april 2015 governors newsletter
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District 1A Governor Terry D'Souza's Monthly Newsletter for the Month of April, 2015. Edited & Published for District 1A Lions by PDG AustinTRANSCRIPT
April 2015
Greetings!!!! What a wonderful, exuberant, full of fellowship convention we had the last weekend. We showed our guests……”our celebration, District 1A style”. Hospitality rooms decorated and lions dressed with their super heroes costumes. Everything seemed so real that it was sometimes difficult for me to recognize them. From the parade of banners on Friday night, to the bloody-mary toast on Saturday morning celebrating milestones of a cumulation of over 855 years of service to our district and to mankind. This is tremendous lions. Thank you for your service. Four of these clubs celebrated 75 years of service to their communities and to the world at large. Keep up the great work. Also, at the convention eight of our lions were honored with prestigious, well deserved awards. Athough three of the lions will be formally awarded their medals at
the State Convention on May 16th, 2015, they were given a certificate honoring them in front of the district and in front of their peers. Lion Ben Zoleta of Filipino American Lions Club was awarded the 2nd highest award “The Presidendial Medal”. Lions Rafael Alvarado of Puerto Rico Lions Club and PDG Steve Anton of Orland Park Lions Club were awarded “The Presidential Leadership Award”, the third highest award in lionism. Five other lions were awarded “The Presidential Certificate of Appreciation”: Lion Rich Polanek of MtClare-Elmwood Park, Lion Austin D’Souza of the Forest Kala Sampath, Cabinet Secretary Lion Brenda Block of Calumet City, Cabinet Treasurer Lion Pat Duda of Mexica Lions Club and Lion Janice Wiggins of Cook County Lions Club. Congratulations to all Lions.!!!!!
As you know on April 9th there were a few tornado touchdowns in District 1D from Kirkland to Rochelle to Fairdale. Many of our lions responded in helping disaster victims. District 1A has also responded and have sent District
ID $500.00 to help in disaster relief. If you or your club can help in any way, please let me know. Month of March was tremendous in membership. We inducted into our district 35 new lions as below:I
NAME OF CLUB # New Name of New Mbr Name of Sponsor Joined
Bellwood 1 Victoria Hansen Ted Steiskal 3-24-2015
Calumet City 1 Steven E. Dugan, DO David Kacanowski 3-24-2015
Bronzeville 2 Victoria Evans Marva Allison 3-21-2015
Shirley A. Lawrence Marva Allison 3-21-2015
Mt. Greenwood 1 Nancy Landgraf Kiley Gallagher 3/4/2015
Franklin Pk - Manila 1 Debra Benacka Teresita Zaretsky 3-18-2015
Hickory Hills 1 Sara olson Judy Dineff 2/4/2015
Orland Park 2 Gail Blummer Timothy McCarthy 1-27-2015
Logan Burnson James Jankowski 1-27-2015
Riverside Township 1 Jessica Frances Joseph Ballerine 3-10-2015
River Grove 4 Amber Rena Franz Todd Woods 2-18-2015
Janis Lariviere Sean Flynn 2-18-2015
Larry Lariviere Sean Flynn 2-18-2015
Zachary McWherter Tom McWherter 2-18-2015
Thornton 1 Douglas Beckman Dan Tondu 2/18/2015
NEW! -Chicago Magnificent Lions 20 Tita Alonsagay
3-11-2015
Julie Ann Gruezo 3-11-2015
Esperanza Hemmens 3-11-2015
Gilbert Iroma 3-11-2015
Elena P. Maguad 3-11-2015
Venus Pantaleon 3-11-2015
Duane Parreno 3-11-2015
Michelle Parreno 3-11-2015
Luciano Pebenito 3-11-2015
Maria Pebenito 3-11-2015
Juanito Roque 3-11-2015
Maynard Sanchez 3-11-2015
Vicky Sanchez 3-11-2015
Joe Sciackitano 3-11-2015
Maria Sciackitano 3-11-2015
Evelyn Tolledo 3-11-2015
Roberto Tolledo 3-11-2015
Maria Vaughn 3-11-2015
Criag Wynkoop 3-11-2015
Maritess Wynkoop 3-11-2015
TOTAL IN ARCH 35 NEW MEMBERS! -Terry D’Souza, District 1A Governor
Pictorial Editorial:
No doubt we had a wonderful
convention with fun and frolic. Super
heroes of District 1A were fantastic
with their costumes and action.
Our International Guest ID Karla Harrison and her
husband Clarence Harrison thrilled with our convention
– the way we organized, the way we celebrated and the
way we had fellowship. She mentioned the following
on her facebook:
“1A - the Mother District of Lionism. What an
amazing District!! DG Terry has a super active
cabinet of super Hero's! Up 60 in membership,1
new club started, another on its way,
And a fabulous convention. One hospitality room
even had a 10 piece swing band! The weekend,
the Lions and the 1A service projects were all
very impressive.”
My hats off to PDG Steve Anton and his Team Super
Heroes Convention Committee Members for their hard
work, dedication, participation and hospitality with the
help of 543 registered members who attended this one
of a kind District 1A Convention.
Following were the highest award winners from Lions
Clubs International:
ZC Ben Zolita- International President’s Leadership Medal
PDG Steve Anton – International President’s Medal
Lion Rafael Alvarado – International President’s Medal.
Lion Maryanne O’Reilly, ID Karla & Lion Clarence Harris received US President’s Life Time Voluntary Service Award.
