Box 76
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Contains 21 Results:
No. 832 Richa Varga, 2012
File — Box: 76, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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