Rotaract Club

Josiah Stewart
Critic Staff

Little known club teaches about community services.

Lyndon State College shows its good will this holiday season through the Rotaract club; one of LSC’s least known clubs.

“The Rotary is a group of business minded individuals who support good will, community services, and professional and ethical business practices,” Curtis Mathewson, President of the LSC Rotaract chapter, said. The club is sponsored by the Lyndon Rotary, and is primarily focused on helping the community, and teaching leadership and business ethics.

The LSC Rotaract club has already started its holiday food drives for the semester. “Right now we have a holiday food drive on the LSC campus that we hope to generate some food for those in need this holiday. All the proceeds are going to go to the Lyndon Food Pantry,” Mathewson said.

Although the club is not very well known at LSC, it is officially recognized by the student government.

Mathewson said that the club’s main goals are to establish their leaders and start generating some publicity on campus, “We also want to have a successful holiday food drive. Our year long goals, however, are a bit more ambitious; we hope to drive even more publicity, and maybe host a few other events on campus.”

The club currently has about 12 members, and Mathewson is hoping that students take the initiative and join up. They are looking for people between the ages of 18 and 30 who are interested in helping out the community.

“We don’t have a whole lot of people involved yet. Right now we only have about 10 to 12 people that show up at our meetings, and so far they have been very helpful, and we have gotten a lot done with the amount of people that we have,” Mathewson said.

The club’s food drive boxes can be seen around campus and have already started to accumulate a little food. The food drive was started the second week of November and will run until the last week of the semester, “We have not generated a lot of food yet; many people don’t even know what is going on. A lot of people may have seen the boxes but, not a lot of publicity has gone out yet,” Mathewson said.

The Lyndon Rotary meets in Lyndonville around the same time that the LSC club does every week, Mathewson said, and they are willing to help the club out in any way they can.

“They are actually our sponsors; they are the reason why we exist, and they help us with advice. We can go to them and find out what we can do to further our service to the community. They invite us to their meetings where we get to see what the actual rotary does on a weekly basis.”

Mathewson urges students who wish to sign up to contact him or to stop by HAC 108 at noon on Wednesdays to attend the club’s weekly meetings.