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Interview with Robert W. Taft, August 5, 2004

Date

2004-08-05

Description

Narrator affiliation: Asst. Manager, Plans, Engineering and Budgets, Dept. of Energy

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Interview with Herbert Frank York, July 22, 2004

Date

2004-07-22

Description

Narrator affiliation: Physicist, First director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; Arms control negotiator; Director, Defense Dept. Research adn Engineering

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Interview with Linda (Mack) Smith, October 6, 2006

Date

2006-10-06

Description

Narrator affiliation: Deputy Manager Nevada Operations Office, U.S. Department of Energy; Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March 28, 2005

Date

2005-03-28

Description

Includes meeting minutes agenda, along with additional information about addenum.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 30, 2003

Date

2003-06-30

Description

Includes meeting agenda and mintues, along with additional information about memorandums, bylaws, and the Articles of Incorporation for the Rebel Yell Student Newspaper.

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Transcript of interview with Lori Chenin-Frankl by Barbara Tabach, June 7, 2016

Date

2016-06-07

Description

Lori provides a wonderful narrative of her Judaism, her love of teaching children and her devotion to family and music. She talks about growing up in Las Vegas and becoming a bat mitzvah, a rarity for girls in 1973. Throughout her life, including the period where she moved around with her Air Force husband, she sought Jewish connections to help her feel at home no matter where she was.

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Transcript of interview with Joseph Thiriot by Claytee White, August 10, 2000

Date

2000-08-10

Description

Joseph Thiriot is a longtime Las Vegas resident who served the community as an educator. He was born in 1906 in Provo, Utah; one of five sons bom to George W. and Elvira Thiriot. He has vivid memories of moving about, including living in Idaho where his father sold a typing machine , a forerunner to the typewriter. Eventually the family moved to a ranch in Pahranagat Valley, Nevada, where the limits of educational opportunities compelled his paients to send him back to Provo to finish his education while living with family there. Gaining a teaching certificate enabled Joseph to teach in rural Nevada. He completed his degree at the University of Utah and after meeting Las Vegas Superintendent Maude Frazier he relocated to Las Vegas to become a teacher. He reminisces about his life and the changes that have occurred over the years in Las Vegas.

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Congregation Ner Tamid

Congregation Ner Tamid is the second oldest Jewish synagogue in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, founded in 1974. It is the largest Reform synagogue in Nevada, and has been led by Rabbi Sanford Akselrad since 1988. Ner Tamid is home to the Gary and Lynn Kantor Early Childhood Education Center and the Mark L. Fine Judaica gift shop.  It offers youth and adult education, as well as a Men’s Club, Sisterhood, and other social groups. In 2015, more than 600 families were members of Ner Tamid, and the congregation offered over 200 programs and activities in the course of a year.

James B. McDaniel Architectural Records

Identifier

MS-00203

Abstract

The James B. McDaniel Records (1960-1978) comprise the plans and drawings created by Las Vegas, Nevada architect James McDaniel who worked independently as James Brooks McDaniel Architect (from 1960-1978) and with a partner as Moffitt and McDaniel Architects, Limited (during the 1970s). This collection includes materials from over 115 projects managed by McDaniel. Records include oversized architectural drawings, and files of architectural projects. McDaniel designed many University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) buildings, residential, commercial, and landscape designs for Las Vegas clients. Also included are business files of construction estimates, specifications, invoices, change orders, and correspondence.

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