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Photograph of Holocaust Resource Center's Myra Berkovits, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 31, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center of Las Vegas education specialist Myra Berkovits.
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Transcript of interview with John Brooks by Jeff Kennedy, February 28, 1979
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Archival Collection
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Mary and Don McCullough oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Mary and Don McCullough conducted by Myrna Roland on March 14, 1978 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Mary McCullough discusses living in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1942. She also discusses her career with the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce as a bookkeeper. Later, both Mary and Don McCullough discuss education in Las Vegas as well as atomic testing.
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Della Coates interview, March 18, 1978: transcript
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Archival Collection
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On March 18, 1978, collector Bill Hitchcock interviewed Della Coates (b. June 17th, 1919 in Birmingham, Alabama) at her home in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the interview, Della Coates discusses her time working for the telephone company. She also speaks about the changes in education and about changes throughout Las Vegas.
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Transcript of interview with Linda Rivera by Layne Karafantis, October 2, 2009
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Archival Collection
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Marvelys Lopez Omaña oral history interview: transcript
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Archival Collection
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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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Leonard M. Jessup interview, August 6, 2018: transcript
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“I decided to just keep going, and I devoted my career to higher ed. I wanted to continue putting back into this system that I felt I got a lot out of. Again, repaying a debt.” What began as a passion for playing school sports would later lead Dr. Len Jessup on a path to lifelong service in the area of higher education. From his California childhood he would soon find himself across different U.S. states performing various higher education duties from professor to university president. In this interview, Jessup talks about his grandparents’ decision to emigrate from Italy to the U.S. and how grateful he feels towards his family as a result. He recalls playing baseball in college. In his eyes, being part of several sports teams helped him develop into the person he is now. He describes doing research during at the University of Arizona and speaks to what it was like moving from one university position to the next. Ultimately, his colleagues would recommend that he move to Las Vegas to
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