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Cherina Kleven oral history interview: transcript
Oral history interview with Cherina Kleven conducted by Cecilia Winchell on June 9, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Cherina Kleven talks about her family and childhood growing up in Taiwan amongst six siblings. She shares her family's history and how they immigrated to Las Vegas while she was a teen, as well as her employment history and how she met her husband. Cherina talks about racial and gender discrimination and the obstacles she has overcome to be the only working female in her family, the only woman firefighter at her station house, and the first female Asian American Assistant Fire Chief in the United States.
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, July 17, 1996
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Whitaker, Dean, 1925-
William Dean Whitaker was born in 1925 and raised in a suburb of Los Angeles,
California. Dean, as he is known, talks briefly about his parents and his brothers, for his youth quickly ended when he joined the Air Force and became an aviation cadet once he had turned 18 years old. The year was 1943 and World War II was raging. He became a member of the 398 th Bomb Group and flew twenty missions before being captured by the Germans.
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Gaines, Lovell
Lovell Gaines was born in Louisiana and went to Louisiana State University. He moved to Reno, Nevada after serving in the Vietnam war. Gaines taught for one year and then worked for the Nevada Department of Corrections for thirty-plus years. He was extensively involved in the Reno chapter of the National Association for the Adancedment of Colored People (NAACP). Then when he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1975, he ran for and became the local NAACP chapter president. He served as president from 1980 to 1982.
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Freemyer, Wilma, 1919-1995
Wilma Freemyer lived in Las Vegas, Nevada for 56 years. She was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on February 14, 1919. Freemyer worked as an advertising manager for the Las Vegas Review-Journal for 42 years and was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary Arie 1213. She served as president of the Eagles Auxiliary in 1956. She died in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 8, 1995.
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