An Interview with Lovee Duboef Arum

AN INTERVIEW WITH

LOVEE DUBOEF ARUM

An Oral History Conducted by Barbara Tabach

Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Oral History Research Center at UNLV University Libraries University of Nevada Las Vegas

©Southern Nevada Jewish Community Digital Heritage Project

University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2014

Produced by: The Oral History Research Center at UNLV – University Libraries Director: Claytee D. White Project Manager: Barbara Tabach Transcriber: Kristin Hicks Interviewers: Barbara Tabach, Claytee D. White Editors and Project Assistants: Maggie Lopes, Amanda Hammar

The recorded interview and transcript have been made possible through the generosity of a

Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Grant. The Oral History Research Center enables students and staff to work together with community members to generate this selection of first- person narratives. The participants in this project thank University of Nevada Las Vegas for the support given that allowed an idea the opportunity to flourish.

The transcript received minimal editing that includes the elimination of fragments, false starts, and repetitions in order to enhance the reader’s understanding of the material. All measures have been taken to preserve the style and language of the narrator. In several cases photographic sources accompany the individual interviews with permission of the narrator.

The following interview is part of a series of interviews conducted under the auspices of the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project.

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PREFACE

Lovee Arum is the Chief Financial Officer of the Morris A. Hazan Family Foundation and

Director of Hospitality for her husband Bob Arum’s boxing promotion company Top Rank. She holds a Nevada Real Estate Broker Sales License and was a partner in Western Linen (a Las

Vegas linen rental and laundry company) for many years. Arum is a volunteer and philanthropist in the Las Vegas, Nevada community and works with organizations such as Temple Beth

Sholom and the Nathan Adelson Hospice.

In this interview, Arum reflects upon her childhood in Beverly Hills, California, and first experiencing Las Vegas after her father, Morris Hazan, established Western Linen. She discusses adjusting to Las Vegas life after moving to the city with her first husband, Larry duBoef, in 1963, and raising her daughter and son within the local Jewish community. Arum also talks about meeting her current husband, Bob Arum, and her various philanthropic activities, including Junior League, United Jewish Appeal, Keep Memory Alive and establishment of the

Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Interview with Lovee duBoef Arum On November 1, 2016 by Barbara Tabach in Las Vegas, Nevada

Preface………………………………………………………………………………………..…..iv

Shares about family background, maternal side from Ukraine, eventually settling in Southern California; father’s roots in Greece, emigrating to Seattle and moving to Los Angeles. Talks about father’s entrepreneurship; getting into grocery business from young age, then into other industries; frequent holidays to Las Vegas; eventually convinced by Las Vegas hotels to start local linen company, Western Linen. Describes growing up in Beverly Hills………………...1-5

Discusses moving to Las Vegas with then husband, Larry duBoef, and experiencing culture shock; graduating from UNLV with art history degree; getting into real estate; becoming mother to daughter and son. Reflects upon her Jewish upbringing, with both Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditions. Describes what a gett is and her process of getting one to divorce Larry in accordance with Judaism; raising her children Jewish in city and belonging to Temple Beth Sholom……6-12

Considers the role Judaism has played in her life over the years; role of philanthropy, rooted in parents’ values. Talks about becoming involved with local Junior League, as its second Jewish member; her children’s involvement with local Jewish community. Mentions involvement with UNLV Running Rebels during Coach Tarkanian days. Shares about meeting second husband, Bob Arum, multiple times, before eventually dating and marrying..………………………...13-17

Discusses city’s entertainment scene over the years, from fashion to acts, including Wayne Newton, the Rat Pack, Bette Milder. Compares social life in Las Vegas to Los Angeles. Mentions friendship with Carole Bayer Sager. Talks about community service, philanthropic work, including involvement with Home of the Good Shepherd, United Jewish Appeal, Junior League, The Lion of Judah, Keep Memory Alive, Nevada Ballet, Smith Center……………18-23

Talks about daughter-in-law, Heather duBoef, success in starting charity Nevada Women’s Philanthropy; establishment of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Brain Health Center and her sevice on the board. Mentions serving as adviser on UNLV’s Foundation board; her motivations for charity work; the good and bad about raising children in Las Vegas…………..………...24-29

Comments on children working for Top Rank, Bob Arum’s company. Reflects upon Las Vegas’ mob connections, though it not obvious at time; Gus Greenbaum, Moe Dalitz, Jerry Zarowitz. Mentions purchasing home on Pinto Lane from Howard Hughes; later selling to former mayor Jan Jones; home then owned by Andre Agassi and now Brandon Flowers of The Killers…..30-35

Index...... 36-37

This is Barbara Tabach. Today is November 1, 2016. I am sitting with Lovee Arum.

Lovee, spell your name first for me.

L-O-V-E-E, and the last name is A-R-U-M.

And you have duBoef. Now, would you like that name on the book when we—you're going to

eventually get a book with your name embossed on it.

Yes.

And that's spelled?

Small D-U, capital B-O-E-F, F as in Frank.

Okay, great. As I was saying, for the Jewish Heritage project, it's really kind of nice to lay an ancestral roots story line. Do you know much about your parents' background, where they or your grandparents came from?

I do. I know my mother's grandparents were from Odessa and Kiev. Her parents were born in New

York, in Rochester. Unfortunately, when she was about seven years old, her mother died of what they call consumption or tuberculosis, and her father sent her to live with an aunt and an uncle, who was her father's brother, in California. Two years later her father married another woman.

They were going to go out to California and pick up my mother, and she was finally going to be with her father. He was a traveling salesman and fell asleep at night going over a bridge. At nine years old, my mother had no parents.

Oh, my.

So an Aunt Hazel and Uncle Herman raised her. Aunt Hazel was not Jewish and Uncle Herman was. So that's where she came from. She was raised in the L.A. area and she went to USC. She lived a very comfortable life then, even as a child. Her uncle was a builder.

Was she raised Jewish?

She was not raised really anything. That's a very funny question that you ask. But she had an

Episcopal aunt. I have a very good friend that just wrote a book, Carole Bayer Sager, songwriter.

In the first of the book, she said she didn't even know, because she had people that helped her, took care of her, that "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take" was not a Jewish prayer. "I didn't even know it wasn't a Jewish prayer." And when my sister and I were little, we used to get down on our knees and say that prayer.

Oh, how wonderful, though.

That's because my aunt had probably taught it to my mother. My mother taught it to us. When you're so little, you don't even think about what the words mean or what they say or anything; you just do what you automatically do. We always knew we were Jewish.

But it gave you a good feeling.

But with my mother, after she married my father, all the Jewish holidays were at our house with all the aunts and the cousins and everything like that.

My father's family came from the Island of Rhodes.

