Masons to Lay Cornerstone at UNLV Ham and White Halls
The Grand Lodge plans a 2 p.m. September 11 cornerstone ceremony for UNLVs Artemus W Ham Concert Hall and Juanita Greer White Hall in the Ham lobby off Cottage Grove Avenue. The $10 million project will house a 2000 seat cultural venue and a biology wing.
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Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons
Artemus W. Ham
Juanita Greer White
UNLV
Mark Hughes
Ham Concert Hall
Cottage Grove Avenue
Hughes
White Hall
Ham
Clark County offers fall classes in arts and languages
The Cultural Services Department lists archery bridge cake decorating and chess as part of the fall schedule. Donn Blake at City Hall can provide details. Clark County Community College appoints Richard Gail Atwood as educational coordinator and instructor for the Carpenter Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee. He previously taught architecture at the Clark County School District and was a journeyman carpenter in Alberta. Richard A. Nuzzo will teach an English as a Second Language class at the college this fall with registration September 1 to 3 and classes starting September 7. He has taught English at the Binational Center Colombo Americano in Bogota Colombia and worked in diagnostics for exceptional children at Our Lady of Las Vegas School.
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Cultural Services Department
Donn Blake
City Hall
Richard Gail Atwood
Carpenter
Clark County Community College
Clark County
Southern Nevada Vocational Technical Center
Alberta
Canada
Richard A. Nuzzo
U.S
Colombo Americano
Bogota
Colombia
Our Lady of Las Vegas
United Way campaign features Las Vegas twins as fund ambassadors
Identical twins Jackie and Molly McColl, well known Las Vegas entertainers, pledge to promote the United Way Fund story during the 1976 drive at the Desert Inn. They serve as Ms United Way with Ron Lieber on the campaign publicity committee. The sisters will appear on television and radio and make personal appearances, leveraging their extensive benefit work.
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Jackie
Molly McColl
Las Vegas
Desert Inn
Ron Lieber
United Way Fund
United Way
Ron
Speakers named for USWA convention in Las Vegas
The 18th USWA convention in Las Vegas Aug 29 to Sept 3 features Vice Presidential candidate Walter Mondale California Governor Edmund Brown Jr Francine Neff and Rep Augustus Hawkins among speakers. Abel Morris and Al Barkan also set to speak. Over 9 000 delegates expected with 1 4 million members in 5 300 locals.
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Walter Mondale
California
Edmund Brown, Jr
United States
Francine Neff
Augustus Hawkins
Dcalif
United Steelworkers of America
USWA
Las Vegas
Abel
USW
Joseph Morris
Canadian Labour Congress
al Barkan
Afl-Cio
Committee On Political Education
Brown
Neff
Hawkins
Mondale
Morris
Ravenholt to join Elko public health panel
Otto Ravenholt will serve on a three member panel at the Nevada Public Health Association conference in Elko September 23 24. Also on the panel are Dr John Carr Nevada state health officer and Dr Edward Gallagher Washoe County district health officer. They will discuss public health programs and needs in Nevada.
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Clark County
Otto Ravenholt
Nevada Public Health Association
Elko
Prominent Gambler Robert Pritchard Rites Set Saturday
Funeral services for Las Vegas gambler and sportsman Robert Wilson Buddy Pritchard 56 of 2013 Howard St will be held Saturday noon at Bunker Brothers Chapel. He died Wednesday in a local hospital. Burial will be at Memory Gardens. Pritchard longtime Desert Inn dealer and former Pioneer Club dealer, served in the Las Vegas Fire Department and the Army MP unit guarding Eisenhower. He is survived by his widow Betty two daughters Teri and Tracy a son Troy two brothers and two sisters and two grandchildren.
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Bunker Brothers
Las Vegas
Las
Municipal Judges Hold Peace Talks in Las Vegas
Two Las Vegas municipal judges and the assistant city manager held the first in a series of weekly meetings to improve court city communications. Judge Francis Horsey backed the effort while noting talks covered house keeping and clerks wearing name tags.
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Las Vegas
Francis Horsey
Seymore Bees
Richard Bunker
Robert E. “Moon” Mullen
Horsey
Mullen
Mexico
Bill Adams
Boise
Idaho
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Jewel Owens
Voluntary Action Center of
Greater Las Vegas
Union Plaza Hotel
Cohen and Kellys
Stardust
Voluntary Action Center
S. Third St
Montgomery
Barkan
Frico
Las Vegas Convention Center
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
AFL
Ravenholt
WARDS
Montgomery Ward
Spirit AG Value
East Charleston Blvd
Sun
Timken
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