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Cassidy Wertheimer oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Cassidy Wertheimer conducted by Barbara Tabach on June 18, 2020 for The Great Pause: Las Vegas Chronicles of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Cassidy is a math teacher at Southeast Career Technical Academy; she discusses her family, personal history, and her educational philosophy from both a teacher and parent perspective with particular regard to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Subjects discussed include: Southeast Career Technical Academy; Online learning; Online teaching.
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Norman Christiansen oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Norman Christiansen conducted by James Courtney on November 28, 1986 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Christiansen describes his family, and background before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956 from Montana. Christiansen then talks about working at the Nevada Test Site and about his career as a teacher. He speaks about the various changes he has noticed over the years in Las Vegas, including those in climate, pollution, economy, occupation, and standard of living.
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Film transparency of a high school freshman class, Las Vegas, 1912-1913
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Craig F. Swallow oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Craig F. Swallow conducted by Christine E. Johnson on February 29, 1980 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Swallow discusses his personal history growing up in Boulder City, Nevada. Swallow describes life in Boulder City, his education, and important figures in the city. Swallow also discusses his time in the U.S. Army before eventually moving to Las Vegas, Nevada to start his career as a teacher. He goes on to talk about the school system in Las Vegas, how Boulder City has changed, the effects of the Mormon church on education, and race relations.
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Mabel Hoggard Papers
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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.
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Ronnie Fabre recording, 2002 October 22
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Fabre talks about his work as a singer, teacher, vocal coach, art, his mother.
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Collection Name: Arnold Shaw Interviews and Performance Recordings
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Transcript of interview with Nancy Master by Claytee D. White, July 14, 2006
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Transcript of interview with Dr. Fiona Kelley by Lisa Gioia-Acres, March 21, 2009
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Dr. Fiona Kelley was born and raised in Connecticut. Her parents were both teachers (though her mother quit teaching to raise their two daughters), and Fiona recalls the European vacations the family took every summer, exploring castles and enjoying picnic lunches. Fiona was educated at Greenwich Academy in Connecticut and Bard College (dance major with art history minor) in New York. She mentions dancing in Acapulco and California and then auditioning and being hired as a cover dancer for Hallelujah Hollywood! at the MGM in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, she had also become licensed in massage and states that as she was making the transition from dancing to production of dance, she and her husband were invited to China. While in China, Dr. Kelley recalls visiting a hospital which specialized in the treatment of AIDS through acupuncture. This led to a decision to learn Oriental medicine, which she pursued once she returned to the United States. She shares many details of her studies
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