Mack Wilkey ~~~ Loved by All

 

Mack Wilkey and Peter Hafen

Mack Wilkey stopped by on a Sunday afternoon eight years ago.

Peter had just come home from surgery.

  Peter has always looked up to Mack.  Mack has been so very encouraging to our whole family.

 

Mack Lemore Wilkey

9/18/1929 ~ 2/9/2022

Mack Lemore Wilkey fell “head over heels in love” with MorRae Blain; they were married August 17, 1950 in the Manti Temple. After thirteen years of missing her daily presence, as of his passing February 9, they are together again.

She supported his early mornings of driver's ed, enjoyment of mountain time particularly with her father Max Blain and their sons, and his nineteen-year coaching career which included basketball, football, track, boxing, swimming, and tennis. As a sophomore at Juab High School, he was cut from the basketball team. After hours of determined practice, he not only made the team but went on to play at Snow College and at Utah State University. Always a coach, he continued his love of sports through grandchildren and adopted grandchildren in the community. As a coach, he was uncompromising in maintaining team integrity, discipline and unity. He’d want everyone of the 24 grandchildren and the greats, all 44 of them, and a great-great grandson coming in April to hear his recounting of the basketball championship of “69.” That year he was chosen High School Coach of the Year; later he was inducted into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame.

MorRae appreciated his large garden and the harvest; he’d love to brag about his monster squash, “best” carrots in Sanpete County and lemon elberta peaches. At 92, he gardened, conquered “millions” of weeds, and mowed his own lawn.

Mack appreciated MorRae’s homemade bread, dill pickles, and jam. Not only did he miss her cooking, but he learned to make all three, extraordinarily. Grandchildren affectionately call him the “pancake king.” He’d make delicious whole wheat pancakes and explain all the wonders of Kolob at the same time.

Mack and MorRae treasured their adventures with her sisters Sherrol and Carolyn and their husbands, and also with his family. His sisters Gayle, Marie and step sister Sandra will miss their older brother. His brother Neil and their parents Clarence Wilkey and Helen McPherson preceded them in death.

M and M – that’s how Mack would sign in beautiful handwriting – spent fifteen years serving together in the Manti Temple. As a temple sealer, he was honored to perform the ordinance for grandchildren and great-grandchildren. M and M supported one another in their responsibilities in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served in many capacities including bishop, Mt. Pleasant 4th Ward and Snow College Married Ward, stake high councilor, teacher of seminary and gospel doctrine, and Cub Scout Master. The latter suited well a man who was not afraid to have fun, wear a crazy outfit or dance.

Dancing! He loved to dance with the little grandchildren, and he enjoyed the dancing performances of granddaughters. He also liked to entertain grandchildren with homemade games and his stories. In a visit, he may pull out some of the many charts he had made for his multiple teaching opportunities. His lettering was masterful. His favorite poster was his plan of salvation chart. His artistic talent also included teaching art, throwing pottery, and oil painting.

Music was also dear to him and MorRae. They not only sang duets together-particularly “Abide with Me” at funerals-but also in family gatherings. They supported their children’s and grandchildren’s musical performances. He was also called upon to speak in coaching clinics, conferences and yes, in funerals.

Mack was firm in his testimony of the restored gospel and the divine mission of Joseph Smith. He received a witness of the Book of Mormon while on board ship, the US Randall, as part of 147th Army Artillery bound for Korea and the conflict there. While in Korea, he and army buddies built the first chapel of the Church there.

Upon his passing, many family members and friends commented, “Bless his heart. He fought the good fight. Now on to the victory kiss with his eternal queen and their happy dance. I hope Heavenly Father lets us peek at reunions in the next life.” Truly he did “return with honor.”

His children and spouses, Dave (Loralee), Debra (Steven Howell), Kevin (Ruth), Kim (Christine), and Michelle (Glenn Day) thank his loyal friends, hospice team, ward “family” and all those he coached, taught, and influenced.

Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. February 18 and 11:30 am – 12:30 pm February 19 at the Mt. Pleasant Stake Center, 295 South State. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:00 pm February 19, Mt. Pleasant Stake Center. Interment in the Mt. Pleasant City Cemetery. Online memories may be written at rasmussenmortuary.com. In lieu of flowers, Mack suggests contributions to your preferred humanitarian aid organization or to the missionary fund of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

 

 

Carlene Vione Anderson Taylor

 

