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Transcript of interview with Kerin Scianna Rodgers by Suzanne Becker and Claytee D. White, February 7, 2009 and August 11 & 16, 2011

Date

2011-08-16
2011-08-11

Description

Kerin Rodgers was born in 1936. She recounts her family history and stories of her youth growing up in Boston, MA, and shares how the family relocated to Seattle, WA in the mid-1940s. She talks about her enjoyment of theatrical arts and politics, and about being a resourceful divorced, single-mom and entrepreneur. In 1958 she opened a retail fashion store and modeling agency with a friend in Santa Monica, CA. Kerin had a knack for fashion and interior design that would assist her then and into the future. She also shares the story of arriving in Las Vegas as part of retail job with The Broadway stores in 1966—a two-week stint that seemed to have no ending. Her transition into Las Vegas included remarriage, a 1974 Keno win that enabled her to put down money on a home ( a house built by Paul Huffey) in the John S. Park neighborhood, and making close friends in the community. Her interview is sprinkled with tales of activities and personalities from the neighborhood's past and present. Kerin was involved with the Focus Youth House, speaks about First Fridays and art, as well as gives a perspective of police, criminal behaviors and changes in the neighborhood over the years. She hosted a local television show and enjoyed being a community activist.

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Transcript of interview with Connie Hill Sheldon by Claytee White, February 11, 2013

Date

2013-02-11

Description

Connie Hill Sheldon and her identical twin, Billie, also were members of Rancho High School 's first graduating class of 1962. Connie and Billie were born in 1944 in Oklahoma and spent their early years in southern California before moving to Las Vegas in 1956 with their mother, brother, and stepfather, Gerald Elmore. In Las Vegas Connie and her siblings attended Sunrise Acres Elementary School before going to Rancho, and the family was active with Homesite Baptist Church. While she was at Rancho Connie worked at the Huntridge Theater, and she continued working there after she graduated. In 1968 Connie married fellow Rancho '62 classmate Clyde Sheldon in Goldfield, Nevada. At the time of their marriage Clyde was an active-duty Marine. Over the course of his twenty-year USMC career the Sheldons lived in several places, but following his 1983 retirement they returned to Las Vegas and then moved to Pahrump. In this interview Connie particularly focuses on military life in New Yo

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Interview with Helen Marguerite (Troester) Draper, June 24, 2004

Date

2004-06-24

Description

Narrator affiliation: Paymaster, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo)

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Interview with Thornton Duard (T.D.) Barnes, January 12, 2007

Date

2007-01-12

Description

Narrator affiliation: Special Projects, Area 51; NERVA & NASA; Roadrunners Internationale

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Interview with James Arnold Hodges, January 17, 2005

Date

2005-01-17

Description

Narrator affiliation: Photographic engineer, Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier (EG&G)

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Interview with Ernest Benjamin Williams, March 26, 2004

Date

2004-03-26

Description

Narrator affiliation: Budget and Logistics, Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. Department of Energy

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Interview with Peggy L. Bostian, June 28, 2004

Date

2004-06-28

Description

Narrator affiliation: Vice-president, CER Geonuclear Corp.; Administrative Assistant, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo)

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Interview with John S. Coogan, May 1, 2008

Date

2008-05-01

Description

Narrator affiliation: Health Physicist, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo), Public Health Service (USPHS), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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