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This Magazine has been accepted for inclusion in Premier: The Magazine of the UNLV Harrah Hotel College by an authorized administrator of Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A WILLIAM F. HARRAH HOTEL COLLEGE OF HOTEL ADMINISTRATION PUBLICATION REMIER PPF A L L 2 0 0 5 Sal Semola Supports Students REALITY TV AND TOURISM STAYINGTAYING SSAFEAFE A “WYNN”INGWYNNING TEAM OPENS COMBINATION NEW RESORT invent the future . the 50th anniversary campaign for the university of nevada, las vegas harr ahleadership community legendary standard innovation of excellence creativity celebrate these accomplishment hoteltraditions with us supportive faculty give to the harrah hotel transformational college annual fund talent For more information contact Karin Olsen, expertise Director of External Relations at (702) 895-3148 or [email protected] pride PREMIER National Advisory Board The official magazine of the William F. Harrah College William Allen, III In this of Hotel Administration Outback Steakhouse OFFICE OF THE DEAN Patricia Anton 4505 Maryland Parkway Anton Airfood Box 456013 William Anton Las Vegas, NV 89154-6013 Anton Airfood (702) 895-3161 George E. Baggot, CFSP Stuart H. Mann BEE Thr LLC Dean Debi Benedetti Beyond the Possible James Busser Issue Associate Dean Elizabeth Blau 3 ...... UNLV Enrolls Students Elizabeth Blau & Assoc. Seyhmus Baloglu Displaced by Hurricane Associate Dean Jonathan Boulware Primm Valley Resorts Katrina Pearl Brewer, Director Stan Bromley Graduate Studies Four Seasons Hotel ...... International Hospitality Andrew Feinstein ’91, ’95 MS John R. Donovan, Jr. 3 Chair, Food & Beverage Aramark Summit A Success Management Deirdre Flynn Gail Sammons ’87 MS NAFEM Chair, Hotel Management Marvin M. Franklin 8 ...... A “Wynn”ing Team Opens Commercial Growth Partners Patti Shock New Resort Chair, Tourism & Convention Douglas K. Fryett Administration Fryett Consulting Group Robyn Campbell-Ouchida ’00 MA Richard J. Goeglein 10 ....... Scholarship Luncheon Recap Editor Evening Star Hospitality Robert N. Grimes Judy Nagai-Allison Accuvia 12 ....... INNovation Village Update Director of Alumni Affairs David W. Head Page 16 Karin Olsen Tony Roma’s Restaurants Director of External Relations 14 ...... Staying Safe in the Van V. Heffner Nevada Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Industry Alumni Association Nevada Tourism Alliance Board Of Directors Bill McBeath ’86 CHAIR Bellagio 16 ...... Dinner of Distinction Marcus Threats ’87, ’99 MBA E. Dean McClain R & R Global Hospitality Honors Vallen Nevada Gold Tulsa Paula Eylar ’89, ’97 MBA Stephen G. Michaelides Boyd Gaming Words, Ink ...... Reality TV Impacts Tourism 18 James Germain ’75 Richard Mirman Harrah’s Entertainment USA Hosts ...... Harrah’s Scholarship Honoree Jim Moore 24 Dennis Gradillas ’91 Moore Ideas, Inc. Tropicana Resort & Casino Paul B. Mullen Page 7 ...... UNLV Singapore Announced Paula O’Donnell ’75 MICE North America 28 Boardwalk Hotel & Casino Douglas Parker The Parker Co. Christine Paskvan Kiely, ’90 Clear Channel Taxi Media Bill Paulos ’69 Millennium Management Group Fayyaz Raja ’92, ’95 Raja Enterprises Ron Shiflett D EPART MENTS Marriott International Western Region Holly Mae Sparks ’99 Dean’s Message ..........................2 Delmonico Steakhouse Arch Stokes, Esquire Shea, Stokes & Carter, ALC Congratulations ...................... Susie Southgate-Fox 21 Executive Members Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises William McBeath ’86 John F. Sweeney, RRP, ISHC Alumni Updates...................... 22 The Bellagio Chairman, Global Resorts, Inc. Anthony Santo ’84 Taketoshi Takemoto In Remembrance .................... 