REGION - E                       CLUB NO : 026479                       ZONE - 14

 **15^th General Club Meetings to be held on 5^th of February 2012 at Arima Trust Society - PDG Month Celebrations .

Beyond Golden Jubilee...

Foot prints during 50 years.....

          Lions club of Erode was sponsored by the Lions club of Karur. It  was inaugurated  by  the then  Dist Governor Lion P.Sundaram with   20 members at  the C N  college, Erode on 12^th Nov.1961.Chartered in the year 1961, the Charter  President was  Lion N.Chikaiah Naicker.In1973,our club came under the dist 324 B2. Our charter Member Lion M.Periasamy became the Dist. Governor. Since then, many awards were received for the membership growth and still it is with held. The lions magazine was named “Erode Lions”and the first magazine came in 1968. The Silver jubilee was celebrated on  23.11.1986 with the chief guest Bharat Ratna. C.Subramaniam, the then Central Minister. An ambulance was donated to the Govt General Hospital,  Erode  District.   The permanent   project   was  the  school  run   by  the  Lions Club Of Erode atSengodanpallam.It is a school for the physically challenged children under the name Arima Society Trust.Nearly 13 lions clubs and 2 leo clubs were sponsored till date. The Golden Jubilee  was celebrated in the  year 2010. A new building at the Arima Trust Society was built. It was inaugurated by the Minister of State Hon. Sengottian. Presently, there are four Dist. Governors and around 200 members are rendering their Yeomen service through the club.

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