Vol. 67 Issue 9 The Club that has it all and gives its all! September 2015

LION PRINTS Prescott Noon Lions Club

President’s Message

Lion President Lou Nemeth will return next month with a message.

The Ins and Outs

of a Summer Picnic

The Ins and Outs

of a Summer Picnic

Picnic Chairman Chuck

Matthews didn’t let a few rain

drops put a damper on the

Prescott Noon Lions 2015 Picnic.

Although hillbilly golf and

horseshoes had limited

participation, there was plenty

of fun and good eats with fine

grilling by Chef Hollins.

Pictured at right are Lions Joe

Maresh with wife, Marie, and

Chuck Matthews with his wife,

Rosanna.

Rain? What rain? These

umbrellas are for shade!

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PNL’s 2015

Summer

Picnic Pics

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS FOR 2015-2016 SECRETARY Doug Ruckel TREASURER Bill Schwabe TAIL TWISTER Steve Hodges LION TAMER Kim Zimmerman PAST PRESIDENT Phil Weliky PAPER PROJECT CHAIRMAN Lynn Boutwell MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN John Schmitt SIGHT AND HEARING CHAIRMAN Jim Townsend

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES

HIGHLIGHTS: September 12, 2015 (pending BOD approval)

PRESIDENT Lou Nemeth 1ST VICE PRESIDENT Chuck Matthews 2ND VICE PRESIDENT Bob Welch 3RD VICE PRESIDENT Harry Gooding 2ND YEAR DIRECTOR Dick Beers 2ND YEAR DIRECTOR Don Colozze 2ND YEAR DIRECTOR Ray Lee 1ST YEAR DIRECTOR John Baudek 1ST YEAR DIRECTOR Jimmy Duke 1ST YEAR DIRECTOR Mark Leathers

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The highlights of Club Board Meetings are removed

from this copy of the Lion Prints Newsletter

due to possible coverage of private Club

business at these meetings.

The highlights of Club Board Meetings are removed

from this copy of the Lion Prints Newsletter

due to possible coverage of private Club

business at these meetings.

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Lion of the Month: John Schmitt

Recognition

PNL’s 2nd Second from LCI

During the last Lions Club International Convention, LCI

awarded the Prescott Noon Lion Prints an Honorable Mention,

its second time in two years. The certificate is a special honor

for the club since it was signed by our own district member and

LCI President, Joe Preston.

The editor is especially grateful for the writing contributions and

proof reading by Lion Jerry Jackson.

Filling in for President Lou Nemeth was 1st Vice President

Chuck Matthews. Chuck had the honor to name Lion John

Schmitt as Lion of the Month. John has been very busy

working on changes regarding the Mel Clack Fund and laying

out a plan for using our new eye care RV. As if that weren’t

enough, John continues as membership chairman and filling in

as secretary for Lion Doug Ruckel.

Anniversary

Only one member this month has a special anniversary this

year. Although he was a long time member in Iowa, he is

celebrating a five-year mark with the best Lions Club anywhere.

Lion Ken Gantz is the lucky one this month.

The highlights of Club Board Meetings are removed

from this copy of the Lion Prints Newsletter

due to possible coverage of private Club

business at these meetings.

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He’s done gone and pulled an “LBJ” on us; he won’t accept

the nomination as cotton candy project chairman and, if

drafted and elected anyway, absolutely refuses to serve in that

capacity. So THERE, Leavenworth Lou! Lion Member Profile

of Bob Williams

by Lion Jerry Jackson

Lion Bob Williams’ family roots are deeply embedded in Ontario, a

city located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. How deep?

Well, borrowing a takeoff from Johnny Carson, it is soooo deep that it

hearkens back to the century-before-last when Bob’s paternal great-

grandfather, an early pioneer, came to the fledgling city in 1892 – on

the heels of its incorporation on Dec. 10, 1891 – after he purchased a

small citrus ranch there. Bob’s grandfather and grandmother arrived

in Ontario from Kansas as newlyweds in 1900 and had six children,

with Bob’s father being the youngest. And Bob himself? Well, he was

born on April 11, 1942 in … yep, Ontario!

Bob went through Ontario’s school system from kindergarten through

the 12th grade. “I was an unexceptional student until my last two and

a half years of high school,” he said, “when I started to become

concerned about my future and getting into a good college. I became

an honor roll student and graduated from Chaffey High School in

1960, then spent two years at Chaffey Junior College, where I

continued to be an honor student.” (Regarding those Chaffey

references, a visit to Wikepedia confirms that the name stems from

“the Ontario Model Colony development established in 1882 by the

Canadian engineer George Chaffey and his brothers William and

Charles Chaffey. They named the settlement after their home

province of Ontario.”)

