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Show Dinnerfor Expedition Riders caravaa He now raises horses in Virginia. Jake Meador, 48 teaches science in San Bernardino; and Kevin Cox 33 works as a railroad engineer in Winslow, Arizona. Mr. Cox's skills include horsemanship, hor-semanship, shoeing, wrangling, cooking and photography. If things go according to schedule, 15 weary riders will arrive in Cedar City Monday, October 11. These riders are official members of the Dominguez Escalante Bicentennial Bicen-tennial Expedition and will be guests of honor at a special commemoration dinner. The dinner is scheduled for 7 p.m. at SUSC and is open to the public. Mrs. Zelma Matheson, chairman of the dinner indicates that it will be a real old fashioned meal featuring Baked Skillet Potatoes, Roast Beef, and Rice Pudding. She further stated that tickets could be obtrained at $3.50 each from Father Kunz, Theo Corry, members of the DUP, SUP, Historical Society, BLM or at the Iron Mission State Park. Norm Forbush, chairman of- the committee in charge of making arrangements for the group, indicates that these special, patriotic minded riders are now eating their lunches in the saddle so that they can keep up with the tight schedule they have set. He further indicated that they have suffered various set-backs such as dead horses and colts being born. This group left Santa Fe on July 29 just as the original expedition ex-pedition did in 1776. However, the modern day trekers plan to be back in Santa Fe on Thanksgiving Day instead of on January 2. Doing it completely at their own expense, the group is trying to follow the trail exactly as it was traveled 200 years ago. One can't help but wonder just who these people are who would attempt this fete. The idea for the expedition originated with William Gordon Wallace, 66. He was studying a map of major United States explorations in 1974 in search of an expedition to be undertaken and was attracted to the Dominguez-Escalante Trail and 1976 seemed the perfect year to do it in. He is leading the group and with experience to back him up. After retiring from the U.S. Army in 1969 he has lead wilderness pack trips and hikes to such faraway places as Japan, New Guinea, Pakistan, and Nepal. In Nov. Dec. of 1974 he lead a party across more than 200 miles of Himalaya Mountains to Mt. Everest. ' Trail Boss, William Dalley is only 27 but has been a driving force behind this expedition. He served as an infantry platoon leader with the U.S. Army in Vietnam and has been working as Trails Coordinator for the American Revolution Bicen- tennial Region VIII Office in Denver. The rest of the expedition includes in-cludes people of various ages, both sexes, and various walks of life. They are Joseph Cerquone, 27 originally from New York; Patrick Williams, 44, a UCLA graduate in the School of Business; Karen Money Williams, 27 of California and nineteen year old Tamra Weiss who was born in Chicago but now lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico and plans to continue her education in veterinary medicine. h Willard Atwood, 30 has a ranch in New Mexico and is a veteran rider of wilderness trips; Barbara Bar-bara Spreen Atwood, rides about 250 miles a month just in the normal course of her business of training horses; Robert C. Daigh, 52 and his wife Janice 50 are both skilled endurance riders and live in Taos, New Mexico; Bjorn Borgen, 35 is a general practitioner from Skiptvet, Norway; Oliver P. "Bill" Norton, Nor-ton, 54 was born in central Wyoming and claims to have ridden 50,000 miles simply to receive an elementary school education. He served in three wars with the U.S. Navy and once rode 800 miles through the Sahara Desert as part of a camel |