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World Events:

1970
War in Vietnam Spreads to Cambodia, Four Killed at Kent StateUniversity, Aswan Dam Finished

1971
India invades Pakistan, Communist China joins the UN, replacing Taiwan, Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda

1972
Arab terrorists murder 11 people at the Olympic games, Britain takes direct control over Northern Ireland, President Richard Nixon visits China, SALT Agreement, Congressman Ford is sworn in as Vice President, Managua is leveled by an earthquake

1973
US Completes Withdrawal from Vietnam, October War (Yom Kippur War), Allende Killed in Chile, Cat Scan Introduced, SearsTower Built

1974
Willy Brandt of West Germany Resigns, Revolt in Cyprus, Turkey Invaded, India Explodes Nuclear Device, Emperor Haile Selaissie Deposed in Ethiopia, President Nixon Resigns

1975
Pol Pot Takes Over Cambodia, Communist Capture S. Vietnam

1976
Raid on Entebee, Apple II Personal Computer Introduced

1977
US Gives Up Panama Canal, Carter Pardons Draft Evaders, Sadat Visits Jerusalem

1978
Indira Gandhi Expelled From Parliament, Sandanista Guerillas Seize Hostages, Smallpox Eradicated, First Birth Due to In vitro fertilization

1979
SALT II, US and China establish full diplomatic relations, Vietnamese take Phnom Penh, China invades Vietnam, Soviets invade Afghanistan, Shah of Iran deposed, Militant students seize US Embassy in Teheran, Sandinistas force Somoza government out of Nicaragua

Events in our lives:

1970 January

Mark has a heavy cast on his left leg, up to the top of his thigh, making it impossible for him to get on the high school bus. Barbara is back in the school chauffeuring business.
Glenn went to San Diego on business, continued on up to the Bay Area and visited with Terry & Theresa, Leslie, and Noma and Irl Halliday at Terry's home.

1970 April Glenn accepts a transfer to Univac's plant in Salt Lake City, UT. Barbara and Glenn fly out to Salt Lake City, and purchase home near Mt. Olympus, at 3651 Apollo Drive.

1970 April We drive down to Maryland and visit the Mullans at Ft. Meade. See Fort McHenry in Baltimore. Learn that David Mullan has volunteered to go to Vietnam. His wife, and we, think he is crazy.

1970 April Mark finally!! gets his cast removed and graduates to a cane.

1970 May Mark receives his Eagle Scout Award at the Doylestown Methodist Church.

We go to see “Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid” and realize we’ll soon be living near where it was filmed.

1970 June 4 Mark takes Sherry Weidman to the Senior Prom.

1970 June Mark is part of the first class to graduate from Central Bucks East. Karen plays her guitar as part of the accompanying graduation music.
Just before we leave for Salt Lake City, Glenn’s uncle Everett Terril and family come to visit.

1970 June 25 Our careful plans to have our cat, “Imp” fly out to Salt Lake City are derailed--his cage isn’t big enough. All five of us drive to Salt Lake City together in the Hornet. The cat doesn’t lose his “meow” until somewhere on the prairie. We drive west past Pittsburgh, South Bend, IN, through Iowa, S.Dakota. We stop in Mitchell, S.Dakota to see Barb's old friend, Mamie Berry, from our Los Angeles years. Also tour the “ Corn Palace.”

1970 June We make one more tourist stop--at Rapid City, S.Dakota. Go to see the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore and Lead, home of the Homestake gold mine. Seeing the Black Hills, REAL mountains, brings tears to Barbara’s eyes. At dinner, at the Holiday Inn, we see Barbara’s Uncle Julius Kemmerich, his son, Ross and family. They live in WA State. What were the odds of that happening!

