Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club

Job Posting: Assistant Director:

The Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club is seeking interested applicants for the position of assistant director. The assistant director will be expected to work collaboratively with the executive director in all aspects of the operation to achieve the mission of enabling all member young people to reach their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.

Responsibilities will include:

• Supervising and scheduling staff

• Assist in recruiting and training staff and volunteers

• Assist in implementing all Club policies and procedures

• Assist in the promotion of all Club programs and activities

• Assist in fundraising efforts

• Assist in the maintenance of the Club

• Participate in training and educational opportunities

• Other duties as assigned

Candidate Requirements:

• Pass local, state, and national background checks

• CPR/First Aid Certification or ability to complete these trainings

• A valid driver’s license and clean driving record

• Insurable by the Club’s policies

• Able to work flexible hours, including some nights and weekends

Hours:

• Schedule will include evenings and weekends, dependent upon the needs and activities of the Club

Salary Range and benefits:

• $42,000-$50,000 (dependent on qualifications and experience)

• Health insurance

• Life Insurance

• Retirement with a 5% match

• Vacation, sick, and personal time

• Overtime opportunities are available

Application Requirements:

• Letter of interest

• Resume’

• Copies of degrees, certifications, or other credentials

 Recommendation letters may be requested

Preference will be given to candidates with a college degree and similar or related experience. Other candidates with multiple years of similar or related experience may also be considered

Please forward application materials by Friday, December 13, 2025 to:

Dr. Diane Para c/o Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club PO Box 555 Ogdensburg, NY 13669

Anticipated start date: January 2025

The Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club is a registered 501 (C) (3) Charitable Organization.

OBGC HOURS

SAFETY IS OUR #1 PRIORITY

NOVEMBER: Mondays 2:30-5:00PM

Tuesday-Friday 2:30-5:00PM & 6:00-9:00PM
(*Tues, Weds & Thursday Nights 2nd grade and under 6:00-7:30PM)

PLEASE LOOK AT CALENDARS AS THERE ARE HALF DAYS FROM SCHOOL AND DIFFERENT CLUB HOURS

Membership forms must be current and dues for the year with the form at $6 or $15 for a family.

CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW FOR THE OBGC PAPERWORK

Membership Application PARENT/MEMBER HANDBOOK MONTHLY CALENDAR Safety is our #1 Priority

A MESSEGE FROM THE DIRECTOR...

EXPO RETURN SUPPORTS OBGC

After a four-year hiatus the Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club Expo held at the OFA Golden Dome made it's return in late March of 2024. Although cut back some and only utilizing the dome facility the even was still a great success. It was great to see many vendors return as well as many who attended the show during the weekend. The smiling faces of the dancers performing, members of the Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club Choir singing or kids holding one of Lena the Lizard Lady sloths let us know we made the right decision to bring it back. Of course, it could not happen without a committed Staff, Board of Directors and Volunteers who give so much of their time to help impact the club and the youth we serve. A big thanks to all those at Ogdensburg Free Academy for allowing us to use their facility and support, we are truly fortunate to live in a community where many work together to benefit youth.

Tom Luckie’s Legacy Lives In Countless Success Stories

By Dave Shea

The original Board of Directors of the Ogdensburg Boys Club (later became of the Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club) were people of great vision. Once they had the first boys club in Northern New York established they needed a leader to take the project to the level which the founders had envisioned. They found that leader in New York City native Thomas P. Luckie Sr. who was serving as the Program Director for the boys club in the Brooklyn Naval Yard. An outstanding athlete and all-state basketball player who jokingly would later tell people in Ogdensburg “I came from cement” and when asked by a youngster if he had a tree house when he was young he replied “there were no tree houses on Columbus Avenue.”

A player of such prowess and charisma that his brother John called him “The great white hope of Columbus Avenue. He had it all.” John Luckie would later refer to his brother as “a story all of his own, you take a look at his family and you know he made all the right decisions.” Tom Luckie took great pride that he was a New York City Catholic, in his Irish heritage and that he got a lot of his toughness from his dad who was an accomplished Gaelic Footballer. He incorporated that “tough love” into his amazing ability to reach young people and guide them toward the Boys and Girls Club of America motto of “Be Great.”

