at Harvard and worked with Nobel Prize winner Jim Watson and...
Dates:
2013
No. 808 Jenny Holden, 2012
File — Box: 75, Folder: 2
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Jenny Holden was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She moved to Utah during the 2002 Olympics and worked for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. After the Olympics she worked for the US Ski Team and managed the men’s alpine team for five years, which took her to Park City where she lives currently. Jenny talks about joining the Women’s Ski Jumping organization. She describes her responsibilities and her relationship...
Dates:
2012
No. 809 Beth Malloy, 2010
File — Box: 75, Folder: 3
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Beth Malloy talks about her first experiences rock climbing and discovering her passion for the sport. She talks about the climbing community she was a part of in the beginning and the different locations where she climbed. Beth recounts a story of a major accident she had that kept her from climbing for a few years. She talks about climbing with her late husband, Seth Shaw. She describes some differences between...
Dates:
2010
No. 810 Melanie Martin, 2011
File — Box: 75, Folder: 4
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Melanie Martin discusses her involvement with the Occupy Salt Lake City movement. She has been working as a co-producer for street theater performances that represent the Occupy movement’s politics. Melanie also talks about her experiences with the Occupy community. She describes some specific issues Occupy Salt Lake City is working to address, such as homelessness. Melanie discusses her predictions for the...
Dates:
2011
No. 811 Fred Shubert, 2012
File — Box: 75, Folder: 5
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Philadelphia-born climber Fred Schubert grew up in central New York, and got into hiking and skiing at an early age. He started climbing in Chicago gyms in the mid-1990s, and moved into outdoor climbing in the early 2000s in Salt Lake City. Fred’s climbing really took off when he joined the Wasatch Mountain Club, a place where he did some climbing instruction at the time of the interview. He talks about climbing,...
Dates:
2012
No. 812 Robert B. Smith, 2013
File — Box: 75, Folder: 6
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Robert Smith talks about his early life growing up in Logan, Utah and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He spent a lot of time skiing and describes his experiences. He describes his first job in Yellowstone and his time studying at Utah State. Robert spent time in the Air Force during which he did work and research in the Alps. After his time in the Air Force he took a job at the University of Utah in what was then called the...
Dates:
2013
No. 813 Sharon Anne Wade, 2011
File — Box: 75, Folder: 7
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Sharon Wade discusses her involvement with Occupy Salt Lake City and her motivations for participating in the movement. She worked as a homeless advocate. Sharon describes her experience at Pioneer Park and characterizes the relationships between the protestors, the homeless, and the police. She details the police raid that broke up the Occupy movement’s presence in Pioneer Park. Sharon also talks about her hopes...
Dates:
2011
No. 814 Joe Zug, 2011
File — Box: 75, Folder: 8
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Joe Zug, a member of the Occupy Salt Lake movement, talks about his participation in the movement and his religious beliefs. He sees the Occupy movement as part of a long-running move toward a new heaven and a new earth, and looks to Christian scripture, Eastern religion and quantum physics to help deepen his understanding of the movement and guide his path.
Project: Occupy Salt Lake City oral...
Dates:
2011
No. 815 Lorris A. Betz, 2012
File — Box: 75, Folder: 9
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This detailed set of three interviews covers the career of retired Senior Vice President for University of Utah Health Sciences A. Lorris Betz, who served in that role from 1999-2011. The first interview covers his transition from the University of Michigan to the University of Utah, when he followed Bernie Machen to take on a major leadership role in Utah. He discusses the transition, his focus on improving the...
Dates:
2012
No. 816 Jessi Carrier, 2009
File — Box: 75, Folder: 10
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Salt Lake-born Jessi Carrier was raised half in Utah and half in New Hampshire. An environmental activist and member of Peaceful Uprising, she describes her youth, schooling, and gradual awakening to her own environmental activism. A camp counselor in New Hampshire, she also volunteered at SUWA and Save Our Canyons before getting involved in her current work. She lobbied once at the Utah Congressional delegation’s...
Dates:
2009
No. 817 Whitney Childers, 2013
File — Box: 75, Folder: 11
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Tulsa-born Whitney Childers graduated from Oklahoma State University with a wildlife biology major and journalism minor, spent a little time in Eastern Europe, and got into environmental work and journalism before moving to Utah. Hired on at Bill Kerig’s Wasatch Journal in 2008, she was introduced to women’s ski jumping with an article she wrote and, after the magazine ended in 2009, moved into communications and...
