Garland HS Key Club Newsletter By: Alex Pettigrew
October 2016
T-O District Region 8
TABLE OF CONTENTS pg 2 What Is Key Club? pg 3 What Is Kiwanis? pg 4-5 Reports! Minutes! Hours! pg 6 Upcoming Events pg 7 Eliminate pg 8 Recap pg 9-10 Key Club Officers pg 11 District Officers pg 12 Thanks For Reading!
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What Is Key Club?
Key Club is an international student-led organization which provides its members with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership. 2
What Is
Kiwanis?
Kiwanis International is an international, coeducational service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. It is headquartered in the United States in Indianapolis, Indiana and is found in more than 80 nations and geographic areas. Joseph G. Prance and Allen S. Browne founded the organization. Membership in Kiwanis and its family of clubs is more than 600,000 members strong. Each year, Kiwanis clubs raise more than $100 million and report more than 18.5 million volunteer hours to strengthen communities and serve the children within them. Kiwanis clubs, located in 80 nations, help their communities in countless ways. Each community’s needs are different—so each Kiwanis club is different. By working together, members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. When you give a child the chance to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive, great things happen. Service is at the heart of every Kiwanis club, no matter where in the world it’s located. Members stage nearly 150,000 service projects and raise nearly $100 million every year for communities, families and projects. Kiwanis clubs focus on changing the world by serving children, one child and one community at a time. To do this, many clubs also sponsor a Kiwanis family club—K-Kids for primary school children; Builders Clubs for adolescents; Key Clubs for teens in high school; CKI clubs for university students and Action Clubs for adults living with disabilities—to reach more people and have a greater service impact on their communities.
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! s e t u n i M ! s t r o ! p s e r R u o H By: Jessica Nguyen It has been about 6 months since I have started fulfilling the duties as the secretary of the Garland High School Key Club. I had started learning more about my position at the end of the month of May after I had been elected secretary at the election for the new board members for the 20162017 school year. I became interested in the secretary position after my friend had asked me if I wanted to run in the election to become an officer of Key Club. At that time, I ran without knowing how much commitment, time, and effort that I would have to put into the secretary position. It was only after I had attended my first board meeting, when I was trained on how to do the work in my position correctly, did I realize how much accuracy, time, and detail that I would have to put into reports. I was given lots of encouragement as well as many useful tips on how to make my job easier for me to do. I was still given help even with the simplest tasks when I didn't understand how to do it. Gaining the experience of writing reports over the past few months, I'm able to do them slightly better than the first reports I've done. It makes me happy to know that I'm improving and it gives me the motivation to do the reports better each time so that our club won't have to suffer from reports that I didn't do so well on.
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! s e t u n i ) M . t ! s n t o r o C ( p ! Re ours H Seeing how the other officers worked in their positions, it made doing my reports feel less burdensome because I always felt that everyone is doing a fair amount of work. This would include planning events, offering ideas, attending events, bringing more publicity to the club, and doing the jobs that their job requires them. Everyone would do the jobs required of their position as well as doing other things that would benefit the club. After becoming an officer of Key Club, I had come to realize how important everyone's role was. Without the president, Vice President, historian, treasurer, secretary, or webmaster, our club probably wouldn't be able to function as it does now. We would also probably also have to divide the work until the position is filled. We work well together, pitching in our ideas and opinions so that we could come up with the best plans to make our Key Club the best that it can be. We all have different things that we're good at whether it's creativity, socializing, or being a fun person in general. We can continue to use these special abilities to use for future tactics to promote the club. Hopefully in the coming school year, we can make our Key Club even better than it was before with our new generation of the Garland High School Key Club officers through hard work, determination, and lots of dedication.
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Jessica Nguyen
Upcoming Events Williams Elementary Carnival November 11 4:00-8:00pm Academic Dectathalon District Competition Nov 12 Garland HS 7:30am-3pm Senior" Prom Nov 18 3pm-5pm Grandbrook Memory Care Center "
Turkey Trot Nov 24 7am-11am City Hall Plaza Christmas @ The Square Dec 1 4:30-9:30pm Downtown Garland Square
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RECAP
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Garland High School Key Club attened the Walk To End Alzhiemer's at The Lawn @ Reunion Tower. They dressed up to greet runners and hand out water bottles.
Key Club Officers President: Janie Mai mai.janie12345@gmail.com Vice President: Sabrina Palma palma.sabrina4@gmail.com Secretary: Jessica Nguyen jmn12307@gmail.com Webmaster: Gabrielle Alovera gmalover7@gmail.com 9
Key Club Officers Treasurer: Tiffany Aquino tiffanyaquino61@yahoo.com
Historian: Kimberly Ngo kngo10is@gmail.com
Editor: Alex Pettigrew alexpettigrew7@gmail.com
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District Board Contact Info
District Secretary: Kennie Merbach secretary@tokeyclub.com
Lt. Govener: Brandon Ramirez brandon.ramirez65@yahoo.com District Govenor: Dianna Cardenas govenor@tokeyclub.com
Convention Liaision: Chris Do cl@tokeyclub.com
District Editor: Sophia Tran sophiatran.kc@tokeyclub.com
District Treasurer: Leia George treasurer@tokeyclub.com
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Thank You For Reading! Garland High School Key Club
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