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Show New York Man Elected President Of Lions Clubs A new King Lion was crowned Friday of last week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when the international interna-tional convention of Lions clubs unanimously elected Alexander T. Wells of New York City president of Lions International. Wells, who is a lawyer, served 'the past year as first vice-president and was United States representative upon the International Council of Lions Clubs. He succeeds retiring President Presi-dent Walter F. Dexter, state superintendent of public instruction instruc-tion in California. The voting concluded a four-day convention climaxing the association's associa-tion's greatest year of growth. In the past 12 months charters were issued to 557 new Lions clubs an all time high, and more than 17,-000 17,-000 net gain in membership was reported to the convention by Secretary General Melvin Jones of Chicago. Lions clubs are now the most numerous service club in the United States and Canada. . There are 3,500 in the association, with a membership of 125,000. The new president is a native ot New York City, where he has lived always. He was educated in the public schools' and at St. Lawrence academy, New York; Dwight Preparatory Pre-paratory school and the New York Law school. He has been a member mem-ber of the Bar of the State of New York for the past 33 years. Wells has held many offices both in his own Lions club and in the International association. He is a past distriot governor of New York state, has served on the beard of directors, was chairman of the committee on international relationships for one year, and in 1936 was elected third vice president. presi-dent. In succeeding years he has been unanimously elected to fill the second and first vice presidencies. |