Jerome Blankinship was born in Hollywood, California in 1933 to Herman and Helen Blankinship. Jerome grew up as an only child a in suburb of Los Angeles called Huntington Park. He spent his entire childhood in the suburb and finished high school there as well. Then he went on to attend the University of Southern California. He received a degree in education and wanted to be a school teacher, but after a short stint in teaching at the Los Angeles City School District, he discovered that it was not for him.

Debbie Conway was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on December 8, 1953. She moved to Las Vegas in 1989 after having lived in Chicago and worked in management for Avon. Conway was elected as Clark County Recorder in 2007. She is the first African American to hold that position in Nevada. She has also worked as a trainer at Levi Strauss, as Clark County's Business Development Manager, and as a producer/host of an economics talk show on KCEP radio.

David Broxterman had a long career with the Air Force and was a member of an Air Force association that helped push for an engineering school at the UNiversity of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). As of 2007, he is the administrative manager for the Clark County School District and works on green building certification for the district.

Elmer Curley is known simply as Curley. He came to Las Vegas, Nevada to work in the area of public service for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas library in August 1967.

Quoted from obituary notice from the Las Vegas Review Journal:

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