Box 63
Container
Contains 19 Results:
No.521 Brent Huff, 2008
File — Box: 63, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Huff (b. 1981) was born in West Valley City, Utah. The exact date is uncertain because he was adopted. He grew up in an outdoorsy Mormon family and became interested in climbing by reading magazines and rappelling with friends. He went to Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, where he was a rock climbing TA in Maple Canyon. Huff is very technically and safety oriented, with an emphasis on trusting your partner. Topics...
Dates:
2008
No.522 June K. Lyman, 2008-2009
File — Box: 63, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Lyman (b. 1912) talks about her family and growing up in Sykeston, North Dakota, a small farming community. Her father owned a mercantile, and she lived in a Frank Lloyd Wright house. She attended the Saint Elizabeth's School of the Benedictine Order until eighth grade, and then attended the public high school. She talks about the economic changes that came to the family because of the Depression. She remembers the...
Dates:
2008-2009
No.523 Fredrick Brent Eldridge, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Eldredge (b. 1941) discusses his family, schooling and growing up years. He contracted polio at age 9 in 1951, and was initially treated at the Salt Lake County Hospital, where he was in isolation for two weeks prior to being sent to LDS Hospital for rehabilitative treatment. His total hospitalization time was approximately three months. During the acute phase of the disease his vocal cords were damaged, producing...
Dates:
2010
No.524 Dixie Lee Davis Edwards, 2009
File — Box: 63, Folder: 4
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Edwards (b. 1939) was born in Leland, Utah, but contracted polio at age three while living in California. She was hospitalized at General Hospital during the acute phase, having lost her ability to walk, and later transferred to White Memorial Hospital. The disease mainly affected her right side. She relates her experiences in the hospitals, including her memories of quarantine, the nurses, brief iron lung therapy...
Dates:
2009
No.525 Jonathan Hughes Horne, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Horne (b. 1935) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He contracted polio at age 4, and tells what he remembers about getting sick, experiencing nausea and a painful headache. He was treated at home and was immobilized in bed for several days with paralysis in all four limbs. He recalls receiving spinal taps. His father, a physician, arranged for gamma globulin to be shipped into Salt Lake from California and Jonathan...
Dates:
2010
No.526 Ellen Elizabeth Hancock Jerominski, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Jerominski (b. 1925)grew up in San Bernardino, California. She graduated from San Bernardino High School at age sixteen and moved to Utah for nursing school at the University of Utah. She describes her work experiences and training, principally at the Salt Lake County Hospital (2100 South State) during the early 1940’s. She graduated from the University of Utah in 1945. Shei relates her experiences working with...
Dates:
2010
No.527 Gordon O'Donnell Johnson, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Johnson (b. 1938) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He discusses his family and early schooling. He contracted polio at age 14 in early September of his ninth-grade year. He describes what he remembers about getting sick. He had a spinal tap at the doctor’s office and was taken to Salt Lake County Hospital, where he remained for six months. He was having difficulty clearing his throat of mucous; he received a...
Dates:
2010
No.528 Carol Jean Masheter, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Masheter (b. 1946) was born in Santa Monica, California. She discusses her family and childhood. She (along with her younger sister) contracted polio at age six while visiting relatives in Wichita, Kansas. Both girls were sent to a nearby hospital for spinal taps and were admitted. She remembers receiving intravenous horse serum and then becoming violently ill for a period of time. She describes receiving hot-pack...
Dates:
2010
No.529 Lois Hunter Moser, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Moser (b. 1935) was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She discusses growing up in Cranston, Rhode Island. She entered the Children’s Hospital School of Nursing in Boston in 1953. She discusses her school program, classes, requirements, living arrangement, duties, and their uniforms.She began working with polio patients her first year of school and rotated through departments caring for patients in the isolation,...
