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Alma Vining oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01881

Abstract

Oral history interview with Alma Vining conducted by Christine Carrera on April 10, 2006 for the Public School Principalship Oral History Project. In this interview, Vining reflects upon her 30-year career as an elementary school teacher and administrator with Nevada’s Clark County School District (CCSD) from the 1970s to the 2000s. She describes the process by which she became an administrator, her regular responsibilities, and challenges that she faced. She also discusses school district programs such as No Child Left Behind, bilingual education, and school integration.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 05, 2006

Date

2006-06-05

Description

Includes meeting agenda. CSUN Session 36 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, September 11, 2006

Date

2006-09-11

Description

Includes meeting agenda, along with additional information about bylaws and the UNLV CSUN Senate Elections filing packet. CSUN Session 36 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

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Transcript of interview with Brian Cram by Stefani Evans and Claytee White, October 28, 2016

Date

2016-10-28

Archival Collection

Description

Throughout his career, former Clark County School District Superintendent (1989–2000) Brian Cram took his father's words to heart. He heard them repeatedly over the years as he watched and later, helped, his father clean classrooms at Robert E. Lake Elementary School: this place—the classroom—this is the most important place. Cram was born in Caliente, where his father worked on the railroad. In 1939, when Cram was a toddler, the family moved to Las Vegas and his father found work first as a sanitation engineer at a hospital, and then at CCSD as a custodian. The elder Cram, who spent his formative years in the Great Depression, prided himself on doing "good, honorable work" as a custodian, because the work—the classroom—mattered. Even so, he wanted more for his son. Cram largely ignored his father's advice during his four years at Las Vegas High School, where he ran with The Trimmers car club, wore a duck tail and a leather jacket, and copped an attitude. Cram's swagger, though, d

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Mabel Hoggard Papers

Identifier

MS-00565

Abstract

The Mabel Hoggard Papers (1903-2011) contain materials related to Hoggard's career as a Las Vegas, Nevada elementary school teacher, her research and civic interests in Las Vegas's predominantly African American Westside communities, and her engagement with civil rights issues. The collection also contains materials about Hoggard's life, including biographical newspaper articles about her childhood, education, work, and family. The collection includes lesson plans, scrapbooks, awards, correspondence, photographs, and physical objects such as a vinyl record and political pins. The bulk of the collection focuses on her life in Las Vegas from approximately 1946-1989.

Archival Collection

Transcript of interview with Lydia Berry by Kathy Zeller, February 22, 1979

Date

1979-02-22

Description

Lydia Berry, born in Missouri in 1914, is interviewed by Kathy Zeller about her experiences as a worker for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Berry discusses her progression from being a teacher in Kansas City to moving to Los Angeles and then to Las Vegas, where she worked at Nellis Air Force Base and then eventually to the Fish and Wildlife Service. She also mentions some of the operations of the Wildlife Service as well as her concerns over animal life and natural resources.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, July 28, 1981

Date

1981-07-28

Description

Includes meeting agenda and minutes. CSUN Session 11 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, May 23, 1994

Date

1994-05-23

Description

Includes meeting agenda and minutes student organization funding requests. CSUN Session 24 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

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Photograph of Paul Meacham and Harry Reid, January 16, 1984

Date

1984-01-16

Description

Dr. Paul Meacham, President of Clark County Community College (left) and Congressman Harry Reid (D-Nevada).

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