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Lemoine, Melissa (1970 March 22-)
Melissa Lemoine (1970- ) is a teacher at Doral Academy of Nevada and the coordinator of the NextGen program at Congregation Ner Tamid in Henderson, Nevada. She also teaches b’nai mitzvah, conversion, and Hebrew School classes at Ner Tamid. Born March 22, 1970, Lemoine arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1974 and has actively participated in the Jewish community since a young age.
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Ronzone, Ann Barbara, 1913-2007
Ann B. Ronzone LeVau was born October 9, 1913 in Pasadena, California to Mary and Edward Roeth. She moved to Nevada in 1946 and married Richard James "Dick" Ronzone on January 1, 1947 in Reno, Nevada, who managed Ronzone's Department Stores. After Dick Ronzone died in 1989, she met and married Lawrence LeVau, a retired aeronautcial engineer, and continued living in Las Vegas until she died on April 12, 2007.
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Hyman, Stanley
Stanley Hyman (1925-1999) was a district manager at Farmers Insurance and a Navy veteran who lived in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1951 until his death in 1999. Hyman was born August 26, 1925, in San Francisco, California. During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific from 1944 to 1946. Hyman moved to Las Vegas in May 1951 and was active in the local community. He was a member of the Lions Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and chaired several United Fund drives.
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada, United States. The 332-acre campus is about 1.6 mi east of the Las Vegas Strip.
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Gregory, Mollie
Mollie Gregory is a filmmaker and writer from Los Angeles, California. After graduating from the Cinema School of New York University with Bachelor's and Master's degrees, she began her career as a documentary film writer and producer. Her earlier works focused on poverty and women's issues, including Songs from the Fourth World, Off the Edge, Welfare: Exploding the Myths, and Cities are for People.
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Kirkland, Barbara Bates
Barbara Bates Kirkland was born 1934 in Shreveport, Louisiana. On a sunny day in 1946, Kirkland and her mother stepped off the train from Shreveport and onto the Western street of Fremont in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Kirkland’s mother, Atha Toliver, found employment as a maid. Toliver, who was determined that her daughter would get an education and a finer future, saw this as her opportunity to achieve this for her daughter. Later, she opened Eva’s Flower Basket, a floral shop that Kirkland would operate after retiring from teaching.
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