1970 June Back on the road, we go through Casper, WY, “Little America, WY” and arrive in Salt Lake City on July 1.

1970 July We move into the Apollo Drive home. We quickly meet our next door neighbors when Imp climbs up on their flat roof, but can’t figure out how to come down.Glenn starts working at the Univac plant, located near the Salt Lake City airport.
Our Doylestown neighbors, Paul & Joan Hermsen, have already transferred to Salt Lake City. They live up in the "Avenues."

1970 August We start exploring the Wasatch Mts., going to Alta, Albion Basin, Provo Canyon, and Bingham Copper Mine. Mark proved his broken leg was healed by climbing Mt. Timpanogos.

1970 Aug. 18 We head west to see Don & Eleanor Roberts, who now live in Carson City, NV, then on to Redding to see Hallidays, and up to Woodburn to see Al & Pauline Kemmerich. Mark enrolls at Willamette University in Salem. He lives in Baxter Hall.

1970 September 06 Glenn, Barbara & Karen go to Yellowstone Nat. Park for a 3-day visit.
Karen enrolls as a Junior at Skyline High School. She becomes very active in the Methodist church youth group.

1970 Sept. 26 Irl and Noma Halliday come for a visit. We show them Park City and the beautiful fall color in the aspen and maples. A surprise early snowstorm dumps snow on our flat-roofed house and we discover the roof leaks. New roofing job required.

1970 October We enjoy more hikes in the nearby mountains.

1970 Nov. Mark makes a harrowing drive home from Salem with a WU classmate from southeastern Idaho for Thanksgiving. Icy roads, burning truck wrecks, etc. They drive back in glorious, sunny weather.

1970 December Snow! And more snow! We visit Temple Square with all its beautiful lights on a very COLD night. Brrr. Mark comes home for Christmas.
1971 January Barbara and Karen get involved in the Salt Lake chapter of Camp Fire Girls. Karen is in the "Horizon Girls" teen group; Barbara joins the CF board.

1971 February 06 Glenn has to go to Los Angeles on business; Barbara and Karen go along. The plan: to list the Sherman Way house, Barbara stay for a month to get house ready to sell. We stay at an Encino motel.

1971 Feb. 08 Karen stays overnight with her friend Renee in Van Nuys.

1971 Feb. 09 At 6:30 a.m., a 6.5 earthquake, centered near Newhall, hits. Glenn & Barbara run out to their parked car in front of the motel; discover they don't have the car keys--Glenn goes back and safely returns with the keys. Karen is safe at Renee's. Fourteen people die; 7 of them at the VA Hospital in Sylmar. Freeway overpasses in the Valley collapse. The Van Norman Dam at north end of San Fernando Valley has ominous cracks and area just east of our Sherman Way house is cordoned off and evacuated. We dread seeing what happened at the house. Amazingly, NO structural damage. The pool is full of dirty water; takes Bill Paull days to get it clean again.

1971 Feb. 10 We go to El Toro to visit Roger and family; Irl and Noma are also there.

1971 Feb. 12 Glenn and Karen fly back to Salt Lake City ; Barbara stays with Bill and Maxine Paull and starts working on preparing the Sherman Way house for sale. She hires the Paull kids and Maria McGann's kids (all teenagers) to help with the clean-up. Has yard cleared professionally; new roof put on, outside professionally painted while Barbara and kids paint the interior.

1971 Feb. 20 The Sherman Way house is sold! Barbara keeps fixing it up during the day and visiting old friends and neighbors at night.

1971 Feb. 25 Glenn flies down to L.A., we finalize house sale papers. Drive back to Salt Lake City. We are landlords no more!!

1971 March 09 Glenn & Barbara go to Organ Pipe Monument, AZ, camping in their new tent trailer.

1971 April Glenn & Barb keep exploring the area around Salt Lake City, with wildflowers as the main subject.

1971 April 17 Karen takes SAT test. Later, she takes the ACT test. College is looming for her. She is also taking clarinet lessons, and busy with church youth group. She makes a good friend in Cathy Anderson, whose father also works at Univac, and they live in Olympus Cove. Another of Karen's friends: Dana Maiben.

