Box 65
Container
Contains 19 Results:
No.559 Anna Maria Bennett, 2010
File — Box: 65, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Bennett (b. 1952) discusses her family and early memories of Costa Rica. She contracted polio at sixteen months and spent a short time in an iron lung. She received treatment at the Shriners Hospital in San Francisco, California. She describes her treatment, permanent disabilities, and post-polio health issues.
Polio Oral History Project.
Interviewer: Becky B. Lloyd
Dates:
2010
No.560 Brent Manning, 2009
File — Box: 65, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Manning describes the climbing culture in Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s. He recalls climbing in Colorado, Europe, Alaska, and the Himalaya region. He describes his expedition to Mt. Everest in 1990, which was special to him because of his son's presence at base camp.
Utah Outdoor Recreation Project. Interviewed by Matt Driscoll.
Dates:
2009
No.561 Rick Reese, 2008
File — Box: 65, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Reese (b. 1942) graduated from East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, then joined the army reserve and served active duty in response to the Berlin crisis. He worked for the National Park Service as a climbing ranger at Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park. His first great climbing experience was Mount Rainier, where he was a part of the youngest unguided climb up to that date. He became a part of the Alpine Buck Climbing Club, and was very active in the Wasatch, which has some of the...
Dates:
2008
No.562 David Clayton Dunford, 2010
File — Box: 65, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Dunford (b.1939) discusses his family and the family business, Dunford Bakery.He contracted polio at age 8 in February 1947. He describes getting sick. He and his two brothers contracted the disease at the same time and were all treated at home. They enlisted the services of Dr. Ted Robinson for a unique treatment method: liquid deprivation and sucrose injections. He describes the treatment. David also had bulbar polio and was unable to talk and swallow. He was fed through a naso-gastric...
Dates:
2010
No.563 Michael P. Collins, M.D., 2009
File — Box: 65, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Collins (b. 1945) was born in San Francisco, California. He discusses his family and early memories. He contracted polio at age five and tells about getting sick and being taken by ambulance to an isolation unit at San Francisco General Hospital. He recalls the hospital conditions and activities. He couldn't walk and had difficulty breathing. He was in an iron lung for a period of time. After isolation, he moved to a general ward and started physical therapy, which included exercises,...
Dates:
2009
No.564 Bruce Tremper, 2008
File — Box: 65, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Tremper (b. 1953) grew up in a large Catholic outdoorsy family in Missoula, Montana.His father was a working class businessman and his mother was an academic. Bruce was a ski racer for the University of Montana, was on the Junior National Ski Team for three years and the US Ski Team Talent Squad until he decided that he could not continue for financial reasons. In college he worked trail maintenance every summer for Glacier National Park. He got his degree in Geology and joined the Ski...
Dates:
2008
No.565 Paul Horton, 2007
File — Box: 65, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Horton (b. 1948) grew up in Salt Lake City. He was fascinated with climbing, and spent a great deal of his youth hiking with the Wasatch Mountain and Ute Alpine clubs. He discusses the two clubs extensively, stressing the effect they had on his development as a climber and providing background on who was climbing in Utah in the sixties and seventies. After college, Horton guided in the Tetons during the summer. He eventually became a partner in Jackson Hole Mountain Guides....
Dates:
2007
No.566 Susan Schoer, 2008
File — Box: 65, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Schroer was born and raised in Missouri and majored in journalism and psychology at Drury University. She discovered how rewarding it was to work with disabled children during a college internship. After college she did an AmeriCorps position with Splore, a nonprofit organization in Salt Lake City that provides outdoor recreation opportunities for people with disabilities. She is still working there. Splore takes kids and adults out into nature on an adventure, expanding their experience and...
Dates:
2008
No.567 Garth B. Myers, M.D., 2010
File — Box: 65, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Myers (b. 1921) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He discusses his family, growing up years, and schooling. He served an LDS mission to Los Angeles, California, while simultaneously attending school at the University of Southern California. He graduated from the USC medical school. While working as a resident at the Los Angeles County Hospital, Myers contracted polio. He was thirty years old. He describes his symptoms and treatment. He emerged from the disease with no noticeable disability....
Dates:
2010
No.568 Cerre Francis, 2008
File — Box: 65, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Cerre (b. 1979) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and suffered from hip dysplasia. Treatment for her condition involved multiple surgeries and a body cast during her first year. Her family was not particularly oriented to the outdoors so early in her life she was limited to taking lessons that her parents signed her up with. Her high-energy nature led her to more adventures in the outdoors when her family moved out of urban St. Louis. She first experienced climbing when a friend, who was an...
