The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, September 21, 1972

The Wheel UNLV CAMPUS EXPANSION ADDS TO BEAUTY OF UNIVERSITY — This aerial photograph shows new buildings which have been erected on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas during the past few months. The tallest building, center, is seven stories in height and houses many classrooms including those used by the Hotel Administration, Humanities and several graduate courses, plus many university administration offices. Two other buildings were erected also this year including the Teacher Training (right center) and the Center for the Theater Arts (far right center). The new buildings are pointed out as among the most outstanding in western college comparisons. Much of the campus was given a covering of hot oil surfacing to provide additional parking space for more than thirteen hundred cars. (UNLV Photograph) LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY TROPICANA HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Mailing Address - P. O. Box 5664, Garside Station 89102 SEPTEMBER 21, 1972 • H H H H H V W H H H H H H H M 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 kvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv* UNLV Rotary Scholarships Two of the five "first time" Rotary scholars announced on August 31 are Patricia Festor and Randy Neilson. Patricia moved to Las Vegas in 1969 from Northern California where she at-tended St. Vincent's High School. She entered the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the spring of 1971, and is now a sophomore majoring in elemen-tary education. Upon graduation she plans to immediately start teaching in Clark county at the primary level, while working towards a master's de-gree at evening classes and during the summer recess. Patricia is married and has two children. Both she and her husband have come to love Las Vegas and plan to be permanent members of the community. Randy Neilson was graduated from Basic High School in Henderson in 1969. He entered the University of Ne-vada, Las Vegas in the fall of that year, and is now a senior majoring in ac-counting. Randy is currently working as a drivers license examiner while attending the university. His major outside interests are hunting and fish-ing. He is married and has lived in the Las Vegas area for 20 years. He has no children. Upon graduation he plans to be-come a Certified Public Accountant and looks forward to a rewarding career in the Las Vegas community. Leonard Fayle Is Given Honor Leonard Fayle, long-time Las Vegas Rotarian, has been selected to receive the Paul Harris Fellowship award, it was announced by President Angelo Manzi. Leonard first became a Rotarian in Delano, California, in 1930 and served as president of that club from 1939 to 1940. It was in 1941 when Leonard came to Las Vegas to live, although he was a member of a pioneer Goodsprings family who carved a great deal of his-tory in southern Nevada. As a mem-ber of the Las Vegas club he was elect-ed president and served in 1949 and 1950. He has a record of 34 years of per-fect attendance and has been at inter-national conventions on three separate occasions. He also was the sponsor of the Las Vegas Southwest Club which was chartered in December of 1956. His family served as host for the first girl exchange student in 1955. He currently is a member of the at-tendance committee and has served for many years on the several committees which are a part of the local club. - Rl - Club Attendance Still Is Lagging President Angelo reminded mem-bers of the Las Vegas Rotary Club that the attendance is below the district level and every effort should be made by each member to assist in bringing the record up. He expressed the opinion, again, that perhaps the make-up cards are not being sent in as they should, and urged each member to submit his own card to Jan so that a proper record can be maintained. Your assistance w i l l be gratefully re-ceived. Life in England Told by Speaker "Life in Merrie Old England" was the theme of the discourse presented to the club last week by Dr. Craig Hamilton, who was chosen by the Ro-tary Club of Las Vegas as its represen-tative in the group study exchange program. Dr. Hamilton reported the Rotarians in England to be much like the mem-bers back home in that they were not cognizant either of what the group study program was. However, he paid high tribute to the Rotary club pro-gram declaring that it was extremely well planned and said that it should be expanded to take in other segments of t':e population. He said it was a "su-per" program and should be much more publicized than it is. He explained that, under ihe pro-gram, the participants in the program lived with families in the London area and, during the six weeks the group stayed in London, they changed host home every week. Thus, he said, they each were in six different homes and contacted at least 84 members of the host families. He said that the program couldn't help but promote international under-standing and said there was little or no language barrier. "There are four types of English," he said. "The first are the Scotch, who keep the Sabbath and practically ev-erything else; the Welsh, who pray on their knees and on practically every-body they can get their hands on; the Irish, who are not sure 'ust what they believe in but will fight for everything on that level; and the English, who feel they are self made and have saved God a lot of trouble." He reported they had