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Lloyd, Minddie (Marikha), 1965-
Born as one of four children in Manila, Philippines, Minddie and her siblings were raised by their paternal grandmother and her sisters (the Three Lolas) in the Philippines when her parents took jobs in New Jersey. After the children joined their parents, the family moved to California, where Minddie suffered abuse and subsequently lived in several foster homes and a girls' home, Olive Crest. It was through Olive Crest that Minddie met her mentors, Bruce Layne, Roy Woofter, and Thalia Dondero and came to Las Vegas in 1995, where she worked with the airlines.
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FonotiSatele, Junior, 1973-
Junior starts off by tracing his life back to being born in Harbor City, California and moving to Ogden, Utah. His ethnic background as a Samoan created very strong family values such as respect for your elders, and his time in Utah was marked by spending lots of time with family. After moving back to California briefly, Junior ended up in Las Vegas when his sister needed help and ended up obtaining his degree in sociology from UNLV. After graduating, Junior briefly worked in construction before becoming a bodyguard for Floyd Mayweather for five years.
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Williams, Rayshawn, 1983-
Native Las Vegan, Rayshawn Williams enlisted in USMC at age 17. Served two tours as a field radio operator (2003 - 2004) in Iraq. Was in boot camp when 9/11 occurred. Is in graduate studies at UNLV in social work and employed by TRIO.
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Hall, James, 1900-1940
James Hall was born in 1900 in Dallas, Texas as James E. Brown, the son of Clinton and Alice McKay Brown. As an actor, he is best known for Hell's Angels (1930); in all he appeared in thirty-two silent and sound films between 1923 and 1932. He died in 1940 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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The Central New Jersey Home News. "James Hall dies: Former Film Star". New Brunswick, New Jersey. Saturday, June 8, 1940. Pg. 5.
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Hand, Herman, 1875-1961
Austrian-born composer who immigrated to the United States in 1900. Hand worked as a musician and composer with several orchestras until 1928, when he moved to Hollywood to work as a composer and arranger in the film industry. Between 1928 and his death in 1951, Herman Hand contributed to over ninety film scores, including Howard Hughes' 1942 western, The Outlaw and the Oscar award-winning adventure Lost Horizons (1937).
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DiTondo, Michelle, 1967-
Michelle DiTondo talks about her parent's experiences living in Osaka, Japan during the war. Father died after the war from tuberculosis. Her mother worked as a seamstress/tailor on the Air force base at the NCO club where she met Michelle's father. Michelle had moved from Tucson to Okinawa and then to Nellis in 1972. She would spend most of her childhood in North Las Vegas for more than 30 years. She speaks on her experience being in an air force family and moving from base to base as well as her fond memories of Las Vegas before casinos were built.
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Taing, Kim You, 1967-
Kim You Taing, a Cambodian-Chinese refugee discusses his childhood during the Cambodian Wars, and how his family survived fleeing from village to village to escape the Rouge and gunfire occurring at that time. After a tragic incident where his two siblings died from drowning in the village river. his mother decided they need to get out of Cambodia to get a better life. His father who was Chinese would be captured and killed by the government just for being Chinese.
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