The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, June 5, 1975

The Wheel ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN LAS VEGAS LANDMARKS is this impressive high-rise structure — the Landmark Hotel — selected as the permanent home for Rotary Club, oldest service club in the city LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY LANDMARK HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Mailing Address - P. O. Box 2406, Las Vegas, Nevada 89104 MAKE-UP DAYS AND PLACES MONDAY — Southwest — Charleston Bowl WEDNESDAY — Boulder City — Multiple Purpose Room TUESDAY — Henderson — Eldorado Club FRIDAY — N o r t h Las Vegas — S i l v e r Nugget WEDNESDAY — Paradise — Showboat JUNE 5, 1975 , « » \ \ \ v » v * \ » w v * v * v w v w v * \ v v v * \ w v % The Wheel He Profits Most Who Serves Best" PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA RAY GERMAIN, JOHN BEVILLE and JOHN F. CAHLAN Co-Editors SHERWIN GARSIDE Publisher , v w w w w * w w * w * w w w v v * w w w w » Good News And Bad For LV Rotarians We have good news and bad news for you today. We'll give you the bad news first. Ann Head, who has been serving as our paid secretary for the past several years, is resigning her post as of July 1. The good news is that Jan West will take over the secretarial duties upon the retirement of Annie. Now most of you will not recognize the Jan West name. However, when it become known that Jan is the former Jan Evans, who served the Rotarians so well over a slew of years, you will realize that this is good news to off-set the bad. Ann is planning a long rest and will start such a venture sometime in July when she and her husband, Pat, a for-mer member of the Las Vegas club and new secretary of the Paradise club, start on a cruise that will take them to many spots they long have desired to go. The club issues a hearty Aloha to Annie and thanks her for the many kindnesses she has given to all of the members. To Jan we say — welcome home. We know we'll all enjoy having you back! Leonard Storm Is Today's Speaker Today's speaker should bring to members of the Rotary club answers to questions about radiation, which continually pop up every time there is an atomic device tested at the Test Site. The speaker is Leonard W. Storm and his subject will be "Radiation Ef-fects on Geriatrics." Storm is a graduate of the Univer-sity of California at Berkeley and re-ceived his Masters and PhD at the Uni-versity of Arizona. He has a long list of accomplishments, among them be-ing w i t h the Forestry Service, w i t h the University of Arizona as a teaching as-sistant, research assistant and associ-ate at the same school; an assistant professor at Wayne State and Wiscon-sin State at Whitewater; scientific con-sultant for NASCO and as an assistant professor at UN Reno. He served as department chairman also at UNR. He has many memberships in pro-fessional societies as well as much work through research grants. He also did much study on human homosex-uality. He also has averaged two lec-tures a month on TV and radio during the academic year for the past five years. He is a member of the state board of the American Civil Liberties Union and of the board of directors of the southern Nevada chapter of that group. He also serves on the continu-ing committee of the Religious Society of Friends. - Rl - District Awards Club Bulletins Large clubs (65 and over) — Las Ve-gas; honorable mention, Pasadena. Medium sized clubs (36-65) — North Las Vegas; honorable mention, Alta-dena. Small clubs (34 and less) — Barstow; honorable mention, Rosemead. - Rl - Enemies are never truly conquered until their friendship is w o n . — W i l f e r d Peterson. O ' C on n e l l s Stage Sumptuous Party President Bob and his Rotary Ann outdid themelves last Friday evening when they played hosts to the mem-bers of the new and old boards of Rotary at their home. It was a combined business and pleasure affair with cocktails starting at 6:30 and the regular meeting of the board at 7:15. Despite the fact that there was a great deal of jollity (definitely more than at the regular board meetings) a great deal was ac-complished and then the meeting was adjourned so the members and their Rotary Anns could enjoy the sumptu-ous meal which had been prepared for them. - Rl - K. O. Knudson To Receive Honors The board of directors at their meet-ing last Friday, voted to honor K. O. Knudson, retired school executive of Las Vegas as well as the fourteenth president of the Las Vegas Rotary club. Knudson, who served in 1936-37, followed Dr. Roy W. Martin and pre-ceded Frank Gusewelle. K. O. came to Las Vegas in the early twenties when he went to work in the Las Vegas grammar school under Maude Frasier, who then was county superintendent. Later he served as principal of the Fifth Street grammar school and then went into the visual education field after which he retired. Of late he has been very active in the work of the blind people and has won many honors in this field. - Rl - Anna Fayle Is Recuperating Fast Anna Fayle, Rotary Ann of our dean and colleague, Leonard, is reported recuperating nicely at home. Anna went into the hospital several weeks ago for major surgery and her recuperation was even astounding to the doctors. Best wishes for full recovery soon! Demotion Party Plans Underway The days have fled, my friend, and this is the beginning of the sixth month of our Lord 1975. That means also, in case you have forgotten, that the Rotary year of our esteemed presi-dent, Bob O'Connell, is fast drawing to a conclusion. As a result, Bob's demotion com-mittee is under way mapping the high-jinx which will prove to be a suitable termination to the year. The commit-tee's work was somewhat delayed by the fact the chairman of the group, one Keith Ashworth, was laboring in the halls of the legislature and the session, which was supposed to end sometime in March, stretched itself on into May with the result the commit-tee was unable to function. However, Keith has promised action and when he makes such a pledge you can darn well depend on it. He has his committee selected and they got down to work this week. The gala affair, as usual, will be held at George and Peg Crockett's ranch on the hill above the McCarran airport and will start off, as usual, with the trap shoot for all those nim-rods who are entranced by the flying clay pigeons. The cocktail party will start at 6 o'clock followed by dinner. What hap-pens after that is anybody's guess. It would be well to mark the date, June 26, on your calendar; otherwise you'll miss all the fun. - Rl - Newport Is Site Of Next Confab The next district conference of the Rotary club will be held in Newport and already those who have a yen for the sea and sea-going vessels are making plans to attend. While the conference is a y e a r away, it is expected that the incom-ing president, Don Ashworth, will be-gin making plans for attendance so that the Las Vegas club can make at least as good a showing as they did in San Diego. MEMBERSHIP CLASSIFICATIONS In order to clear up any confusion in the minds of the members of the Las Vegas Rotary Club as to the various types of membership available in the club, The Wheel is providing today a list of five classes and the membership can deter-mine what classifications there are. The types of membership are: 1. ACTIVE a. When a candidate is elected to membership to fill a loaned classification, he becomes an Active Member. 2. ADDITIONAL ACTIVE a. Any active member may propose for active membership one additional person from the concern or establishment which he represents, whose classification shall be the same as that of the proposer, but his member-ship is contingent upon the sponsor's retention of his classification. If the sponsor leaves the club or gives up his classification, the Additional Active Member must be reelected to Active Membership. 3. SENIOR ACTIVE a. Available to one who has been an Active Member fifteen or more years, or to one who has reached 60 years of age and has been an Active Mem-ber five years or more. This type of membership opens classifications to young men without penalizing Active, older Rotarians. 4. PAST SERVICE a. Available to members who, because of retirement from business or pro-fessional life, are no longer eligible for Active membership. To be eligible for Past Service, he may have been an Active Member five or more years, and must have been an Active Member at time of retirement. 5. HONORARY a. Granted to an adult male who has distinguished himself by meritorious service in the furtherance of Rotary ideals. b. He must reside in or be definitely associated with the territorial limits of the Club. c. An Honorary Member is the only type of member who cannot hold office, and is not required to pay dues. d. The term of membership is the Rotary year: July 1 to June 30, subject to annual approval by the Board of Directors. Now Is The Time To Resolve Again We are approaching a new regime. It is suggested by R.I. that now is the time to review our club performance for the past few months. . . . Have we filled as many classifications as we might? Have we performed with equal zeal in all avenues of service? Have we supported the officers for this year as we should? Have we faced any weaknesses in our club with planning and resolve? (It is this viewer's humble opinion that we can look the district fairly in the eye and give a strong positive re-sponse to ALL these queries.) Some Random Quotes Of Rotary The late President Richard Evans: "Some people are standing around waiting to start living as though they did not know that life had already begun." R. I. President William R. Robbins: "Now happens only once . . . only yesterday today was tomorrow. It is almost tomorrow now. There is so much to do and so little time." Jack Pride, Chairman of the 1975 Montreal Convention Committee: "Vo-cation service is the happiness we bring and the service we render through, and in, our profession or vocation."