Oral history interview with Dennis Ortwein conducted by Claytee D. White on May 06, 2009 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Ortwein discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956 and his various careers as an elementary school teacher, a junior high teacher, and an elementary school principal. He also discusses working at a teacher's college in Nigeria, being a church choir director, and his experience as a singer. He then talks about school integration in Las Vegas and above-ground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site.
p.20 #1411 - p.20 #1412 These pictures together with two on opposite page, form panorama of operations being carried on at canyon rim, on Nevada side. Photo was taken from Arizona Spillway site. To the left is shown Black Canyon Highway. High level mixing plant will be located behind fill on the road. To the right is shown highway extension road to Nevada Spillway. Note shovel boom projecting at former site of Lookout Point. Aug. 12, 1932. p.20 #1451 Three hundred boxes of dynamite were used in spectacular blast which demolished Lookout Point. Picture taken from new Look Point, on Black Canyon Highway. Aug. 16, 1932. p.20 #1452 Blasting usually scheduled for 11:30 a.m., and billowing dust dislodged from canyon rim completely fills the canyon. Aug. 16, 1932.
Laurie Joe Deal wa born on July 3, 1924 in Hickory, North Carolina. Laurie married Rosa Allen on April 26, 1958 and they had three children: David, Stephen, and James.
Deal obtained a bachelor of science degree in science and math from Lenoir Rhyne College.
Deal is associated with the Nevada Test Site as Director of the Civil Effects Group for the Application Englineering Company (AEC) and as a BioMed member of the Nevada Test Site planning board.
Dr. Gaelen Lee Felt was a scientist who was active during the height of atomic testing in the mid-twentieth century. He worked for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada. Felt worked on the Nevada Atomic Test Site and became deputy director of the site in 1955. He then worked for the firm Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier (EG & G), eventually becoming vice president of the company's technical support group. He served on the Nevada Board of Education beginning in 1965.
Six photographs of dancers in production numbers at the Lido in Paris, France. The show was staged by Donn Arden. Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)