Florence "Flossie" Vallen was born on November 21, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was married to Jerry Vallen and supported him as the founding Dean of the Hotel Administration College at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She also found the Friends of the Library in 1967, and coordinated with other Las Vegas organizations such as the Assistance League of Las Vgeas. She later opened the Olde County Corner Antique Store in Las Vegas. Vallen died on May 31, 2017.

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Holly Carratelli is a Las Vegas, Nevada resident and advocate of gay rights. She was born July 5, 1962.

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Susan and Holly Carratelli oral history interviews, 1999 June 24 and 1999 June 26. OH-00344. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mary Hausch was born September of 1949 in Akron, Ohio. Hausch arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada during a spring vacation with four friends. The spontaneity of the trip and her enjoyment of the weather resulted in her applying for, and getting, a reporter position at the Las Vegas Review- Journal (R-J). For the next nineteen years, she worked her way up the newspaper ladder, covered local education issues that included desegregation, a groundbreaking series of Prisoners of War- Missing in Action war stories, and the Nevada legislature.