John Myron Partridge was an educator and athletics official in Southern Nevada for thirty years. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in the early 1950s and helped found the Southern Nevada Officials Association in 1954. He was the State Commissioner of the Nevada State American Softball Association and he helped organize track and field competitions in Las Vegas and the surrounding areas. He also wrote the book Job Training Opportunities for Young People in Las Vegas, published in 1952.

Johnie Beatrice Sparkman Wright was born on June 8, 1939 in McNary, Arizona. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1941. Johnie is a retired nurse's aide who received her training at Rose De Lima Hospital in 1968. As a native Las Vegan she recalls stories of her youth: Brownies, dancing at Silver Slipper and not being allowed on Jackson Street. She remembers moving to Berkley Square in 1959 and what it was like to live there.