Cahoon Desribes Ohio State Convention
“Imagine how much fun it would be to perform Script Ohio. Now try to imagine doing that if you were blind,” said Lion Tom Cahoon to his fellow members of the Cambridge Lions Club. Cahoon is the deputy district governor of Ohio Lions District 13-G.
“My wife and I attended the Ohio Lions Convention and the Ohio School for the Blind band was the entertainment,” Cahoon said. “They played Scrip Ohio, but the space was too small for them to march. The sousaphone player did step out to dot the i.”
“You know they have to memorize all their music because they can’t see it. Can you imagine doing that? They have several public performances during the year including playing at one of The Ohio State University Skull Sessions before a football game.”
Lion Bill Wagner attended the Ohio School for the Blind. “I played trumpet in the band,” Wagner said. “The director used to beat his baton on his music stand. Sometimes he’d beat me on the head with it when I turned around to talk to the trombone players.”
“Sometimes the trombone player would rest his slide on my shoulder. That made it hard to concentrate on the music. We had a lot of fun in the band.”
The band has an ongoing campaign to finance their upcoming trip to the 2010 Rose Bowl Parade. Each band member will be accompanied by a sighted person. In a show of support the club, encouraged by Oscar Brown and others, raised five hundred dollars towards the band’s eighty-thousand dollar budget for the trip.
Al Brandel, Lions International president and his wife, Dr. Maureen Murphy, attended to Ohio Lions Convention. “He asked me how things were going with our Cambridge Lions Club,” Cahoon said. “I told him things were going great.”
“When a member of one of the other Lions clubs asked me how we were managing to get so many new members, I told him that we have a great tail twister, great officers, great members and we have lots of fun,” Cahoon said. The tail twister is a member of the club who offers some good-natured kidding of members at meetings. The current tail twister is Tim McKim.
“We only need three more to have one hundred members,” Cahoon said. “Lions is the fastest growing service club in the world. Ohio leads the nation in new members. Our district 13-G is the fastest growing district in Ohio, and Cambridge is the fastest growing club in the district.”
“Lions clubs are also being organized in China,” Cahoon said. “It’s the only non-governmental organization of its kind allowed to come into the country. When we were invited to give a presentation to the Chinese government our leaders said that we had fifteen million dollars that we wanted to use to open a hospital for eye surgery.”
“Through those efforts over a millions cornea transplants have helped prevent blindness in China. When the government asked what else they could do, the Lions response was that we’d like to open a couple more hospitals and provide training for doctors.”
“China now has the fastest growing membership in Lions clubs in the world,” Cahoon said. “India is not far behind. They are even trying to get the headquarters moved from Chicago to India.”
Cahoon distributed pins from Al Brandel to the new members of the club and to their sponsors.
“My wife and I attended the Ohio Lions Convention and the Ohio School for the Blind band was the entertainment,” Cahoon said. “They played Scrip Ohio, but the space was too small for them to march. The sousaphone player did step out to dot the i.”
“You know they have to memorize all their music because they can’t see it. Can you imagine doing that? They have several public performances during the year including playing at one of The Ohio State University Skull Sessions before a football game.”
Lion Bill Wagner attended the Ohio School for the Blind. “I played trumpet in the band,” Wagner said. “The director used to beat his baton on his music stand. Sometimes he’d beat me on the head with it when I turned around to talk to the trombone players.”
“Sometimes the trombone player would rest his slide on my shoulder. That made it hard to concentrate on the music. We had a lot of fun in the band.”
The band has an ongoing campaign to finance their upcoming trip to the 2010 Rose Bowl Parade. Each band member will be accompanied by a sighted person. In a show of support the club, encouraged by Oscar Brown and others, raised five hundred dollars towards the band’s eighty-thousand dollar budget for the trip.
Al Brandel, Lions International president and his wife, Dr. Maureen Murphy, attended to Ohio Lions Convention. “He asked me how things were going with our Cambridge Lions Club,” Cahoon said. “I told him things were going great.”
“When a member of one of the other Lions clubs asked me how we were managing to get so many new members, I told him that we have a great tail twister, great officers, great members and we have lots of fun,” Cahoon said. The tail twister is a member of the club who offers some good-natured kidding of members at meetings. The current tail twister is Tim McKim.
“We only need three more to have one hundred members,” Cahoon said. “Lions is the fastest growing service club in the world. Ohio leads the nation in new members. Our district 13-G is the fastest growing district in Ohio, and Cambridge is the fastest growing club in the district.”
“Lions clubs are also being organized in China,” Cahoon said. “It’s the only non-governmental organization of its kind allowed to come into the country. When we were invited to give a presentation to the Chinese government our leaders said that we had fifteen million dollars that we wanted to use to open a hospital for eye surgery.”
“Through those efforts over a millions cornea transplants have helped prevent blindness in China. When the government asked what else they could do, the Lions response was that we’d like to open a couple more hospitals and provide training for doctors.”
“China now has the fastest growing membership in Lions clubs in the world,” Cahoon said. “India is not far behind. They are even trying to get the headquarters moved from Chicago to India.”
Cahoon distributed pins from Al Brandel to the new members of the club and to their sponsors.
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