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Wellesley sports & social clubs

Sports

Babson Skating Club: Figure skating for kids, teens and adults.

Ballroom Basics: Provides classes and private instruction in Ballroom, Latin and Swing style of dances for Kids, Teens, Adults, Seniors and Wedding Couples. Studios in Wellesley (at the Tolles Parsons Center in the fall), Needham, Canton, Dedham.

Needham Bowlaway

Fin, Fur and Feather Club of Wellesley and Natick: Fishing, hunting, shooting (on Larch Rd. in Millis).

Greater Framingham Running Club: competitive and social running nonprofit running organization comprising members from Wellesley and beyond. Regular track workouts, community endeavors such as youth track meets.

Suburban Striders Running Club: Women’s running club with members from Wellesley, Weston, other area communities.

Wellesley Recreation Department: Offers youth and adult programs, registration forms, etc.

Wellesley Tennis Association: (508) 655-6490

Wellesley Youth Track and Field Club: For girls in grades 5-10.

Community/clubs

Wellesley Free Library hosts a once-a-month Book Club usually on the first Thursday night, while the Fells Branch offers a club that meets one Tuesday afternoon each month. More info here.

Friends of Recycling: Volunteer group that oversees the town recycling center’s take it or leave it area.

Kiwanis Club: Meets regularly on Thursdays for luncheon/lectures at 12:15pm at the Wellesley College Club. Open to public following lunch at about 12:45pm.

Italo-American Education Club: 781 239 3325

League of Women Voters of Wellesley: It’s not just for women either.

The Maugus Club:  Squash, competitive badminton, table tennis, and even candlepin bowling right here in Wellesley at a friendly, family oriented club. Squash and badminton lessons/clinics for juniors and adults are available from experienced coaches.

Newcomers’ Club of Wellesley:  “The primary purpose of the Club is to help new residents (families and individuals) become better acquainted with the Wellesley community, services, businesses and people.”

Quinobequin Quilters: Make quilts, stay comfy and help others do the same. Meet monthly at the Wellesley Community Center.

Wellesley Amateur Radio Society: Ham radio enthusiasts. Behave yourself if you go: they meet at the police station.

The Wellesley Club: “…a civic organization that was founded in 1889 soon after the Town of Wellesley, Massachusetts was established.  The Club’s mission is to promote literary and social culture among its members, with a focus on discussions relating to the welfare of the Town of Wellesley.”

The Wellesley College Club: Mainly for faculty and alums of the school, but others can befriend their way in.

Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture: “volunteers, faraway alums and local neighbors interested in supporting work that includes tour guiding in the Greenhouses and in the Arboretum.”

Wellesley Country Club: Golf, swimming, dining. We’d tell you more, but it’s private.

Wellesley Friendly Aid Association: “…works to improve the well-being and quality of life of the residents of Wellesley, Massachusetts.  The organization  offers assistance to Wellesley individuals and families of all incomes and ages who have a variety of unmet needs.”

Wellesley Masonic Lodge: Freemasonry, the world’s oldest and largest fraternity, seeks to bring together men of every country, religion, race, background, and opinion in order to develop the bonds of friendship between them. Through a large variety of North American Masonic philanthropies, approximately $2M is given to charity every day, 70% of which benefits the general public. The Wellesley Angel Funds benefits Wellesley children. Lodge Location: 1101 Highland Ave., Needham

The Wellesley Mothers Forum: “A social organization that provides an opportunity for mothers of young children to get together and enjoy interesting and educational speakers, share parenting information and make lasting friendships.” Includes lectures geared for parents of children ages 0-3, 4-8, plus organized playgroups, a book club and support services.

Wellesley Hills Junior Women’s Club: A volunteer organization devoted to community service that raises money for charities and scholarships. Organizes marketplace craft festival each fall, runs phone book cover contest, organizes luminary night and offers kitchen tour.

Wellesley Rotary Club: “Rotary is a service association of business and professional leaders united worldwide…” Meets Tuesdays at 6pm at the Wellesley Community Center.

Wellesley Service League:  Our kids think they sound like a group of super heroes protecting the city.  Well, sort of.  The League’s mission is “…to provide volunteer services to the community ranging from education, children, elderly, cultural and other charitable interests.”

Wellesley Society of Artists: Encourages and supports local artists. Contact Nan Rumpf 781 237 6318.

