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Show = Sunday SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER10, 1995 he Salt Lake Tribune PERSONALS Page J-6,7 SECTIONJ ATTITUDE Page J-8 WOMEN WHO MAKE A DIFFEREN TimKelly/TheSalt Lake Tribune Jan Graham, Utah's attorney general, is the first woman electedtostate office in Utah. Paul Fraughton/The Sait Lake Tribune al Hartmann/TheSalt Lake Tribune in 1984, Joyce Gray,principal of BryantIntermediate Schoolin Salt Lake City, became state's first black principal at Arcadia Elementary. Diane Lennon wasthe first woman sales executive in the Salt Lake TV market. YWCAHonors Success Of Today’s Pioneers By Brandon Griggs THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE They are modern-day pioneers. They are Latino, American Indian, black and white, and they overcame poverty, sexism and racism to rise to the top of their professions. Theyincludethe first black school principalin the state, the first woman sales executive in Salt LakeCity television and the first woman elected to state office in Utah. They are feminists. All have had remarkable careers, and all have made indelible contributions to the Salt Lake City community. Yet most count raising children among their proudest accomplishments. They are the six winners of the 1995 YWCA Outstanding Achievement Awards, and they will be honored Friday at the YWCA’s annual Leader- Luncheon in downtown Salt Lake City, where poet Gwendolyn Brooks,the first black to receive the Pulitzer Prize, will give the keynote address. They are Jan Graham, Joyce M. Gray, Reba L. Keele, Diane McCall Lennon, Abby Trujillo Maestas and Donna Land Maldonado. For more about their lives and their work, read on: Trent Nelson/Tae Sait ae Tribune Reba Keele calls her work as dean of undergraduate studies at the U. a “dream job.” JAN GRAHAM The elegant, wood-paneled lobby of the Utah attorney general's state Capitol office holds a portrait gallery of all the job’s occupants in the lataanatthe Salt take ‘Tribune Abby Maestas has been director of the Rape Recovery Center for the past four years. state's 100-year history. The solemn faces gazing from their frames have something in common: all are men. Except one. In 1992, Jan Graham became the first woman elected to state office in Utah, Says the incumbent officeholder, “It was a nicelittle barrier to crack.” During her campaign three years ago, Graham gave birth to a sou. It is no coincidence that as attorney general she has becomeoneofthestate's leading child-welfare advocates. First she created a divisionof heroffice devoted to child-abuse prevention, prosecution and education. Then Graham launched a new pro- Rick Egan/Th Salt Lake Tribune KRCL Program Director Donna Land Maldonadohelpsgive air time to unheard voices. @ See YWCA,Page J-2 NATURAL®&~-HISTORY OSA Activist works for the world’s women Irene Santiago years of womon fohorpostiowhenord stage. FABULOUSFOSSIL: HUNTSMAN'S MUSKOX a r : Prehistoric Mammal’s of Canada, living in Utah so long ago? The answer lies in our reconstruction of Remains Help Detail Life in Ancient Utah the prehistoric climate, flora and fauna of the Great Basin. Geologists and paleontologists have painted a picture of life in northern Utah thousands of years ago by putting together thousands of clues, each a piece of an extremely complex puzzle that By Sarah George is still incomplete. SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE We know from ancient pollen samples For all people,there is a natural curiosity about howthe world looked in the ancient past. The world of archaeology in- that the trees found todayat high ejeva- tions, such as the subalpine conifers, came right down to the mouths of the Wasatch canyons, The Great Salt Lake had expand- trigues us with its careful reconstruction of the history and prehistory of humans, based on clues ranging from fantastic treasures to the mundanerefuse of everyday life. Fossils provide us with clues to the prehistory ofthe rest of the natural world Every once in a while, a fossil is uncovered that seems out of place, even fantastic in its setting. Such a fossil is the Huntsman muskox. In the summerof 1994, while excavating the foundation of the Huntsman world headquartersbuilding in Research Park in Salt Lake City, a backhoe operator noticed that he had uncovered what appeared to be old bones. He had the presence of mind to call the Utah Division of State History, and state archaeologist David Madsen and state paleontologist David Gillette quickly completed the excavation of what was ed into a bodyof fresh water that covered Museumof Natural History illustration of a prehistoric muskox, Bootherium bombifrons. clearly fossilized remains of some sort of hoofed animal The fossil was fragmentary and fragile, but much of the original bone was pre- served. It took some careful detective most of northern Utah (we now refer to that prehistoric body as Lake Bonneville) There still was grassland and sagebrush, much asyoufind at Soldier Summit today but there were many more species of large grazing mammals: mammoths, camels, horses, bison and even muskoxen These prehistoric muskexen were rath- er different from those found today in the Arctic north. The modern muskox, Ovibos moschatus, is reminiscent of a large fur work and comparison to existing museum ball — you really can’t see much in the way collections of fossil utigulates (hoofed mammels), but, surprisingly, the animal turned out to be an Ice Age muskox that died on the shore of Lake Bonneville some of features except the hooves and the impressive curved horns. The muskoxliving in Utah 18,000 years ago. Bootherium bombifrons, were larger, with longerlegs, 18,000 years ago. Why was a muskox, to- day a denizen of the extreme Arctic north & See NATURAL HISTORY, Page J-2 |
