Lions Club International District 201V2

MD201: Australia, Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island and East Timor

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Member Retention - It's Not Rocket Science

PDG Bill Duncanson from the Camperdown Lions Club is the author of an Lions Club International award winning booklet titled Member Retention - Routine Maintenance, Not Rocket Science.   The booklet is based on the actual experiences of the Camperdown Lions Club and provides Club members invaluable insights into retaining members.

A copy of the booklet can be downloaded in PDF format by clicking on this link (330 KB).   You can provide feedback to PDG Bill by clicking here.

It is incumbent on all Lions to ensure the logo and trademarks are not misused.

The Lions emblem (logo), the words "Lions", "Lions Club", "Lions International" and "Lions Clubs International"  are all registered trademarks of Lions Clubs International (LCI) in all parts of the world. The trademark laws require that LCI has to restrict and guard the use of these trademarks in order to maintain its rights to them.   For this effect the Lions Clubs International and its General Council have given out a set of rules about the use of these trademarks.

The following is a translated, shortened and unofficial version of these rules. For further information and clarification please contact Lions Clubs International and its General Council:

• No product that contains the Lions logo or the words "Lions", "Lions Club", "Lions International" or "Lions Clubs International" may be sold or otherwise distributed to Lions members, Lions Clubs, Lions Districts or the general public without the prior written permission from the LCI General Council.

• A Lions Club, Lions District or Lions member does not have the right to use the Lions emblem on any product or goods that are intended to be sold to Lions members or the general public in order to collect money.    For this purpose there exists a special emblem that bears the text "Lions Club Fund Raising Activity Seal".   For using this emblem a prior written permission from the LCI General Council is required.

• No producer, printer, publisher, advertiser or other type of commercial entrepreneur, commercial or charity organization or club or association is allowed to use the name, good will, trademark, award, logo, emblem, pin or other similar item for any purpose, except when it has received a prior written permission from the LCI General Council.

• No Lions district or other combination of Lions Clubs is allowed to use the name or emblem of the association in combination with any program or activity of the group or district without a prior written permission from the international board of LCI, granted towards precisely that named activity. A permission can only be granted for activities that are under supervision of Lions districts, clubs or groups of clubs, and only when the participation of individual Lions members and clubs in these programs or activities is totally voluntary so that the clubs and members are not forced to grant money for them.

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Helen Keller's Inspirational Speech

Dear Lions and Ladies, 

I suppose you have heard the legend that represents opportunity as a capricious lady who knocks at every door but once, and if the door isn't opened quickly, she passes on, never to return. And that is how it should be, lovely desirable ladies won't wait.   You have to go out and grab 'em.

I am your opportunity.    I am knocking at your door.    I want to be adopted.   The legend doesn't say what you are to do when several beautiful opportunities present themselves at the same door.    I guess you have to choose the one you love best.   I hope you will adopt me.    I am the youngest here, and what I have to offer you is full of splendid opportunities for service.

The American Foundation for the Blind is only four years old.    It grew out of the imperative needs of the blind, and was called into existence by the sightless themselves.   It is national and international in scope and in importance.    It represents the best and most enlightened thought on our subject that has been reached so far.   Its object is to make the lives of the blind more worthwhile everywhere by increasing their economic value and giving them the joy of normal activity.

Try to imagine how you would feel if you were suddenly stricken blind today. Picture yourself stumbling and groping at noonday as in the night, your work, independence, gone!    In that dark world wouldn't you be glad if a friend took you by the hand and said "come with me and I will teach you how to do some of the things you used to do when you could see"?

You have heard how through a little word dropped from the fingers of another, a ray of light from another soul touched the darkness of my mind and I found myself, found the world, found God. It is because my teacher learned about me and broke through the dark, silent, imprisonment which held me that I am able to work for myself and for others.   It is the caring we want more than money.   The gift without the sympathy and interest of the giver is empty.   If you care, if we can make the people of this great country care, the blind will indeed triumph over blindness!

The opportunity I bring to you, Lions, is this:  to foster and sponsor the work of the American Foundation for the Blind. 

Will you not help me hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness; no little deaf, blind child untaught; no blind man or woman unaided? 

I appeal to you Lions, you who have your sight, your hearing, you who are strong and brave and kind.

Will you not constitute yourselves Knights of the Blind in this crusade against darkness?

I thank you.

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