Speakers at banner unveiling in the Berkley Square neighborhood of Las Vegas, February 9, 2013. Left to right: Esther Langston, Juana Leia Jordan, Joseph Watson, Ricki Barlow.

Joseph Watson, banner artist, addresses the crowd at the Berkley Square Historic District in Las Vegas, February 9, 2013.

Councilman Ricki Barlow talks to the crowd assembled for the unveiling of the banners commemorating Berkley Square as a Historic District in Las Vegas, February 9, 2013.

Jarmilla McMillan-Arnold talks about growing up in early Las Vegas at the unveiling of the banners for the Berkley Square Historic District in Las Vegas, February 9, 2013.

Color photograph of Lonnie Wright (second from right) with prison staff. Wright gave a presentation to young offenders in the prison system along with the others in this photograph.

Jerry Tarkanian, legendary and formidable basketball coach, met his match the day he was called before student court at Fresno State College and had to face as one of his judges Lois Esther Huter. Lois, a no-nonsense military daughter, eventually agreed to date Tarkanian and to marry him. The City of Las Vegas got lucky when UNLV recruited Lois’s husband as basketball coach. After picking cotton in California’s Central Valley Lois earned her Master’s degree in speech pathology and holds national certifications in speech pathology, language, and audiology. In 1969 she opened California’s first private day school for the hearing impaired, Oralingua School for the Hearing Impaired in Whittier. In Las Vegas she taught hearing-impaired children in her home on an individual and pro-bono basis. In this interview Lois recalls her teaching career, debates in deaf education, her 12 years on Clark County School District School Board, and the people and the neighborhoods that make up Las Vegas’s Ward 1, the area she has represented on the Las Vegas City Council continuously since 2005.

Set of black and white photographs of Chubby Checker performing at the Sands Hotel in August 1962.