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Show Vincent C. Hascal New International Lions President Vincent C. Hascal of Omaha, Nebraska, Ne-braska, was elected president of the International Association of Lions clubs for the fiscal year 1934-35 succeeding Roderick Beddow of Birmingham, Alabama, and six directors were elected to the Inter-natonal Inter-natonal Board, at the International convention at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Michi-gan. Vincent Hascall was elevated to the presidency from the position of first vice president. He has a record rec-ord in Lions Club work that extends back almost to the beginning of the Association. He was a charter member mem-ber of the Omaha Lions Club which was chartered in 1930. In 1926 he was elected district governor of the Lions Clubs in Iowa and Nebraska, and in 1927 was chosen chairman of the board of governors of the Association. In succeeding years he was made second and first vice president, and at this convention was elected to the presidency, which is the highest office in the Association. Asso-ciation. Mr. Hascall is by profession a lawyer, receiving his law degree from the University of Nebraska in 1917- He was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1888, but received most of his education in Omaha Nebraska- For the past several years he has been in charge of the legal affairs of the Standard Oil Company of Nebraska- The Grand Rapids convention was the most successful gathering of the Association on record- It climaxed a year during which the financial position of the Association showed great improvement, and large net increases were registered in both the number of clubs and the number of members. The membership mem-bership figure of the Association now stands at 80,000 and the number num-ber of clubs at 2,680. The nigh-lights nigh-lights of the sessions were clearly the reports of President Beddow and Secretary General Jones, in which they paid tribute to the fine spirit of harmony and cooperation within the Association which enabled en-abled it to hang, up the finest record rec-ord of progress, both from a service and a material point of view, in the history of the Association. |