State Conventions
Held in District OH1 geographical area.
Year | City-Venue | International Guest | |
3rd | May 24,1922 (8A) | Lima-Barr Hotel (HQ) | Dr. B.W Beatty 3rd VP |
8th | *May 26-27,1927 (2A) | Toledo- Hotel Waldorf (BS) & Commodore Perry Hotel | IP William A. Westfall |
12th | May 19-20,1931 (4A) | Lima-Norvel Hotel & Imperial house (BS) | IP Earl W. Hodges |
18th | May 16-18,1937 (2A) | Toledo-New Secor Hotel | IP Edwin R. Kingsley |
28th | May 23-25,1947 (1A) | Toledo-Commodore Perry Hotel & Secor Hotel | PIP Dr. Ramiro Collazo |
42nd | May 25-27,1961 | Toledo-Commodore Perry Hotel | IP Finis E. Davis |
46th | May 14-16,1965 | Toledo-Commodore Perry Hotel | PIP Edgar Elbert |
69th | May 20-22,1988 | Toledo-Radisson Hotel | PIP Joseph L. Wroblewski |
71st | May 25-27,1990 | Toledo-Radisson Hotel | IP William L. Woolard |
78th | May 16-18,1997 | Toledo-Radisson Hotel & Seagate Center | IP Augustin Soliva |
82nd | May 18-20,2001 | Toledo-Wyndham Hotel | PID Jimmy Ross |
State Convention Programs.
1937 | 1947 | 1961 | 1965 |
1988 | 1990 | 1997 | 2001 |
Convention Program PDF Files best viewd at 50%.
Convention programs courtesy of the State Office and scanned by PDG Bill Keller.
Note: State Conventions in the years between 1920 and 1948 where considered District conventions or Annual conventions according to Ohio Lions History by E.C. and Alice Baum. For namesake I am calling this page State Conventions.
*= According to Lions History the 8th state convention was one day, newspapers had a two day event.
8A= Eight newspaper articles, 4A= four newspaper articles.
BS= Business Session
HQ= Headquarters
Newspaper articles taken from newspaperArchive.com or Newspapers.com, they have copyrights of thier own.