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Classified Staff Awards held inside the Student Union Ballroom: digital photographs
Date
2011-07-11
Archival Collection
Description
Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05).
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Garcia, Ruben, professor portrait Boyd School of Law: digital photographs
Date
2011-07-06
Archival Collection
Description
Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05). Client: Boyd School of Law
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Transcript of interview with Linda Rivera by Layne Karafantis, October 2, 2009
Date
2009-10-02
Archival Collection
Description
Erma "Linda" Rivera was born in Morenci, Arizona, in 1952. In the Las Vegas Valley, where Linda has lived for over twenty years, she has promoted educational opportunities for youth, particularly in the Hispanic community. Both she and her husband moved from Montana, where her husband worked as a power plant operator on Yellowtail Dam, to southern Nevada to work on Hoover Dam in 1986. Linda was put in charge of the affirmative employment plan for her branch of the Bureau of Reclamation. She thought there should be more Hispanics working for the Bureau of Reclamation, but she found that there weren't many Hispanics studying engineering. Linda reached out to John Medina at the Southern Nevada Hispanic Employment Program for help. He convinced her to become involved with the program, and she would later become its conference chair. Linda organized the Family Leadership Module for parents in the Clark County School District to give advice and encouragement for parents who are non-native speakers of English, so that they feel more confident becoming involved in the school district. She currently works as the Diversity Officer for the Bureau of Reclamation in Boulder City.
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Transcript of interview with Dorothy Lee by Claytee D. White, June 02, 2016
Date
2016-06-02
Archival Collection
Description
Dorothy Ann Lee (née Damrow) was born in 1941 in New Jersey. Her family came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1946 in an effort to improve her father’s health but chose to stay after she and her sister contracted chicken pox during the trip. She attended John S. Park Elementary School and Las Vegas High School. She moved around the city of Las Vegas a number of times during her childhood before settling in the Huntridge neighborhood with her mother in 1950. She worked for the Huntridge Theater during her high school years. She was also a member of the Rhythmettes, Las Vegas High School’s dance troupe, for three years and performed all over the United States during her time with them. After high school, Lee attended the University of Illinois until she met her future husband and dropped out. She lived in Chicago for six months before she and Danny Lee moved back to Las Vegas to get married. They married in 1960 at the Little Church of the West. The couple had four children together.
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