Norton, Don E.

Juliana Boerio-Goates is a professor of chemistry at Brigham Young University. She was born in Pennsylvania, and came to BYU in 1982. She is a member of the Catholic community in Provo, Utah, and she and her husband have two children.

From the guide to the Oral history interview with Juliana Boerio-Goates, 2008 April 10, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)

Mormon woman who lived in Salt Lake City, Utah.

From the guide to the My life story, 1982-1983, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)

Wanda Whatcott Johnson (1907-1995) was a graduate of LDS Business College and an active member in her church and community.

Wanda Whatcott Johnson was born 4 December 1907 to Alfred Whatcott and Edna Brunson in Fillmore, Utah. Shortly after her birth her family moved to Kanosh, where her father grew up. He was a barber. She was the oldest of six children. She attended LDS Business College and graduated in 1927. Blaine Johnson, a friend from her teenage years in Fillmore, proposed marriage to her after he came home from his mission, and they were married 28 May 1928. They had six children together. She was in the PTA for many years, was very active in relief society, made floats for parades, tailored her kids clothes, and many other activities as a wife, mother, and community and church member. She died 25 June 1995.

From the guide to the Oral history interview with Wanda Whatcott Johnson, 1986, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)

Lester Benjamin Whetten (1904-1988), PhD, was the dean of the General College at Brigham Young University. He also served as president of the Mexico Mission.

Lester Benjamin Whetten was born 23 June 1904 in Colonia Garcia, Chihuahua, Mexico. He graduated high school from the Juarez Stake Academy in 1926. He received his bachelor's and master's in animal husbandry from Brigham Young University in 1932 and 1934 respectively. He was a graduate fellow at the University of Chicago from 1934-1937 and earned his doctorate. He began his teaching as a professor at Mesa Junior College in Grand Junction, Colorado. Aside from teaching, Whetten had a ranch and farm there and loved to farm and raise animals on his four acres. He also served as the branch president. In 1947 he was called to organize a Western Colorado stake. His family leftGrand Junction in 1952 for Snow College, where he served as president for three years. He left Snow in 1956 to become the director of public relations at Brigham Young Univeristy. He stayed at BYU and served as the dean of General College from 1965-1972. He also served as an associate professor of religious instruction. While at BYU he also developed an American Indian Education program. In 1973 he was called to serve as the mission president of the Mexico Mission. He would also later be called to serve as a regional representative in Central America and then in Portugal and and Spain, where he established the first stakes there.

He married Kate Allred in 1930 and they had four children. Whetten died 2 December 1988.

From the guide to the Oral history interview with Lester Whetten, 1983, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)