Mee earns Lions’ 12N Jones Award
Farragut Lions Club member Sandy Mee recently was selected as this year’s Melvin Jones Fellowship Award winner for Lions Club District 12N.
She won the award based on a long list of Lions Club services contributed during the previous year, but FLC past president Gerri Crutchfield said Mee has been an outstanding club member since she and her husband, Ed, joined nine years ago.
“I’ll just tell you, Sandy is at every activity we have,” Crutchfield said. “She participates in all of them.”
Crutchfield nominated Mee for the honor earlier this year, noting Mee served as chairman of the “successful” semi-annual Belk’s fundraiser; co-chaired the LidSight Program with Ed, which provided vision checks at local pre-schools; and also co-chaired second annual Farragut Lions Charity Car Show alongside her husband.
The Melvin Jones Fellowship Award is “the highest form of recognition and embodies humanitarian ideas consistent with the nature and purpose of Lionism,” according to the Farragut Lions Club website.
“The recipient of this award becomes a model because of the exemplary service to their club and the community for which it serves,” the website further stated.
The Mees, both of whom are retired, live just outside of Farragut.
Sandy Mee said being part of the club “is very rewarding and means service to other people we can help. We have really enjoyed working to (help evaluate) children who might otherwise have gone blind.”
Mee said the award was “a surprise” and she didn’t know about it until one of the club’s July meetings.
“I know it is a very prestigious award,” she added. “And I am very honored to have received it.”
