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Transcript of interview with Elaine Cali McNamara by Claytee White and Stefani Evans, October 5, 2016
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This ability to greet each day with a challenge has laid the foundation for a long history of success for Elaine McNamara as she has navigated through local beauty pageants, an illustrious real estate career, serving on the Las Vegas-Clark County Library board during their decade of expansion to authorship. Her story of resilience starts when she became ill at approximately seven or eight with erythema nodosum that impeded her ability to walk for five months when she started collecting pictures of movie stars. Her favorite movies were any of Roy Rogers, Abbott and Costello, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Her family moved to Las Vegas, where she attended Las Vegas High School as well as UNLV majoring in elementary education and minoring in language arts. While she attended high school, she studied modeling in the evenings to help overcome her shyness and to become more outgoing. Becoming more involved with local and state beauty pageants, she met the likes of Phyllis Diller, Natalie Wood,
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Transcript of interview with Mildred Breedlove by Steve Drappo, February 18, 1979
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Archival Collection
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Transcript of interview with Gwen Walker by Claytee White, July 15, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Gwendolyn K. Walker arrived in North Las Vegas in 1962 from Houston, Texas, as a five-year-old with her parents, two brothers, and her cousins. The Walker family at first moved to a rented house on D Street, and Gwen attended Kit Carson Elementary School for first grade. Her mother enrolled in nursing school, so she sent Gwen back to Delhi, Louisiana, to be raised by her grandmother. In Delhi Gwen picked cotton with her aunt while she was in the second grade. Gwen returned to North Las Vegas to live with her mother and complete elementary school at Jo Mackey before matriculating to J. D. Smith Elementary School for junior high school and then to Clark High School. Later she attended UNLV. Gwen and her mother joined Saint James Catholic Church at H Street and Washington Avenue, but after she returned from Delhi she joined Second Baptist Church, where she became close with a cohort of friends that remained strong even as she experienced racism and bullying and love for the first time.
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"Around the World with Bob" calendar, 2011
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Robert L. Forbuss Papers
Box/Folder: Oversized Box SH-081 (Restrictions apply)
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American Polar Society's The Polar Times journals, grant information, research and field notes, maps, photographic prints and negatives, approximately 1973 to 1983
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: John R. Wilbanks Antarctica Research Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01, Box 02
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Personal and professional papers for Robert L. "Bob" Forbuss, 1948-2007
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Robert L. Forbuss Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Photographs of Bob Forbuss with friends and politicians; childhood and school; photographs of Marjorie Keas Forbuss and Bob Forbuss at their home; photographic negatives of St. Anne's Elementary School, Bishop Gorman High School, personal images of Bob Forbuss, 1945-2010
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Robert L. Forbuss Papers
Box/Folder: Box 02, Box 03, Oversized Box SH-048
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The Food Executive Newsletter, 1986-1989
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Nevada Hotel and Motel Association Collection
Box/Folder: Box 02
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Nevada Lodging newsletter, 1979-1982
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Nevada Hotel and Motel Association Collection
Box/Folder: Box 03
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Nevada Hospitality magazine, 1983-1992
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Nevada Hotel and Motel Association Collection
Box/Folder: Box 03
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