Audio clip from interview with Jocelyn Oats on November 20, 2012. In the clip, Jocelyn talks about the beginnings of Nevada Partners, and her work with the teenaged youth of Las Vegas in the 1990s.
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,
Conceptual drawing of the proposed Brasilia Village, that was to be built on the NW corner of Tropicana and Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas. 'A Boyd Ashcraft-Harry Whiteley development.' Address: Las Vegas; Clark County; Nevada
Conceptual drawing of a proposed 20 unit studio apartment building for Investors Corporation of Nevada in Las Vegas. Address: Las Vegas; Clark County; Nevada
Artist's rendering of a bird's-eye view of the proposed Frontier Junction recreation complex. Site Name: Frontier Address: 3120 Las Vegas Boulevard South