“I went on to U.C. Berkeley for my last two years, where I was not an

honor roll student, and graduated from there in 1964 with a degree in

political science,” he noted. And “while in college I was in the U.S,

Marine Corps Reserves, where I did several summer camps – the

last one at Camp Pendleton in the summer of 1965.” In that year,

“President Johnson began a big troop buildup in Vietnam, and after

that summer camp of advanced infantry training I thought I would be

sent to Vietnam. And everyone in my training company received

orders for duty in Vietnam except for me and another guy who was

being sent to Annapolis. When I asked why I wasn’t being sent to

Vietnam, they told me that I was about to complete my reserve

obligation to the Corps and that I was to be discharged and sent

home. I was also about 23 years old at the time, and that meant I was

about six or seven years older than all the remainder of my company.

“It was now about 1966, and I had been out of school for about two

years and needed a job. I had several friends who had decided to go

into teaching with my old high school district, and I decided to pursue

a teaching credential at a small, local private college.” Subsequently,

“armed with a college degree and a teaching credential, I applied at

my old high school district and was hired to teach in the same

Chaffey High School District that I had graduated from. I started in the

fall of 1968 at Alta Loma High School as a social studies teacher. I

liked the subject matter I was teaching and therefore I liked being a

teacher.” He retired from that career in 2006 following 35 years of

teaching “mostly U.S. history and U.S. government.”

Now, with that solid Southern California upbringing, how was it

that Bob ended up in Prescott, Ariz.? Well, we can thank his

daughter, Rachel, for the transition. Rachel, he said, was a

fine athlete who played softball, soccer and volleyball, and

after graduating from high school in 1999 she went on to

enroll at the University of Arizona. During her four years there,

Bob related, “I came over dozens of times to watch her play

volleyball and fell in love with Arizona … except for Tucson

and Phoenix.” It was in the late 1990s that he discovered

Prescott and began building a house in our mile-high city in

2003 – well before his teaching retirement in June of 2006.

And since moving here he and his wife Margie have been

enjoying the good life in their adopted community.

“In the period of time from 2006 to 2009 I became active in

civic affairs in Prescott,” Bob said. “One of my good friends

who was also active in civic affairs was David Hartke. He

suggested that I might be interested in joining the Prescott

Noon Lions Club because he said it was very involved in civic

affairs by helping people in need.”

Continued on page 6

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And it was in the fall of 2006 that Hartke sponsored him for

membership in the club. “At the time I joined, David was the paper

chairman and then later the club secretary,” Bob noted, and “he

suggested that I might like to succeed him as chairman of the paper

project. “I agreed,” he added, and initially he became assistant

chairman working with Phil Weliky, who was heading the project

then. “At the same time I became a first-year director of the club,”

Bob noted, and following three terms on the board of directors he

became a member of the contributions committee.

“After a couple of years on the contributions committee, Lou Nemeth

– then third vice president of the club – suggested that I might be

interested in becoming active in helping out with the cotton candy

booth that the club ran every year during the Frontier Days

celebration.” Initially, Bob helped with setting up the booth there on

its familiar spot at the corner of Gurley and Cortez and also had a

hand in the cotton candy production. “I did this for a couple of years

beginning about 2012,” he said, and then Nemeth “suggested that I

become his second in command. I was so naïve that I had not the

slightest idea where this was going, and in about 2013 Lou told me

that with all this experience I was going to be promoted the next

summer to chairman of the cotton candy booth! Suddenly a light

went off in my head and I realized that all this work on the booth had

been a plan by Lou to pass on his position as chairman to me.”

Consequently, “I had been led like a lamb to the chairmanship of the

project by my good friend and taxman Lou Nemeth!”

However, “In 2014 I avoided the dreaded position of cotton

candy chairman by the fact that my 50th college class reunion

would be held at U.C. Berkeley over the Fourth of July

weekend when the Frontier Days celebration was happening

and thus was saved by that fortuitous chain of events. Well,

after my reunion was over and I was back in Prescott,

‘Leavenworth Lou’ informed me that he had reserved the cotton

candy chairmanship for me in 2015, which by coincidence is

the year that he became president of the club. So I was

caught, as there was no college reunion – not even a high

school reunion – that I could use as an excuse to get out of that

dreaded job. So in July of 2015 I lived out my fate as chairman

of the cotton candy booth. Things went rather well on the first

and second days of the event when we made about $2,500.

This job wasn’t so bad after all, I thought, and assured myself

that I could handle it and come out smelling like a rose. Then

the last day – July 5 – it began to rain about 10:30 a.m. and

continued to rain until around 3:00 or 3:30 p.m. During that time

we couldn’t make fluffy cotton candy because all the moisture

in the air turned it into cotton candy goo! In addition, because of

the rain and cooler temperatures we sold much less soda and

water. On the last day we probably lost about $1,000 in profits

for the club. The best thing about the experience is that I’m

finished with cotton candy forever, or at least until next year

when I will probably be back making it during Frontier Days, but

I WILL NOT be the chairman!

