The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, October 7, 1976

The Wheel LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY LANDMARK HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA M a i l i n g Address - P. O. Box 15152, Las Vegas, Nevada 89114. Phone 870-6363 MAKE-UP DAYS AND PLACES MONDAY — Southwest — Charleston Bowl WEDNESDAY — Boulder City — Railroad Pass TUESDAY — Henderson — Eldorado Club WEDNESDAY — Paradise — Showboat FRIDAY — N o r t h Las Vegas — Silver Nugget THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1976 M V M M W M m H H M M M V M V M M M V The Wheel "He Profits Most Who Serves Best" PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA JOHN BEVILLE and JOHN F. CAHLAN Co-Editors SHERWIN GARSIDE Publisher COVER — The cover of The Wheel is a repro-duction of a painting made of the old Las Vegas fort by F. S. Dellenbaugh, pioneer painter who came to Las Vegas with John Wesley Powell. The picture shows the old fort as it was in 1876 when Dellenbaugh made the painting. k\VV»\WWVV**WWWVVW*VVVWVWVW Senior Citizens To Be Discussed Today Today we will learn more about the services which are provided for the senior citizens of the county. The speaker will be Tom Miller, one of the executives of that service, who has been active in his work for a long time. The senior citizens are becoming more and more in the limelight all over the nation and more interest is being paid to them in recent years. They need to have some direction be-cause many of them are unable to cope with retirement while others may not be able to work out their reduced budgets in a satisfactory manner. The Rev. Joel Rivers will act as program chairman and will introduce the speaker. - Rl - Recommended Reading, 'The Rotarian' Before you toss your current Ro-tarian to the oblivion of your waiting room steal a little time and read through it. Of particular note is the article on page 17, "The Prizes of Alfred Nobel." Rotary Assists In Juvenile Program The Rotary contribution to the ju-venile service program in Las Vegas was a great success and eight mem-bers of the Las Vegas Rotary club participated. The eight volunteers divided them-selves into two teams of four each and supervised the youngsters involved during the morning and afternoon ses-sions. A total of $300 was realized from the project with a major portion going to the young people involved while some of the funds will go to the support of the Rotary team in the Pop Warner football program. The young people involved are those certified from the juvenile court to raise money to pay for damages they had inflicted in pranks and other malicious mischief, and they earn the money through various projects, one of which is painting house numbers on curbs. The Rotarians supervise the young people in this work. - Rl - Letters Of Thanks Received By Club The Las Vegas Rotary club is in re-ceipt of letters from various sources thanking the organization for efforts put forth in behalf of the writers. A letter of thanks was received from the American Legion for the part the Rotary club played in the Boys State affair which was held last summer. The Las Vegas club sponsored two youngsters to this worthwhile event. Rebecca Marzon wrote a letter of thanks to the Las Vegas club for the scholarship with which she was sup-plied by the club. General James A. Knight, one of those who hold an honorary member-ship in the club, wrote to thank the organization for extending his mem-bership for another year. Mayor Bill Briare and Judge John Mowbray, two other honorary mem-bers, expressed their thanks to the clubs in letters. \ v v » \ v \ v v w v » \ w » \ \ \ v w w w w w v » * w Virginia Germain Dies In Local Hospital Virginia Garside Germain, Rotary Ann of Ray Germain and sister of our own "Scoop" Garside, died Friday morning following open heart sur-gery. She had been in ill health for some time but her passing was un-expected. Private funeral services were held earlier this week but anyone desiring to express their sympathy may make contributions to the University of Nevada library fund in her name. Such a fund already exists in the name of Mary and Frank Garside, her par-ents. Virginia was born in the mining town of Manhattan, Nevada, where her father operated a newspaper. Later the family moved to Tonopah where she received her early educa-tion. She was a graduate of the Uni-versity of Nevada. The Garside family was widely known in the state of Nevada, Frank having operated newspapers in many of the boom towns around Tonopah and Goldfield. He later moved to southern Nevada where he, with his partner, A. E. Cahlan, established the Clark County Review into a daily paper and built the foundation for the present publication. She was married to Ray in the mid-dle thirties and they have three chil-dren, two girls and a boy. - w w w v v w v w w w v w v v w v w v v w w v w Leonard Fayle Gets Rotary Spotlight The spotlight was turned on Past President Leonard Fayle last Thursday and he was recognized for the work her did while heading the club. Dr. Wayne Zeiger provided the talk which outlined his service. Leonard served the club as president during the 1949-50 Rotary