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Carol Bumgarner oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02949

Abstract

Oral history interview with Carol Bumgarner conducted by Kelly Fawcett on November 16, 2009 for the Public School Principalship Oral History Project. In this interview, Bumgarner reflects on her 30-year career as a teacher and administrator in the Clark County School District. She discusses how she was inspired to pursue administration, and the importance of maintaining those relationships with staff and fellow administrators. She describes her job duties as an administrator, and offers suggestions on how administrators can continue to foster meaningful relationships with their teachers and students.

Archival Collection

Gary Delvin oral history interview

Identifier

OH-00417

Abstract

Oral history interview with Gary Delvin conducted by Roberta Threatt on April 08, 2003 for the Public School Principalship Oral History Project. In this interview, Delvin reflects upon his nearly 30-year career as an elementary school teacher and administrator in Oregon from the 1970s to the early 2000s. He discusses his upbringing and path to becoming a teacher, his philosophy of education, and training that he feels was most helpful throughout his career.

Archival Collection

JoAnne K. Schlekewy oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01654

Abstract

Oral history interview with JoAnne K. Schlekewy conducted by Wanda Renfrow on November 26, 2002 for the Public School Principalship Oral History Project. In this interview, Schlekewy reflects upon her nearly 30-year career as an administrator with Nevada’s Clark County School District from the 1970s to the 2000s. She describes the process by which she became a counselor and eventually principal, describes her regular responsibilities, and discusses the importance of establishing working relationships with teachers.

Archival Collection

Barbara Rosenberg oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02965

Abstract

Oral history interview with Barbara Rosenberg conducted by Rebecca Richey on April 22, 2002 for the Public School Principalship Oral History Project. In this interview, Rosenberg reflects upon her nearly 40-year career as a teacher and administrator in New York and Nevada from the 1960s to the 2000s. She discusses her approach to school administration, and describes her regular responsibilities. She also compares her different roles as teacher, dean, assistant principal, and principal.

Archival Collection

Dr. Ed Goldman oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02637

Abstract

Oral history interview with Dr. Edward Goldman conducted by Barbara Tabach on March 22, 2016 and April 04, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Goldman discusses his career as a Clark County School District teacher, negotiator, and regional superintendent over the span of thirty years. He also talks about his activity in the Las Vegas, Nevada Jewish community at Temple Beth Sholom and being a founding member of Midbar Kodesh Temple.

Archival Collection

Hermina Washington oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02428

Abstract

Oral history interview with Hermina Washington conducted by B. Leon Green on March 02, 2013 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. Washington discusses her career with the State of Nevada, working under different governors, and raising her three sons with her high school sweetheart. Washington also discusses her various residences on the Westside over the years, her role of church growing up, and changes of Las Vegas, Nevada as a city.

Archival Collection

Leain Vashon oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02120

Abstract

Oral history interview with Leain Vashon conducted by Claytee D. White on July 29, 2014 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Vashon discusses joining and eventually getting elected the Vice President of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226. He also discusses union benefits, strikes, today's union members, the future of the union movement, why unions are still necessary, family participation, and his 30 year employment as a bellman.

Archival Collection

Catherine Morales-Jackson oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01325

Abstract

Oral history interview with Catherine Morales-Jackson conducted by Claytee D. White on May 05, 2010 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project Oral History Project. Catherine provides retrospective on a range of library topics the including discussion of the thousands of volumes she bound to the move to Lied Library, a Celebrity Pancake fundraiser to staff parties, and the implementation of a campus parking fee to the various library organizations that she has belonged to over the years.

Archival Collection

Vincent Kethen oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01013

Abstract

Oral history interview with Vincent Kethen conducted by Claytee White on December 23, 2009 for the Voices of the Historic John S. Park Neighborhood Oral History Project. Kethen was born in 1964 in Las Vegas, Nevada, the year that desegregation of schools started there. He discusses his experiences as an African-American child being bused to a white school, John S. Park Elementary. He also discusses growing up in that era and giving back to the community by being a youth basketball coach.

Archival Collection

An Interview with Paul Huffey and Michael Mack

Identifier

OH-00903

Abstract

Oral history interview with Paul Huffey conducted by Claytee D. White on February 02, 2010 for the Voices of the Historic John S. Park Neighborhood. Paul Huffey discusses his family moving to the John S. Park Neighborhood in 1947, his father working on the construction of Hoover Dam, and Huffey working at Ronzoni's Department Store when he was in high school. Huffey then discusses graduating from the University of Nevada, Reno and teaching history at Basic High School in Henderson, Nevada for nine years.

Archival Collection