COLLECTOR’S CORNER

Pins from Around the World

BY LION REID MEYER, ELLSWORTH LIONS CLUB

We held our 38th Annual District 27E2 Convention on March 17th-18th in Eau Claire and a special twist to the Friday night hospitality was a heritage theme, where we had a number of Lions throughout the District setup display tables to showcase their own heritage – some tables had foods to sample, others had items on display – it was a really nice and unique touch to this year’s convention.

Given the theme, I thought it would be nice to showcase Lions pins from around the world. I had a box full of international pins, but the challenge was how to display them in a meaningful way. After considering different options, I decided to arrange the pins in a number of display cases that essentially aligned to how you would look at a world map itself (i.e., North American pins were displayed in the upper lefthand corner, South American pins in the lower lefthand corner, …, and Australian pins in the lower righthand corner). I printed simple labels for each country where I had a pin to display, and over 60 countries were included in the display. While it’s hard to see in the picture provided, I even tried to arrange the pins in the shape of the country/continent where possible (e.g., Mexico, Italy, India, Australia).

Putting together a pin-related heritage table was a fun exercise, it forced me to brush up on my world geography and I realized the other countries of the world have some really interesting, cool Lions pins!

Email me at reidmeyer69@gmail.com for any future collecting topics you’d like to see covered and in the meantime – Happy Collecting!

E2 is a Vision

A vision screener certification course was held at the recent 27-E2 Convention. The new WLF Vision Screening Manual was introduced and sixteen vision screeners were certified. We plan to hold several more training sessions this year.