In July of 1955, Joanne Molen's husband was offered a job at Nellis Air Force Base, so they moved from Alturas, California, to Las Vegas. Joanne had worked for Citizens Utilities in Alturas as a Western Union teletype operator, so she got a job with the Southern Nevada Telephone Company. She was the only woman to hold some of the positions she held. She worked for the telephone company, which became Sprint, for more than forty years, ending up as a main engineer.

Erma Linda Rivera was born in Morenci, Arizona, in 1952. In the Las Vegas Valley, where Linda has lived for over twenty years, she has promoted educational opportunities for youth, particularly in the Hispanic community. Both she and her husband moved from Montana, where her husband worked as a power plant operator on Yellowtail Dam, to southern Nevada to work on Hoover Dam in 1986. Linda was put in charge of the affirmative employment plan for her branch of the Bureau of Reclamation.

Margaret M. "Maggie" Price, 88, of Boulder City, passed away Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006. She was born Sept. 27, 1918, in Freeport, Ill., and spent her childhood growing up in Columbus and Lebanon, Ohio. Maggie married Frank, a native of Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 3, 1938. They moved to Las Vegas in 1949. Maggie worked at the Sands Hotel as a showroom waitress during the "Rat Pack" era. She retired to take care of her daughter, Patti Kay. Years later, they moved to Boulder City.

G.L. Vitto worked as a sportscaster and late-night movie host in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born on October 20, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. After the war, he worked as a radio disc jockey. VItto moved to Las Vegas in 1958. He worked at KENO radio, then as a sports reporter at Channel 13 and, later, Channel 8. He also worked as a ringside announcer for boxing matches at the Silver Slipper and hosted a late-night movie show. He died in Las Vegas of a heart attack on October 28, 1991.