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William Carroll Chandler,
Past International President  September 4, 1925 – September 17, 2006 In 1980, when Bill Chandler was elected president of the International Association of Lion Clubs, he began an incredible year of travel, visiting all fifty states, all twelve Canadian provinces, and a total of 42 countries. But in his home town of Montgomery, Alabama, USA, where he died September 17 at the age of 81, he will long be remembered for his service to his immediate community through the Lions Club and the Montgomery YMCA. William Carroll Chandler was born and grew up in Augusta, Georgia. He attended Georgia Tech, and earned a degree in mathematics at Rice and a degree in sociology from the University of Georgia. He spent 16 months in the Pacific during World War II, serving aboard a Navy minesweeper. In 1948, at the age of 22, he moved to Montgomery to work for the YMCA, beginning a 54-year professional association with that organization, of which he became the general director in 1953. Chandler also joined the Montgomery Lions Club in 1948, beginning his service as a Junior Lions camp director. During the 1960s, he chaired the Lions Club Helen Keller Memorial project (Keller was a native Alabamian), founded the Montgomery Lions International Youth Camp, and served as Montgomery Lions Club president; in 1973-75 he served as a member of the international association’s board of directors before being elected president at the association’s 63rd annual convention held in July 1980 in Chicago. A personal highlight of his presidency was meeting with Pope John Paul II. He also served as the president and television chairperson of the Lions-sponsored Blue-Gray Football Game and as the coordinator of the Alabama Lions High School Conference. He received 18 International Presidents Awards, the Melvin Jones Extension Award, the Key Member Award, and the District Governor’s Extension Award. He was a Melvin Jones Fellow and recipient of the Ambassador of Goodwill Award. With other Montgomery residents in 1983, he helped found the Bi-Racial Committee, later called One Montgomery. His home town honors include the Distinguished Service Award from the Montgomery Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Citizen of the Year for 1991. Chandler’s wife Martha Spidel Chandler died in 1993, during the 40th year of their marriage; his survivors include three children and seven grandchildren. At Chandler’s funeral, his son William Robert Chandler said that the honors and perks his father received were unimportant to his father. “If there is a message that we can all take from his life, it is that it’s a privilege and duty to serve your fellow man. He went around the world to do that.” Donations to P.I.P. Bill Chandler’s legacy of Lionism can be made here : Donations . |
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