Wellesley Town Band The Wellesley Town Band is an authentic all-American Town Band. If you have ever played a brass, woodwind, or percussion instrument, there’s a chair, music, a music stand, and a warm welcome waiting for you in the Wellesley Town Band! Players of all ages (Grade 8 upwards) are welcome, no auditions are required. For more information, contact info@wellesleytownband.org or 781-237-5203.

Wellesley gardening clubs:

Hills Garden Club of Wellesley

House and Garden Club of Wellesley

Wellesley Garden Club

Wellesley Garden Study Group

Wellesley Gardeners’ Guild

Weston Road Garden Club (Weston Road community gardens)

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Wellesley golf clubs: It won’t be par for the course

May 7, 2020 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

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Nehoiden Golf Club

 

This past weekend, which featured the first really decent weather since the coronavirus crisis hit, had to be painful for those belonging to Wellesley’s golf clubs and itching to play.

Like all courses across the state, Wellesley’s were to be shut until at least May 18, per state order, though the state changed its plan on May 7 to allow courses to open sooner if they follow certain rules. Massachusetts has been one of just a few states that had not allowed courses to open, creating angst for course operators as golfers cross state lines to play where allowed.

Reports have surfaced of rogue players on nearby courses, such as the Leo J. Martin Memorial Golf Course in Weston just over the Wellesley line. And we’re sure a few holes have been snuck in at Wellesley’s Nehoiden Golf Club and Wellesley Country Club as well, despite warnings that the courses are closed for now.

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Hopefully the Wellesley Country Club lot won’t be empty for long.

 

While we don’t have any official word from Wellesley Country Club, which has no mention of the coronavirus on its public-facing website and didn’t respond to inquiries, we’ve seen the regular maintenance taking place on the private course.

Rules, once the course opens, will be based in part on instructions from the state and Mass Golf. But expect a lack of bunker rakes and ball washers, required reservations for tee times, and fancy gadgets that bounce your balls back to you without having to stick your fingers in the hole. Wellesley Country Club doesn’t want you just hanging around on the course before or after you play, and will ditch shared tees, pencils and scorecards. A new electronic scorecard option is available via a phone app.

Nehoiden, which has opened an online store to prime members for the season opening, has been posting updates about its situation.

It updated the site on May 7 following the state’s updated rules:

“This morning the Governor’s Administration announced that golf can now resume in the state of Massachusetts. They have also provided guidelines for golf courses that must be followed in order to resume operations. We are reviewing these guidelines and updating the policies we have been working on over the past several weeks. We will have more information to communicate to you through an additional email later today. We cannot provide any additional information at this time, as we are busy working to prep Nehoiden GC for its opening.

“We want to ensure a safe environment for everyone’s protection and well-being here at Nehoiden, and social distancing procedures will be in place at the club as they will be in most other parts of our daily lives. There will be more detailed information communicated to you once we have guidelines in place, and we will look to your patience and cooperation in helping us observe our new processes. We want all of our members to be able to get out and play.”

The Nehoiden staff urges people not to sneak onto the course. “Due to COVID-19 mandates, our grounds team has been significantly reduced, and we cannot repair any damage to the course that is caused before we open.”

The Spring Jr. Golf Academy has been canceled, but summer programming for Juniors and Adults is still open for registration. The PGA, Jr. League has been postponed, but Nehoiden hopes to run it as soon as possible.

Natick course update

In Natick, Sassamon Trace Golf Course awaits instructions from the town and state, but vowed in April “to re-open as soon as the Governor’s order for non-essential businesses ends or we get approval to operate only outside.”

As for what the operation will look like, it is hard to say, though Sassamon Trace General Manager and PGA Certified Professional Kurt McDowell has ideas based on what other states have done.

“Knowing exactly what changes will be made is tough because each state has been different. As of now Massachusetts hasn’t given guidance at all,” he says.

He shared this list from other states and organizations to get an idea of what might happen:

  • Remove ball washing stations
  • Remove all water stations from the course
  • Remove bunker rakes from the course
  • Remove all trash bins
  • Doors to clubhouse left open all day
  • ]Bathrooms/high use areas cleaned multiple times daily
  • Sanitizer provided
  • Staff must wear gloves
  • 1 staff member per work area
  • Sitting areas removed
  • Rental carts available
  • Golf carts operating with 1 player per cart
  • Rental pull carts and golf carts cleaned after each use with hose/soap or Lysol wipes
  • Hitting bays open but players must use own golf balls
  • Portable restroom on course with sanitizer
  • Tee-times spaced out more
  • No walk-in play allowed
  • Course machinery sanitized after each use as more staff begins (machinery assigned to staff member if possible)
  • 6-foot radius

Leagues will be shortened but McDowell expects they can run in a fairly normal way with the exception of not everyone getting a golf cart. “We will not use a closest to the pin [format], which we normally would for them,” he says.

