"Lionism in the 21st Century depends upon our commitment to our children

of today - for today's children will be our future Lions of tomorrow."

                                                                                           Ed Hashbarger, PDG

"The opportunity I bring to you, Lions, is this: To foster
and sponsor the work of the American Foundation for
the Blind. Will you not help me hasten the day when
there shall be no preventable blindness; no little deaf,
blind child untaught; no blind man or woman unaided?
I appeal to you Lions, you who have your sight, your
hearing, you who are strong and brave and kind. Will
you not constitute yourselves Knights of the Blind in
this crusade against darkness?"