August 2017 | Vol. 1 | Issue 2
The Historical Horse
CONTENTS
Issue 2 August 2017
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Letter from the Editor
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History in the Making
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Subregion B Reminiscence
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Kiwanis Stories
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Where are they Now?
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Then and Now
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Remember When...
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This Month in History
13-14 International Annals Partner Parables
17 Take Me Back Tuesday Blast from the Past
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A message from the Historian
Elizabeth Quinlan Hello Southwest ponies! Now that CKIx has come and gone, even more opportunities now await our members, including events such as Kiwanis DCON and CNH’s District Professional Development Conference. It may feel like the days are passing by slower because it’s the summer, but there will always be interesting and amazing stories to tell regardless of the month! International committee applications have also come out, so as CKIers prepare for the schoolyear, I wish you luck if you choose to pursue this extra leadership opportunity! I am so eager to share with all of you my newest edition of the Historical Horse, full of information about our past and future as a district. Happy reading, Elizabeth Quinlan
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History in the Making:
CNH Professional Development Conference The California-Nevada-Hawaii district held its second annual District Professional Development Conference: Piecing Your Future Together Friday, Aug. 4 and Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017. There were over 70 attendees engaging in everything from the CKI opening session and mentoring session to workshops and an etiquette dinner. Some workshops included parliamentary procedure practice by Lawrence Sahagun, resume building and resume critiquing by Joe Lee, healthy living by Sienna Nguyen and life after graduation by Manuel Campos. The presenters varied from CNH district governor Sahagun to Lee, the workforce development strategist at Alameda Health Consortium & Community Health Center Network. CNH’s mentoring session included an opportunity to network with Kiwanians and professionals, resulting in the chance to enter a raffle for one of five passion planners. Service projects included volunteering at a bike shop, thrift store and the special Olympics of Nevada’s northern softball tournament. Since beginning DPDC last year, CNH has seen a decrease of members from 115 in 2016 to 72, according to the Facebook events pages. This year’s DPDC ended with district bonding and activities before visitors checked out of their hotels Sunday, Aug. 6. CNH plans to soon post its next installment of SunnyTV, the district’s form of updating members on spotlights and events that have happened within the district, with people’s experiences from DPDC.
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Kiwanis DCON Southwest district Kiwanis held its Kiwanis convention at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel in Tempe, Arizona from Friday, Aug. 4 to Saturday, Aug. 6, 2017. Attendees included international Subregion B trustee Banna Tesfay, governor-designate Ed Verburg, Subregion B Key Club trustee Alisa Nguyen and countless others. The DCON commenced the kickoff of the 100th Anniversary of the Kiwanis International Southwest District under the theme, “A Century of Serving the Children of the Southwest.” Members from across Kiwanis celebrated the election of the new board, participated in workshops varying from fundraising to club member recruitment and posed for photographs with Kiwanians across the district. “Kiwanis Convention was an interesting weekend, but it was nice to see all the people who have grown with me these past seven years!” Tesfay wrote on her Facebook page.
Subregion B Reminiscence University of Wyoming Homecoming Parade
The Rocky Mountain district’s Circle K University of Wyoming participated in its annual homecoming parade in the 2013 and 2014 years.
October 12, 2013 members posed in front of their red pickup truck adorned with a poster reading, “Circle K at UW” on its Facebook page. The following year, the club stepped up with a beetle decorated like a triceratops, the side reading, “Did you know that Wyo’s state dinosaur is the triceratops?” Oct.18, 2014. The poster on the other side read, “Service through the decades,” and included the name of their float, Kretaceous, denoting the last time period of the Mesozoic era. The RMD CKI district administrator Jan Brown Reed also attended. Reed wrote on the Facebook post, “Terrific Fall Officer Training for CKI club officers in Laramie, WY on Friday, followed UW’s homecoming parade on [Saturday morning].”
Kiwanis Stories Kiwanis Builders clubs and K-Kids helped the Kiwanis club of Lima plant saplings in Allen Country, Ohio, April 18, 2017. “We bagged nearly 1,500 Dogwood saplings for distribution to every first grade student in Allen County,” Kiwanis of Lima Ohio wrote on its Facebook page. First graders from Heritage Elementary school received the saplings two days later, April 20, 2017.
