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Lions Clubs International, is an international service organization, currently headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois.As of January 2020, it had over 46,000 local clubs and more than 1.4 million members (including the youth wing Leo) in more than 200 countries and geographic areas around the world.
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.
In 1964 the Leo Club Program became a sponsored program of the Lions Clubs International. It grew beyond Pennsylvania and the United States of America. By 1967 the program had grown to over 200 clubs in 18 countries and become an official youth program of Lions Clubs International.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Hamp had served as vice chairwoman of the Lions since 2014, and succeeded her mother Martha Firestone Ford on June 23, 2020. [4] [5] Sheila Firestone Ford was born to William Clay Ford Sr. (son of Edsel Ford and grandson of Henry Ford) and Martha Firestone Ford, of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company fortune, in 1951.