Red Butte Gardens and Arboretum records. 1968-2001.

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Red Butte Gardens and Arboretum records. 1968-2001.

Collection contains correspondence, grant proposals, memoranda, minutes, news clippings, newsletters, reports, and surveys from the office of Directors W. Richard Hildreth (1977-1990) and Mary Patrice Matheson (1991-2002).

2.5 linear ft.

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Red Butte Garden and Arboretum.

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In 1961, the Utah State Legislature established the campus grounds of the University of Utah as the official State Arboretum. An Arboretum Advisory Board was then appointed, but a combination of deficient funds and a rapidly expanding campus hindered the creation of an effective program and daily operation of the arboretum was conferred upon the Dept. of Facilities Planning and Physical Plant and Operations. A renewed commitment to the arboretum was made in 1977 with the hiring of W. Richard Hil...

Hildreth, W. Richard.

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Matheson, Mary Patrice.

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University of Utah.

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The paleontological research was sponsored by the University of Utah. From the description of Utah vertebrate paleontological field photographs, [ca. 1965]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155518067 The following history is from the UTAH HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA article on the University of Utah, by Dr. Gregory C. Thompson: Originally named the University of Deseret, the University of Utah is the oldest state university west of the Missouri River. Founded...