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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.

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1937 1947 1961 1965
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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.