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Show FOCUS: CONVOCATION ··" \HE UNIVE~~ITY)OURNAL • SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY ;:_, . '. " &i ,,,~i · • 1;{JESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1994 Writer, photographer Stephen Trimble to open SUU Convocation lecture series 'The Spirit of the Desert West' will be the topic of Thursday's 11 a.m. address I IN SIDE FOCUS: I • Excerpts from Stephen Trimble's book, The People-Indians of the American Southwest, describe the role of women in Apache tribes and the rituals girls undergo to become women. See page 38. • Compared to the eastern states, Utah has more public land and more national parks. In Trimble's book, The Geography of Childhood, he discusses why public lands s hould be preserved and why children need wild places. See page 38. • SUV Associate Professor of Language and Literature Jim Aton, a personal friend of Trimble, shares his thoughts about T rimble's work. See p age 39. • Visitation to national parks in the southwest is increasing dramatically. Jeff Hill, SUV assistant professor of biology, talks about the preservation of the parks and the diversity of southwestern ecology. See page 39. • Southwest Indians can be compared because their history differs slightly from that of eastern lm.hans, according to Jim Vlas1ch, SUV associate prokssor of social sciences. See page 39. •Fora complete listing of SUV's fall quarter Convocation schedule, see page 13. I Stephen Trim ble i....m-.-. A writer-photographer who has been honored for making "western landscapes and people understandable and accessible to the public" will open the 1994-95 SUV Convocation Series Sept. 22. Stephen Trimble, an award winning author and/ or photographer for many books, essays, technical reports, magazine articles, posters, cards, and guides, will present a slide lecture titled "The Spirit of the Desert West." The free presentation will start at 11 a.m. in the SUU Auditorium. The public is invited to attend all Convocation programs. For 20 years, Trimble, a lifelong resident of one of the "four corners" states, has written about and photographed the Desert West. Natural history and landscape·dominated his work until the mid-1980s, when he began working with Southwest Indian people. He was primary photographer and interviewer for "Our Voices, Our Land," a multi-image introduction to contemporary Southwest Indians that has run continuously since 1984 at Phoenix's T he Heard Museum. His major book, Tbe People: Indians of the American Southwest, was published in 1993 after five years of research and writing. T he book introduces all SO Southwest Indian nations to general audiences and quotes almost 400 individual Native American voices. "In the slide lecture to be presented here, Trimble has integrated the two broad themes of natural history-landscape and the Southwest Indian people," Marla Bingham, SUU lectures and special projects office, says. "lt makes for some intriguing connections between people and place." Trimble graduated Magna Cum Laude from Colorado College in 1972 with a liheral arts education and a degree in psychology. He received a master's degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from the Uni versity of Arizona in 1979. He spent three years as a seasonal ranger-naturalist for the National Park Service at parks in Washington, Colorado and Utah. He also spent five years in Flagstaff, Ariz., where he was associated with the Museum of Northern Arizona. Since 198 1, Trimble has worked full-time as a free-lance writer and photographer. His 1989 volume, Th e Sagebrush Ocean: A Trimble makes 'intriguing connections between people and place,' says Lectures and Special Projects Assistant Marla Bingham. Natural History of the Great Basin, written as part of the University of Nevada's Great Basin Natural History Series, earned the Earle A. Chiles Award. The $10,000 award is given in recognition of contributions that "promote thoughtful management of the natural resources of the lntermountain West." He is also the recipient of the Sierra Club's 1991 Ansel Adams Award for "superlative use of still photography to further a conservation cause.'' Trimble now lives in Salt Lake City where he is working on a novel and photographing for a book ab4l.it Nevada. |