Where is that?

It's a Greek isle. It's been different things—it's been Turkish; it's been Greek—but it is a Greek isle. It's where many Sephardics went from Spain over through the years to live. There was a big

Sephardic Jewish community there, beautiful temple that I've now visited. I went back with my father and Bob and his wife in 1992 or '3. He took us on this trip. Some of the people that met us there or had been there, they showed us where everybody lived, where his father lived. One lady walked in and said, "This is the wallpaper we had in our house." Obviously, there's—oh, I don't think there's any Jews that live there now. And they kept the temple as the memorial. Our boat

brought a rabbi and they brought prayer things, and so they did do a service there, but it wasn't the

normal.

My dad's father left the family and came here to the U.S. And when he got off the boat in

Seattle, they were mining for gold in Alaska. He was a big man, with big, strong hands. So he went off to Alaska. He got some gold. He went back, brought the whole family here to us. They were raised in East L.A. They were the kind of a family that did not have meat every night. They all worked. And my dad had three sisters.

During the Depression...I remember my father telling us stories that his father would give him flowers to sell and tell him how much to bring home. My father got the knack of going where the “rich people” came out of the theater or the restaurants and he sold them for double. So he from that day always had money, always. He became an entrepreneur.

I was just going to ask, what kind of work did he eventually get into?

Well, he started out with flowers and fruit, and had the produce department. He had the flower and fruit stand and then he bought the meat department and eventually he bought all of it as he started out in the grocery business at Westside Market on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, now called the Roxy. Vacationing brought him here, to Las Vegas. Then he went into a cookie business, like

Mrs. Fields, and he went and invested in real estate. He was just an entrepreneur. He had a lot of

businesses. He did very, very well.

Let's talk about...He came here then—

He never lived here in Las Vegas.

Oh, he never lived here. But he opened a business here?

Oh, yes, he did. When he was younger and made money, we lived in Beverly Hills. We went from

Los Angeles, where it was called Beverlywood to Beverly Hills. I think I was eight years old when

we moved there. My father had a business in Los Angeles; it was a grocery store. It had a liquor

store. It had fine foods. At Christmastime, they made these incredible baskets, which you see

today. He did a lot of business with the studios. So that's how he started that part of his business.

My dad used to come up to Las Vegas with my mother and gamble because everybody thought it was so cool. That's what they did. She'd get all dressed up and they'd get on an airplane and they'd come up here. I think my sister and I came here the first time when I was seven and she was five. I remember their being in the Golden Nugget downtown and we couldn't go in while they gambled or something. I remember there was somebody that was watching us. Then we went on a driving trip through the western United States. But that was the first time I was here and then I

came here often after that.

My father met a lot of people at the Flamingo. He had some cash and he decided he was

going to build a motel. They talked him into building a linen company because the hotel owners

didn't like this Ali—and I'm trying to think of his last name—the people at American Linen. They were the only linen suppliers in town and I guess they were just killing everybody and they didn't like him. So they asked my father, "Would you consider investing in a linen supply company?"

In 1952, my father with three other gentlemen had a partnership; one was in the linen business in California, one was from Omaha, Nebraska, and one was also in the linen business and

I'm not sure where he was from. The one from Omaha wouldn't fly. So every time he would come here, he would have to take a train. The one from Omaha also had some kind of gambling out of

Omaha on a lake.

Well, that wasn't legal, I'm sure.

Probably illegal. His name was Izzy Ziegman and her name was Rose; I remember that. I was really little, but I remember it. Izzy just couldn't bear the travel, so they bought him out. And then

one partner died and the other two were required to buy him out; left two men owning the

business. My father didn't really know anything about the linen supply business, but he was a great

personality and he could get all the business; that's what he did. He never lived here. Neither of

them ever lived here.

But he had investments here.

He had the linen company.

What was the name of it?

Western Linen.

Western, okay. Does that business still exist?

They sold it. I don't think it exists under that name anymore. But the Western Avenue here?

Yes.

You know where Western is?

Yes.

That was named after the business.

I've always wondered how that street got its name.

I think it was called Close Road or something.

Interesting. So how was it to grow up in Beverly Hills? What was your childhood like?

It was great. You took a lot of things for granted, I suppose. We would go on Friday nights to a

friend's house and watch movies. We would ride our bikes. We would go into town and go to the

movies on Saturday afternoons. It was just great. It wasn't like what you might think of.

What brought you to Las Vegas? Tell me how that trajectory happens.

I had just married Larry duBoef and Larry's father had a lot of property here; we thought it was right behind the Desert Inn; it actually was [next] to Nellis. [Laughing] It was up Nellis Boulevard

and the Boulder Highway. But he did have a lot of property here.

Then my father had to buy the linen company from his partner because in those days you

couldn't have competing businesses. It was American Linen and Community Linen bought

American Linen—or American Linen bought Community Linen. In other words, his partner would

have been running both companies, owner in both companies, and he couldn't do that because the

law in those days wouldn't allow it. So my father bought him out and now he's got himself this big

linen company. He had somebody working for him and all of a sudden the numbers didn't make

sense.

So I don't know how it came about, but my husband was in the agency business, television

agency handling actors and actresses and writers and things like that. Somehow or another we

were going to come here for five years and he was going to help in the linen supply company and

check about developing his father's land.

I really played with it whether we should and I never forget asking my family doctor. He said to me, "Lovee, you're so young." I was so young I couldn't vote.

Oh, wow.

That's right. And he said, "What's five years? It's nothing." And here I am; I'm still here.

So the year you came was 1963.

Yes.

What was the city like to you? What do you remember about it?

I remember culture shock. I can relate it to shopping in grocery stores and the department stores.

People would say "extree" instead of "extra." I mean, I can't tell you how I felt when I moved here.

Where did you live at first, what neighborhood?

When we first moved here, we moved into an apartment called Fleur de Lis on Maryland Parkway

right near where the Boulevard Mall is, on the other side of the street, though. We were only there

a very short time because an entertainer lived above us and she worked late, late at night. It was unbelievable. She was always...They'd come home and she'd bring people in with her. It was just an apartment.

Then we moved to the Palms Apartments, which were on Sahara between Maryland and

Paradise. There's a big apartment complex there.

And then in 1964, I guess, we bought a home on Rosemary Lane.

What neighborhood is that in?

It backs up to Rancho Circle.

All right. I know that area, okay.

I remember the house came—they were brand-new housing developments—came with a swimming pool, a washer, a dryer and a color TV.

Now, that's quite a combination. That's great. So did you work at that time?

Well, I hadn't finished my college education, obviously. I was so young. So I went to UNLV and there was nothing; it was one building. There was really nothing that I could take that even related;

I was an art history major at that time. So I got my real estate license and I started doing real estate.

