Box 76
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Contains 20 Results:
No. 832 Richa Varga, 2012
File — Box: 76, Folder: 1
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Rich Varga was born in Sandy, Utah, to Hungarian immigrants. He grew up snowboarding, and hiked up runs at Alta often. He remembers the early days snowboarding at Brighton, when mini-skis were still required. Rich took third at the world competition in Breckenridge, Colorado, in 1986, and was a member of Salty Peaks Snowboard Shop’s Salty 8 competition team. By the late 1980s Rich was competing in Europe. He...
Dates:
2012
No. 833 Michael Wilson, 2011
File — Box: 76, Folder: 2
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Over two interviews Michael Wilson, born in Idaho Falls and raised in Indiana and Vermont, discusses his time in the Occupy Salt Lake City movement and shares his thoughts on the movement’s growth, challenges and future. Involved by the second week of the protest, Michael, a Westminster College sociology graduate and self-described “hopeful anarchical syndicalist,” volunteered in the kitchen and did media outreach,...
Dates:
2011
No. 834 John Sugden, 1996
File — Box: 76, Folder: 3
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John Sugden was born in Chicago, Illinois. Sugden’s grandfather was a naturalist in Utah and his father also took an interest in animals and nature in Utah. John often went out to study nature with his father and grandfather. John’s father and Angus Woodbury wrote a book called Birds of Utah. Sugden discusses learning how to ski near Salt Lake City, the types of skis he used and from where he acquired his gear. He...
Dates:
1996
No. 835 Robert Leroy Baskin, 2015
File — Box: 76, Folder: 4
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This is a series of two interviews focusing on Robert Baskin’s work with the Great Salt Lake. Baskin was born in Montclair, New Jersey, and grew up in the small town of Branchville. His parents were school teachers, and his father was also a seasonal ranger at Yellowstone National Park. Each summer for most of Baskin’s life, he travelled West with his family for his father’s summer job. Baskin graduated from Thiel...
Dates:
2015
No. 836 Cathleen A. Campos, 2015
File — Box: 76, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
- The interview with Cathleen Campos has been removed from the Cooley Oral History project, and now forms part of the Saving the Legacy Oral History Project (Accn 2070).
Dates:
2015
No. 837 Deedee Corradini, 2012
File — Box: 76, Folder: 6
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In this interview, Deedee Corradini talks about her early life. Her family lived in Beirut and in a few cities in the United States. They traveled often because her father was a Congregationalist minister. When Corradini’s father accepted a position in Salt Lake City, she came for a visit and fell in love with the West. She studies educational Psychology with a specialty in rehabilitation services at the University...
Dates:
2012
No. 838 Donald Curtis, 2014
File — Box: 76, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
- The interview with Donald Curtis has been removed from the Cooley Oral History project, and now forms part of the Saving the Legacy Oral History Project (Accn 2070).
- Project: Saving the Legacy oral history project.
Dates:
2014
No. 839 Paul Diegel, 2012
File — Box: 76, Folder: 8
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Paul Diegel’s parents were involved with outdoor sports, so his experiences in the outdoors started at a very young age. Paul did some skiing on the hills outside of Portland when he was growing up. She started really getting into outdoor sports when he became a teenager, and fell in love with ski racing. Paul moved to Utah in 1982 to live close to skiing opportunities in an affordable place. He also got a job as...
Dates:
2012
No. 840 Gordon Gridley, 2015
File — Box: 76, Folder: 9
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Gordon Gridley is a Utah native, and a graduate of West High School, where he participated on the school swim team. Gridley was first introduced to the open water swimming as a Boy Scout; he later participated in triathlons. He became interested in swimming in the Great Salt Lake, started the Great Salt Lake Open Water Marathon, and trained in the lake in preparation for swimming the English Channel, which he...
Dates:
2015
No. 841 Cindy King, 2008
File — Box: 76, Folder: 10
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Cindy King talks about joining the Sierra Club with her husband in 1986, after having discussions with her daughter about the environment. She also started a committee for Water, Air and Hazardous, and Radioactive Waste. In 1987, King participated in a lawsuit for attainment for particulate matter with the Clean Air coalition of Utah County. She talks about working with companies like Geneva and Kennecott. King...
