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PAST PRESIDENTS PLAQUE
- Haverhill Lions Club Photo -
Picture of 2004-2005 Haverhill Lions President and PDG John Pettis,
Jr. holding the newly restored Past Presidents Plaque on November
16, 2004.
PAST PRESIDENTS - 1944 through
1957
Honorable Salvatore Faraci, President
1944-1945
Celebrated Charter Night. Host to the Probation Office and Army
Officer from the Veteran's Bureau. Met with another service club
and entertained the college president. Host to the blind state
worker.
- Haverhill Lions Club Photo -
Picture of Honorable Salvatore Faraci, President 1944-1945 who
was the Club's first Charter President.
- 1944-1945
Officers, Directors And Members
- Hon. Salvatore Faraci, President
Honorable Salvatore Faraci, President
1945-1946
Assisted a financial drive for the new Y.M.C.A. Building. Conducted
a clothing collection. Entertained the superintendent of schools,
professors, blind persons, and guests. Voted $25 to the Community
Chest. Held a Gay Nineties Dance and Sports Night; proceeds for
the Boy Scouts and blind work. Arranged to buy a motion picture
projector for the Boy Scouts.
Albert Goodwin, President 1946-1947
Held a Ladies Night. Bought tickets for charity entertainment.
Presented a radio to the blind. Voted $25 to the Community Chest.
Held a Barn Dance. Fitted several persons with glasses. Voted
to buy three Vision Testing machines.
Philip F. Brooks, President 1947-1948
Held Ladies Night with the Lawrence Lions Club. Donated $25 to
the Community Chest. Entertained the City Safety Council. Sponsored
advertisement in the newspaper regarding Child Health Week. Gave
$25 toward the lighting of streets during Christmas. Contributed
$185 for room and board of a crippled woman who is partially
blind. Gave a Christmas Party for the blind. Held a Family Christmas
Party. Gave a suit and clothing to a blind man. Sponsored a show
and Auction of prizes; netted $900. Held a boxing match. Delivered
an oxygen tent to the hospital. Purchased White Canes for the
blind. Assisted the Girls Scouts with a clothing drive for children
of Europe. Sponsored the Merrimac Lions Club.
George E. Hamel, President 1948-1949
Provided White Canes for several blind people. Donated $25 to
the Cancer Fund. Held a Ladies Night. Presented a maternity table
and an oxygen tent to the hospital. Donated $25 Savings Bond
to the first baby born on the maternity table. Contributed $25
to the Community Chest Campaign. Purchased tickets at a Concert
at a cost of $12 for the blind. Donated $50 for a Television
Set to the Boys Club. Staged a Christmas Dinner Dance. Held a
Christmas Party for the blind; provided luncheon and treats.
Donated to the March of Dimes. Held a Pageant of Progress; gave
$3,000 in prizes. Sponsored the Plaistow, New Hampshire Lions
Club.
William R. Shepherd, President
1949-1950
Attended meetings and Charter Night of Plaistow, New Hampshire
Lions Club and gave them gong and gavel. Purchased three oxygen
tents for the hospital. Gave $300 to the County Polio Building
Fund. Held a Ladies Night. Gave $25 to the Community Chest, and
$50 to a handicapped business man. Held a Christmas Party for
the blind and presented each with a White Cane and candy. Staged
a Christmas Party. Held a Pageant of Progress. Donated $100 for
camp equipment for the Boy Scouts attending the National Jamborees.
Daniel M. Thornton, President
1950-1951
Held a Ladies Night. Donated $25 to the Community Chest. Entertained
two high school students weekly. Gave $100 to the Haverhill Industrial
Commission to assist in the community's industrial needs and
to influence business firms to settle in the community. Donated
$50 to the high school band for uniforms. Provided $250 worth
of material for construction of cubicles in the children's ward
in the hospital and constructed a formulary room in the maternity
ward at the cost of $350. Attended dedication of these projects
in a group. Held a Christmas Party for the blind and gave gifts;
host to the musical group of boys from Angel Guardian Home. Held
a Christmas Party. Sponsored a parade of Progress exhibit; netted
$4,500.
Norman T. Shepherd, President
1951-1952
Host two high school students weekly during the school months.
Held a family banquet. Donated $25 to the Community Chest. Gave
$1,000 to Y.M.C.A. to create boys game room in the new building.
Gave $25 in gifts to hospitals veterans. Held a Christmas Party
for the blind and gave gifts. Held a Ladies Night Christmas Party.
