My life story, 1983-1999.

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My life story, 1983-1999.

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Recalls his early life in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Twin Falls, Idaho; farming; attendance at Albion State Normal School, 1935-1937, Utah State University, 1946-1949, and Northern Colorado University, 1949-1951; teaching elementary school in Declo, Idaho, 1937-1942; service in U.S. Air Force during World War II; marriage; employment as academic dean and professor of education psychology at Peru State Teacher's College (Nebraska) 1951-1954; employment in counseling center and Department of Educational Psychology at BYU, 1954-1979; travels; and church service, including a Latter-day Saint mission in Coventry, England, 1984-1985. Also contains significant information about his family. Includes biographical sketches of his parents, Joseph Downing and Lillie May Jensen, and his grandparents, Charles S. Downing, Sarah A. Lennington Downing, Christian Jensen, and Emma Rosella Palmer. Also includes poetry composed by Lester H. Downing.

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Harold B. Lee Library

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