The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, April 16, 1981

The M E L LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB D I S T R I C T 530 M A K E - U P D A Y S A N D P L A C ES MONDAY — Southwest — Port Tack WEDNESDAY — Boulder City — Railroad Pass TUESDAY — Henderson — Eldorado Club WEDNESDAY — Paradise — Showboat FRIDAY — N o r t h Las Vegas — S i l v e r Nugget THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1981 =5f= K. O. Knudson Dies K. O. Knudson "Rotarian Emeri-tus" and a former president of the Las Vegas organization died last Saturday. Funeral services were held this week in Las Vegas. He had been in failing health for the past several months and died at South-ern Nevada Memorial hospital. He was a devoted Rotarian until his eyesight started to fail and made many contributions to the local club during his long period of service. He joined the Las Vegas club shortly after his arrival in Las Vegas to be-come a member of the teaching staff in the local schools. He was named principal of the grammar school, the only one in town at the time, and was one of Nevada's old-est and most respected educators at the time of his death. When he retired from the school system in 1959 he turned his efforts to assistance of the blind, as he was a f f l i c t ed by increasing blindness himself at the time and was an ac-tive member and officer of the Ne-vada Federation of the Blind. His family was widely known in southern Nevada and contributed much to the growth of Las Vegas for many years in the pioneering days. =3{= Guests Are Prominent There were quite a few visiting Rotarians as well as a couple of prominent people as guests of Ro-tarians at the meeting last Thurs-day. The most prominent of the guests were Bruce Woodbury, who recently was named to succeed Robert Broad-bent, a Boulder City Rotarian, on the county commission, and Russell Dorn, city manager for the city of Las Vegas who was the guest of Ashley Hall, his assistant in the city job. There were three Rotarians from Haliburton, Ontario, Canada and one visiting Rotarian from Hawaii. — Rl — Convention Business Told The work of the Las Vegas Con-vention Authority tourism unit was outlined for the members of the Las Vegas Rotary club at last Thurs-day's meeting. Roosevelt Tostin was the speaker for the day and he was introduced by Marti Rud, who acted as program chairman. Tostin said that most of the work of his division was meeting with the travel agents all over the world and attempt to " s e l l " them Las Vegas as a good place for a convention, recre-ation and just plain fun. He in-formed his audience that more than 30 per cent of the tourist travel (Continued on next page) Hey! You guys. Mark your calendar on April 23 and then remind your secre-tary that she has a luncheon date and the office will be closed until 2 o'clock. Our own petite secretary, Jan, reminds everyone that next Thursday is the Rotary club's an-nual secretary's day and all of the good Girl Fridays are invited to attend the noon luncheon of the club as the guest of their boses. So, circle that calendar and let your secretary know you are tak-ing her to lunch. A special musical program will be presented for the entertain-ment of the guests and it is hoped there will be something else be-sides chicken on the menu. comes to Las Vegas through book-ings by the travel agents. The division of the bureau now is planning a jaunt to South America where the agents will be informed of the advantages of Las Vegas for selling purposes as well as to be-come acquainted with them in a business manner. He said that the recent fires in Las Vegas hotels did not seem to af-fect the tourist business in general but he did say that many of the travel agents were getting many more requests for lower floor accom-modations than before. He then showed a new f i lm which was made through the co-operation of the news bureau, which is an arm of the Convention Authority. It is one of the best promotional films made for the city of Las Vegas, vet-erans of the business report, and displays the many, many recreation-al and convention lures in the na-tion. It was quite an insight into what makes Las Vegas tick and is titled "Las Vegas Coming On", and it cer-tainly is. Hoover Is Honored Mike Hoover, president of the Las Vegas Rotary club, was probably the most surprised delegate to the re-cent district conference in San Die-go. To his amazement, the award of a Paul Harris Fellowship was pre-sented to him by the Las Vegas club at proper ceremonies during the conference. He knew nothing about the award until it was sprung on him. The Las Vegas club fared quite well during the conference, winning many awards during the session, in-cluding first place awards for com-munity service, with the handi-capped recreational park; and third place for youth services and for growth in the international service field. The club also was recognized for the great increase in contribu-tion to the Rotary Foundation. All of the awards were given in the "large club" division of the dis-trict. — Rl — Sunset Dinner Cruise The 25 c l u b has scheduled a "Sunset Dinner Cruise" on Lake Mead on Saturday, May 2 and has asked all members who are inter-ested in making the jaunt sign up as soon as possible. Space is limited on the boat so applicants will be put on a first come, first served basis and late comers are expected to be squeezed out, so get your reservations in right away. May 2 is not too far off. The cruise will leave the Lake Mead Marina at 6 PM sharp and will return between 8 and 9 o'clock. A box supper will be included in the cost of the trip and a no host bar will be open for those who desire liquid refreshments. The cost of the tour will be $10 to $12 per person and the cost can be billed to you by the secretary. Henry Chanin is in charge of the arrangements for the party.