Sponsored the Pageant of Progress. Donated $500 to the state
committee for eye research.
- Haverhill Lions Club Photo -
Picture of The 1952 Pageant of Progress was opened officially
with a ribbon cutting.
- Haverhill Lions Club Photo -
Picture of "I Wuz Framed" April 3, 1952 by Samuel J.
Minichiello.
- Haverhill Lions Club Photo -
Picture of Haverhill Lions Club 1952 Convention Bound.
- Haverhill Lions Club Photo -
Picture of Massachusetts Lion Convention 33rd District May 23-24-25
1952 At Wentworth-By-The-Sea, NH.
John R. Morey, President 1952-1953
Provided transportation for a blind couple to Scituate, Mass.
Assisted with the Community Chest drive and donated $60. Assisted
with the little league baseball games. Contributed $15 to the
Heritage of Freedom Organization. Entertained two high school
students weekly. Fitted three persons with glasses. Paid a $40
doctor bill for an eye operation. Held a Christmas Party for
the blind and presented them with gifts. Staged a Ladies Night
and Christmas Party. Purchased a radio for a man in the sanitarium.
Gave $25 to the Boys Haven Choir for Christmas. Assisted with
blood bank visit. Held a pageant of progress and operated booths.
- Haverhill Lions Club Photo -
Picture of Haverhill Lions Club 1953 Summer Outing Wentworth-By-The-Sea,
NH.
Samuel J. Minichiello, President
1953-1954
Voted $300 to Eye Research fund, $400 to Cerebral Palsy for equipment
at Bon Secours Hospital, Methuen; $100 to Secino Eye, Inc. for
Patron membership; $200 put aside for a party for the blind in
the summer. Donated $100 to the Worcester Lions Club for tornado
relief fund. Held a light bulb sale and netted $300 for the Mass.
Eye Research Fund. Transported thirty blind persons to the concert.
Assisted with the Community Chest Drive. Entertained the high
school grade school children. Donated $400 to the Merrimack Valley
Chapter of the United Cerebral Palsy Association for school chairs.
Held a theater party and turkey dinner for blind persons. Sought
orthopedic clinic for the community. Held a Christmas Party for
40 blind persons and their guides; gave gifts. Presented Patrolman
of the Year award to the outstanding patrolman. Members donated
to the Red Cross Blood Bank. Purchased 25 White Canes for distribution
to blind persons. Held a pageant.
Lawrence B. Whiting, President
1954-1955
Provided transportation for two blind persons. Presented a movie
projector to the Haverhill Boys Club. Provided white canes for
two blind persons. Held a picnic for the blind. Conducted a light
bulb sale. Fitted thirty-three persons with glasses. Donated
$85 to the Community Chest. Held a Christmas Party for the Protestant
Guild for the Blind and gave gifts and toys. Provided three eye
examinations, also gave white canes to six more persons. Held
a Valentine Party. Presented a movie projector and screen to
the Girls Club. Conducted a pageant of progress.
Armand Racicot, President 1955-1956
Held a Ladies Night. Attended the major league baseball game.
Held a clambake. Donated $30 to the Community Chest and $100
to flood relief. Donated two eye testing machines to the schools.
Held a picnic for the blind. Sold light bulbs. Held a Christmas
Party for the blind and gave gifts. Sponsored a Christmas carousel
in the shopping area featuring Santa making the rounds and talking
to the children. Fitted 22 persons with glasses. Donated $15
to the Haverhill High School Education Fund. Held a Valentine
Party. Donated $25 to the high school girl's chorus. Held an
auction and netted about $2,000.
Edwin R. Blackburn, President
1956-1957
Sponsored an outing for the blind. Donated $40 toward the Little
League Banquet. Donated $25 to Hungarian relief. Held a Christmas
Party for the blind and gave gifts. Donated $500 to YMCA building
fund. Held a Ladies Night Valentine Party. Sponsored an auction
with the cooperation of merchants and realized $510.
Raymond Hunkins, President 1957-1958
Appropriated $150 to the Boy Scouts to help build a camp house
at the Boy Scout Camp. Spent $45 to buy eye glasses. Voted $100
to buy uniforms for the club, sponsored Little League team. Held
a Ladies Night. Voted to pay for readers for a blind college
student. Held an outing for the blind of the community. Donated
$40 to the Little League banquet. Held a light bulb sale and
realized about $1,000. Held a Christmas Party for the blind and
gave gifts. Paid $600 to the sight fund.
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