Dee Winterton correspondence, 1971-1981

Series — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 2378 Series 2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Materials include personal and professional correspondence and campus memos; includes course lists, reports, notes, articles, contact lists, photographs, and letters of recommendation between himself, BYU faculty, and colleagues from other universities in the United States and Canada. Topics discussed in these letters center around potential job positions, letters of appreciation, etc. Dated 1971-1981.

Dates

1971-1981

Creator

Winterton, Dee (1936-1984) (creator, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to use material from this collection must be obtained from Reference Services at specialcollections@byu.edu.

Biographical History

From the Collection:

Dee Winterton (1935-1984) was a dance professor in Utah.

Dee R Winterton was born in Midvale, Utah, in 1935. As a young man, he worked closely with his father on the family cattle ranch, raising prize-winning steers. After completing college, Winterton toured with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, and participated in residencies in association with the National Endowment for the Arts' Artists-in-Schools Program.

As a professor in the Dance Department at Brigham Young University, Winterton worked closely with the The Dancers' Company, Lamanite Generation, the Young Ambassadors' touring group, and musical theater productions. He also served as the artistic director for revues at Sundance, Utah for several years. He and his wife, Maureen, were the parents of four sons, Brad, Greg, Rolph, and Jay Dee. Dee was killed in an automobile accident on October 15, 1984.

Extent

2 boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Other Finding Aids

A more detailed finding aid is available in print in the repository. File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS2378.xml