The Lions Roar...serious and fun information from the Westerly Lions Club

As your new King Lion, I wanted to thank all of the members of the Westerly Lions for the amazing reception I received upon my installation.  

District 42 Governor Elect Francine Murphy-Brillon did a wonderful job with both the installation of Officers and the Induction of 3 new members into the club.

The new officers for the 2011-2012 year are as follows:

Dan Marantz, King Lion

Angie Smith, 1st Vice President

Bob Hatfield, 2nd Vice Presidet

Paul Doyle, 3rd Vice President

Jared Beaulieu, Secretary

Paul Nunes, Treasurer

Jeniffer Campo, Tail Twister

Nick Stahl, Lion Tamer

Gary Latz, Membership Chairman

Our Board of Directors, Michelle Pendola, David Rivera, Hap Rocketto, Frankie Algiere, Ken Sorensen, walter Pawelkiewic

As I stated during my remarks, I have 4 major goals for this year, and I am sure with the dynamic members that we have, we will surpass all of them.

1) Have an even greater positive impact on our community through increased financial and member support.

a. Be sure that you, our members have a rewarding experience as a Lion.

2) Kick off the Westerly Leo Club in conjunction with the start of the school year

a. The youth of today are our members tomorrow.

3) Help our successful committees and their chairs plan for making succession to future chairs seamless.

a. The more we can involve our members (new and old) and make it easier to take over an event, the longer this winning streak will go on.

4) Continue increasing our membership

a. When I joined in 2005, we were 70 members strong, now we are over 120 members invincible. Growth is good!

I am planning on doing a lot of communicating with our members in person, on the phone and thru all of the electronic methods available to us.

And as the last item on my 1st blog post, I have to give a huge Thank You to our Immediate Past King Lion, Joe Iacoi for the incredible job he did during his term. I look forward to the challenge of having success like Joe.