Ruth Annette Mills was born December 13, 1932 and was raised in Washington, D.C.. Mills and her husband, Charles Mills, lived in Georgia, Texas, and Maryland before coming to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1968. She worked as a typist for the Office of Education at one point and did volunteer work for her church, the Cub Scouts, and the League of Women Voters (LWV). Mills also worked as a clerk-typist for the Clark County School District, and eventually became a teacher through the Teacher Corps program.

William “Bill” J. Sheehan was born March 01, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was brought up in a Catholic household with a credit checker as a father. Knowing he might be drafted, Sheehan joined the United States Marine Corps in the 1940s and then returned home to finish his studies to become an accountant.

William Snyder was born and raised in Easton, Pennsylvania. When he was growing up, he discovered the challenge of architecture first by perusing books in the library and then by hands-on construction experience. His love of art allowed him to build homes, office buildings, airport terminals, and the McCaw School of Mines on the campus of McCaw Elementary School in Henderson, Nevada. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978 with his wife, Joy and raised their two sons. In 2001, The William E.

Patricia Brinton was born on August 29, 1942 in Las Vegas, Nevada to Kenneth Zahn and Elizabeth Von Tobel Zahn. She married Robert Brinton on February 26, 1972. Robert Brinton was a real estate agent and Patricia Brinton was a housewife and a member of the Junior Leauge.

When Fernando Romero (b 1946) started school as a Spanish-only speaker in the barrios of El Paso, Texas, he quickly picked up English, excelled in classes, and proudly claims his Chicano identity. Education came with good and bad teachers, the bad believing they were entitled to pick on the brown-skinned children. These were early lessons for Fernando, who describes his harsher lessons would come when he enrolled at Nevada Southern (known as UNLV today.)