Jean Rambo was born March 25, 1925 in Rutherford, North Carolina. She received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology at the University of New Mexico in 1947 and moved to New York. Rambo worked as a nurse instructor until 1955, when she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. She was a cadet nurse, the nurse matron in a local jail in Las Vegas and associate director for nursing education at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. Rambo went back to school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and graduated with a master’s degree in education administration in 1992.
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Senator James Gibson was born March 22, 1925 in Golden Colorado, the youngest of six children. He graduated from Las Vegas High School and received a bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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The miscellaneous notes, correspondence, books, and certificates series (1914-1974) consists of photocopies of miscellaneous field notes written by Chester Longwell from 1919 to 1925; a list of Longwell's publications; notes on photographs and other collection provenance and acquisition information; recognition certificates and letters; and geology books.
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Essie Shelton Jacobs (Essie Jean Shelton) was born in Fordyce, Arkansas on July, 11, 1925. Jacobs arrived in Las Vegas 1963 and worked in housekeeping at Aladdin Hotel for twenty-three years. Active in the Culinary Union, she worked as a supervisor and shop steward.
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Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute. Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam) center with four unidentified people at an unknown location. Stamped on back: "Las Vegas News Bureau, Las Vegas, Nev. - P.O. Box 28, Photographers Don English, Joe Buck, Jerry Abbott, Milt Palmer."
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