2007 Annual Report - Greater Worcester Community Foundation
2007 Annual Report - Greater Worcester Community Foundation
2007 Annual Report - Greater Worcester Community Foundation
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John W. Lund Fund <strong>Community</strong> Service Award<br />
Engaging Clark University in community change, one person at a time<br />
chooses the recipient of the John W. Lund <strong>Community</strong><br />
Service Award, which comes with a cash prize of more<br />
than $6,000.<br />
“By creating a fund, you can carry on your own way of<br />
bettering the world,” says Jack, a founder of <strong>Greater</strong><br />
<strong>Worcester</strong> <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong>. “This award will<br />
continue to encourage interaction between Clark and<br />
<strong>Worcester</strong> long after I’m gone.”<br />
“Jack understands the power of individuals to change<br />
their community,” says Clark President John E. Bassett,<br />
Ph.D. “Jack’s award and the values it promotes have<br />
become integral to Clark and its mission.”<br />
“This award will continue to encourage interaction between Clark<br />
and <strong>Worcester</strong> long after I’m gone,” says Jack Lund.<br />
Jack Lund has audited courses at Clark University for<br />
decades. He also sees the value of Clark beyond the<br />
classroom, as a catalyst of community change.<br />
In 1993, he established the John W. Lund Fund,<br />
which each year recognizes a Clark student, faculty<br />
member or staff person who makes an extraordinary<br />
contribution to the quality of life in <strong>Worcester</strong>. With<br />
the recommendations of the university’s Office of<br />
Government and <strong>Community</strong> Affairs, the Clark president<br />
The 2004 award recipient, Tina Zlody, combines her<br />
job as secretary of Clark’s Visual and Performing Arts<br />
Department with year-round volunteer work nurturing<br />
<strong>Worcester</strong> County’s cultural assets. “The two feed off<br />
each other,” says Tina.<br />
Tina heads stART on the Street, a group whose annual<br />
arts festivals draw more than 22,000 people into the city.<br />
“Through the arts, we bring to light all that <strong>Worcester</strong><br />
has to offer,” says Tina. At the events, Clark art students<br />
earn credits as Tina’s interns and sell their works. And<br />
at Clark’s Traina Center for the Arts, Tina hosts stART<br />
fundraisers and exhibits local artists.<br />
Tina’s passion to invigorate <strong>Worcester</strong> is inspired by<br />
her parents, the late Drs. Maureen and Rudolph Zlody,<br />
psychologists who taught at Holy Cross College. “My<br />
parents instilled in me that we live in a brilliant world,”<br />
says Tina, “and that it’s up to us to make it shine.”<br />
By creating a fund, you can carry on your own way of bettering the world.<br />
Jack Lund<br />
On right: “Through the arts, we bring to light all<br />
that <strong>Worcester</strong> has to offer,” says Tina Zlody.<br />
14 <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Worcester</strong> <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong> • 07 ANNUAL REPORT