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Molasky, Beth, 1950-
Beth Molasky-Cornell was born November 29, 1950 in Florida and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada before her second birthday. She graduated from Valley High School in 1968, and started college at the University of Southern California at the age of seventeen. After spending a couple of years in Rhode Island, where she had her children, she moved back to Las Vegas in 1975.
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Harter, Carol C., 1941-2023
Carol Harter and her husband of 46 years started their married lives by running away from college in their sophomore year. They spent the 1960's working toward their degrees. Harter earned her bachelor's in 1964 and her master's in 1967. Dr. Harter completed her PhD in 1970, and because her husband wanted to work on his doctorate, they moved to Athens, Ohio. She taught at Ohio University while he completed his courses. They lived, worked, and raised their children there for 19 years.
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Taylor, Althia Loreece, 1948-
Shirley Edmond and Althia Taylor grew up on Jackson Avenue where their parents owned Johnson's Malt Shop. Both women worked in the postal service until their retirements; Shirley worked for 36 years and Althia for 32 years. Shirley went into management but Althia loved mail delivery even after 14 dog bites. Mackie Edmond worked for the Stardust and interacted with MOB figures like Frank Rosenthal. He explains why people thought that era was better than corporate ownership.
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Khan, Zia U., 1969-
Born in India and raised in Zambia, Africa, Zia U. Khan is a cardiologist, philanthropist, and AAPI advocate. Khan's father was one of three sons who were left fatherless at an early age when their father died and who were raised by their widowed mother. As a young boy Khan's father did odd jobs to help support the family and, with no birth certificate, made up a birthdate so he could go to school.
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Saltzman, Sara, 1899-1997
Bio information taken from Las Vegas Sun obituary: "Sara Saltzman, a longtime Las Vegan who co-founded the company that later became the Marshall-Rousso clothing store chain, died Monday. She was 97. Saltzman was born Sept. 28, 1899, in Russia. When she was 13, she moved with her family to Cleveland, where she attended school and was among the first women in that city to own and drive a car. She worked as executive secretary to her brother, Maurice Gusman, a prominent Cleveland banker and philanthropist.
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