Talk about that. That had to be fascinating.

It was. Talk about it...

Was the market hot at that time?

No.

Oh, it wasn't, okay.

Everybody thought it was. It was a new place. No. There were a lot of older places that needed to be sold. Was it hot at that time? No, not really. Not really.

Then I got pregnant, had my daughter, then had my son. I played a lot of tennis at the Las

Vegas Country Club. Ended up getting into philanthropic things, which is really where I base my

life; that's what I've done mostly even at the school when they went to Wasden Elementary. It was

called West Charleston at that time. Whether it was with the PTA, I was always involved in

something that kept me busier than a full-time job.

But there was a point when I did go back to the real estate and that's just about the time

Spanish Oaks opened. I don't really remember what frame it was of time.

So talk about your Jewish upbringing.

My Jewish upbringing...When I was eight or nine years old, we joined Temple Israel of

Hollywood, a reform temple in L.A.. Prior to that, my father being Sephardic, we would

occasionally go with him, very occasionally, to synagogue down at the temple and that was down

in East L.A. at that time. That was more of an orthodox temple, and so it wasn't something that we

did very often. My dad would go if he had to go for whatever the holidays were.

We had all holidays at our home—Passover, Hanukkah—whatever there was. My father

had three sisters and they had children and our home was always the center of all of those

activities. A lot of it had to do with the food because they made different foods; the Sephardic

foods are different. So I'm half-and-half; my mother's Ashkenazi and my father is Sephardic.

Most of my friends were Jewish. In the school when it would be a Jewish holiday, there would maybe be three, four kids left in class. They didn't close the schools then. Well, they still don't here.

No.

No. They do in New York.

Yes.

I wasn't bat mitzvahed. I went to Sunday school for many years and then I went to confirmation class and I was confirmed at age fifteen, I think it was, with a group. Bat mitzvahs weren't very

common then.

No.

Not at all.

That's more of a recent phenomenon.

Yes.

Like the last thirty years maybe or so, yes.

Both times I married Jewish men, both times with a rabbi. I had to get a gett from my first

husband.

For someone who listening to this and doesn't know what a gett is, could you explain what

that is?

It's a Jewish divorce. And the rules of a Jewish divorce are that the man divorces the woman; the

woman does not have the right to divorce the man without his permission. I didn't know the first

thing; I had never heard the word gett. And my good friend Susie Molasky when Larry duBoef and

I got a divorce—and it was an amicable divorce—when we got the divorce, she said, "Lovee, go get a gett." I said, "What are you talking about go get a gett?" She said, "Call the rabbi and go and do it now. You never know; you might want to get married; something might happen." "I'm never getting married again." [Laughing] I just want to live, you know.

Anyway, I called the rabbi at the time and they gave me a form and Larry gave his power of attorney to a rabbi. Then from the Temple Beth Sholom here that was down on...St. Louis?

Oakey or...Yes.

Yes, something like that. And on 16th. They told me I'd have to get it in L.A. because they didn't

do those things here. The main place was in Los Angeles. I got that divorce, that gett in 1989, I believe. I went to this place and there were three or four rabbis and one [acts] as your husband and you have to walk around him so many times in a circle. And they take what was your ketubah from your marriage and they tear it up. It's really something to do. It really was an experience. I just had never...I never anticipated any of it. But I did it and I walked out of there.

It's interesting because I cried when I left. I just had that emotional feeling. Even though I was happy getting the divorce and very happy with my life—and I did not have anybody in my life, but it was just...It was the right thing to be doing.

So it's a very ritualized ending to that relationship.

Totally is what it was, yes.

And you had two children.

We had two children, both born at Sunrise, one in '65 and one in '67. They were completely raised

Jewish. They started Sunday school at Beth Sholom and the whole deal.

So explain...I'm familiar with Ashkenazi and Sephardic. I've never met anybody who...They

[have] two distinctive ways of celebrating the holidays? Is that...?

Yes. But I was so young when I got married and I moved here when I was so very young and my husband was from the Ashkenazi side and for the first few years that we lived here we did all of our holidays in L.A. So we would either be at his mother's or my father's. We had a much bigger family and my father had a much bigger house. So we were usually at my father's. And if we were at my father's, they made like Sephardic food and things like that, like things that you had, borekas. Do you know what that is?

No, I don't know what a boreka is.

It's phyllo dough and it has spinach or it has potatoes in it.

Oh, okay. I would like that.

Yes. And then there's these pastellis they're called; they're little round...They can have meat in

them or rice or something like that and it's dough.

Kind of like a pierogi?

I don't know.

It's a Polish thing.

Maybe. I think they all relate.

They do. So that's more Sephardic?

That was Sephardic, yes. I didn't eat a lot of the food, but I don't like either kinds of Jewish food.

I'm just...I like mayonnaise and white bread. [Laughing] Lettuce and tomato on it, a piece of Swiss

cheese.

So you didn't keep kosher, I guess.

No. Bob did, you know. Bob's family. Did you know that?

I think he told me that, yes.

Oh, yes. He was raised...He hadn't been to a restaurant, I think, until he went to college or something. Once in a great while they would go to a kosher restaurant. But, no, he was definitely raised orthodox.

My first husband's family, they weren't orthodox and they didn't keep kosher, but they were very traditional. His father had studied at a Shiva. So they walked to temple. And it was not a reform temple, which I was used to; it was probably either conservative or something like that.

How did you choose how you were going to raise your children?

Well, we only had one temple here. We had no choice. I really would have preferred it—I still would—prefer to go to a reform temple, but I've always had...I've been to this one. And it was very

interesting because my little boy, my son at the time, Todd, when he was going to be ready for bar mitzvah, right behind us was Ner Tamid. They went into this...Across the school. I don't know what it was originally, Salvation Army or something like that. That's where they started their temple before they got the property out in Henderson. I said, "Why don't we go here? It's right behind us and you can learn." "I want to go to the temple that we always go to." Because the kids, they've had some feeling.

It was a community.

So when you moved here did you immediately join the temple?

No, I didn't. Not at all. We went back for the holidays. Then I came here and I was sick and I couldn't go back home for Yom Kippur. So my ex-husband went over to the temple and bought two tickets for us to go to synagogue.

That was the beginning of...

And that was it.

[Pause in recording]

So both kids were raised at Temple Beth Sholom. Did your daughter have a bat mitzvah?

No.

What part of town would you associate with your roots here in Las Vegas?

The west side, really around where Rancho Circle was, in that area. I lived there for twenty years.

That's where I raised the children. They went to school there, et cetera.

