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Show i t ALDEN HAMBLIN Director named for museum Alden Haines Hamblin was named as the park superintendent 'of the Dinosaur Museum of Natural History replacing Mike Perry who was transferred tran-sferred to Idaho last month. Hamblin was born and raised in the Uintah Basin on a dairy farm eight miles northwest of Roosevelt. He graduated from Union High School in 1965, went to Utah State University for two years and graduated from Brigham Young University with a B. S. degree in Geology in 1971. He worked for the Bureau of Reclamation for l' j years in the Uintah Basin. He began work for the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation in 1973. He has served as a ranger in Yuba Lake State Recreation Area, Iron Mission Museum at Kodachrome Basin State Reserve and park superintendent at Edge of the Cedar Museum. He began doing graduate work at BYU in 1979 on a Masters Degree in paleontology and presently is doing thesis research on fossil mammals in the Uinta formation near Myton. He is an active member of the LDS Church, serving a mission in the southern states. He lives in the Davis area with his wife Ilene and six children. |