The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, late 1970s

LV Rotary Lauded For Zone Program The Las Vegas Rotary club in gen-eral and Irwin Kishner in particular are receiving plaudits for the "fantas-tic" job that was done in arranging the zone institute of Rotary, held in Las Vegas recently. Barney Ingram, district governor, wrote a personal letter to Irwin thank-ing him for the "fantastic job" done for the program. "Thank you, you are the greatest," he said. He thanked the club for the enter-tainment provided by Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy as well as the recep-tion provided for Ed Cadman. A similar letter was received from Cadman, expressing appreciation for the "perfect" arrangements which re-sulted in an extraordinary event. He too expressed thanks for the Hayes-Healy entertainment. - Rl - Mark Smith Is Honored By Broadcast Group Mark Smith, member of the Las Vegas Rotary club, has been signally honored by the National Association of Broadcasters by being elected to serve a two-year term on the board of directors. The NAB is an international profes-sional broadcasting organization and is involved in setting up guidelines to protect and maintain ethical stand-ings in the broadcasting industry. Smith has been very active in the association in recent years and was one of the leading promoters in bring-ing the national convention of the group to Las Vegas for the first time in 1975. This session was so successful that they will gather here again in 1978 and three more times during the next several years. Smith is the first Nevadan ever to be elected to serve as a director of the group and his term will begin in June of 1978. He also is serving as president of the Greater Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. Rotary Donates To Sounds Unlimited Michele Polk and Karla Christian-sen, representative of "Sounds Unlim-ited" from Valley High School, were guests of the Rotary club recently and were presented w i t h a check for $200 f r om President Jim. The donation was in partial pay-ment for the wonderful work the youngsters did during the recent Ro-tary zone conference and for which they were lauded by members of the arrangements committee. "Sounds Unlimited" is a musical group from Valley who have per-formed at various functions in Las Ve-gas and before the Rotary club on oc-casion. - Rl - Rotary President For '79 Nominated James L. Bomar, Jr., of Shelbyville, Tennessee, has been the unanimous choice of the nomination committee for president of Rotary International in 1979-80, it was announced following the meeting of the committee recently. Rotarian Bomar is a lawyer, prac-ticing in Shelbyville, and is a native Tennesseean. He earned his BA and JD degrees from Cumberland Univer-sity in Alabama and received an hon-orary degree of LLD from Samford University in Alabama. He is a member of the Tennessee, Alabama, American and Federal Ener-gy bar associations and has served 18 years in the Tennessee legislature, also being elected speaker and as lieu-tenant governor of the state. He has been a Rotarian since 1942 and is past president of the Shelby-ville club. - Rl - AND HOW IS THE CLIMATE THERE? Having been astounded by seeing the announcement of his death in the paper, he rang up a friend and asked: "Have you seen the notice of my death in the paper?" "Yes," replied the friend, "where are you speaking from?" Two New Members Are Introduced Two new members were introduced to the club last Thursday and they will be formally inducted in the near future when Marion B. Earl can be present. It was reported that Marion's wife has been seriously ill and he was unable to attend the meeting last week, to give the induction speech which has become a tradition of the Las Vegas club. The new members are Garland Davis, sponsored by Don Brown and Jack Cluever, sponsored by Doyle Jordan. - Rl - Club Assembly Was Held Las Week The club assembly, which is one of the springtime features of the Ro-tary organization, turned into a so-so affair last Thursday when the chair-men of many of the committees either failed to be present or had very little to report as to the activities of their group. The club service portfolio was pre-sented by Don Ashworth, who was subbing for the regular chairman and reported that most of the committees under this area were doing a great job, including classification, fellow-ship, membership development, pro-grams, head table and Rotary roster. Tom Miller reported the community service committee was very active in assisting the crippled childrens' pro-gram and also was developing a pro-gram for the blind. The committee also assisted in the plans for the as-sistance for the shut ins and Robie Robichaud reported on the program for the senior citizens which was cli-maxed by the Thanksgiving parties for those confined to rest homes. The environmental committee has Bernie Menke on the air pollution board and is looking for a program in this field which can be advanced by the Rotary club. The committee also joined in publicizing the recycl-ing project which is gaining strength all the time. The youth committee explained it was developing a program for the development of the specially gifted children in the schools as well as for a park which can be devoted almost entirely to the handicapped. It also plans to set up a basketball court which can be used by kids in wheel chairs. The annual youth forum, it was announced, will be changed in format and will take the form of honoring students, at the high school and col-lege level for special achievement. It was felt there were too many lead-ership programs already in existence to add one more. It also was recalled the Rotary club donated $2100 to seven students at UNLV for special scholarship achieve-ment. - Rl - Rotarians Active In Development Unit Three members of the Las Vegas Rotary club have assumed committee chairmanships of the Nevada Develop-ment Authority, a group of Las Vegas businessmen interested in the econom-ic development of southern Nevada. Sherman Miller, president of the NDA, announced that Berlyn Miller, Frank Sala and Frank Shattuck all have agreed to chair the committees which are involved in "furthering the goals of the authority." Berlyn Miller will head the legisla-tive committee which is set up to "im-prove the state and county competi-tiveness position through special in-centives and other special action." Miller also serves as the authority sec-retary. The land-use committee, which is headed by Sala, will develop a com-posite map showing geographical areas as the most desirable for indus-trial use. Shattuck's committee will concen-trate on maintaining personal contact with potential industrialists through-out their decision-making processes, Miller said.