Weldon and Barbara lived in great aunt Millie Bird’s basement apartment at 1090 East 360 South that first year.
Expectant mother Barbara Whipple in front of Aunt Millie’s house, Provo, Utah, 1975.Weldon and Barbara on Squaw Peak, May 1975.Barbara and Weldon on the steps of the library of the junior college at Price, Utah, May, 1975.
Anthea and Barbara on July 2, 1975, right after birth in the Utah Valley Hospital, Provo, Utah.
Anthea was born in July 1975, three weeks early. She weighed 4 lbs., 14 oz., when she came home from the hospital.
Anthea asleep in the crib constructed by her great-great grandfather Johann Christian Schreiner. Photo taken in July 1975 in the basement apartment of Weldon’s great aunt Millie Bird at 1090 E. 354 South, Provo, Utah
Anthea’s blessing day, August 3, 1975, with three great grandparents L–R: Herbert William Smith, Esther Irene (Muth) Whipple (holding Anthea), Dewer Albert Whipple. In Aunt Millie’s basement apartment.
Anthea Catherine Whipple November 28, 1975.Anthea, February 1976.Anthea sitting in a rocking chair, about January 1976. Anthea was about six months old. Living in Armstrong Apartments, Provo, UT. Weldon’s parents bought the rocking chair as a gift for rocking Anthea.Barbara and Anthea, February 1976. By this time, the family was living in Armstrong Apartments. (Note the orange copy of the National Electric Code on the book shelves.)
In about January 1976 (at semester break?), the family moved to Armstrong Apartments off State Street in the middle of Provo-Orem Hill. Weldon continued to pursue an M.A. degree in musicology and organ performance.
L–R: Weldon, Barbara, Anthea. Photo taken the day of Weldon’s graduate organ recital, April 18, 1976. Sitting in the living room of our apartment in Armstrong Apartments, Provo, UT.Weldon playing his Master’s Graduate Recital at the Provo Tabernacle, April 18, 1976. Weldon majored in musicology and minored in organ performance. His thesis for his major was “Beethoven’s Organ Works.” The recital was for his minor. On December 17, 2010, the Provo Tabernacle caught fire. The organ was destroyed. The Tabernacle was transformed into the Provo City Center Temple.Anthea in her high chair, about 1 year old, Armstrong Apartments, Provo, Utah.Weldon received his Master of Arts degree in musicology and organ performance on August 13, 1976. L–R: Barbara, Weldon, Anthea.
