President DeWitt Paul ran the meeting.

Our President asked for a few moments of silence to remember our dear friends and fellow Rotarian, Brooks Williams and his wife Diane Williams who were taken from us in a fatal plane crash last week. Our thoughts, prayers and offer of assistance goes out to their family. See LVRJ article.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, at Shadow Hills Baptist Church, 7811 Vegas Drive, followed by a reception in the Fellowship Hall. The family requests no visitors to their home. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Opportunity Village, 6300 W. Oakey Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89146.

Visitors & Guests

Denise Anderson’s guest- Mitchell Horst

Walter Stapfli, Rotarian – Chemicals, Switzerland -

Announcements

LVSWR golf outing on November 1st at Boulder Creek. Contact Adrienne for more info.

Club tailgate party, UNLV v USAF on October 18th. Contact Eric for more info.

Reminder for Back to School Shopping September 27th, 11 kids selected and Dave McCann will be there.

Reminder for Happy Feet September 25 at Dean Peterson.

Past-Presidents meeting October 6th, 10:45

Recognitions

Brithdays – Jack Woodcock, Bill Nelson, Aric Graham and Joanne Blystone
Ken Walker – Both sons getting married next year. $125
Ron Reynolds – Mentioned Rotary in church talk last Sunday. $250
Ram Kumar – Son completed MBA. $225
Brian Dziedziak – Ran 5k and training for half marathon. $100
John McCandless – Married the longest, almost 59 years. $137.50
Ted Henderson – Vacationed in Laguna.
Meagan Schimick – Member of Junior League of LV and just completed her Masters. $150

Speaker

Linda Smith
Smith’s high profile in Southern Nevada has helped raise awareness

For more than 25 years, Linda Smith has revolutionized the principles of non-profit fundraising, community relations and event management in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a fundraising specialist for Opportunity Village, now Nevada’s largest organization for people with intellectual disabilities, she has risen through the ranks to become Chief Development Officer, and has gained an international reputation as an innovative leader, public speaker, and most of all, a humanitarian.

Linda has been a major force at Opportunity Village in planning and developing fundraising strategies, most notably the privately-funded, multi-million dollar capital campaigns to build the Opportunity Village campuses and training centers that have served thousands of disabled people.  During her career, she has originated and organized hundreds of innovative events to inform and educate the public, and to raise money for Opportunity Village and other charitable organizations, including Variety Clubs Children’s Charities International and Special Olympics.

Meeting adjourned

President DeWitt Paul ran the meeting.

Visitors & Guests

Steve Kwon – Gen Contractor – L V Rotary

Jason Park – St. Joseph, Mo. – Technology Consultant

Announcements

Adrienne Cox – LVSWR golf outing on November 1st at Boulder Creek. Contact Adrienne for more info.

Joanne Blystone – Looking for donation to copy and bind our club’s handbook.

Eric Colvin – Club tailgate party, UNLV v USAF on October 18th. Contact Eric for more info.

Josh Satterlee – Reminder for Back to School Shopping September 27th, 11 kids selected and Dave McCann will be there. Reminder for Happy Feet September 25 at Dean Peterson.

Doug Malan – Past-Presidents meeting October 6th, 10:45

Recognitions
Doug Malan – Daughter had a baby.
Eric Colvin – New position in SBA Lending at Nevada Commerce Bank. $100
Doug Warden – birthday. $37.50
Joanne Blystone – birthday. $50
Sherm Frederick – Good scout. $500
Fred Fukumoto – Participant in Shelter Box program. $25 credit
Andy Katz – United Way project participant. $125
Ron Steffey – USC recognition. $125
Troy Lochhead – $287.50
Willie Robinson – Mention as volunteer for Senior Lifeline. $225
Howdy Wells – Has a street named after him. $115
Keith Thomas – MBA from St. Mary’s. $187.50
Marshall Darnell – Has a CCSD school named after him. $150

Speaker

Scott Baranoff – Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

Great Prostate Cancer Challenge 2008

September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
For over twenty years the American Urological Association (AUA) Foundation has supported and promoted research, patient and public education and advocacy to improve prevention, detection, treatment and ultimately cure urological diseases. The AUA Foundation funds prostate cancer research, screenings and awareness programs in local communities.

Sadly, approximately 218,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, one new case every 2.5 minutes; and more than 27,000 will die from the disease.

Based on the overwhelming success of the 2007 inaugural event, the 5K Run/1 Mile Walk to benefit prostate cancer research is back. Last year the event had over 1,200 participants and raised over $125,000.

Meeting adjourned

Visitors and Guests

Harriet Gross visiting from Texas

Russel Swain Las Vegas – Insurance

Mary Jane Cross  New Jersey – Education

Dorothy Anderson  PA – College Educator

Joe Judge  Canada -Retailer

Carol  Bedrow   Australia -Taxi Service

Randy Capurro’s guest – Paul Goecke (also a Rotarian- Green Valley)

Member Announcements

Fred – Reminder for Back to School Shopping September 27. 11 kids selected and Dave McCann will be there

Josh – Reminder for Happy Feet September 25 at Dean Peterson.

Aric – Fred and Aric are going to attend a presentation about a possible international project in the Philippines. Anyone interested in attending please contact Aric.

LVSWR Golf Outing November 1 at Boulder Creek

Recognitions

Birthdays in August and September:
Driggs, Reynolds, Crowe, Anderson, Wells, Publow, Baxter, Harrison and Warden. $25 each

Bruce Pope fined $200 because his daughter-in-law was in the paper. Announcement was made that she is leaving the LVCVA after 8 years to pursue a consulting practice and dedicate more time to Bruce’s grandchild. Also there was a photo in H&D Magazine of Bruce and Beth at an event with free wine (reason Bruce attended).

Randy Capurro was fined $150 because Dee did some Google research and found Randy’s very interesting bio which includes his time in the Coast Guard, Nevada Assembly and Nevada Ethics commission.

Mel Close was also researched on Google and we found out that in the early 1960’s Mel sold property to the Dunes hotel that then became the Dunes Golf Course and is now part of the Miracle mile. For a moment Mel almost had us convinced that it was another guy name Mel Close. Nice try, Mel;-)

Fred Fukumoto was also fined for his past – He participated in the Public Education Foundation, Student Enrichment Grants. Fined $200

Aric Graham was part of Valpo’s 1998 Sweet 16 team and recently honored on the 10 year anniversary. $125 fine.

Scott Baranoff was also recognized.  Scott works with Sunrise and Desert Springs hospitals. He also had a very funny joke, as usual (joke is the usual, funny is usually).

Speaker:
Doug Chase:
•    Las Vegas resident since 2005
•    BA Economics, UC Berkeley
•    MBA, with High Distinction, Michigan Business School (Ross)
•    Ten Years at Fidelity Inv. as Portfolio Manager and Analyst
•    Assistant on Magellan Mutual Fund ($100 Billion) – (P. Lynch)
•    Managed several different 4 and 5-Star Mutual Funds at Fido
•    Hired by American Express to build Asset Management business in Boston from scratch
•    Managed 11 Mutual Funds simultaneously at one point
•    Co-Managed $400 Million Hedge Fund
•    Board Member of Private Companies
•    Adjunct Faculty Member (Finance) at Michigan B-School

Now full-time Long/Short Equity Fund Manager here in LV

See Doug’s presentation here.

Very interesting presentation.

Meeting adjourned.