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Audio clip from interview with Margo Mink Colbert, November 11, 2014

Date

2014-11-11

Description

Part of an interview with Margo Mink Colbert on November 11, 2014. In this clip, Colbert discusses the inspiration for the ballet trilogy she conceived and choreographed while teaching at UNLV.

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Audio recording clip of interview with Dr. Porter Troutman by Claytee D. White, November 20, 2006

Date

2006-11-20

Description

Part of an interview with Dr. Porter Troutman by Claytee White on November 20, 2006. Troutman describes his career as an educator.

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Transcript of interview with Myra Berkovits by Barbara Tabach, August 21, 2014

Date

2014-08-21

Description

Interview with Myra Berkovits by Barbara Tabach on August 21, 2014. In this interview, Berkovits talks about growing up and starting her teaching career in Chicago. When she moves to Las Vegas, Berkovits eventually purchases a dining concierge business, but returned to teaching, and is now involved with the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center.

Myra Berkovits was born Myra Mosse in 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. She became an elementary school teacher in Chicago before moving to Las Vegas in 1980. Myra has made contributions to Las Vegas in the public and private sectors. She owned several businesses then returned to teaching, heading to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) to renew her teaching license and later received her master's degree. After a year of teaching in multicultural education, Myra was then in charge of the school district's homeless program, seeing its growth from serving 1,200 to 6,000 students. Myra's other passion was for Holocaust education and she became one of six interviewers in the city for the Shoah Foundation, documenting survivors' stories. One interviewee, David Berkovits, would later become her husband of fifteen years. Myra's own Holocaust education was aided by powerful trips to Israel and Poland. She used these experiences to develop and lead student-teacher conferences and classroom curriculum for the whole state. Myra still serves at the Education Specialist at the Holocaust Resource Center.

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McMillan-Arnold, Jarmilla

Jarmilla McMillan-Arnold grew up in Detroit and Pontiac, Michigan. At the age of eight she moved to Las Vegas with her father Dr. James B. McMillan, who was president of the Las Vegas branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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Transcript of interview with David Straus and Heidi Straus by Barbara Tabach, November 6, 2015

Date

2015-11-06

Description

In this interview, the Straus? discuss the joys of growing up in Las Vegas during the 1960s and 1970s, and the changes within the community over time, especially in educational opportunities. Both talk about Joyce Straus? career as artist and art educator, and the influence she had on their lives. They also remember Heidi?s father, Jay Sarno, and the impact he had on the local gaming industry. There is also discussion of the founding of Congregation Ner Tamid, the role of Jewish women?s philanthropy within the community, as well as the establishment of The Meadows School.

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Audio clip from interview with Katherine M. Joseph, October 25, 2004

Date

2004-10-25

Description

Part of an interview with Katherine Joseph, October 25, 2004. In this clip, Joseph describes her dancing career, including a stint in Cuba, and her interactions with Josephine Baker and Pearl Bailey at the Cotton Club in Las Vegas in the 1950s.

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35 Years of Rotary in Las Vegas, 1923-1958

Date

1958

Archival Collection

Description

A history of the Las Vegas Rotary Club. 1923-1958

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Audio recording clip of interview with Patricia George and Virginia Sanchez by Mary Palevsky, September 11, 2004

Date

2004-09-11

Description

Narrator affiliation: Program Manager, Nuclear Risk Management for Native Communities

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Audio recording clip of interview with Pauline Silvia by Mary Palevsky, October 18, 2005

Date

2005-10-18

Description

Narrator affiliation: Biologist, U.S. Navy

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