Gary Sanoff grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1979 he moved to Las Vegas and went to dealer school to be a craps dealer. Gary started at the Nevada Hotel and worked there for two weeks, then he worked at the El Cortez, then went to the Union Plaza where he was a box man and then a floor man. He moved to the Desert Inn and was a dealer and then a floor man there. Next he moved to the Bellagio, was a pit manager, assistant shift manager, shift manager, Interim Vice President of Table Games, and director.

Courtney Hunt, commonly referred to as Nutt, was born May 7, 1974 and raised on the Westside in Las Vegas, Nevada. His mother worked multiple jobs and worked hard to support her children and to avoid welfare. In 2007, Hunt co-founded, the C-O-N-V-I-C-T-S motorcycle club with Wayne Gant. “Convicts” is an acronym for: Conquerors of Negative Vicious Intent, Concentrating Towards Succeeding.

Dorothy Pitzer was born September 9, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois and was raised in small Illinois towns. She met her future husband, Doug, when they went to rival high schools. She began nurses training in Dixon, Illinois, and immediately after her 1950 graduation, Pitzer and Doug married. The couple moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in July 1954, when Doug was transferred to Nellis Air Force Base. Pitzer worked as a nurse at Las Vegas Hospital and Clinic 1954-1957 and later worked for a private obstetrics practice.

Todd S. Polikoff was born on September 8, 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 2015, he was named president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas (Jewish Nevada).

Todd S. Polikoff served as President & Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Nevada (formerly Jewish Federation of Las Vegas) from 2015 to 2018. Todd is a graduate of Stockton University and earned his MBA at Cleveland State University. He has three children: Samuel, Shira and Jordan.

Dr. Gaelen Lee Felt was a scientist who was active during the height of atomic testing in the mid-twentieth century. He worked for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada. Felt worked on the Nevada Atomic Test Site and became deputy director of the site in 1955. He then worked for the firm Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier (EG & G), eventually becoming vice president of the company's technical support group. He served on the Nevada Board of Education beginning in 1965.

Jennilee Gibson Thayer was born in McGill, Nevada on October 24, 1931 to Fred D. and May Emma Gibson. She lived most of her life in Henderson, Nevada with her husband, Robert "Red" Thayer. She died on November 19, 2012 in Henderson.

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"Jennilee Thayer." Las Vegas Review-Journal. November 2012. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://obits.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/lvrj/obituary.aspx?n=jennilee-thayer&pid=161188488&fhid=12181

In 1971, Emilia Marquez was born in Virginia to her Uruguayan immigrant parents, Alicia and Carlos. When the family returned to Uruguay in 1982, she experienced being an outsider in her parents’ home country. As she describes it: when in Uruguay she is Uruguayan; when in the U.S., she is an American citizen. Over the course of her life, she has proven to be an adept navigator of language and cultures. In 1990, she and Juan Carlos Mussio married. They have three daughters, Ashley, Emily and Jessica. The family moved to Las Vegas in 2001.