Dates:
2013
No. 818 “D”, 2012
File — Box: 75, Folder: 12
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This anonymous interviewee, a Saint Louis native who was the first person arrested the night the police took down the tents at Occupy Salt Lake, describes her work in the Occupy movement, especially in the kitchen, conflicts in the movement and what she sees as its deep and abiding flaws, the experience of being arrested, and finishes with an exploration of the impacts of being arrested on the middle-class white...
Dates:
2012
No. 819 Ted Frederick, 2015
File — Box: 75, Folder: 13
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Kimel Fisher was born and raised in Salt Lake City. After high school, Kimel attended the University of Utah for a year and was then called on an LDS mission to northern Germany. Very soon after returning home from Germany, Kimel was drafted. In order to go to school earlier, he decided to enlist so he could finish his two years active duty sooner. Kimel reported to Fort Ord, California for basic training. After...
Dates:
2015
No. 820 Lori Gibbs, 2013
File — Box: 75, Folder: 14
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During this segment Lori Gibbs provides a brief introduction to her birth, a discussion about why she chose to become a snowboarder, and then her participation in multiple competitions and coaching. Lori also discusses her opinions regarding the gender divide in snowboarding, where male snowboarders were paid better than female.
Project: Outdoor Recreation oral history project.
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Dates:
2013
No. 821 Joshua Green, 2015
File — Box: 75, Folder: 15
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Mr. Green was born and raised in Centerville, Utah. He graduated from Viewmont High School, where he was on the school swim team. He graduated from the University of Utah with a business degree and is a certified general appraiser. Mr. Green was co-founder of the Great Salt Lake Open Water Marathon and the Bear Lake Monster Swim. He is actively involved in the Utah Master’s swimming program. He regularly swims and...
Dates:
2015
No. 822 Nancy Hendrickson, 2012
File — Box: 75, Folder: 16
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Nancy Hendrickson, ski jumping coach and parent of a world champion ski jumper, was born in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and grew up skiing competitively at school, though she remembers that girls were not allowed to ski jump at her school. She moved west in 1985, settling in Park City in 1992. Her children skied from a very early age, and her daughter Sarah became a world champion ski jumper. Nancy discusses her...
Dates:
2012
No. 823 Deborah Henry, 2011
File — Box: 75, Folder: 17
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Born in New Jersey and with a family from New York City, Deb Henry came to Salt Lake City for quality of life reasons. She has a history of activism and has been involved with Tim DeChristopher and Peaceful Uprising. She took part in the Power Shift gatherings, worked on the Claudia Wright campaign, and became interested in Occupy Wall Street during its infancy. When she traveled to Ireland and saw the growth of an...
Dates:
2011
No. 824 Drew Hicken, 2012
File — Box: 75, Folder: 18
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Utah snowboarding pioneer and Salty Peaks cofounder Drew Hicken got into skiing at a very young age, and transitioned to snowboarding in junior high. He remembers making his own board with his dad’s help, but his first commercial board was a Burton Performer. Drew discusses the brief moment when Alta allowed snowboarding and the big break for Utah snowboarding when Park West became the first mountain to invite...
Dates:
2012
No. 825 Isaac Hoppe, 2012
File — Box: 75, Folder: 19
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Isaac Hoppe became involved with Occupy Salt Lake in late 2011 after seeing the Declaration of Occupation posted on a light pole. He camped at Pioneer Park and later at the Gallivan Center, and was involved in several committees along with a protest organized at Wal-Mart. He notes a divide between Occupiers regarding relationships with the police, and emphasizes the importance of engaging in consensus, which he...
Dates:
2012
No. 826 Jessica Jerome, 2013
File — Box: 75, Folder: 20
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Born in Jacksonville, Florida, ski jumper Jessica Jerome grew up in Park City. She describes her entry into ski jumping, her career, the experience of traveling and ski jumping, and the ongoing battle against sexism in ski jumping. She talks about the effort to get women’s ski jumping certified as an Olympic sport, describes her attitude (why do it if you can’t have fun?) and talks at some length about training,...
Dates:
2013