So goes a tale of woe from a guy who couldn’t say “WHOA!”

Lion Bob Williams profile continued

THE END

“That’s a wrap!”

vs.

“That’s a wrap!”

As John Wayne rides off into the sunset, you can almost hear movie director John

Ford yell out on the set “THAT’S A WRAP!”

Typically the phrase refers to the completion of a task; the ending, the final work is

done. However, for the Lions of Yavapai County, the phrase, “That’s a wrap!”

signifies a beginning. More specifically it refers to the graphics that were recently

applied to the new Mobile Eye Care RV.

Like most Prescott Noon Lions Club projects, it is the work of a team of members.

The hands of several individuals can be seen in the design. (Actually the paw

prints all over the RV are more obvious.) None of this would be possible without

the financial backing of several clubs. Autotrim was the company that applied the

graphics. We are especially grateful to Ryan of Autotrim for working so closely

with us to make the graphics a success.

The wrap is a beginning and is getting

exposure quickly. On September 18th, several

Lions from different clubs volunteered at the

Military Standdown, as shown above, with the

RV adding some advertising. The next day

Lions Tom Hubbard and John Schmitt took the

RV to Cottonwood for a Zone meeting. John

updated the clubs on Lions of Yavapai

progress.

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New Member Bio Lion John Lysak

Final Count is 51,

The Eyes have it!

Fifty-one people and pairs of eyes, that is, received

new eyeglasses. Jeanette Russell made the trip

with the new glasses up to Prescott on Saturday,

September 5th. Co-ordinator of the event, Lion Tony

Hollins, reported that three doctors donated their

time during the earlier eye exams in August:

Robert Spurny, M.D., Mesa

Steve Mortensen, M.D., Prescott

Scott Markham, M.D., Prescott

This year’s event was done in collaboration with the

Coalition for Compassion and Justice. Expenses for

the eyeglasses and trailer transportation will be split

evenly with C.C.J. Tony mentioned that eight

recipients were unable to be present for the fitting on

that Saturday. However, C.C.J. will distribute the

eight eyeglasses at a later time.

General Washington probably wasn’t thinking about the beauty of the area during the winter of

1778, but the Valley Forge area in Pennsylvania is quite nice. Lion John Lysak can tell you all

about it since he was born and raised in the southeast area of Pennsylvania. John spent two years

at Villanova University, followed by another two years in the Army Military Police. This must have

agreed with him because he continued in law enforcement for 31 years in a Philadelphia suburb

municipal police department.

John adds that he was a court security officer with the Federal Court House in Philadelphia for ten

years. He also spent a year managing the estate of John Dupont. After all that, John finally retired

in 2008 and moved to Prescott the following year. He still returns to Pennsylvania to hunt. John is

married to Ruth.

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The Way We Were Answers are on page 9

Prescott Noon Lion #10

Date: 1952

Age: 16

Location: Fort Worth International Livestock

Show

Clue: This Lion is showing his Grand Champion

Short Horn Calf. For his prize he won a pair of

cowboy boots and for the first time he saw a

television clip that showed him winning.

Although he showed cattle professionally, his

career path took him in an entirely different

direction, but he remained a champion in all he

did.

Prescott Noon

Lion #12

Date: Photo at left 1967: at right 1969

Age: Left– 19 years: right– 21 years

Location: Left– Bradley, Illinois: right– Fort

Leonard Wood, Missouri

Clue: The location would be a give away, if you

read your last issue of the newsletter. This Lion

has worn two other uniforms for the same

organization; one before these pictures and

another one much later after the Army uniform.

Prescott Noon Lion #11

Date: 1953

Age: 6

Location: West Mound Street Elementary School, Columbus,

Ohio. This Lion recalls that he “walked to school each day

through rain, sleet or shine, and up-hill both ways!”

Clue: Unfortunately, the Ohio location only narrows the

possibilities to maybe a dozen members. Would it help if we

mentioned he became an executive in Human Resources?

Event Information:

Date: October 17th, 2015

Time: Registration at 8:00 am

Ceremony at 8:40 am

Walk at 9:00 am

Location: Start at Courthouse Plaza

Length: 3 miles

Reminder: Pay your obligation to

Lion Chuck the next two weeks.

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Lion Prints is a monthly newsletter of the Prescott Noon Lions Club

District 21C, Arizona P.O. Box 2215, Prescott, AZ 86302-2215

www.prescottnoonlions.org Editor: Lion Ken Gantz

All photographs are by the editor unless noted otherwise.

