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to be of service to their fellow members
to be of service to their Communities
to work for the
welfare of the needy
to help young people
"To Serve
...Not To Be Served"
PASR chapters are required each year to conduct a "Community Service
Survey" of their members to document the hours of volunteer service they have contributed to the community in the past year.
The results of that survey recently showed that our members statewide contributed more than nine million hours
of volunteer service in the previous calendar year.
This service was performed in a variety of settings -- schools, churches,
youth or senior citizen centers, hospitals and in other community sites. And the work performed took many different
forms -- tutoring, mentoring, clerical work, cooking, care giving and other forms of service to others.
Why
do PASR members do this?
Because we care!
We
care about others and
we
care about the communities
we served
in our working lives.
Carbon PASR Mock Check Presentation
Representatives of the Carbon Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees presented the Carbon County
Commissioners with a mock check for $975,844. The amount is the total monetary value of the volunteer services to the county
in 2006. Sixty-eight percent of Carbon PASR members volunteered a total of nearly 56,000 hours in community service last year.
Presenting the check to Commissioners Charles Getz, second from left; William O'Gurek, chairman, third from left; and Wayne
Nothstein, third from right; are, from left, Roy Seems, Carbon PASR volunteer of the year; Janet Hall, co-chair of the community
service committee; Phyllis Seems,chapter member and region two director; and Vince Spisak, chapter president.
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