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The Richard Patton Melick Foundation was established in 1997 to recognize an extraordinary community leader in Needham. It was to pay homage to a concept characterized by Dick Melick's life - an attitude and action translated into service: Willingness to help a neighbor without being asked, a desire to be of community service without concern for reward, an understanding that "we the people" are the government, and no democratic society survives without commitment and realization that citizens develop the quality of life in a community.

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

People of today in Needham may need no introduction to Dick Melick's life but those coming in the years ahead will. We who are founders of this foundation welcome the opportunity to bridge a possible void between the years ahead and 1997.

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