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Dr. William S. "Doc" Park, Rotary Club President, 1929-1930, document 1 of 2

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1929 to 1930

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Short biography on Dr. William S. "Doc" Park, President during the years 1929-1930. Continued in man000119.

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man000118. Fayle Family Papers, 1895-1998. MS-00404. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1tq5rp8c

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Dr. William S. "Doc" Paek, President, Rotary Year, 1929-30 Many of the most important acts of Dr. William 3. Park's con-nection with Hotary, occurred during the formative stages of the Club and have been well covered in the introductory ch pters of this Bill Ferron narrative. Dr. Park/and Les Saunders were really the first to propose a Rotary Club for Los Vegas and to them, more than any others, is due the credit for organizing a Kotery CJlub early in the year 1923. it was Dr. Park who was primarily responsible for bringing Bill Ferron and Walter Bracken into the movement and arranging a series of informal meetings in Dr. Park's home or Walter Bracken's. That small group aroused the interest of the remainder of those who became Charter embers. When Dr. Harrington, noted archaeologist, was exploring the early life of this country and excavating tiie "buried City" in