Box 76
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Contains 21 Results:
No. 842 Robert Righter, 2015
File — Box: 76, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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. 847 Steve Bojack, 2014
File — Box: 76, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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