Joseph Gemma was born October 25, 1934 in Norwalk, Connecticut. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1953 looking for a chance at better living opportunities. He started working for Anderson Dairy that year and became the production manager in 1971.

Fred Gibson was born on May 24, 1927 in Golden, Colorado. He studied Japanese at Yale University and he went to the University of Nevada, Reno. He ran Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada and was a trustee director of the Nevada Development Authority. He was very involved in the development of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas College of Engineering.

Jeanne Maxwell Williams was born August 25, 1924 in Scarsdale, New York. Williams married Ed Wilson, son of Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, and left for Las Vegas, Nevada in 1965. Williams worked at The Summa Corporation as a Women’s Events Coordinator. She kept the wives of golfers busy with luncheons featuring speakers like Ann Landers, and David Frost. But soon Williams married Jack Kent Cooke, one-time owner of the Los Angeles Lakers. She moved with him to Virginia where her art career dwindled.

Will Provance was born in Mississippi and grew up mostly in St. Louis, Missouri, where he earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Missouri before earning a Master’s in Business Administration from Shiller University. Provance attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he earned a Master of Science in Hotel Administration. He started in the gaming industry as a pool manager at Sunset Station, and became slot analyst before entering Station Casinos’ management development program.

Connie Hill Sheldon was born November 16, 1944 in Oklahoma and spent her early years in southern California before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956 with her family. In Las Vegas, Sheldon and her siblings attended Sunrise Acres Elementary School before going to Rancho High School, and the family was active with Homesite Baptist Church. While she was at Rancho High, Sheldon worked at the Huntridge Theater, and she continued working there after she graduated. In 1968, Sheldon married fellow Rancho Class of 1962 classmate, Clyde, in Goldfield, Nevada.

Gordon Smith was born November 25, 1943 in Tropic, Utah. His family moved to Hawthorne, Nevada, in 1947. In 1955 he and his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. Smith went to Rancho High School. After high school, he went to barbering college and then was drafted and was a medic in the United States Army taking care of soldiers who had been critically wounded in the Vietnam War. After he got out of the Army, Smith opened a McDonalds and then worked full time as a barber.

Mary Martell Shaw called Central America home for the first 19 years of her life. Because of misrouted luggage, she met her husband, Rollin H. Shaw, a civil engineer, at a time in when his atomic energy career was taking off. In October of 1943, they married in Costa Rica and for the next two decades traveled the country: Hawaii to California to Panama—wherever a project required Ronnie’s engineering skills. Shaw supported her husband every step of the way, with every new location.