1971 May 06 Barb goes to Woodburn, OR --for visit with Mark, Kemmerichs and Hallidays who are attending their class reunion at Willamette. Mark is active with the Collegian newspaper photography department. Glenn keeps busy planting tomatoes, flowers, and general gardening, in between snow showers. Barbara and Mark drive back to Sacramento (with a quick sidetrip up to Crater Lake which still has about 20 feet of snow around it). Mark visits WU friend Jim Champa for a couple weeks before returning for U of U summer school. Glenn flies over to Sacramento, Barb and Glenn drive back to Salt Lake, visiting Hallidays in Redding.

1971 May 27 We bade farewell to the Hermsens. They have had it with Salt Lake City, no martinis and the Mormons.

1971 June We take the tent trailer up in the Uintas.
Glenn still traveling. Goes to Blue Bell home office for several days.

1971 June Mark enrolls in summer school at Univ. of Utah. Credits were accepted at Willamette. Main benefit--use of exercise equipment, pool. Gains lots of muscle!
We get new neighbors--Major Bob Lilly, wife, Nancy and daughter Cathy buy Larry & Dusty Smith's home.

1971 July 01 Glenn & Barbara take tent trailer on trip to Canadian Rockies, via Yellowstone, Glacier, Kootenay and Banff parks. Return via Sawtooth Mts. in Idaho.

1971 July 10 Mark & Karen go on river trip with Wasatch Mt. Club. They meet the children of LeRoy and Barbara Kuehl. LeRoy and Barbara go way back. He was another " Yes Bay baby" when our parents were stationed at Yes Bay Alaska fish hatchery.
Mark's summer project: remove huge pyracantha hedge in front of our house. Nasty job! Requires large quantities of beer but the hedge disappears.
Lots of family hikes in the mountains. Go to Timpanogos Cave.

1971 July 27 Donna Doan, from Doylestown comes to visit Karen.

1971 August 04 Barbara leads two Forest Service rangers to the spot above Albion Basin where she kicked a 75mm mortar shell around. Shell is found, and exploded. Barbara's picture is snapped and no doubt displayed at the Forest Service office among the other candidates for the "Darwin Awards."

1971 August 5 Al & Pauline Kemmerich reach the Great Slave Lake in NW Territories on trip with Pauline's sister, Tudy & Poly Dameron. Both are pulling trailers.

1971 Aug. 23 Entire family takes camping vacation in the Sawtooth Mts. Stay in the tent trailer; then do a backpack trip to Sawtooth Lake in the Sawtooth Wilderness. Mark and Karen do all the heavy lifting, cooking, etc. All those Boy Scout and Campfire meetings pay off! Visit Craters of the Moon on way back.

1971 Aug. 30 Karen starts her senior year at Skyline High School. Mark flies back to Portland for his second year at Willamette. Karen starts taking recorder lessons.

1971 Sept. 05 Karen takes part in a "Renaissance Faire"

1971 Sept. 13 Barbara joins the Newcomers ladies' bowling league. Meets Diane Knoche. Allyn and Diane become good friends.
Kemmerichs come for a visit. Barbara drives down to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon with them. Go to Bryce Nat. Park on the way back.

1971 October Glenn and Barbara start going to performances of "Ballet West" at the restored Capitol Theater. Barbara starts wearing wigs which also get to go to the hairdresser for cleaning and styling. Barbara is on Program Committee for Camp Fire girls. Many meetings. AND candy sales.

1971 November 29 Barbara starts working at "American National Enterprises," a movie distribution company. Seasonal job--winter only. They were pioneers in having test audience preview movies and recording responses with computer. They have terrible movies, like "Big Foot--Man or Beast?"

