Maureen Matteson-Kane is Professor Emeritus of Nursing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She taught at the UNLV School of Nursing from 1977 to 2004. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing.

Golda Smith was born June 7, 1915. She came to Southern Nevada in 1951 and started working at the police station. She married George Allen on December 11, 1954 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Golda Smith Allen passed away May 8, 2006.

Irene Tabor was born November 24, 1932 and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1947 with her family. She moved to McNeil Estates Neighborhood in 1957 right before her first son was born, and raised her children in that same house for decades.

Kate Hausbeck Korgan was born October 11, 1967 and was raised in Buffalo, New York. In 1995, after receiving her doctorate in sociology from University of Buffalo, her job search brought her to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Patrick Gaffey was an Ohio native, but moved to Las Vegas as a child. He eventually because a supervisor for the Clark County Parks & Recreation Department. He then obtained his Masters Degree in English and Allied Arts Council of Southern Nevada, founding its acclaimed magazine, Arts Alive in 1981.

James "Jim" Ralph Olson was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. He worked for the firm Cromer, Barker, and Michaelson, that reprsented the MGM Grand's in surance company, INA, Insurance Company of North America during the 1980 MGM Grand Hotel fire litigation.

Essie Shelton Jacobs (Essie Jean Shelton) was born in Fordyce, Arkansas on July, 11, 1925. Jacobs arrived in Las Vegas 1963 and worked in housekeeping at Aladdin Hotel for twenty-three years. Active in the Culinary Union, she worked as a supervisor and shop steward.