Then when I met Bob he was living in a town house over here. I asked him, because we were going to sell our big house over there—we had a fabulous home—and I asked him, "Why don't we just buy this home from Larry? I would only have to buy half." And Bob didn't want to

live in the house where I raised my kids. Everybody in the community, all of our friends—I always had that kind of a personality that everybody came to our house; I had eighty people for break-fast here this year.

Wow. That's a lot of people.

That's a lot of people, yes, and I do things like that.

You do things in a grand way, an elegant way.

Not always, but...No. But who do you leave out when it's break-fast, the person sitting behind you who knows you're doing this?

That's really cool. So how do you think being raised Jewish, what kind of impact did that have on your life and the things that you did choose to do?

It really didn't because all my contemporaries were the same; we were all raised Jewish. I didn't know anybody that was really, really orthodox. We went to Sunday school together. We went to the boys' bar mitzvahs together. And I just knew how I would raise my life. I don't do Sabbath dinners. I don't light the candles. I did with my first husband for a while because his mother did that. I did it for a while and then I just didn't because that's just not the way I was raised or that we lived.

Do you think your interest in philanthropy is rooted in your Judaism?

I think my interest in philanthropy—absolutely not—came from my father and my parents.

Tell me about that.

He was very philanthropic going back to the days, I guess, before I was born even. During the war, the Second World War, he couldn't go to war. He had asthma and was color blind and everything else was the matter and he had this grocery store on Sunset. So I've seen posters of him with a chef hat on. He would do big spaghetti nights for all of the soldiers, going back that far. Then it was

always one project or another project or something he cared about. The Sportsman Club that did the City of Hope, he was the first one to start this diamond thing where everybody gave a thousand dollars and they got a little diamond pin and they were part of the Diamond Circle. Things like that. So I was just raised as part of it. He always gave to the UJA [United Jewish Appeal] and he always did bonds for Israel. So it was just part of my life.

Yes, and that's part of the Jewish culture, it sounds like.

Definitely. But we belonged to Hillcrest Country Club in L.A. and when they had the Six-Day War or something, they had a big bond drive at the country club. So it was just part of our lives. I never thought about it. And I really didn't see a lot of anti-Semitism when I was little.

Why do you think that is? Have you ever thought about that? Was it because it was highly dense population of Jews?

Possibly.

How about in Las Vegas, ever observe anti-Semitism here?

Not directly, but I knew that there were—well, I was the second Jewish member to what is now called Junior League.

Really?

Really. At that time, you were invited and you didn't know you were being scrutinized. They take you to a tea or something. People used to do those kinds of things. Lois Levy was the first Jewish girl that went in. A lady by the name of Corky Moss was. She was Mel Moss' wife. She was actually president of the organization. But she wasn't Jewish; her husband was. They lived in the house that Phyllis McGuire lives in today at 100 Rancho Circle.

I know where that house is, yes.

Isn't that funny?

Yes.

Her name was Corky Moss. But Lois Levy was the first one to go in and I was the second. I remember—I don't know if I was pregnant or if I had just had my second child—and I remember sitting in my living room and getting this invitation and Burton Cohen—I don't know if you know who—

Yes.

You know who Burton is. So Burton was there at our house. He was married to somebody else at the time and it was at my smaller house on Rosemary Lane. I said, "Oh, my God, I know that this requires an awful lot of work and I have two children and..." And he looked at me and he said,

"You have to do this for your people."

Wow.

It was a really big deal then. There were the Von Tobels, all of the names that were early Las

Vegas.

Wow. And to know that...that's significant just being aware of it.

Being aware of it. Well, yes. In fact, that's why I chose to bar mitzvah my son in Israel, because we knew everybody here. So you'd end up with two hundred people or something. Majority of them were not Jewish. So this was when I changed my culture was when I moved here.

Interesting. Now, your kids, are they involved in the Jewish community as the next generation?

Interestingly, my daughter has her little one—she has a baby that will be two in January and she married a man that comes from a strong faith. My daughter is involved at Beth Sholom, not so much on the Sisterhood or anything like that, but with the kids and the temple. I have all eight seats at the High Holidays and they all come and sit with me.

That's nice.

Yes. We do all of that and have the dinner before.

Kids tend to get you reconnected if nothing else with a religion or your own religion it seems.

Bob really...Bob wouldn't miss a Yahrzeit. He goes to synagogue at seven thirty in the morning.

He knows the holidays and all that kind of stuff. He never eats shellfish or pork, ever. I think...Yes.

Well, they basically got it from their birth; it was just expected of them.

So tell me about meeting Bob. You two have been married since when?

Ninety-one.

Ninety-one, okay. So how did you meet?

The first time I ever saw him was in synagogue at Rosh Hashanah and I went with my ex-husband,

Larry duBoef, and sat in our seats and he introduced me to this man Bob Arum. All I knew is that

Bob sometimes had fighters or did fights in Las Vegas. I was very instrumental with the UNLV

Rebels when Tarkanian...All through that period.

You were part of the Gucci Girls, is that what...?

Gucci Row.

Is that it? I think Susan showed me photographs of that.

Of us as Gucci Row. Yes, we were.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to embarrass you on that.

That's okay. That was a ridiculous name. But, yes, I was that. My ex-husband, Larry, did a radio show with Jerry Tarkanian and we were very involved with the team. So we did their end-of-the-year party and whenever we needed to raise money. I did the uniforms for the little girls that...

Oh, yes?

Yes. I had Larry duBoef—we were in the linen business. So we found somebody to make them.

Then I ordered silver pom-poms for hundreds of people. I mean, don't ask. We were really into it then.

That had to be fun that whole era.

It was the best.

Everybody wants that era back.

The best. I know. My girlfriend Elaine Wynn...Oh, I mean, we lived it, we ate it, we breathed it.

We went to every game. We all got on a plane and went somewhere. It was very exciting times.

Oh, yes. When I first moved here, they just raved about that.

So then Larry and I separated during that period. I was in California and we separated and then we did get a divorce. Then after we were divorced that Rosh Hashanah, which would have been the

Rosh Hashanah in '89, he introduced me to Bob Arum and I said, "We have a mutual friend,

Arlene Walsh." Who is my girlfriend from grammar school in L.A. and she was living in New

York and her husband was Neil Walsh and he was a friend of Bob's. She said to me, "This guy is coming out to Vegas. Have you ever met him?" And I always said, "No." "Did you go to the fight?" "Yes, but I never met him; I don't know who he is."

So when my ex-husband introduced me to him, I simply said to him, "We have a mutual friend, Arlene and Neil Walsh, and she's mentioned you before." That was it. We never spoke. End of story.

