Los Banos Rotary Club History
Lions Fete Rotarians At Steak Dinner

The Lions Club members were hosts Tuesday evening to the Rotarians at a barbecued steak dinner—the payoff for a softball game played several weeks ago. The dinner was served at the fire department club rooms and was under the supervision of Joe Ebner and a capable corps of assistants.

Sam Spina, president of the Lions, and Bert Loosmore, president of the Rotary, took turns in trying to impose law and order during the brief program that followed the dinner, but eventually gave up and let the group enjoy a song-fest that made up in volume what it might have lacked in tonal quality Pianist Henry Bove and accordionist Joe Manduca at times had difficulty in keeping the accompaniment stepped up to the tempo of the songsters.

Lion clubber Ed Parsley presented the Rotary Club with a perpetual trophy as their reward for winning the ball game and insinuated that the Lions would take possession of it after the next game. The trophy, made in the Parsley & Jose garage has a substantial redwood base and a chrome plated pedestal on which is secured a regulation softball. The name of the Rotary Club is engraved in the chrome as the first winner.

Only grumblings of dissatisfaction came from T. D. Toscano, who, as Rotary sergeant-at-arms, found after the meeting that again someone had made off with the Rotary gong. The Lions Club gong also disappeared during the meeting, but Lion detectives found it soon afterward in the automobile of one of the Rotarian guests.

July 30, 1946

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