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University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) 20th commencement program
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Commencement program from University of Nevada, Las Vegas Commencement Programs and Graduation Lists (UA-00115).
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Harter, Carol C., 1941-2023
Carol Harter and her husband of 46 years started their married lives by running away from college in their sophomore year. They spent the 1960's working toward their degrees. Harter earned her bachelor's in 1964 and her master's in 1967. Dr. Harter completed her PhD in 1970, and because her husband wanted to work on his doctorate, they moved to Athens, Ohio. She taught at Ohio University while he completed his courses. They lived, worked, and raised their children there for 19 years.
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Molasky, Beth, 1950-
Beth Molasky-Cornell was born November 29, 1950 in Florida and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada before her second birthday. She graduated from Valley High School in 1968, and started college at the University of Southern California at the age of seventeen. After spending a couple of years in Rhode Island, where she had her children, she moved back to Las Vegas in 1975.
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Greenspun, Robin, 1952-
Robin Greenspun is a film and television producer and director in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2015 she directed and produced the film Semicolon; The Adventures of Ostomy Girl, a documentary about Dana Marshall-Bernstein, a young Las Vegas woman living with Crohn's disease. In the 1970s and early 1980s Greenspun worked as an assistant director for Trans American Video and other production companies before starting her advertising and public relations firm.
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Wasserman, David R.
David R. Wasserman was born on December 3, 1944 in Newark, New Jersey. In 1966 he graduated from Rutgers University with his bachelors in Zoology. In 1970 he received his Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. Upon graduation he served two years of active duty as a captain in the United States Air Force Dental Corps at Nellis Air Force Base.
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Baca, Edward J., 1931-2016
Edward Baca, a Las Vegas minister and retired air conditioning insulation installer, was born on September 14, 1931. Baca grew up the son of a coal miner in Wyoming and spent his teenage years in Price, Utah. He worked a series of jobs in the coal mines of Utah and railroad jobs for the Southern Pacific Railroad before joining the military and being stationed in Greenland.
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Allen, Janice Haupt, 1927-
Janice Allen was raised in Sebring, Ohio and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1948. Allen attended Wesleyan College in West Virginia where she wrote for the college’s newspaper and served as class secretary. After her move to Las Vegas, Allen wrote for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. She was involved in many civic organizations such as the Service League, which would later be renamed the Las Vegas Junior League, the Junior Chamber of Commerce Wives, and the Jaycees.
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