Box 75
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Contains 27 Results:
No. 826 Jessica Jerome, 2013
File — Box: 75, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
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
No. 826 Jessica Jerome, 2013
File — Box: 75, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
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
No. 827 Peter Jerome, 2012
File — Box: 75, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
Boston-born Peter Jerome, an airline pilot for Delta, moved to Salt Lake City from Florida for work in 1992. Three of his four children were in the Park City ski jumping program, with daughter Jessica winning the Junior Olympics. Peter realized after 2002 that there was no leadership for women in ski jumping and got into funding. He helped set up Women’s Ski Jumping USA in the early 2000s, and became increasingly...
Dates:
2012
No. 828 Bill Kerig, 2013
File — Box: 75, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
Bill Kerig, documentary film producer, fundraiser and supporter of women’s ski jumping, talks about his career, his work promoting women’s ski jumping and his move into crowdfunding for athletes. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Bill attended college in Vermont and moved to Utah in 1984, first working as a dishwasher at Snowbird before getting into pro skiing at Vail. He returned to Utah in 1997 to make the film Net...
Dates:
2013
No. 829 James L. Macfarlane, 2012
File — Box: 75, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
James MacFarlane was born and raised in Salt Lake City, where he has lived his whole life. His father was a University of Utah supporter and encouraged James to be a supporter as well. He went to the University of Utah in 1949, played basketball for the freshman and varsity teams, joined the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and studied marketing. James graduated in 1954.He describes his position and his work with the...
Dates:
2012
No. 830 Brian Schiele, 2012
File — Box: 75, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
Retired senior noncommissioned officer in the Utah Army National Guard Brian Schiele focuses, over two interviews, on his work with the Community Based Health Care Organization at Camp Williams, Utah, one of the Army’s Community Based War Transition Units. For several years he worked with wounded returning veterans, helping them receive the care they needed and adjust to civilian life, both in the military and as...
Dates:
2012
No. 831 Barbara Thomas, 2013
File — Box: 75, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
Barbara Thomas, executive secretary of the Council of Governments in Salt Lake County, talks about her early years in Idaho and then southern Utah, her attendance at Dixie State College and then the University of Utah, and her nearly lifelong involvement in local government. She worked for several years with the 5 County Association of Governments, then in Cedar City, before moving up to the Salt Lake area with her...
Dates:
2013