Interview with Lois Lucille Archuleta, partner and widow of former board member Robert "Archie" Archuleta, for Utah Humanities Fiftieth Anniversary oral history project, 21 October 2024.

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Title Interview with Lois Lucille Archuleta, partner and widow of former board member Robert "Archie" Archuleta, for Utah Humanities Fiftieth Anniversary oral history project, 21 October 2024.
Creator Lois Lucille Archuleta (1936)
Contributors Randy Williams (1961, interviewer, recordist, photographer)
Transcript Susan Gross, 22 October 2024
Subject Utah Humanities Council; Utah Humanities; Utah Endowment for the Humanities; Westminster College of Salt Lake City
Keyword Civic service; Salt Lake County Library; Methodist Church; Robert "Archie" Archuleta, Utah Humanities Board (2012-2018); Mixed ethnicity marriage; community engagement; social activism; social justice; family values
Description Lois Archuleta was born and raised Colorado and moved to Salt Lake City to attend to Westminster College. At a summer camp in Utah, Lois met and married her (late) husband, Robert "Archie" Archuleta. They were married over 60 years. She talks about their civic mindedness, their activity in the community and church, raising five children, and her career as a librarian. She discusses having a mixed ethnicity marriage in the 1950s, in Utah. Her husband, Archie, served on the Utah Humanities Board from 2012-2016. She talks about humanities in Utah, the many, many communities she and Archie were involved in, and all the things she's learned and values over her lifetime.
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Holding Institution Utah Humanities; Utah Historical Society
Date 2024-10-21
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5780993/salt-lake-city.html
Coverage Archuleta home in Salt Lake City, Utah
Format application/pdf
Genre oral histories (literary genre)
Format Extent 00:59:35
Extent 25 leaves
Digitization Specifications Marantz Professional Digital Recorder: Model PMD660; Shure Omnidirectional Lavalier Microphone: Model Microflex MX183
Identifier MSS_D_1_UH50-ArchuletaLoisLucille-REW-20241021.wav
Language eng
Rights Management Utah Historical Society; Utah Humanities
Rights
ARK ark:/87278/s6zcfmde
Collection Number and Name Mss D 1 Utah Humanities at Fifty: An Oral History Project, 1975-2025
Setname dha_uh50
ID 2667644
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zcfmde
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