Speakers

Lions’ Prey

September 23 Deluxe Burrito Shredded Beef with Rice and Beans Fish Snapper Veracruz Ham Chef Salad

September 30 Expresso Burrito with Rice and Beans Hamburger with French Fries Ranchero Salad

October 7 Chile Colorado with Rice and Beans Deep Fried Shrimp with Vegetables and Rice Chicken Caesar Salad

October 14 Pollo Asado Burrito Soup with Tortilla Shredded Beef Taco Salad

OCTOBER PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Speaker Chairman Lion Norm Humphrey

October 7: Carl Anderson, Prescott Morning Lions: The

LPCCI Project for Canine Companion Independence

October 14: Board Meeting, no guests please

October 21: Al Beck, Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation:

Update on current S&H Foundation Projects

October 28: Bill Kamper and the High Mountain Chordsmen

will perform barber shop quartet-style

The Way We Were Answers:

Lion #10: Jim Messerschmitt

Lion #11: Mark Leathers

Lion #12: Bob Dressler

Lion Chuck Matthews has many duties as first vice president. In addition to his chairing events like this month’s picnic duties, he is

also in charge of getting volunteers as speaker chairmen throughout the year. Chuck took on that role for August and wrapped up his

month with the speaker Dr. Fleck. Lion Earl Donnels followed Chuck with September speakers, starting with Jim McCasland and

Robin Layton.

Skin problems can be an irritation

throughout the year in Arizona, and

Dermatologist Dr. Fleck treats patients with

a variety of conditions. Here are a few tips

she offered:

Aging skin affected by the sun, smoking,

alcohol, and poor food choices

Get more protein

Wear a broad rim hat

Use a moisturizing cream in lieu of bar

soap

Check moles for changes

Photograph an area of concern every

week or month to show your doctor

Jim McCasland is a retired director of

Prescott’s Parks & Recreation

Department. However, his subject of

interest was Prescott’s prestige of fast-

pitch softball during the ‘60’s to the mid

‘80’s. Jim played baseball in college and

softball during the summer in Prescott.

During this golden age of baseball and

softball here, there was a high

participation in adult sports teams.

Competing teams came from as far away

as New Zealand, Australia and South

Africa.

As editor of the Daily Courier, Robin

Layton’s goal is to make the Courier a

community newspaper by connecting with

the readers. They will not endorse people

running for office; however they will express

opinions on matters affecting the community,

such as endorsing the school bond override.

She is taking the paper to the next level by:

Responding to reader requests

Publishing items that are not available on

different internet sites

Hiring more reporters.

Creating a more modern look and updating

the Daily Courier’s website.

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Lion Levity

Hit and Run Fatality at the Yard L.P. Exclusive News

“What a shame. He was an alright guy. Always at the gate every Tuesday

and Friday morning to greet us,” commented Adrian Langhus.

“He never bothered us, and we never bothered him, that is until now,” added

Bill Parker.

Friday morning, September 11, a hit and run fatality occurred at the paper

yard. The victim’s real identity is being withheld pending notification to next of

kin, if they can be found. Until then, we’ll have to refer to him as Mr. Mouse.

Detectives “Bear” Hollins and “Cold Case” Chastain are investigating this as a

hit-and-run incident, although foul play has not entirely been ruled out. They

refused any further comment since it is an on-going investigation. However,

according to an unnamed inside source, the police believe the culprit was

driving a truck and trailer. They have also named two individuals, B. Welch

and H. Gooding, as persons of interest. Despite the fact that there were about

two dozen men just standing around, no one has come forward as an

eyewitness.

“Good riddance. I never did like him. If you ask me, he was too quiet. Maybe

that’s why he is laying there dead and I’m still standing here,” said Frank

Finley. Despite his attitude toward Mr. Mouse, Finley is not suspected of any

wrong doing, at least in regard to this incident.

Lynn Boutwell expressed concern but not for Mr. Mouse. “This better not be a

mark against our safety record. Mr. Mouse wasn’t even on my list of

volunteers.” Although few people actually knew him, Mr. Mouse will be

missed.

CENSORED

In the photo above, Detective Hollins examined the

hit and run victim while Detective Chastain reverently

observes from a distance.

The photo at right has been censored by the Lion

Prints as a policy to not publish offensive material.

Therapy for the Therapy Dog?

The September issue of the Canyon State Lion published an article

by our Immediate Past President Lion Phil Weliky. After serving a

busy year as president of the Prescott Noon Lions, no one could

blame Phil for sitting back and relaxing awhile. Instead, Phil has

taken on another job as the new Service Dog Chairman For District

21C. As Phil states, “My mission is to help our fellow Lions and

neighbors to acquire the appropriate service dog they need.”

There are many different kinds of service dogs to fit a variety of

needs. One of Phil’s first acts as chairman was the presentation

of a service dog to Lion Frank Finley. Therapy dogs can do

wonders to change a person’s temperament. Some members

believe Frank would need a much bigger dog. Unfortunately,

after a week of being chained to Frank, his cute therapy dog will

require a lot of therapy himself.