Box 66
Container
Contains 25 Results:
No.578 Carrie Dann, 2009
File — Box: 66, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Dann was born at the homestead in Crescent Valley, Nevada in the 1930s. She discusses her background, upbringing, and ethical principles. She talks about her time as an activist, particularly with regard to nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site and the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. She states that she was more active in opposing nuclear testing, but has done some activist work to oppose nuclear waste...
Dates:
2009
No.579 Helen Julene Butler, 2010
File — Box: 66, Folder: 2
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Butler (b. 1948) was born in Price, Utah. Her family moved to Dragerton (East Carbon) in 1950. She contracted polio at age three and a half years of age in August 1951. She was transported to the Salt Lake County Hospital, where she remained in isolation for three weeks. She was transferred to Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City and was treated there from September to December of that year. She entered Shriners...
Dates:
2010
No.580 John Prescott, 2010
File — Box: 66, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Prescott (b. 1948) was born in Pocatello, Idaho. After contracting polio at age 15 months, he was hospitalized and spent time in an iron lung. His entire body was paralyzed, but he regained function in his upper body. He had leg braces until age eight and used crutches his entire life until his early fifties, when he moved to full-time wheelchair use. He talks about his school experiences and difficulties. He...
Dates:
2010
No.581 Constance (Connie) Elaine Vellekoop, 2011
File — Box: 66, Folder: 4
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Vellekoop (b. 1945) was born in Lorain, Ohio. Her parents were serving as missionaries in Indonesia when Connie contracted polio at age 18 months. She describes what she's been told about getting sick and the course of treatment, first in a hospital, then at home with the "Sister Kenny" treatment administered by her father. She was afflicted in both legs up to her mid torso. She used a left leg brace built by her...
Dates:
2011
No.582 Cathy Beloeil, 2007
File — Box: 66, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Beloeil grew up in France and climbed for the first time when she was 12 years old. Although she was involved in many sports as a child and adolescent she did not consider herself very good at them. She did not like the rules and restrictions that were a part of organized sports. The natural rhythm of climbing and the freedom it offered over other sports were what attracted Cathy. The clarity required during...
Dates:
2007
No.583 Rosie and Clay Cahoon, 2010
File — Box: 66, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Rosie is from Oregon, went to the University of Oregon, and came to Salt Lake City through AmeriCorps. Clay Cahoon is from Los Angeles ,but was raised in Utah. They both believe that climbing is a major part of their relationship and their lifestyle. They're always "chasing the dream" of new climbs and routes. They know they don't make a lot of money but they think it's more important to enjoy life. They agree that...
Dates:
2010
No.584 Collette McInerney, 2010
File — Box: 66, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Colette (b. 1982) was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and attended college at Fordham University in New York City, during which time she began climbing in gyms in Connecticut and New Jersey. She discusses her introduction to climbing, primarily bouldering and sport climbing, and the evolution of her passion for climbing during road trips out West and throughout her relationship with professional climber Joe Kinder....
Dates:
2010
No.585 Bill Ohran, 2010
File — Box: 66, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Ohran (b. 1971) was born in Provo, Utah, where he honed his skills, beginning in Rock Canyon. He benefitted from the guidance of Jeff Pedersen, with whom he would later run Mountain Works, a climbing gear shop located in Provo. Mountain Works responded to the need for specialized gear for sport climbers and, like Salt Lake City-based IME, served as a place for the climbing community to assemble to discuss gear and...
Dates:
2010
No.586 Jeff Pedersen, 2010
File — Box: 66, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Pedersen is the owner of the Momentum Climbing Gym in Sandy, Utah, and was a key figure in the rise of sport climbing in Utah in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As the owner of Momentum and The Quarry, Jeff is uniquely able to discuss the role climbing gyms have played in the growing popularity of climbing during the last two decades. He shares his experience with these climbing gyms and their aim to appeal to a...
Dates:
2010
No.587 Yvette Young, 2010
File — Box: 66, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Yvette (b. 1971) was born in Norway, Maine, and went to college at BYU after being raised Mormon. She started climbing at the Rock Garden Climbing Gym in Provo, Utah, in 1994 and thinks that climbing is the reason she stayed in Utah. She compares climbing to dance in the area of strength and technique, but says that people are much stronger now then when she first started. Yvette thinks that climbing was a little...