attended most of the Rotary clubs in the London area and that he had found it was quite dif-ficult to be a Rotarian in England. The average age of the "young" Rotarians there was 50 years. He said the group had gone almost everywhere in London and had attend- Fall Golf Meet To Be in Fallmouth The fall Rotary Club golf tourna-ment will be held at Palo Mesa Coun-try Club in Fallmouth, California, Octo-ber 13, 14 and 15, it was reported last Thursday by Garwood Van, chairman of arrangements. The Las Vegas group will leave here Friday at 6:30 a.m. by bus, which will be equipped with all the necessities in-cluding "snacks," and will arrive about 11:45. After checking into the rooms, a practice round will be held at 12:36 and dinner will be served in the East Room at 7:30, after which a Calcutta will be held. Saturday breakfast will be served until 10:30 a.m., and the first day's starting time will be 10:52. Dinner that night will be any time you are ready and a menu choice will be available. Breakfast will be early on Sunday with no service available after 8 a.m. Starting time for the second day will be 8:44 and on. Departure time for Las Vegas will be at 5 p.m. and arrival time at home is set for about 9 p.m. The cost for the entire jaunt is $75. Van said that if there is room, non-golfers can make the trip for $60. ed soccer games, and visited the TV Center, the House of Commons, the stock exchange, Billingsgate, and had had dinner at the House of Lords. They also visited the American Embassy, the Salvation Army headquarters, the na-tional galleries, Chelsea Hospital, and many other places which are peculiar to London. Most of the pieces, he said, were those which the ordinary tourist never sees. He concluded the program with a series of slides which detailed the areas the group had visited during their stay. The Las Vegas members voted it an outstanding program. Wonderful Days of U.P. 'Beanery' Recalled Only a handful of Rotarians today remember the old Union Pacific beanery. Those who do, have fond recollections of the beginnings of Ro-tary. Those who never had the oppor-tunity to know it missed out on one of the great institutions of the com-munity end of the Rotary Club as well. History does not chronicle, to the satisfaction of all exactly when the structure was built, but it is known that it was in operation at the time the Las Vegas Rotary Club was born in 1923. It was constructed for the benefit of the members of the railroad crews who were changed here at the division point. It also served as a dining place for the travelers of the passenger trains which served the city. The UP dining rooms were not as famous as those operated on the Santa Fe line by Fred Harvey, but they were as useful to all concerned. The building which housed the beanery was a two story structure which provided meal facilities on the group floor and sleeping accommoda-tions for the crews on the second story. The downstairs area provided both a lunch counter and a dining room and it was the latter which was used by the local residents for all sorts of gatherings. It was the weekly meeting place for the Las Vegas Cham-ber of Commerce, then known as the Commercial Club; the Rotary Club and many, many private occasions like weddings, anniversaries, and even sometimes, wakes. In those early days it was practi-cally the only place in town to eat. While the food was not of the greatest quality, it did serve the larger organ-izations well. The beanery was presided over, for the most part of its history by "Doc" Hodgens who, because of the peculiari-ties of his business and the clientele which patronized the establishment, probably was the best known man in town. The Rotary Club started meeting in the establishment shortly after its Romero To Speak On Olympic Games The speaker for today is John Ro-mero, head of the publicity department for the Del E. Webb company at the Sahara. John has just returned from Munich where he attended the recent contro-versial Olympic Games. He will give the Rotary Club a look at the games and all they included and will provide a first-hand account of not only the contesls themselves but all that went cn in addition. Romero is well qualified to speak on such a topic because he jpent many years as sports editor of the Review- Journal and has covered many of the outstanding events of that area during his writing days. He came to Las Vegas directly fol-lowing his graduation from San Jose State College, where he majored in journalism and has been a resident of the community ever since. He left the R-J to accept a position st the Sahara shortly after World War II and has since risen to head of the de-partment. formation in the Chocolate Shop on Fremont Street in 1923, and continued to gather there until it was torn down in ihe early 1940's. The waitresses in the dining room also became widely acquainted with the local residents and there were several of them who exchanged their bibs and trays for a wedding ring and became prominent people in the social strata of the then growing community. Now, only the memory remains of the building which stood in the north-ernmost area of the Union Plaza hotel just about where the lobby of that structure stands. The old building had as visitors many, many prominent citi-zens, from presidents (Hoover) to just plain ordinary Rotarians and Chamber of Commerce members. But it should be enshrined in the history books be-cause many of the schemes that made Las Vegas grow were hatched in that old two-storied stucco structure.