AWARDS & RECOGNITION
MELVIN JONES FELLOWS
Lions founder Melvin Jones said “you can’t get anywhere in life until you start doing things for other people. There can be no progress without service.” The Melvin Jones Award is a very prestigious award given to those members within a club who give of themselves unselfishly. The following have earned the award:
David Carr, Sr. 1992
Douglass Waring 1994
J. Randy Martin 1995
Nicholas Palmetto 1996
Donald Hall 1997
Gerry Garrelts 1999
Richard Martin 2004
George Trumbull 2004
Mary Fleming 2006
Mike Stoneback 2006
Grady Aronstamm 2008
Phil Klein 2008
Dan Kumlander 2009
Robert Kazalski 2010
Sue Shipe (L-3) 2010
John McDonald 2011
Tom Boghosian 2012
James Edwards 2012
Dave Carr, Jr. 2013
Cliff VanWagner 2014
Pat Diggin 2015
Norm Smith 2016
Kevin Ronayne 2017
John Gamble 2018
Merle Bonthius 2019
Barbara Bentley 2021
Russell Terpening 2022
On right, Lion Russ Terpening receiving the Melvin Jones Award from KL Dave Carr Jr.
ROBERT UPLINGER AWARD
Robert Uplinger was a longtime honored member of the Syracuse Lions Club. In 1971 he was elected President of the International Association of Lions Club. He represented the highest ideals of Lionism in MD 20 (he died in 2002 at the age of 90). The following recipients of this award represent the pillars of MD 20 Lions:
Mary Fleming 1996
J. Randy Martin 1996
Grady Aronstamm 2002
David Carr, Sr. 2002
Richard Martin 2003
Norm Smith 2004
Mike Stoneback 2004
George Trumbull 2004
Phil Klein 2005
Tom Boghosian 2006
Jack Minogue 2007
Donald Hall 2009
James Edwards 2010
Cliff Van Wagner 2011
Walter Doyle 2012
Brian Fredette 2014
James Flynn 2016
John McDonald 2017
Dave Carr Jr. 2018
Kevin Ronayne 2019
Barbara Bentley 2019
Dione Ramsdill 2019
Joseph Wagner 2021
George Igler 2022
PRESIDENTIAL AWARD
The Presidential Award is the second highest honor in Lionism and is given at the discretion of the current President of Lions International.
J. Randy Martin 2008
INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP AWARD
The International President’s Leadership award is the third highest honor in Lionism and is given to those Lions who have demonstrated significant leadership contributions.
David R. Carr, Sr. 2009
John McDonald 2019- Left – Pictured with PID Jack Weber
LION OF THE YEAR
The Lion of the Year Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Club upon one of our members. In 2009 the Award was named in honor of Lion Dave Carr Sr. It will now be known as: The Saratoga Springs Lions Club Lion David R. Carr, Sr. Lion of the Year Award.
David Carr, Sr. 1977
J. Randy Martin 1980
Michael Messinger 1999
Jean Holohan 1999
Diane Glasser 2000
James Edwards 2001
Phil Klein 2003
Gerry Garrelts 2004
Patrick Piper 2005
William Gibeault 2006
J. Randy Martin 2007
Peter Abreu 2008
Connie Larkin 2009
Joseph A. Murphy 2010
Mike Baxter 2011
Kevin Ronayne 2012
Richard Reeves 2013
John McDonald 2014
Joe Brady 2015
James Flynn 2016
Joanne Sole 2017
Rich Martin 2018
Karen & Jon Foster 2019
Barbara Bentley 2020
Sal Bonsangue 2021
Joe Wagner 2022
Joe Wagner (right) receiving the 2022 Lion of the Year award from 2021 recipient Sal Bonsangue