Las Vegas Rotary Club

Annual Rotary/Kiwanis Canned Food Drive Meeting
2017-11-22 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States

Las Vegas Rotary Club Board Meeting
2017-11-16 13:45 - 15:00, 2017-10-19 13:45 - 15:00, 2017-09-21 13:45 - 15:00, 2017-08-17 13:45 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
The Rotary Club of Las Vegas board of directors meeting is the formal monthly meeting of the elected directors to consider any policy and governance issues.

William McDonald, Las Vegas Fire Chief - Las Vegas Fire & Rescue
2017-11-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
Willie McDonald is a native of Fresno, California, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from California State University. He also graduated from the National Fire Academy’s Executive Fire Officers’ Program, completed Harvard University’s fellowship for State and Local Government Officials, and earned Arizona State University’s Certified Public Manager Certificate.
In 1978, Chief McDonald started his fire career in Fresno as a Firefighter Trainee and then promoted through the ranks to Firefighter-Paramedic, Engineer-Paramedic, Captain-Paramedic and Deputy Fire Chief, serving until February 1993. As a Deputy Chief, McDonald oversaw In-service and Recruit Training, Emergency Medical Services, Fleet (including Maintenance, Repair, and Purchasing), Hazardous Materials Response, Disaster Management and Fire Communications.
Willie was appointed Fire Chief in Foster City, CA in 1993, Fire Chief in San Mateo, CA in 1996, Fremont, CA in 2002, and Scottsdale, AZ in 2004. In Scottsdale, he was provided the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of creating a new Fire Department to replace the private contractor, Rural Metro. Chief McDonald helped to hire approximately 275 employees, purchase necessary protective clothing, tools and equipment; and develop policies, practices, and procedures. The new Department was launched at midnight on July 1, 2005, and this event was the start of the City directly providing services without interruption. Six years later in August 2010, McDonald was appointed Fire Chief in San Jose, CA, where the Fire Department has 790 employees serving the nation’s 10th largest populated city.
Beginning August 2013, he joined Las Vegas Fire & Rescue as the Fire Chief. The Department is highly respected throughout the fire service, is accredited and maintains an ISO Class I designation.

Col. David Bissonnette, Vice Wing CDR Creech AFB - Veteran's Day
2017-11-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
Colonel David M. Bissonnette is the Vice Commander, 432d Wing and 432d Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), Creech Air Force Base, Nev. He is responsible for all operations and maintenance of the Air Force’s first Remotely Piloted Aircraft wing, equipped with more than 130 MQ-1B Predator, MQ-9 Reaper and RQ-170 Sentinel remotely piloted aircraft. The 432d Wing trains pilots, sensor operators, and other crewmembers, and conducts persistent attack and reconnaissance combat operations worldwide. As the 432 WG Vice Commander, he leads more than 2,500 active duty, government civilians, and contract personnel in three groups and the wing staff. In addition, as the 432 AEW Vice Commander, he assists in the execution of operational authorities for the Combined Forces and Joint Forces Air Component Commanders for 432d Wing units as well as twelve Air National Guard combat MQ-1B and MQ-9 units across the United States.
Colonel Bissonnette was commissioned in 1992 as an ROTC graduate of Princeton University. He has served in a variety of operational flying, staff and command assignments at the squadron, group, numbered air force and joint levels. He was the Deputy Commander of the 432d Operations Group, Commander of the 432d Operations Support Squadron and served as the Director of Operations of the 361st Expeditionary Reconnaissance and the 15th Reconnaissance Squadrons and a student at the National War College at Ft. McNair, Washington, D.C. Most recently, he served as the Chief of the United States Forces Korea and Combined Forces Command’s Joint Operations Coordination Element and was the primary operations liaison element within the Republic of Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Colonel Bissonnette is a command pilot with more than 3,500 total flying hours in the MQ-1, MC-12, F-15 C/D, and B-52H, including over 400 combat hours in Operations DESERT FOX, NOBLE EAGLE, SOUTHERN and NORTHERN WATCH, ENDURING FREEDOM, IRAQI FREEDOM and UNIFIED PROTECTOR.
EDUCATION
1992 Bachelor of Science & Engineering, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton N.J.
1999 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2007 Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala., Distinguished Graduate
2007 Master of Science, Military Operational Art & Science, Air University, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2009 Air War College, correspondence
2014 Master of Science, National Security Strategy, National War College, Washington, D.C.
2014 National War College, Ft. McNair, Washington, D.C.
ASSIGNMENTS