Carlene Vione Anderson Taylor


8/12/1935 ~ 11/7/2022

Carlene Vione Anderson Taylor

Carlene Vione Anderson Taylor, 87 of Mt. Pleasant, Utah, our beautiful wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend died peacefully at home on November 7, 2022, surrounded by the people she loved.
She was born August 12, 1935 in Mt. Pleasant to Carl Raymond and Mildred Johansen Anderson. She graduated from Moroni High School in May of 1952, as valedictorian. She married Ronald Lee (RL) Taylor from Mt. Pleasant on December 10, 1954 in the Manti Temple. They moved to Salt Lake in 1955 and resided there for 40 years. They were blessed with 3 wonderful children.
Carlene worked for six years for the Foreign Study League, spending one summer working as a chaperone for students in Italy, France, and England. She worked two years for the SL Division of Aeronautics as secretary to the director. She worked 12 years for the Veteran Administration Medical Center in Prosthetics and Mental health. She was an avid bridge player, earning over 100 master points while competing with duplicate bridge clubs in the Salt Lake area.
Carlene and RL retired, returned home to Mt. Pleasant and finished the retirement home they had been working on for years. In Mt. Pleasant they owned and operated an antique store called Heart of Utah Antiques & Collectibles for 11 years. They had a lot of fun doing that.
She is survived by her sweetheart of 67 years (RL); her 3 children, Ronald Craig Taylor, Chad A. (Jeanette) Taylor, and Melanie Taylor (James) Hancey; 7 grandchildren and 14 great grand children; her siblings Steve Anderson, Flo Carlston, Jeff Anderson and Marily Bevan.
Our darling Carlene, a true friend to everyone, will be remembered for her loving, kind and giving nature. She is much loved and will be very missed.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. in the Mt. Pleasant Stake Center (295 S State) with a viewing from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. prior to services at the church. Interment in the Mt. Pleasant City Cemetery. Online condolences at Live Zoom Link at rasmussenmortuary.com in her obituary.

Anti Saloon Society ~~~ and A Disastrous RunAway

 

Ansel Adams, Dr. Michael Adams and Wasatch Academy

 

Ansel Adams ~ photograph courtesy of wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams

http://anseladams.org/

WASATCH ACADEMY, Mt.Pleasant, Utah  

In 1948, Ansel Adams  and his wife, Virginia, enrolled their son, Michael into Wasatch Academy.  Mariposa High School, the school closest to their home was a 45 mile bus ride away from Yosemite National Park where the family was then living. Wasatch Academy was a popular alternative boarding school chosen by many National Park Employees at the time.

Dr. Michael Adams, Wasatch Academy Class of 1951, had two loves in life—flying and medicine. He was able to embrace both, becoming both a medical doctor and an Air Force pilot, eventually retiring as a major general. In 1969, he was selected as the Flight Surgeon of the Year for the United States Air Forces Europe.

Dr. Michael Adams

The following  comes from:

Deseret News

By Dave Gagon, Visual Arts Writer

Published: Sunday, Nov. 26 1995 

TOWARD THE END of his life, photographer Ansel Adams compiled a set of 75 images representing what he believed to be his best work.

Ansel Easton Adams was born February 20, 1902, in San Francisco, the only child of Charles and Olive Adams. Reared on the windswept sand dunes that overlooked the Golden Gate, Adams was an enormously curious child.While gifted in many areas, Adams was largely unsuccessful at school; the rigid structure of public education was not to his liking.

At 14, Adams visited Yosemite National Park. Astounded by the scenery, and armed with the Kodak #1 Brownie his parents had given him, Adams recorded the beauty that surrounded him. It was here that his love for nature and photography blossomed, sparking an interest that would make him return to Yosemite every year for the rest of his life.

Wanting to become more than an amateur photographer, Adams studied the popular technique of the time: soft-focus negatives to bromoil prints, which made the photographs look like charcoal drawings.

Having mastered this technique, he began working towards more clarity in his photography and a way to depict the detail and emotional majesty of the mountains and natural landscape. A conscious, artistic decision to achieve more optically accurate pictures led him to experiment with lighting.

Through his exacting efforts to capture reality, Adams developed two important theories still used by photographers today: visualization, which is to plan before the exposure is taken how the final print will look, and the zone system, which ensures correct exposure for nearly every composition and light situation.

In April 1927, Adams produced his first acknowledged masterpiece, "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome." On a cool spring morning, Adams, his fiance Virginia Rose Best and a couple of friends climbed to the Diving Board, a small terrace adjacent to Half Dome. Having used all but one of his 6-by-8-inch glass plates, he took the picture.

"This photograph," Adams said, "represents my first conscious visualization. In my mind's eye I saw the final image."

In 1932, disgusted with the dominance of pictorialism (soft-focus pictures) in fine-art photography, Adams and his contemporaries Imogen Cunningham, Henry Swift, Sonya Noskowiak, John Paul Edwards, Edward Weston and Willard Van Dyke gathered to discuss how to promote what they called "straight" or "pure" photography. They called themselves Group f/64, referring to the smallest aperture setting common on view-lens cameras - a setting that gives great depth of field and maximum sharpness throughout the photograph.

