Ray Allen Memorial Award

Ray Allen, of the Kiwa­nis Club of Owen Sound, served as our Dis­trict Gov­er­nor dur­ing the Kiwa­nis year of 1969/1970.  PG Ray con­tin­ued his involve­ment in Kiwa­nis, serv­ing as an Inter­na­tion­al Trustee for 4 years and as Kiwa­nis Inter­na­tion­al Vice Pres­i­dent 1985–1986.  PG Ray, served the Kiwa­nis Foun­da­tion of Cana­da as a direc­tor and as its’ secretary.

The Kiwa­nis Inter­na­tion­al mot­to dur­ing PG Ray year was “Get involved in com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice”.  The Major Empha­sis Pro­gram for his year was “Get involved by sig­nif­i­cant par­tic­i­pa­tion in Oper­a­tion Drug Alert/ODA.”  A very suc­cess­ful pro­gram involv­ing many clubs and com­mu­ni­ty orga­ni­za­tions, PG Ray most mem­o­rable Kiwa­nis expe­ri­ence was in Ocho Rios. 

PG Ray not­ed, in the “Dra­ma of Kiwa­nis Ser­vice” book, sev­er­al Jamaican mem­bers said to him “Past Gov­er­nor Ray, do you remem­ber when you vis­it­ed our club and you said to us Big men will find lit­tle chal­lenge in small dreams ?   We believed you because we believe in Kiwa­nis.  We believe that we can pro­vide, through Kiwa­nis, a prac­ti­cal means to ren­der altru­is­tic ser­vice and build a bet­ter com­mu­ni­ty. Need­less to say, that was my most mem­o­rable Kiwa­nis experience”

This award, named in his hon­our, rec­og­nizes out­stand­ing Kiwa­nis ser­vice by a Past Lieu­tenant Gov­er­nor in East Cana­da and the Caribbean District

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