1971 December 17 We throw a party at our house for about 30 of Glenn's group at Univac. Mark comes home for Christmas.

1972 January We tour the new Provo LDS Temple before it is consecrated. Glenn frequently travels--to Philadelphia, later to San Francisco.
Mark moves off campus, takes just one class and is in charge of the darkroom for the Collegian newspaper. He lives at 1146 Commercial St. NE in Salem. His grandfather Kemmerich tells us it is "slum housing."

1972 March Glenn and Barbara go to Arches Nat. Park in late March. Get involved in a fatal accident when a photographer falls under Delicate Arch and breaks his neck.

1972 April Glenn & Barbara fly to San Francisco, rent a car and drive up to Redding to see Noma & Irl. Terry, Theresa and Stephanie come up too.

1972 May Karen graduates from Skyline High School. Al & Pauline Kemmerich come for her graduation.
At some point (date?) Mark buys his first car in Salem, at a Sheriff's auction. He pays $300-$400 for it. It is a Plymouth Valiant—same as what we once had in Los Angeles in the 1960's. He drives it to Sacramento. While staying with friend, Jim Champa, in Sacramento, the Valiant blows its engine. Mark and Jim replace the engine. Mark sells the Valiant and buys a used VW bus. Mark's summer job is in Sacramento, working for Atkinson, on freeway construction.

1972 May 28 Barbara goes back to Woodburn with Kemmerichs, staying overnight in Winnemucca and Reno. Our dinner table at the Basque restaurant in Winnemucca got downright chummy after the second jug of red wine was consumed!

1972 June Henk & Adien Bezemer visit, we show them the Uinta Mts.

1972 July Glenn & Barbara take a trip to Olympic Nat. Park--it is so hot in the rain forest, the huge maple tree leaves are wilting!

1972 August 02 Karen goes on backpack trip to Colorado --Mt. Zirkel Wilderness.

1972 August 23 Glenn & Barbara drive over to Lake Tahoe and meet Mark. We camp at Tahoe in the tent trailer.

1972 September Barbara's aunt, Clara Kemmerich Bartoz, makes a bus trip to see her nieces and nephews & visits us. Barbara & Karen drive her (in the Bug) down to Zion, Grand Canyon & Bryce.

1972 Sept. 16 Al & Pauline come for a visit while Clara is still with us.

1972 Sept. 21 Irl & Noma Halliday come for a visit. We drive them up to Park City area for fall color.

1972 Sept. Karen starts college at the Univ. of Utah. She lives on campus, in Ballif Hall. She received a scholastic scholarship to the U of Utah.
Mark returns to Willamette, living off campus at 1451 Wiltsey Rd. SE. with Larry Givens.

1972 October Barbara starts real estate class. We take a last fall trip, to Flaming Gorge & Dinosaur Nat. Monument. Barbara now president of Salt Lake City CampFire Council. Goes on trip to Memphis, TN and Landover, MD.

1972 November Barbara starts working at the Imperial Realty company as real estate agent.

1972 December Mark comes home for Christmas. We go snowshoeing in Big Cottonwood Canyon.

1973 January Mark returns to Willamette. Continues living off campus in south Salem. Barbara busy with real estate--and making some sales. Karen doing folk dancing.

1973 May Glenn & Barbara drive to Woodburn & Salem. Visit with Kemmerichs & Mark. Go to Pacific City with Mark.
Mark has summer job with Atkinson, working on the Lower Granite Dam--last dam on the Snake River. He also takes "ecology" course in Hawaii thru W.U.

1973 June 02 Barb buys a Ford Maverick with her real estate commissions.

1973 July 04 Barb drives her almost-new Maverick, solo, to Oregon for her Milwaukie High School 25th reunion. Visits Mark at Lower Granite Dam site on way back to Salt Lake City. Barbara & Mark go up to Pullman, then over to Troy, Idaho and find the Andrew Halliday farm site on "Driscoll Ridge"--now a wheat field farmed by the Driscolls. Also go to Dworshak Dam near Orofino, ID.

