Kiwanis Club of Ashville
Chartered Forty Five Years Ago
In late Summer of 1961, several
members of the Circleville Kiwanis Club and representatives from
Division Ten of the Ohio District,
Kiwanis International, contacted four persons in the Ashville
community (Warren Bastian, Franklin (Bud) Glitt, John Little and
Benis Lutz) and scheduled a subsequent meeting to discuss the
possibility of forming a new Kiwanis Club in the Ashville area. That
meeting was held in Donaldson's Restaurant (where the Ashville
Apothecary is now located). From that discussion came the
decision to recruit members and charter a new club under the
sponsorship of the Circleville Kiwanis Club.
The Charter Party was formally held on November 7, 1961 at the
Ashville School; two-hundred-forty-two Kiwanis members and spouses
from Division Ten and Ohio District were present. Earl Brooks,
Governor of the Ohio District, and C. Carlton Hartley, Lieutenant
Governor of Division Ten presided; the sponsoring committee included
Tom Bennett, Virgil Cress and William Ammer from the Circleville
Kiwanis Club. The Kiwanis Club of Ashville, with thirty-seven
members, was formally chartered.
The following constituted the charter
membership:
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+Warren
Bastian
+Robert
Bausum
+William
Carter
+Donald
Collins
+Donald
Courtright
+Siebert
Duvall
+Rolland Featheringham
+William
Fortner
+Robert Glick
+Franklin
(Bud) Glick
+Earl
R. Gregg
Russell Gregg
+Dorwin
Hay
+Donald
Hedges
+Howard
Hosler
+Robert
Knode
+Claude
Kraft
David Kraft
Coit Gail Leatherwood
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+Guy
Leatherwood
John Little
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Benis Lutz
+
John Morgan
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Charles Morrison
Gordon Perrill
Thomas Ramsey
Charles Ransom
Paul Reiss
+
Harold Richard
+
Gerald Riegel
John Rinehart
Herbert Seymour
Robert Sliwinski
Gene Vonlns
+
Donald Wean
+
William Wharton
Ronald Wilson |
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**
Currently active charter members
+ Deceased |
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