Arte Nathan is trained in Human Resources. He evolved the thinking in the casino industry to allow management and labor to work for the best interests of both. Educated at Cornell University, he worked with Jim Wilhelm of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 to develop an unusually profitable relationship that served the casino owner and the people who maintained the cleanliness of the property. “Look, before I got here it was Al Bramlet. I mean the strike of '84 is something that's indelibly etched in all of our minds. The strike in '86 in Atlantic City was much the same. But that type of contentious labor relations is not the future. And there are progressive companies all over the U.S. whether it's General Motors or Ford or Steve Wynn and Mirage Resorts. That's really the story. Are there disconnects along the way? Are there fights and arguments and egos? Of course, there are. But the overriding story of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas between 1980 and 2014 is that they forged a different relationship, a different model that was unique and successful and helped people to live and achieve their dreams. You don't often get that opportunity.” “I'm not the smartest guy in any room. Never have been and I never will be. But I'm willing to try. I'm willing to be open. I have an opinion and I'll fight with my opinion; you fight with yours because two heads are better than one.” He made room for the disabled, ex-felons, and drug addicts. Arte believes that no person is better than another.

Barbara Barrett talks about her life experiences as a nurse, and her education background. She also discusses the Distance Learning Program at UNLV.

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.

Distance Learning Program; part of MS-00784

Ethelda Thelan takes a detailed look back at her long career in public nursing, starting with her education at University of California San Francisco. She came to Nevada in June of 1951, after working at the school of nursing in Charlottesville, Virginia. After two years at the Washoe Medical Center in northern Nevada, Ethelda became a staff public health nurse at Washoe County Health Department and eventually joined the Nevada Nurses Association (1955). She mentions many doctors and nurses with whom she worked in both northern and southern Nevada, and details responsibilities and actions taken by her and others for both public health and continuing education for nurses. Ethelda offers up memories of early Las Vegas, opinions on how Las Vegans felt about atomic testing at the Test Site, her varied work history, and her continuing education business. She also suggests other sources for researching information about the medical profession in Nevada.

On May 31, 2004, Pat Van Betten interviewed Elizabeth Beth Francis (born in Laramie, Wyoming) at her home in Las Vegas, Nevada. The interview covers Beth and her historical account of nursing in Clark County. During the interview, Beth recalls working at Sunrise and Memorial hospitals and teaching at the local community college and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). A mother of four when she decided to enroll in nursing school, Beth’s nursing career spanned twenty-six years, and during that time she held various coveted positions, such as president of the Nevada Nursing Association. She describes her role in securing a twenty-five percent raise for nurses in Nevada. In the late seventies, she was invited by UNLV to be on their task force to talk with them about developing their master’s program for nursing. She was also on the education committee for a task force for the state and the governor’s taskforce. A true leader in her field and a member of Sigma Theta Tau since 1982, Beth discusses being awarded NNA District 3, Nurse of the Year Award, in 1989, and being nominated for March of Dimes, Education Nurse of the Year, in 1990, in Clark County. At the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she describes being one of two nurses recognized as outstanding associate degree students. She recalls delivering the commencement addresses for the graduating LPNs at the community college and UNLV in 1992. Beth also recalls receiving recognition by the Nevada Nurses Association for her outstanding service in nursing.

Mike Lommori, a student at UNLV, interviews Professor Charles Adams, born in 1929 in Joliet, Illinois, about the changes in Southern Nevada over the previous 20 years. The two discuss, more specifically, changes at the university over several years and the way student life has evolved. Adams also discusses some of the differences between Las Vegas and the small town in which he grew up, and he mentions some of the changes in the gaming industry.