1973 July 31 The Bezemers visit, enroute to Henk's new job, near Pittsburg, PA

August - Sept. 1973 Al & Pauline Kemmerich drive another RV to Alaska, via ALCAN highway, returning on Alaska Marine ferries.

1973 August 11 Glenn & Barbara go to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon & hike the "Widforss Trail." Karen goes on a backpack trip into the Wind River Range, Wyoming. She also goes to summer school.

1973 September 05 We get a new bedroom set--Drexel, French Provincial.

1973 Sept. 06 Glenn, Barbara & Karen go to the Tetons, celebrating Karen's birthday at Signal Mt. Lodge, then on to Yellowstone.

1973 Sept. Mark winds up his summer dam construction job, returns to Willamette, and moves into Baxter Hall for his senior year.

1973 November 30 Noel Kemmerich & Betty Guenzi are married in Reno, NV.

1973 December 06 Barbara starts working at the Hypertension Clinic, part of the Univ. of Utah.
Glenn, Barbara, Mark & Karen drive to Redding to spend Christmas with Irl & Noma. The sight of GREEN grass as we descended the western side of the Sierras was impressive.  

1974 January Mark returns to Willamette for his final semester. Barbara is working about 3/4 time at the Hypertension Clinic. Still doing some real estate.

1974 March Barb still President of CFG Board. Her shining achievement--she and the Exec. Director, Betty Fife, convince the Salt Lake City United Way that Camp Fire Girls should have their support.

1974 Mar. 28 Glenn & Barbara go to Canyonlands Nat. Park.

1974 May Mark graduates from Willamette University. Those cheering him on from the grandstand at Bush Pasture Park : Glenn, Barbara, Al & Pauline Kemmerich, Noel & Betty Kemmerich, Poly & Tudy Dameron (Pauline's sister). Mark leaves almost immediately for his summer job on the south slope of the Brooks Range, Alaska. He works on a geology crew, gathering mineral samples for chemical analysis. Employed by Noranda, a copper mining company. Based part of the time at " Kobuk Village." He sells his VW Van and saves the proceeds to finance his trip to London, England in the fall. A WU professor is impressed with his performances in WU plays, and recommends him to an acting school in London.

1974 June 02 Karen goes to Jackson Lake Lodge, Teton Nat. Park for her summer job. She works in the laundry, monitors the nearby Trumpeter Swan family, and takes great hikes on her days off.

1974 June 19 Glenn has throat biopsy at Holy Cross Hospital. Dr. Magid reports there is a malignant tumor on Glenn's vocal chord, will require removal of the vocal chords. Glenn sees the doctors at LDS Hospital Radiology the next week. They decide against radiation to shrink the tumor. Al Kemmerich comes to stay with Barbara while Glenn is in the hospital.

1974 June 28 Glenn has laryngectomy at Holy Cross Hospital, Dr. Magid, surgeon.

1974 July 01Glenn is moved from ICU.

1974 July 10 Glenn is discharged and starts speech therapy with Dr. Fingerle five days later. Al Kemmerich returns home.
Barbara quits real estate job. Goes full-time at Hypertension Clinic. Glenn is off work about a month, continues to recover well, and we take a few trips, to the Uintas, and northwestern Utah.

1974 Sept. Mark returns from his summer job in Alaska. Karen returns from her summer job in the Tetons. Irl & Noma come for a visit.
Mark flies to London, where his address is: 6 Hamilton Rd., Ealing W.5, London, England, and it costs 26 cents to send a 1/2 oz. airmail letter. He enters drama school, finds part-time work as a bartender, mixing "genuine American drinks."
Barbara and Karen drive to Kemmerichs, then on to Seattle where Karen enrolls in the Univ. of Washington and moves into Lander Hall dorm. Karen's friends from Salt Lake, Art & Jen Brooks now at UW also.

1974 Dec. Karen comes home, via train, for Christmas. We share Christmas dinner with the Lillys
Mark spends Christmas break in Greece, going to the monasteries at Mt. Athos.