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Deaner, Charles W., 1922-2017
Charles Deaner was born in 1922 near Erie, Pennsylvania. Deaner served in the Air Force and battled in the North African campaign of World War II. After the war, he attended college and received a law degree from Syracuse University. Because of a sister and brother-in-law who had settled in Las Vegas, Nevada, he ventured to join them in Las Vegas during the 1950s. Deaner became a leader in the law profession during the 1960s and the 1970s.
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Gaines, Lovell
Lovell Gaines was born in Louisiana and went to Louisiana State University. He moved to Reno, Nevada after serving in the Vietnam war. Gaines taught for one year and then worked for the Nevada Department of Corrections for thirty-plus years. He was extensively involved in the Reno chapter of the National Association for the Adancedment of Colored People (NAACP). Then when he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1975, he ran for and became the local NAACP chapter president. He served as president from 1980 to 1982.
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Jimenez, Henry, 1985-
Henry Jimenez was born in Torrance, California in 1985. His family lived in Long Beach until he was 13. They moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in July of 1998. He completed middle school and high school in Las Vegas. He also attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he was involved in student government and was also a part of the first Latino fraternity on campus. He graduated in May of 2006 and immediately left to intern in Washington, D.C., with Senator Harry Reid.
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Hejmanowski, Paul R.
Paul Hejmanowski was born August 13, 1945. He moved to Las Vegas in 1972 with his wife Char and their two sons. Hejmanowski served as the managing partner at the law firm Lionel, Sawyer and Collins and vice-chairman of the firm's Litigation Department. He is widely regarded for his expertise in a variety of complex commercial disputes and tort litigation and has written a Nevada environmental law handbook. His sons also work in the same law firm.
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Tucker, Sam
Sam Tucker was a Las Vegas, Nevada casino executive and former bootlegger. He was an associate of Moe Dalitz in the Prohibition-era liquor trade in Cleveland before moving to Las Vegas in the late 1940s to invest in the Desert Inn with Dalitz and others. Tucker served as chair of the United Jewish Appeal in Las Vegas from 1953 to 1956.
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Whitley, June F.
June F. Whitley was born in San Angelo, Texas and raised in Pittsburg, California. She met Lewis Whitley at the First Baptist Church in Pittsburg. They were married in 1955, and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1958. June found work as a maid for the Sahara Hotel before being hired at the Centel Telephone Company as an operator. In 1978, June became involved in local politics sought a seat on the Board of Regents for Clark County Community College, and eventually became the first woman Chairperson of the board.
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War, Kathy
Kathy War was born February 05, 1945 and raised in Helena, Montana. She and her husband, Tom married in 1968 while the status of the job market was uncertain. After a short time in Seattle, Washington, they came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1970. War applied for a job with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' library. For the next four and a half years, she worked in the Curriculum Materials Library. She also worked in the Inter-Library loan department and eventually moved to Special Collections.
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Williams, Mary Louise, 1926-
Mary Louise Williams was born on October 20, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio to Carrie Randolph and Tom Forte. She was musically trained and first arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1955 to work at the Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino. Even though as a dancer she worked frequently in Las Vegas and visited the city many times, she didn't move to Las Vegas until her retirement from her career in social work and teaching in New York.
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Morrison, Jane Ann
Jane Ann Morrison transferred to Las Vegas from Fort Smith, Arkansas, where she had worked as a newspaper reporter. The Donrey Media Group owned the Southwest Times Record newspaper in Fort Smith along with the Las Vegas Review Journal. In 1976, she became a night cop chasing stories that required a police response. Three years later, Jane Ann went over to the Nevadan, a portion of the paper that allowed a more in depth reporting style.
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Vilt, Kim
Kim Vilt was born July 14, 1975 and spent her childhood in Woodland Hills, California. She lived an outdoor life in rural San Fernando Valley and was the oldest of four children. Vilt graduated from CSUMB before serving with the Peace Corps in Bulgaria, where she met her husband (James J. Vilt). She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2000 into the John S. Park neighborhood. Her home in that neighborhood was built in 1946. Kim and James were married on September 8, 2002.
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