Lucius Blanchard grew up in Ahoskie, North Carolina, and attended the University of North Carolina Medical School at Chapel Hill. After acquiring his medical degree, he joined the military for two years and upon leaving became chief resident for the University of Louisville. While there, he took dermatology training and cancer surgery training in the University of Wisconsin allowing him to specialize in skin cancer surgery.
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Schwartz was born on May 13, 1926 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He attended Colorado Military School in Denver, Colorado and the University of Southern California. He left the university without a degree and went into the merchant tailoring business in Los Angeles, California. After that business went bankrupt, he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with his brother, Seymour Schwartz, around 1951 and started Schwartz Brothers Clothing.
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Dr. Percy Poon was born January 10, 1958 in Hong Kong, China, the oldest of four children. He attended Catholic school through junior high and high school, but decided to work after high school instead of going on to college. After working in banking and police forensics for a couple of years, he decided to continue his education.
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Charlene, née Friedkin, Herst was born in 1946. When she was eight years old, she moved to Las Vegas in 1954 with her parents Patricia and Richard Friedkin.
Charlene raised four children (Hayley, Rochelle, Tracey and Harry) as a single mother, graduated from UNLV in 1995 with a communications degree, and managed to build a career that touched the well-being of the Nevada population in many ways.
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David R. Wasserman was born on December 3, 1944 in Newark, New Jersey. In 1966 he graduated from Rutgers University with his bachelors in Zoology. In 1970 he received his Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. Upon graduation he served two years of active duty as a captain in the United States Air Force Dental Corps at Nellis Air Force Base.
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Irene Bustamante Adams believes in the reinvention of oneself as the path to the future. And since coming to Nevada in 1990 she has proven that anything is possible.
She was born and raised in rural California where she worked the fields alongside her family members growing up. Her mother is a native of New Mexico, with family that dates back six generations; her father was born in Mexico.
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Oral history interview with Susan Mueller McCue conducted by Claytee White on May 7, 2025 for the Game On! An Oral History of Las Vegas Sports project. In this interview McCue discusses her upbringing in Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1960s and becoming a superfan for different sports. After graduating from UNLV with a Communications and Broadcasting degree in 1979, she spent three years at Channel 3 News in the sports department, mostly behind the scenes as an editor and writer id but did sometimes appear on television for brief sports segments. After leaving Channel 3, she continued to have a deep love for sports, especially baseball, basketball, tennis, and hockey. McCue recalls watching professional jai alai at the MGM Casino in the 1970s, the NHL having its first outdoor hockey match in the parking lot of Caesars Palace, and the brief North American Soccer League team in Las Vegas. She also discusses how the more modern teams have shown appreciation for Las Vegas, and how the Golden Knights were forged with a community spirit. Digital audio and transcript available.
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Oral history interview with Mark Brandenburg on October 8, 2025 conducted by Stefani Evans and Bethany Dayton for the Game On! The Oral History of Las Vegas Sports project. In this interview, Brandenburg talks about growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada's Twin Lakes neighborhood. Brandenburg first joined a sports teaam while at Orr Middle School, joining the softball team, and later playing Pop Warner football. In high school, he wrestled and played football. Brandenburg went to Stanford for his undergraduate degree and Hastings College for his law degree. Returning to Las Vegas after graduating from law school in 1979, Brandenburg worked briefly as a camera operator for Channel 13, and then in law for ten years. In the 1990s, Brandenburg bought into the Golden Gate Casino. During this time, he remembers various sporting events happening both downtown and on the Strip. He also recalls that his cousin played for the Las Vegas Cowboys in the early 1960s, a semipro baseball team that played at Cashman Field. Digital audio available; no transcript available.
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