September 1993 – September 1994, Student, Undergraduate Pilot Training, Vance Air Force Base (AFB), Okla.
October 1994 – April 1995, Student, B-52 training, 11th Bomb Squadron, Barksdale AFB, La.
April 1995 – August 1999, Assistant Flight Commander, 20th Bomb Squadron, Barksdale AFB, La.
September 1999 – November 1999, Student, Squadron Officer’s School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
December 1999 – November 2000, Student, F-15C training, 1st Fighter Squadron, Tyndall AFB, Fla.
December 2000 – July 2003, Flight Commander, 94th Fighter Squadron, Langley AFB, Va.
July 2003 – July 2005, Director of Operations, 39th Operations Squadron, Incirlik Air Base, Turkey
August 2005 – June 2006, Assistant Director of Operations, 60th Fighter Squadron, Eglin AFB, Fla.
July 2006 – June 2007, Student, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
July 2007 – May 2008, Chief of Combat Plans Branch, 611th Air Operations Center, Elmendorf AFB, Alaska
June 2008 – September 2009, Executive Officer to the Commander, Alaskan Command, Elmendorf AFB, Alaska
October 2009 – December 2009, Student, MQ-1B training, 11th Reconnaissance Squadron, Creech AFB, Nev.
January 2010 – July 2010, Director of Operations, 15th Reconnaissance Squadron, Creech AFB, Nev. (August 2010 – April 2011, Director of Operations, 361st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan)
May 2011 – May 2013, Commander, 432d Operations Support Squadron, Creech AFB, Nev.
May 2013 – July 2013, Deputy Commander, 432d Operations Group, Creech AFB, Nev.
July 2013 – June 2014, student, National War College, Ft McNair, Washington, D.C.
July 2014 – July 2016, Chief, USFK/CFC Joint Operations Coordination Element, United States Army Garrison Yongsan, Republic of Korea
July 2016 – Present, Vice Commander, 432d Wing and 432d Air Expeditionary Wing, Creech AFB, Nev.

SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS
1. July 2014 – July 2016, Chief, USFK/CFC Joint Operations Coordination Element, United States Army Garrison Yongsan, Republic of Korea, as a Colonel.
FLIGHT INFORMATION
Rating: Command Pilot
Flight hours: More than 3,500
Aircraft flown: MQ-1B, MC-12W, C-12, F-15B/C/D, B-52H
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Defense Superior Service Medal
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters
Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters
Aerial Achievement Medal with six oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal
Air Force Achievement Medal with one oak leaf cluster
EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION
Second Lieutenant Jan. 27, 1993
First Lieutenant Jan. 27, 1995
Captain Jan. 27, 1997
Major June 1, 2003
Lieutenant Colonel July 1, 2008
Colonel Nov. 1, 2014

Las Vegas Rotary Foundation Board Meeting
2017-11-02 13:45 - 15:00 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
The Rotary Club of Las Vegas Foundation board of directors meeting is the formal quarterly meeting of the elected directors to consider any policy and governance issues related to the Foundation.

John Case, John B. Case & Associates - Yucca Mountain Project
2017-11-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
Mr. Case is a retired professional engineer in geotechnical engineering and nuclear waste management. From 1984 to 2008, he worked on the Yucca Mountain Project (YMP) directly for Bechtel-SAIC (BSC), and as a subcontractor to Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). He made technical contributions on the YMP in the areas of repository sealing of shafts and underground drifts; probabilistic rock-mass classification and rock-support analyses in preparation of the Geotechnical Baseline Report for the Enhanced Characterization Repository Block (ECRB); waste package and rock temperature predictions during preclosure ventilation; assessment of thermal properties of welded and non-welded tuffs; thermal management of waste-package line loads; probabilistic risk assessment of features, events and processes (FEPS) and quality assurance. He is a lifetime member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). And he is a former President of the Kiwanis Club of Coronado from 1988 to1989 in Albuquerque New Mexico and is currently the President of the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas.

