Our Devonport Lions club (now Lions Club of City of Devonport) was founded officially on 30th September 1959 which means this year 2009 we will have been in existence for 50 years. The club received its charter in February 1960. We started with 23 members then grew to 58 members over some years. It was a simple matter of inviting a friend, associate, a person known to you and nominating him to gain general approval for welcome and induction. I had the pleasure of regularly bringing new members into the club from the beginning and over the years brought in some 50-60 members into the club, most of whom made a wonderful contribution to the life of the club.
Perhaps the greatest achievement of our club has been in the formation of other new clubs in the North West Region of the State. Penguin was our first endeavour and now that club will celebrate 47 years of community involvement and success. Penguin in turn has continued to form other new clubs, the most noteworthy being King Island because of the difficulties in getting there. Lion Will Barker took a prominent role as he was a Parliamentary Representative on the House of Assembly and King Island was part of his electorate. There were others who had interest to go there and the members took it in turn to go there and establish the club which has a fine record. After Penguin we followed with Ulverstone, Kentish, Mersey, Deloraine and in the early years reformed Burnie after they declined and we were asked to revive them and they became a very successful club.
Lion George Russell
Founding Member
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