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Transcript of interview with Dorothy Eisenberg by Caryll Batt Dziedziak, November 14, 2006

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2006-11-14

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Dorothy Eisenberg is a full-time volunteer. She worked on various causes as a member of the League of Women Voters and led the fight for integration of the Clark County School District as League president in the early 1970s. Dorothy directed the Citizens Governmental Forum and served as vice-chair of the Citizens Committee on Consolidation. Governor O'Callaghan appointed her to the Local Government Employee Management Board in 1977, and she traveled across the state of Nevada arbritrating cases between state employees and local governments. In 1979 Dorothy was the first woman to be elected president of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas. In 1978 she formed the Silver State PAC, a political action committee backing federal candidates who were supportive of Israel. In 1988, Governor Bryan appointed her county commissioner for the short-lived Bullfrog County

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OH_02667_book
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    Dorothy Eisenberg oral history interviews, 2001 February 16, 2006 November 14, 2006 November 21, 2007 March 02, 2007 July 11. OH-02667. [Transcript]. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1nk39770

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    Dorothy Eisenberg An oral history Interviews conducted by Caryll Batt Dziedziak _______________________________ Women’s Research Institute of Nevada Las Vegas Women Oral History Project University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2007 ? NSHE, Women’s Re