Offering lessons will be challenging and will depend on regulations. Season passes will be discounted to match the amount of the normal golf season that was missed.

KOHR Golf Center, which offers a driving range, practice center and lots of lessons at its Speen Street facility in Natick, has been offering remote lessons and keeping patrons up to speed on its plans via a very strong social media game.

“We cannot wait to reopen our facility,” says Oliver Segal, COO at KOHR Golf. “As you know, there has not been a lot of information coming out of the state and local governments around guidelines. We are hopeful that May 18th is our date to reopen the facility. The great news about our facility is that the bulk of it is outside and spread out.”

Segal adds: “We will follow all of the guidelines set up by the government which will probably include social distancing; controlling the flow of traffic; sanitization of balls, baskets, counters, bathrooms. We are also exploring other innovations including advanced booking and payments to improve the customer experience, limit contact, and prevent overcrowding at the facility.”

KOHR’s website says the the business still plans to run its spring clinics and training camp program with revised start and end dates.  All junior programs are slated to begin the week of May 18 if the state allows.

Let’s also not forget about Golf on the Village Green, the Rte. 9 miniature golf course in Natick, either. We reached out for comment, and will update this if we get one. The bigger challenge for that operator might be its Fun and Games arcade.


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Wellesley Kiwanis Club Good Scout Breakfast honors Fire Chief DeLorie

November 9, 2019 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

The Wellesley Kiwanis Club honored Fire Chief Rick DeLorie at the annual Good Scout Breakfast celebration held at the Wellesley College Club. Around 40 attendees showed up for the swell spread of bacon and eggs, muffins, pastries, juice, and coffee. The main draw for the crowd was, of course, to satisfy a burning desire to stand next to Chief DeLorie’s fire as he was honored for his contributions to the community.

The Kiwanis Club of Wellesley is the chartering organization for Wellesley Scout Troop 182. First chartered in 1913, Troop 182 is one of the longest, continuously active Scout Troop in the United States. Their yearly breakfast helps fund the philanthropic group’s Campership Fund and the Joe Levens Eagle Scout Project Fund. $25 of each $45 breakfast celebration ticket goes directly to those two initiatives.

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Wellesley Fire Chief Rick DeLorie, and Kiwanis Club Breakfast organizer Gary McCabe.

Gary McCabe, Kiwanis Club member and the troop’s charter organization representative said, “The breakfast is to recognize someone in the community who has contributed in many ways. Chief DeLorie exemplifies the Scouting ideals of living with honor.”

“I’m honored to be here and say thank you to the Kiwanis for everything,” said Chief DeLorie, freshly coiffed from a Shave-Your-Head benefit held last weekend to support a firefighter and colleague who is battling cancer.

Club member Janice Coduri noted that the Kiwanis have been in Wellesley since 1922. “We have 26 members, and are always welcoming to more.” The club meets Thursdays at 12:15 at the Wellesley College Club for lunch, social time and great conversation, and sometimes a speaker.

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Kiwanis Club and community members enjoy the annual Kiwanis Club breakfast.

 

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Nice spread.

Who was Joe Levens?

Joe Levens, for whom the Eagle Scout Project Fund is named, was involved with Troop 182 as a Scout Leader for over 25 years. Levens, an Eagle Scout himself, lived life the Scout way — with honor and integrity. He devoted much of his his time, energy, and skills to Troop 182. After his death in 2010, the Eagle Scout Project Fund was created. The fund ensures that aspiring Eagle Scouts not lack for capital to see their Eagle Scout Service Project through from initial dream to completion.

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Wellesley Brownies visit Town Hall via Old Town Road

October 24, 2019 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

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Wellesley’s Schofield Elementary School third grade Brownies troop 72076 had a blast meeting with Town Hall officials this week, says troop co-leader Carol Kinas, who shared these photos with us. They not only learned about environmental efforts underway in Wellesley, but even came across one of those elusive Old Town Road street signs (If you don’t get the significance of this sign, see: “For Wellesley DPW, ‘Old Town Road’ song is no hit”).