In 1965 he became Program/Assistant Director of the Ogdensburg Boys Club and Director of the Belmont Courts Boys Club. In 1968 he was named Executive Director of the club and was an instrumental force of a fund drive in 1973-1974 which resulted in the current club being built on Paterson Street and becoming the Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club. He served in that position until retiring in 2005.

His son Tom Luckie Jr. followed his dad to the Executive Director’s chair and has continued the mission with his dad’s energy and wisdom.

On Sunday “Mr. Luckie”, as he was known by three generations of club members, peacefully passed away surrounded by members of his loving family. “Back then we had some different candidates for the job. But we all liked Tom and he had experience working with the Boys and Girls Club in Brooklyn. Frank Augsbury Jr. let us use his company plane and we took trips to New York to talk to Tom,” said Chuck Kelly who was a member of the original board of directors with several other of the most prominent members of the community. “We have always had such great community support for the boys and girls club and the original board of directors was a group of absolutely tremendous people. Tom and his wife Ruth (McGillivray) came to Ogdensburg with five children (Thomas Jr., Jamie, Colleen, Bippy Elizabeth and Monica) and their sixth child Eugene was born here. They worked very hard and did a great job. I have been involved in a lot of things in the city and the boys and girls club is the one that I am most proud of.”

Tom Luckie Sr. headed a staff which developed the OBGC into a symbol of great pride in the city and “Club Kids” went on to become outstanding family people and reach the heights of their professions all over the country.

In athletics alone, Rick Carlisle went on to become an NBA champion with the Boston Celtics and NBA Championship Coach for the Dallas Mavericks and Jimmy Howard has enjoyed as outstanding career as goaltender of the Detroit Red Wings and a US Olympian. “We have lost a legend,” said Carlisle. “It is hard to even put it into words how he influenced so many people. He was like a second father at the boys club. He was a mentor, a teacher and a coach. He has left a legacy which will go on for decades.”

But just as important was the ongoing day-to-day atmosphere of positive reinforcement created at the club and one of the great testimonies came in the early years in a famous phone call to the Luckie household on Christmas Eve when a youngster asked “is the club open tonight.” “Mr. Luckie had an immeasurable positive impact on hundreds of boys and girls in Ogdensburg. Jackie Robinson’s epitaph says a life is not important but for the impact it has on others. Mr. Luckie’s life was a gift,” said Bill Powers.

“I had all the respect in the world for him and will always remember him for this and how he led all of us to a better life,” said Bob McGuire.

Another club member Pete Shea said “Growing up in Ogdensburg there was Biddy Basketball, Kiwanis Baseball and Tom Luckie.”

While leading the evolution of the OBGC Mr. Luckie also embarked on an extraordinary family life with his wife Ruth who passed away in 1986 and his second wife Pam (Miller) whom he in married in 1988 and together they raised a son Michael. Both Ruth and Pam were deeply involved in the success of the OBGC and incredibly supportive of their husband. Descendants of Tom Luckie Sr. have made their own high impact marks in athletics and in any number of professional fields. While his plate was overflowing with responsibilities at home and at the club Mr. Luckie also managed a landmark legacy of community service. Service which included: United Way Volunteer, St. Lawrence County Legislator, Ogdensburg City Council, Ogdensburg Lions Club Member, Moose Lodge Member, Seaway Festival Volunteer, Ogdensburg School Board, St. Lawrence County Youth Advisory Board, Ogdensburg Housing Authority Board, helped to establish Pop Warner Football and Minor Hockey, Biddy Basketball Coach, Bishop Conroy Physical Education Teacher and for a number of years was the Head Basketball Coach at Wadhams Hall Seminary College. His community service was matched by his ability to build a legendary circle of friends which extended from priests, bishops, cardinals, nuns, doctors, lawyers, law enforcement officers, legislators, senators and professional athletes like Rick Carlisle, Bob Cousy, Phil Simms, Joe Morris and Dave Jennings who served as OBGC Expo Guest Stars; to the fun-loving rogues and rascals who frequented some of the establishments where he loved to gather with family and friends to share stories and a touch of “The Irish” .

Many of the gatherings came after rounds of golf which replaced basketball as his athletic passion after moving to Ogdensburg. His golf career featured two holes in one, including one of the few aces ever recorded on the long signature downhill 10th hole overlooking the St. Lawrence River at the St. Lawrence State Park where shots can be highly influenced by the wind.

