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Lions International Building visible in Chicago in 1970. The organization expanded internationally on 12 March 1920, when a club opened in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. In 1937 the club expanded to San Juan in Puerto Rico. [29] Currently Lions Clubs operate in more than 200 countries and have over 1.4 million members. [30] Saudi Arabia was one
The Lions Eye Bank located at San Martino Hospital in Genova is dedicated to Melvin Jones. In 2017, the United States Mint issued a non-circulating commemorative coin honoring the centennial of the Lions Club; the obverse (heads side) features a depiction of Melvin Jones.
The club was founded with the help of William Ernst, another Lion. It adopted the high school's colors of maroon and gold. The club also created the acronym Leadership, Experience, Opportunity for the word Leo. The word equality was later changed to experience. In 1964 the Leo Club Program became a sponsored program of the Lions Clubs ...
Nearly 80 years ago, the Lions Club of New Brunswick co-founded the Needy Cases Fund with a vision of helping local disadvantaged people. As a Lions Club member − and on his own − Dr. David ...
Nov. 5—PLATTSBURGH — Dr. Robert Kline, a Plattsburgh Lions Club member since 1960, was this week recognized for his more than six decades of community service. Assemblyman D. Billy Jones (D ...
It was conceptualized by the Lions Club members of Baguio, during the term of Luis Lardizabal as mayor of Baguio from 1969 to 1970 and as the club's president, [4] to become the club's symbol or imprint in the area. Construction of the lion’s head began in 1971 under Baguio Lions Club President and later, District 301-C Governor Robert John ...
Worcester residents Sunday received a message from the past in the form of a 40-year-old time capsule buried by the Worcester Lions at the EcoTarium.
Leader Dogs for the Blind is a guide dog training organization located in Rochester Hills, Michigan.It was founded in 1939 by Lions Club members Charles Nutting, Don Schuur and S.A. Dodge, [1] as the second guide dog organization founded in the United States and has paired over 14,500 dogs with the visually impaired worldwide, making it one of the largest organizations of its kind.