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Lions OrientationFOR NEW MEMBERS &

PROSPECTIVE NEW MEMBERS

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Lacey Mid Day LionsWelcome you to

LIONISM

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LACEY MID DAY OFFICERS Also Welcome you to

LIONISM

This presentation was created by PDG Jim McCown

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Share the Excitement

It is our hope you will come away from this panel with a deeper understanding of Lions.

Not only on the Club level, but also on the District, Multiple District, and Lions Club International levels.

Remember, as we go along in our learning, let’s not forget to have fun, get to know our fellow Lions and above all, live our motto!

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WE SERVE

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Lions International

Mission Statement

To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary services through community involvement and international cooperation.

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Lions International Chicago

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LIONS CLUBS OBJECTS To Create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples

of the world. To promote the principles of good government and good

citizenship. To take an active interest in the civic, cultural, and social and

moral welfare of the community. To unite the Clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship

and mutual understanding. To provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of

public interest, provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.

To encourage service minded men to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavors.

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LIONS CODE OF ETHICS To show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious

application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.

To seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of question-able acts on my part.

To remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another’s, to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.

Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.

To hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given. Continued- - -

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LIONS CODE OF ETHICS continued

Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state and my community, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act and deed. To give them freely of my time, labour, and means.

To aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.

To be careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise: to build up and not destroy.

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YOUR LIONS CLUB

HISTORY OF YOUR CLUB MAJOR SERVICE PROJECTS MAJOR FUNDRAISING PROJECTS CLUB OFFICERS AND DUTIES CLUB COMMITTEES AND THEIR

FUNCTIONS MEMBERSHIP GENERAL & BOARD MEETING DATES

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WHAT IS EXPECTED?

A new member is expected to give freely of his/her time and energy whenever possible; attend all Club meetings (unless they are ill, at work, out of town, vacation etc.), be available for committee assignments, be knowledgeable about the objectives and aims of Lionism, and support all Club Officers at all times.

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AWARDS

Certain awards are available to earn as a regular attending member. Attendance Awards are given to those that achieve a 100% attendance each year.

Chevron Awards - Charter members with continuous membership for 10 or more years will receive Charter Monarch Chevron. Members who are not charter members will receive a Monarch Chevron

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AWARDS continued

MEMBERSHIP KEY AWARDS are for those lions who sponsor new members who remain active for 1 year and 1 day. They are issued automatically by Lions Club International after an individual sponsors 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450 and 500 members. Each key is a lapel pin and the medallion is different in design. It is presented with a ribbon.

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Club Dues Each club has an entrance fee for new

members and annual dues. Dues can be collected either annually or semi-annually.

Statements are usually mailed on June lst or December 1st of each year.

The Club semi-annually pays to Multiple District 19 and Lions Clubs International “per capita and convention fund tax” for each member.

Entrance fee is $30.00 (one time only) and dues are $60.00 a year

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Other Club Functions

Club Bulletin (once a month) Club Brochure Web Site (http://www.middaylions.org/) Club Special Events - such as charter night

or Anniversay Officer Inductions (New Officers for the

year)

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The Start of Lions Clubs

Founder, Melvin Jones June 07, 1917 First National Convention, Dallas Texas

October 1917 36 Delegates, 22 Clubs from 9 States

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Lions International

First President Dr. William P. Woods of Indiana.

First acting Secretary, Melvin Jones, his Association lasted until his death in 1961

The colors of Purple & Gold were adopted. The Constitution & Bylaws were adopted.

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Lions International

1920, International - Windsor Ontario 1927, 60,000 in 1,183 Clubs 1935, Central America, Panama 1936, South America, Columbia 1948, Sweden, Switzerland, France

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Service to Others

Service to Blind & Visually Impaired 1925 International Convention Helen Keller “Knights of the blind in the crusade against

darkness.”

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Lions International

1952, Japan 1957 Leo Program Started 1987, Women invited as Lions 1990’s Clubs in Russia and other Iron

Curtain Countries were added. 1996 Bosnia & Herzegovina 2002 China 2007 IRAQ

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Lions InternationalAs of July 31, 2007

Membership 1.3 million Clubs 45,000 Districts 751 Countries 202 Melvin Jones Fellows 261,881 Progressive MJF 46,682

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Lions International International President Mahendra Amarasuriya Immediate Past President Jimmy Ross First Vice President Albert F. Brandel Second Vice President

Eberhard J. Wirfs

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Lions International

International Directors, 33, Worldwide District Governors, 751 Worldwide

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District 19

1923 First Convention, Seattle 1939 55 Clubs, 1 District Governor 5 Deputy District Governors First Three (3) Zones Established

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Multiple District 19

Our Multiple District includes clubs from Washington State, Northern Idaho, in the USA and British Columbia, Canada.

