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The mission of the Israeli American Council (IAC) of Las Vegas is to support the local Israeli-American community and "to strengthen the Jewish and Israeli identity of the next generation, engage in outreach to the Jewish-American community at large, and reinforce support for Israel." IAC has programs to teach children, college students, and adults about Israeli language and culture. IAC also provides volunteer opportunities and holds a festival and other events centered on Israeli culture and Jewish holidays.

Peggie Jean Gambarana was born in 1927 to Robert J. Kaltenborn and his wife. She worked as a real estate developer in Las Vegas, Nevada, and married Edgar Gambarana. She died in 1986 and donated her estate of $1.5 million dollars to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas James R. Dickinson Library.

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Library Association, American. "News from the field." College & Research Libraries News [Online], Volume 48 Number 5 (1 May 1987). Accessed on March 6, 2020. https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/19348/22607

Cheryl Leonard was born October 31, 1944 and lived briefly in Sun Valley, California before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1945. After attending local elementary and middle schools, she started at Rancho High School during the day, and worked at the Huntridge Theater in the evenings and during the summer.

Martha Drohobyczar was born on November 21, 1951 and grew up in Illinois, three generations removed from slavery. Even though her first college degree was in government and national relations, Drohobyczar found an accelerated nursing program at St. Louis University in 1975 and graduated a year later with a bachelor’s in nursing.

Marty Walsh was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1957 and grew up as the middle child of two sisters. They moved to Louisville, Kentucky when Walsh was 13. After graduating from high school, she moved to Cincinnati to attend college at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Walsh visited almost every state in the United States before moving to Massachusetts, where she met and married her husband. In 1989, they sold their house and backpacked around Europe until they moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1998. The Walsh family bought a home in the John S.

Wendell D. Weart was born on September 24, 1932, in Brandon, Iowa. Wendell had three children from his first marriage: Brian, Kathleen, and Craig. Wendell married his second wife Leanne on August 8, 1981, and they had three children: Heather, Scott, and Randy.

Weart earned a bachelor of arts degree in geology and a bachelor of arts degree in math (1953) from Cornell College in Iowa. Weart obtained his doctor of philosophy degree in geophysics (1961) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Perry Kaufman was born in Casper, Wyoming on September 13, 1942. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri in 1966. He served in the US Army in Vietnam in 1966 to 1967. He earned his doctorate in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1974. He taught history at Burlington County College in Pemberton, New Jersey for several years.

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Kaufman, Perry. “The Best City of Them All: A History of Las Vegas, 1930-1960.” Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1974.