Scare Away Hunger
2017-10-27 18:30 - 21:30 | The Las Vegas Distillery, 7330 Eastgate Road Unit 100, Henderson, NV, 89011, United States

Dr. Shawn Gerstenberger, Acting Dean UNLV Med School
2017-10-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
Shawn Gerstenberger, Dean of the UNLV School of Community Health Sciences and Acting Dean of UNLV’s School of Medicine
Dr. Gerstenberger was born and raised in Cornucopia, Wisconsin where he lived until he left to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he majored in Toxicology.
After earning his Ph.D., he held positions at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center at the University of Wisconsin and at the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Department of Preventative Medicine.
He came to UNLV 20 years ago where he is currently the Dean of the School of Community Health Sciences. More recently, he has been appointed Acting Dean of UNLV’s School of Medicine. He is married with two children.
Research Interests: Environmental toxicants and their effects on human and wildlife health, specifically those related to mercury, lead, PCBs and other compounds that adversely influence
children’s health and welfare.
Current Projects: Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, Environmental Health Laboratory, Healthy Homes, and mercury contamination in wildlife.
Recent Publications
Pharr, J.R., Coughenour, C.A., Gerstenberger, S. (2014). Building a sustainable community through public engagement: A study of Southern Nevada. Nevada Journal of Public Health, 11,
13-22
Pharr, J.R., Coughenour, C.A., Gerstenberger, S. (2014). Community health indicators in Southern Nevada. Nevada Journal of Public Health, 11, 92-112.
Pharr, J.R., Coughenour, C.A., Gerstenberger, S. (2014). Demographic makeup and population projections for Southern Nevada: Understanding the emerging healthcare needs in our
community. Nevada Journal of Public Health, 11, 23.-36.

District 5300 Peace Conference
2017-10-21 09:00 - 13:00 | Huntington Library and Gardens, San Marino, CA, United States

Pat Christenson - Las Vegas Events
2017-10-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
Pat Christenson has been in the event industry for more than 33 years. In that time he has been involved with more than 3,000 special events. In 1983 he opened the Thomas & Mack Center and began management of what is now Sam Boyd Stadium. In 1999, he oversaw the renovation of both venues and built Cox Pavilion.In 2001, he joined Las Vegas Events as its President. During his
In 2001, he joined Las Vegas Events as its President. During his tenure, LVE has averaged 45 events per year, up from 21 the year before he arrived. Las Vegas Events produces or sponsors the National Finals Rodeo, Life is Beautiful, USA Sevens, three Conference Basketball Tournaments, USA Basketball, NBA Summer League, Rock ‘N’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon and America’s Party (New Year’s Eve reworks).
In 2017, Christenson released a book, Rock Vegas. It is about the evolution of live music in Las Vegas.
Pat’s Insight
“With the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo as a model, Las Vegas Events is constantly challenged to secure and ensure the success of the best events in the world.”

Raymond Hess - RTC Director of Planning
2017-10-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States

Brett Lashbrook - Las Vegas Lights FC
2017-10-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
Brett Lashbrook graduated in just three years with his Bachelor of Science in Business in May 2000 from the University of Missouri, where he was a member of the Honors College. Following his undergraduate career, Lashbrook earned his Juris Doctor from Marquette University School of Law in 2006. During his time as a law student, he was a certificate recipient from the National Sports Law Institute and a member of the Marquette Sports Law Review.
Throughout his career, Lashbrook has had the opportunity to work in a variety of sports organizations, including the Kansas City Wizards, the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the 2000 Olympic Summer Games and the Women’s United Soccer Association.
As Lashbrook’s career grew, he played an integral part as the Venue Director for the 2003 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Portland, Oregon. In this position, he managed all aspects of the event in a short time period, as the venue was awarded the game only five months before kickoff due to a venue change. From there, Lashbrook served as the Legal Operations Project Manager for the New York City 2012 Olympic Bid, as a consultant for the Phoenix Coyotes, and as Legal Council and Special Assistant to the Commissioner’s Office for Major League Soccer / Soccer United Marketing.
In May 2013, Lashbrook was hired as the Chief Operation Officer to lead the Major League Soccer’s expansion team in Orlando, Florida. In this role, he oversaw all aspects of the Club’s transition from a minor-league soccer team to a Major League Soccer team.
After leaving Orlando in 2015 and moving to Las Vegas, Lashbrook founded Intersection Ventures, LLC, an investment and consulting firm focused on the sports industry.Now, Lashbrook has formed Las Vegas Soccer, LLC with his family in an effort to bring a professional
Now, Lashbrook has formed Las Vegas Soccer, LLC with his family in an effort to bring a professional soccer team to Las Vegas and Cashman Field with a multi-year deal.

