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Show David Dan Tanner 339 Vasco has not confined his work to research and teaching, however. His activities have reached into such fields as wild life and wise use of natural resources, state parks and recreation, fisheries, city planning and city utilities, and national forests. He spent one term in the state legislature (1962-64), was a member of Chamber of Commerce committee of Provo for thirty years, and took an active part on the boards of health and hospital boards in the city. There were many more activities but space will permit not enumeration. Honors came to him in an ever increasing stream as the years passed. In 1959 he was given the Distinguished Service Award, Utah Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. This was followed by being made a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London. The James E. Talmage Scientific Award was bestowed on him in 1968. There were many such honors. The David Dan Tanner Family is pround to be represented of the stature of Dr. Vasco M. Tanner. The entire John Tanner Family joins in the acclaim. by a man Chapter Twenty-Eight - The infant mortality among the pioneers was 2See chapter "From Mississippi to Missouri." 1 Notes enormous. 3See chapter "Wintering at Winter Quarters." 4A number of John's children fathered children in their old age. Sidney had a son born to him in 1877 when he was sixty-eight, John Joshua became the father of a son in 1897 when he was eighty-six, Freeman E. was sixty-seven when his last child was born in 1897, and Joseph was seventy-two when his last child was born in powerful men, these Tanners. See John Tanner Family. "Elizabeth's "Reminiscences." 6Mary Jane Mount, Journal. '''Life of Rebecca Estella Moore" as told to Annie Clara Fotland (original in possession of author). sIbid. "Ibid. These were hard times. lOElizabeth's "Reminiscences." llIbid. 12Coversation with Casidy T. Reid of Salt Lake City, Utah. 130riginal in possession of Nelda Fenstermacker, Salt Lake City, Utah. 14Casidy T. Reid, granddaughter of Leatha S. Tanner, says her grandmother 1905 - denied receiving either alimony 15" or Autobiography of Hettie Fenstermaker, Salt Lake City). child support. Rebecca Carter" (original in possession of Nelda |