My father and I are back east because my son is playing hockey in college. It's almost his last year. She bumped into Bob and she knew that my father and I were coming for dinner in a couple of days. It was in February. So she said, "Bob, I have a friend you might like to meet." But just because he had moved to Las Vegas and she knows that I lived in Las Vegas and she thought

maybe it would be just not fixing us up, it would be a fun dinner.

I was living in L.A. at that time. I had gone and lived there for...two and a half, three and a

half...about four years. I still had my home here and I would come back, but I really lived there.

So I said, "Sure, fine." So my dad and I, and Arlene and her boyfriend, went to dinner, and

that's how I met him. Strange how life happens.

So you had gone to fights already. So you had some knowledge of boxing.

Oh, please. Billy Weinberger used to give us the tickets to see Hagler, Hearns, Leonard, all those

fights, yes.

What was the social life like in that era other than the basketball games and all of that?

Oh, it was fun. There was much more of a community—well, I don't know because I don't know if our life is more isolated because we travel so much and I'm married to Bob who didn't start out here. But in those early days, yes, there was a lot of social around the basketball. There was...Wayne Newton, for example, when he would open, we would all put on gowns and go to his opening. When the hotels would invite us to the opening, we were dressed to the nines and we'd go to these openings. If we went to a charity dinner that probably wasn't the most exciting. We had a

great group of social friends and we'd go—I don't know—we'd end up in the coffee shop at two in

the morning or something like that having breakfast. We dressed a lot more than we do now. It was great times. It was a lot of fun. Here we were raising children, going out at night, doing whatever the work is that you did during the day.

What were some of the entertainers that you most enjoyed going to listening to or see?

Well, the first one you want to see when you moved here was the Rat Pack; that was number one on my list. That's something that you just had to experience. Then truthfully, I had seen so many entertainers that when friends started coming, we got them tickets to the show and didn't go. I

mean, it's like...you know.

Been there, done that.

Yes. Loved Bette Midler. Subsequently, she's become a good friend of mine.

Wow. What is she like?

She's great. She's Jewish.

Yes.

But she really wasn't raised Jewish. She was raised in Hawaii and never practiced a lot of the

things that we do.

How did you get to be friends?

She was coming to do the thing here at the Caesars and we were introduced in L.A. I had met her a

few times. I said, "Well, if you come, I'll take you around." She thought she was going to rent a

house because it was a two-year gig that she was going to do and she really didn't want to live in

the hotel. This is in the big room, when they built the big theater there where Elton John and Rod

Stewart and everybody plays. So we just became friends.

I guess I didn't remember or know that she had an extended stay here.

She definitely did. She hated it.

She hated it?

She hated it.

Oh, that's too bad.

I've never loved it. I have a great life, great kids. Yes. I'm a big city girl, I think.

Has the city gotten—it just hasn't gotten big enough for you?

Oh, it just gets big in size. Let's talk about if you go to a restaurant—and I don't even live in L.A.;

we have a home there—but if we walk into a restaurant in L.A., the chances are we're going to see

somebody that you know, you chat with, whatever. If you go to a restaurant here, it's all tourists.

You hardly ever see...except for Cafe Chloe where it's all locals. It's just a different environment.

That's all.

Not as cozy or neighborhood feeling.

It's not even neighborhood. It's just city. In L.A., you go to a restaurant and you always see people

that you know. It's just different. And they have a lot of home dinners in Los Angeles. I used to do

home dinners, but very few people do them here now, home dinner parties. Everybody goes to a

restaurant.

I wonder why that is.

I don't know. Because it's easy. It's a lot easier.

The other person you mentioned at first is Carole Bayer Sager. How did you get to be friends

with her? I just saw her interview recently.

Because she just did a book that's fabulous.

That's it, yes.

It's a great book.

[Pause in recording]

I have a great life.

You do have a great life and it's nice to hear you say that. So Carole's book is good. I should read it.

It's terrific.

I'm a big fan of hers.

I might have one. I'll look and see before you leave.

All right. That's kind of you. So philanthropy, I think that's amazing for a person to have the

wherewithal to do that.

I didn't have the wherewithal when I started, of course. We stayed first at the Riviera Hotel and

then we moved into the apartment. My father was at the Sands Hotel while he started working on

this. I met a gal; Carolyn Freedman was her name and her grandfather was Jakie Freedman, Sands

Hotel. He started the Sands Hotel. Her grandfather had died and her grandmother was living at the

Sands; they built an apartment for her. That's when Jack Entratter was still at the hotel. She told me

about—well, two things happened.

One, somebody gave her tickets to sell sixty-two fifty, which was ten cents a day—or I

don't know what it was. That wouldn't be right. Sixty-two fifty or thirty-six fifty. Anyway, it was for a luncheon for UJA. That was the first thing. So I sold tickets with her. Anybody that I knew, that my father knew, I would sell tickets for this luncheon.

Then the second thing that happened is I met this gal and she was involved in the Home of the Good Shepherd. It doesn't exist anymore. It was on Twain. It was for girls that were not pregnant and were not to go into any kind of a jail facility, but that were in those teen years. The sisters ran the home.

Those were my first two projects and then things just happened from there. Like I said, I went into Junior League, Junior Mesquite. Variety was a big organization here at that time.

How do you make a decision about your generosity? I'm sure you get—because once you give to one organization, another organization is going to ask you for it.

And will tell you that we could get this many in a mail in a day. How do I make my decision? I always consistently give to whatever the women's division of the UJA, which is...What do they call it now?

It's not Sisterhood.

The Lion of Judah, I would always support that. I would always support our temple. My father

died of Alzheimer's. So I've really been working on the Keep Memory Alive, which is the Lou

Ruvo Center for Brain Health, which will really ultimately change medicine in Nevada because the

Cleveland Clinic is amazing, really amazing.

When it was Nevada Ballet Theatre, before it was Nevada Ballet I think is what they call it,

I had a friend, Nancy Houssels, and she married Kell Houssels, Jr. She had been an adagio dancer at the Trop. She was determined to bring some culture here. I was twenty-six years old because I started ballet lessons then; that's how I remember.

You started at twenty-six?

Well, I had done other dance, but not necessarily ballet. I went and I worked out with some of the showgirls. That's how we started the Nevada Dance Theatre because it was the showgirls that would come and do the performances. They couldn't pay hardly anything or very little. Vassili

Sulich was the director at the Tropicana, and Nancy had married Kell Houssels, who was owner of the Tropicana. So through them and a few other families, they started this. I had just joined Junior

League and I presented that to them as a project. Things just evolve for one reason or another.

Were you looking to establish a higher level of “culture” in Las Vegas?

Definitely.

Because that is one of the things when you talked earlier about where you're going to shop or get your hair done.

