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"Spirit of AKA" Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority targets presentation summary
Date
2002-07-12
Archival Collection
Description
This a brochure of the AKA Spirit program to celebrate the 60th Boule, including a presentation by 26th Supreme Basileus Soror Linda Marie White.
From the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Theta Theta Omega Chapter Records (MS-01014) -- Chapter records file.
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Marvelys Lopez Omaña oral history interview: transcript
Date
2020-02-21
Archival Collection
Description
Oral history interview with Marvelys Lopez Omaña conducted by Monserrath Hernandez and Barbara Tabach on February 21, 2020 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. In this interview, Marvelys Lopez discusses her childhood and growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, where her father owned a toy store. She attended an all-girls Catholic School and from a young age knew that she wanted to be a doctor. In 1993, at the age of seventeen, she was able to study abroad in the United States for one year and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. She returned to Venezuela to attend medical school and while attending medical school she met her husband, who was studying to be a registered nurse at the time. Lopez Omaña recalls volunteering as a firefighter in Venezuela, and discusses the political change that happened in Venezuela during her last years in medical school. She moved to back Las Vegas with her husband in 2003 and began working as a caregiver. She recounts Her first son's birth story, and describes how she became a Certified Professional Midwife.
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Epilogue: Nevada Southern University Yearbook, 1966
Date
1966
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: Nevada Southern University, Las Vegas, NV
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Photograph of Carl Gray handing Ray Lyman Wilbur the first railroad spur spike for Hoover Dam, circa early 1930s
Date
1930 to 1933
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white image of several prominent figures, in front of a crowd outdoors. From left to right: Governor Balzar of Nevada; Carl Gray, President of Union Pacific Railroad Company; Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior; Governor of Colorado (possibly Edwin C. Johnson). Gray is handing Lyman the first spike to be driven for the spur line to Boulder Dam. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.
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Brookman, Eileen
Eileen (Milstein) Brookman (1921-2004) was member of the Nevada Assembly from 1967-1977 and 1987-1990. Small in stature but nicknamed "Queenie" by her admirers, she advocated passionately for the rights of persons with disabilities, minorities, people with low incomes, women, and especially the elderly. Brookman entered state politics in 1962 when she was appointed Indian Commissioner by Governor Grant Sawyer.
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