HISTORICAL EVENTS OF TOCCOA LIONS - the Toccoa Lions Club

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Lioness club -officers for 1977 were President Beverly Ross, Vice- President Susan Irvin, Secretary Jimmie Brown, Treasurer Sherry Voyles, and Directors Betty Poole, Emily Cash, and Aileen Prewitt. Meetings were first Tuesdays at Citizens Bank. The Lioness charter and installation night was held April 5, 1977 at the Western Steer. Callaway Professor of Economics at North Georgia College, John F. Pearce, spoke at the March 22 meeting at Sheraton Motor Inn. The second annual White Cane Day was observed April 2, 1977 with collections at the Mall, Big A Shopping Center, and the Town Plaza. Toccoa Lions attended the Victory Home meeting April 12, for rehabilitating alcoholics. First Vice- President L. H. Hitchcock from Lavonia Lions club spoke on military intelligence to Toccoa Lions, April 26. Officers for 1977-78 were installed May 24 by Dist. Gov. Vance Cecil (Lioness Wilma attending) at Sheraton Motor Inn, as follows: President Lillard Gibbs, First Vice-President Don Gathany, Second Vice-President Claude Smith; Third Vice-President Jerry Carroll; Secretary Larry King, Treasurer Ronald Green; Chaplain M.C. Stowe, Tail Twister Ray Richardson and assistant Ed Voyles, Lion Tamer Harold Atkinson, and Directors Melvin Addison, James Irvin, Mike Ross. John Anderson, and Horace Luther. Ken Massingale was elected district governor of 18-D for 1977-78. Toccoa Lions contributed toward flood relief after the dam break and flood of Toccoa Creek across Toccoa Falls College campus, Nov. 6, 1977. The Christmas program entertainers at Georgia Baptist Assembly, Dec. 15, were Wallace and Betty Buice, who taught speech and music at Asbury College, who have appeared on the Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, the Snooky Lanson Show, and Ruth Kent's Today in Georgia, Received into the club in 1977 were new members Ken Houston, Kenneth R. Huron, Fred Jeard transferring from Washington in Georgia from 11-73, William Clarence Gregory, Francis Marion Sisk, William Clary III, John Morgan, Richard Barry Culp, and Elgie R. Hudgins. Dropped from the club in 1977 were Walton Barnes, W.W. Smith, Raymond A. Neal, Luke Collier, Morris Fuller, Thomas F. Oxley, Hulon D. Brown, James Larry Poole, W.W. Smith, Wilmer H. Shirley, Forrest H. Kelly, L. Larry Segars, Peter A. Miccoli, Kytle J. Oliver, Albert Huber Lawson and Vann.
1978 At the 57th Annual Georgia Lions Convention, June 9-11, 1978, at Marietta, Toccoa club won first place for the Augusta Award for long- term attendance, and first place for the LaGrange Award for the best monthly bulletin. First Vice-President Don Gathany took charge while President Lillard Gibbs was in Japan. For the eighth year Toccoa was a 100% Peach Bowl club. The Little League Cook-Out at Henderson Falls Park was held Aug. 22. Toccoa Lions on World Service Day, Oct. 8, gave gifts to the Toccoa Nursing Center and the Stephens County Day Care and Training Center. Willard Kimsey arranged Toccoa's entry in competition at Hartwell, Oct. 8, 1978, for Miss Peach Bowl Princess, won by Karen Andrews. He directed sale of 100 tickets by Toccoa club to the Peach Bowl. The eleventh annual peach bowl contested Georgia Tech against Purdue. Dist. Gov. David Sargent visited Toccoa club, Oct. 24, 1978. Tail Twister Ray McKnight collected $50 Nov. 14, 1978, for Rosa's van to transport crippled children in Argentina, a project begun by Athens club. Benny Nix gave solos and Kay Herrin made impersonations at Ladies Night Christmas Party at Clemson House, Dec. 12. Lions, not businessmen, brought door prizes for ladies. Becoming Toccoa Lions in 1978 were Joseph C. McMillan, Fred B. Carter, Larry Lee Black, Marvin Emery Smith, and Jeffrey Allyn Harris. Removed from membership in 1978 were Wayne Payne, Joe Frank Stewart, James H. Moore, Michael Carey, John L. Quick, Samuel Williams, Charles Thomas McCroskey, Ray E. Richardson, Harold Sorrells, Edward R. Voyles, P.M. Ross Jr., Bruce OTCelley, Jess Ashley Hayes, and Francis Marion Sisk. 1979 Wayne and Lula Jones provided Gospel Song entertainment at the Valentine Party at Dillard House, Feb. 13. The club presented an appreciation plaque to Dr. Ralph Reed. The club traveled by Trailway bus to the annual Victory Home meeting, April 10 with 56 Lions and ladies attending.
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together as lawyers in Athens. Lion
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Toccoa Lions club, a gift from the
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nominate persons for the Outstandin
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as she enlisted Lions and their spo
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M.C. Stowe, who coordinated all the
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water and sewage, airport, gas fund
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Entertainer Bruce Fields captivated
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The State Convention authorized the
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Georgia, one of three, from which o
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with his mother, Terri Bridges, who
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years earlier the Chilly Open Tourn
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Treasurer Kay Royal submitted the r
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help for a trip, and also by The Sh
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Stephens County, as his mother, Eun
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Lloyd and Mona Prewett and Virgil a
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Toccoa Lions celebrated Valentine's
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appreciation also to Lion Irving He
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