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Jewish Federation correspondence, meeting minutes, and other records, item 19
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Jewish Federation of Las Vegas (JFLV) Board of Directors' Meeting minutes, June 8, 1988.
Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, October 29, 2001
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Williams, Jeanne Maxwell
Jeanne Maxwell Williams was born August 25, 1924 in Scarsdale, New York. Williams married Ed Wilson, son of Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, and left for Las Vegas, Nevada in 1965. Williams worked at The Summa Corporation as a Women’s Events Coordinator. She kept the wives of golfers busy with luncheons featuring speakers like Ann Landers, and David Frost. But soon Williams married Jack Kent Cooke, one-time owner of the Los Angeles Lakers. She moved with him to Virginia where her art career dwindled.
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Jewish Federation correspondence, meeting minutes, and other records, item 41
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Annual report for the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, January 1990-June 1991.
Transcript of interview with Trish Geran by Claytee D. White, April 14, 2015
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Trish Geran is too busy to pigeonhole herself into one role. The activist, author, daughter, engineer, filmmaker, public speaker, and student was born and raised in Las Vegas’s Westside community as the fifth and youngest child of Hazel and Johnus Geran. She and her sister attended Catholic elementary school and Bishop Gorman High School, and her brothers went to Madison Elementary School, Roy W. Martin Junior High School, and Las Vegas High School. In this interview Trish discusses the feelings of not belonging that shaped her world view: she was different from her white, wealthy schoolmates, and as a private school student she was different from her neighbors. She found balance through excelling in sports, drill team, and academics. After graduating from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and cashing in an IRA to work on Barak Obama’s presidential campaign, Trish found out from her mother that the City of Las Vegas was going to close F Street, main link between the Westside
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