The Lions Club of Sydney Chinese Inc is a member of Lions Clubs International, an international non profit community service organization, upholding a common motto “WE SERVE”. Today, there are Lions Clubs in 205 countries and geographical areas all over the world.  In District 201N5, which covers the Sydney area and Norfolk Island, there are some 75 Clubs with around 1,700 members.  Amongst these, there are 7 Chinese-based Clubs.  The Club is the first of these Chinese-based Clubs chartered in April 1995. Currently, the Club's membership stands at 81. In terms of membership numbers, the Club enjoys top ranking amongst all Lions clubs in the District.

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President’s Message to Members
My fellow Lions

This would be the last time that I am writing to you as President of our club. Although we had our Changeover on 3 June, technically, the 2009-10 Board won’t officially take over until 10 July, after the installation of new District Governors at the LCI International Convention in Minneapolis , USA .

Over 320 members and guests attended our Changeover 2009. DG Elect Lion Beryl Payne inducted the new Board of Directors while 1st VDG Elect Lion John Harrison inducted an unprecedented 16 new members into our club. Again, our Principal Sponsor generously donated some 20 bottles of Remy Martin XOs to the Changeover. It was a great function with all members helping out in various jobs and chores.

At the Changeover, results of the Sydney Chinese Lions Humanitarian Scholarship were announced. Ms Annabelle Chauncy was the winner and she received a $2,000 award. Mr Dominic Bowen and Mr Adam Long won the Consolation Prizes and they received $1,000 each. The evening’s proceedings were conducted smoothly. We’ll cherish and remember this Changeover dinner for a long, long time to come. See Pages 6-11 of the June 2009 Bulletin for details.

At the LCI Minneapolis Convention this year, we’ll have the very rare opportunity of electing a Lion of Chinese origin in PID Dr WK Tam, as International 2nd Vice President. Recently, I have had the privilege of being appointed as Coordinator in Dr Tam’s Campaign Team. Over the past few weeks, I conducted a series of promotional activities in Australia to support and promote Dr Tam’s candidacy, including holding a Press Conference on 17 June. See Pages 2-5 of the June 2009 Bulletin for details.

Over the past 5 years, it has been a privilege for me to Serve the club and lead such a group of wonderful and dedicated members. I firmly believe that we now have 2 excellent reasons to celebrate. The first is our achievements in Serving - we donated over $250,000 over the past 5 years, totalling $350,000 in our club’s 14 years history. The second is that with the number of quality members that we now have, we are well poised to scale even greater heights under the leadership of our new President Mei and the 2009-10 Board. I wish President Mei and the new Board all the very best!

Yours in Lionism
Dr. Anthony Cheung JP
June 2009

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