The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, March 17, 1977

The Wheel LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY LANDMARK HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Mailing 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 — North Las Vegas — Silver Nugget THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1977 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. w V W V W V V V V W W W V W V W V % V V W W V W W Runnin' Rebels Do Damage To Tourney Those Runnin' Rebels have done it again. It was the Las Vegas Rotary mem-bership which was sorely affected by the victory string of the young men from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Mark Mielke, several weeks ago, was given the task of putting together a golf tournament and he came up with what he thought would be an in-teresting affair. The tournament was to be held at Lake Havasu this weekend and there were some 36 members and their wives who originally signed up for the trip. However, in the meantime, the Reb-els were selected for a spot in the NCAA tournament which was held in Tucson the same weekend and, as soon as the announcement was made, the golf tourney practically collapsed. Several of those who signed up to go to Havasu found themselves scurrying for tickets to the game and, as a result, the field at Havasu was more or less limited. But, Mark says, that's the way life is — full of surprises, and as long as the Rebs thrashed SFU the way they did, all is forgiven. Sympathy Note The Rotary club of Las Vegas offers its deepest sympathy to H. K. Robert-son in the loss of his Rotary Ann, Caro-lyn. She died last week after a long siege of illness. Funeral services were held in Hous-ton, Texas, in the Methodist church there. Burial was in the Memorial Oaks Cemetery in Houston. Carolyn was a native Texan, born in Beaumont and reared and educated in the Lone Star state. She was married to Robbie in 1950 and of that union came two daugh-ters, Susan and Amy, and one son, Craig. Her father, Jack Shell, of Beau-mont, and a sister, Rosemary Denham, of Lafayette, Louisiana, also survive. She and her husband came to Las Vegas in 1970, when H. K. moved here to join the Haskin and Sells firm. She was quite active in Young Audi-ences, Las Vegas Towne club and the Mesquite club. - Rl - Youth Conference Plans Progress Plans for the Youth Conference which is to be held on April 2 and 3 are going ahead rapidly, according to Dean Cummings, co-chairman of the event. Cummings reports that all but two chaperones for the affair have been signed up, but he is interested in getting a number of standbys who can step in and do the job should the principals be forced to cancel. This year it is planned to take the participants to Lee Canyon, where the conference will be held, by bus, and they will be picked up at a central place and returned to the same spot when the confab is over. It is expected, according to Cum-mings, there will be 125 youthful par-ticipants attending the session, which will be on Saturday and Sunday. Any member of the Rotary club who can help in the chaperoning of these young people should see either Dean Cummings or Craig Hamilton. Non-Make-Up List Still Is Large There were 18 members of the Las Vegas Rotary club who turned up on the non-make-up list for February 24, according to our secretary Jan. Those who failed to make up in-cluded: Harold Boyer, Chris Brandt, Larry Carter, Don Christensen, John Devitt, Jerry Engel, Han Geskes, Rick Johnson, Fred Kennedy, and Jack Kling, Bob O'Connell, Mike Parenti, Frank Sala, Ed Smith, Herman Saltzman, Ernie Thacker, K. P. Thomas and Ted Wiens Sr. Get in gear, guys — that affects our attendance record in the district. - Rl - Officers Aided In Convention Trips The board of directors has voted to appropriate $800 to help defray the costs of officers attending two Rotary meetings which will be held in this area during the coming months. A unanimous vote will provide a sum of $800, which will be turned over to the delegates which will in-clude Dave Welles, president; Jim Corey, president-elect, and Darrell Luce, president-elect. The secretary and treasurer also will be included. - Rl - Last Week's Program Hard To Describe Perhaps someone else, somewhat younger than I, should be assigned to the task of reviewing the program of last Thursday at the Rotary club meet-ing. For a guy who was weaned on songs like "Moonlight and Roses," " I 'm Sorry I Made You Cry" and tunes of that era, the effort to appreciate the music of the "Sound Unlimited," I feel, is much beyond my capacity. I can say this for the youngsters from Valley High School who per-formed for the club — they worked hard at what they did and it was a typical rock concert which could, and probably did, do justice to a group like the Rolling Stones or Blood, Sweat and Tears, which seem to be the "in" groups for the young people of the modern generation. The kids were good, no doubt about that, because they showed their versa-tility in the several