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Photograph of Adalberto Meneses and woman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, circa 1970s

Date

1970 to 1979

Description

Adalberto Meneses, teacher, and a woman at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Photograph of a school group photo, Beatty (Nev.), 1937-1938

Date

1937 to 1938

Description

A picture of students and teachers in front of the schoolhouse posing for a group photo.

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Irene Cepeda interview, April 24, 2019: transcript

Date

2019-04-24

Description

Interviewed by Monserrath Hernández, Nathalie Martinez and Rodrigo Vázquez. Irene Cepeda is a woman dedicated to serving the Latinx as well as all minority groups in education in Southern Nevada. As a Las Vegas native, she grew up alongside the Latinx community here and is a proud Latina from Nicaraguan roots. She is dedicated to uplifting the Latinx community through her work with the Latino Youth Leadership Conference and college access specialist at Nevada State College. Now, as representative of District D on the Clark County School District Board of Trustees, she seeks to tackle the issues the district faces from acts of White supremacy to a lack of funding for English Language Learner families.

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Transcript of interview with Andrea Chrestensen by Margaret Louis, July 11, 1995

Date

1995-07-11

Description

On Tuesday, July 11th, 1995, Margaret Louis interviewed distance learning student, Andrea Chrestensen (born March, 23rd, 1948, in Carson City, Nevada) at Northern Nevada Community College. During the interview Chrestensen discusses nursing education and her job as a school nurse to kindergarten and grade one students. She expresses her aspirations of becoming a nurse practitioner working in emergency rooms in hospitals. She is a fifth generation Nevadan. Her family was one of the founding families of Nevada.

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Legislative subject files: open meeting details, SB 83, SB 174, Olympics papers, Office of Energy, nuclear waste information, Nevada State Education Association, Senator Neal, Department of Motor Vehicles, Nevada Legislative Record hearing recording and files on the status of energy: optical disc, approximately 1938 to 2005

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Archival Collection

Bob Coffin Political Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01054
Collection Name: Bob Coffin Political Papers
Box/Folder: Box 116, Digital File 00

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Transcript of interview with Pamela Hicks by Elaine Broniecki, February 16, 1979

Date

1979-02-16

Description

On February 16, 1979, collector Elaine Broniecki, interviewed local Clark County School District teacher, Pamela Calos Hicks, (born in Dayton, Ohio, on November 23rd, 1946) in her home in Las Vegas, Nevada. This interview covers Hicks’ recollections of Las Vegas from 1955 to 1979. Hicks’ also lists the addresses of where she has lived within Las Vegas.

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Transcript of interview with Beula Jane Adams by Maureen Beth Conner, May 11, 1977

Date

1977-05-11

Description

Maureen Conner interviews educator Beula Jane Adams (b. 1902) at her home in Las Vegas, Nevada. Born in Smithfield, Nebraska, Adams relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1932. During the interview Adams explores and highlights the role of education in relation to the social development of Nevada. Adams discusses presidential visits, early above ground atomic tests, and her involvement in local politics. Adams also discusses religion and how she became a Seventh-day Adventist Christian.

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Black and white group photograph of (L-R) Judge Robert Reid, Mabel Hoggard, Aaron Williams, Bill Evans (Education), Herschel L. Williams (2nd row), Claude Perkins (2nd row), Theron Goynes, Claude Parson, Helen Anderson Toland, James Pughsley, John Shippe, and Judge Robert "Moon" Mullen

Date

Unknown year

Description

Group portrait: (L-R) Judge Robert Reid, Mabel Hoggard, Aaron Williams, Bill Evans, Herschel L. Williams (2nd row), Claude Perkins (2nd row), Theron Goynes, Claude Parsons, Helen Anderson Toland, James Pughsley, John Shippe, and Judge Robert Moon Mullen.

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Transcript of interview with Joseph Thiriot by Claytee White, August 10, 2000

Date

2000-08-10

Description

Joseph Thiriot is a longtime Las Vegas resident who served the community as an educator. He was born in 1906 in Provo, Utah; one of five sons bom to George W. and Elvira Thiriot. He has vivid memories of moving about, including living in Idaho where his father sold a typing machine , a forerunner to the typewriter. Eventually the family moved to a ranch in Pahranagat Valley, Nevada, where the limits of educational opportunities compelled his paients to send him back to Provo to finish his education while living with family there. Gaining a teaching certificate enabled Joseph to teach in rural Nevada. He completed his degree at the University of Utah and after meeting Las Vegas Superintendent Maude Frazier he relocated to Las Vegas to become a teacher. He reminisces about his life and the changes that have occurred over the years in Las Vegas.

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