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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