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Fisher, Kristene

Kristine Fisher is the Director of Operations in charge of Student Affairs Strategic Planning & Assessment at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Fisher, Kristine. "Kristene Fisher, B.A. - People." University of Nevada, Las Vegas website. Accessed on July 31, 2020. https://www.unlv.edu/people/kristene-fisher.

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Firth, Brian

Brian Firth is the co-founder of the comedy band the Dummkopfs. Firth is a trumpeter, first starting to play professionally at age twenty-one. He played primarily in the United Kingdom with a group called the Nitwits. The Nitwits came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1967 to perform at the Lido de Paris and stayed for a few years. After the break up of the Nitwits, Brian joined the Mickey Finn Band. He played with them for fifteen years before he and his wife Suzy created the Dummkopfs.

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Ferron, Ruth Cooper, 1893-1990

Ruth Cooper Ferron was the wife of William E. Ferron and a former president of the Mesquite Club in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born in 1893. In 1917, she married William Ferron in Salt Lake City, Utah and the two lived in a home on the corner of 4th and Fremont for many years, close to the family's drug store. She is also the mother of Barbara Ferron Doyle and Shirley Elizabeth Ferron Swanson. Ruth Cooper Ferron died in 1990.

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Sidney, Corinne, 1937-

Corrine Sidney was born on April 13, 1937. She attended the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles. Corrine Sidney was an actress, a Las Vegas, Nevada showgirl, and a television talk show host and gossip columnist in Los Angeles, California. She was married to Jack Entratter who produced Las Vegas shows and later to movie director George Sidney.

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Garrison, Elizabeth Schneehagen, 1943-

Elizabeth Garrison was born January 13, 1943 in Las Vegas, Nevada. After graduating from Bishop Gorman High School, she worked at the Southern Nevada Telephone Company. Garrison got married to her husband in 1975.

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Bunker, Lucile Whitehead, 1907-1988

Lucile Whitehead Bunker was born November 23, 1907 in Overton, Nevada. Her family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada when she was four years old, but moved back to Overton so that she could finish grade school before starting high school. After graduating from high school, Bunker worked at a law firm in research for a year so that she could attend the University of Nevada, Reno. She married her husband, Berkeley L. Bunker, on December 29, 1932. She moved around with him while he was involved with politics, even living in Washington, D.C. for a few years.

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