Dates:
2010
No.530 Joan Marie Peters Vandeventer Ogden, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Ogden (b. 1944) grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She discusses her family. She contracted polio at age seven. She recalls being sick with a sore throat, getting sicker, and being taken to the hospital for a spinal tap. She developed difficulty breathing, was transferred to the Children’s Hospital in Boston and was placed in an iron lung for about 24 hours initially. She thereafter was in and out of an iron lung for...
Dates:
2010
No.531 Marcia Edgley Packer, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Packer (b. 1946) was born in Preston, Idaho. She tells about her early family life. She contracted polio at age six, inSeptember 1952. She describes what she remembers about getting sick. At home she received heat treatment, which she describes. She was taken to a doctor for a spinal tap and sent to St. Anthony’s Hospital in Pocatello when polio was suspected. She remembers experiencing pain and fever for some...
Dates:
2010
No.532 Richard William Sline, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Sline (b. 1947) was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He discusses his family life and schooling. He contracted polio in 1950 at age three in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He combines his own recollections with stories he was told about getting sick. His family home was quarantined with a large red “P” sign on the front door while Rick was in the hospital (approximately three months). After the hospital, his arm was in a...
Dates:
2010
No.533 Barbara Greenlee Toomer, 2009
File — Box: 63, Folder: 13
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Toomer (b. 1929) was born in Pasadena, California. She discusses her family and schooling. She graduated from St. Monica High School in 1947, where she was on the basketball, tennis, and swimming teams. She attended Santa Monica Junior College, graduated from El Camino College, and graduated from St. Joseph’s College of Nursing in San Francisco. She discusses her school experiences and training during this...
Dates:
2009
No.534 Harold A. Decker, MD, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Decker (b. 1932), born in Salt Lake City, Utah, discusses his family, growing up and schooling. He contracted polio while in medical school at the University of Utah. He describes getting sick, including overall painful spasms through his body. He was admitted to the hospital for a spinal tap, which he describes. He was put in isolation for a period of time, then bed rest for one month. He received hot pack therapy...
Dates:
2010
No.535 Sharon Ann Jensen Duram, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Duram (b. 1939) discusses growing up in Brigham City while working in her father’s general store until her early twenties. She contracted polio at age twelve in early September 1951. She describes getting sick. She spent ten days in the hospital and relates what she remembers of her experiences there. After hospitalization, she received physical therapy at Dee Hospital in Ogden, along with heat pack therapy, which...
Dates:
2010
No.536 Christopher Lynn Hill, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Hill (b. 1947) was born in Los Angeles, California. He discusses his family and neighborhood. He contracted polio in September 1953 at the age of five. He was hospitalized and was in an iron lung for a period of time. He relates what he remembers of getting sick and his hospital experiences. He received hot pack treatments and some physical therapy. He talks about being ostracized in the neighborhood and at school...
Dates:
2010
No.537 Sandra Lee Day Johnson, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 17
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Johnson (b.1940) was born in Bremerton, Washington. She discusses her family and growing up years. She contracted polio at age eight. She talks about getting sick, going to the hospital for a spinal tap, and being admitted to the isolation unit. She spent approximately three months in St. Benedict’s Hospital in Ogden, Utah. She relates hospital conditions and treatments received, including hot packs, the Hubbard...
Dates:
2010
No.538 Joylene Kelsch Eves and Carol Kelsch, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 18
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Ms. Kelsch (b, 1942) and Ms. Eves (b. 1947) are sisters. Both were born in Heber City, Utah, and grew up in Provo, Utah. Ms. Kelsch contracted polio at age ten. Ms. Eves was told as an adult that she had apparently suffered from a mild case of polio while a youngster.
In the interview, both women discuss family, growing up and schooling. Carol contracted polio at age ten in early September 1952...
Dates:
2010
No.539 Dale John Lambert, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Lambert (b.1946) was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. His family moved shortly thereafter to California. He discusses his family. He contracted polio at age three. He relates what he has been told about getting sick. He was hospitalized in San Diego from early August 1949 to spring 1950. He recalls some hospital memories. While there he received some physical therapy, which continued on an outpatient basis...
Dates:
2010