Dates:
2010
No. 588 Michelle Kamahauoha, 2008
File — Box: 66, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Kamahauoha (b. 1983) was born in Kahuku, Hawaii. Her father grew up in California, Idaho, and Utah, and her mother was raised in Utah. They met at a school dance and moved to Hawaii to attend the University of Hawaii. Her mother became an RN and her father became an entrepreneur. Michelle grew up in Hawaii and moved to Utah to attend BYU. She recalls growing up in Hawaii, rebelling as an adolescent, Mormon culture...
Dates:
2008
No. 589 Mary Dickson, 2009
File — Box: 66, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Dickson (b. 1955) was born in Joplin, Missouri. She moved with her family to Salt Lake City, Utah, as a child and has spent the majority of her life in the Salt Lake Valley. Dickson discusses her experiences being diagnosed with thyroid cancer before the age of 30 and losing a sister to cancer. She believes that both her and her sister's illnesses were caused by exposure to nuclear fallout while living in Salt...
Dates:
2009
No. 590 William Lockhart and Terri Martin, 2009
File — Box: 66, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Lockhart (b. 1933) is a law professor at the University of Utah and has been active in the litigation of a number of environmental conflicts. Terri Martin is an activist and consultant with organizations such as Don't Waste Utah, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and Women Protecting Wilderness. Together they describe their respective roles in working to deny the placement of nuclear waste near Canyonlands...
Dates:
2009
No. 591 Noah Bigwood and Kirsten Dockstader, 2010
File — Box: 66, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Bigwood (b. 1969) was born in Claremont, California, but moved to Colorado where he became what he describes as a "compulsive and addictive climber." He moved to Moab, Utah, where he was involved in route development in Southern Utah. He and Dave Medara started a guiding company, Moab Desert Adventures. Kirsten (b. 1972) is from Irondequoit, New York. She discovered her passion for climbing while working as a guide...
Dates:
2010
No. 592 Bill Boyle, 2010
File — Box: 66, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Boyle (b. 1949) was born in Kentucky. His father was in the military and he was raised in the South. In 1976 he moved to Utah to attend the University of Utah and pursue a graduate degree in psychology. He quickly developed an interest in skiing and then, climbing. He describes trips to the City of Rocks, the first place he was involved in bolting sport climbing routes. While Boyle is an accomplished traditional...
Dates:
2010
No. 593 James Garrett, 2010
File — Box: 66, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Garrett (b. 1951) was born in Duluth, Minnesota, started skiing when he was around six or seven years old, and eventually moved to Montana, where he continued to pursue skiing. He moved to Switzerland, met his wife, Franziska, and discovered climbing under the influence of the Von Kämel brothers, Swiss mountain guides. James returned to the States in 1980 and worked as a ski patroller in Colorado before eventually...
Dates:
2010
No. 594 Bob Irvine, 2009
File — Box: 66, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
Irvine grew up in Salt Lake City. He started climbing in 1957 when he was working in Grand Teton National Park. He was a member of the Alpenbock, one of the three main climbing clubs in Utah, along with the Ute Alpine Club and the Wasatch Mountain Club. Irvine sold tickets at the Moose entrance before moving to Jenny Lake, where he worked as a ranger for thirty-three years. He believes Grand Teton is one of the...
Dates:
2009
No. 595 Misty Murphy, 2010
File — Box: 66, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
Murphy (b.1970) grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, and currently resides in Saint George with her husband, Bill Ohran. Misty's father started the Ski Jumping Program at Alta, and she was a committed skier before she began climbing at the age of 27. She is also a musician, and discusses the connections she experiences between climbing, music, and dance. She often plays music at climbing events and fundraisers. Misty...
Dates:
2010
No. 596 Bob and Jonathan Springeyer, 2009
File — Box: 66, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Robert (b. 1943) was born in Provo and raised in the Salt Lake area. He took up skiing when he was twelve or thirteen. He joined his neighborhood buddies and younger brother and skied on Saturday mornings. Skiing was just a part of his love for the outdoors, which came to include climbing, hiking, fishing and canoeing. During his life he has witnessed great changes in how people can access the natural areas of the...
Dates:
2009
No. 597 Paul Tusting, 2010
File — Box: 66, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
Paul Tusting was born in Miami and grew up in Cambridgle, Massachusetts. He originally became interested in the outdoors and in climbing at a private school which had an Outward-Bound type program. He moved to Salt Lake in 1999, hoping to work for Black Diamond. He worked for HR on various tech and design projects, but the majority his time was on the C4s and C3s. Tusting talks at length on the history of Black...
Dates:
2010