numbers which were presented. Especially nice was the modern version of "I've Only Got Eyes For You," which was done in a more or less rock tempo and allowed the elders like myself to hear the mod-ernized tune to which we once danced so many years ago. I do not mean to be critical in the least. I think the youngsters all are talented and provide music which is designed for the modern era. How-ever, it was too loud for me; I couldn't understand a word they were singing, and it sounded like a jumble of chords which meant nothing to those in the age group which I, unfortunately, oc-cupy. The production was well done and the kids all tried hard to entertain. It was their audience which was impos-sible. Of course, there are those who have youngsters in this age bracket who probably are accustomed to the cacaphony which modern rock has de-veloped, but for we more staid elders it served only to provide an earache. The terpsichore was evident in the robot number which the group did. It was well done and excellently staged by the troupe. It gave a message which even I could understand. However, as excellent as it may have seemed to the youngsters, it was a little too loud for these aging ears of mine. The presentation would have been much more enthusiastically accepted by a Kiwanis club member, maybe, or perhaps the Downtown Lions. Rotary, no. This should not be considered a knock at the Sound Unlimited. It's just that a large majority of the Rotarians were not in a position to accept a full program of hard rock, which this cer-tainly was. We do, however, congratu-late the group. They have done a fine job of putting the whole thing to-gether. It's not my fault I was born so early. John F. Cahlan CAHLAN'S I ORNER By JOHN CAHLAN The French have a word for it and the word is SEX. Unfortunately, that word is expect-ed to develop into a battle between labor and management sometime in the future over provisions in any con-tract which is fashioned at the bargain-ing table. It seems that the union leaders over there in the continental country are about to demand that sex — the good old bedroom type of sex — shall be included in the provisions of any fu-ture contract that is signed. The union folks want management to agree that the libidos of those who labor shall not be suppressed by those who manage. They want it understood that they will be given time off (with pay, I suppose) so they may hie them-selves to their bedrooms so they may enjoy marital relations with their mates at least twice a week. The union rank and file claim that they labor so hard for their bosses that, when they arrive home, they are too tired to perform the husbandly ne-cessities. They say that the only time they can enjoy sex is on their vaca-tions, or sometimes over the week-ends. It will not be very long, I am sure, that the movement will spread to the shores of the United States, because the union leaders here are quite rapid in picking up foreign opportunities which will provide the unions with more bargaining rights. It would be interesting to sit in on the negotiations for this clause in the contract to see just how the American working man is affected in his sex life. It can lead to all sorts of things, once the unions here get into the act. Even the bedrooms of the nation will not be safe. Perhaps the wives will become well organized — and then we're all in trouble. Boulder City Club Has An Anniversary The Boulder City Rotary club ob-served its fortieth birthday on March 2 with a special program at the regu-lar meeting which featured Elton Gar-rett, one of the senior members of the club who was there for the charter presentation. The Boulder City club was the first expansion club in the southern Ne-vada area, and the Las Vegas club was the "father" of the new organization. It was during the term of K. O. Knud-son, as Las Vegas Rotary president, that the charter was presented. Garrett traced the history of the Boulder club for those who were pres-ent and brought the history alive for those who have followed. Congratulations, Boulder City! - Rl - Vegas Rotary Club Attendance Good The Las Vegas Rotary club was sit-ting in 22nd place in the attendance standing, it was revealed by figures released from district headquarters. The Las Vegas club led all the rest of the clubs in the valley area, with Paradise and Southwest placing 23rd and 24th respectively. Boulder City was ninth in the stand-ing, with Caliente tenth. North Las Ve-gas stood 31st. The district average was 87.78 and Las Vegas' average was 88.50, which is one of the first times in recent months that the Las Vegas club has been above the district average. Keep it up, fellows. - Rl - What Is Your Job In Rotary? Not all of us can be president or secretary or member of the board of directors every year. But this does not mean we do not have an active role in Rotary. One task each of us has is the responsibility to sponsor a new mem-ber. Have you sponsored a new mem-ber recently? Do you have another po-tential member in mind?