The Rotary Club of Shady Brook Providing Gym Supplies to Philadelphia’s William Dick School

The Club extended its grateful thanks to Toll Gate Grammar School in Pennington, NJ

for its generous donation of floor mats, dozens of sports balls, hula hoops, floor hockey sticks and many other articles of gym-related equipment.


After Club members Alan Agree, Irv Perlstein and Dick Newbert, with the able assistance of a friend, Eric Williams, loaded the mats and other items into Alan's car

and the bed of president Jeff Revak’s truck

Jeff Revak

these athletic supplies were driven to Philadelphia where they were donated to the William Dick School

and where physical education teachers and a number of excited eighth graders were on-hand to help with the unloading. 

Alan Agree unloading his car

(l to r) Eric Williams and Jeff Revak

The Club’s ongoing support of the William Dick School, which is located in the heart of one of Philadelphia’s most economically-depressed areas, is now in its ninth year.  During that time, the Club has donated not only money but school supplies, hundreds of reams of paper, several thousand books for its library, coats and hats for both students and their parents and other items to improve the school’s educational mission and goals as well as to in a small way hopefully improve the lives of its student population.

Club members also visit the school several times during each school year to meet with some of the incredibly dedicated faculty and administration as well as having the opportunity to visit classrooms and often sit and read with the younger students.

Of all of the Club’s many service and charitable initiatives, its relationship with and support of the William Dick School is considered the most meaningful!

Principal Amy Williams, who will be speaking to the Club during its October dinner meeting, expressed her deep appreciation for today’s gym equipment donation.

(l to r) Alan Agree, Jeff Revak, Amy Williams and Eric Williams – Not shown Dick Newbert

The Club has made arrangements to accept a number of chairs and other school equipment being discarded by the Toll Gate Grammar School which it will, in turn, donate to the William Dick School.