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Kideckel, Earl

Taken from Temple Beth Torah's website: "Rabbi Earl Kideckel joined the Temple Beth Torah family in the summer of 2001. He is a graduate of both the Rabbinical School of the Jewish TheologRabbi Earl Kideckelical Seminary and its undergraduate Joint Program, as well as Columbia University, holding Bachelor degrees from both institutions. He also has a certificate in Advanced Pastoral Counseling for the Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute in New York. With his many years of rabbinical experience, Rabbi K.

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Joyce, James "Jim", 1937-1993

Between 1973 and his death in 1993, Jim Joyce managed campaigns for some 300 candidates, and lost only about 10 percent of them. Having helped elect so many legislators, it is not surprising he was the most effective lobbyist ever seen in the state Capitol. Victorious politicians and fallen rivals thought him a genius. He was certainly imaginative. Which brings us to those garbage cans.

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Letizia, Marla, 1953-

Marla R. Letizia is the founder of Big Traffic Mobile Billboards in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company operates mobile billboard advertising trucks and employs brand ambassadors to carry WOBI® walking billboards for retail, gaming, and entertainment clients such as Caesars entertainment, Tropicana, and Cirque Du Soleil. Letizia founded Big Traffic in 2001 after leaving a successful broadcast journalism career to raise her two children. She met her husband, Tom Letizia, while working at KLAS-TV channel 8 as an assistant production manager.

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Lurie, Ronald Philip "Ron", 1941-2020

Ronald P. Lurie is a former mayor and city councilman of Las Vegas, Nevada. Born in Los Angeles, California on January 23, 1941, Lurie graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1958. He attended Arizona State University and Nevada Southern University (now known as University of Nevada, Las Vegas). From 1966 to 1978 Lurie was vice president of Wonder World Liquors, co-owned by his father Arthur Lurie. Lurie began working in the gaming industry in 1978, as a sales executive for International Game Technology, a video poker machine company.

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Sachs, Allan D. "Al", 1925-2002

Allan D. "Al" Sachs (1925-2002) was a Las Vegas, Nevada casino executive who owned the Stardust, Fremont, and Sundance (now known as The D) hotel-casinos with partner Herb Tobman during the 1980s. Sachs was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 17, 1925. He lied about his age and joined the Navy at age 16. After the navy, he entered the illegal gambling industry in Chicago and later worked as a dealer in Cuba and Las Vegas. In Las Vegas, he opened the Royal Nevada Casino in 1955 and was a minor investor in the Tropicana in 1958.

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Saltzman, Sara, 1899-1997

Bio information taken from Las Vegas Sun obituary: "Sara Saltzman, a longtime Las Vegan who co-founded the company that later became the Marshall-Rousso clothing store chain, died Monday. She was 97. Saltzman was born Sept. 28, 1899, in Russia. When she was 13, she moved with her family to Cleveland, where she attended school and was among the first women in that city to own and drive a car. She worked as executive secretary to her brother, Maurice Gusman, a prominent Cleveland banker and philanthropist.

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Rice, Megan (1930-2021)

Megan Gillespie Rice was born on January 31, 1930, in Manhattan, New York.

Rice obtained a master of science degree from the Villanova University. Rice also obtained a master of science degree in cellular biology from Boston Colleg ein 1962. Rice studeied Dip Pastoral Thrology at the Gaba Pastoral Institute in Eldoret, Kenya in 1978.

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Spurr, Josiah Edward, 1870-1950

Josiah Edward Spurr (1870-1950) was born into a family of fishermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He received his Master's degree in geology from Harvard University in 1894 and was appointed to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) the same year. In 1896, Spurr was sent, with two other USGS geologists, to survey the Alaskan interior. This historically important expedition was followed in 1898 by an equally important journey down the 702 mile-long Kuskokwim River, surveying previously uncharted mountains, lakes, volcanoes and glaciers.

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