Dates:
2008
No.569 Garry Jack Marshall, 2010
File — Box: 65, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Marshall (b. 1946) was born in Salt Lake City. He discusses his family and recalls contracting polio in 1951 or 1952. He was hospitalized at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City. He has no recollection of getting sick, nor of his time spent in the hospital on this first visit. After the summer of 5th grade he went to St. Marks Hospital for surgery. He describes his surgery and hospital stay. He left the hospital on crutches with a cast. His mother guided his physical therapy work at...
Dates:
2010
No.570 Roger Richards, 2010
File — Box: 65, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Richards (b. 1947 ) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He discusses his family, particularly his father's battle with polio. Roger contracted polio at age 5 in 1952. He was sent to the Salt Lake County Hospital for a spinal tap and was placed in isolation. He relates his memories of the hospital stay, including a short time spent in an iron lung and later an oxygen tent. He discusses what he terms a miraculous experience that cured his polio. He left the hospital shortly after that incident...
Dates:
2010
No.571 Daniel L. Reilly, 2010
File — Box: 65, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Reilly (b. 1936 )was born in Salt Lake City. He contracted polio in 1951 at the start of his 9th grade school year. He describes getting sick. He was taken to LDS Hospital for treatment and placed in an iron lung for six weeks. His body was paralyzed from the neck down. While in the hospital he was treated with hot pack therapy and, once out of the lung, water therapy. In total, he was in the hospital just over two months. He describes getting physical therapy from a married nurse/doctor...
Dates:
2010
No.572 Charles Hilmon Castle, 2010
File — Box: 65, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Castle (b. 1928 )was born in Webster County, Mississippi. He discusses his family, schooling and growing up in rural Mississippi. He contracted polio in 1936 at age eight. He felt ill for several days and afterward carried an abnormal gait. His father took him to Warm Springs, Georgia, to consult with an orthopedic physician there. They refused the physician's proposed treatment of tendon transplantation. He received no additional treatment, therapy or medical care related to polio. He...
Dates:
2010
No.573 Jonathan Knight, 2008
File — Box: 65, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Knight (b. 1972) was born in Twin Falls, Idaho. His first exposure to the mountains was skiing and hiking in the Sun Valley/Ketchum area. When he was nine his family moved to Las Vegas where, despite missing skiing, he developed his climbing skills. He started climbing at sixteen during a family vacation in the Southern Sierras and improved his skills with his friend at the Craft Boulders and Red Rocks. While in Las Vegas he first encountered the issues between traditional climbers, like...
Dates:
2008
No.574 Nathan Smith, 2009
File — Box: 65, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Smith (b. 1986) was born in Big Sur, California. His father was in the oil industry so the family moved around a lot. He first started climbing in California when he was eleven and ended up moving to Utah to attend college at the University of Utah. He started traveling around the state and, during his freshman year, got a job with the Outdoor Program on campus. He started leading trips right away and then got his American Mountain Guide Certification the following summer, which is a very...
Dates:
2009
No.575 Jerry Dixon, 2009
File — Box: 65, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
Dixon (b. 1948) was born in Washington, DC but his parents soon moved back to Salt Lake City, Utah where his family has lived for seven generations. He skied for the Alta ski team and has skied fifty six consecutive years there. He attended Whitman College and then transferred back to the University of Utah. He skied at both schools, then skied for the University of Grenoble in France. He has degrees in Philosophy and Biology, with minors in French, English, and Humanities. He did graduate...
Dates:
2009
No.576 Tom Santoro, 2009
File — Box: 65, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
Santoro is a Michigan native living in Salt Lake City and working for Black Diamond. He discusses his introduction to climbing during his college years at the University of Michigan. Following his freshman year in college, Tom worked for the US Forest Service as a wilderness ranger in the High Uintas Wilderness Area. During his college years, he worked for an outdoor retail store in Ann Arbor, climbed at a local gym, took weekend trips to Kentucky's Red River Gorge and West Virginia's Seneca...
Dates:
2009
No.577 Lynn Frank Pett, 2010
File — Box: 65, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Pett (b. 1940) was born in Payson, Utah. He spent the first ten years of his life in Eureka, Utah, where his family was involved in the mining industry. The family then moved to Murray, Utah. He discusses his family, schooling and growing up years. Pett began working with the Murray Parks and Recreation Department when he was sixteen years old as a part-time, seasonal worker. Eventually he became a full-time employee of the department, and at age twenty-three (1963) was appointed as the...
Dates:
2010