Jeff Barlow, third from left, is sponsored by Signal Mountain Lions
Club members, from left, Jim Webb, Jerry Pala and Bill Leonard as he
is inducted into the club.
The Signal Mountain Lions Club is the top club in the district, according Lions District 12-0 Governor Greg Dingwall, speaker for the Nov. 24 meeting.
A special event during the meeting was the induction of Jeff Barlow, an English teacher at the Signal Mountain Middle/High School, into the Signal Mountain Club at its Nov. 24 meeting.
Mr. Barlow was nominated for membership by the board in recognition of his work as the sponsor of the Leo Club at the school. Leo Clubs are the youth division of the Lions Club.
Three Lions members, Jerry Pala, Jim
Wade and Bill Leonard, who helped organize the Leos at the Signal
Mountain school, were sponsors of Barlow. The Leos was organized this
school year and is already busy making its contribution in the
community.
A teacher at the Livingston, Tn., Academy, Ms. Dingwall commended the
club, saying it was "doing wonderful work. It is building, growing and
has a great heart. You have done everything the district has asked.
You have a lot of good people."
With the motto, We Serve, everything your club does helps somebody, he
said. "It is not a call everybody has, but you have it."
The International Lions Clubs are a growing, live, vital organization, said Ms. Dingwall, District 12-0 secretary and wife of the district governor, but the Lions are the best kept secret in the world. As she reviewed the many programs of the organization, she added that her remarks were "preaching to the choir," because the local club already knew all this.
The Dec. 8 meeting of the club will be a Christmas dinner, to be
held at St. Timothy' Episcopal Church. Entertainment will be provided
by a Signal Mountain youth band.
Greg Dingwall, Lions District 12-0 district governor, second from
left, and Eva Dingwall, district secretary, talk with Jim Simpkins,
left, Signal Mountain Lions president, and Mel Tryon, right, who
introduced them to speak at the meeting.