year and he was described by Wayne as "an extraordinary man." He is a pioneer, having come to Jean, Nevada, in 1905 and it was here that he gained his nickname of "hardrock." He first joined Rotary in Delano, California, and served as president there during the year 1939-40. During his term as Las Vegas presi-dent the club meetings moved from El Rancho to the Last Frontier and hit the 100 membership level. The club raised $9,500 in the library drive to build the building which still stands. He inaugurated the inter-city visita-tions and during the program the Las Vegas club trekked to Needles, King-man, Phoenix and Tonopah. He also instituted the Southwest club. He also has served the community well. He is a former chairman of the regional planning board, served on the selective service board, along with another Rotarian Harvey Luce, during the Korean war, and was president of the Las Vegas Valley Water District for four of the 10 years he served on that group. He also had the honor of having one of the Water district's reservoirs named after him. He has been very active in the Masonic bodies of the state of Nevada and holds the rank of a 33rd degree Mason, one of the few in the state of Nevada. - Rl - Chattering Members Are Given Rebuke There has been an increasing pen-chant of some of the members of the Las Vegas Rotary club, to talk in-cessantly during the news broadcasts which are so nicely provided during the luncheon period. President Dave calls attention to the fact that Channel 8 is going to a great deal of effort in supplying the newscaster for the regular Thursday meetings and the least the members can do is to devote a little attention to the speaker. This, according to el prexy, exhibits the same kind of rudeness that is shown by the scooters who make such a production of departing just as the program speaker is being introduced. Let's get a little more courtesy in the club, huh, fellows? =se= =i6= C AHLAN'S ORNER n My mother, Marion E. Cahlan, taught in the public schools of the state of Nevada from the time she was a young woman of some 20 years of age until she became one of the elder citizens. The span of her service stretched over a period of nearly 70 years. Her instruction sites varied from a one room school at Huffaker's, about seven miles south of Reno, to the more elaborate structures of Las Vegas. Many of the pupils who came under her instructions made names for them-selves in various fields of endeavor in the state and there wasn't a one among them but who considered her "the best darned arithmetic teacher I ever had." She was of the breed which be-lieved that the teacher had an obliga-tion not only to the pupils but the parents and the state as well, to give these young people the primary educa-tion they would need in order to proceed further up the educational ladder and finally into the marts of trade. I was brought up in that atmo-sphere, because during much of her teaching career she also was attempt-ing to raise two sons to become good citizens of the state in which they were born. How well she succeeded is not for me to say. I do know, how-ever, the dedication she felt for "her kids" and the hours of worry she spent over some of the laggards. I speak of her in order to draw a contrast between the teachers of to-day and those of another era. Teachers of today — a majority of them — have little or no dedication to their craft, nor do they have any loyalty to their pupils. Their only dedication is to the amount of money they can milk from the taxpayer and their only loyalty is to the officers of the union which negotiates for them at the bargaining table. JOHN F. CAHLAN 1 I can tell you now that, were my mother and some of her colleagues alive today they would be in the fore-front of the horde which would throw out the unionists, eliminate the dis-sidents and return the schools to their proper purpose of educating the young people in a proper manner. It's a far cry from the days my mother taught school and the teachers have come a long way. However, as an observant of both eras I can tell you that the kids, the parents and the taxpayers are getting short changed and there is only one agency responsi-ble — the unions. I know, I've been the whole gig. - Rl - World's Illiterates Increasing In Numbers There are more people on this planet now who cannot read and write than there were twenty years ago, ac-cording to UNESCO. There were 783 million illiterates in 1970 as against 700 million in 1950 . . . You have heard otherwise? What you heard was the percentage of illiterates dropped from 44.3 to 34.2 percent in those 20 years. But, the absolute number of human beings mired in ignorance, and utterly unable to cope, has risen (Population Reference Bureau) - Rl - 7The World of Rotary' Still Best Buy With more than 40,000 copies of "The World of Rotary" sold in the initial run of five languages, it had been necessary to begin a second printing. Two things are the con-sequence. One, the price of the book has been increased to $7.00, and it is possible to add three more language editions — Finish, German and Swed-ish. "The World of Rotary" is still con-sidered a good buy in the book mark-et.