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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January 26, 1989
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1989-01-26
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Includes meeting agenda and minutes. CSUN Session 19 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.
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Tina and So Lin Kwan oral history interview
Identifier
OH-03805
Abstract
Oral history interview with Tina and So Lin Kwan conducted by Cecilia Winchell and Stefani Evans on November 6, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project.
Tina Kwan and her mother, So Lin, discuss their family's history within Guangzhou, China and the United States. So Lin shares how her siblings immigrated to the United States and sponsored the rest of their family to join them in Las Vegas. Tina, So Lin's daughter, discusses her educational career pursuing medicine with degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno; the University of Arizona; and with a fellowship at Arkansas Children's Hospital before joining Children's Heart Center Nevada where she is a pediatric cardiologist. Tina and So Lin talk about the Kwan's restaurant, the Fortune Inn Restaurant, which was open for 15 years and closed in 2005. They also discuss Chinese superstitions and customs, diversity within Southern Nevada, anti-Asian discrimination, and learning English as a second language.
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Kendall Stagg Collection
Identifier
MS-00447
Abstract
The Kendall Stagg Collection (1998-2000) consists of material documenting Kendall Stagg’s political races in northern Nevada and also details gay activism in Reno. The collection consists of Stagg campaign materials, a t-shirt from one of his campaigns, and documents pertaining to the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Student Union at the University of Nevada, Reno and Gay Pride parade organizing in Reno.
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Fallman, James Mitchell, 1923-2002
James Mitchell Fallman (1923-2002) was born in Lexington, Missouri to Mildred and Mitchell Fallman.
He graduated from Lexington High School and then attended Wentworth Military Academy, both located
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Montano, Mike C., 1937-
Mike was born in Hawaii to Filipino parents. He moved to the mainland with his family
when he was very young. Interestingly, Mike's parents had to apply for citizenship as Hawaii
was not yet part ot the United States. Growing up, Mike worked in the family grocery store in
the San Francisco area. Even though it was his father's dream that his sons would take on the
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