We Serve, Like Never Before!

Cambridge Lions serving Cambridge, Ohio and it’s surrounding communities since 1924!

MEETINGS

Weekly: Monday 12:00 Noon at Mr. Lee’s Restaurant Banquet Room. >Map

MISSION STATEMENT

To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary services through community involvement and international cooperation.

OBJECTIVES

1. To create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.

2. To promote the principles of good government and good citizenship.

3. To take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.

4. To unite the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.

5. To provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest, provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.

6. To encourage service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavors.

CODE OF ETHICS

1. To show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation of quality of service.

2. To seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.

3. To remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another’s; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.

4. Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.

5. To hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.

6. Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state and my community, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor, and means.

7. To aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.

8. To be careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.

Past Presidents 

Original Charter

The Cambridge Lions Club was formed in 1924. There were thirty-six charter members. Officers: President- Henry McCartney, Banker: 1^st VP- Frank S Dollison, City Editor—2^nd VP- Dr. E G Holliday, Physician: 3^rd VP. E B Castor, Monuments: Secretary- Burt Guthrie, Savings Bank: Treasurer- Karl M Cosgrove, Broker: Lion Tamer- Channing D Harris, Shop Foreman: Tail Twister- Leonard W Bell, Musical Instruments: Directors—J B Stewart, Mayor: U D Thompson, Flour & Feed: Dr.  W W Lawrence, Surgeon: T C Knox, Automobile Dealer. Their meeting time was twelve noon on Monday (which it still is today) at the Knights of Pythias Hall (now it is at the Holiday Inn). The last Monday of the month the meeting was at 6:00 P. M. The Charter fee was $25.00 and the local dues were $15.00 per member. The organization date was November 7, 1924. By the time the charter was signed on December 31, 1924 six new members had been added.  The field director and organizer was Perry W. Hunsicker assisted by a Mr. Wagner. The Charter banquet and presentation was held January 26, 1925 at the K of P Hall. J. Henry Newman was toastmaster and Rev. J. C. Smith gave the invocation. District Governor Albert O. Elton presented the charter and it was accepted by Lion President H. W. McCartney.