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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.
There is a Melvin Jones Memorial on Avenida Capital de España, 28042 Madrid [40.461999, -3.615861], 5 minutes from the Campo de las Naciones tube station on Metro Linea 8. The memorial was erected by the Lions Clubs of Spain Multiple District 116. There is a street, Rua Melvin Jones, in Lisbon and in 9 other towns across Portugal.
The history of the Detroit Lions, a professional American football franchise based in Detroit, dates back to 1928 when they played in Portsmouth, Ohio as the Spartans.They joined the National Football League (NFL) in 1930 before they were bought by George A. Richards, a radio executive, and moved to Detroit and changed their name to the Lions in 1934 and won their first NFL Championship the ...
The Lions have had 30 head coaches throughout their franchise history. Their first head coach was Hal Griffen , who compiled a 5–6–3 (.464) overall record with the team of 1930 . Wayne Fontes was the longest-tenured head coach in Lions history, serving from 1988 to 1996 . [ 47 ]
Fraternities or lodges were an important part of Australian society in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. After the Second World War, they were gradually replaced by "service clubs", such as Lions, Apex and Rotary.
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.
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.