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Geran, Hazel, 1926-
Hazel Geran was born June 11, 1926 in Mississippi and lived in Chicago, Illinois for two years. In 1948, at the age of 21, Geran moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to live with relatives. As so many others, she came to Las Vegas in search of a better job. Hers would be as a keno writer at the Westside Cotton Club.
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Joseph, Katherine M.
Katherine M. Joseph was born December 31, 1931 in Oakland, California. She came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1950 at the age of 19 and was immediately employed at the Elks Club as a dancer and cocktail waitress. Soon after that she joined a dance show as well, which took her to Havana, Cuba for a year.
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Kethen, Vincent, 1964-
Vincent Kethen was born October 31, 1964 in Las Vegas, Nevada, the year that desegregation of schools began. Like many African-American children living in the Las Vegas Westside neighborhood, Kethen was bused out of his neighborhood in third grade to attend a white school. In his case, this meant attending John S. Park Elementary School and later other predominantly white schools.
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Textor, Ronald D.
Ronald D. Textor was born in Kirksville, Missouri, but moved shortly after his birth to Flint, Michigan. He started his own band, earned a degree in music education, and was in the North American Air Defense Command Band for three years. He then toured with the Glenn Miller Band under the direction of Buddy DeFranco. Textor earned a master's in music and briefly taught in several colleges in the late 1970s. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1981 and played with the Norm Geller orchestra at the Sands.
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Claxton, Eunice, 1942-
Eunice Claxton was born in 1942 in Tallulah, Louisiana. When she was ten years old, she and her mother moved to Las Vegas, Nevada for a few years. She attended the Westside Elementary School in Las Vegas, but she finished her education in Reno, Nevada. She lived in Reno until 1974 when she returned to Las Vegas. Claxton worked in a number of different establishments. She worked as a change girl at the Desert Inn and as a cocktail waitress at the Dunes Hotel. She also worked at clubs such as the Cover and the El Morocco.
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Parson, Claude H., 1928-1998
Reverend Claude Parson Jr. was born September 07, 1928 in Alabama and moved to New York when he was two years old. After graduating from the State University of New York at Oswego, Parson enlisted in the United States Air Force and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1951. He met his wife, Stella Parson, and married her in 1953. He worked in the Clark County School District for nearly twenty years and has an elementary school named after him. After retiring in 1974, Parson became a pastor in the Vegas View Church of God in Christ.
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Gang, Roberta, 1940-
Bobbie Gang was born on April 6, 1940 in New York, New York.
Gang married a young future attorney, Leonard Gang, in 1961. Two years later the couple was living in Nevada. She only agreed to move upon finding a welcoming synagogue, in this case Temple Beth Sholom. The couple and their three children spent time in both Carson City and Las Vegas.
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Nichols, Candice
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Candice Nichols, executive director for The Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, was honored for her community service.
Nichols has been a community activist and professional in the nonprofit sector in Nevada for more than 20 years. Her activism began in 1989 when she became the chairwoman of Pro-Choice Advocacy, a coalition that codified Roe v. Wade in Nevada through a ballot initiative in 1990.
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Pinjuv, Mike, 1924-
Mike Pinjuv Jr. was born in 1924 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Both of his parents were born in Austria-Hungary before World War I, now known as Croatia. His parents brought their family to Las Vegas in 1917 and raised six sons and two daughters during World War 1, the Great Depression, and World War II. Pinjuv Jr. attended Fifth Street School and graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1942. He became Nevada’s second registered jeweler and worked for M.J. Christensen for ten years. Pinjuv Jr.
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Gausling, Mike
Mike Gausling started in the casino industry as a slot floor person at the Aladdin in 1976. After about a year, he moved to the Stardust in a similar capacity and in 1980 went to the the Sundance, later named Fitzgeralds and The D Las Vegas. Gausling later worked at the Holiday Casino where he held supervisory roles and then after about 12 years in those roles, eventually assisted in opening the Stratosphere. He would then move to The Mirage where he would start on the floor again before moving into higher positions at that property.
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