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Tule Springs talk program and news clippings

Date

2005-05-13
2005-05-16

Description

A program guide from the "Tule Springs Then and Now" educational project involving Shadow Ridge High School of Las Vegas, Nevada and members of the Tule Springs "Big Dig" of 1962/1963. Also included are newspaper clippings from the Las Vegas Review-Journal about Charles Rozaire and his involvement with the educational project.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 03, 2004

Date

2004-11-03

Description

Includes meeting agenda and minutes, along with additional information about contracts and promotional campus agreements.

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L. J. Hudlow and Miss Endang Sulbi Sastrodiredjo: photographic print

Date

1954-04 (year and month approximate) to 1963-02-29 (approximate)

Description

R-L: L. J. Hudlow, Project Manager of the Boulder Canyon Project; Miss Endang Sulbi Sastrodiredjo, Chief, Department of Overseas Information (Ministry of Information) from Djakarta, Indonesia. She is touring the U.S. under the auspices of the State Department.

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Interview with Raymond Chester Harbert, February 18, 2005

Date

2005-02-18

Description

Narrator affiliation: Resident Engineer, Holmes and Narver; Program Manager, Plowshare

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All That Jazz Oral History Project

"This project shows the Strip in the heyday of entertainment from a different angle, from the point of view of band members. What was it like to play behind Sammy Davis, Jr., or Bobby Darrin? Why did this type of music end? Did the musician’s union make the right decision by striking? Las Vegas history is multi-layered and this group permits a look into the back door of stage."

Source: https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/ohrc/projects

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Transcript of interview with Rabbi Mendy Harlig by Barbara Tabach, October 18, 2017

Date

2017-10-18

Description

Known throughout the Las Vegas community as Rabbi Mendy, Mendy Harlig is a leader of the Chabad in Las Vegas, which was introduced to the valley in 1990 by his brother Rabbi Shea Harlig. Since his youth spent growing up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, where he was surrounded by Hasidic Jews, Rabbi Mendy seemed destined to become a Chabad rabbi. During the early 1990s he often visited Las Vegas and assisted his brother at the Chabad of Southern Nevada. Then in 1997 he met and married Chaya Harlig and the couple permanently relocated to the valley to be the spiritual leaders of the Chabad of Green Valley. As their family grew, so did their importance to the Chabad movement in Las Vegas. During this interview, Rabbi Mendy touches upon the nature of Chabad teachings and observance in the so-called “Sin City” persona of Las Vegas. He also shares about his participation in the Las Vegas Metro Chaplaincy program. He particularly reflective of his active role immediately after of the horror of the October 1 mass casualty at the Route 91 country music festival and his perspectives afterwards.

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Transcript of interview with Stanley and Sandy Mallin by Barbara Tabach, January 7, 2015

Date

2015-01-07

Description

Stanley Mallin (1923- ) was a native of Kansas City, Missouri; the son of Bess and Louis Mallin. His mother was a homemaker and his father was an industrious immigrant from Ukraine who earned his US citizenship through combat in World War I. Stan was the middle child of their three. It was while Stan attended the University of Missouri that he met Jay Sarno. The two men’s fast personal friendship made them solid business partners. Their first endeavor was in Florida with a tile business. It was during a holiday stay at the Flamingo that the two dreamed a bigger, better hotel-casino. The result was Caesars Palace. He has lived and helped develop Las Vegas since 1968. In 1982, Stan married his wife Sandy (neé Jacoby) Mallin. Sandy grew up in New York and arrived in Las Vegas in 1977. She has provided dynamic leadership in the Jewish community. For several years she was President of the Women’s Division of Jewish Federation. She then followed this as the first woman to be President of T

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