Kiwanis of Lima and Builder’s Club
Each year, Key Leader provides high schoolers with Kiwanis International’s leadership education program. The Key Leader mission is to provide a life-changing experience that inspires young people to achieve their personal best through service leadership,” wrote its website. Southwest district Key Club has participated in Key Leader and grown personally and as a leader from the experience. Key Leader
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Where are they Now? Ron Smith
Ron Smith spent the past five years living in Europe as part of the Kiwanis Children’s Fund Board of Trustees and was governor of the Southwest District from 2009-2010 and distinguished lt. governor from 2005-06 and 2006-07. The 2017 Kiwanis Southwest District Convention concluded Smith’s one-year term as trustee of the Kiwanis Children’s Fund Foundation. However, Smith’s legacy will remain. “His efforts during the past five years as the coordinator with clubs and volunteers in the Southwest District has raised US $1.5 million as part of Kiwanis International’s US $110 million worldwide goal,” wrote the Kiwanis Children’s Fund page. Smith has attended over 20 international conventions in his time with Kiwanis and said that he hopes future ICONS include an electronic voting system to represent officers not in physical attendance during delegation. “Only 20 percent of clubs attended, about 1,250 people, because of economics and other problems,” said Smith. He adds that every club should be able to go and experience ICON because it was what first helped him develop a sense that there’s a very different element on the international level of Kiwanis. “Here in the southwest we can make an impact,” Smith said, adding that being exposed to international elements in Kiwanis helped him realize the
impact we can make. Of those impacts the Children’s Fund was Smith’s most enjoyable time abroad. The Children’s Fund grants funds where there’s a need for scholarship and helps to achieve programs that impact kids in need-based communities. “[It also] provides day care for children and helps them avoid disaster sites as parents salvage what’s left” from a disaster, Smith said. The fulfillment phase of the Eliminate Project includes a promise to raise US $110 million that will help eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus from the earth. Smith held a baby that was tetanus-free. “Every hour, two to five babies were lost and didn’t live beyond six to seven days,” Smith said. The Children’s Fund’s impact was so strong that it influenced Smith to pledge $2,500 for the Eliminate Project, saving $1,400 babies and mothers. Smith said that being a trustee helps him witness the results of his participation in saving kids. Smith said that, “The world needs Kiwanis” and that “We should no longer be doing what we want, but what is right.” That includes Smith’s wish to save children from across the world. “No matter where, whether it be Syria or an Islamic country, children don’t apply, they deserve protection.”
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Then
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Ronald McDonald House Participation in Relay for Life has been a time-honored tradition of CKI clubs across the country. It all began when “In May 1985, Dr. Gordon ‘Gordy’ Klatt walked and ran for 24 hours around a track in Tacoma, Washington, raising money to help the American Cancer Society with the nation’s biggest health concern: cancer,” the American Cancer Society website wrote. That following year, 19 teams participated and raised $33,000, which was $6,000 more than Klatt fundraised by himself. Relay for Life is an organization with more than 3.5 million survivors and volunteers who live in 27 different countries and 5,200 communities.
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Remember When... Waterbottle fundraising Fundraising is essential to our organization—it includes providing funds to causes such as the St. Baldrick’s foundation, UNICEF and our own district. Fundraising can come in multiple creative shapes and forms and for the Southwest district this meant water bottles. Our past fundraising chair Chantel Leon designed the water bottles that we had sold everywhere, from an auction at the Kiwanis midyear convention to the Southwest district convention in Flagstaff. We sold water over one hundred water bottles and donated to the March of Dimes!
THIS MONTH IN
As the summer season dwindles to an end, now another important month in Kiwanis history. M Day, Teacher appreciation day and, most importan
Eliminate Week, a week usually held in early May, is ect and is a week dedicated to fundraising for the elim neonatal tetanus. Aktion Clubs, Builders Clubs, K-Kid from across the globe participate in this event.
According to the Eliminate website, a high school senior sta Eliminate Week eight years ago. By selling snacks to raise mo pital, she earned over $1,100 in one week.
Since the summer of 2010, Eliminate Week has expanded into a venture, collecting millions of dollars each year to eliminate mater natal tetanus from the face of the earth.
Since its kickoff, Kiwanis has eliminated MNT from 42 countries, lea 17 left with MNT.
