The Founding of the Saratoga Lions Club
The Saratoga Lions Club was founded on April 26, 1947, and was sponsored by the Los Gatos Lions Club. From the very beginning of the movement to incorporate the City of Saratoga to its actual incorporation the Saratoga Lions Club took a leading and active part. It was Lions Club funds that started the study of the Choro Foundation as a feasibility survey. Members of the club served actively on all phases of this movement from committeemen to Committee Chairmen and just plain interested citizens. After the election of October 1956 three members of the Saratoga Lions Club sat on the first City Council. They were Lions Raymond Williams, Barney Rosasce, and Harold Jepson, this was three out of the five people elected. From its inception the Lions Club has supplied personnel, the first being the first City Clerk, Lion Frank Bachman.