Rotary Presents Second Weidner Award
The Rotary Foundation of the Indianapolis Rotary Club presented its second annual award to Butler University Freshman Tony Liszewski. The $1500 award was presented on April 8 to Liszewski, a pharmacy major at Butler.
The recipent of many awards for community service, Liszewski is an Eagle Scout who, among other things,:
-developed a six-month program “Travel Lends Care” which involved the collection of new travel-sized toiletries in care kits for needy people
in the community and for those served by the Salvation Army at the Katrina site.
-cleans, restocks, and inventories supplies during bi-weekly visits to the Ronald McDonald House
-solicits donations for St. Jude’s Memorial Hospital
-helps the “Butler’s Bulldogs in the Streets” project to collect school supplies for underprivileged school children
-assists St. Vincent DePaul Society’s projects for foster children and nursing home residents
- landscapes for Habitat for Humanity projects
As an Eagle Scout, Liszewski developed an orientation program for new scouts as well as a symposium for adult Scout leaders to build teamwork in preparing future Scout leaders.
Source: http://weidnerfoundation.org/en/index.php/news/rotary_presents_second_weidner_award/
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The Weidner Foundation was established in 1996 by John Weidner’s wife Naomi to commemorate the lives of those people with whom he heroically worked as well as those for whom he courageously provided solace, refuge, and safety during the Holocaust of World War II and thereafter.
Mr. Weidner gave the Foundation his personal letters and effects, intending them to illustrate and encourage a life of human compassion, encouraging Foundation leadership to use them as potential models and teaching tools toward promulgating selfless, independent, non-institutionalized behavior that ensures the dignity and safety of others.
The Foundation operates The John Henry Weidner Center for Cultivation of the Altruistic Spirit, which generates creative activities that discover, investigate, and encourage pro-action of the sort that Weidner practiced and believed in during his life. The Center has offices at Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Massachusetts. The Board of Trustees is a diverse group of men and women who represent the various constituencies John Weidner helped, worked with and believed in to maintain his vision for a community of pro-active, independent thinkers and doers.
Source: (Home) http://weidnerfoundation.org/en/index.php/home/
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