Dear Madison Lions,

 I would like to alert you to a an impressive article on page 28 in the November 5th issue of The Source that focuses on Mike Conti who was the June 2008 recipient of our Paul Doyon Memorial Scholarship.  This scholarship is presented "to a senior member of the Daniel Hand football team who has exemplified the spirit of scholarship, sportsmanship, leadership, and motivation, and who plans to pursue a degree program in higher education."

 As the article describes, Mike is playing varsity football for Ithaca College and majoring in business administration and finance.

 Paul Doyon was the oldest son of Dana and Peg Doyon; Dana having been a long-time active member of our club.  Paul was a starting lineman on the Hand football team.  In his junior year he became ill with Hodgkin's Lymphoma and, after receiving chemotherapy and radiation treatments, he died just prior to graduation in June 1983.  Dana was our club's president at the time.  The football team raised money for a scholarship in Paul's honor and our club supported them.  Shortly thereafter, the Madison Lions formalized our support of a yearly scholarship, and in 2005 the club extended the scholarship to a 4-year award given yearly.  As of June 2009, we now award this and our other scholarships every fourth year (instead of yearly) for 4 years.

 It is wonderful to see one of our scholarship recipients recognized so positively in the local press.

 Kind regards,

George Basler

The latest of several scholarships is described below:

THE RONALD B. HALL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN EDUCATION and criteria:

Ronald B. Hall Memorial Scholarship in Education was first awarded in 2009 by the family and friends of Ron, and supported and sponsored by the Madison Lions Club in which Ron was an active member.

Ron was a life-long educator, as a teacher and educational administrator in Pennsylvania for 33 years.  He was the recipient of bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees.  Ron was a teacher and an educational administrator in Pennsylvania for 33 years.  A strong advocate of providing high quality public education for all students, Ron often led teacher training programs.  He retired as Chief of Educational Planning for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  Ron was an active participant in the Madison, Connecticut community, where he was a resident for 18 years.  Ron was one of the founding members of the Madison Lions Club Scholarship Committee, and originated and led the annual Movie Benefit to assist in supporting the Madison Lions scholarship program.

This scholarship is awarded to a student who, in the estimation of the DHHS staff, would make an outstanding educator in the standard set by Ronald B. Hall.

The scholarship is for $1000 a year for a maximum of four years.  Upon the graduation from college of the scholarship recipient, another candidate can be chosen.

All charitable fund raising of the Madison Lions Club is done by the affiliated Madison Lions Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation that has received the 501(c)(3) designation from the Internal Revenue Service. Some of these projects include: 

  The " Miss Be Thankful You Can See" Campaign

  The Christmas Cards and Prints Event

   The Flea Market on the Green

  The Movie Scholarship Fund Event

  Used Eyeglass Collection

  The Pauline Baldwin Fund for feeding the needy of Madison

   Tent Rental

MADISON LIONS CLUB

 The Madison Lions Club has been in existence for 56 years. Over the course of the last 18 years, club records indicate that the members have raised and given away:

$501,640

Madison Lions Foundation

Charities and Gifts

1994 to 2012