MELVIN JONES FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
The fellowship, created in 1973, takes its name from the founder of Lions Club International.  It is an honor not an award: it is the Lions Clubs highest form of recognition to acknowledge an individual's dedication to humanitarian service.  Club donations that recognize individual humanitarian efforts are used to achieve many lofty goals such as:

• Global efforts to eliminate preventable and curable blindness.
• Worldwide funding for construction and equipping medical facilities.
• Vocational assistance programs that teach skills so the disabled can lead productive, independent lives.
• Funding of reconstruction projects following major disasters.
  
  Melvin Jones Award recognize the efforts of all citizens, not just Lions members.  Waterford Lions Melvin Jones Fellows include:
  
  RAY SEIDEL PDG
  W. YOUNG (deceased)
  M. BOEHLKE
  AL MEHRING
  RICHARD SCHECTERLE
  KEN MILLER
  ROBERT CARR
  DON SCHRACK
  BOB O'CONNELL