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Transcript of interview with Janet Garry by Elyse Rozinsky, February 24, 1979

Date

1979-02-24

Description

On February 24, 1979, collector Elyse Rozinsky interviewed file clerk, Janet Garry, (born on November 24th, 1927, in Louisiana) at her home in Bonanza Village Trailer Park in Las Vegas, Nevada. This interview covers the growth of Las Vegas from 1952 to 1979. Janet recalls the early years of the television and the telephone. She also discusses her own personal experience of raising a family in Las Vegas.

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Transcript of interview with Emma Ellsworth by Clark Ellsworth, March 5, 1980

Date

1980-03-05

Description

On March 5, 1980, Clark Ellsworth interviewed his grandmother, Emma Ellsworth (born 1902 in Payson, Utah) about her experiences in Southern Nevada. Ellsworth first talks about growing up in Utah and getting married before moving to Pioche, Nevada during the Great Depression. She also talks about bringing up a family in Las Vegas as well as her and her husband’s work in running Beneficial Life, a life insurance business, in Las Vegas. Ellsworth also talks about the Mormon churches in Las Vegas, the schools her children attended, and the number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren she had at the time.

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Interview with Rosemary Lynch, June 8, 2004

Date

2004-06-08

Description

Narrator affiliation: Franciscan Sister; Founder, Nevada Desert Experience, Pace e Bene

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Transcript of interview with Jack W. Zunino by Stefani Evans and Claytee White, August 30, 2016

Date

2016-08-30

Description

Landscape architect Jack W. Zunino is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and president of the Society's local chapter. He has designed many of Southern Nevada's iconic landscapes: the Rio Hotel, the M Resort, the Desert Demonstration Gardens, the gardens at Ethel M. Chocolates, the Cactus Avenue overpass, and most notably, the Springs Preserve. He's also a third-generation Nevadan from Elko, grandson of Italian immigrants who met and married in the Silver State and raised their large family in that Nevada mining town. The product of Elko schools, he graduated from the University of Utah in psychology and Utah State University in landscape architecture while earning his tuition as a road construction laborer. In this interview, Zunino tells of his employment with G.C. Wallace Engineering and JMA architects before founding his own landscape architecture firm in 1989. He speaks to the importance of planners and landscape architects on Southern Nevada's conser

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) 8th commencement program

Date

1971-06-06

Description

Commencement program from University of Nevada, Las Vegas Commencement Programs and Graduation Lists (UA-00115).

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Compositions by Raymonde Fiol, 2012

Date

2012

Description

Biography, essay and poem written and compiled by Raymonde Fiol, titled Pieces of My Life.

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"Just Leroy": article draft by Roosevelt Fitzgerald

Date

1984 (year approximate) to 1995 (year approximate)

Description

From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Drafts for the Las Vegas Sentinel Voice file. On vigilante Bernhard Goetz.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 29, 1977

Date

1977-11-29

Description

Agenda and meeting minutes for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Senate. CSUN Session 6 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

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