Ralph Graves was a film actor, director, and screenwriter known for his work in silent films. Born on January 23, 1900 in Cleveland, Ohio, Graves is credited for approximately ninety films between the 1910s and 1940s, including the first film produced by Howard Hughes, Swell Hogan (1926). He retired in 1949, the same year of his last film, Joe Palooka and the Counterpunch. Graves died on January 10, 1977 in Santa Barbara, California.
American silent film actor, director, and producer Marshall Neilan was born on April 11, 1891 in San Bernadino, California to Mary Blanche Brown and Michael Ambrose Neilan. He is most known for his work directing early Mary Pickford films in the 1910s. Neilan spent majority of his career working for Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation from 1944 to 1957.
J. Clyde Barcus was born December 27, 1889 in Huntington, Cable County, West Virginia. He attended Pikesville Collegiate Institute in Kentucky, where he studied for a degree in mining engineering. His studies were temporarily suspended, however, when Clyde followed his father Clyde Sr., who operated a coal mine at the time, to Goldfield, Nevada after the gold rush of 1906. Their hoped-for mine never came to be, and Clyde Sr.
Sheila Wexler is a compulisve gambling counselor. She was born in 1936 in New York to Ida and Nathan Freeling. Sheila Wexler married Arnie Wexler in 1961, and after Arnie Wexler experienced years of compulsive gambling addiction, they both began working as compulsive gambling counselors. They have worked presented workshops and training seminars around the United States and internationally, written books, and trained other counselors on helping compulsive gamblers.
Pediatric cardiologist Tina Kwan arrived in Las Vegas as a toddler and attended two private schools before graduating from Kenny Guinn Middle School and The Academy of Mathematics, Science Arts and Technology (A.M.S.A.T.) at Clark High School after being recruited by Principal Wayne Tanaka. After completing University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno, she did her pediatrics residency at University of Arizona in Tucson and her cardiology fellowship at Arkansas Childrens Hospital before joining Childrens Heart Center of Nevada.