There was nothing. Even when my children were little, we'd go and we'd stay at my dad's in the summertime and we would go to a baseball game and we would go to a show and we would go and see a concert. We had to do everything. They would taste food from Marrakech and Chinese food. I just felt they needed to be more well-rounded, and I couldn't get it here; it was not possible.

What about the Smith Center? Were you excited when that opened?

We're founders of the Smith Center.

That's right. You are. How was that project to get going? I love theater and that was the thing that I missed.

Nancy Houssels and Don Snyder did an amazing, amazing job. They really did. A fantastic job.

One of the smaller projects that we are hoping to incorporate into our Oral History Research

Center is more specifically about the Smith Center. I'm not sure who contacted our office about that. So you may hear back from us again. That's really amazing. That's a great facility. You should be quite proud of that.

It's a great facility.

What are some of the other things that you're most proud of that you've touched in Las

Vegas?

Oh, boy, I don't know.

It sounds like you've done a lot.

I did do a lot. Junior League was interesting because it really gave me an incredible insight into

Las Vegas. When I was active—and I was active a very long time because they changed the rules;

I went in in my twenties and you should have after seven years been able to go sustaining, but they changed the rules that you couldn't go sustaining until you were forty. So I did a lot of thrift shops and I did a lot of everything. But through that...It's like Child Haven, all these different things that

I've been involved in through the years...I first came to know them through that.

Then I have to tell you my daughter-in-law, Heather, started something ten years ago.

This is Todd's wife.

Yes. The eleventh year. Heather and a couple of girls were flying to San Francisco and she had—

when they had this Las Vegas Art Museum that closed by the library?

Yes.

They had asked her to do a fundraiser, [and] she accepted it. Mason, my grandson was a little boy;

he was five years old. She realized that none of the money was going for the children; it was only

going to sustain salaries and things like that. She was furious. She said, "I want to know where my money is going. I want to feel it and know it." Bob and I will buy a table and all they can do is buy a silent auction item because they can't afford the table." So she and five other girls, including

my daughter, Dena; her sister, Tawney, from Los Angeles; Marcelle Fry; Trina Pasquel; and Dana

Lee; they all started this organization called Nevada Women's Philanthropy and in these few years, they've given away over four million dollars. It's money in, money out. Everybody pays the same amount. Everybody gets one vote. They were hoping to get...I don't know how much the first year...raise a hundred thousand dollars; that would have been twenty women at five thousand dollars that they would then donate to something. They patterned this after something called Every

Child that had just started in Los Angeles, but Every Child was specifically for children's things. It is fabulous. They learn about all the things that are going on here. The agencies apply to us for grants. They have a committee that vets them completely. Then they have a committee that studies them. There's so many questions to ask before you give money. Now we have given every year at least three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The first year was one-eighty to fit; when they wanted a hundred, they ended up with a hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

Oh, wow.

It's been just amazing. They had a friend-raiser here when I was away last week. My daughter was the hostess for me. They have six new members. So we're into the high nineties. When it reaches one-ten, we close it, and that allows them to give away five hundred thousand dollars a year. They

pick two finalists and then all the members vote.

What kind of organizations apply for that?

Various. Help of Southern Nevada. The Salvation Army needed a new roof. Communities in

Schools. I can get you the list.

That's great.

I'll ask Ann because I know we have it in there.

And your daughter-in-law is Heather.

Heather duBoef. She's still the chairman of the board—she had a succession plan after four years.

She knew she needed a succession plan, which she had. The woman that started Every Child in

California—they give away one million dollars a year; they have two hundred and some

members—she's been president for seventeen years.

Oh, wow. That's a long time.

Yes, that's a long time.

Very long time. Well, good for them. That's great. I'm glad to hear about that.

I sat on the board, I think, for fourteen years, of Keep Memory Alive, which is the Lou Ruvo

Center for Brain Health.

That was monumental for that to open here. I too have...My father passed away last year of

Alzheimer's and my mother has dementia of some other sort.

My dad did, too.

I have a grandmother who had dementia and Parkinson's disease. There's got to be a way to

figure out a solution to this.

Right.

How did it happen that Cleveland Clinic became involved? Tell the story of the Lou Ruvo

Brain Health Center.

When Larry Ruvo's father died of Alzheimer's, they were all sitting upstairs; some people were sitting up there in Spago, the original Spago that's in the Forum Shops. They were just chatting about him and one man said, "Here, take this money; start something for Alzheimer's." And one thing led to the next. Originally it was going to be a home because he was talking about how difficult it was for his mother taking care of this man all those years.

Originally the money was for research because this was the man that was his father's doctor. "Don't give me the money." "You need something in Vegas." So it evolved. It really did evolve.

We made a deal with UNLV and they were planning on having a medical school coming here. They were going to operate the medical facility and there is one doctor that was there that was handling brain injuries and brain things and he was very instrumental in it. They were going to put together a great force and everything was fine. Shortly before the building was almost complete, UNLV pulls out.

So that wasn't good.

So we got on an airplane and we went to—oh, Toby Cosgrove came here to Las Vegas to look to expand Cleveland Clinic. He was looking in the urinary department to begin with. Somehow or another, he met Larry. Larry said, "I want you to see what we're building." He said, "Well, the only time I can go is six o'clock in the morning on such-and-such a day." He met him there at six o'clock in the morning. And when he saw what Larry was doing, Dr. Cosgrove thought this would be unbelievable.

So we all went to the University of Pennsylvania because they wanted us and they have one of the top Alzheimer's research departments in the country. UCLA would have loved us, but they

were so mired in paperwork. They didn't really have a large amount of money to be able to

maintain this. He had just met this man at Cleveland. So we got on an airplane and we went to

Cleveland Clinic.

Truthfully, when I went into the MS department and I saw how they treated a patient, how thorough they were, I felt, this is unbelievable. When I went to Penn and I saw them have this machine that took the brain of a mouse and cut it into hundreds of little pieces, I thought, oh, my

God.

So it was a very difficult decision, but we made the right decision. We made a situation where on the research they all get together; they all share; that kind of a thing.

That's one of the great things, it seems to me, about Alzheimer's research is that all the entities that are doing research are open with each other.

Right.

That gives us a greater sense of hope.

Right.

Do you serve on the board there?

I just resigned. It had just been too much for me mostly because they have these four meetings a year and I can call in wherever I am, and my intentions were to call in at the last meeting or the meeting before the last meeting and Ali died and we got on an airplane. We were flying to

Louisville, Kentucky. And then this last time I flew home because Parry Thomas had died and they were doing a memorial. Then another time I couldn't make the call because I was in Hong Kong and they were here and the time difference made it impossible for me. So my lifestyle really has just changed. I will be there for them until the day I die. I will contribute financially and do anything they ask.

