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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, August 19, 1980

Date

1980-08-19

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Includes meeting agenda and minutes. CSUN Session 10 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

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Epilogue: UNLV Yearbook, 1978

Date

1978

Description

Yearbook main highlights: schools and departments; detailed lists with names and headshots of faculty, administration and students; variety of photos from activities, festivals, campus life, and buildings; campus organizations such as sororities, fraternities and councils; beauty contest winners; college sports and featured athletes; and printed advertisements of local businesses; Institution name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Fernando Rocha oral history interview: transcript

Date

2019-11-13

Description

Oral history interview with Fernando Rocha conducted by Nathalie Martinez and Barbara Tabach on November 13, 2019 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. In this interview, Fernando Rocha recalls growing up in Santa Ana, California and in Sunrise Manor in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fernando Rocha is a Mexican professional who is committed to giving back to the Latinx youth of Las Vegas. He talks about his responsibility as a translator in his family with his siblings. He credits his academic and professional success to the Clark County School District and programs such as GEAR UP and Upward Bound. After studying at Hofstra University, he came back to Las Vegas to work with Wells Fargo and is an active community member as co-founder of the Nevada Youth Coalition and work through the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA) and Nevada Promise Mentor at the College of Southern Nevada (CSN).

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Photograph of the Las Vegas High School class of 1929 50th reunion banquet, Las Vegas (Nev.), May 5, 1979

Date

1979-05-05

Description

Las Vegas School Class of 1929, 50th Reunion banquet at the Showboat Hotel, May 5, 1979. Pictured are: Front row: Left to Right: Iris Nay Rester, Catherine Mosbach Phillipe, Jewel French Nolen, Helen Garner Van Waggenen, Frances Martin Donnelly, Doris Kramer Lumsden, Eloda George Lynch, Marjorie Gifford Adams, Emma Jean Potter Schofield. Back Row: left to right: Wendell Bunker, Helen Craner Fuller, Mona Kay Hill, Theo Pockard, Lawrence Higbee, Rowland Haney, Dorothy Buzick Culley, James Down, Lucille McKenzie Down, Elizabeth Von Tobel Zahn, Joseph Phillips, Carol Williams Pierce, Bert Begley, Arlene Stewart Potter, Grace Dimick Barfield, Howard McMullen, Yvonne Lodwick Bartlett, Mary Stockburger Noblittt. Site Name: Showboat Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Transcript of interview with Elaina Blake by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White, September 19, 2016

Date

2016-09-19

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Coming from humble beginnings, Elaina Blake grew up in Port Orchard, Washington, where her father was in the logging industry and she involved herself in the love of horseback riding. After becoming engaged at age 16, she married the following year at 17 and moved to Las Vegas where she started as a statistical typist at the Sahara Hotel and Casino. This led to a position her to become an executive secretary at the Thunderbird where she dealt with the rampant sexual harassment that was typical of the executive office environment in the industry at the time. The rejection of those advances led her to start her career in real estate with Roberts Realty where she sold her first group of homes off of Nellis Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue. In 1976, she made the entrepreneurial move by buying into Roberts Realty, becoming an owner, and eventually buying out Young American Homes. She started giving back to the community through her service as being the first woman elected to president elect for the Chamber of Commerce in 1984 and also served on the Clark County Planning Commission for four years serving as vice chairman and chairman. She did such a wonderful job running the chamber, she was approached to run for Lieutenant Governor. Her involvement with the community increased during this time as she got involved with the United Way, saved the YMCA from closure and started the Focus School Project in 1989 with former superintendent Brian Cram where businesses adopt schools and provide money and volunteer. This project is still in operation today and has given back $8 million dollars to CCSD in volunteerism. During her time with the Chamber, she continued to work with major local builders such as Pageantry Homes, Heers Brothers, and Christopher Homes, which led to her taking another entrepreneurial milestone by taking a small team to create Blake and Associates. In 1996, Blake leveled up to become a developer starting with office buildings. As a champion for the inclusion of women, she never felt held back because of her gender and she always encouraged women in the Chamber to give more of themselves, even if it was for ten minutes because the men did so. In a male-dominated industry, Elaina Blake has been a trailblazer for women in business and the housing industry in the valley.

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