The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, July 1, 1971

The Wheel SKYLINE CHANGING — This aerial photo by Rotarian Frank Mitrani shows some of the changes made recently in the skyline of Las Vegas and nearby areas. In the foreground left is the Sahara complex, the Hilton International, Landmark and Riviera hotels. LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY TROPICANA HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Mailing Address - P. O. Box 5664, Garside State 89102 JULY 1, 1971 M.C. FAILS TO MAKE IT TO POOL Mielke Sheds Winter Apparel In Crockett Pool The annual demotion party for the Las Vegas Rotary Club was held at the Paradise Valley ranch of George and Peg Crockett last Thursday evening, and despite a f ew minor anxious mo-ments most everything fell into place (even President Mark landed belly-side up). Major casualty was last year's club president and this year's Demotion party chairman Harold Wandesforde, who was called away during the early part of the evening. Past president Bill Southard took over the master-mind-ing of the various items on the agen-da. Bill acted with great dispatch and sincerity. More than two hundred persons at-tended the gala affair, which luckily drew an excellent night temperature with the thermometer settling down to the eighties as compared to a hot one hundred plus which was recorded the night previous. Top ranking club members pointed out during the party that a "wonder-ful job has been done" in the decorat-ing of the yard. Personal thanks were issued by retiring president Mielke to Mrs. Ann Wandesforde (wife of Har- The Wheel "He Profits Most Who Serves Best" PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA RAY GERMAIN and JOHN BEVILLE Co-Editors SHERWIN GARSIDE Publisher "•US* 6 old), Judy Ciliax (wife of Bill), Jeannie Von Tobel (wife of Jake), Paula Mielke (wife of Mark), Hazel Wehner (wife of Walt), and Ethel Mary Prather (wife of Gay). These Rotary Anns formed the decorations committee. In a special category praise was ex-tended to Ed Kelly for the "Program" (you can't tell the players without a program) which was cleverly done. Many hearts turned over as the pa-trons thumbed through the brochures to the tune of "Look what they've done to my song." - Rl - Gala Picnic Set For Walk Family A good old-fashioned picnic has been set as a welcome home event for retiring International President Bill Walk and his Rotary Ann Louise with the date now confirmed as 2:30 p.m. July 11, at the Holiday Inn near the Ontario airport. Art Ferris, incoming district gover-nor, has urged a large attendance from district 530. The family casual dress affair will feature a steak Bar-B-Q dinner at 5:30 p.m. "Let's make this a day Bill and Louise will long remember when their friends and neighbors come from the clubs of District 530 to give them a hearty homecoming welcome," said Ferris. - Rl - Attendance April attendance for Southern Ne-vada clubs: Boulder City 93.94 Las Vegas Southwest 93.30 Henderson 88.18 North Las Vegas 85.00 Caliente 81.58 Las Vegas 78.74 HELPING HAND — Ward Wengart extends Hand to help debunked Prexy. Peg Crockett gets boost from Walt Wehner in open-ing gift from Club to Mr. and Mrs. George Crockett fcr use of their beautiful Paradise Valley home for Rotary Demotion. PAST PRESIDENTS Poolside * * • From left: Walt Wehner, Ray Culley, Vince Sanner, George Boman, Les Edwards, Lorin Ronnow, Walt Humsacker, Len Fayle, Ward Wengert, Harry Allen, Otto Underhill. COOKING UP "DELIVERY" FOR POOR MARK Bill Southard, Walt Wehner, Vince Sanner DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER - OH YEAH! Outgoing president Mark gets help from friends in drying his muscular physique — from left Secretary Jan Evans, Gloria Simon, Mary Jo Miller. Know Your Rotarians LEONARD FAYLE Leonard Fayle's residency in South-ern Nevada started a year after his birth in Barstow (1904). He lived in Goodsprings, Jean and Las Vegas at intervals between 1905 to 1922. After graduation from University of Penn-sylvania in 1926, Leonard was associ-ated with business enterprises in Cali-fornia that kept him from Las Vegas until 1941 when he returned for good. His father and mother were early pioneers of Goodsprings. In addition to their mining interests they operated the historic Goodsprings Hotel and the George Fayle Mercantile Company. Jean, Nevada was named after Leon-ard's mother. Leonard and Rotary Ann "Anna" are parents of two grown children: Jane Louise Norgren, teacher, Stam-ford, Conn.; Edward G. Fayle, me-chanical engineer, Phoenix, Ariz. They have a grandson, Eric Ray Norgren, living in Stamford. Rotarian Bert Pur-due is a nephew of Leonard. His clas-sification, now Senior Active, was for-merly Bakery Wholesale. While in college, Leonard was a 3- year varsity "P" crew of the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania. His fraternity was Phi Sigma Kappa (providing I read his Greek symbols correctly). He graduated with a B.S. in Eronomics. As a member of the Las Vegas Valley Water District during its formative years, Leonard's services were recog-nized by having a reservoir named in his honor. Other honors include the "Distinguished Nevadan" by the Uni-versity of Nevada, Las Vegas. His interests are in museums and early Nevada history. He and Anna have traveled extensively. As a for-mer Rotary President, 1-949-1950, he has some definite opinions of what would improve our club. 1. More in-formation on new members at time of joining. 2. Resignations should be an-nounced. 3. More Craft talks. 4. Com-mittee activities should be reported upon. Club projects should be report-ed upon. 6. "Scooters" should be prop-erly recognized, to wit: "The follow-ing members were too busy to stay for last week's program." (Comment: Why not a permanent Scooter list printed a year in advance?) Well, as a Past President Wayne Kirch (right) visits with Guild and Irma Gray