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Interview with Jeannette (Jean) M. (Mactaggart) Crooks, July 21, 2004

Date

2004-07-21

Description

Narrator affiliation: Family member

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Interview with Patricia George, with Virginia Sanchez, September 11, 2004

Date

2004-09-11

Description

Narrator affiliation: Program Manager, Nuclear Risk Management for Native Communities
Access note: May not quote in any form without written permission from interviewee

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Interview with Virginia Sanchez, with Patricia George, September 11, 2004

Date

2004-09-11

Description

Narrator affiliation: Activist, Nuclear Risk Management for Native Communities
Access note: May not quote in any form without written permission from interviewee

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Chapter from autobiography by Bella Stern, 1980

Date

1980

Archival Collection

Description

In this chapter, Stern describes her upbringing in Russia and fleeing to Poland. It is accompanied by a letter to the publishing company William Morrow.

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Minutes from Temple Beth Sholom Board of Directors meetings, September 1992 - December 1992

Date

1992

Archival Collection

Description

Meeting minutes include reports from committees of the board, correspondence, and balance sheets.

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) 35th commencement program

Date

1998-12-19

Description

Commencement program from University of Nevada, Las Vegas Commencement Programs and Graduation Lists (UA-00115).

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Cherina Kleven oral history interview: transcript

Date

2021-06-09

Description

Oral history interview with Cherina Kleven conducted by Cecilia Winchell on June 9, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Cherina Kleven talks about her family and childhood growing up in Taiwan amongst six siblings. She shares her family's history and how they immigrated to Las Vegas while she was a teen, as well as her employment history and how she met her husband. Cherina talks about racial and gender discrimination and the obstacles she has overcome to be the only working female in her family, the only woman firefighter at her station house, and the first female Asian American Assistant Fire Chief in the United States.

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Emmanuel Ortega oral history interview: transcript

Date

2019-06-06

Description

Oral history interview with Emmanuel Ortega conducted by Monserrath Hernandez, Maribel Estrada Calderon, Elsa Lopez, Barbara Tabach, and Laurents Bañuelos Benitez on 2019 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Emmanuel Ortega was born in Artesia, California and was raised in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico before moving to El Paso, Texas with his family at the age of thirteen. In 1998 his family relocated once again from El Paso to Las Vegas, Nevada where his father joined the Carpenters Union. They settled in Green Valley and he began attending a hybrid community college and high school program allowing him to obtain college credits. He continued at the College of Southern Nevada for two more years where he was a photography major and later transferred to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) where he studied art history. He moved back to Las Vegas in 2011 where he began teaching at UNLV and received a PhD in Ibero-American colonial art history from the University of New Mexico in 2017. He is the co-host of the podcast "Latinos Who Lunch" where hosts discuss pop culture, art, and issues of race, sex, and gender in the Latinx community.

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Dr. Javier A. Rodríguez oral history interview: transcript

Date

2019-12-19

Description

Oral history interview with Dr. Javier A. Rodríguez conducted by Elsa Lopez and Barbara Tabach on December 19, 2019 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Dr. Javier Rodríguez, Biology Professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, talks of his personal and educational history that led him to UNLV. He discusses his migration from Puerto Rico to California where he received his PhD from the University of California Berkley and became a biological museum curator for various animal specimens. He later moved to Las Vegas to teach at UNLV where he has now been for nearly two decades; Dr. Rodríguez shares how UNLV has changed since he first started working here, including the university's increased interest in faculty research to become a Top Tier institution. Subjects discussed include: Puerto Rico; University of California Berkley; University funding; Tier 1 research institutions.

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Interview with Fred Ray Huckabee, January 7, 2005

Date

2005-01-07

Description

Narrator affiliation: Supervisory General Engineer, Chief Test Construction Branch, U.S. Department of Energy

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