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Morgan, William, 1964-
William Morgan was born in Kansas City, Missouri and moved to Las Vegas with his family in 1969. Morgan entered the slot industry early by becoming an instructor at his father’s gaming school which provided instruction on slot and arcade repair and maintenance. His start in the gaming industry was in 1989 when he became a slot technician at the Imperial Palace. Morgan would later move to the MGM Grand as a journeyman slot technician in 1993 and eventually to the Stratosphere in 1996 as shift lead slot technician.
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Silver, Abbi
Judge Abbi Silver was raised in Boulder City, Nevada. She graduated from Clark High School in Las Vegas, Nevada and then University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1986).
She worked multiple jobs—waitress, Utah Jazz cheerleader, dancer—while earning her undergraduate degree and then her law degree from Southwestern University of Law, in Los Angeles (1989).
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Hedges, Hazel, 1922-2006
Hazel Mae Bowden was born on February 22, 1922. She married Hershell Wade on November 30, 1939, and had one son, James Hedges. The couple divorced and in 1950 she married Charles William Hedges. She moved from Kansas City to Las Vegas with her husband and son in 1952. She worked briefly as a waitress in the dining room at the Thunderbird and then became a stay at home mother until her son was in junior high school. Then after she went to real estate school, she went to work in commercial real estate at Bond Realty.
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Warren, Melissa, 1959-
Linda Faiss, Helen Foley, and Melissa Warren founded and run Faiss Foley Warren Public Relations and Public Affairs.
Melissa Warren grew up in Salt Lake City Utah before moving to Las Vegas at the age of 31 in 1990.
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Entratter, Jack, 1914-1971
Jack Entratter (1914-1971) was an executive and show producer at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1952 until his death in 1971. He is credited with elevating the quality of shows produced on the Strip and helping the city become the "entertainment capital of the world." Entratter moved to Las Vegas in 1952 as a co-owner of the Sands Hotel. He produced the hotel's shows and served as vice president (1952-1960, 1967-1971) and president (1960-1967).
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Crabtree, Robert H.
Robert Herre Crabtree was born on September 27, 1929 in Chehalis, Washington. He was educated in western Washington and receieved his master's degree from the University of Washington in 1957. In 1960, he became a teaching and research assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles and worked as a research archaeologist in around around California and Mexico.
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Kleven, Cherina, 1958-
Retired City of Las Vegas Assistant Fire Chief Cherina Kleven was born in Taiwan, the fifth of her parents' seven children and the first daughter. The family spoke Taiwanese at home, but once the children started school all instruction was in Mandarin Chinese. Her father was in charge of the motor pool for the U.S. Embassy, and her mother stayed home. In 1970, the family immigrated the U.S. and to Las Vegas, where her father could use his training as an electrician to work with air conditioners. Cherina attended Roy W.
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Aganon, Maila, 1975-
Born and raised in the Philippines, Maila Aganon emigrated with her parents in 1992, after she completed her first semester of college. She describes as "typical" her youth as the youngest child (with brothers 5 and 7 years older) of a teacher who worked in another village and a father who worked out of the country. Although independent, she was part of a tightly knit village. The household spoke three languages: her mother's dialect, her father's dialect, and Tagalog.
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