We celebrated our 80th Anninversary in 2023!
The Westmont Lions Club was inspired by Frank P. Jackson, III and a group of like-minded individuals interested in the betterment of humanity and community. Lions Clubs International issued a charter to the Westmont Lions Club on November 22, 1943. We honor our Charter Members and pay tribute to these trailblazers, who held hope for Vision for Everyone - a dream that gets closer each day with the support of the Lions around the globe.
Members of the Jackson Family are still active in the club, and they carry on the vision of the founders.
Today Lions, are not only working to preserve the precious Gift of Sight for the world, but are also joining forces in other areas of service. Lions are confronting the world health emergency from Diabetes, meeting Environmental challenges at the local and global levels, combatting Hunger to sustain life and dignity for the most vulnerable among us, and working to give children a second chance at life by expanding access to treatment for Pediatric Cancer.
| Charter Members | |
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Fred C. Bingham Spencer Brown Benjamin Buchalter Jacob Dreher J. Richard Duffy Thomas R. Edwards George G. Fay William Getsinger Joseph Gottesman Harry Gottlieb John J. Hickey Norman I. Hughes Franklin P. Jackson, 3rd Ralph C. Lay Irving Lowengrub George A. McCann John D. McCormick |
Edward D. Marker Mark Marritz Harold I. Merritt Thomas T. Milnamow, 3rd William G. Muller Albert Neufeld James Paul Joseph Plavcon Joseph J. Sawicki Chester Max Sinnett Russell Stackhouse Everhardt Sylvester Edwin C. Tabor William D. B. Truax Milton H. Vendig Henry L. Vogel, Jr. |
Westmont New Jersey
Lions Club
WE SERVE LOCALLY AND WE SERVE GLOBALLY
The Westmont Lions Club is one of tens of thousands of clubs that are located throughout the world. When Lions come together, more service can be accomplished by pooling our collective ideas, talents and resources.
The Westmont Lions is part of Lions District 16L, composed of 54 clubs in Southern New Jersey. To learn more about District 16L, and events and projects sponsored by our fellow Lions in our district, follow these links:
- Website: http://lionsdistrict16L.org
- E-district clubhouse: http://e-district.org/sites/16l/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LionsDistrict16L/
We also are part of Multiple District 16, which is comprised of all of the Lions Clubs in the State of New Jersey. Links to our state organization are:
- Website: http://www.njlions.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NJLions/
WHO WE ARE
We are volunteer members of LionsClubs International, an organization that operates on a local, national, and global level. We focus on deed rather than creed, and action rather than words. We strive for results that matter much.
WHAT WE DO
We serve; we achieve; We invest time, attention, money, and effort - ourselves - into our community. We collaborate, plan, implement, and execute. Our projects, services, and activities to provide that which otherwise would not be provided.
WHY WE DO
The return on that investment, for members, is our shared accomplishment. We believe that good work makes visible our sense of civic duty, fellowship, kindness, and commitment to ourselves and those around us.
For those we serve, at large, we provide and foster an enriched sense of quality, wellness, and caring.
Lions assist those in need:
- Those with visual and/or hearing impairments
- Those in need of food shelter and other essentials
- Those impacted by flood, hurricane, or natural disaster
- Those affected by Childhood Cancer or Diabetes
- Those others as deemed fitting
…AND, Lions have fun doing it.
True reward comes to those who give as well as receive—and is a matter at the very heart of the PRIDE OF LIONS.
--Anonymous
MEMBERSHIP
If you would like to join in, please contact any club member or our Membership Chairperson, Frank Jackson, V at fandgjack5@comcast.net. Click here to learn more about what it takes to Become a Lions Club Member.
MOTTO
We Serve
MISSION STATEMENT
To empower Lions clubs, volunteers, and partners to improve health and well-being, strengthen communities, and support those in need through humanitarian services and grants that impact lives globally, and encourage peace and international understanding.
VISION STATEMENT
To be the global leader in community and humanitarian service.
OBJECTIVES
TO CREATE and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
TO PROMOTE the principles of good government and good citizenship.
TO TAKE an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
TO UNITE the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.
TO PROVIDE a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
TO ENCOURAGE service-minded men to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavors.
CODE OF ETHICS
TO SHOW my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
TO SEEK success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
TO REMEMBER that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
WHENEVER a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.
TO HOLD friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
ALWAYS to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor and means.
TO AID others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
TO BE CAREFUL with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.
