Nick, about 16, 1996.Nick in front of the San Diego Temple on Sunday during a Mountain View High School band trip, 1996.Nick and his clarinet, 1996, about age 16.John, Mountain View High School graduate, May 1996L–R: Nick, John, Missy. At John’s graduation from Orem’s Mountain View High School, May 1996. Graduation held at BYU’s Marriott Center.
Ryan Durham (left) and John following Mountain View High School graduation ceremony at the BYU Marriott Center, May 1996.
After John’s graduation, May 1996. L–R: John, Nick, Missy, Barbara.
Missy wearing a dress made by her grandmother, Donnette Stringham Smith, outside the house at 1467 S. 135 W., Orem, August 18, 1996
Twelve-year-old Missy Whipple, 6th grade, 1996.
Photo of Missy taken during 1996-97 sometime.
1997
Nick (right) getting asked to preference, 1997, about age 17. With Matt Haggard.Nick on the San Francisco band trip, near Alcatraz. April 17–21, 1997.
Nick sitting on a toilet in one of the cells at Alcatraz, San Francisco, during the band trip, April 17-21, 1997.
John’s fish aquarium, 1997.
John with good friend Chris Kwong just before entering the Missionary Training Center in Provo, UT. John entered the MTC August 27, 1997, eventually bound for Okayama, Japan.
Nick (right) and cousin Stefanie Whipple about to bid John farewell, August 1997
Sam the Miniature Schnauzer will miss John, too.
Schylar (left) with Anthea and Sam the Miniature Schnauzer, visiting for John’s farewell, August 1997.
Schylar Whipple, John’s nephew, visiting Orem for John’s farewell, August 1997l
John at Provo’s Missionary Training Center, September 7, 1997. On the back: “Russell made me do this. I sure look skinny here.”Weldon (left) and John. John writes: “Here’s me with Dad when he played the organ for the SundayNight Fireside. The speaker was asking questions like ‘Where are you from?’ and “Are your parents here?” I was the only one in the whole MTC standing up for that question. Boy was Dad embarrassed. He would hardly talk to me. About September 7, 1997.L–R: John , Nick, Anthea, Schylar, Barbara. At the Salt Lake airport, October 27, 1997.
Elder John Whipple with Ryan Durham at the Salt Lake City airport, October 27, 1997.
John talking to Grandma Erline Whipple at the Salt Lake Airport, prior to leaving for Japan, October 27, 1997.
L–R: Barbara, John, Nick, Weldon, at the Salt Lake City Airport, October 27, 1997. John is bound for Okayama, Japan.
17-year-old Nicholas Whipple, 12th grade, Mountain View High School, Orem, UT.
This is Sam, our AKC-registered miniature schnauzer, waiting by the back door to be let out into the back yard. She was a good dog and loyal friend.Anthea’s 2 1/2 year-old grandson Schylar, visiting the Orem home, Christmas 1997.
1998
Nick at Bobby Lawrence Karate, 1998, about age 18.
Missy the flautist, about 1998.
John’s return from Japan, April 8, 1998. Salt Lake City International Airport.
Missy with Nick on his graduation from Orem’s Mountain View High School, May 29, 1998. Photo taken outside BYU’s Marriott Center, Provo, UT.Nick and his cousin Spencer Whipple at the Marriott Center, May 29, 1998. Born 3 days after Nick, Spencer (Wilford’s second son) graduated from Orem’s Timpanogos High School. Nick graduated from Mountain View High School.Weldon, Barbara, Nick, and Missy at Nick’s graduation from Mountain View High School. Photo taken at BYU’s Marriott Center, May 29, 1998.L–R: Missy, Katie Whipple (Wilford’s daughter), Susan Whipple (Wilford’s wife), Nick, Uncle Wilford (Weldon’s brother), Barbara. At Nick’s high school graduation, BYU Marriott Center, May 29, 1998.Nick with our miniature schnauzer Sam (Samantha), in our back yard at 1467 S. 135 W., Orem, UT, possibly about 1998.
Missy about 1998.
John with Uncle Stuart Smith, November 27, 1998. At Grandma Donnette Smith’s condo in Lindon, Utah.
1999
Schylar Ian Fate Whipple, about 4 years old, 1999..Weldon in stocks at Salem, MA, July 1999, following the 1999 Whipple Reunion in Ipswich, MA.Barbara holding the Mayflower’s boat anchor during a visit to Plymouth, MA, July 1999. Though unaware at the time, Weldon is a 10th great grandson of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. Together they had 10 children, all of whom lived to adulthood. Today they have more living descendants than any other Mayflower immigrants.Most pianists can comfortably play four octaves at once. The story goes that Mozart—not satisfied with four octaves—used his nose to play a fifth octave. Missy outdid even Mozart by using both feet to play seven octaves!
Nicholas Whipple, 1999.
NIck, 1999, about 19 years old. Nick was called as a missionary to the Japan Kobe Mission and entered the Provo Missionary Training Center in August 1999. (The Kobe Mission was dissolved during his mission, so he was released from the Japan Nagoya Mission August 3, 2001.)Nick, 1999, about 19 years old. This is probably a missionary photo sent to accompany his mission papers?L–R: Clark Schaumann, Nick Whipple, at the Missionary Training Center, Provo, Utah. October 18, 1999.L–R, back row: Missy, Stefanie Whipple, Wilford Whipple, John, Nick, Weldon, Barbara. L–R, front row: Aubrey Whipple, Blaine Whipple. At the Salt Lake airport for Nick’s departure to serve in the Japan Kobe Mission. November 1999.
Elder Nicholas Whipple, queued to board the plane to Japan, Salt Lake City airport, November 1999.
