June 2012 Volume I Issue 2
Division 5
Texas-Oklahoma
In This Issue: Presidential Council Meeting (PCM) Hershey’s Track and Field Games Key Leader Club App Monthly Checklist Club Spotlight Contacts list International Convention (ICON) 2012
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Soak Up In Service!
What: Presidential Council Meeting (PCM) A meeting where Key Clubbers can learn more about Key Club, have fun, and meet other Key Club members in their Division! Who: For officers and members of Key Club International When: June 23, 2012 at 12 o’clock Noon Where: Rolling Oaks Christian Church 7150 Stahl Road San Antonio, TX 78247
Key Club International has a new co-sponsor. And Key Clubbers have a new opportunity! We’re excited to welcome The Hershey Company as a Key Club co-sponsor for 2012—with a focus on Hershey’s Track & Field Games. Now in its 35th year, HTFG serves children ages 9–14 by helping them get active and develop a healthy lifestyle. More than 10 million kids in the U.S. and Canada have participated in HTFG. Be part of the fun Key Clubs can help organize HTFG events in their communities. Work with a local organization, such as an elementary school, community park, Boys & Girls Club or others. Get other Kiwanis-family members involved too! Recruit Builders Club and K-Kids members as game participants. And invite Kiwanis club members to assist with game events—as timers, for example.
Location: Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas Date: June 22-24, 2012
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About Key Leader Key Leader is a weekend experiential leadership program for today's young leaders. This life-changing event focuses on service leadership as the first, most meaningful leadership-development experience. A Key Leader will learn the most important lesson of leadership—it comes from helping others succeed. Participants begin by attending a Key Leader conference, which is a weekend retreat. Large and small group workshops, discussions and team-building activities take place over the course of the weekend. Students have opportunities to learn leadership skills that will help them to change their schools, communities, and world for the better. While exploring leadership in a whole new way, participants will make amazing new friends and have experiences they will never forget. Positive, ongoing interaction with other Key Leader graduates offers continuing reinforcement, encouragement and growth of leadership skills.
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Finally, an app for the world's largest service organization for teens! Download the Key Club app and use it to increase the impact of your service, have fun with your club members and grow your club. * Invite friends to your club meeting with personalized invitations.
*Don’t forget to update your new officer’s info on the District Website http://tokeyclub.com/
Check List for the Month
Consistent service projects throughout the summertime keep members excited about service and Key Club even when school is out Have a Summer Having a summer board/officer meeting during the summer will Board/Officer assist you in planning events for the Meeting new year Plan your service projects, events, fundraisers, and budget for the year. Plan your school Contact your Kiwanis in advance for year any financial assistance you will need throughout the year Kiwanis love to see a smiling face at Visit your their meetings! Going to meetings sponsoring often, especially from all the free Kiwanis time the summer offers, will contribute to knitting bonds between your Key Club and Sponsoring Kiwanis Club. While you’re there, ask them about any service projects that you could assist them with to further your summer service plans
Plan Summer Service
My Awesome Experience By Emily Campbell, 2012-13 Key Club Secretary, Bandera High School Hands down, my most favorite service project that I've done so far in my year with Key Club, was when we went to the Haven for Hope in San Antonio. Haven for Hope is a nonprofit organization whose main objective is to transform homeless individuals. According to the Haven for Hope website, every night approximately 1,600 people inhabit the Haven for Hope Campus. It was nothing like I thought it would be, because truthfully, I thought it would be a small building and an even smaller amount of people, but once we got there, what stood before me surprised me. There were many buildings put together, all serving a different purpose, whether it be to house the once homeless people or to prepare the massive amounts of food that is needed. We found our way in and some cooks in a separate kitchen directed us where to go. We were led through a maze of rooms and smells, then finally arrived at the kitchen that we would be working in. One of the lunch ladies', the one that led us, told us to put on plastic gloves and a hair nets. All of us did this pretty quick, eager to start working and serving. Immediately, each and every one of us was assigned to a task, as there were many, many of them to be done before it was time for the lunch rush. The first task that I was assigned to do, along with many other members, was to clean the tables out in the lunchroom that the inhabitants sit down at. Everyone seemed to enjoy this and once it was done some of us took out trash, swept floors, helped prepare food, washed dishes, and anything else that needed to be done. It took a while to prepare lunch, but thankfully, the cooks had many hands to help and it got done a whole lot faster than it usually does. Once lunch was over, we had to start preparing dinner.
The thing that I never thought about is the amount of effort, time and money that goes into the types of organizations like Haven for Hope. On the outside, what you see says nothing about what goes on inside. Once you step inside, you're introduced to a whole different world that beckons you to reach out and help people, whether you thought you could or not. My personal experience was so humbling and rewarding, because I knew that some fraction of the homeless people in San Antonio were getting the nourishment they needed as well as the love and support of each other and the behind-the-scenes cooks. The most rewarding part of the experience was seeing the happy faces of all the people that walked through the line of the cafeteria. Each person smiled and said thank you to all of us behind the counter. At the end of the day, we helped so much, that I'm pretty sure they hadn't had food out that quick before in the history of their establishment. Sometime I want to go back and help for the whole day just to see the smiling faces once again.
Need to Contact Someone? DISTRICT/REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR Walt Roetter 422 Meadow Ridge Drive Kerrville, TX 78028 830-733-0008 secwr@stx.rr.com GOVERNOR Brian O’Hara 512-705-1707 governorbrianohara@gmail.com SECRETARY Kevin Duong 14906 Bridle Bend Drive Houston, TX 77084 832-418-7745 Kevin.duongkc@yahoo.com TREASURER Maci Slater 580-247-0413 macislater@hotmail.com EDITOR Lindyn Davis 325-642-7740 Davis.lindyn2013@gmail.com CONV. LIAISON Roshni Chandwani 281-854-4553 roshni.chandwani.kc@gmail.com INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEE Rebecca Riley 205-478-9616 rriley@alabamakeyclub.org LT. GOVERNOR Brianna Cook 210-577-2619 cookbrianna@aim.com
Key Club International Convention ICON Have Fun! To everyone going to Key Club International Convention, have a great time in Orlando Florida at Disney World and Universal Studios! Did you have fun in Paradise at DCON? Couldn’t make it to ICON this year? Look out for more info on Key Club International Convention 2013 (ICON).
Texas-Oklahoma Division 5 Key Club Thank You for all you do! Bandera Canyon Judson Early College Academy Samuel Clemens Center Point
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Johnson New Braunfels Our Lady of the Hills Reagan Steele