Las Vegas Rotary Club

In the spring of 1923 this week the little railroad town of Las Vegas Nevada was just starting to wake up to the cost of the pennies that were donning. A rather nasty railroad strike that had provided the town to just travel and work from Washington DC indicated that Congress was finally going to do something about the Colorado River by putting a great big dam across it somewhere nearby. Las Vegas was the closest railroad stop from Los Angeles River. The government sending out engineering orders to check out the possibility. Of a little town saw that it had to hustle to get the project gone. So the Chamber of Commerce hired last founder from Los Angeles to be their new executive secretary in terms of at a Rotary Club might be a quick way to make Las Vegas look more important than it was. The problem was the rotary only looked at big town population base 20 to 30000. Reno had a club charger but no little Las Vegas also gaining a rotary emblem became the goal. Eleven Area Meetings were hosted by Walter bracken and the every bar. See Bob squires and his

family threw the weight of his newspaper on the Las Vegas age behind the effort. Contacts were made and a lot of letters went back and forth and finally on March 15 1923 a list of proposed charter members tailored to suit the finicky requirements of Rotary International was received by this august body. Walter Bracken is the Union Pacific Railroad main man control the town's main resource water. Market was massive eyed as a freight forwarder controlled everything else. Cashman out of the park running things. As I lingered managing large numbers and they bang. Bang. Just about everybody in the Chargers group was part of even the bank or the railroad. Conductor W.S. park with the dentist son of John as far as the cofounder of the bank. Sam lost the manage the power and telephone company which got its electricity and lines from the railroad. M. Ferrand with white cross drugs was a bank director. OK add general merchandise will Beckley the

haberdasher and pam pam broke with his confectioners fascination and his Frigidaire franchise. Paul Absolutely lived at the bottom of the railroad in the bank. Jackie Chan was the station agent for the railroad and Bill Sherman was about the town mayor and the Railway Express agent. The butcher and brochure Harry Blanding might have gotten by without the railroad at the bank because he threw his own meat at his farm which was located about where the Presbyterian Church is now near the county hospital. Bill Pike who would later found pregnant by insurance depended on the population of the whole town for his movie theater. Mel Riley only needed one person to sell insurance to and now him and the lawyer only needed one other lawyer. With all the activity going on the railroad and the bank needed Dr Roy Martin and his Las Vegas hospital. Did you notice that the name C E. top Squires was not included. CABELL that his efforts through his family and newspaper should have placed him in the select group of charter

Rotarians sides which he was the postmaster of Las Vegas. The founders wanted a squeaky clean charter application and he knew the rotary frowned on political bias of nations such as postmaster. Therefore Saunders felt that for rotary to be and it had to be now. And later years Mom savoring his sweet revenge he became the first baby Rotarian after the public chartered and thereafter mounted a campaign questioning whether Saunders was really worth the $200 a month that the Chamber of Commerce was paying. Saunders responded to the attacks in the Las Vegas Review which was the rival newspaper to copy Las Vegas a Saunders quickly learned about the power of the press. And we see the following article a short time later. At the Thursday lunch another Rotary Club Leslie Saunders president of the club since its organization tendered his resignation which was accepted. Karen was elected to fill the office. Mr Baron has been identified with the business life of the city for many

years and no more judicious selection of a providing officer would have been made by the club. Here as everywhere it is an important factor in community affairs Mr Saunders In an interview with everything you state he is leaving for the reason that he is the sort of more lucrative engagement elsewhere. The power of the press we can pick up suppliers for the first demotion party of a Las Vegas robbery. The headline of the Las Vegas Review read the. Rotary honors the first president Monday evening at the time and shot 20 Rotarians with their rotary and metal heartache of a functionalist banquet given in honor of Leslie are Saunders as a token of friendship from the club of green gold Hannah Graham Fountain Pen and Pencil that was presented by President parents president founders of appropriate remarks. After singing the rotary farewell on Mr Saunders responded thanking the good fellows of Rotary. This was the harbinger of rotary as a social creature or shortly thereafter we know the

Rotary Club banquet was a happy affair a lot Vegas Rotary Club gave a banquet at the Union Pacific dining room Thursday evening as a welcome to Mr. and Mrs. James Cashman who recently returned from their honeymoon trip. The honored guests were presented by the club with a handsome set of silver if air was most jolly throughout the long be remembered by all. We're so fortunate to be present. As the town grew the cloth grew in 1929 from the Las Vegas Rotary Club on Thursday afternoons of the Union Pacific dining room sharing historical moments with 34 members. The scenery it was appropriate and called was the place and park used the occasion of the old. First long distance telephone call out of Las Vegas. By calling the mayor of Reno. Thereupon everyone else joined in. And Las Vegas was suddenly how modern metropolis. The scenery with the site of the first post prohibition beer bust as a Leo's predecessor Charles Demick kept the first legal beer in

town as part of his debunking ceremony this beer bust debunking shocked the community at the time because of the prominence of the malefactors in the town of London. In 1931 under Mack. The project of the Rotary Club and here was the construction of Hoover Dam. Rotary joined with six companies to come in and work. To prove me right now a president. To see the great green taking. Carmen I think the reality of town and I met. The greatest work of it ever attempted at the hand of. This great river. In 1935 under President Marion Broderick. WE DID IT project President Franklin Roosevelt came out to dedicate the band that is. The right one.

