My life story
Scope and Contents
Recalls his early life in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Twin Falls, Idaho; farming; attendance at Albion State Normal School, 1935-1937, Utah State University, 1946-1949, and Northern Colorado University, 1949-1951; teaching elementary school in Declo, Idaho, 1937-1942; service in U.S. Air Force during World War II; marriage; employment as academic dean and professor of education psychology at Peru State Teacher's College (Nebraska) 1951-1954; employment in counseling center and Department of Educational Psychology at BYU, 1954-1979; travels; and church service, including a Latter-day Saint mission in Coventry, England, 1984-1985. Also contains significant information about his family. Includes biographical sketches of his parents, Joseph Downing and Lillie May Jensen, and his grandparents, Charles S. Downing, Sarah A. Lennington Downing, Christian Jensen, and Emma Rosella Palmer. Also includes poetry composed by Lester H. Downing.
Dates
- 1983-1999
Creator
- Downing, Lester N., 1914- (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 publish material from My life story must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Extent
2 folders (0.1 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
Received via campus mail in University Archives, 24 February 1999.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated; 1999.
Appraisal
Utah and the American West and LDS cultural, social, and religious history (20th century Western and Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy, 5.VII, 2007).
- Albion State Normal School (Idaho)
- American poetry -- 20th century
- Autobiographies
- Brigham Young University -- Faculty
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Missions--England
- Coventry (England)
- Declo (Idaho)
- Downing, Lester N., 1914-
- Farmers -- Biography
- Latter Day Saints -- Biography
- Missions and Missionaries
- Peru (Neb.)
- Peru State Teachers College -- Faculty
- Salt Lake City (Utah)
- Twin Falls (Idaho)
- University of Northern Colorado -- Students
- Utah State University -- Students
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
- Title
- Register of My life story
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Elisa Visick
- Date
- 2010 December 17
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States