Box 61
Container
Contains 26 Results:
No.466 Caine Alder, 2007
File — Box: 61, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Caine Alder was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 14 December 1933. He grew up in the undeveloped foothills and enjoyed exploring caves, climbing mountains, skiing, and running rivers. He joined the Wasatch Mountain Club at a young age, was mentored by Jim Shane, and did many first ascents. Topics discussed include his exploration and measuring of Neff’s Cave, search and rescue operations, his love of mountaineering...
Dates:
2007
No.467 Jerry Anderegg, 2007
File — Box: 61, Folder: 2
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Jerry Anderegg attended Highland, East, and Olympus High Schools in Salt Lake City, where he participated in ski racing and climbing. His friends included Rick Reese, Dave Wood and Dick Wallin. After his LDS mission to Germany, he was no longer interested in climbing, but turned to skiing and family. He discusses climbing in the Wasatch range, the evolution in gear, the Alpenbock Club, early skiing at Ecker’s Hill,...
Dates:
2007
No.468 Ross "Rocky" Anderson, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 3
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Anderson discusses the awakening environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s, and outlines his experiences after law school. Realizing that there was a lack of environmental leadership in Congress, he began a crusadet for alternative energy. He ran for Congress and won the primary but lost the election due to his stand on same-sex marriage. He ran for Salt Lake City mayor on a climate-change and urban-planning...
Dates:
2008
No.469 Dave Bastian, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 4
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Bastian (b. 1974) was born in Provo, Utah, but the family moved California and eventually settled in San Juan Batista, just east of Monterey. He recalls his childhood and speaks of the Teatro Campesino, a theater for farm workers. He describes his affinity for western novels; Louis L’Amour and and Zane Grey. After a series of menial jobs which supported his lifeas a ski bum at Solitude and Snowbird Ski Resorts, he...
Dates:
2008
No.470 Larson R. Bill and Julie Cavanaugh-Bill, 2009
File — Box: 61, Folder: 5
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Larson Bill (b. 1948) is a Western Shoshone who was born in Ely, Nevada. He discusses his background, upbringing, and general relationship to nuclear issues. Nuclear issues are something that have always been in the background of his life because of how they had affected Western Shoshone People. He discusses how the nuclear testing and nuclear waste controversies have come up in relation to his roles in tribal...
Dates:
2009
No.471 Roger Borgenicht, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 6
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Borgenicht earned his B.S. degree in Urban Planning and Anthropology at Columbia, and then went to Berkley for graduate work in architecture. He worked in environmental concerns in San Francisco, California, for 14 years, moving to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1984. He went to work for Assist, one of the oldest community design centers in the country. He was involved in the planning of the I-15 expansion, including car...
Dates:
2008
No.472 Frances Huddlestone Broadhead, 2009
File — Box: 61, Folder: 7
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Broadhead (b. 1931) was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. She discusses her family and growing up in that area. She contracted polio at age six during the fall of 1937. She has limited memory of her hospital stay and treatment, but discusses some follow-up physical therapy and her course of recovery, including crutches and massage therapy. Ms. Broadhead discusses the onset of, associated problemswith, and...
Dates:
2009
No.473 Shirley Rae Olson Christensen Burggraaf, 2009
File — Box: 61, Folder: 8
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Burggraaf (b. 1926) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She graduated with an accounting degree from the University of Utah and worked locally until marrying. She and he husband moved to Schenectady, New York, for his employment and they had one child. She contracted polio around 1950, while in her early twenties. She was treated at a Schenectady hospital in an isolation ward for two or three weeks before being...
Dates:
2009
No.474 Charles Butler, 2007
File — Box: 61, Folder: 9
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Butler (b. 1950) recalls his childhood and the influence of his parents in the development of his love of the outdoors. Both his father and mother were instrumental in guiding Charles to skiing, hiking and sailing. He tells of following his then-girlfriend to California, where he attended school for one year in Santa Barbara. While working his way home he was invited by friends to stop by Salt Lake. These friends...
Dates:
2007
No.475 Dick Carter, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 10
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Carter (b. 1950) describes his early experiences with his dad, including a memorable trip to Mirror Lake in the High Uintas. He attributes his understanding of what wilderness meant to trips with his Dad when he was a young boy. Dick experienced an “awakening” in high school and college and knew he would be involved in wilderness somehow. Topics discussed include Cliff Merritt (described as “the elder of elders of...
