The oldest Lion’s Club in North Carolina has just
established its newest student club.
On Wednesday, March 2, members of the Winston-Salem Twin City Host
Lions Club came to The Downtown School to welcome its new Leo’s Club into the
organization. After club member Alvin Atkinson made a presentation to Principal
Janet Atkinson – yes, the two are married – club member John McKenzie swore in
the officers.
President is Zoe Brockenbrough. Vice president is
Madison Buschek. Annie Christina Potts
is secretary, and her twin, Ellie Jane Potts, is treasurer.
For the most part, members of the new club were already
members of the school’s Student Leadership Club, a middle school service club
that had just finished overseeing a school drive to collect jeans for teenagers
who are homeless.
“About a month or so ago, our teacher, Mrs. Hepler,
found the Teens for Jeans organization that was encouraging schools to collect
jeans to give to homeless teenagers in need of clothing,” Zoe said. “We were
inspired by this to do our own jean drive. In the past few weeks, we collected
donations from students and we ended up collecting 147 pairs of jeans! These
jeans were recently sent to local homeless shelters in Winston-Salem who needed
more jeans. Both me and the rest of Student Government hope that this jean drive
becomes something our school does every year.”
The Lions Club is a service club, and the Twin City
members will support the student club in its service projects.
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