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Cuti, Frank, 1904-
Frank Cuti was born in 1904 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and was involved with the gaming industry in Nevada.
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Donoho, Ronald Lee, 1929-2010
Ron Donoho was born July 1, 1929 in Amboy, Illinois. He was an auto mechanic, a peace officer, and a school teacher.
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Drohobyczar, Martha
Martha Drohobyczar was born on November 21, 1951 and grew up in Illinois, three generations removed from slavery. Even though her first college degree was in government and national relations, Drohobyczar found an accelerated nursing program at St. Louis University in 1975 and graduated a year later with a bachelor’s in nursing.
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DuBarton, Hazel F., 1926-
Hazel F. DuBarton was born on July 13, 1926 in Floral Park, New York and arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1955.
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Duncan, Katherine
Katherine Duncan was born in Ratio, Arkansas. Her parents, who were sharecroppers, and her 11 brothers and sister migrated to Boston in the winter of 1969. She moved to Las Vegas on July 7th, 1977 and started working at the MGM Grand Hotel. She also worked with the Nevada Motion Picture Services, at her own travel agency, and at the Riviera Resort and Casino. She started a black heritage tour of Las Vegas.
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Dupalo, Martin Dean, 1967-
Martin Dean Dupalo was born February 20, 1967. His parents were Eva Auge, a German citizen, and Milton Dupalo. Dupalo graduated from Eldorado High School in 1985, attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and was selected for a Truman Congressional Scholarship at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. After a stint as a firefighter, four years in the Air Force and Air Force Reserve, and a brief marriage, Dupalo began teaching at UNLV in 2003.
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Dwyer, Kay C.
Kay Dwyer was born August 30, 1934 to James and Eileen Crawford. Her father attained a job as an accountant with Basic Magnesium Incorporated in 1942. This moved the family to Henderson, Nevada, which was a brand new community in the early 1940s. In 1952, Dwyer graduated from Basic High School and then moved to Los Angeles, California to attend Pepperdine University for two years. She moved back to the Las Vegas, Nevada area and started a family with Stanly Hardy with whom she had three children.
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Eckert, Donald L., 1953-
Donald L. Eckert was born on June 22, 1953 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was an assistant food director at the Barbary Coast Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Edmond, Shirley R., 1945-
Shirley R. Edmond was born on April 25, 1945 in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was a resident of the historical Westside Neighborhood of Las Vegas. Edmond was the first African American woman in Southern Nevada promoted by the United States Post Office to be a supervisor. She also worked at Matt Kelly Elementary School.
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Eisinger, Von
Von Eisinger was born in 1934. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada from Southern California in 1952 because of better work opportunities there. In Nevada, he worked as a truck driver, warehouseman, and a business agent for the Teamsters Union.
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