And. Head of the something that some way or another you. Have been doing up and down the road. They didn't let this go to the press. The finalists are looking for the rest is not a great job because they got a bag of construction of the damn creative recreational activities from boating and fishing on Lake Mead to horseback riding on the lower river in 1937. A moral earthquake hit Los Angeles. The gambling boats were dried out and Las Vegas

witnessed the arrival of guy McAfee tutor shere farmer page and big time gambling in Rotarian will back to his former haberdashery store on Fremont Street. The Pioneer Club as it was called became the first legal explosive gambling club in the city of Las Vegas. In one thousand thirty nine Ria Gable came to the wide open little town to establish residence for her well publicized divorce from her husband Mark. The news of movie stars seeking divorces Lake Mead fishing and Boulder Dam healing force the Union Pacific Railroad to replace in 1999 station with the world's first completely air conditioned passenger station. But the binary closed the Las Vegas rotary club down the street to the Apache hotel. When Tommy hall opened his El Rancho Vegas hotel to catch the increasing flood of tourists driving from Los Angeles rotary moved to the El Rancho dining room for its

Thursday luncheon. With World War Two starting the Las Vegas Rotary Club welcomed the U.S. Army gunnery school. The only bomb hit Las Vegas at the time was the insistence of the army commander that the local brothel be closed. I don't want to point any fingers but I don't want you. 942 brought the construction of the basic magnesium plant. And rotary was there to meet the workers and inspect the plant. In 1944 the last frontier open and its canary room became host to the Rotary Club for the next 13 years. As World War 2 ended gas rationing and travel restrictions. Bugsy Siegel and his investment group opened the Flamingo Hotel. Sadly enough

he lost his potential rotary confiscation when new management took over the hotel. In the next few years while the army gunnery school grew to become Nellis Air Force Base and the county airport moved to Georgia Crockett's ranch to become a carrier and field the desert him and the Thunderbird were built. And in 1952 both the San and the Sahara. Even rotary spawn a new club in Henderson. The most spectacular opening however occurred one spring morning in 1952. Bernie Mac Atomic Energy Commission started atmospheric testing at Frenchman's flat. The test site was doing its thing. Rotary was founding and or funding Hyde Park cooking facilities for the Girl Scouts and helping to implement the start of Nevada Southern University became UN healthy on the last frontier became the new frontier. A Las Vegas Rotary Club moved to the Tropicana Hotel. Helen

Willis Burns Rotary and designed the rotary graced the world curtain. The day that Tony Korn arrow opened his Stardust Hotel in 1958. He broke something of a tradition by dying at one of his own crap table of natural causes. In 1957 a minor revolution was started when Harold Minsky introduced nudity. The entertainment attraction for the Dunes Hotel show room the then Catholic Bishop joined with some of the community including many Rotarians to protest. When French style shows there after opened at the Stardust and even at the stage Tropicana Hotel. The bishop's vigilantes for bras and panties knew they had a lost cause. This later scene of the dunes demise suggested divine retribution going on and on. The golden anniversary of the Las Vegas Rotary Club occurred at the Sahara Space Center in one thousand

seventy three. Argyle Gray and John in Florence came and produced and delivered a sweeping masterpiece on all that the Rotary Club done in Las Vegas. And particularly its contributions to the university system from its days as Nevada Southern to its current status as the premiere campus of the state university system. About the same time for Gregorian commence construction of his original MGM Hotel Rotarian Tom Wiesner built the marina and Howard Hughes finished his collection of hotel rooms. Moguls like Bob O'Connell and Donna Ashworth among others directed rotaries efforts netted a boss for the Crippled Children's Program a Boy Scout Troop for the handicapped and other civic projects. For Purdue a third generation Las Vegas was president appropriately enough when the seventy fifth anniversary is of Rotary International and the City of Las Vegas coincided. This was followed by our own Marion Earls award as

outstanding Rotarian of the year. 10 years of effort culminated in her winning Kitchener's fulfilled dreams of a Rotary International Convention in Las Vegas June of 1986 brought 20000 Rotarians from one hundred two countries to the 77 annual Rotary International Convention. In 1988 a catastrophe caused chaos at a Las Vegas Rotary Club. Laura Bell Kelch became the first woman admitted to membership. Some resignations resulted at this winery but most of the Chauvinist pig has grudgingly admitted that women in business were a necessary force to be dealt with and welcomed them into robbery. Rob Moore's father Julian Moore and his grandfather Leo McNamee have both been rotary presidents. So he decided to run for the office. It was his administration that saw the founding of a crack at Rotary museum at McCarran International Airport run well as promised the croc at that after one rotary debunking party the club would leave the

Crockett ranch. Rockets ride for the next 30 years to get rid of us. In 1963 they just tried taking the kids and dogs on. Then they tried larger animals. They thought hyenas if they kill would chase us away. But not even lions would do the trick. They struck upon the idea of bribing Ted weans. Finally George got desperate. At last in 1992 with a Las Vegas Rotary Club last year Crockett ranch and its bank said 30 years of breaking our necks for them and all we get is a plaque with the bird. The crock it got even now Katie Crockett became the first woman to be president of the Las Vegas Rotary Club. To the shocked amazement of some of her fellow members and to the smug acknowledgement of the rash and she's done a wonderful job helping to lead the club for the 21st century. Oh and.

There's a girl. I feel bad for you playing there. OK I think we need a serious. Look at how we got here. Might have. One of. Everything. With. Him. On Mars. That's right. Because I get stuff like that for. A medicinal shoes. And I. Swear. Hopefully they realize that there's a lot of people concerned about them in the community. We can make some small step along that way. We want to we figure we've accomplished our. Right. I'd like.

To think a lot of different spheres. OK I know. You're there.