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For gathering donations of clothes and taking them down to a coal mining town in Kentucky my Dad received this Paul Harris Fellow award from the Rotary Club.
Not everyone sees their Dad on the front page of the local newspaper! Here's part of the text of the article from the January 15, 1998 issue of the Register-News from Bordentown, New Jersey.
Mansfield Man Enjoys Helping Others
By Michael Maugeri, Staff Writer
MANSFIELD - As a child growing up in Camden during the Great Depression, Bob Davis said it was natural to help one another through tough times.
"People in the church always helped everybody else," he said. "Now I'm just carrying on to help others."
For the past eight years, Mr. Davis, retired after 25 years as an Industrial Arts and drafting teacher in the Bordentown Regional School District, has been delivering much-needed clothing and food to financially devastated areas of Kentucky. Three years ago, he added a trip to deliver children's books and toys during every Christmas holiday season.
"I'm retired," he said with a grin, "I can't sit. I'm contented in keeping busy and on the move. I'm a people person and I can't understand those who retire to sit in front of the 'idiot box.'"
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