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UNLV Alumni Journal, Volume 11, Number 5

Date

1984

Archival Collection

Description

Volume 11, number 5 edition of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas "The Alumni Journal."

Mixed Content

Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project

"The goal of this 2014-2015 project is to build a web and mobile resource that will connect researchers from around the world to thousands of historical items—photographs, brochures, scrapbooks, letters, drawings, videos, and more—detailing the lives and contributions of Jews in Southern Nevada. It will include carefully researched biographies, timelines, and histories of institutions, events, and prominent themes showing the integral roles Jews have played in the history of Southern Nevada.

Corporate Body

Kirsten Searer (Nevada Public Education Foundation) oral history interview conducted by Magdalena Martinez and Taylor Cummings: transcript

Date

2022-10-17

Description

From the Lincy Institute "Perspectives from the COVID-19 Pandemic" Oral History Project (MS-01178) -- Education sector interviews file.

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Cristina Alano oral history interview: transcript

Date

2022-09-09

Description

Oral history interview with Cristina Alano conducted by Cecilia Winchell and Stefani Evans on September 9, 2022 for the Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. In this interview, Alano recalls a happy childhood in Pampanga, Philippines. After attending college for a banking and finance degree, she briefly worked at a bank before marrying her husband and immigrating to the United States. She would go on to move to Colorado where she lived for seven years, and finally moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2003. Alano recalls her first jobs in Las Vegas, including Walmart, SEI Electronics, a cashier at the Riviera, and finally the airport where works as a supervisor at Hudson as well as an assistant manager at Brighton. She discusses what she has done at each job and how she ended up getting involved with the Culinary Union in 2016. Since joining the union, she has done everything from being a shop steward to canvassing, most recently flying down to Georgia to help campaign for Senator Warnock. Throughout the rest of the interview, she discusses everything from food, to festivals, and her family.

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MacDonald Ranch Development Records

Identifier

MS-00892

Abstract

The MacDonald Ranch Development Records (1972-2010) contain correspondence, maps, land assessments and investigations, master plans, and architectural, civil engineering, and landscape drawings primarily detailing the community development process of MacDonald Ranch, a master-planned community in southwest Henderson, Nevada.

Archival Collection

Fernando Romero oral history interview: transcript

Date

2018-10-02

Description

Oral history interview with Fernando Romero conducted by Laurents Bañuelos-Benitez on October 2, 2018 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Barbara Tabach also participates in the questioning. Fernando Romero was born in El Paso, Texas in a musical home. His father and brother were avid music players, and his brother left El Paso to play in orchestra in Las Vegas. Despite not being as passionate about music as the rest of his family, music was Romero's ticket to higher education. Romero attended University of Nevada South before it was renamed University of Nevada Las Vegas. Romero has gone on to be deeply involved in the Las Vegas community. He is the current president of Hispanics in Politics. Subjects discussed in this interview include: Hispanics in Politics, Nevada Association of Latin Americans, and education.

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Letter including Nevada Attorney General Opinion No. 123 from Harvey Dickerson to Thomas A. Campbell (Las Vegas), October 26, 1955

Date

1955-10-26

Archival Collection

Description

Notwithstanding Section 6112 of the Public Service Commission Act, the Las Vegas Valley Water District was allowed to meter water to customers; Opinion No. 123.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, July 14, 2008

Date

2008-07-14

Description

Includes meeting agenda. CSUN Session 37 Meeting Minutes and Agendas .

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, October 13, 2008

Date

2008-10-13

Description

Includes meeting agenda, with additional information about the Senate Statute and CSUN Officer Compensation. CSUN Session 37 Meeting Minutes and Agendas .

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Biographical essay by Jacques Ribons, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Jacques Ribons describes his life during the Nazi occupation of Poland. During the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto, his family decided to turn themselves in to the Germans. They were sent to a prison and separated. He and his brother survived and went to France with the OSE, and came to the United States in 1947.

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