In early 1976 Weldon applied to library school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was soon accepted with a full tuition scholarship and a graduate assistantship. Weldon and his younger brother Wilford drove a U-Haul from Idaho Falls to Urbana and unloaded belongings into a married student apartment at 2120-103 Orchard Downs. Wilford flew back to Idaho Falls, and Barbara and Anthea flew from Idaho Falls to Champaign.
Photo taken October 4, 2015 of Weldon standing in front of the married student housing building at 2120 Orchard St., in Urbana, Illinois. Weldon, Barbara, and Anthea lived in apartment 103 on the first floor of the building from August 1976 through the end of July 1977. (Weldon and Missy were driving a pickup from John’s house in Bowie, Maryland to Salt Lake City. They stopped here to take a picture.)Here Weldon and Anthea are building shelves in the new apartment in Urbana, August 1976.Here Anthea is helping even more, August 1976.
For Thanksgiving 1976, Weldon, Barbara, and Anthea drove to Rockford, Illinois to visit Weldon’s oldest brother, Walter. Both families drove to the home of Walter and Mary’s friends, the Schwendimans, in Freeport, Illinois, for Thanksgiving Dinner. Anthea fell in love with the marble ramp there.
Anthea with unspecified adult on the front sidewalk at Walter’s house on Rome Avenue in Rockford, Illinois, Thanksgiving weekend 1976.At the home of the Schwendimans, in Freeport, Illinois, Thanksgiving, 1976. Visiting with Walter, Mary, and Tim in Rockford, Illinois, Weldon, Barbara, and Anthea went to Freeport for dinner. L–R: Mary (in front), Walter (in back), Sue Schwendiman (daughter of Glenn and Helen), Anthea, Barbara, Tim, Helen Schwendiman, Glenn Schwendiman, two missionaries.Anthea and marble ramp, Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at the Schwendiman’s house in Freeport, Illinois.For Christmas break 1976, Weldon, Barbara, and Anthea drove from Urbana, Illinois, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to visit Barbara’s brother, David Smith, and his wife Sharon. David saw pursuing a doctorate in computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University. L–R: Sharon, David, Barbara, Anthea.Anthea, December 30, 1976, Urbana, IllinoisWeldon’s parents, Walt and Erline Whipple, and younger brother Wilford flew into the Champaign airport from Idaho Falls on December 29, 1976. This photo was taken in the Urbana apartment L–R: Walt, Erline, Barbara holding Anthea, Weldon, Wilford.
Wilford married Susan Marie Waters on 11 March 1977 in the Idaho Falls Temple. This coincided with the University of Illinois spring break, so Barbara, Anthea, and I flew to Idaho Falls, where I was Wilford’s best man.
Weldon and his brothers and parents at Wilford and Susan’s wedding reception, March 11, 1977. L–R: Weldon, Walter, Walt, Erline, Wilford, Bill. (Wes was on a mission at the time.)Wilford and his bride Susan Marie (Waters) Whipple on their wedding day, March 11, 1977.Weldon’s parents, Erline (Atkinson) and Walter LeGrand Whipple. Photo taken at the time of Wilford’s wedding, March 11 1977.Anthea, wearing a dress made Wilford’s wedding, rocking in the musical rocking chair at Barbara’s parents’ home at 854 Claire View Lane in Idaho Falls, March 1977.Anthea with her uncle Stuart Smith (Barbara’s brother) at 854 Claire View Lane, Idaho Falls, March 1977.Weldon’s Whipple relatives present at Wilford’s wedding. Front row L–R: aunt Marilyn Whipple (wife of Dewey Whipple Jr.), grandma Esther (wife of Dewey Whipple Sr.), Dewey Albert Whipple Sr. (Weldon’s grandfather); second row L–R: uncle Dewey Whipple Jr., aunt Illa (Whipple) Harvey; back row: uncle Ben Harvey (husband of Illa). March 11, 1977, Idaho Falls.Anthea in the student housing apartment at 2120-103 Orchard Street, Urbana, Illinois, 1977.
On Monday, May 30, 1977, Weldon, Barbara and Anthea drove to Nauvoo, Illinois, for a short vacation. They stayed at the Village Motel for two nights, visiting Nauvoo in the daytime. They visited the Times and Seasons building, the Seventies Hall, Lucy Mack Smith’s home, the temple site, Heber C. Kimball’s home, the Nauvoo House, and the Nauvoo Mansion. They then drove visited Walter in Rockford, Illinois, and the Aquarium and Field Museum in Chicago before returning to Urbana.
Barbara and Anthea at the Seventies Hall in Nauvoo, May 31 or June 1, 1977.Anthea, wearing the dress Barbara made her, about June 1977, in the kitchen of our apartment as 2120-103 Orchard Street in Urbana, IL. Anthea was almost 2 years old.Anthea, almost 2 years’ old, on her mini BigWheel in our Urbana apartment
Anthea and her friend Wendy Overfield, splashing in the hot Urbana sun, about July 1977.