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Multiple District 19

Mission Statement

The MD19 Lions vision is to strengthen their local and global communities through service and fellowship fulfilling the Lions motto

- “We Serve”

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MD19AS WEKnow

ItToday

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Multiple District 19

1947 Spokane Convention Multiple District 19 Set Up Cabinet Chairman Executive Secretary 5 District Governors 15 Zone Chairmen 136 Clubs, 7595 Members

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Multiple District 19

1947 Districts A B C D & E 1950-51 District F 1963-64 District G 1966-67 District H 1970-71 District I

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Multiple District 19

2007 Multiple District 19 9 Districts 70 Zones 493 Clubs 14,375 Members as of 7/07

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Multiple District 19

Council Chairman - Allan Hunt Vice Council Chairman - Polly Voon Immediate Past Council Chairman -

Gordon Roberts Executive Secretary - Patty Allen 9 District Governors 9 Imm. Past District Governors

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MD19 Projects & Foundations British Columbia Lions Society 1970 C.A.R.E. 1958 * Lions of B.C. Hearing Conservation Society Youth Outreach Foundation * Northwest Lions Foundation for Sight & Hearing 1969 * Youth Exchange Foundation * LERC (Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center) * Lions Service and Leadership Foundation * Camp Leo (Youth Diabetes Camp) *

* denotes those that we are concerned with

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Multiple District 19International Level

Past International Director Dur Roberson

Oak Harbor Lions Club

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District 19-C District Governor Barbara Ellis

Vice District Governor John Doyle Zone Chairmen, 6 Cabinet Chairmen, 39

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Zone Chairmen, 19-C

C1 Jean Phillips C2 Patsy Nutt C3 Dr. Charlie Russell C4 John Gardner C5 Rena Larson C6 Curt Nelson

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C-1 Lions Clubs

Gig Harbor (Gig Harbor Branch

Club AM) Key Peninsula Lakewood First Lakewood Knights Lakewood Korean

Tacoma Downtown Tacoma Narrows Tacoma Southeast University Place

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C-2 Lions Clubs

Hood Canal Olympia Capital City Olympia Host Olympia West Shelton Shelton Morning Star Tumwater

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C-3 Lions Clubs

Auburn Noon Bonney Lake Covington Enumclaw Federal Way Federal Knights

Fife Kent Puyallup Puyallup Valley Sumner

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C-4 Lions Clubs

Bremerton Lady Lions Bremerton Central Bremerton Chief

Kitsap North Mason Port Orchard

Poulsbo Silverdale Dandy

Lions Silverdale Sunrise

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C-5 Lions Clubs

Eatonville Eatonville Day Break Graham Graham Sunrise Mineral Lake Mount Rainier Orting

Puyallup South Hill Puyallup South Spanapark Early

Risers Spanaway

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C-6 Lions Clubs

Lacey Lamplighters Lacey Mid Day Lacey Sunrise Rainier Tenino Yelm (Yelm Branch Club Noon)

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FOUNDATIONS & SERVICE PROGRAMS

LIONS EYEGLASS RECYCLING CENTER (LERC) CAMP LEO NORTHWEST LIONS FOUNDATION FOR SIGHT

& HEARING YOUTH OUTREACH FOUNDATION YOUTH EXCHANGE FOUNDATION CARE LCIF LIONS SERVICE & LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION

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Lacey Mid Day Lions Club Officers

President (Mitzi Ludwig) Secretary (Nancy Burri) Treasurer (Jackie Silva) Vice Presidents (Pat Baron, Stacey Thornton, & Dee

McDermott) Directors (June Grant, Alice Krause, Jeff Adams, &

JackieThornton) Lion Tamer (Dale Adams) Tailtwister (Jim McCown) Membership Chair (Jim McCown)

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LACEY MID DAY CHAIRS Budget - Jackie Silva, Mitzi Ludwig, PDG Jim McCown & Mike O’Byrne Bulletin -PDG Jim McCown Car Show - Fran Harder and Gary Harder Student of Month - Dee McDermott Public Relations - Jeff Adams/Dee McDermott Rest Stop - Mike O’Byrne(LMD) PDG Jim McCown (Found) White Canes - Colleen Leavitt Salvation Army (Bell Ringing) -Barbi Fredrickson Thanksgiving & Xmas Baskets - Betty Berry & Pat Baron CARE - PDG Jim McCown Sight & Hearing - Fran Harder Paper Recycling - Jackie Thornton, Stacy Thornton & Dale Adams Web Site - John Ownings & Jeff Adams Contest & Awards - Pat Baron

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Lions Club Activities

Club Level Zone Level District Level Multiple District Level International Level

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LIONS CLUBS INFORMATION

Lions International www.lionsclub.org

Multiple District 19 www.lionsmd19.com

District 19-C http://www.md19clions.org

Your Zone

Your Club http://www.middaylions.org/

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Lions Clubs Information

Club Meetings / Club Bulletin / Web Site

Zone Meetings / Bulletin

Cabinet Meetings / DG Bulletin / Web Site

District Conference / Panels

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Continued

MD Annual Convention / MD Bulletin / Web Site

Fall Workshop / Panels

Lions Int. Convention / Magazine / Seminars

USA / Canada Forum / Seminars / Panels

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District C

Spring Conference March 7th & 8th, 2008 LaQuinta Inn 1425 E. 27th Tacoma, Wa. Contest & Awards Great Panels Fun Night Friday Marketplace Elections Great Speakers Fun & Fellowship National Guest Awards MD-19 Guest

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Lacey Mid Day Lions is one of the leading clubs in the Multiple

District & District We don’t expect you to remember each and

everything here. It is provided as a tool to become acquainted with Lions

Please take this information and become a great Lion.

Please ask questions any time there is some- thing you don’t understand or you have forgotten.

And, Thank you for your attention

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Be a

Lion for

Life

YOU ARE

APARTOFIT!