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University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of News and Publications Records
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The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Office of News and Publications Records (approximately 1964-1995) primarily contain press releases, marketing materials, and supporting documents pertaining to UNLV departments, events, people, and organizations. The collection also includes print orders for fliers, posters, brochures, reports, and invitations for assorted departments and events, as well as photographic prints, slides, negatives, color transparencies, and contact sheets of people, events, and campus buildings. This collection also includes a digitized copy of Nevada Southern University's first commencement in 1964 that was originally broadcast on KSHO TV 13. Additional materials include audiocassettes, reel-to-reel audio recording tapes, quadruplex video recording reels, U-Matic tapes, 16mm film reels, and an 8-track tape.
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Jany Ortiz-Robinson Papers
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The Jany Ortiz-Robinson Papers (1984-2020) contain the papers of Ortiz-Robinson, who has worked in Nevada's early childhood education field for over twenty years. The collection mainly consists of awards and certificates awarded to Ortiz-Robinson over her career, from various organizations including the Economic Opportunity Board of Clark County, The Nevada Registry, Clark County School District, and the Nevada Association of the Education of Young Children. Also included is a copy of her dissertation from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), materials documenting graduation ceremonies, and yearbooks from her time at Moapa Valley High School and the University of San Francisco. A scrapbook documenting her senior year at Moapa Valley High School (1984-1985) contains photographs, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes about her final year in high school.
Archival Collection
Blanche Zucker-Bozarth Papers
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The Blanche Zucker-Bozarth Papers document education advocate Blanche Zucker-Bozarth's volunteer work and activism in libraries, children's advocacy, and women’s clubs in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1963 to 2005. The collection includes records, newspaper clippings, and photographs from her political activism and fundraising initiatives in Southern Nevada. The collection also includes buttons, video tapes, and journal articles on child abuse prevention, as well as records from Zucker-Bozarth's term as president of the Mesquite Club in the 1980s.
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Lyle and Maryann (Timbuck) Rivera oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Lyle and Maryann Rivera conducted by Claytee D. White on May 01, 2009 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Maryann discusses her father and grandfather arriving in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1905, and her mother being the eleventh baby born in Las Vegas. Lyle discusses his careers as a lawyer, a community activist, and the University of Nevada Las Vegas' (UNLV) Vice President for development and university relations. Mr. Rivera also discusses forming the UNLV Foundation and serving as its executive director.
Archival Collection
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Theta Omega Chapter "The Arts" calendar of events
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From the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Theta Theta Omega Chapter Records (MS-01014) -- Chapter records file.
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Transcript of interview with Bruce L. Woodbury by Stefani Evans, September 27, 2016
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As Bruce Woodbury reflects on his twenty-eight years as Clark County's longest-serving County commissioner (1981–2009) he recalls serving with about thirty different commissioners. Surprisingly, "only seven of us got major jail sentences." He ruminates how Federal Bureau of Investigation probes Operation Yobo in the early 1980s and G Sting in the early 2000s exposed several Clark County politicians who succumbed to greed. While Woodbury considers honesty in office a given, his values were not held by all of his colleagues. One Operation Yobo recording caught a fellow commissioner responding to the query, "How about Woodbury?" with, "No, you can't touch him with a ten foot pole." Woodbury remembers his "campaign guys really liked that." Apparently the voters did as well, as he consistently won re-election. The Las Vegas native, who was raised in the John S. Park neighborhood and attended Las Vegas schools, earned his Bachelor's degree at the University of Utah and his Juris Doctorat
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