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Audio recording clip of interview with David Washington by Claytee D. White, March 18, 2009

Date

2009-03-18

Description

Part of an interview with David Washington by Claytee White on March 18, 2009. Washington describes how he worked to serve as a role model and helped start the Black Firefighters Association, serving as President for the first two years.

Sound

Transcript of interview with Sonja Saltman by Barbara Tabach, August 18, 2015

Date

2015-08-18

Description

Included in this oral history are reminiscences of Sonja Saltman's personal non-Jewish heritage in Austria, the importance of her grandmother in her life, and how she recalls becoming part of the Jewish community.

Sonja Saltman is a psychologist and philanthropist in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is executive director and co-founder of the Existential Humanistic Institute, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California that offers training in existential-humanistic therapy and theory. In 2003 Sonja and her husband Michael Saltman founded the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) William S. Boyd School of Law. The Saltman Center is focused on research, teaching, and public service related to "the advanced study of the nature of conflict and how to resolve it." A native of Austria, Sonja Saltman also serves as the Honorary Consul for Austria in Las Vegas. The Saltmans are involved with multiple charitable organizations and initiatives, both locally and abroad. Sonja Saltman has served on the boards of the Anti-Defamation League, Nevada Women's Philanthropy, and the Black Mountain Institute. Projects that the couple has supported include the rebuilding of homes and bridges is Bosnia, and Streetball Hafla, a basketball program to improve relations between Jewish and Arab teenagers in Israel. In 2014 Sonja and Michael Saltman were recognized as Distinguished Nevadans by the Nevada System of Higher Education. Included in this oral history are reminiscences of her personal non-Jewish heritage in Austrian, the importance of her grandmother in her life, and how she recalls becoming part of the Jewish community.

Text

Video of interview with Carolyn and Oscar Goodman, Las Vegas (Nev.), October 18, 2014

Date

2014-10-18

Description

Carolyn and Oscar Goodman discuss their early lives, moving to Las Vegas, their definition of "community" in Las Vegas, early careers, and current Downtown economy in an interview at UNLV's Lied Library in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Moving Image

#68437: Students around campus on the first day of classes of the spring semester on January 18, 2012, 2012 January 18

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
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Collection Number: PH-00388-05
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

Archival Component

Transcript of interview with Jelindo Tiberti by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White, April 18, 2017

Date

2017-04-18

Description

As Jelindo Tiberti describes his childhood as the youngest of five children growing up on 15th Street, he chronicles a seemingly idyllic time of playing with a large group of neighborhood friends, of doing outdoor chores with his brothers, of spending summers at the family cabin in Utah, of high school dances, and as a high school junior, of meeting Sandee, whom he would marry within two months after they both graduated from the University of Southern California. He talks about his parents: about working for and with his namesake father; about taking his mother to her daily radiation treatments, about cooking his mother's recipes, and about his mother making sure her youngest child earned his college degree before he married. He explains the ubiquity of fencing and shares his experience of taking over Tiberti Fence Company, of retiring and selling the company, and of starting over with Red Star Fence Company. Throughout, Tiberti speaks to living with dyslexia: of attending an after-s

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Frank Bell (Lander County) oral history interview, 2013 July 18

Level of Description

File

Scope and Contents

Bell, a native of Amargosa Valley, Nevada, first took an EMS course at Battle Mountain in 1987. He completed paramedic training in Winnemucca and Carson City in 1995. He became commander of the Battle Mountain ambulance service in 2012.

Archival Collection

History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
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Collection Number: OH-00000
Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

Archival Component

Audio clip from interview with Sonja Saltman, August 18, 2015

Date

2015-08-18

Description

In this audio clip, Sonja Saltman describes coming to the United States, and to Las Vegas, in the 1970s.

Sound

Heidenreich, Mrs. Betty L., Pioche, Nevada, interview, 1955 August 16-18

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File

Archival Collection

Thomas Clark Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00307
Collection Name: Thomas Clark Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 07

Archival Component

Day by Day, undated

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File

Archival Collection

Ken Tiffany Music Scores
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Collection Number: MS-00611
Collection Name: Ken Tiffany Music Scores
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 1

Archival Component

Day by Day, undated

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Johnny Eshow Haig Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00546
Collection Name: Johnny Eshow Haig Papers
Box/Folder: Box 03

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