Dates:
2008
No.476 Forrest S. Cuch, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 11
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Cuch (b. 1951) was born in Roosevelt, Utah. A member of the Ute Indian Tribe, he currently serves as the director of the Division of Indian Affairs for the state of Utah. Cuch begins by discussing his upbringing and experiences crossing between the “Non-Indian world” and the “Indian world.” He then moves to a discussion of the controversy over high-level nuclear waste storage on the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes...
Dates:
2008
No.477 Riley Cutler, 2007
File — Box: 61, Folder: 12
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Cutler (b. 1952) begins by sharing his childhood in Preston, Idaho. He lived in a farming community, and he explains just what that meant to him and to his friends. They worked the farms, sometimes along side of immigrant farm workers. He had an active outdoor childhood, learning to ski among his many activities. The family moved to Panama City, Panama, and Riley went to the American High School in the Panama Canal...
Dates:
2007
No.478 Craig Denton, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 13
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Denton grew up on the east side of Salt Lake City. He attended Highland High School. A non-Mormon, he had the perspective of being on the outside looking in. Topics discussed include empty spaces like vacant lots that have since been filled in, the concept of wilderness, proposed wilderness areas of Utah’s West Desert, the Las Vegas water grab, his love of fishing and the Bear River, his career at the University of...
Dates:
2008
No.479 Carrol Firmage, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 14
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Firmage camped throughout Utah as a child with her family. She married Ed Firmage whose educational pursuits took them to Berkeley, California, and then to Israel on an Albright Fellowship. When they returned to Salt Lake City, they began to take weekend trips to the Escalante-Boulder area in southern Utah. Inspired by the scenery, they became interested in landscape photography. Ed’s father was an activist who...
Dates:
2008
No.480 David George, 2007
File — Box: 61, Folder: 15
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George (b. 1946) was born in New York and attended school in Massachusetts before the family moved to Colorado, where he became interested in climbing. He studied engineering at the University of Utah and climbed in the Wasatch with Joel Brown and Jock Gliddon. He recalls climbs in the Tetons and Wind Rivers. Later climbs took him to Canada, the Alps, the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan, and Nepal. Topics discussed...
Dates:
2007
No.481 Scott Groene, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 16
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Groene discusses why he attended law school and how he became a paid “enviro.” He started his law career working for Indians in Mexican Hat, Utah. He also lived in Bluff and Moab, Utah and Washington D.C. while working for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. He is now executive director of that organization. He describes some of the environmental issues he has worked on over the years, such as livestock grazing,...
Dates:
2008
No.482 Vai Hafoka, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 17
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Hafoka (b. 1959) tells us about her young life in the Tongan Islands, then her move to San Mateo California. She describes, with excitement, her trip from Tonga to the United States in 1970, and shares the importance to her of her Tongan traditions. She describes her family’s relationship with the LDS church, including her arrival at Brigham Young University at the age of 17, with a book and tuition scholarship, a...
Dates:
2008
No.483 David Hanscom, 2007
File — Box: 61, Folder: 18
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Hanscom (b. 1941) grew up in Rumford, Maine. His father introduced him to skiing at an early age and he skied for his high school ski team. He skied the Nordic Combined events, which were comprised of combined scores from cross country skiing and ski jumping. He talks about older equipment, such as pine-tar cross country skis, and skis that had no camber and just dragged. He went to Middlebury College prior to...
Dates:
2007
No.484 Ronald Soren Hanson, 2009
File — Box: 61, Folder: 19
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Hanson (b. 1931) recalls growing up in Logan, where he contracted polio in the fall of 1937 at the age of six. He was sent to the Los Angeles Children’s Hospital for nine months. He relates his experiences with daily physical therapy, hospital food and care, his fellow patients, schooling and overall care, a return to Los Angeles for a series of follow-up corrective surgeries, and the use of orthotic devices to...
Dates:
2009
No.485 Marc Heileson, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 20
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Heileson grew up in Provo, Utah, where his experiences with camping and backpacking left him with a love for Utah’s wilderness. He grew up watching the political scene change, allowing more encroachment into the wilderness for oil and gas development, He was introduced to the Sierra Club while working on the senatorial campaign of Wayne Owens. After he received his degree in Natural Resources from Utah State...
Dates:
2008