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Interview with Charles E. Violet, May 22, 2004
Date
2004-05-22
Description
Narrator affiliation: Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Interview with Lewis Gibson Miller, September 14, 2005
Date
2005-09-14
Description
Narrator affiliation: Engineer, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo)
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Interview with Robert Elmer Friedrichs, February 25, 2004
Date
2004-02-25
Description
Narrator affiliation: Radiation Safety, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo); Sr. Scientific Adviser, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
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Interview with Fred Ray Huckabee, January 21, 2005
Date
2005-01-21
Description
Narrator affiliation: Supervisory General Engineer, Chief Test Construction Branch, U.S. Department of Energy
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Interview with Fred Ray Huckabee, January 7, 2005
Date
2005-01-07
Description
Narrator affiliation: Supervisory General Engineer, Chief Test Construction Branch, U.S. Department of Energy
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Interview with Linda (Mack) Smith, October 6, 2006
Date
2006-10-06
Description
Narrator affiliation: Deputy Manager Nevada Operations Office, U.S. Department of Energy; Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation
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Interview with John Frederick Campbell, July 23, 2004
Date
2004-07-23
Description
Narrator affiliation: Operations Mining Superintendent, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo)
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Transcript of a narrative by Lucile Bunker, March 10, 1977
Date
1977-03-10
Description
An oral history statement conducted by herself. Lucile Whitehead Bunker (b. 1907 in Overton, Nevada), at the request of Doreen Day, provides an oral history statement about her experiences growing up and living in Southern Nevada. Bunker recalls her first experiences in Las Vegas and Overton and talks about her family, specifically about her mother, an ice cream maker, and father, the first assessor of Clark County. She then speaks about her various positions, including being a secretary at a school and law firm, a schoolteacher, and a deputy county clerk. She also describes her experiences as the wife of former Senator Berkeley Bunker, particularly living in Washington, D.C. where she met several presidents and attended several events with other lawmakers’ wives. Bunker additionally talks about her missionary work in her church and the various locations to which she travelled. She concludes the statement by talking about her interests in china painting, the early above-ground atomic testing, and the building of Hoover Dam.
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Transcript of interview with Fred Gibson by David Emerson, February 13, 2008
Date
2008-02-13
Description
Fred Gibson's family came to Nevada in 1929; moving to Ely, Carson City, and eventually Las Vegas. He went into the Army after high school graduation and then studied Japanese at Yale. After some time in Colorado, Fred transferred to UNR and graduated from the Mackay School of Mines. Fred and his dad organized Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada in 1955. The company merged with American Pacific in 1982 and today, among other enterprises, manufactures drugs at a facility in Rancho Cordova. His brother James Gibson served almost 30 years in the Nevada legislature. As a trustee director of the Nevada Development Authority (NDA), Fred was instrumental in organizing support for the idea of an engineering school at UNLV. Fred worked with people like Robert Maxson, Bob Gore, Jack McBride, Bill Flangas, and John Goolsby. He also teamed with Kenny Guinn to elicit donations from individuals and corporations, and lobbied the legislature to garner support for the school. As a member of the University Foundation, Fred has had a lot of interaction with Georgia Tech, and is trying to get the State of Nevada to approve a Georgia plan. He believes this will help the UNLV College of Engineering reach the level of schools like Georgia Tech and MIT. He also encourages the legislature to allow the university to use unclaimed property funds, but this idea still has not met with approval.
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Transcript of interview with Lilly Fong by Annie Yuk-Siu Shum, February 29, 1980
Date
1980-02-29
Description
On February 29, 1980, Annie Shum interviewed Lilly Fong about her experiences as an educator and resident in Southern Nevada. Born in Superior, Arizona in 1926, Fong would eventually move to Las Vegas after marrying her husband, Wing Fong. Prior to this move, she received her education in both China and Arizona; she later completed her master’s degree in education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). In the interview, Fong talks briefly about her background and eventual move to Las Vegas. She describes how her educational career started at the historic Fifth Street School as a third grade teacher in 1950. Fong also lists several organizations of which she was a part, including the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Fong also mentioned that she and her husband opened their own Chinese restaurant, Fong’s Garden, on East Charleston Boulevard in 1955. Later in the interview, Fong describes her campaign for the Nevada State Board of Regents in 1974 where she would make several accomplishments in the development of UNLV, including the building of its Fine Arts Complex. Fong later talks about Chinese traditions in which she would take part as well as her life in China from 1930 to 1937. The interview concludes with Fong’s thoughts on the Asian Studies program at UNLV and her personal perspective on religion.
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