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Show Frank V. Birch Elected President Of Lionism I r ' ' i i I V . ' - - .V V- ''' (' " ..'-'aT J. i. " , " ; ' ' ' . ' - v ' , - . ' - - ""vr , - 'FRANK V. BIRCH , i ' MILWAUKEE. WISCONSIN1, t. , 937 PRESIDENT 1938 . , ' UONS INTERNATIONAI.i I Chicago, July 23 Frank V. Birch of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was elected elect-ed today to the presidency of the International Association of Lions Clubs, at the closing session of the four-day International convention held in Chicago July 20-23. For the past year he served as first vice president. The association which he heads is represented in eight counties coun-ties by nearly 3,000 clubs with a 100,000 membership of business and professional men. The retiring president, Edwin R. Kingsley, Parkersburg, West Virginia, Vir-ginia, as immediate past president of the association will head the convention con-vention commission which will handle han-dle the 1938 convention. Birch called call-ed a meeting of the new International Interna-tional board immediately following the close of the Chicago convention. The new president is a partner and executive vice president of the national advertising agency of Klau-Van Klau-Van Pietersom-Dunlap Associates, Inc., of Milwaukee. He has been active in Lions work over a long period. In the Milwaukee club he held the office of vice president, director di-rector and president, in addition to heading many of its major committees, commit-tees, in 1929-30 he was elected to the governorship of the district of Wisconsin, Wis-consin, the following year was a member of the Executive Council of the Board of Governors for the International In-ternational Association, and in July, 1931, at the convention held in Tor-ontoo, Tor-ontoo, Ontaria, he was elected a director di-rector of the International Associa- tion. After serving the two-year term as director he was elevated in 1934 to the third vice presidency, and in successive years has held the office? of second and first vice president. Frank V. Birch was born in Stevens Stev-ens Point, Wisconsin, in 1894 and received his early schooling at Minneapolis Min-neapolis and Fond du Lac. He attended at-tended the University of Wisconsin and was graduated in 1918. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary commerce fraternity, Sigma Sig-ma Delta Chi, honorary journalistic journalis-tic fraternity, and Acacia, social fraternity. fra-ternity. He was editor-in-chief of the "Badger," university year book during his last year in college, and was also a member of the Wisconsin basketball team whieh won the Big Ten western conference in 1917. Birch was commissioned Lieutenant Lieu-tenant in the U. S. Army air service in 1918, taking training in Texas, at Cornell University in New York, and at Post Field Oklahoma. After the close of the war he entered en-tered the advertising field, and for . the past eighteen years has been as- ! sociated with Klau-Van Pietersom Dunlap Associates, Inc. He is married and has three children, chil-dren, all boys. Birch is a Mason and a Legionnaire. |