Tailgate Party
2017-09-30 | NE

DG Raghada Khoury - Club Assembly
2017-09-28 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
District Governor 2017-18, Raghada Khoury
Raghada Khoury, Born in Amman Jordan, raised in Yonkers, NY and has called California home since 1977. She lived in Azusa until she moved to Apple Valley in 1987. Raghada has
a 29-year old son.
In 2001 Raghada graduated from the University of Redlands earning a Masters of Arts in Management with an emphasis in Human Resources. A Bachelor’s of Science program from the University of Phoenix preceded this.
Ms. Khoury has been in Real Estate Investment for the last 13 years. Licensed by the State of California to sell insurance specifically Pre-Need while contracting with Funeral Homes in Southern California. Raghada has served as the President of the Domestic Violence Shelter for Women and Children in the Victor Valley for over 5 years. Appointed to the Commission on the Status of Women where she served for 6 years advocating for the safety and prosperity of all women with a focus on youth leadership. She also served on the Town of Apple Valley Parks and Rec Commission and has served as a member of the Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors for the past four years. In her 14-year tenure, Raghada served as a club president and as a Board of Director for the Rotary Club of Apple Valley for the past 13 years.At the District level, Raghada has served in various capacities such as AG, Exec-AG,
At the District level, Raghada has served in various capacities such as AG, Exec-AG, District Grants Chair, 4 Way Test Speech Contest Chair, Governor’s Aide 2013-2014 and on many other District Committees.

Mark Hall-Patton, McCarran Airport
2017-09-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
Mark Hall-Patton is the Museums Administrator for the Clark County museum system, where he oversees the Clark County Museum, the Howard W. Cannon Aviation Museum, and the Searchlight History Museum. He has been with Clark County for twenty-three years and was previously the Director of the San Luis Obispo County Historical Museum in California. He has worked for both public and private non-profit museums, and has consulted with numerous start-up and established museums and museum boards.
He is a MAP surveyor for the American Alliance of Museums, and the author of two books, over 400 published articles, and has written and produced 48 local history videos. In 2009, he hosted a live interview program on C4 television in the Vegas valley and is regularly seen on the History Channel’s Pawn Stars as a visiting expert. He has also appeared on American Restoration, United Stuff of America, America Facts and Fallacies, 10 Things You Don’t Know About American History, TMZ Sports, CSPAN 3, Mysteries at the Museum, Hoarders, PBS, and the BBC Radio World Service.
In addition to 14 years as a Board member of the Nevada Museums Association, where he served as President from 2000-2002 and 2008-2010, he has served on the California Association of Museums and Western Museums Association boards. He is a member of the board of the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation, and the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame. He has been in the museum field for over 38 years, having also worked with museums in California and South Dakota. He holds a BA in History from the University of California at Irvine and did graduate work in Museum Studies at the University of Delaware.
He is married to Dr. Colleen Hall-Patton, professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at UNLV, and they are the parents of Joseph and Ellen Hall-Patton.

Professor Michael Green, UNLV History Department
2017-09-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
Michael Green is an associate professor of history at UNLV. He is the author of Nevada: A History of the Silver State, a Choice outstanding academic title for 2015, and numerous other books and articles about our state. He also has written extensively about the Civil War, including the book Lincoln and the Election of 1860, and is now writing Lincoln and Native Americans. He received the American Historical Association’s 2014 Eugene Asher Award for Distinguished Teaching, and writes columns for Vegas Seven and Nevada’s Washington Watch, and is the writer of KNPR’s Nevada Yesterdays.