In 1935, Adams published his "Personal Credo," and by 1941 he had fully developed the "Zone System." He went on to become one of America's most celebrated and influential photographers.

The first image that greets the viewer in "Ansel Adams: The Museum Set" is the breathtaking "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" (1941), perhaps Adams' best- known masterpiece. The photograph emerged from a moment of combined serendipity and immediate technical recall. In the east the moon was rising, and in the west the late sun shone over the cloud bank, flashing brilliant light on the graveyard crosses. "I will never be so exact with my thousands of moonless pictures," Adams said of the photograph.

Many of Adams' photographs border on the abstract, as in "Frozen Lake and Cliffs" (1932). In explaining these works, Adams said, "I prefer the term `extract' over `abstract' since I cannot change the optical realities but only manage them in relation to themselves and the format. For photographic composition I think in terms of creating configurations out of chaos, rather than following any conventional rules of composition."

One photograph (this reviewer's favorite) depicts well the depth-of-field, sharp focus ideas of Group f/64: "Mt. Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar" (1945). In the foreground are rocks and boulders, the background is a mountain range with sun-drenched clouds hovering overhead. From the closest pebble to the farthest cloud swell, everything is in critical focus.

While every photograph is a work of art, Adams' oeuvre also documents the wilderness, whose existence today is seriously imperiled. Although Adams said he never made a photograph expressly for the conservation movement, he was glad to put them into service for purposes of environmental awareness.

In his catalog for the exhibit, Roger Newbold, director of photography at the Salt Lake Art Center School, said, "It is difficult to think that one individual could do so much to enhance the quality of life for so many. Ansel Adams freely gave of himself so that we, through his eyes, could begin to build our own sense of aesthetics, environment and understanding. His life and photographs are like a stone cast into water - the radiating rings in ever-expanding orbits continue to influence us."

It was Adams' intent to produce 100 editions of the 75-piece museum portfolio. Unfortunately, he was only able to complete seven sets before his death in 1984.

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History Of Wasatch Academy ~~ Written by W. K. Throndson in 1939

HISTORY OF WASATCH ACADEMY
written by W. K. Throndson in 1939
and taken from "History of Mt. Pleasant" by Hilda Madsen Longsdorf

"In the spring of 1875, a young minister, Duncan J. McMillan. came to Mt. "Pleasant in search of health and with a longing to be of some service to his fellows. Learning from some of the local citizens that they desired educational advantages for their children, and having had several years experience in the teaching field, he entered into an agreement with them to purchase what was known as the Liberal Dance Hall, a building which still is standing on Main Street and which is now occupied by the Masonic Order. The first session was held on April 19th of that year, and before the term ended that spring, the attendance had reached well over the hundred mark. The Academy went through the usual vicissitudes of the "growing up" process. At one time it appeared that the school was doomed to cease operations because of lack of funds, but through a providential gift from a missionary society in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the work was enabled to go on.

In 1880, the school was taken over by the Board of Home Missions .of the Presbyterian church and has been under the control of that body since that date.
Of course in the beginning years, the scholastic offerings were restricted to the lower grades. The first high school class was graduated in 1887 and consisted of two members. There were no further graduates until 1895, when one student was graduated. Classes have been graduated each succeeding year, with the exception of 1900 and 1919. It was in this latter year that the local influenza epidemic made it impossible to continue after the first few weeks in the fall.

In 1888, the building on Main Street proved to be too small for efficient work, so a group of Mt. Pleasant business men subscribed the sum of $2,000.00 to help complete a new structure which was located on the site of the present Administration Hall. The old Sanpete County Co-op was the largest single subscriber to this fund.
Popular demand soon brought about the establishment of the boarding department and by 1896, we find that there were twenty four boarding pupils enrolled. The boys lived in the school building and the girls resided in a home a block distant, their home occupying the corner where the Conoco service station is now located southeast corner Main and First West.
In 1901, the music department was added to the curriculum and has continued to be one of the most popular departments up to the present time.

