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Herald A. Vance Oral History Interview
No full textOral history interview with Herald A. Vance by Norma Vance. Topics include: Biographical information such as date and place of birth, parents and siblings; Growing up in a large family on a farm in Milburn, UT; His pioneer heritage; Hand-made toys and self-entertainment; His father\u27s employment in farming and timber; The use of horses to pull farm equipment; His childhood home not having indoor plumbing until the 1950s; Everyday chores required to run the farm; How Milburn 7000 foot elevation affected the growing season; Participating work for milling timber with his family in C Canyon; Supplying lumber to Fairview and Milburn residents; How his mother baked ten loaves of bread every other day for the large family; Enjoying fishing, hunting, and roasting pine nuts; Attending school and church in the Milburn schoolhouse; Use of oil lamps; Mounting wagon on beds sled runners for snow packed roads; Finishing school in Fairview and Mt. Pleasant; Effects of the Great Depression; His father\u27s declining health and subsequent death when Herald was fifteen years old; His mother selling the mountain property after his father\u27s death; Not being able to participate in sports because of required farm work; Enjoying country western music; Learning to play the guitar; Trapping bobcats, coyotes, and weasels for the bounty and selling pelts for extra money; Assisting in tearing down the old school house and reusing supplies to help construct a church building in Milburn; Receiving a draft deferment for WWII as two of his older brothers were already serving in the U.S. Army and his mother was a widow and need help with the farm; His brother Ellis being captured and spending twenty-three months as a German POW; His own Army service in Japan the year after the War ended; Meeting his future wife; Courtship and marriage; His wife\u27s Native American heritage; Raising their family of five children in Orem, UT; His work in finish carpentry, installing Formica, linoleum, carpet and various sales jobs; Selling encyclopedia sets door-to-door for Sears Roebuck; His service in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS); Bidding on and winning the purchase of the old Milburn Ward Chapel that he helped build; Remodeling the church into an event center; Opening a flooring store in Miburn; The death of his youngest son in a car accident; Joining the Timpanogos Gem and Mineral Society and going on rockhounding field trips; Taking up silversmithing; Selling the event center and finding a home near Fairview.The oral history interview with Herald A. Vance, conducted by Norma Vance, highlights Herald Vance\u27s life as one shaped by hard work, community involvement, and family ties. It provides insight into his upbringing in a pioneer family, his military service, his family\u27s challenges, and his later work in carpentry, sales, and community activities. His story reflects the resilience and adaptability of those who lived through the Great Depression and World War II
Norma L. Pritchett (Jensen) Vance Oral History Interview
No full textOral history interview with Norma L. Pritchett (Jensen) Vance by Herald A. Vance. Topics include: Biographical information such as date and place of birth, parents. sibling, and foster-parents; Growing up in Fairview and attending elementary and junior high school there; Her birth-parents divorce and being taken in by her aunt and uncle at the age of four-and-a-half years; Names and memories of school teachers; Learning to play the organ and piano; Composing music; Joining the Fairview Junior High band and playing the alto horn; Her adoptive parents not owning an automobile; Watching her mother\u27s Relief Society service and wanting to do the same; Meals that her mother prepared and cooked; Having mincemeat and lemon meringue pies for birthdays and holidays; Her birth-parents other marriages and children; Seeing her birth-father\u27s family in Fairview, but not her birth-mother\u27s family in Mt. Pleasant; Receiving cards and gifts from her birth mother and admiring her handwriting; Visiting her mother in Mt. Pleasant after she was an adult and owned a vehicle; Having a wonderful relationship with all her different family members (Birth parents, adoptive parents; sister; half-sisters; half brothers; in-laws); Earning money as a young teenager by tending children, ironing, and picking beans; Buying herself a felt hat with the money she earned; Enjoying sledding in the winter; Summer employment in Orem picking berries and cherries; Visiting Salt Lake City for the first time at the age of fourteen; Visiting attraction in the Orem area such as Provo airport and Sclera Theater area for entertainment; Being bussed to Mt. Pleasant for high school; Being the Prom Mistress for her Junior Prom; Meeting her future husband and dating in high school; High school graduation; Marriage; Moving for her husband\u27s employment; Birth of their first three children in Provo; The death of a daughter at age 22 months; Purchasing a house in Orem; The birth of their fourth and fifth children; Enjoying spending time with friends; Her great-grandfather, Dave Monson, being one of three survivors of the Circleville Massacre of 1866; Racial prejudice; Her birth-mother\u27s efforts to have grandfather, Dave Monson, legally recognized as member of the Piute tribe; Norma\u27s family history research and compilation of family history book; Her foster father\u27s work as a dairy farmer; An aunt who proved flowers from her garden for Norma and Herald\u27s wedding; Norma\u27s employment at a turkey factory as a teenager; The loss of a beloved dog; Playing outdoor games with neighbors as a child; Enjoying horseback riding; Getting a job at Sears and being introduced to the drapery business; Visiting customers home to give price estimates; Sewing dresses for herself from fabric remnants; Her service in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS); Purchase of the Milburn Church; Establishing an events center and catering business; Learning to cook for large groups; Singing performance with Herald at the event center; Managing the design and remodel/redecoration of the Fairview City Hall; Having to drive an extra 100 miles out of the way to get to Salt Lake because of the flood and landslide in Thistle; Their death of her son in an automobile accident; Love and appreciation for children, in-laws, and grandchildren; Finding her name in the newspaper as a new member of the board for the Fairview Museum; Creating history books for the Fairview Museum from a box of documents she was handed; Her interest in getting all the Museum objects cataloged; Being tasked with writing a history for the Relief society and Bishoprics of the Fairview Third Ward; Hanging framed portraits in the Museum; Her work on an Oral History grant project; Creating a sampler quilt as a traveling exhibit and plans for a future building and exhibits.The oral history interview with Norma L. Pritchett (Jensen) Vance, conducted by Herald A. Vance, covers significant aspects of her life, including her early years, family dynamics, education, work, faith, and contributions to her community. Her life reflects resilience, creativity, and a deep sense of service to others. Norma was deeply committed to preserving the history of her community and family. Through her genealogy work, her service at the Fairview Museum, and her efforts to care for historical items, she contributed significantly to her local community\u27s historical record
