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How The Pride Came To Be
Origin of the Pride
An officer at the State Correctional Institution at
Dallas located in Pennsylvania, was hit by a drunk
driver and left with a bruised brain stem. He had
expired his sick leave time and had no income to
pay rent or bills. In an effort to raise some funds for
the officer, some Correctional Employees who rode
motorcycles came up with the idea of a benefit run.
The run was a huge success.
A few weeks later while sitting around a campfire,
Charlie Coleman, Linda Wodyka, Paul Robison and
Ed Lanyon talked about the run that they had just
put on and pondered that there were other
Correctional Employees that might be in the same
predicament. If one person could benefit from this
action then if we organized as a club we could have
a reserve on hand and could assist others in their
time of need. The wheels were in motion as ideas
spilled into the embers of the campfire for hours.
When the evening was over a plan of attack was in
place. Included was Jack Callahan whose idea it
was to form the original run.
Jack took the idea of the "Pride" as our name and
created the symbol that is now our back patch. The
original set of by-laws was drawn up and from there
the idea was brought to public forum where it was
met with favorable response. At that venture it was
determined that an Executive Board should guide
the new club and an interim Board was elected. Ed
Lanyon as President,
Tom Micknich as Vice President, Art Comparetta as
Treasurer and Rich Snyder as Membership
Chairman. Thus completing the circle of the eight
(8) Founders.
Origin of the Pride
An officer at the State Correctional Institution at
Dallas located in Pennsylvania, was hit by a drunk
driver and left with a bruised brain stem. He had
expired his sick leave time and had no income to
pay rent or bills. In an effort to raise some funds for
the officer, some Correctional Employees who rode
motorcycles came up with the idea of a benefit run.
The run was a huge success.
A few weeks later while sitting around a campfire,
Charlie Coleman, Linda Wodyka, Paul Robison and
Ed Lanyon talked about the run that they had just
put on and pondered that there were other
Correctional Employees that might be in the same
predicament. If one person could benefit from this
action then if we organized as a club we could have
a reserve on hand and could assist others in their
time of need. The wheels were in motion as ideas
spilled into the embers of the campfire for hours.
When the evening was over a plan of attack was in
place. Included was Jack Callahan whose idea it
was to form the original run.
Jack took the idea of the "Pride" as our name and
created the symbol that is now our back patch. The
original set of by-laws was drawn up and from there
the idea was brought to public forum where it was
met with favorable response. At that venture it was
determined that an Executive Board should guide
the new club and an interim Board was elected. Ed
Lanyon as President,
Tom Micknich as Vice President, Art Comparetta as
Treasurer and Rich Snyder as Membership
Chairman. Thus completing the circle of the eight
(8) Founders.
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