The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, 1975-1979

Rotary Service — A Monumental Award Clare Watson Woodbury was born in 1895, in Parowan, Utah. His family later moved to St. George, Utah. He began working for education at the age of 16 when he carried a hod on a volunteer basis to help build the first high school in St. George, where he later graduated. One month after grad-uation, he married Lola Andrus, a classmate, and together they enrolled in Brigham Young University. After one year the Woodburys re-turned to St. George, where their first son was born and where Dr. Wood-bury worked in a drugstore. The fol-lowing year he returned to study at the University of Utah, where he re-ceived his B.A. degree and then con-tinued in the two-year School of Medi-cine. He then transferred to George Washington University Medical School in Washington, D.C., where he grad-uated in 1922. As he finished his in-ternship at George Washington Uni-versity Hospital his father, Dr. Franklin Woodbury, co-founder of the St. George Hospital, died, and he returned to St. George to take over his father's practice. He practiced there for four years, then moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1932 he came to Las Vegas to f i l l in for one of the co-founders of the Las Vegas Hospital for "two or three months" while the other doctor was ill, and he never returned to Salt Lake City. In 1965 Dr. Woodbury received rec-ognition from the University of Utah College of Medicine as a "Distin-guished Senior Alumnus." He was also named "Physician of the Year" by the Nevada Medical Society, and was the recipient of the Robbins Pharmaceu-tical Company's "Award for Outstand-ing Community Service." His record of community service dates from his earliest days in Las Vegas. He served as Clark County Health Officer; he has served on the Nevada State Board of Health since helped organize the Clark County 1938, eight years as chairman; he Chapter of the Medical Association, serving two years as president; he was co-founder of the Clark County Mental Health Association and first president; and he served many years with the Nevada Tuberculosis Association. He was a Rotarian of many years service. Dr. Woodbury has a firm conviction that "The greatest investment any state can make is in the education of its young people." He was elected to the Las Vegas Board of Education in 1952, helped consolidate the 14 boards in the county into the Clark County Board of Education, to which he was elected and re-elected since its founding in 1956. During his tenure as a trustee he has served as Chairman of the Board (1966-1969). The C. W. Woodbury Junior High School is located at 3875 E. Harmon. - Rl - Wiesner Selected To Head Campaign Tom Wiesner has been named as chairman of the fund drive for the Ne-vada Development Authority and will start a campaign of the businessmen in an effort to raise funds for the operation of the development group for another year. Nevada Development Authority is a successor to Southern Nevada Indus-trial Foundation, which was formed many years ago in an effort to attract industry into the area. Many of the Las Vegas Rotarians were members of the original SNIF group and spent many hours in developing a program which might be interesting to industry. SNIF was re-organized several years ago and NDA, its successor, has been operating out of offices in the McCar-ran Airport building, of late. - Rl - "You're a dirty liar and a shyster!" one lawyer screamed at his adversary. "And you," yelled the second law-yer, "are a two-bit ambulance-chaser and a crook!" "Now that counsel have identified themselves," intoned the judge, "let the case begin." Paul Harris Fellows Recognition Dinner By LEN FAYLE The Rotary Club of San Marino sponsored the Paul Harris Fellows Recognition dinner, held at the Univer-sity Club of Pasadena, on the evening of February 23rd last. There were approximately 200 Ro-tarians and Rotary Anns in attendance. District Governor Paul Lippold made the welcoming speech. The principal address was delivered by Rotarian Taro Kawa, a Japanese-American, Clas-sification Food Importer. Some interesting statistics were mentioned by the speakers. For in-stance, to support the various ex-change student programs the Rotary Foundation raised and spent 8V2 mil-lion dollars in 1975, with approxi-mately 1,400 students from all coun-tries (except those of the Communist countries) participating. District 530 raised $83,000, being surpassed only by Districts 513 and 528. District 530 has 286 Paul Harris Fel-lows of whom 116 were honored by their respective clubs or anonymous donors. North Las Vegas club, with no less than 11 members plus many of their wives making that club a 5,000% club, is the leader of District 530. Recently made Paul Harris Fellows from this area are: Clae Davis of the Henderson club; Pat Head of the Para-dise club; Bud Cleland and Barry Bar-do of the North Las Vegas club; and Harvey Luce and Walter Wehner of the Las Vegas club. The fellowship was great. - R l - The corporate president, a difficult man at best, called his executives to his office. "You people," he fumed, "have got to get moving. There's a bottleneck somewhere in this firm, and I want is removed immediately! Un-derstand?" Leaving the dressing down, one vice president whispered to another, "One thing about bottles: You'll notice the neck is always at the top." Know Your Rotarians JERRY ALLEN LEE Jerry Allen Lee was born in Bakers-field, California, January, 1951. Just 26 years old, he is currently enjoying the status of bachelorhood. His classi-fication is Office Equipment and Sup-plies, A.A. Jerry is another of a growing list of second generation Rotarians, being the son of Verle Lee, president of Lee Of-fice Equipment. His hobbies are skiing and tennis. His major at UNLV was Hotel Admin-istration. We welcome him to the fel-lowship of Rotary. - Rl - "Lady," barked the policeman, "I just clocked you doing 50 in a 30-mile-an- hour zone!" The sweet little old lady replied, "Officer, before this goes any further, are you supposed to advise me of my Constitutional rights or am I supposed to advise you that my nephew is the chief of police?" - Rl - What Is Rotary? "Rotary is a fellowship of men who believe in 'Service above self'." . . . Rotary is a means of elevating all busi-nesses and professions to a level of ethical standards that recognizes serv-ice beyond ordinary practices. Rotary is a fellowship of men who are willing to give of their most pre-cious commodity — time — to help others. Rotary is service through your vocation. It is giving of yourself as a way of life. _ P| _ New York Retiree Seeks Stamps Secretary Jan is in receipt of a let-ter from a retired member of the Al-bany, N.Y., club. He is seeking "any old envelopes or corners of them which might contain old cancelled stamps. We have his address in the Wheel file. _ R( _ Considering the attendance record of some Congressmen, we may have gone from taxation without represen-tation to representation without repre-sentation.