Oral history interview with Thomas Vance, April 13, 1990
No full textOral history interview with Tom Vance conducted by Tom Coyne on April 13, 1990. Thomas Vance was a student at WMU from 1974 to 1978, involved in the Western Herald and also in the Army ROTC program during that time. Thomas Vance discusses how he came to WMU, his interest in journalism, dorm life, discrimination as a veteran on campus during the 70s, minority and international students, and influential professors. He describes his role as editor at the Western Herald, the equipment, and sports events covered. He also recalls the faculty strike of 1975. After graduation in 1978, he continued his ROTC training and continued to work as the US Army Public Affairs Officer. He was later hired a public relations associate at the Upjohn Company until 1998.No audio available
Vance Palmer: Establishing Labor Daily Newspapers, 1910–1916
No full textWith the increasing success of New Journalism before World War 1, hopes for labour daily papers crystallised. This article speculates on four attempts to counter conservative media as seen through the youthful eyes of Vance Palmer. In London, he participated in the foundation of the successful labour paper the Daily Herald, and he wrote for the British Labour Party daily. Returning to Australia in 1912, he sought to work for a proposed Sydney-based daily paper, and for the successful Queensland’s Labor Daily Standard, as a correspondent. When taking Palmer’s observations into account—drawing on original material from his letters, and set in a context of comparing the four papers—a largely untold story of ambitious design emerges. The scheme of Commonwealth Labor daily newspapers across the nation still lacks its history. Cultural leadership through the commitment of leading men and women, even strike leaders, able to appeal to the passions of writers, editors and readers, and experienced staff utilising an inclusive forum inviting diverse and militant standpoints, may have proved more critical to riding the explosion of radical left idealism in the successful establishment of newspapers, and surviving the suppression of war, than managerial leadership or raising enough economic capital.No Full Tex
Water for Life Strategy in Alberta: Changing Priorities in Canadian Water Policy?
Get PDFWater resources are being stretched to the limit in Alberta and irrigation activities account for more than 70 percent of consumptive water use in the province. Conflicts among users and potential users may be looming. Pollution of surface water and groundwater and outbreaks of water-borne pathogens have been increasing. Freshwater systems are likely to deteriorate further with impending climate change. Following passage of the Alberta Water Act in 1999 and the Irrigation Districts Act in 2000, which allowed limited transfers of water among water users, the Alberta government issued its Water for Life Strategy in late 2003. The strategy’s principal goals include (1) evaluation of the use of economic instruments to manage water demand by 2007; (2) demonstration of best management practices by 2010; and (3) a 30 percent increase in productivity and efficiency over 2005 levels by 2015. This seems to presage a new era in water management in Alberta, but will the necessary changes in water management be forthcoming? This study examines the need for demand-based management and the constraints that make effective changes in water policy problematic. Evidence from a recent study in the St. Mary’s River Irrigation District highlights problems with water markets.Environmental Economics and Policy,
Indoor Lacrosse Makes a Grand Hit (December 1890)
No full textThe New York Herald published “Indoor Lacrosse Makes a Grand Hit” in 1890. The article describes the second night of the Staten Island Athletic Club’s “Monster Carnival,” held at the newly-opened Madison Square Garden. It begins with a detailed and energetic description of one of the first indoor lacrosse games, which was enthusiastically received by the crowd. Next, the article briefly describes indoor track races. The author then describes the very first indoor football game: a match between Springfield College and Yale watched by an audience of twenty-five hundred people. The final section lists the winners of the track, lacrosse, and football events. Springfield College's football team, known as "Stagg's Eleven," was comprised of W. J. Kellar, James A. Naismith (inventor of Basketball), J. P. Smith, D. W. Corbett, W. O. Black, W. H. Barton, W. C. McKee, F. N. Seerley, Amos Alonzo Stagg (the captain), A. E. Garland, and W. H. Ball. Yale fielded a team of five varsity players, two substitutes, and a group of Yale graduates. Springfield College, at this time, had less than fifty students from which to draw. Stagg was the only experienced player on the squad and found his team outsized by an average of twenty pounds per man. While Springfield College showed true courage and pride, they ultimately lost 16-10. The newspapers called Stagg’s team the “Stubby Christians” and commended them for outplaying the giants from New Haven.For more information on Amos Alonzo Stagg, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/66
Series 3: Candidacy for Mayor of Los Angeles
No full textArticle from the Los Angeles Herald prints a letter to the editor regarding the effect of having two Republican candidates on the mayoral election
Excerpt of Sketches of Pennsylvania From the Commercial Herald, July 1833
Get PDFA typed excerpt of an essay entitled Sketches of Pennsylvania , originally appearing in the Commercial Herald and dated July 1833. Within, the author details the dialect and ways of life of the Pennsylvania Dutch in Lancaster County.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/1168/thumbnail.jp
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