The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, 1977-1978

New Policy Set Forth By The 25 Group A new policy is being established at the Rotary meetings of the coming year in an effort to make the visitors to the regular club meetings feel more at home. The 25 Club, which is composed of the newly inducted members into the club, will take over the "fellowship" portion of the meeting and will at-tempt to meet and greet the visitors, as well as the members, and steer them to tables occupied by at least one person in the same business as the visitor. Harvey Luce has been doing a bang-up job of this for the past several years, but it was felt that an expan-sion of this one-man program would be in the best interests of the club. Members of the 25 Club will be sta-tioned at the door and will serve as guides for those members of other clubs who are attending the Las Vegas club. It also was suggested, and the idea will be followed through, to have cards printed which can be installed at the desks of the various hotels and motels carrying the information as to where the service clubs of the valley meet and when. It is expected that all of the clubs in the area will join in this venture if it is proved to be feasible. It also was suggested that a page in the telephone directories be printed carrying the information as to the meeting places and times of all of the service clubs so that the visitors can attend whenever they desire. This is just another phase of the "Love Visitors" campaign which has been launched by the Chamber of Commerce. - Rl - Leonard Fayle Has Outstanding Record If any of you Rotarians want a goal to shoot at, just figure the attendance record of Leonard Fayle. Leonard has been in the club since 1942 and has not had an absence in his whole Rotary career. That makes a total of 36 years. He reports that he also had an attendance record of some length in Delano, where he served be-fore he came to Las Vegas. Not only that, but at the present time he has a record of some 125 per cent, because he attends other Rotary clubs just for the fun and fellowship without any idea of making up. This record of perfect attendance is all the more amazing because, during those 36 years, Len and his Rotary Ann Anna have traveled to all parts of the globe and have been in some countries which do not have clubs. He has beat-en this by making up a couple of times a week in the areas where Rotary does exist. The Wheel doffs its editorial hat to a member who shows the true spirit of Rotary. - Rl - Marti Rud Given Great Publicity Another one of our Rotarians has been featured in one of the news-papers of the area. Marti Rud recently was the subject of a full-page story in the Valley Times and was accorded a front-page picture as well. The story detailed Marti's plans for meeting the competition which will be facing the Boulevard Mall, come 1978 when the new Mall is opened on the northwest side of town. Marti, who has been general man-ager of the Boulevard Mall for the past three years, said that the competi-tion should make the whole Mall per-sonnel sharper and more efficient. He said the Mall has realized for some time that they were facing com-petition eventually and had geared their operation to meet it. He also re-vealed that total sales volume have had a healthy volume during his re-gime. He is convinced there will be some heavy competition among the man-agers at the Mall, because many of the new tenants of The Dayton-Hudson Mall will be the same as those occupy-ing space at The Boulevard. New Policy Set Forth By The 25 Group A new policy is being established at the Rotary meetings of the coming year in an effort to make the visitors to the regular club meetings feel more at home. The 25 Club, which is composed of the newly inducted members into the club, will take over the "fellowship" portion of the meeting and will at-tempt to meet and greet the visitors, as well as the members, and steer them to tables occupied by at least one person in the same business as the visitor. Harvey Luce has been doing a bang-up job of this for the past several years, but it was felt that an expan-sion of this one-man program would be in the best interests of the club. Members of the 25 Club will be sta-tioned at the door and will serve as guides for those members of other clubs who are attending the Las Vegas club. It also was suggested, and the idea will be followed through, to have cards printed which can be installed at the desks of the various hotels and motels carrying the information as to where the service clubs of the valley meet and when. It is expected that all of the clubs in the area will join in this venture if it is proved to be feasible. It also was suggested that a page in the telephone directories be printed carrying the information as to the meeting places and times of all of the service clubs so that the visitors can attend whenever they desire. This is just another phase of the "Love Visitors" campaign which has been launched by the Chamber of Commerce. - Rl - Leonard Fayle Has Outstanding Record If any of you Rotarians want a goal to shoot at, just figure the attendance record of Leonard Fayle. Leonard has been in the club since 1942 and has not had an absence in his whole Rotary career. That makes a total of 36 years. He reports that he also had an attendance record of some length in Delano, where he served be-fore he came to Las Vegas. Not only that, but at the present time he has a record of some 125 per cent, because he attends other Rotary clubs just for the fun and fellowship without any idea of making up. This record of perfect attendance is all the more amazing because, during those 36 years, Len and his Rotary Ann Anna have traveled to all parts of the globe and have been in some countries which do not have clubs. He has beat-en this by making up a couple of times a week in the areas where Rotary does exist. The Wheel doffs its editorial hat to a member who shows the true spirit of Rotary. - Rl - Marti Rud Given Great Publicity Another one of our Rotarians has been featured in one of the news-papers of the area. Marti Rud recently was the subject of a full-page story in the Valley Times and was accorded a front-page picture as well. The story detailed Marti's plans for meeting the competition which will be facing the Boulevard Mall, come 1978 when the new Mall is opened on the northwest side of town. Marti, who has been general man-ager of the Boulevard Mall for the past three years, said that the competi-tion should make the whole Mall per-sonnel sharper and more efficient. He said the Mall has realized for some time that they were facing com-petition eventually and had geared their operation to meet it. He also re-vealed that total sales volume have had a healthy volume during his re-gime. He is convinced there will be some heavy competition among the man-agers at the Mall, because many of the new tenants of The Dayton-Hudson Mall will be the same as those occupy-ing space at The Boulevard.