He came to Ogdensburg as an outstanding basketball player and brought the “City Game” to the local men’s league.

“Passes from Tom came from angles, places, and times that you weren’t used to but better be ready for. Tom arrived from the City and Ogdensburg basketball was never the same again - nor the community,” said retired OFA Basketball Coach and New York State Basketball Hall of Fame member Bill Merna. Tom Luckie Sr. used the same approach to extend the outreach of the offerings of the Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club. He knew who to ask and when to ask for help on a project and he would never take no for an answer.

On Sunday he drew his final breath surrounded by family members while listening to his brother John bid farewell over the phone with Irish music playing in the background. A perfect end to a life lived, a race well run and a game well-played like a golfer who counted all his strokes but would accept an occasional mulligan.

Then his spirit took flight passing over the OBGC on Paterson Street, the outdoor basketball courts and hydrants-for-bases stickball diamonds of Columbus Avenue and the rolling hills of the Emerald Isle on the way to a rightful place among the great ones who towered over the landscape when they stooped to help a child.

Memorial Donations for Thomas P. Luckie, Sr. can be made to the OBGC by clicking above on the Paypal button or by sending it to PO BOX 555, Ogdensburg NY 13669.

GREAT FUTURES START Here

The Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club is a positive place for kids! The OBGC was established in 1964 by a group of people who believed a place was needed to serve boys of the Ogdensburg area to provide them with educational, recreational, social skills and other positive traits. Admitting its first ever girl member in 1975, today the Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club serves over 1,500 youth from Ogdensburg and St. Lawrence County, through membership and community outreach.

The addition of the John E. Claxton Memorial Learning Center in the fall of 2002 expanded the club's academic opportunities for its members establishing "Power Hour" for students to receive tutoring in all academic areas.

Get In Touch WITH US

Address: 610 Paterson St.

Ogdensburg, NY 13669

Phone:
(315) 393-1241

Thomas P. Luckie, Jr.- Executive Director

EMAIL: obgc@hotmail.com

Megan McNamara- Assistant Director

EMAIL:mem33unc@hotmail.com

Tristan Moore- Youth Development Coordinator

EMAIL: trimoore28@gmail.com

Brei Shaver- Youth Development Professional

EMAIL: breishaver5@gmail.com

About the Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club

-Founded in 1964

-Annual Budget of $479,000, staff of 4 full and 12 part time employees

-Open 2:30-5:00PM Mondays, 2:30-5:00 & 6:00-9:00PM Tuesday-Friday September- June- With special activities on some Saturdays

-Website Address: www.obgclub.com

Facebook- Ogdensburg BGC

-Supported by the United Way of Northern New York, St. Lawrence County Division for Youth, Ogdensburg Expo Annual Fundraiser, Northern New York Community Foundation and Private Donations & Gifts

Rick Carlisle Inducted Into the Boys and Girls Club of America Alumni Hall of Fame

Stewart's donates $3000 through Holiday Match 2022

The Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club was one of many organizations that Stewart's was able to donate to through their holiday match program. Stewart's matches all donations from their customers from Thanksgiving until Christmas. Stewart's credits the success of this program to their customers for their generous contributions.

Pictured below are Stewart's Employees presenting the donation in April of 2023 to OBGC Executive Director Mr. Luckie and Club Members in the new Preston C. Carlisle Athletic Center

In early February the SUNY Canton Women's Soccer Team and Coach came over to provide soccer skills and drills to the girl members at the club in honor of National Women and Girls in Sports Day!

CLARKSON HOCKEY

The OBGC was able to bring members to attend multiple Clarkson Hockey Games this season thanks to Clarkson University and Pepsi Cola Ogdensburg Bottlers.

Pictured below is Staff & Members along with the OBGC Cake Raffle winners Lucas & Annie Power and Sophie & Drake Barr from the recent OBGC Birthday Party.

The Kiwanis Reading Program has continued to be a success at the OBGC. Volunteers from Kiwanis participate in reading and craft activities with members the OBGC from October-May.

On MLK Day 2023 the OBGC took a field trip to the Ogdensburg Bowling Alley with about 40 members for Bowling provided by the Smith Family and lunch provided by our Food program that is sponsored by our donors.