Ray Keith grew up in Montgomery, Alabama. She came to Las Vegas, Nevada around 1953. She was instumental in founding the Home of the Good Shepherd.

Eleazar "Al" Martinez was born in Sweetwater, Texas. He works as a supervisor for the Whitney Recreation Center and leader in Hispanics Enjoying Camping, Hunting, and the Outdoors (HECHO).

Steven R. Melugin, a native of Las Vegas, Nevada, was born July 12, 1955 in Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital and died December 23, 2008.

Lawrence Wickliffe came to Nevada in 1953. Wickliffe works as a fire service battalion chief for the city of Las Vegas.

David Bruce Dill was a physiologist in the study of exercise, sports medicine and applied sciences. His research focused on the effects of temperature exposure, high-altitudes, diet, age and fatigue on the human body. Dill received his bachelor's degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California and both his master's and doctoral degrees from Stanford University in Stanford, California. He began his physiology career at Harvard’s Fatigue Laboratory in its inaugural year, 1927.

In 1961, at the age of thirteen, Gerald “Jerry” Gordon became a bar mitzvah. This typical coming of age celebration was unusual in that he had simultaneously studied in both his home state of California and his adopted home of Las Vegas, where he spent summers with his grandparents. 1961 is also the same year that the Gordons made Las Vegas their permanent home.