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Wexler, Sheila, 1936-

Sheila Wexler is a compulisve gambling counselor. She was born in 1936 in New York to Ida and Nathan Freeling. Sheila Wexler married Arnie Wexler in 1961, and after Arnie Wexler experienced years of compulsive gambling addiction, they both began working as compulsive gambling counselors. They have worked presented workshops and training seminars around the United States and internationally, written books, and trained other counselors on helping compulsive gamblers.

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Hill, Lawrence Chiu, 1972-

Lawerence "Larry" Chiu Hill is at Lawerence C. Hill and Associates. He speaks about his experiences of living in Taiwan and the processes of migrating from Taiwan during middle school to South America and eventually Corpus Christi, Texas where he would spend most of his childhood up until high school. Lawerence speaks on his father's experiences being a gaming marketer during the 90s and being heavily involved in scouting high rollers into Las Vegas casinos.

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Smith, Cassius, 1975-

"Cassius Smith's art began in rebellion with graffiti and transitioned into a winning clothing line. He grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and moved to Newark, New Jersey so he could be near New York where fashion is king. Smith began to sketch items of clothing in elementary school and years later a serendipitous encounter on the train in New York where a man bumped into him spilling soda on his clothing led to a fulfillment of his fashion dreams. That man worked with the guys at FUBU. Smith worked for FUBU and other design houses for the next10 years.

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Torres-Recto, Kate, 1954-

Born in the Philippines in 1954 , Kate Torres Recto, grew up pampered as the youngest of four children and as the daughter of an aristocratic family. She recalls having maids and drivers, and she describes her mother's sense of fashion. But she also remembers how her parents raised her and her siblings to respect their elders, to be kind, and to be compassionate. In turn, as Kate raised her six children mostly as a single mother, she, too, instilled those values in them.

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McGlothen, Grace

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Ester Grace McGlothen

Special education and music teacher at Matt Kelly Elementary School (Las Vegas, Nev.).

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Walker, Prentiss

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Prentiss Stanley Walker
Rev. Prentiss S. Walker

Prentiss Walker was born October 18th, 1910 on an Indian reservation in Comanche County in southwestern Oklahoma. His youth was spent in Stockton, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. His father had been a minister in the Methodist Pentecostal Church. In 1933 he came to Las Vegas, Nevada. He worked in various places including at a café, the Mercury Test Site, a trailer park, a used car lot, and multiple retail stores. In 1956 he was ordained into the ministry of the Baptist Church. He was pastor of the Las Vegas Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church until his death in 1977.

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Board meeting recording, 2010 January 07

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Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00561
Collection Name: Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
Box/Folder: Box 245, Digital File 00

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