Lawrence Revere, born Griffith K. Owens (d. 1977), was a former casino pit-boss and the "Master of Blackjack." He is most famous for the co-development of several blackjack systems and for publishing Playing Blackjack As A Business in 1969. During the 1960s and 1970s, Revere, also known as Leonard "Specs" Parsons and Paul Mann, was considered a blackjack expert. After his competitive career ended, he retired to teach blackjack and gambling. Revere died on April 23, 1977 after a bout with lung and liver cancer.

Earl Rockwell was born on August 17, 1892 in Elmira, New York and in 1906 moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with his brother, Leon Rockwell. The two brothers helped to found the Las Vegas Volunteer Fire Department and became prominent citizens of early Las Vegas. The Rockwell brothers also constructed one of the first airfields in Las Vegas, and leased it to Western Air Express in 1920 which opened the city to aircraft. Later in life, both Earl and Leon Rockwell were involved in real estate ventures in the greater Las Vegas area. Earl Rockwell died in 1980.

Sam Gay was the Sheriff of Clark County, Nevada between 1911 and 1931. He was born March 1, 1860 in Prince County, Canada and grew up in Massachusetts. Gay moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1905 to work as a bouncer in the Arizona Club. He was chosen by the first Sheriff of Clark County, Charles C. Corkhill, to be his deputy in 1909, and he later became Sheriff himself. He died August 24, 1932 in Las Vegas.

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Brian Firth is the co-founder of the comedy band the Dummkopfs. Firth is a trumpeter, first starting to play professionally at age twenty-one. He played primarily in the United Kingdom with a group called the Nitwits. The Nitwits came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1967 to perform at the Lido de Paris and stayed for a few years. After the break up of the Nitwits, Brian joined the Mickey Finn Band. He played with them for fifteen years before he and his wife Suzy created the Dummkopfs.

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John S. Park was an important business owner in Las Vegas, Nevada born in 1852. In 1906, he moved to Las Vegas and opened its first bank, First State Bank. He would go on to become president of the Consolidated Power and Telephone Company, which was later known as the Southern Nevada Power Company. John S. Park died in 1939.

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Anna Bracken was born in Eureka, Nevada and graduated from the University of Nevada. She later became a school teacher at Delamar. In 1905, she married head of Las Vegas Land and Water Company, Walter Bracken. She became a community leader alongside her husband and helped establish the first public library in Las Vegas. She later died on January 2, 1950.

A memorial service for Eva Sutherland (S.B.'18), a former staff member and a longtime friend of the University [of Chicago], will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 7, in Bond Chapel, following an 8:30 a.m. reception in Swift Commons. Sutherland died Jan. 25 in Kalamazoo, Mich. She was 96.