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Pioneers of Alaska memorial, election and installation of officers in September, 1973 in Palmer, Alaska [sound recording].
Title:
Pioneers of Alaska memorial, election and installation of officers in September, 1973 in Palmer, Alaska [sound recording].
JLCTITLE245:
[sound recording].
Physical Description:
2 sound tape reels (60 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in.
General Note:
For educational and non-profit uses only. For commercial uses, please contact the UAF Oral History Program.

The Copyright to these interviews has been transferred from the Tanana-Yukon Historical Society to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elmer E. Rasmuson Library. To listen to the interview, click the link at the bottom of this record. Please contact UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu <mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu> to discuss using the whole or part of this recording in another work or ordering a copy for personal use. A small fee may be charged to defray labor and postage charges. Any copies of recordings used in any other material must attribute the work to the Tanana-Yukon Historical Society and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elmer E. Rasmuson Library.

The Copyright to these interviews has been transferred from the Pioneers of Alaska Igloo Nos. 4 & 8 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elmer E. Rasmuson Library. To listen to the interview, click the link at the bottom of this record. Please contact UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu to discuss using the whole or part of this recording in another work or ordering a copy for personal use. A small fee may be charged to defray labor and postage charges. Any copies of recordings used in any other material must attribute the work to the Pioneers of Alaska Igloo Nos. 4 & 8 and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elmer E. Rasmuson Library.
Event Note:
Recorded in September, 1973 in Palmer, Alaska.
Abstract:
ORAL HISTORY 78-48-01. Members of the Pioneers of Alaska read the names of recently deceased members: Richard J. Granville, Ignanci Kowalski, and Binks Siefert from Igloo no. 1 in Nome, Loretta Walhelm, Kerry McLean, and Betty Doyle from Auxiliary no. 1 in Nome, Harry Avakoff, F.E. David, Gus Uotilla, Dan Coyle, Ray Langlo, Keith Harkness, George Preston, Alfred Getty, Cornelius Sherman, Pat McCafferty, Andrew Stensen, Andy Nieland, Jens A. Weltzin, Robert Morehamer, George Gilbertson, Earl First, George Hupprich, Jim Crowder, Harold Hutchison, Earl "Bud" Boreland, Alwyn Harold Humphries, Nicholi White, George Bentley, and A.E. Ted Brown from Igloo no. 4 in Fairbanks, Anna Alida Carlson, Mary Bojanich, Mariel Wilbur, Fern Fleens, Leona Marsh, Muriel Anderson Heavey, Jenny Tilly Collins, Marie Langlo, Linda Therese Hassel, Anna Margaret Eileen, Laura Nash, and Ilda Jo Townsley from Auxiliary no. 8 in Fairbanks, Frank Jones, Baxtilda Batony, David Boxturnbarge, Harold Estoff, and Mattie Crosby from the Fairbanks Pioneers' Home in Fairbanks, Byron H. Merry, Beryl L. Tempurd, Clarence E. Matson, Kenneth Jones, Reydo Hekovich, Marshall Freeman Erwin, Iver Arneson, Fred Samuel Alexander, Talia Albikoff, Harry Hank Heloff, and Claude E. Al Becker from Igloo no. 6 in Juneau, Lola E. Hill, Nadya Catherine Triplette, Bonnie Randall, Janice McFadden, Gertrude Logan, Bessie Fossam, Jeanne Ellis Renshaw, and Esther Ina O'Laughlen from Auxiliary no. 6 in Juneau, James E. Webb, Irwin L. Metcalf, George Bishop, Herbert A. Smith, Marion Luter, and Richard L. Peterson from Igloo no. 9 in Seward, Wilma Shelhorn Estes from Auxiliary no. 9 in Seward, Winifred Florence Fey, Evelyn Ahl, Mae Evelyn Dishaw, Elaine Ward, Naomi Herd, Jessie Parsons, Tyra Elisabeth Larson Taylor, Mary Secula, Marie A. Carr, Elma Sareo, Peggy Lesh, Elma Oleen Olson, Lillie Minerva Barry, Jeanette Mumford and Mary Johnson from Auxiliary no. 4 in Anchorage, Charles Parker Paul Edwin Johanson, Chester Edward Peterson, Lewis E. Hosaseck, Charles Nemenheim, Steve Ward, Albert Henry Dyer, and Charles L. Cavaler from Igloo no. 15 in Anchorage, Silvert Silvertson, Louis Salazar, Charles Mitchell, Charles M. Jensen, John Herman Caspersen, Richard Dick Sanchez, A. Verle Collar and Larry Bird from Igloo no. 16 in Ketchikan, JoAnn Hendrickson from Auxiliary no. 7 in Ketchikan, Harris Meyers, Erick Martin Erickson, Eric Lean, Wallace Johnson, George Grant, Sivert Ronquist, Forrest L. Bush, Belton Goodrich, and James Arthur Nicolet from Igloo no. 19 in Cordova, Veldee Petersen and Pearl LaFavre from Auxiliary 5 in Cordova, Gusto Hernandez, William A. Sipaten, Ole Shornes, and Lewellyn M. Williams from Igloo 21 in Wrangell, Russel Fundrow, Greg Strom, Bryant K. Birdeau and Frank Roman from Igloo 22 in Sitka, Lorraine Tengell from Auxiliary 12 in Sitka, Oscar Arness and Van Sephen from Igloo no. 26 in Petersburg, Helen Brennan and Vera Donahue from Auxiliary 10 in Petersburg, L.P. Sorenson from Igloo 28 in Dillingham, Francis S. Lee and Erik Holmback from Igloo 31 in Palmer, Margaret Snodgrass from Auxiliary 11 in Palmer, Fred Water, Clifford Nick Adams, Robert Dahl, Elmo Kaiser, William Dobler, Paul Mack, Albana Schultz, and Carla Duff from the Palmer Pioneer Home.

ORAL HISTORY 78-48-02. Pioneers of Alaska elect and install their officers for 1974. Officers elected are Patrick Lloyd, Axel Edman, William Race, Robert Hanson, Robert Huffman, Vida Rich, and Robert Dyer. Norman Swanson is thanked for his year of service.
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