Well, that's great. Are you on any boards right now?

No. Just an adviser on UNLV's Foundation board. And I'm an adviser at the NWP, the Nevada

Women's Philanthropy board, too. Myra Greenspun and I are official advisers for life. [Laughing]

It seems like you probably have a really outstanding resume for advising groups like this.

Yes, that's what we do.

That's an easier way to go about it, maybe.

I know. So that's it.

Anything else I should know about Lovee? Yes, I need to know the name Lovee. Where does

that come from?

Well, I should have been named after two deceased grandmothers; one was Esther and one was

Jeanette. There was only one grandfather living and his widow's name was Esther and my mother

wanted to call me Jeanette. So I stayed nameless. There was some kind of dysentery thing that was

running through the hospital and I was there for over a week with my mother, according to this

story. And my aunt walked in and she said, "Well, you're going home tomorrow and you must put

a name on that birth certificate." My mother had just started calling me Lovee, Lovee, Lovee. So

she put the name Lovee and they went to synagogue and named me Esther Jeanette in Hebrew.

So that's your Hebrew name. But your given name—

Jaffa Esther, I think. Esther Jaffa.

That's great. I meant to ask that right at the beginning because that's not a name that you hear a lot.

Right.

It's pretty. I like it. It's distinctive.

I've watched Las Vegas really change. I've never been the kind of a person especially because I

moved here so young, I think, that I have a girlfriend that she will only do Jewish things; that's it.

That's just not been me. I will always support Israel, my people and do what I have to do, but I also live in the U.S. and in this country and in this town. And that's why we did what we did for the

Smith Center because I felt I owed them something and my father owed them something because he made a lot of money here, not all his money and not most of his money, but he had a business that ran here for quite a few years and I just felt we owed Las Vegas something and that's why we did that.

I think that's wonderful, really. That is terrific. When you were a little girl, what kind of girl were you? Were you always involved in things, organizations in schools?

Not so much, I don't think. What was I involved in? Very involved with my friends. [Laughing]

That's good. Raising kids here, talk about that a little bit.

It was always difficult because if you came from an area where you knew what there was for children to do—where my sister who moved to New York and now she's raising two children and the things that they have to do are so beyond, so beyond—that I always found that first part very difficult. My son went to prep school, pre-prep at age thirteen, and stayed back east right through after college. For another few years, he worked in New York. And Dena went—I realized she needed the opportunity if she wanted to have it—she went back there for one year to one of the high school prep schools.

It was good and bad. We never locked our door to the house. They could walk to school or ride their bike. Their friends would come over and play. I had lots of kids over all the time and that was the good part. And the other good part for me is that they spent the summer in New York in the Hamptons and then they'd always go to the city and I'd take them a lot of places. And my father lived in L.A. and they would go there often, often, often. He always had something wonderful for

them to do.

Like what?

Oh. He took them to the La Brea Tar Pits, which is now the county museum where they have the

big dinosaurs and things like that. Just everything.

He was a fun grandpa.

He was great. Out to Malibu to the beach. Yes, he was great. He was great.

Yes. So are you that kind of grandparent? Do you take your grandchildren?

Everywhere. Yes, I love to do that.

Yes, that's fun. Any other things that we should include in this interview about Vegas living and Jewish living? Well, your kids, I guess I should follow up. Your kids both live here and work at Top Rank. We didn't even mention Top Rank yet.

That's okay.

Except for casually over boxing.

My son is the president at Top Rank. He runs the company, more or less. My daughter does all the ticketing and she arranges the tours when they go on press tours and things like that. That's great.

They love the sport. They love the sport more than I do. They were always into sports. It's worked

out just fine.

Did you have any favorite boxers?

Do I? George Foreman. I loved him. I still do. We talk to each other. Yes, that was my favorite.

He seems very sweet.

A very sweet man, but I didn't know him when he wasn't. He must have been something else when

he was young.

Well, yes. I guess everybody has a youthful side to them.

I know. I know.

Especially when it's a contact sport.

But when I met Bob, they thought it was ridiculous. What is she going to do with a boxing

promoter? I just wasn't the type. If it had been somebody that did the theater, the ballet, something

like that would be more...

You started out, you said, as an art major?

I did, yes.

And you've got beautiful art on your wall here. I've noticed that. I love that piece.

Thank you.

So it's nice to see Vegas mature. You've really...

Oh, it is nice to see Vegas mature. But then when the schools got so poor and all of these things

have happened in the recent years...I was away for quite a few years. We separated at '87, really.

And from '87 until '90, I was staying in L.A. most of the time. I still had my house here, but that's where I was spending most of the time, my father's guest house. [Laughing]

So that feels more like a home.

It's always felt at home to me, yes.

I appreciate your time. This has been lovely, really.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call me.

Oh, I will.

If I think of anything memorable, I'll call you.

Oh, yes, I'm sure there...Because one of the things whenever I do a presentation, people always expect that they're going to hear mobster stories, about the connection to the organized crime element. And it was here, right?

It was here, but you didn't know it. I played tennis with the wife of Tony Spilotro. We didn't know.

I mean, who knew? In retrospect, now you know that they made a movie about him and

everybody's heard about him, and Oscar Goodman defended him, and he was killed, which is even

worse. But I was obviously a very little girl when my dad started visiting here and when he opened

his business in '52. And the reason he went into the linen supply business is these men that were at

the hotel, and in particular, two men named Gus Greenbaum and Dave Berman, later to find out

that these men had these mob associations was very shocking to me, very shocking. I remember

when Gus Greenbaum and his wife were killed, my father was so upset. I think they were killed in

their home in Arizona if I'm not mistaken. But I remember my dad being so sad that his friend...If

they at one point in their life had mob connections or if they were the ones that were representing

the money where the mob was moving its money from whatever they did to here, how would you

know that?

If you weren't part of it.

If you weren't part of it, right.

No, because they were good at what they did.

They were good at what they did.

Generally speaking, yes.

Right, right, right. These were just men in the hotel business as far as you knew. Then to find out

years later that you knew these people, it was pretty amazing.

Yes. There's one story that's come up in this project about how Moe Dalitz gave like a suitcase full of money to build a school, his name went up on it, and then he told them they should take down his name because of all the investigations that were going on. Then after it was over, then it was okay to put his name back up there.

[Laughing] I remember Moe very well. Now, here's a man, he had a bus. He called it Uncle Moe's

Diesel Penthouse. It was like a Greyhound bus or something. And he put everybody in it and we'd go out to the UNLV football games with little kids; my children were little. We'd have...What do they call that, tailgate?

Yes.

Yes. He'd take families and we'd go on his bus. Nobody knew.