District 5300 Rotary Essentials Training
2017-09-09 | NE

Cigar Social
2017-09-08 | NE

Rob McCoy, CEO Neon Museum
2017-09-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
Rob McCoy has been the President & CEO of the Neon Museum since May 2016.
McCoy began his career as a television news reporter and anchor. He joined the corporate world in 1983 and in the intervening years has provided valuable expertise to several companies in the areas of public, media and government relations as well as crisis communications and marketing. McCoy took his position at the Museum following an 18-year career at CenturyLink where he was associate vice president of government affairs and community development.
As a native Las Vegan, issues concerning quality of life and sustainability drive McCoy’s community commitments, both professionally and personally. In addition to chairing the Neon Museum’s Board of Trustees for two years and serving as a board member for seven years prior, he most recently served on the boards of The Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada, Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Nevada Taxpayers Association.
Rob has both a Bachelor and Master of Science Degree in Communications from LaSalle University and is also a graduate of the Martin School of Radio & Television Arts and Sciences. Additionally, he retains professional certifications from Harvard, MIT, and Cornell. He is also a graduate of Leadership Las Vegas.

Brian Burton - Three Square
2017-08-31 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
Brian Burton relocated from Dallas to Las Vegas in April of 2011 to become President and CEO of Three Square Food Bank. Since his arrival, Brian has helped Three Square develop into one of the fastest growing food banks in the nation. With his strong leadership and passionate vision for a hunger-free community, Southern Nevada’s only food bank has established itself as a trailblazer in the field of food sourcing and distribution.
In 2016, Three Square distributed more than 40 million pounds of food and grocery product, the equivalent of more than 33 million meals. Three Square works with a service network of nearly 1,300 community partners including non-profit and faith-based organizations, schools, government agencies and businesses, which help the organization serve more than 137,000 individuals monthly.
Three Square, which has been in operation since 2007, is a member of the Feeding America network, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, working to connect people with food and end hunger.
Brian’s career began as a controller for Centex Homes but quickly evolved into humanitarian work after serving as an associate pastor at a Baptist church in Dallas, Texas. He then served for 14 years as Executive Director of the Wilkinson Center, a faith-based nonprofit organization lifting people out of poverty through education and emergency services. Brian is a current member and past chair of the Greater Las Vegas Nonprofit CEO Council, where he collaborates with leaders from the major social service providers in the community.
Brian is a native of Little Rock, Ark., and holds an MBA degree from Louisiana State University and a Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Ky. When Brian is not working, he enjoys writing, reading, bird-watching, traveling, and hiking up Mt. Charleston with his basset hound.

Shakespeare Festival
2017-08-25 - 2017-08-26 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States

Shakespeare Festival - Cedar City, UT
2017-08-25 | NE

Andy Schuricht - Corporate Social Responsibility
2017-08-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States
Andrew Schuricht is the founder of Valor CSR, a corporate social responsibility consulting firm, one of only two Certified B Corporations in Nevada. Valor CSRs groundbreaking Instant Corporate Foundation gives small and mid-sized businesses access to CSR benefits usually reserved for much larger firms. Learn more at ValorCSR.com.
From 2009 to 2015, Andrew Schuricht served as the Chief Financial Officer of Three Square, the Feeding America food bank serving Southern Nevada. As CFO, he was responsible for all aspects of strategy, finance, information technology and human resources. Three Square was the fastest growing food bank in the Feeding America network five years running, and currently, brings in $62 million in annual revenue and feeds more than 137,000 children, families, and seniors every month.
Andrew also developed the curriculum for and teaches Social Entrepreneurship for UNLV’s Lee School of Business, and is the founding curator for the Las Vegas hub of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers program. In addition, he is the Vice Chair of the Alliance for Nevada Nonprofits, the state association of nonprofits in Nevada.

Noah Hoefs - Hyperloop One
2017-08-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States

Tom Axtell - PBS Blind Center
2017-08-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Las Vegas, NE, 89169, United States

PBS Telethon Volunteer
2017-08-10 | NE

Highway Cleanup
2017-08-05 07:00 - 11:00 | NE
