{"id":23,"date":"2018-09-10T14:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T19:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2021-04-03T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T14:32:23","slug":"about-our-chapter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/","title":{"rendered":"About our chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28\" src=\"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/LionLogo4c_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are a chapter in association with Lions International.\u00a0 The motto of Lions is <strong>&#8220;We Serve.&#8221;<\/strong> The acronym for LIONS is Liberty, Intelligence, Our Nations&#8217; Safety.\u00a0 The primary focus is sight conservation, but each individual chapter or district or state can promote other causes and projects.\u00a0 Lions are traditionally known for collecting used eye glasses, frames, and also the cases, and we still do.\u00a0 Likewise, Lions also provide eye glasses.<\/p>\n<p>Lions International also promotes leadership for youth from grade school to early college in its&#8217; Leo program.\u00a0 It was at one time considered that Lions to be a male dominated organization, but later in the mid-80s opened itself up to including women as well, even though they were initially in Lions to begin with.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39\" src=\"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pros_eye.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Tulsa chapters Brookside, Metro-McCullough &amp; Downtown recently chipped in together to help repair a patient&#8217;s broken prosthetic eye with the help of a prosthetic eye specialist referred to us.\u00a0\u00a0 It is also not uncommon for us to have eye doctors who are members of our Lions chapters.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Robert D. McCullough was a Lion but in his medical profession, also helped start the Osteopathic Hospital in Tulsa. His home chapter was at Tulsa Downtown and at the time long ago Tulsa Downtown was looking to fill a vacancy in the East Tulsa area by chartering a new chapter, hence the East Tulsa chapter.\u00a0\u00a0 During the time involved in getting new membership for the chartering of the new chapter, many people came to know Dr. Bob as he&#8217;s affectionately called, around the world, since at the same time, he was serving as an International President.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79\" src=\"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dr-bob-pin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"302\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60\" src=\"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/park-chair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"144\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29\" src=\"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bob.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"188\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30\" src=\"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/EK_0175aw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"279\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dr-bob-park-mem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>A park in the city of Tulsa was also dedicated to Dr. Bob as well as our own chapter pin.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lions International frowned on self promoting chapters named after living persons, however, it was the charter members who wanted to be able to recognize a living person such as Dr. Bob and they wanted the chapter to be named the Tulsa McCullough Lions.\u00a0 After several letters went back and forth, the charter was finally accepted, and a chapter dedicated to remembering a well known figure in Lions was formed.\u00a0\u00a0 Lions International is thankful that such a transaction took place, as they are glad that there is a chapter that does exist in order to recognize Dr. Bob.\u00a0 For a time, the Tulsa McCullough Lions also chartered the Tulsa Deaf chapter. The Tulsa McCullough chapter later merged with Tulsa Metro.\u00a0 Now the chapter is called, the Tulsa Metro-McCullough Lions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27\" src=\"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Helen_Keller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back when Lions started, it was just a formal business meeting looking for something more to give the meetings purpose.\u00a0 At the same time, Helen Keller was already a pioneer in her fight with blindness and looking for a sponsor.\u00a0 They finally came together as she addressed Lions to become &#8220;Knights of the Blind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Helen Keller Speech\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rfr6YO-zLZc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dear Lions and Ladies:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I suppose you have heard the legend that represents opportunity as a capricious lady, who knocks at every door but once, and if the door isn&#8217;t opened quickly, she passes on, never to return. And that is as it should be. Lovely, desirable ladies won&#8217;t wait. You have to go out and grab &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am your opportunity. I am knocking at your door. I want to be adopted. The legend doesn&#8217;t say what you are to do when several beautiful opportunities present themselves at the same door. I guess you have to choose the one you love best. I hope you will adopt me. I am the youngest here, and what I offer you is full of splendid opportunities for service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The American Foundation for the Blind is only four years old. It grew out of the imperative needs of the blind, and was called into existence by the sightless themselves. It is national and international in scope and in importance. It represents the best and most enlightened thought on our subject that has been reached so far. Its object is to make the lives of the blind more worthwhile everywhere by increasing their economic value and giving them the joy of normal activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Try to imagine how you would feel if you were suddenly stricken blind today. Picture yourself stumbling and groping at noonday as in the night; your work, your independence, gone. In that dark world wouldn&#8217;t you be glad if a friend took you by the hand and said, &#8220;Come with me and I will teach you how to do some of the things you used to do when you could see?&#8221; That is just the kind of friend the American Foundation is going to be to all the blind in this country if seeing people will give it the support it must have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You have heard how through a little word dropped from the fingers of another, a ray of light from another soul touched the darkness of my mind and I found myself, found the world, found God. It is because my teacher learned about me and broke through the dark, silent imprisonment which held me that I am able to work for myself and for others. It is the caring we want more than money. The gift without the sympathy and interest of the giver is empty. If you care, if we can make the people of this great country care, the blind will indeed triumph over blindness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The opportunity I bring to you, Lions, is this: To foster and sponsor the work of the American Foundation for the Blind. Will you not help me hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness; no little deaf, blind child untaught; no blind man or woman unaided? I appeal to you Lions, you who have your sight, your hearing, you who are strong and brave and kind. Will you not constitute yourselves Knights of the Blind in this crusade against darkness?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I thank you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 1rem;\">O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A was the third state to join Lions<\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 1rem;\"> following Texas, and the first being the state that the founder, an insurance agent from Chicago, Melvin Jones, which is also the Lions International headquarters.