KIWANIS CLUB OF NUTLEY

C. WILLIAM SEARLE

NUTLEY’s youngest service club, the Kiwanis Club, was chartered in December 1958 at a dinner held at Parillos Restaurant in Belleville by the two sponsoring clubs, Newark and Belleville. It is interesting to note that Nutley’s youngest service club is young in other ways also. The average age of our over forty members is somewhere under thirty.

Our charter officers were: Richard H. Gruninger, President; C. William Searle, 1st Vice President; Olin Y. Schute, 2nd Vice President; Ivar A. Johnson, Secretary and Donald G. Johnston, Treasurer.

By the end of our first year in operation we were able to give away to worthwhile causes around town over $1,200.00 which was money earned from the Wrestling Exhibitions staged and promoted by the Kiwanis Club. Recipients of our donations last year were the Boys’ Athletic League and the Reinheimer Boys’ Club. This year money has been directed to the Essex County Retarded Children’s Fund and The American Cancer Society.

Our most rewarding project seems to be the sponsorship of the Franklin School Science Fair in which we reward those students who show excellence in their various scientific endeavors. As the years go by I am sure that this program will grow as will our Kiwanis Club whose motto is “We Build.”

The present officers are: C. William Searle, President; George H. Schleich, 1st Vice President; Anthony J. Tozzi, 2nd Vice President; Jerry Amiano, Treasurer; George F. Cafone, Secretary.