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From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). From left to right is Olea Rowley, Clark County Pioneer Mother of the Year; Lt. Gov. Myron Leavitte; Stella Medina, Clark County Exemplary Mother; Rheba Washington, Clark County Educational Mother; and Jeanne Hood, Clark County Executive Mother in 1979.

Pamela Sitton’s childhood stories follow her construction worker father’s journey from one job to the next. She learned to adjust to a family move at a moment notice, to play in the back of a pickup truck and lived in a series of trailer homes. Finally in 1963, they moved to Las Vegas, where her father worked at the Test Site. For Pam, it was a chance to finish her schooling in one town. She attended the original Las Vegas High School and then UNLV, where she earned a degree in English literature. She recalls the Vegas of the 1960s for her unique perspective—a time of war protests, working a series of part-time jobs from cocktail waitress to post office worker, and her path to marriage in 1973. A position at UNLV’s library had been a dream job that she finally achieved when hired in 1974 as a member of the circulation staff. She held various positions throughout the library and remembers the various library buildings as a student and a professional.