Comment December 1978 How long would you survive without matches? matches were gone. Existence is threatened when you don’t know how to build a fire without matches.” he said. Food, clothing, medicine and intertainment were all centered around what could be acquired. “The people were very religious and appreciated what they had.” The only implement a student has in the class is a knife. “T teach the student, first, how to build a - fire using two pieces of wood (using flint and steel is cheating). They need to know what kind of wood, not all kinds will work. Not all wood is suitable for axe handles, bow or arrows. Indians knew their plants which were edible, poisonous and effective for ailments. They used them also for gourds and to make dye. Some plants had ‘‘As an Indian once said, ‘Today when the old ones die a way of life will die and I cannot bear the thought of that death.’”’ Hoping to keep alive a ‘‘way of life” Professor Clark plans to visit Indian reservations and do oral interviews to gain as much information as possible. on a pamphlet He has compiled “Common Edible Wild Plants.’’” know leaves a cat-tail may be is edible? cooked tor greens, the inner root parts cooked whole or dried and ground into a flour and the fuzzy flower parts may be added to stews or soups as a thickening agent. The young leaves and shoots of a milkweed are edible and should be cooked in dquist, director of Lindquist ry — and Sons. They are the parents of five ~ children. Donna M. Roberts was born and raised in Ogden. She graduated from Ogden High School and attended WSC, receiving an Associate of Weber When Science degree. became a four-year college she retur- ned to Weber and received a B.S. degree in Business Education and eamed a M.S. degree at Utah State University. She has been a teacher Office Administration-Business Administration for ten years. Her husband is Stan Roberts, Supervisory Systems Analyst at the “Starting a fire with flint and steel is cheating,’ said Stephen Clark, associate professor of Botany. He starts a fire by friction using two pieces of cottonwood on a weekend outing with fellow members of the American Mountain Men in a session called the “Rocky Mountain College.”’ several changes of water. Also, the young, In Memoriam tender seed pods are edible. Leaves of dandelions are edible, cooked as greens in several changes of water. Even stinging nettle stems and leaves are edible if boiled and then recooked in fresh water. Douglas fir needles and spearmint can be used to prepare a tea. Does all of this get your mountain instincts aroused. How long would you last, lost, in the mountains or foothills, without matches or food? Defense Depot. They have two sons and one daughter. Lorna Ledingham Rich has been active in community and church service and active in the Ogden Junior League of Women for the past 15 years. She graduated from the twoyear home economics program at WSC and attended the University of Utah. During high school years at Ogden High School, Mrs. Rich was active in politics and guilds. Mrs. Rich is the wife of Edward B. Rich and they are the parents of two sons and two daughters. They lived in Ogden until 1973 when they moved to Huntsville. She is currently president of the Huntsville Second Ward Relief Society and is a partner in a small business called the ‘Needlepoint Joint” located in Rainbow Gardens at the mouth of Ogden Canyon. ey oS you young ga eR PC Did The (Alumni board continued from page 6) District Foundation and served as president of the Junior League of Ogden and PTA. A resident of North Ogden, Mrs. Lindquist is the wife of Charles Lin- a. religious significance. Sage was used in the rites of a boy proving himself to bea man and certain grasses were burned to make smoke and used in the peace pipe. Every plant had a use and if you didn’t know what it was you wouldn’t survive long, said Professor Clark. Modern man doesn’t have this knowledge and wouldn’t survive in the wilderness long without it. Students learn to identify plants, where they grow and when and what parts of the plants to use and how to prepare themn. Professor Clark has applied for a grant to take students on a field trip for five days, making fires and cooking edible plants and building ‘‘character.”’ VERL GRASER, died 53, Roy, Oct. 6, 1978, in a Brigham City hospital. He has served in the Air Force 30 years, retiring in 1976 as mechanical engineering supervisor. He was a WSC_ graduate. Surviving are his widow, the former Lois Bitton, Marian daughter. sons three one and MARY CHARD MCKEE, 75, Ogden, died Oct. 17, 1978. She taught school for 34 years in Weber County at Liberty, North Ogden, Taylor, Uintah and Washington Terrace. She attended WSC and graduated for the University of Utah. Her husband, Alma D. McKee, preceded her in death. BYRON E. FOLKMAN, 70, Ogden, died Oct. 19, 1978. He had worked for the Utah Power and Light Co. in the auditing department and in the traffic department of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Ogden and California. In 1950 he started work in data service, HAFB, retiring in 1972. He is survived by his widow, Margery E. Orton. 44, ETTA IONE BAILEY HOLMES, -South Ogden, died Oct. 30. She was active in the 78th LDS ward and had held various positions. She was a member of Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Camp K. She attended Weber Academy. Her husband, Parley C. Homes, preceded her in death. She is survived by five sons and three daughters. MARK S. LATULIPPE, 22, Ogden, died Oct. 23 of an accidental gunshot wound. He had worked for the U.S. Forest Service. He had attended Utah State University and was a senior at WSC. DAVID RAY HOLLAND, 43, Brigham City, died Nov. 7, 1978. He had been employed with Thiokol Corp. in quality assurance control. He was active in scouting and received the Silver Beaver Award. Majorie Haas, He He is attended WSC. son and_ three 18, Plain survived by his widow, the former Carol one daughters. GREGORY IVAN FLOYD, City, died Nov. 12, 1978, in an automobile accident. He was attending WSC on an academic scholarship and was employed by the Marveon Sign Co. He had been active in the LDS Church and in scouting. Survivors are his parents, Darrell W. and Karen Sorenson Floyd, two brothers and two sisters. ELAINE ANDROS died Nov. 3, 1978. BECK, She 57, Ogden, graduated from WSC and had worked at the Clearfield Naval Supply Depot. She was a member of the 62nd LDS Ward and held positions. She was a member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and was secretary of Camp Golden and was corresponding membership secretary of the McKay-Dee Volunteer Auxiliary, past vice president and secretary. She is survived by her husband, Delbert E. Beck Sr., three sons and one daughter. ELLEN WILSON MCKAY, 89, Hunt sville, died Nov. 7, 1978. She graduated from Weber Academy and attended the University of California and received her _ B.S. degree from the Unniversity of Utah. She served as a teacher for 24 years in the Ogden City and Weber County schools. She was active in the Retired Teacher Association and Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Her husband, Ernest R. McKay, preceded her in death. Surviving is on 4 daughter. eS b The boy seemed to instinctively come alive in the fall. He made snow shoes. He wandered over to visit an Indian family who lived near and sat and listened with awe to the Shoshone Indian parents . stories and studied the plants and herbs with Indian names the woman had on the window sill. He loved the stories he heard of the Washakee Reservation. He reflected on his own great-grandfather who had been a mountain man and his great, grandmother who had been a Shoshone Indian. The boy was born on a farm in Clearfield and always wanted to be either a mountain man or an Indian. As a child he wrote to a professor asking about magazines that published information on the uses of western plants. He found very little had been written on the subject. After a circuitous route through electrical engineering, with which he was dissatisfied, he was forced to take a botany class and found all those old interests of his boyhood. Stephen Clark, associate professor of Botany at Weber State College had found his niche. Today his wish to be either a mountain man or an Indian has very nearly come true. He is a member of the American Mountain Men and director of the Museum and Research Center of the group. He also started a class at the college on Indian and Pioneer Uses of Western Plants which is being offered for the third quarter and is very popular. Professor Clark, still finding very little on the subject, set out interviewing people, studying journals, historical documents and original sources such as the Lewis Clark Records for authentic information on uses of plants. ‘I try to have the students project themselves back 150 years and imagine what life was like - an entire lifetime without seeing a store. You had to use what was around you. People sometimes have a misconception that it would be a great “sport”? to live off the land. Few would even know how to build fires after the