St. Stan's School Receives $2K Donation for School Equipment
ADAMS, Mass. — WoodmenLife has donated $2,000 St. Stanislaus Kostka School for educational needs.
WoodmenLife representative Rodney Barber handed over the check to Principal Linda Reardon on Friday. It will be used to provide the school's classrooms with projectors.
"We are a nonprofit and we give back to communities, so any nonprofits, we like to deal with, especially schools because we know the crunch in the budgets," Barber said.
So how did 125-year-old fraternal benefit society that operates a private insurance company for its members based in Omaha, Neb., donate to a small Catholic school in Adams?
Because of a game of golf and friendly drink afterward.
Michael Deep, owner of Deep Insurance, also owns Waubeeka Golf Links in Williamstown. The story began when a marketing agent for Jiminy Peak contacted the golf course inquiring about holding a tournament. An insurance company was interested in hosting a large tourney and wanted to see the links.
Deep said Barber visited the course and they played a round of golf. They then made their way to the bar, where Barber met bartender and St. Stan's eighth-grade teacher Sara Blanchette.
Blanchette said they had a discussion about the school's need for white boards. Barber simply said, "we will get them for you."
And so he did.
"We had to do a little bit of hunting because I don't think they believed me when I said I was going to give them some money," Barber said. "Every time we tell someone that, they think likewise but we really were going to donate so we made the connections."
Reardon said Barber asked her what the school needed other than white boards and it was decided to purchase projectors and document cameras. She said the school does not have enough projectors and teachers have to share.
"I think it is very providential really," Reardon said. "Divine intervention."
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