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Clarke, Angela, 1932-
Dr. Angela Clarke was born into a very large family in 1932 in Baltimore, Maryland. She joined the women's Air Force and sfter completing her service tour, she went to college on the G.I. Bill.
Among her many awards, she was given a plaque for integrating Air Force swimming pools. After the Air Force, she attended Morgan State College and the University of Maryland.
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Blankinship, Jerome Goss, 1933-2015
Jerome Blankinship was born in Hollywood, California in 1933 to Herman and Helen Blankinship. Jerome grew up as an only child a in suburb of Los Angeles called Huntington Park. He spent his entire childhood in the suburb and finished high school there as well. Then he went on to attend the University of Southern California. He received a degree in education and wanted to be a school teacher, but after a short stint in teaching at the Los Angeles City School District, he discovered that it was not for him.
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Conway, Debbie
Debbie Conway was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on December 8, 1953. She moved to Las Vegas in 1989 after having lived in Chicago and worked in management for Avon. Conway was elected as Clark County Recorder in 2007. She is the first African American to hold that position in Nevada. She has also worked as a trainer at Levi Strauss, as Clark County's Business Development Manager, and as a producer/host of an economics talk show on KCEP radio.
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Coombs, Joel
Joel Coombs was born in Newport News, Virginia. His parents relocated to Nevada. Joel worked as a jeweler and land surveyor and then got a job building and designing roofs and floors at Truss Plant.
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Broxterman, David
David Broxterman had a long career with the Air Force and was a member of an Air Force association that helped push for an engineering school at the UNiversity of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). As of 2007, he is the administrative manager for the Clark County School District and works on green building certification for the district.
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Curley, Elmer F.
Elmer Curley is known simply as Curley. He came to Las Vegas, Nevada to work in the area of public service for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas library in August 1967.
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Cardle, James A., 1950-
James Cardie is from Brainerd, a small town in central Minnesota. He attended Catholic grade school in Brainerd and a boarding high school in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.
James earned an undergraduate degree at Holy Cross in western Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He did research (physical experiments and numerical modeling) at St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory, created a computer program that was used in the design of many large storm sewer systems
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Carlson, William D., 1914-
Dr. William Carlson was born in 1914 in Sandstone, Minnesota. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and joined the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in 1957.
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