James A. Gay III was born March 6th, 1916 in Fordyce, Arkansas. Arriving in 1946, Gay became the first African-American mortician in Las Vegas. He later worked as Assistant Manager of the Sands Hotel and Casino and Union Plaza while serving as an executive board member of the Culinary Union. Instrumental in the Las Vegas community, Gay worked to improved race relations, addressing social, economic, and civic issues. Gay was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1988.

Billie Mae Polson was the head of Technical Services in the James R. Dickinson Library at Southern Regional Division of the University of Nevada, now the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. Polson was born in 1932 in Clark, Nevada. Polson was hired as a cataloging and reference librarian in the summer of 1959. After fourty years of service to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Polson retired in 1999. As of 2020, Billie Mae Polson resides in Henderson, Nevada.

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Chet Carrigan was born in 1912 in Texas. When he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada he worked in construction and was in the Sheriff's Posse.

Patricia Carmichael Craddock was born in 1928 in Las Vegas, Nevada and worked in the Clark County School District.

Gus Ciliax was born in Michigan in 1909.

Rory Reid was born in Alexandria, Virginia. Reid served as Clark County Commissioner. He is president of The Rogers Foundation.