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THE 2024 - CITIZEN LEGION OF HONOR RECIPIENT IS...

 

The Presidents Club of Dayton is pleased to announce that Thomas J. Lasley, II Ph.D will be the 73rd recipient of the region’s 2024 Citizen Legion of Honor Award. The award, given annually since 1951 (2020 COVID exception) is the oldest, most continuous and prestigious recognition of volunteer servant leadership in the Dayton region.
 
Dr. Lasley is Professor and Dean Emeritus at the University of Dayton School of Education and Health Services. Dr. Lasley received his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees at The Ohio State University. He currently serves as the Director, Policy and Advocacy for The Montgomery County Educational Services Center and Learn to Earn Dayton.
 
He founded or co-founded a number of organizations that are critical to the educational and social programming that is available for young people and adults in the Dayton region, as well as across Ohio. These include Dayton Early College Academy, the Ohio Early College Association, Air Camp, Inc, and others. He was the founder of our community’s Learn to Earn Dayton.
 
Our recipient has served on a wide variety of local, state, and national boards over the past 30 years, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; Dayton Metro Library Foundation; National Council on
 
Teacher Quality; National Museum of the United States Air Force Foundation; Chaminade Julienne High School; Boonshoft Museum of Discovery; Air Camp, Inc; and the Special Wish Foundation.
Dr. Lasley is the recipient of numerous honors including the University of Dayton Alumni Award in Scholarship; the National Conference for Community and Justice’s Humanitarian Award; the UD’s Lackner Award; Knowledge Works’ Visionary Leader Award; the Buckeye Association of School Administrators’ Jerry Klenke Distinguished Service Award and StriveTogether’s Cradle-to-Career Champion Award.
 
Veronica Bedell-Nevels, President of the President Club told the Selection Committee, how pleased she was of Dr. Lasley’s selection.
The organization will be honoring Dr. Lasley at its annual luncheon event on Thursday, October 3, 2024 at the Dayton Convention Center from 10:30am – 1:15pm.
 
Sponsorship, tables, and tickets are available to honor Dr. Lasley by contacting Veronica Bedell- Nevels at 937-540-0088 or by emailing her at president@presidentsclubdayton.org.
 
The proceeds from this event go toward sustaining the Presidents Club’s four (4) scholarships at Sinclair Community College for active student volunteer leaders in our community.
 
 
 
Read the Official Press Release HERE

An organization comprising the presidents, vice-presidents, immediate past-presidents and club representatives of the service and civic clubs of metropolitan Dayton.

"Strength through Unity"

Broad in its concept and unique in its composition, The President Club of Dayton, Ohio, was founded in 1932 by a group of local businessmen who had a genuine interest in the growth of their respective service organizations.  They knew how vital securing and sustaining membership was (and it still is) to the health and well-being of any organization, the encouragement of volunteer community leadership, as well as, the importance of being well informed and making a contribution to your community.  Based on these key elements, The Presidents Club of Dayton came to fruition.

In the Greater Dayton area, The President Club of Dayton is made up of service clubs who have joined either by invitation or by application.

 

 
MISSION STATEMENT
 
The mission of The Presidents Club of Dayton is to encourage the spirit of servant leadership through active volunteer community service in our region.  The organization celebrates this ideal by conducting celebrations of community volunteerism and sponsoring student scholarships for future community leaders.