Interview with Theron and Naomi Goynes conducted by Claytee D. White on June 28 and July 12, 2012. A retired school principal, Theron Goynes also served as a North Las Vegas councilman and mayor pro-temp and was the first black in Nevada history to chair a government body. Naomi had thirty-six-year career in local education.

Ann Lynch discusses her background - born in Kansas City, 1934; attended Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas; classes at Kansas University; a year in theater; director of PR at Evansville University. In 1959 she came to Las Vegas as director of the clubs at Nellis Air Force Base. Ann shares in depth on her parents and grandparents and on her family today, which includes a brother 14 years younger, her son, and a nephew. She describes Las Vegas in the early sixties, meeting her husband, and her duties as club manager at Nellis. She comments on becoming camp director for the Girl Scout program at Mount Charleston, which led to training scout leaders and board members. When Ann's son Edward went to kindergarten, she took on the PTA job of parliamentarian, then president of Ruth Fyfe ES PTA. She eventually became President of the Las Vegas Area Council, Nevada State PTA president, and finally national president of the PTA. The school named after her (Ann T. Lynch Elementary) has benefited from her other charity organizations. Because of her PTA involvement, Ann became very active in legislation in Washington, D.C., traveling to other countries to help activate parent involvement. She had also worked with Sunrise Hospital during this time and when she was relieved of some of her PTA duties, she helped found the Sunrise Hospital Children's Foundation and the Public Education Foundation. She details the many functions of both foundations. Ann comments on the lobbying she does in the Nevada legislature and in Washington, D.C., medical billing through Medicare and Medicaid, and the ongoing shortage of nurses nationwide. She offers opinions on unions for nurses and mentions robotic surgery, the stroke center, neonatal center, and breast cancer center as evidence of recent developments in medicine at Sunrise Hospital.

Black and white photograph of Naomi and Theron Goynes as a young couple in Arkansas, dated May, 1957.

Tinted color portrait photograph of Theron Goynes as a United States Air Force aviation cadet, dated 1952.

Black and white portrait photograph of Naomi Goynes, Tennessee, dated 1955.

Color portrait photograph of Theron Goynes with son Byron Goynes, both members of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, circa 2010.

Black and white autographed portrait photograph of Theron Goynes with Senator Richard Bryan, during a visit to Bryan's offices in Washington, D.C., circa 1990. Senator Bryan's autograph reads: "Theron -- always nice to have you with us in Washington. Best wishes to you, Naomi & all your fine constituents in the City of North Las Vegas -- Richard H. Bryan U.S. S."