2007 Annual Report - Greater Worcester Community Foundation

John W. Lund Fund Community Service Award
Engaging Clark University in community change, one person at a time
chooses the recipient of the John W. Lund Community
Service Award, which comes with a cash prize of more
than $6,000.
“By creating a fund, you can carry on your own way of
bettering the world,” says Jack, a founder of Greater
Worcester Community Foundation. “This award will
continue to encourage interaction between Clark and
Worcester long after I’m gone.”
“Jack understands the power of individuals to change
their community,” says Clark President John E. Bassett,
Ph.D. “Jack’s award and the values it promotes have
become integral to Clark and its mission.”
“This award will continue to encourage interaction between Clark
and Worcester long after I’m gone,” says Jack Lund.
Jack Lund has audited courses at Clark University for
decades. He also sees the value of Clark beyond the
classroom, as a catalyst of community change.
In 1993, he established the John W. Lund Fund,
which each year recognizes a Clark student, faculty
member or staff person who makes an extraordinary
contribution to the quality of life in Worcester. With
the recommendations of the university’s Office of
Government and Community Affairs, the Clark president
The 2004 award recipient, Tina Zlody, combines her
job as secretary of Clark’s Visual and Performing Arts
Department with year-round volunteer work nurturing
Worcester County’s cultural assets. “The two feed off
each other,” says Tina.
Tina heads stART on the Street, a group whose annual
arts festivals draw more than 22,000 people into the city.
“Through the arts, we bring to light all that Worcester
has to offer,” says Tina. At the events, Clark art students
earn credits as Tina’s interns and sell their works. And
at Clark’s Traina Center for the Arts, Tina hosts stART
fundraisers and exhibits local artists.
Tina’s passion to invigorate Worcester is inspired by
her parents, the late Drs. Maureen and Rudolph Zlody,
psychologists who taught at Holy Cross College. “My
parents instilled in me that we live in a brilliant world,”
says Tina, “and that it’s up to us to make it shine.”
By creating a fund, you can carry on your own way of bettering the world.
Jack Lund
On right: “Through the arts, we bring to light all
that Worcester has to offer,” says Tina Zlody.
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