by Warren Kane
During April, the Key Club of Bishop Dennis J. O'Connell High School, Arlington, VA collected about 1,000 pairs of shoes for Art for Humanity to distribute in Honduras. The O'Connell Key Club had only 12 active members of which all but 2 were seniors.The club leaders realized they needed a good service project to attract underclassmen to keep the club going next year. They placed collection boxes around the school with the Key Club emblem as well as posters describing the project and distributed flyers to each home room. Not only did the project yield a great amount of shoes but the club gained new members and has a full complement of officers in place for next year.
Pictured are (left to right) Warren Kane,Kiwanis Advisor; Rev. Glen Evans, a member of the Arlington Club and President of Art for Humanity; Diana Martin, President of the Key Club; Khalid Siraj, President of the Arlington Kiwanis; Dr. Joseph Vorbach, principal of O'Connell High School; and Bob Murray, Faculty Advisor of the Key Club.
Dr. Vorbach commended the club for undertaking such a large project and of being of service to others. President Siraj commented that "each shoe for a child would mean a youngster in Honduras could go to school, and each shoe for an adult would enable a person to go to work."
