Sari Aizley was born January 10, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she was in a Jewish minority. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada as a single mother who worked for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where she also earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees. Aizley worked for the Jewish Family Services, American Civil Liberties Union, sold advertising for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and starting the memorable CLASS! Newspaper with her son, David Phillips, and her husband Paul. For 16 years, CLASS!

Tony Grasso was born in Brooklyn, New York. He came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1951. He worked as a card dealer at the Aladdin Hotel.

Doug Charles was born in Brookly, New York. He came to Las Vegas in 1957.

Colleen Gregory moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1941 from Santa Clara, Utah when her father found employment at the El Rancho Hotel.

Celia Rivero was born on October 31st 1926 in Las Vegas, Nevada to her parents, Margarita R. and Francisco G. Rivero. Her father moved from Tepic, Mexico to Las Vegas in 1917 and met her mother who came from Guadalupe de Los Reyes, Mexico. Celia lived in Downtown Las Vegas with her family for about sixteen years, before they moved to Vegas Heights which was a developing community in Las Vegas.

Catherine Morales-Jackson grew up in Hazlet, New Jersey. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1981. Morales-Jackson retired from UNLV University Libraries at the age of 51.