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Wellesley sorority women sister it up on annual Badge Day

April 17, 2019 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

It was Sorority International Badge Day in Wellesley, and for the first time in many years I had to miss out as this group of super-fun Wellesley women got together and reaffirmed the bonds of  sisterhood. On Badge Day, everybody digs out their sorority pins from their days as a Gamma Phi Beta (me!), or a Kappa Alpha Theta, or a Pi Beta Phi, and more, and spends an evening reminiscing. Some have daughters who have rushed the same sorority at the same college they attended, others are very involved in helping out the local chapter of their sorority, while others just show up for the good time.

It’s a small but cheerful group. Some of us may have forgotten the secret handshake or what the heck it meant to sign off “Love in PKE” on letters (remember those?). But we all remember silly, bygone times and talk with pride about the service and scholarship components of our chapters, and about the way sorority life has changed with the times. Here’s to love, labor, learning, and loyalty, ladies.

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Wellesley sorority Badge Day…sorry I had to miss it this year. Don’t take me off the email list, girls! Gosh, you all look fabulous, BTW. And HS, you’re welcome for the judicious cropping of this pic.

To to all you closeted sorority women out there, and I know you’re out there: it’s time for you to get on next year’s mailing list so that you can meet others who misspent their youth. Drop me an email at theswellesleyreport@gmail.com and I’ll make it happen. C’mon, we’re all worried about you — it’s not like you to snub fun. We need you to teach us new bad habits and help us generally sister it up.

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Hanging with the sorority ladies in Wellesley, a two-part series

April 14, 2018 by Deborah Brown 8 Comments

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Hanging with the Wellesley ladies on Sorority Badge Day. I’m the one on the right, standing. Looks like we’ve got a hider there in the back.

Could there be anything more stereotypical than moving to Wellesley, joining a garden club, and then discovering that there are many women in town who were in a sorority in college just like you!!! The answer to that is maybe. You might extend the metaphor and volunteer tirelessly for the schools AND serve in a town government position such as Town Meeting AND be off to Sanibel Island or some other warm weather locale for the upcoming school vacation break.

I don’t do all that, so I’ll stick to telling you about what I know — the garden club and the sorority components of my life here in town, and how they collided and overlapped in the past week in the loveliest possible ways. I’ll cover the sorority stuff today and move on to the garden club part in a subsequent post.

First stop on this Wellesley ladies tour will be Sorority International Badge Day held recently in Wellesley (and other places). Badge Day is a time when fun-loving sorority women get together and reminisce about their days in the Tri-Sig house at the University of Illinois, or how they started the Delta Delta Delta chapter at Dartmouth, or the fun they had at the annual talent show at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (“Everyone worked together on song and dance routines. It was pretty wholesome stuff,” said Sherri, an Alpha Phi at Cal Poly.)

As we sipped wine and nibbled appetizers in a drop-dead gorgeous and historical Cliff Estates home, the themes that came up over and over were the ways a sorority made a huge school seem smaller and the resulting life-long connections. “The outcome was that they were all my good friends from college and I’m still in touch with so many,” Andrea, an Alpha Delta Pi from the University of Vermont said.

It’s a small group that gets together here in town on Badge Day, but in the past couple of years we’ve made some progress toward an important goal: to encourage young women entering college to join our little fun-loving cult in an age-appropriate way. No, we don’t expect them to hang out with us and chat on Badge Day. We just want to smooth their path into a Greek organization on their chosen campuses, should they want to wander that way. The way we can do this is to provide recommendations to students interested in going through rush. Here are a few details:

What’s a rec?

Recommendations are written and sent to a chapter by alumnae who are in good standing with their sorority (that means you have to be up-to-date on your annual dues). Recs can range from a simple form that’s found on a sorority’s national website where alumnae fill in provided information about grades, volunteer work, and extracurriculars all the way up to what amounts to a full-fledged resume, complete with full-body picture. In some schools, recs are de rigueur, in others it’s practically unheard of for the chapter to receive a rec. At these more relaxed campuses, the students just show up and meet the chapter members at scheduled events, and everyone takes it from there.

Don’t rec your chances

The way a student gets an alumnae to write a rec is simply to ask. It’s great if the rushee can get an alumnae from her college to do it, but it’s not a must. The young woman from Marblehead, Mass. last year who asked for my help didn’t know any alumnae from her school of choice, University of Alabama. She heard about me from one of those Badge Night sorority members I had chit-chatted with who was a member of still another sorority, and before I knew it, I was filling out the necessary information.