23 Caesars Entertainment Ace Denken Co. Honor Roll of Giving .............. UNLV is an AA/EEO Institution Claudine Williams 26 Cover photo by Geri Kodey Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Concept design by Georgina Corbalan Design & production by Reprographics/Design Services 1 PREMI E R • FA LL 2005 A MESSAGE from Dean Mann The $500 million campaign Olsen, Judy Nagai-Allison, Karen announced by President Sharp, Michelle Jordan, and their Carol C. Harter will assistants (sometimes graduate enhance the existing efforts assistants), would not have been of the Harrah Hotel College possible without private support. to raise the dollars needed We must raise the money annually to build out the 10-plus to pay the salaries and benefits for acres on the North West these individuals who play such a corner of the UNLV campus critical role in the infrastructure at the Swenson/Flamingo and advancement of the Harrah intersection. We will be asking Hotel College and our strategic many of you to help us with both goals. It would be wonderful if in Envision monetary gifts and in-kind gifts of the campaign we were successful a special your time and products to assist us in in creating endowments that would corner of UNLV creating INNovation Village. put these positions in a status where with the world’s finest providers of we would not have to rely on annual hospitality products and services A major campaign is often gifts. University endowments pay as our partners. This will become a undertaken at universities to assist out at a rate of about four percent reality as we anticipate a major gift in the funding of scholarships, annually so the principal that we to launch our long awaited project, fellowships, student and faculty would need to raise is considerable, INNovation Village. Vendors such professional development, endowed around $10 million. That amount as Microsoft, Micros, Bose, Sony, distinguished professorships and would be retained as the principal SBC, and companies like Harrah’s chairs, and a host of other needs of the endowment with the annual Entertainment, MGM MIRAGE, in addition to the actual physical payout yielding around $400,000 Marriott, Hyatt, and Mandarin buildings. These funds are needed each year to cover our “Advancement Oriental have expressed interest in because in public universities there Team.” joining with our efforts. Everyone is never enough state funding I have spoken with is excited about to provide for all of the required While we confront unprecedented the potential of using the hospitality expenditures. In order for the Harrah human needs from our country’s campus as a site for research, Hotel College to continue its ascent natural disasters, each of you is development and demonstration and retain its leadership position being asked to be a part of our of products and services for the among the world’s finest hospitality journey to INNovation Village. This hospitality and tourism industry. and tourism schools, we must hire is an exciting time to assist UNLV in Because such a site does not and retain outstanding faculty. We achieving its vision in becoming one exist anywhere in the world, we must recruit the best undergraduate of the country’s finest metropolitan have named this “special corner” and graduate students from around research universities. Your support INNovation Village. the world. We must have and as a new or ongoing donor will help maintain state-of-the-art facilities. us achieve our collective goals. INNovation Village will become the As many of you know, we have had to Every gift counts and no amount is place for conducting research by raise money to hire staff where there too little. We would like everyone to interacting with customers in a built are no state-provided positions, such be a part of our effort. Let’s make environment (please see the story on as in alumni relations, public affairs, INNovation Village a reality. page 12 for more information). and fundraising. This interaction between individuals and the physical environment in the These positions are crucial to the form of products and services can college’s vision for the future. The be observed and studied across the jobs that have been created in the many dimensions of our university. Harrah Hotel College for Karin 2 PREMI E R • FA LL 2005 HURRICANE KATRINA NEWS UNLV Helps Assist Displaced Students of Hurricane Katrina In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and its aftermath. In addition, accommodate their needs,” said many university students lost their the Harrah Hotel College and Executive Vice President and educational facilities. In order the William S. Boyd School of Provost Raymond Alden. “We to ensure that they are able to Law have been contacted about are happy to be able to help these complete their college educations, accommodating displaced students students continue their studies and UNLV announced on Sept.