Lioness of the Year Award Winner Claudette Z.
Below: Lions of the Year Award Winner Sharon Morey
International President’s Certificate of Appreciation winners: Cabinet Tail Twister and Artist – Lion Richard Polanek, Cabinet Secretary – Lion Brenda Block, Cabinet Treasurer – Lion Pat Duda, Your Editor – PDG Austin D’Souza and District GLT Member – Lion Janice Wiggins.
Progressive LCIF Melvin Jones Fellows Recognition: PDG Steve Anton, PDG Harold Burkette, ZC Myrna Cordova & PDG Austin D’Souza.
Progressive Lions of Illinois Foundation Fellows: PDG Ralph & District Open Areas Chair Millie Koller. On Sunday during District Breakfast we had the honor to felicitate District 1A Citizen of the Year Award Winner was none other than a young and
energetic fellow who made a difference in hundreds of needy people in his community -
Nick Gore
District 1A and MD1 Peace Poster Winner – Tina Li from St. Anastesia School. Her picture took part in Worldwide Peace Posters for 2015 and came #32. Hearty congratulations to this talented artist sponsored by Chicago Philippine Lions Club.
PID Salim Moussan flew all the way from Beirut, Lebanon just to attend District 1A Convention!
Past Exe. Director of Lions of
Illinois Foundation
Lion Van Stone took part in Pie on the Face Contest to raise money. Quite a few Lions took part in this contest on
Friday evening and Saturday and
raised money for Lions of Illinois Foundation. Something new for this year’s convention.
There was a photo booth to take your choice of pictures. This was also something new this year. Following Lions got elected as District Officers for the year 2015-2016:
Lion Pat Duda from Chicago Mexica Lions Club as II Vice District Governor Elect.
Lion Ernie Lapid from Chicago Philippine Lions Club as I Vice District Governor Elect
Lion Ralph Zarada from River Grove Lions Club as District Governor Elect.
Lion Dr. Richard Rucoba as Lions of Illinois Foundation Trustee for next 2 years.
Lion Leilanie Magana from Chicago FIL-USA Lions Club, RC Bob Hoffman from Logan Square Lions Club and PCST Dawn Grogan from Bridgeview Lions Club were unanimously selected as VOICES new Board of Directors for 2015-2018.
Good News is – Lions Clubs International reached today (4-18-2015) reached 1,401928 and our Disdtrict 1A reached 1806 with 81 Plus Members and one New Club – Chicago Magnificent Lions Club. Let us keep on growing to celebrate Lions’ 100th Anniversary in 2017, Amen.
-Austin D’Souza, Editor
DGE Ralph Zarada Says: My fellow District 1A Lions
The district convention is now in
the history books and we are
moving forward towards the start
of a new leadership year. This district convention
was an outstanding event with the parade of
banners, the hospitality rooms and International
Director Karla Harris as our keynote speaker .The
district membership has made their choices as to
who will lead our district for the upcoming
leadership years. Thank you for entrusting me for
being your District Governor for 2015-2016. I am
grateful as well as humbled by this honor. The
installation of the governors, LIF trustees, and
VOICES directors will take place on June 7th. Please
come and Join us to witness the installation of the
officers, trustees and directors for 2015-2016.
We still have some work to do as we move forward
with this year’s leadership of Lion DG Terry. There
are 3 months left for Lion Terry to accomplish her
goals as the District Governor. If you have not
gotten a governor visit in for your club let Lion
Terry know. If you have not gotten your Plus One
member for your club, there is still time to get that
done.
Please support and help her achieve these goals so
that we can all be proud of what we have
accomplished as a district.
In Lionism,
Lion Ralph Zarada, DGE
From District 1A Convention Chair:
Yet another District 1-A
Convention is done, over and
finished but not yet complete. The
Convention Committee will now
start the process of going over the
entire convention and making sure that we
acknowledge what worked and what didn’t. We
will go over our books and make our report to
the Cabinet and then close the book on the
District 1-A 47th Annual Convention.
I’m sure that the Lions that attended had a great
time, enjoyed the Convention and the
“Superhero” theme that Governor Terry D’Souza
chose for her convention. We received a lot of
feedback on the “Superhero” skit that was
presented by the Logan Square Lions Club. The
Lions enjoyed their time and efforts to present
an old time radio program and have some fun
doing it. Also, the “Bloody Mary” toast honoring
those clubs celebrating a major service
anniversary, was met with a lot of enthusiasm
and request were made to make this an annual
part of the convention. I would like to thank the
Thornton Lions Club for their support at the
toast.
Governor Terry, Vice District Governors Ralph,
Ernie, Pat and Doc were very happy with the way
the convention was presented. It was the
pleasure of the Convention Committee to be of
service to all of you. Of course, as the chairman
of the committee, it needs to be said, THANK
YOU for your hard work, your time and efforts
and realize that you have shown everyone in
Illinois and around the globe, thanks to Lion
Austin and Lion Gail for pushing our Facebook
exposure, that we still have the Number 1
Convention and one that they should attend
every year.
PDG Steve
Super Heroes Convention Chairman
Thank You Lions for the Super
Convention of Super Heroes!
Also Thank You for making our
District 1A – the only District in
Illinois with plus in
Membership and with a brand
New Club – Chicago Magnificent Lions Club.
Governor’s Newsletter Edited and Published District 1A Lions by PDG Austin
D’Souza. [email protected]