It's interesting. You remind me of my own story. I grew up in an Italian neighborhood and down the street was someone who was supposedly connected with the Chicago organization.

He was involved in boxing. I just realized. I just remembered. I just watched on that.

Do you remember his name?

Yes. Lew Farrell.

Lew Farrell?

Yes.

He's dead, right?

Oh, yes. His son was killed in the plane with Rocky Marciano. They grew up a block away

from me—or half a block, actually. But Lew would drive by with the family car—it was a

station wagon—and pick us all up to go for ice cream. So every kid in the neighborhood.

There was generosity and kindness.

Well, they're just people. It's just that their business was peculiar.

It was peculiar, right, because he was supposedly kicked out of...

I mean, I never really saw what mobsters were like or gangs or any of the things that you read

about. But when you read the history and some of the people that we obviously met through the

hotels, Jerry Zarowitz and all these different people, then you realize that they had connections at

one time or another.

Yes. It's an interesting folklore and history. Well, thank you. That was fun. Great stories to end on.

[Pause in recording]

A Seder story...I don't know if that's worth...

Oh, yes, it is.

I lived on Rosemary Lane and Susie Molasky and I—I wasn't going to my father's where I usually

went. She says, "We'll do Seder together." My father was coming and my uncle was coming, and

the older men would run the Seder; that's it. I said, "Fine."

We go into the kitchen and she's going to show me how to cook Jewish food because I

never knew it. I said, "My mother made chopped liver." I said, "Let me make the chopped liver." I

go in the kitchen. I put the pan on the stove and I put butter in the pan. And at that moment she

kicked me out of the kitchen and I never went back. That's the truth.

What I started to tell you about the house is that in 1971 we were looking to add on to our

house. We now had two children and everything. There was a house that was for sale. Howard

Hughes had just left Las Vegas and there was one house that was really quite extraordinary on

Pinto Lane that his attorney had started to build. Then the attorney got a divorce from his wife and

Howard Hughes didn't like it and it sat there. We were planning on adding on to our house on

Rosemary Lane.

My father said—I walked into his house—"How can you spend that kind of money?" It

was basically what they called a tract house in those days even though it was one of those custom

tract homes. I said, "Daddy, I've looked at houses everywhere and the only house I ever liked was

the one on Pinto Lane, the Gray house. Gray, meaning Richard Gray, who was the attorney that

had started to build it. My husband at the time, Larry, said, "Oh, Hughes is selling all their properties. When he left town he wanted to get rid of everything." My father said to him, "Call

Parry Thomas; see what it would take to get the house."

We got the house at an incredibly low price and then we finished it and with what I sold the other house for, I furnished it. And I absolutely had the most fabulous place to raise my children.

Oh, that's cool.

It's a beautiful house. It still is a beautiful house.

Who owns the house now?

He's with The Killers. I sold it to Jan Jones.

The lead singer?

Yes. I sold it to Jan Jones, who was the mayor. Then it was sold to Andre Agassi, who lived there with Brooke Shields. There might have been somebody in the middle. Then Robert Fry bought the house and The Killers have it now, the lead singer [Brandon Flowers] in The Killers. It's a very special place, though. That was zoned for horses and it's near that Rancho Circle area, around there.

Right. We did a whole project with a lot of the residents of that area.

It's terrific.

It's good to have that story here. This is terrific. Thank you.

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INDEX

Gray, Richard, 34 A Greenbaum, Gus, 32 Greenspun, Myra, 28 Agassi, Andre, 35 American Linen, 4, 6 H Arum, Bob, 2, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 24, 31 Hawaii, 19 B Help of Southern Nevada, 25 Hillcrest Country Club, 14 Berman, Dave, 32 Houssels, Jr., Kells, 22 Beverly Hills, California, 3, 5 Houssels, Nancy, 22, 23 Boulevard Mall, 7 Hughes, Howard, 34, 35

C J California, 1, 4, 17, 25 John, Elton, 19 Child Haven, 23 Jones, Jan, 35 Cleveland Clinic, 22, 25, 26, 27 Junior League, 14, 21, 22, 23 Cohen, Burton, 15 Communities in Schools, 25 K Community Linen, 6 Congregation Ner Tamid, 12 Keep Memory Alive, 22, 25 Cosgrove, Toby, 26 Kiev, Ukraine, 1

D L Dalitz, Moe, 32, 33 Las Vegas Country Club, 8 duBoef, Dena, 24, 29 Lee, Dana, 24 duBoef, Heather, 23, 25 Levy, Lois, 14, 15 duBoef, Larry, 5, 9, 12, 16, 17, 26, 35 Los Angeles, California, 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18, 19, duBoef, Todd, 12, 23, 29, 30 20, 24, 29, 31 Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, 22, 25 E M Entratter, Jack, 21 Every Child, 24, 25 McGuire, Phyllis, 14 Midler, Bette, 19 F Molasky, Susan, 9, 34 Moss, Corky, 14, 15 Flamingo Hotel and Casino, 4 Moss, Mel, 14 Flowers, Brandon, 35 Foreman, George, 30 N Forum Shops, 26 Freedman, Carolyn, 21 Nevada Ballet, 22 Freedman, Jakie, 21 Nevada Dance Theatre, 22 Fry, Marcelle, 24 Nevada Women's Philanthropy, 24, 28 New York, 1, 8, 17, 29 G Newton, Wayne, 18 Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino, 4 Goodman, Oscar, 32 36

O T Odessa, Ukraine, 1 Tarkanian, Jerry, 16 Omaha, Nebraska, 4 Temple Beth Sholom, 9, 10, 12, 15 The Killers, 35 P Thomas, Parry, 27, 35 Top Rank, 30 Palms Apartments, 7 Tropicana Hotel and Casino, 22 Pasquel, Trina, 24 U R United Jewish Appeal (UJA), 14, 21 Rancho Circle, 7, 12, 14, 35 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 26 Rhodes, Greece, 2 University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), i, ii, 7, 16, Riviera Hotel and Casino, 21 26, 28, 33 Rochester, New York, 1 University of Pennsylvania, 26 University of Southern California (USC), 1 S W Sager, Carole Bayer, 2, 20 Salvation Army, 12, 25 Walsh, Arlene, 17 Sands Hotel and Casino, 21 Walsh, Neil, 17 Shields, Brooke, 35 Wasden Elementary School, 8 Smith Center, 23, 29 Weinberger, Billy, 18 Snyder, Don, 23 Western Linen, 5 Spain, 2 Wynn, Elaine, 17 Spilotro, Tony, 32 Stewart, Rod, 19 Z Sulich, Vassili, 22 Zarowitz, Jerry, 33 Ziegman, Izzy, 4