Lions Club of Honolulu Foundation
Past International Directors, District Governors and Presidents
Galleries
International Friendship Tree (QuickTime® Video)
80th Charter Anniversary Galleries
79th Charter Anniversary Gallery
2006 Installation Dinner & Galleries
2006 Hawaii Lions Foundation Fundraiser Gallery
2008-2009 Officers
Keoni Kealoha Devereaux, Jr
President
Kin M Ching
Immediate Past President
Donna P Tamasese
First Vice President
Kent Cotton
Second Vice President
Ramona Harris
Third Vice President
Sharon Yoshiura
Secretary
Kin M Ching
Treasurer
Masue Nakamura
Tail Twister
Nancy Soohoo
Lion Tamer
Donna P Tamasese
Bulletin Editor
Bernard A K S Ho
Membership Director
2008-2009 Directors
Al Hee
William Malone
2008-2010 Directors
Jack Schweigert
Edward S D Wong
Director Emeritus
Dorothea E Charlton
Lions Club of Honolulu
PO Box 184
Honolulu HI 96810
+1.808.341.9895
Lions Club of Honolulu
District 50 Region IV Zone I
Honolulu • Hawai'i • United States of America
• Chartered 11 October 1926 •
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Compassion and Empathy Training for Students
As part of the Lions Club of Honolulu commitment to the youth, we have started conducting Compassion and Empathy Training to several schools on Oahu. Campbell High School received the first training. Compassion is deeply caring about one’s own and others’ pain. Empathy is ability to feel what another is feeling. We, especially as adults, have a responsibility to instill these values to the youth. As Lions, we abide to a specific code of ethics and should not stop within the organization but continue to influence our youth and the public. I believe that most, if not all, people are born with both empathy and compassion as part of the essential selves. However, when youth don’t receive empathy and compassion from the parents and family members, they may shut down. Other children may shut it down when one of their parents has deep empathy and compassion for others but not for themselves and end up being walked on or abused because of it. The child or the teen doesn’t want to be vulnerable and walked on like the empathic parent, so may decide that it is safer to shut down the empathy and compassion. Once people shut down their empathy and compassion, they can do great harm to others by being emotionally disrespectful, abusive or physically violent. It is through empathy that we experience our ones with others and therefore cannot do them harm As far as our Lions Club of Honolulu Compassion and Empathy Training, education is one of the tools being utilized to instill and enhance compassion and empathy. When I conducted training with the senior class at Campbell High School, I started with a pre-test to assess the level of knowledge and feelings on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. All the 26 students failed the pre-test, and indicator that they have very limited knowledge about the disease and their attitudes towards the disease, to those affected, and their family was below average. Using a PowerPoint® presentation, I discussed the biologic basis of Alzheimer’s disease, behavioral aspects of the disease, difficulties of Alzheimer’s patients as they go through various stages, and the level of burden of families and caregivers as they go through the journey. Initially the students were very quiet. However, as I progressed in my presentation, questions from the students increased and before the presentation ended, there was more sharing and openness among them and some disclosed that they have loved ones suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or some form of dementia. Before I ended my presentation, I gave the students a post-test to measure how much they learned about the disease and also to measure their feelings towards those affected by the disease and their families/caregivers. The results were remarkable. All of the 26 students got 100% score and there was a positive shift in their feelings towards those affected by the disease. Lastly, all of the students were more empathic in their responses in both written and verbal assessments. Compassion Training Transforms the Mind* Using MRI brain scans, scientists have begun tracking effects compassion training. "We are finding that we can transform the changing the mind," according to Richard J. Davidson, PhD, Director Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and the Keck Laboratory Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior at the University of Wisconsin Madison. The brain region related to compassion—the insula, is special. He explains, "It is the only brain area that monitors the body and provides the brain with information on what’s going on in the body, signals to the body that might change during emotional distress." "Compassion training can generate a state in which loving and envelopes the whole brain," he says. "When people meditate on the signals to the insula and other brain regions involved empathy understanding are changed. The change is more dramatic among practitioners, compared with novice practitioners," he adds. His studies have shown that with even a little compassion training, can reap a physical and psychological benefit. Mahalo nui loa! President Keoni Kealoha Devereaux, Jr * From WebMD, Health and Balance: http://www.webmd.com.
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82nd Charter Anniversary Dinner The Lions Club of Honolulu the Mother Club of Lionism in Hawai‘i celebrated its 82nd Charter Anniversary on October 14. Lions, Leos, and guests joined together for a celebration that confirmed the matriarch club is well on its way to its Centennial Anniversary.
Visit Lion Donna's New Gallery
91st LCI Convention in Bangkok NEW CLUB SHIRTS
For those of you who have not
seen our members at recent Lions functions, check out the look of
the new Club shirts! They present BTW, they wash very well—no ironing needed. Shirts cost $38. Pearl Harbor Memorial Boat Tour
On July 25th, Lions from several O‘ahu clubs were guests of Chinatown Lion Stanford Yuen, Executive Assistant to Rear Admiral Tim Alexander, Navy Region Hawai‘i, who graciously allowed this tour of the Pearl Harbor Memorial and Ford Island. Click here for the complete gallery. Sign up now for October 31st tour. See Calendar of Upcoming Events for details.
We Serve: the Legacy of the Hawai‘i Lions video. This excellent video contains amazing historical facts about the founding of the Mother Club, the Lions Club of Honolulu, the impact it had on Lions internationally and the growth of Lionism in Hawai‘i. A must see video, it can still be purchased for $15. Contact the club Secretary for details. In the meantime, check out this promo video by Lion Diane Ako (KHNL newscaster). Lion Diane even talks about wearing her Lion pin!
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Calendar of Upcoming Events The General Membership Meeting is always held on the second Tuesday of each month at the Empress Restaurant in the Chinese Cultural Plaza on the corner of Beretania and Maunakea Streets. Lunch at the meeting is $11 per person. Noon-1:10PM. The Business/Social Meeting will be held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Wai‘oli Tea Room, 6:00PM, unless notified of change. Click Here for November Bulletin Click Here for HLC Bulletin Archive
November Anniversaries
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Moanalua Lions Club District 50 Website Please be sure to bookmark the District 50 Website so you can keep abreast of the many happenings in Honolulu Lions Club, District 50 and Lions Club International. |
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Dear Members of the Lions Club of Honolulu,
