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Youngstown Lions Club
Youngstown Lions Club History
The Downtown Youngstown Lions Club was chartered on October 11, 1920, shortly following the organization of Lions International in 1917. Carl Ullman, deceased President of The Dollar Savings and Trust Company, was our first President: George F. Malloy, first Vice-President: E. Wolfe, second Vice-President; John P. Barret, Secretary-Treasurer. There were 59 original members. Meetings were held every Thursday at noon at the Elks Club for one year. Since then, meetings were held at the the YWCA, except for four years at Strauss Department Store, Wick-Pollock. Currently, meetings are held at the Youngstown Club.
Our club is most proud of the fact that we were the first service organization to take up sight saving as a community project, and the project of sight conservation and aid to the blind was first introduced to Lions by our past President and the District Governor, Albert Elton In 1925, at the State Convention at Cedar Point as a project for th Ohio Lions. He was aided by Helen Keller's passionate speech to the Ohio Lions to become "Knights of the Blind". It was adopted, and later that year in Texas, taken on as Lions International as their major project and has spread throughout the world.
The Downtown Youngstown Lions Club was chartered on October 11, 1920, shortly following the organization of Lions International in 1917. Carl Ullman, deceased President of The Dollar Savings and Trust Company, was our first President: George F. Malloy, first Vice-President: E. Wolfe, second Vice-President; John P. Barret, Secretary-Treasurer. There were 59 original members. Meetings were held every Thursday at noon at the Elks Club for one year. Since then, meetings were held at the the YWCA, except for four years at Strauss Department Store, Wick-Pollock. Currently, meetings are held at the Youngstown Club.
Our club is most proud of the fact that we were the first service organization to take up sight saving as a community project, and the project of sight conservation and aid to the blind was first introduced to Lions by our past President and the District Governor, Albert Elton In 1925, at the State Convention at Cedar Point as a project for th Ohio Lions. He was aided by Helen Keller's passionate speech to the Ohio Lions to become "Knights of the Blind". It was adopted, and later that year in Texas, taken on as Lions International as their major project and has spread throughout the world.