


DISTRICT GOVERNOR LION BERNICE PITCOCK
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To all Lions, Lionesses, Leos:
It is my distinct pleasure and honor to be serving as District Governor
for 29-L for the 2009-2010 Lions year. We have a wonderful group of
dedicated members, who believe in service to their local communities
-especially "Service "from the Heart". It is my firm belief that the
majority of our members belong to this wonderful organization because
they see that our International motto, "We Serve," is evident in the
projects that we devote our time, talent and monies to. We serve people,
not just in our local communities, but in our District, Multiple
District, country and the International community. We are in this
organization, not for the "awards -but for the rewards."
We have been blessed to have assembled a great group of dedicated Lions
who will be serving as District 29-L:s cabinet for the coming year. I
urge all clubs to take advantage
of their expertise. Please, use and abuse us this year! I want to thank
the newly appointed District Chairs and Zone Chairs for accepting this
challenge. We met on Saturday, June 27th, in Wheeling for a Cabinet
training led by Multiple District Leadership Chair, Past Council Chair
Lion Steve Glass. It was a very productive meeting, a time to begin the
bonding process for a successful team. Thanks to Lion Steve for
assisting us with the training!!
I have several goals for the year including the following:
holding an extension workshop early in the Lions year; extending two new
Lions Clubs and one new Leo Club; having a "net gain" of 50 members
throughout the District (not including the new clubs); increasing the
percentage of women members from 23% of the total to 30%. I would like
to see increased support of the WV Sight Conservation Foundation and the
WV Leadership School. These may be lofty goals, but they are attainable.
We need to work together as a TEAM to accomplish this. We CAN and we
WILL do it!
We will have our first Cabinet meeting
on Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 2 pm at the Brookhaven Community Building
in Morgantown. Thanks to the Brookhaven Lions Club for hosting the
meeting. We are hoping to have the Multiple District Directory available
at the cabinet meeting for distribution to the individual clubs. Let's
keep our fingers crossed!
It is vitally important that ALL the clubs in District 29-L lend some
type of support to the Dan Dague Memorial Car Show which will be held at
the Cabela's Distribution Center at the Highlands outside of Wheeling on
Labor Day, September 7th. We are in need of donations for dash plaques
and trophies and donations of food supplies and rattle items. We need
volunteers to man various areas of the show. Please contact PDG Eva
Dague and 1st VDG Jeff Baxter (who are co-chairing this major event) and
offer your support. All proceeds are earmarked for the WV Sight
Conservation Foundation. Last year, over $20,000.00 was raised for the
Foundation. We would love to be able to match those "figures, and better
yet, go beyond them! We can't do it without you!
Please consider making the trip to Flatwoods January 2931,
2010 to attend the WV Leadership School. As we did last year, we will be
awarding two "First Timers" with free registration for the next year's
school. Be on the look out for more information regarding the school.
Contact the School's chair, our very own PDG Steve Beecroft, for more
information.
This is a windy message, but there is a lot to share with you. I highly
encourage all clubs, zones and district chairs to send information on
your activities to Lion Bob Moffett for the news-letter and to Lion Dave
Ice for the website. Lion Dave and I are working on a contest for the
District, involving the "First Laddie" PDG Gary. We are planning a trip
for "Bubba" (as PDG Gary is affectionately known to the Northern
Panhandle Lions) and some type of prize to be awarded to the winner of
the contest, which will be announced at our District Conference in
Wheeling in March of 2010. I will have more information in the next
newsletter.
Our new International President's (Eberhard Wirfs) theme is "Move to
Grow". We can accomplish his goals, using my theme "Service from the
Heart". Let's have a fantastic, positive, fun year!
P.S. Please don't forget to call me or email me at
bpit@comcast.net to set up
your District Governor's Nights.
| DISTRICT GOVERNOR LION
BERNICE PITCOCK'S GOALS
FOR 2009 - 2010 |
| (1.) 2 NEW LIONS CLUBS |
| (2.) CONDUCT AN EXTENSION WORKSHOP IN AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER 2009 |
| (3.) GAIN 40 CHARTER MEMBERS |
| (4.) 1 NET GAIN NEW MEMBER PER CLUB |
| (5.) INCREASE THE PERCENTAGE OF WOMEN MEMBERS IN DISTRICT FROM 23% TO 30% |
| (6.) HAVE: FUN FUN FUN !!!!! |





