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Oral history roundtable video with members of Temple Sinai: Jack Kaufman, Meera Kagemai, Sue Rhodes, Amy Stein and Jeff Klein. The participants discuss the creation of Temple Sinai from the merger of Temple Beth Am and Adat Ari El Congregation, and their experiences serving on the board of directors of the temple.
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Oral history interview with Johnathan Terry conducted by Claytee D. White and Stefani Evans on May 21, 2024 for the UNLV Remembers: an Oral History of the 6 December 2023 Shootings project. In this interview, Terry shares his recollections from December 6, 2023. Terry, a Residential Life Coordinator with UNLV's Housing and Residence Life, recalls attending a meeting in the Tonopah Hall conference room when he noticed students running outside and offered them shelter inside the building. Police entered and confiscated his keys and told him to exit the building, leaving him without keys to his apartment and nowhere to go.
Terry recalls walking to a nearby supermarket on Tropicana to wait until his spouse could pick him up, and getting sick the following day making hims unable to take part in the many campus healing events. He shares advice to students to "find your community and don't isolate yourself." Digital audio available.
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Oral history interview with Yves Auriol conducted by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White on June 21, 2024 for Game On! The Oral History of Las Vegas Sports project. In this interview, Auriol describes his childhood in Toulouse, France during World War II. The third oldest of seven children, Auriol learned the art of fencing from his brother. He graduated in 1955 from Lycee de Toulouse where he earned a master's degree as a fencing master from the Institute National du Sport in Paris. Eventually, he became a top fencing teacher in the sport, and in 1971 he followed his brother to the United States. Auriol served as head women's fencing coach at Notre Dame from 1985-95 and assumed head coaching responsibilities for the men's and women's programs in 1996. He developed into one of the most successful and respected coaches in the nation, and is a three-time Olympic coach. Digital audio and photographs available.
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Oral history interview with Erika Noltie conducted by Claytee D. White and Stefani Evans on August 20, 2024 for the UNLV Remembers: an Oral History of the 6 December 2023 Shootings project. In this interview, Noltie, who works on the 6th floor of Flora Dungan Humanities (FDH) across from where the shooting occurred. Noltie and her colleagues did not have an evacuation plan, but did not panic and executed an escape that kept everyone safe. Once in the parking lot, they heard gunshots, rapidly got into their cars, and fled the campus. Noltie shares how staff stayed in touch in the days following the shooting, and their relationships have changed since that day. Healing has been organic and community/family relations are stronger among her work group. She ends the interview by saying she refused to allow the murderer to take her energy, her good life, and her family away. Digital audio and transcript available.
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Oral history interview with Gerardo Topacio, Philomena Topacio, and Teresa Prezgay conducted by Claytee D. White on April 13, 2018 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Gerardo discusses his early life in Manila, Philippines. He remembers the attacks in Pearl Harbor on December 07, 1941, the Japanese and Philippines conflict, and immigrating to the United States. Gerardo talks about his employment with Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc. (EG&G) and working at the Nevada Test Site. Philomena recalls her career in the hotel industry and being a member of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226. The couple was joined by their daughter, Teresa Prezgay. Prezgay talks about her career as a math teacher and promotes the increase of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
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Oral history interview with Gary Sternberg, Joe Lupo, and Ed Birch conducted by Barbara Tabach on August 21, 2017 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Lupo and Birch discuss their upbringing in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sternberg discusses his early life and arriving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1969. Sternberg and Birch talk about the gaming industry, becoming casino dealers, and changes in customer service in Las Vegas. Lupo describes the airline industry during the 1970s, and the growth of McCarran International Airport. Lastly, Sternberg, Lupo, and Birch discuss changes in Las Vegas.
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