The money came from give something up days, parties and vendors selling sweets and flowers. During the fundraising process, volunteers educated and vocated for the Eliminate project with the worthiest cause of all—saving bab Mother’s Day assumes a new meaning when volunteers come to serve. You can learn more about the history of Eliminate Week online.
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International Annals
December, 1961 was the official chartering of Northern Arizona University and thus the beginning of the southwest district’s existence as part of Circle K International. The year 1961 was a “new club rush,” with the issuing of 75 new charters for six districts approved that same year and six other new districts and 88 more new clubs that following year. According to the I-I District Board Book, “By May of 1962, Circle K had a membership of 7,700 and 402 clubs throughout the United States and Canada.” Its growth included such accomplishments as establishing the first club organized outside of the United States in May, the Kiwanis Club of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and the creation of the annual Service Club Leaders Conference. CKI was the “fastest growing collegiate service organization on the North American continent with a membership of over 12,000 in 600 clubs during the 1964-65 administrative year,” wrote the guide book. Despite the expansion, in 1965, a total 178 charters of the 954 charters had been revoked.
The year 1961 was a new club rush, with the issuing of 75 new charters
Thirty Circle K districts exist today, with the Southwest district being officially chartered May 14, 1962 with six clubs. It was the 22nd club to be chartered.
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Partner Parables
Students Team Up to Fight Hunger (STUFH) Students Team Up to Fight Hunger (STUFH) is renowned for its “stuff the bus” events, “food fights,” or canned food drives and skipping a meal for one day to donate that money to a local food bank. Daniel S. Kahn first conceived of STUFH in 1998 when he was an undergraduate at Cornell University, according to its website but had been “fighting hunger in high school, where he got athletic teams to pack food donations,” Laura Belmont, past STUFH ambassador, wrote in an email. “It began as an end-of-the-year food drive at Cornell University in 1999, where 20 bins were put in 10 of their residence halls. The food drive lasted for one week and raised 1,000 pounds of food,” Belmont wrote. Kahn began helping with food insecurity at the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York and volunteered at food banks for the rest of his academic and professional career, coordinating with food banks and schools in Syracuse and Binghamton, New York. Davis Polk, an international law firm that Kahn joined in 2003, enabled STUFH to become a tax-deductible, not-for-profit corporation in 2008, finalizing its presence as STUFH. CKI became a partner in 2007 and assisted in garnering over 5 million pounds of food donations. STUFH has donated 5 million pounds through food drives and the participation of more than 100 college campuses in more than 40 states. STUFH continues to expand with assistance from CKI and its members. More information is available online.
Laura Belmont, immediate past STUFH ambassador Laura Belmont was the Circle K International’s STUFH ambassador for the 2016-2017 term. Under her guidance, CKI hosted a service week from April 4 to April 8 2016 exploring how food insecurity and hunger affect a person’s capability to perform well on a day-to-day basis. Something as little as a slice of cake is linked to Arizona’s 17.8 percent rate of food insecurity, Belmont wrote on the Facebook page for the event.
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TakeMe Back Tuesday
Key Club is the origin of my own Kiwanis journey and it is for many others, too. According to Key Club’s website, “Key Club has approximately 260,000 members in approximately 5,000 clubs. Key Club is represented in 37 countries.” High school was only heightened by the presence of volunteerism, whether it be highway cleanups, car wash fundraisers, or a multitude of service events around the community, key clubbers were there to assist. They continue to invest energy and passion in everything they do, from their scrapbooks to service and fundraising. No student can go wrong with Key Club as a foundation for success in the future, leading to participation in a university’s Circle K club and other ventures, including Circle K’s international board and career choices with altruistic roots.
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Jean Baruch is the founder of Beads of Courage and, in an article by the Arizona Daily Star, Ben’s Bells awarded her a bell of honor for her work assisting children in cataloguing their journey with cancer. L. Anne Newell, article writer, wrote that the Kiwanis club located in Tucson enabled Baruch to expand her home to its own location. The University of Arizona chapter assisted volunteered during the organization’s early stages. From helping 5,000 children in 2004 to 15,000 in 2011, the number continues to grow exponentially with the “Bead challenge,” a goal to fundraise $100,000 for the nonprofit organization.
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