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Alice Woodward was born in Texas and graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1930. she married Herbert Spencer Woodward in 1932 in Los Angeles, California. Herbert worked as a miner and the couple relocated to Nevada in 1935. She worked as a teacher in Sandy Valley from 1935 to 1940 and then in Goodsprings from 1945 to 1950. She lived in Goodsprings until her death in July 1972.

Edna Jackson-Ferguson was born October 15, 1897 in Overbrook, Kansas. She married her husband, who worked on the construction of Hoover (Boulder) Dam, on May 17, 1923 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before moving permanently to Las Vegas, Jackson-Ferguson was a teacher in Idaho. On July 1, 1930, the Jackson family made their way to Nevada, but they weren’t able to move to Boulder City until a year later after the town was built.

Allin Chandler moved with his mother from Texarkana, Texas, to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1958 to join his father, who was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base. Chandler was a member of Rancho High School's first graduating class of 1962. He was a teacher, a principal, and Executive Director for the Clark County Association of School Administrators.

Edmund L. Fleming was born October 18, 1915 in Virginia, Minnesota. His parents were born in Ireland. Fleming came to Nevada in the 1930s and worked on a ranch in Pahrump, Nevada. He also worked as a miner, teacher, ranger, and farmer. He lived in Goodsprings, Nevada and Nelson, Nevada. Fleming eventually settled in Las Vegas, Nevada and continued to work in education. He was married in 1941.

Ann Lynch was born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1934. She attended Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas. She came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1959. She was very involved with the girl scouts, the Nevada chapter of the Parent Teacher Association, the Sunrise Hospital Children's Foundation, the Public Education Foundation, and with lobbying in both the state and federal legislatures.