A portrait of Dr. Nel Evans Jeffers, a member of the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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A portrait of Dr. Albert Johns, a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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John Kane, a member of the Art Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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A portrait of Dr Alfredo B. Villanueva, Associate Professor of Political Science, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Ron Textor grew up in Kirksvile, MO shortly after moved to Flint. MI; father was a doctor and mother a school teacher; started piano lessons at 5 and trombone at 8; attended classes at the Stan Kenton clinics at Michigan State University; National Stage Band Camp at Cleveland at the Western Reserve University; started own band at age 14 in Flint, MI; graduated high school in 1965; went to Central Michigan University graduated in 1969 with a bachelor's in music; 1972 released from the army and joined the Glenn Miller Orchestra under Buddy DeFranco; trumpet player Tom Snelson — Phantom of the Opera; The Airmen of Note; Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra; recording at RCA Victor in Tokyo; 50 weeks a year of one-nighters; St Regis Roof in New York City; book by George Simon on Glenn Miller; Medina Ballroom; traveling by bus; rehearsal with Frank Sinatra; master's degree from Central Michigan; taught college at Michigan, Central, and Alma College; Mott Community College; moved to Wisconsin and taught at Mount Scenario College in the late 70 s; General Motors; Genesee County Fine Arts Council; CETA; Detroit Montreux Jazz Festival; 1981 Montreux Switzerland Jazz Festival; North Sea Jazz Festival at the Hague in Holland; move to Las Vegas 1981.
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Folder of materials from the Mabel Hoggard Papers (MS-00565) -- Personal papers file. This folder contains greeting cards, postcards, and letters from Mabel Hoggard's husband, J. David Hoggard, her students, and her teaching coworkers.
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The Southern Nevada school, college, and university photographs depict schools in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1962 to 1994. The photographs depict the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Nevada Southern University before it became UNLV, St. Viator Catholic School, the Clark County Classroom Teachers Association, Las Vegas High School, and Rancho High School.
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Interviewed by Monserrath Hernández, Rodrigo Vazquez, and Laurents Benitez-Bañuelos. A native of Jalisco, Mexico, moved to Las Vegas when he was about 20-year old in 1987. Attended CSN and UNLV. His history with Las Vegas is embedded in the 1980s Las Vegas gay scene and education for AIDS. He is and activist and the Executive Director of Aid for AIDS of Nevada. He and Theodore Small are the first same-sex marriage in Nevada.
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