Mr. Ernest Patterson, formerly principal of the Henry Kendall CoIlege of Muskogee, Oklahoma, became principal in 1905, and remained in that position until 1908, when he was succeeded by Walter McKirahan, who later became Dean of Westminster CoIlege in Salt Lake City. During the latter's administration, the Academy Administration Hall was enlarged and remodeled.
Charles Lee Johns was appointed to the principal-ship in 1911. During his tenure, much of the present property was secured, a number of new buildings were erected, and the Administration Hall was again enlarged. The brick schoolhouse and grounds, east of Simpson's, the Albert Peterson residence, and. "Lincoln Hall" were purchased during this period, making the school pro¬perty equivalent to almost a city block.
In 1912, a similar school in Springville, Utah, known as "Hungerford Academy" was closed and consolidated with Wasatch. Much of the equipment from that institution was brought to the Mt. Pleasant plant.
The first important dormitory, "Finks Memorial Hall" for girls, was erected in 1913 by volunteer gifts from all parts of the nation. During the same year, the commercial and home economics departments were added. The next year, the manual training courses were offered for the first time.
Mrs. Charles F. Darlington, of New York City, long a friend of the school, gave funds in 1916, for the first boys' dormitory. The building was named "Charles F. Darlington, Jr. Dormitory" in honor of her young grandson. In 1917, the gymnasium corner was purchased, as well as a small cottage from a Mr. Johansen. By these purchases, the holdings now included one and one-half city blocks of valuable property in the heart of the city.
The "Frances Thompson Memorial Infirmary" was built in 1921, by church friends of Passaic, New Jersey. A year later, the "Johns Gymnasium" was erected, being named for the principal who was so active in its construction. The following year, the "Olivia Sage Memorial Hall" was built, funds being provided from the estate of the wife of the internationally famous philanthropist.
Mr. Johns resigned in 1924, and his position was assumed by W. K. Throndson, who is still superintendent at the time of this writing.


In 1929, the "Duncan J. McMillan Memorial Hall" was built to house a number of the teachers and to serve as a home for the superintendent.
On April 4, 1933, the Administration Hall was destroyed by fire. Classes were housed temporarily for the remainder of the year, and as no building funds were available at the time, the enrollment was restricted during the following year, and Darlington Hall was converted into temporary classrooms. During that period of financial depression, it was even thought in some quar¬ters that it might be necessary to close the Academy, but in the spring of 1934, it was learned that building funds had been made available through the estate of Miss Alice Craighead, of Washington, D. C. Miss Craighead's father was a friend of Dr. McMillan and she had listened as a girl to his tales of his work in Utah. Her will therefore listed the Academy as one of the schools where the Board of National Missions might spend the gift which she left to it. During the summer of 1934, the Craighead Industrial Hall was built to house the manual arts and homemaking de¬partments, and late that summer, excavation was begun on the Craighead Administration Hall. The Industrial Hall was occupied at the opening of school in 1934, and the Administration Hall in February of 1935.
In the spring of 1934, the Board decided to close its boarding and day school for girls at Logan, Utah, and consolidated that institution with Wasatch. Technically, the local school is now called Wasatch-Logan. Miss Margery E. Frink, for many years principal of Logan Academy, was brought to Mt. Pleasant as Dean of Girls, a position which she still holds.

Seeing the need of additional space, the school purchased the Clemensen home, north of the Administration Hall, in 1928, and the Barnett home in 1935. During the summer of 1938, both of these buildings were razed to make possible the erection of a fine new dormitory for girls. Funds for this building were also pro¬vided from the Craighead estate.
The last addition to the Academy property was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chesley Seely, which was purchased in 1938 to serve as a residence for the principal. The Academy now owns approximately two city blocks in the heart of Mt. Pleasant. (1939)
The Administration building of the Wasatch Academy was destroyed by fire in April 1933.

At the present time, the school has a staff of twenty-four members and a student body gathered from ten of the intermountain states. There are accommodations in the boarding department for slightly over 160 pupils equally divided as to boys and girls. The day enrollment exceeds eighty students, making a total enrol¬ment of approximately 250. In line with the policy of the Boar; controlling the Academy, the enrollment will be held at that level unless the Board sees fit to make a special ruling and provide for an increased capacity."

In the Year 2009, Wasatch Academy now owns 43 private residences and has acquired much more property.

Mt. Pleasant High School Junior High ~~~ Grades 7 and 8 ~~~ 1929

 

Many Thanks to Boyd Brewer for sending in this one.  No names were given.

HAMILTON ELEMENTARY FIRST AND SECOND GRADE 1959 1960

 

Home of Niels Christensen and his wife Karen Johansdatter ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

 

Plans For 1949 Pioneer Day (From Louise Johansen's Scrapbook)

 

Fannie Candland Miles 

Fannie Miles Students  1896
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Ten Signs You're Doing Well In Life.

 

Children of Justus Wellington Seely

 

Descendants of Charles Clauson or Clawson ~~~ (Ole Carl Christian Clausen) and Eliza Ann Davis

 This History is taken from the book "The Family History of William Bristol, Ane Marie Sophie Clausen, Joseph Cambron, and their Descendants ...... Written by Pat L. Sagers. 

 

Baby Has Seven Grand and Great Grandparents 1934