Dates:
2008
No. 842 Robert Righter, 2015
File — Box: 76, Folder: 11
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Robert Righter grew up in the Bay Area and went to college at Willamette University, where he studied history. Dr. Righter discusses his early influences and describes how he decided to become a historian. Before pursuing a career in history, he worked several jobs at Yosemite National Pak. Dr. Righter also describes his interest in environmental activism and environmental history, as well as his interest in...
Dates:
2015
No. 843 Lindsay Van, 2015
File — Box: 76, Folder: 12
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Women’s ski jumping pioneer Lindsey Van was born in Detroit and moved to Park City in 1989 when her father, who had worked for Ford, was laid off and her parents moved west to ski. She grew up skiing in a family of skiers and athletes, started ski jumping at 7, and was jumping internationally by 1995 with Karla Keck. She describes the changing culture over the years, mentions the sexism in which women were...
Dates:
2015
No. 844 M. Walker Wallace, 2012
File — Box: 76, Folder: 13
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M. Walker Wallace joined the Navy during World War II while he was attending Stanford University. The Navy sent him to UCLA as a V-12 student to train to become an officer. Wallace left the service in 1946 and graduated from MIT in 1947. He then worked in the City Planning Office of Boston. Wallace eventually set up a consulting branch of Planning and Research in Utah, which became Wallace Associates. He became...
Dates:
2012
No. 845 Lida Andisheh, 2013
File — Box: 76, Folder: 14
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Lida Andisheh talks about her childhood and education in Iran and what brought her to the United States. She briefly attended the National University of Iran for a medical career, but later went to the University of Tehran and received a bachelor’s degree in English literature. She also talks about her relationship with her father and husband and the lack of freedom she had growing up as an Iranian woman. While...
Dates:
2013
No. 846 Leslie Blank, 2010
File — Box: 76, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Leslie Blank grew up in upstate New York where she developed a love of the outdoors on adventures with her family and her friends. After finishing school, Blank and her friend hitchhiked across the country. They visited Utah and Leslie fell in love with southern Utah and the mountains. Blank then moved to Utah to become a ski instructor. Her coworkers worked as river guides during the summers and she decided to...
Dates:
2010
No. 847 Steve Bojack , 2014
File — Box: 76, Folder: 16
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Major Steve Bojack, USAF (Retired), was born in Harvey, Illinois and grew up in Chicago. He went through ROTC at Colorado State University in the early- to mid-1980s and remembers that it was unpopular on campus to be in the military. Stationed in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, Bojack deployed shortly after to the Persian Gulf and served in mission planning. He stayed on active duty until 1996 due to an...
Dates:
2014
No. 848 Daniel James Christiansen, 2014
File — Box: 76, Folder: 17
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University of Utah student and Army veteran Sgt. Daniel Christiansen was born and raised in Utah. In 2005, at age twenty, he enlisted as a combat medic and attended basic training at Fort Leonard Wood and Fort Benning, then took his medical training at Fort Sam Houston. He was deployed to Afghanistan twice, the second time as part of a Security Force Advise and Assist Team near Herat. He describes his sense of...
Dates:
2014
No. 849 Joseph L. Cox IV, 2014
File — Box: 76, Folder: 18
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Navy veteran Joseph Cox was born in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Oxford, Ohio. He graduated from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1993 with a degree in physics and chose Surface Warfare. After six months on the USS John F. Kennedy he transitioned to the USS Anchorage, an amphibious assault ship, and served all over the world. He conducted beach observations during the Somalian conflict of 1993, and then...
Dates:
2014
No. 850 Gary Harter, 2017
File — Box: 76, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
- The interview with Gary Harter has been removed from the Cooley Oral History project, and now forms part of the Saving the Legacy oral history project (ACCN 20170).
Dates:
2017
No. 851 Kirk David Galster, 2014
File — Box: 76, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
Army veteran and University of Utah International Affairs and Global Enterprise master’s student Kirk Galster discusses his time in Iraq and Afghanistan, his growing interest in conflict resolution and international development which led him to his current degree program, and his faith. An Iowa native, Galster enlisted in the Army out of high school and served in Iraq with B Co., 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry...
Dates:
2014