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Denise Wartes

Denise Wartes is the daughter-in-law of Bonnie Wartes, who was interviewed for the Gates of the Arctic Project Jukebox. Denise was present during Bonnie's 2004 interview. Denise is married to Mark Wartes, who grew up in Barrow and as a young man continued to live a subsistence-based lifestyle in the Colville River delta. After marriage, Denise continued to live this remote lifestyle with Mark until their children were school age and they moved into Fairbanks, Alaska. Denise is the Program Manager for the Rural Alaska Honors Insitute (RAHI) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a program which provides rural high school students with a college type experience in preparation for their coming to the university.

Denise Wartes appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

As a Person Present at Interview

Interview Title	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Abstract	People Present
Bonnie Wartes	2002-27-17	Gates of the Arctic National Park	Bonnie Wartes was interviewed on May 24, 2004 by Bill Schneider at Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Bonnie and her husband, Bill, were Presbyterian missionaries on the North Slope in the 1950's. She spoke about their work in Barrow, and how her husband worked with people in Anaktuvuk Pass to build a church out of logs. There is a very good description with pictures (shown in the slideshow) of establishing the church in Anaktuvuk Pass, and how the men hauled the logs into the community. During the interview, Bonnie was accompanied by her daughter-in-law, Denise Wartes, and Donita Lawhead, a member of the Presbyterian church in Fairbanks.	Denise Wartes, Donita Lawhead