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Description provided with image: "L-R: 1.) Harold Jacobsen, Chr. Bd of regents 2.) Dr. Roman J. Zorn, pres, UNLV 3.) Senator James I. Gibson. Gibson given citation as distinguished Nevadan, May 09, 1973, UNLV." Provided with the image is a copy of a Las Vegas Review-Journal article titled "Help Us Write History."

Throughout his career, former Clark County School District Superintendent (1989–2000) Brian Cram took his father's words to heart. He heard them repeatedly over the years as he watched and later, helped, his father clean classrooms at Robert E. Lake Elementary School: this place—the classroom—this is the most important place. Cram was born in Caliente, where his father worked on the railroad. In 1939, when Cram was a toddler, the family moved to Las Vegas and his father found work first as a sanitation engineer at a hospital, and then at CCSD as a custodian. The elder Cram, who spent his formative years in the Great Depression, prided himself on doing "good, honorable work" as a custodian, because the work—the classroom—mattered. Even so, he wanted more for his son. Cram largely ignored his father's advice during his four years at Las Vegas High School, where he ran with The Trimmers car club, wore a duck tail and a leather jacket, and copped an attitude. Cram's swagger, though, d

Handwritten description provided on back of photo: " Rochelle Hornsby, Muriel Stevens, Sara Saltzman Planning Israel Independence Day 25 years 1973."