OUR 53rd YEAR OF SERVICE THRU LIONISM
The DeWitt Noon Lions and friends celebrated 50 years of service to the community, district and the state of Iowa on Saturday, April 26, 2003. Over 150 Lions, spouses and dignitaries from other clubs shared a great meal and a unique tribute to each attending lion member. One of the remaining four charter members was able to attend. Retired State Senator Norman Goodwin and his wife enjoyed the fellowship of celebrating lions that evening.
The DeWitt Noon Lions are ready now to begin their 52nd year of service to this community! Lion Jean Bohrmann will serve as Club President and lead the membership through another successful year of Lionism. Watch this web-site for news of all the planned events of yet another busy year!
IOWA LIONS FOUNDATION GOLF TOUR
One of the many goals in Iowa Lions philanthropy is the IOWA LIONS FOUNDATION. The new Trustee for District 9X9 is Dave Henecke of Palo. It takes a great deal of work and many contributions to reach the nearly $60,000 annual goal for our district alone! This new golf tour is designed to offer Iowa Lions and their guests a bit of fun in their endeavors to raise funds to reach our goal. Three events will be held in 9X9 this Summer at Finkbine in Iowa City and Hunters Ridge in Marion, and Palmer Hills in Bettendorf. A grand total of $35,000 was raised in Iowa this summer on all events. District 9X9 was able to raise $23,000 of those profits at our two Tourneys. Watch this space for more information about next years events. Sponsoring clubs, sites and dates are being developed at this time.
OUR 36th ANNUAL TRAVELOGUE SERIES IS UNDERWAY
For 35 highly successful years the DeWitt Noon Lions Club has entertained and informed the community with this unique and highly motivated travel and adventure series!
All events will be held at the DeWitt Operhouse Theater starting January 11th, and proceeding every other week through May 2005. Two presentations are made of each event: 3:00 PM and 7:00 PM. You will enjoy a very professional presentation about travel in some exotic part of the world. Many of the presentors are Lions Club members, and a few come from many miles away.
Relax in comfortable theater-style seating and enjoy the pictures on a full size theater screen. Refreshments are available, and the shows vary in length from 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
The DeWitt Noon Lions suggest a donation of $2.50 per person when entering the theater, but they promise free admittance to anyone who cannot,
otherwise, afford to attend.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005 will bring back local talent and many time presenters Dr. Marvin and Mardonna Richeal. They will bring us a program on ISRAEL AND JORDAN. This is our first excursion into this area of the world for some time, but will be only the first of four trips to the Middle East this season.
Tuesday, January 25th will highlight a trip to ANTARCTICA with newtime presenters Hunt and Diane Harris. This is a new, experimental program bringing a digital motion picture made by the Harris's to this remote and exotic region of the world.
Tuesday, February 8th, will feature old friends and presenters, Tom & Rosella VanDuzee, who will take us on a hiking trip to the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. You will visit some magnificent mountain lakes and hiking trails.
This is Pie Day, so don't miss it!
Tuesday, February 22nd, will bring new presenters Marilyn & Duane Luebe of Clinton, who will take us on A EUROPEAN RAIL SPECTACULAR. Among others, you will ride The Orient Express; The Glacier Express and the Eurostar. Meet the people and communities connected by these unusual and exotic trains.
Tuesday, March 8th, will bring back the co-chair of this Travelogue Series and long time presenter Shirley Davis Homrighausen, who will take us to
THE SEA OF CORTEZ AND THE MEXICAN RIVIERA. Join Shirley as she takes you to some of her favorite Mexican destinations.
Tuesday, March 22nd, will bring another new presenter to our state. Mr. Dean Stange, brother to our own Diane Prichard, will take us back to the Mid-East and into Iraq, and its capital of
Baghdad, where we will experience FIVE MONTHS IN BADHDAD. You will help Dean spend 1.55 billion
dollars in just 5 months repairing the infra-
structure of that city.
Tuesday, April 5th, will bring another pair of new presenters from Bettendorf--John & Bonnie Lorenzen. We will cruise with them on THE OTHER SIDE OF SOUTH AMERICA. The towering Andes mountains and the mysterious Inca ruins will highlight your trip.
Tuesday, April 19th, will take you back to the Middle East on a TURKEY ADVENTURE, with Robert O. Grubaugh of Moline, Illinois. Turkey is one of the cradles of early Christianity and a beautiful area of the Moslem world today. This program is a "must see", so don't miss it.
Tuesday,May 3rd, will bring back long time presenters Robert & Rosemary Haack of Clinton, who will take us on a TANZANIA/ZANZIBAR ADVENTURE
This part of Africa is becoming increasingly important to our need for knowledge about this great continent.
Tuesday, May 17th, will close our 2005 series, and to do so we will bring back, for a second showing, Dr. Marvin & Mardonna Richeal. This time the Richeals will take us to ANCIENT EGYPT.
This will be our fourth trip to the Mid-East this year, and will combine the rich history and culture of Egypt today with a better understanding of the people of the Nile.
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