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Melvin Jones Award

The Melvin Jones Fellowship is recognition of a commitment to humanitarian work. (It is not an award for specific accomplishments.) The fellowship is an honor given to individuals who contribute $1,000 to Lions Club International Foundation (LCIF), and persons for whom such donations are made by others. The fellowship is the foundation's highest honor and represents humanitarian qualities such as generosity, compassion, and concern for the less fortunate.

Melvin Jones the founder of Lions International, died in 1961. His philosophy of life, "you can't get very far until you start doing something for somebody else," lives in our motto "WE SERVE." The Melvin Jones Fellowship was created in 1973 and is open to non-Lions as well as Lions.

Recent Keokuk Award Winners:

2009 – Steve Derr
2002 – Keith Alger
2001 – Bill Peel
1999 – Bill Cole
1996 – Roger Kokemuller
1995 – Bob Korte
1993 – Howie Sutlive
???? – Eugene Fallon

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