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Show Pleasant Grove Lions to celebrate 50th anniversary The Pleasant Grove Lions Club will commemorate its fiftieth anniversary anni-versary with a banquet and program pro-gram Saturday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Sportsmen-Lions Center, Cen-ter, 600 E. Center St., Pleasant Grove. The club was organized on Nov. 8, 1938. The program will include a welcome wel-come by President Russell Alldredge. The Pledgeof Allegiance will be presented by Jess Monson and the prayer will be by Jay Mac-farlane. Mac-farlane. Dinner will be served following a sing along and the introduction of special guests Daryl Shumway, Randy Stevens and Dewey Jolley, Lions Club officials. Following dinner, the three guests will give brief remarks. Boyd and Debbie Hall will present pres-ent a musical number. Jim Lundberg will then address the club and guests. The Lion Pledge will be led by Craig Oveson. The American Fork, Lindon and Orem Clubs were invited to join with Pleasant Grove for this special spe-cial celebration. Origi n al charter members of the organization who are still living were invited to attend, also. Other club officers are Allen Clegg, first vice president; Jerry Walker, second vice president; Larry Adamson, third vice president; presi-dent; Craig Oveson, immediate past president; Jim Fisher, secretary-treasurer; Jess Monson, assistant as-sistant secretary-treasurer; David Gaines, Lion Tamer; Owen Wright, tail twister; and DougMooneyham, assistant tail twister. The board of directors consists of Grant Atwood and Jess Monson, one year; and Jay Macfarlane and Dave Monson, two year. I - '-' ' i'i I 1 -? v J $ ; " , ; . V 1 t I.J - ti t- s I ! s , - , r s I ...... I " , i t -A-;, ' ' ' . v . , .. ' ' '. ' ' ' . - ' " '"'''.Mff iy ' ,''"' " '' '. ' ' " , i- . I - ' ' ' - ' . , ' A " Lions Club high involved in eye research, services Lions Club members installing playground equipment at the Downtown Park include, L-R, Sherman Varney, Albert Spencer and Grant Atwood. PL Grove Lions offer thanks to the community Pleasant Grove Lions members plan Golden Anniversary party For many years the Pleasant Grove Lions Club, along with all other Lions Clubs, has been involved in-volved with the providing care for the blind and in eye care research. The local club is involved with the Utah Foundation and this year, through Nov. 1, there have been 268 donors of eyes. The eyes have been delivered to the eye bank by the Utah Highway Patrol and the Lions Clubs. There have been 536 eyes donated. do-nated. In addition, there has been 360 cornea transplants, 60 were transferred out of state and 20 were transferred to South America. Amer-ica. It is interesting to note that there are 98 eye banks hooked together through computers. Nine teen of these are in the western states of Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Washington Wash-ington and Oregon. There is also one in Hawaii and one in Vancouver and 15 in California. Califor-nia. When a cornea is needed, the eye bank has equipment to measure the size, shape, color, etc. that is needed. This information is fed into a computer and when one becomes available in any eye bank, it is put on a plane and sent to the airport. The Lions pick it up and take it to the hospital. By the time it arrives, the one receiving the transplant is in the hospital and the transplant is done immediately. As a club, the Pleasant Grove Lions recognize the support of the community in making the programs pro-grams a success and acknowledge their dependency on the community commu-nity and express a heartfelt thanks to all. Current members of the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Lions Club are Larry Adamson, Russell Alldredge, Grant Atwood, Allen Clegg, David Deetz, Jim Fisher, David Gaines, Daryl Huish, Stan Johnson, Roy Leek, Jay Macfarlane, Dave Monson, Mon-son, Jess Monson, Doug Moon- eyham, Craig Oveson . Oveson, Lynn Seeley' ft-Spencer, ft-Spencer, Sherman Varney Je-Walker, Je-Walker, Owen Wright, and t Young. Vance West, a longtime men:.-of men:.