The student I was asked to help out had been accepted to University of Alabama, which has an undergrad population of about 11,500. 34% of those students are in one of the campus’ 67 sororities or fraternities. That’s considered pretty big-time and rush there is a very competitive process, so she went all-out. I received in the mail a folder with her transcript, various test scores, and a resume that made me wonder why she was bothering with college at all. If by the time I was 30 I had accomplished half of what that girl had so far gotten done, maybe I could have avoided a few of the many predicaments I found myself in during my misspent youth. But that’s another post.

The upshot of it was that I filled out the required entries and wrote a pretty standard letter of recommendation, based on the sample letter she provided. This girl was seriously ready to take Alabama by storm. At this year’s Badge Party I heard that she was happily ensconced in her first-choice house and was loving everything about UA.

Is that all there is to it?

So yes, the rec process is pretty much what you’d expect. The big schools with a huge Greek system and a very competitive rush process require recommendations. The schools where sororities are more akin to social clubs and lack the trappings such as a house or recognition by the university administration generally are less focused on knowing everything about a rushee before the process even begins.

I went to Boston University, where an unpleasant break-up and the accompanying sudden need for the type of support only 120 best girlfriends can provide led me to join up with Gamma Phi Beta. We were a rag-tag bunch who held meetings in the classrooms of the College of Liberal Arts. A rental where a few of the members lived was sometimes referred to as “the house,” but plenty of us had never even darkened its doorstep. It wasn’t some kind of revolving door for everyone, it was basically an apartment. And besides, it was way the hell out in Brighton. It was the kind of experience Dana remembered from her Duke University days, where she says, “I enjoyed it because the sororities didn’t live in the house. It wasn’t all-encompassing.”

Overall, those days were a lot of fun, and this from the perspective of a moody teenager who at one time wasn’t such a joiner. I hope I’m not giving away any sisterhood trade secrets when I reveal that my sorority used to go on and on about the four pillars of highest womandom, or whatever — love, labor, learning, and loyalty. I was never a true believer and would roll my eyes at chapter meetings during that 4 L’s song, but let’s take a look at how things turned out, shall we?

During that time, I fell in LOVE.

I ended up married with two kids, so that takes care of the LABOR part.

I LEARNED that you can’t treat your sisters the same way you treat your kid brother.

And I LOYALLY show up every couple of summers at the Jersey Shore to see those crazy girls from my college years.

So there. It worked.

If this is the first you’ve heard about all this International Badge Day stuff, no worries. Sorority gals are creatures of tradition, so of course there will be more of the same next year.  Just get on the email list and you, too, can dig out your badge and sister it up on the next big day. Contact our fearless leader at akp.allen@gmail.com, and OMG I can’t wait to meet you!!!!

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It was Wellesley Sorority Badge Day — but you already knew that

April 26, 2017 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

Wellesley Sorority Badge Day

It was Sorority International Badge Day in Wellesley this week, as you probably already knew, and Kappa Alpha Thetas, Gamma Phi Betas, Pi Beta Phis, and more joined together to wear their badges and reminisce about happy college times at mixers, homecoming dances and rush parties.

I had my usual pre-Badge Day anxiety when I received the invitation. What will I even wear? Do I have time to get a cut and color? And a mani-pedi? And a brow-y/chinny? Can I squeeze in 10 hot yoga classes before then? Not possible, I decide. Pull yourself together and just squeeze yourself into whatever gay apparel you end up donning, said my inner life coach. She’s a task-master and a bit shrill sometimes.

I ignored that unsupportive shrew and just showed up with cuticles ragged and roots showing. Of course, the Wellesley sisterhood took me in anyway, because that’s what sisters are for. I knew there was a reason that I said yes to this party for the fourth year running.

I was provided with and asked to read aloud a contemplative passage as we stood around in a circle holding battery-operated candles. It wasn’t as weighty as, say, a letter from John to the Corinthians (did they ever write back?), however it did cover those eternal sisterly themes of love, labor, learning, and loyalty.

So to all you closeted sorority women out there, and I know you’re out there, it’s time for you to get on next year’s mailing list so that you can meet others who misspent their youth. You’ll be surprised at how well everyone’s turned out, despite it all. And when we meet each other at last and start to feel all sisterly, before you know it, I’ll have convinced you to teach me your sorority’s bawdiest song. Then we’ll belt it out together, with a Mona Lisa smile and a solid sense of irony.

If this is the first you’ve heard about all this International Badge Day stuff, no worries. Sorority gals are creatures of tradition, so of course there will be more of the same next year.  Just get on the email list and you, too, can dig out your badge and sister it up on the next big day. Contact our fearless leader at akp.allen@gmail.com, and OMG I can’t wait to meet you!!!!

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