\u00a0 Also, as another fact, many of the best eye doctors in the world come from Tulsa.\u00a0 Northeastern State University located in nearby Talequah has a school there for medical eye related studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63\" src=\"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TI9C6748r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Oklahoma is also a favored sight (possible pun intended) during the parade\u00a0 at the Annual Lions International Convention for the Native American\/Indian attire. \u00a0\u00a0 Every chapter in over 200 countries from around the world march in the parade.\u00a0 Lions International is the only service organization allowed in China.\u00a0 Youth and Adult Speech Contests are popular at the District and State Conventions, with the theme being selected by the International President, but still relating to Service and Lions.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oklahoma!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZbrnXl2gO_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Previous Oklahoma governor George Nigh convinced the State of Oklahoma that they needed to make O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A the state song.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Lions Club of Oklahoma\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wDRIjaqH5s8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The Lions of Oklahoma supports several state projects.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma Lions Service Foundation supports both an eye bank that collects eye donors and the Meadows of Hope foster home in Perkins.\u00a0 Cornea transplants are taken from the eye bank, performed by trained surgeons, and given to people who have made application for them.\u00a0 If you ever wondered where the organ donation check box on your drivers&#8217; license came from, it may have started with\u00a0 Lions.\u00a0 The Meadows of Hope used to be limited to the troubled youth, but has now become a foster home so that siblings can now live and grow up together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64\" src=\"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/MHSU-at-LIons-Club-Event-001_caw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"971\" height=\"590\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Oklahoma Lions Service Foundation Mobile Screening Unit has seen several people testing them for visual acuity, glaucoma, blood glucose, lung capacity, bone density, blood pressure, body mass index and cholesterol screening.\u00a0 It is anticipated soon that the KidSight Cameras will also be part of the routine.\u00a0 The unit has been known to save lives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2014 July, LQ: Lions Save a Young Girl&#039;s Life - Lions Clubs Videos\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NU6yjUOnzro?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This girl had a detached retina due to a developing cancer, and received a prosthetic eye.\u00a0 It resulted in saving the girls life.\u00a0 It was nice to know that our chapter also helped a patient with a prosthetic eye.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cushing Lions Club Put Eye Exam Cameras In Motion\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WaK9MVg_jvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The latest thrill of being a Lion is to be able to go to a local school and conduct\u00a0 a preventative and early detection eye exam with an eye exam camera.\u00a0 Not all chapters have the KidSight Eye Cameras as of yet, but fundraising efforts are on-going to have them more widely available (coming to a school near you).\u00a0\u00a0 There are some programs that already exist in some schools, but they cost the schools money and involve a certified technician.\u00a0 The Lions program will cost nothing to the schools.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"1957442051\" class=\"dmRespCol small-12 medium-4 large-4\">\n<div data-dmtmpl=\"true\">Lions International also had a campaign called Campaign Sight First for African River Blindness, and at $0.10 a pill, were able to cure them of this particular blindness for life.<\/div>\n<div data-dmtmpl=\"true\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LCIF: Moore, OK Tornado Disaster Relief\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rBdqGwGfyas?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-dmtmpl=\"true\"><em>Lions International stepped up to the plate to provide a Major Catastrophe Grant when back in 2013, a massive F5 tornado ripped through most of Oklahoma City, specifically Moore, Oklahoma.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>Lions have managed to remain for 100 years since their original inception back in 1917 in which it was more or less in between World Wars when it started.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Star Spangled Banner As You&#039;ve Never Heard It\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YaxGNQE5ZLA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Why do we sing the Star Spangled Banner?<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>O say can you see, by the dawn\u2019s early light,<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>What so proudly we hail\u2019d at the twilight\u2019s last gleaming,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight<\/em><br \/>\n<em>O\u2019er the ramparts we watch\u2019d were so gallantly streaming?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And the rocket\u2019s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,<br \/>\nO say does that star-spangled banner yet wave<\/em><br \/>\n<em>O\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Where the foe\u2019s haughty host in dread silence reposes,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>What is that which the breeze, o\u2019er the towering steep,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Now it catches the gleam of the morning\u2019s first beam,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2019Tis the star-spangled banner\u2014O long may it wave<\/em><br \/>\n<em>O\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>That the havoc of war and the battle\u2019s confusion<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A home and a Country should leave us no more?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Their blood has wash\u2019d out their foul footstep\u2019s pollution.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>No refuge could save the hireling and slave<\/em><br \/>\n<em>From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave<br \/>\nO\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Between their lov\u2019d home and the war\u2019s desolation!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Blest with vict\u2019ry and peace may the heav\u2019n rescued land<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Praise the power that hath made and preserv\u2019d us a nation!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And this be our motto \u2013 \u201cIn God is our trust,\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave<\/em><br \/>\n<em>O\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"American Pledge of Allegiance by Red Skelton\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kKM3me0K2os?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>What does each word of the Pledge of Allegiance mean?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a chapter in association with Lions International.\u00a0 The motto of Lions is &#8220;We Serve.&#8221; The acronym for LIONS is Liberty, Intelligence, Our Nations&#8217; Safety.\u00a0 The primary focus is sight conservation, but each individual chapter or district or state can promote other causes and projects.\u00a0 Lions are traditionally known for collecting used eye glasses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":69,"href":"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcculloughlions.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}