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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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Bass, Burt
Burton Bass (1932- ) is a photographer and owner of Burton Studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York and practiced photography from the time he was a child. Bass opened his first professional photography studio in 1962, shortly after he married Wilma Frank in 1960. In 1974 the couple moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where Bass worked for his brother-in-law Ed Frank's check cashing businesses. In 1979 Bass opened his own photography business, Burton Studio. He later added services such as fingerprinting, background checks, and photographs for identification cards.
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Dokter, Betty Ham, 1922-1990
Betty Ham Dokter was born May 20, 1922 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Church was one of the main activities for everybody in school, and she went to every church in town during the summertime. Dokter graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1940. She met her husband at a drive-in and they got married during World War II.
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Dwyer, Kay C.
Kay Dwyer was born August 30, 1934 to James and Eileen Crawford. Her father attained a job as an accountant with Basic Magnesium Incorporated in 1942. This moved the family to Henderson, Nevada, which was a brand new community in the early 1940s. In 1952, Dwyer graduated from Basic High School and then moved to Los Angeles, California to attend Pepperdine University for two years. She moved back to the Las Vegas, Nevada area and started a family with Stanly Hardy with whom she had three children.
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