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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Theta Omega Chapter executive committee reports

Date

2003-01-15
2003-02-19
2003-04
2003-04-16
2003-05-21
2003-08-19

Description

From the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Theta Theta Omega Chapter Records (MS-01014) -- Chapter records file.

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Cynthia Mun oral history interview: transcript

Date

2021-03-31

Description

Oral history interview with Cynthia Mun conducted by Vanessa Concepcion and Stefani Evans on March 31, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Cynthia Mun discusses her upbringing near Seoul, South Korea and her family's immigration to Los Angeles in 1974. She talks about her parents' employment as a seamstress and a janitor, as well as the educational mentors she encountered who helped her to succeed at Westridge School for Girls in Pasadena and later at Yale University. Mun shares her corporate employment history, including helping to launch the Pandora streaming service and creating an accessible platform for E-book use before the creation of Amazon Kindle. Mun talks about her career working at MGM International and how this opened the door for her mother to become an MGM employee and access better working conditions with union employment.

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) 32nd commencement program

Date

1995-05-12

Description

Commencement program from University of Nevada, Las Vegas Commencement Programs and Graduation Lists (UA-00115).

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David and Iris Torjman oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02527

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Oral history interview with David and Iris Torjman conducted by Barbara Tabach on November 12, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Iris discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada from the Bronx in New York and meeting her husband. David discusses being a Jewish educator for Temple Beth Sholom. David also talks about working as a card dealer and investing in land.

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Transcript of interview with Charles W. Hunsberger by Stefani Evans and Claytee White, July 27, 2016

Date

2016-07-27

Description

It seems counterintuitive that a man who was raised a Mennonite, spoke Pennsylvania Dutch before he spoke English, and was destined to quit school after eighth grade to work on the family farm would grow up to become one of the most progressive and visionary library directors in the United States. His participation in the Building Las Vegas project results from his being responsible for building twenty libraries in Clark County during his 1971–1994 tenure as director of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. One of his first controversies was to insist on going to high school after his father demanded he quit. After graduating high school he went to Nigeria on behalf of his church, serving there for five years. Upon returning to the U.S., he found work at the Fort Wayne Library, albeit he was limited by how far he could advance because of his limited education. After attaining his library degree Indiana University at Bloomington he served as director at the Columbia City Library

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Nevada Southern University 5th commencement program

Date

1968-06-03

Description

Commencement program from University of Nevada, Las Vegas Commencement Programs and Graduation Lists (UA-00115).

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Photographs of Charles (Chuck) Lee and others, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, circa 1978

Date

1978

Description

Charles (Chuck) Lee, band director (in white), talking to others at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) 43rd commencement program

Date

2006-05-13

Description

Commencement program from University of Nevada, Las Vegas Commencement Programs and Graduation Lists (UA-00115).

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Myra Berkovits oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02152

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Oral history interview with Myra Berkovits conducted by Barbara Tabach on August 21, 2014 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Berkovits discusses her upbringing, owning the Las Vegas, Nevada Menu Service, and working at the Holocaust Resource Center as an interviewer and education specialist.

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