-of the club, died in the pastyer Charter members of Lions Club remembered The Pleasant Grove Lions Club was organized on Nov. 8, 1938. The first members were Dr. Grant Y. Anderson, Ray S. Merrill, Karl Banks, H. E. Bradley, Rulon W. Brimhall, C. R. Clark, R. G. Weeks, J. R. Heidenreich, Wm. C. Smith, Harold M. Wright, Leonard Owen Ash, Harry S. Richards, Lyean Johnson, E. Allen Pearson. Other charter members were George B. Peay, J. N. Sargent, S. A. Kirk, Wesley Jense, Lee Peterson, Junius A. West, Blaine W. Swen-son, Swen-son, H. W. Jacobs, J. W. Hilton and Eleroy R. West. Lions seek new members All service clubs have been experiencing expe-riencing a drop in membership as the older members pass away or leave the club because of ill health. The Pleasant Grove Lions Club, along with all others in the state, has a desire to bring new members into the club. Any one who is interested in joining is encouraged to contact any member of the club and they will be given the opportunity to attend a meeting and become acquainted with the members. The club offers an opportunity to give service to the community and have a good time doing it. The Lindon Lions Club also is well organized and those from Lindon are invited to contact any Lindon Lion for more information. ins pick it up and take it ry ff Grant Atwood, Allen C aital. JfS' " Deetz, Jim Fisher, Da time it arrives, the one ' ' Daryl Huish, Stan Jo the transplant is in the VT TTX Leek, Jay Macfarlane, id the transplant is done Sfl if I H VS. son, Jess Monson, E to be cc -fyjTis rr1 Sftr fj' to be built near the t f. llr million dollars and the '. J N throughout the state w ' '"''" ! money to help pay fo s ' 4' 4 f The purpose of t New eye research center to be constructed at U A new eye research laboratory is to be built near the University of Utah Medical Center. The building will cost several million dollars and the Lions Clubs throughout the state will beraising money to help pay for this structure. struc-ture. The purpose of the research laboratory will be to develop an artificial eye. Already enough progress k; been made on this that a man : Canada has one and can seefc-enough seefc-enough with it to get arouni The man was born blind. The Utah Lions must res $500,000 toward this re center in the next two years. Lions Club lists 50 years of projects - i " jf? L f " v -t . ; ' ' ' v Wr- -it $ A Lions Club project in the 1950's was the swimming pool park pavilion. versity of Utah Research Park in the next two years. The Lions provide other vision handicap programs such as guide dogs, white canes, handicap employment, em-ployment, training programs for the handicapped, etc. Funds for these projects are raised by various Lions Club projects proj-ects such as the Birthday Calendars, Calen-dars, broom sales, raffles, breakfast break-fast at the Community Fair, Halloween Hal-loween Candy, etc. They are also involved in training train-ing teachers and providing classroom class-room materials for drug education in a joint effort with the School District. This is a world-wide diagram. dia-gram. , v,:r They also support a research program. . . The local Lions Club lr donated $950 to the library. li-brary. The Lions Club condonation con-donation of old eyeglasses -are made available to the and to those in South Ame , do not have the opportunity regular eye care. The charter members built on the room at the back of the Pioneer Museum which had hardwood floors, velvet drapes and lovely decorations. According to Sytha Johnson, this was a very lovely meeting room for the Lions in those early days. In addition, the club erected a flag pole at the rodeo grounds, at the Lions Building, and in recent years, at the Downtown City Park. The Lions provided funds for printing and plates of the Timpan-ogos Timpan-ogos Town" book in about 1948. They installed the children's playground at the Downtown Park. Horseshoe pits were placed at the Downtown Park and at the Battlecreek Park. Picnic Pavilions were erected at the Downtown Park and at the park adjacent to the Community Swimming Pool. A few years after the pavilion at the Downtown Park was installed, a large cement platform was built to the west of the pavilion to be used as a stage for programs. The Lions Club has erected deaf and handicapped child signs in neighborhoods needing them. In conjunction with the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Sportsmens Club, the Lions built the Sportsmen-Lions Center at 600 E. Center St. This building is used for meetings of the two organizations and is rented out for weddings, receptions, dinners, family parties, etc. The Pleasant Grove Senior Citizens Citi-zens used the building for several years for their daily luncheons and activities, too. The Lions Club helps in furnish-ingeye furnish-ingeye glasses an d eye care to those in need. Right now they are in the process proc-ess of helping to raise $500,000 for an eye research center at the Uni- i. 1 :4!:;',: : ISIIIWIMIIS.': ' ' "t't ' '' Lion Stan Johnson puts finishing touches to 1 poured horseshoe pits at the Downtown Park. Lions take time out for pictures at the Downtown Park Pavilion built by the Pleasant Grove Lions Club. L-lt are Stan Johnson, Maron Oveson, Orval Carter, Jay Macfarlane, a special guest unnamed, Dave Monson, Owen Wright, Vance West and Jess Monson. |
