October 2017 | Volume 1 | Issue 4
The Historical Horse
CONTENTS
Issue 4 Oct. 2017
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Letter from the Editor
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History in the Making
5 Subregion B Reminiscence 6
Kiwanis Stories
7-8 Where are they Now? 9
Then and Now
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Remember When... This Month in History
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International Annals Partner Parables
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So Far Behind Sunday Blast from the Past
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A message from the Historian
Elizabeth Quinlan Hello Southwest ponies! October: the month of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, Kiwanis One Day and Fall Rally. Historically, this month is an important part of Kiwanis, from Kiwanis turning over a new day on each 1st of the month to the countless service projects that Kiwanis has participated in to celebrate our existence as a club. With October also comes a strong reminder of our dedication to children, particularly by trick-or-treating for donations to help mothers and babies from neonatal tetanus across the world through the ELIMINATE project. Another year also means another Fall Rally in Vanderwagen, N.M. to meet with other clubs within our district and have a fun time engaging in service! I hope to see some of you there at Fall Rally, ready to have a fun time with other clubs and solve a grizzly murder mystery! Happy reading, Elizabeth Quinlan
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History in the Making:
CKI Week, Service Unity Week
For years, Circle K International has given clubs an opportunity to participate in CKI Week, which this year is happening from Oct. 22 to 28, 2017. Every year, members work with our service partners to change the community for the better. Members participate in events such as SUFH the Bus, potlucks, book drives, braving the shave and countless other activities. CKI Service Week began as a way to increase awareness of CKI, the Kiwanis family and CKI’s preferred charities, which are Better World Books, March of Dimes, Students Team Up to Fight Hunger and UNICEF on college campuses. This year, CKI Week, similar to CKI Service Week, will focus on service but also offer opportunities to uphold the tenets of fellowship and leadership throughout the week. According to the CKI website, “It’s our week to shine a light on CKI, our preferred charities and the great work we are doing in our home towns.” The week before, CNH Circle K is holding a Service Unity Week to reinforce the idea of service and unite its district. On its Facebook page, it said, “While there are many things that unite us as members of Circle K International, our desire and love for service is one of the strongest connections that we form with one another, and it’s one of the main reasons as to why our members are so close despite the geographical distances between us.” According to the CKI website, CKI service week will be April 2 to 8 to explore more opportunities to participate in weeklong service.
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Southwest Distict Kiwanis anniversary The Southwest District of Kiwanis recently celebrated its anniversary, remembering 99 years worth of long history and growth since its establishment in 1918. The anniversary was last Thursday, Oct. 12 and was a good way to recognize how far Kiwanis as come. The Southwest District was organized October 12, 1918, at El Paso, Texas. El Paso, Phoenix, Arizona, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, were the three area clubs in existence. J.W. Kirkpatrick of El Paso was elected governor, and he served until October 6, 1920. No convention was held in 1919. At the second convention in El Paso, Dr. Henry M. Bowers of Albuquerque was elected governor, and he was re-elected at the next convention, in Albuquerque in October of 1921. El Paso was the first club to be completed on March 10, 1917, Phoenix was the second club on May 15, 1917, and the third club was Albuquerque on October 3, 1917.
Subregion B Reminiscence Children of Peace: RMD Key Club
The Rocky Mountain District Key Club began a District Project with Children of Peace International in 2002 to help bring help and hope to those in need in Vietnam.
According to RMD’s website, “COPI is a humanitarian organization dedicated to helping the people of Vietnam develop the capability to help themselves.” They have provided financial and material support to orphanages, clinics and hospitals in Vietnam and participated in two medical missions annually. Since the partnership, RMD has built two schools in Vietnam and added another story to one of them. RMD wrote that its goal is to finish fundraising its $25,000 commitment to the organization in the next year. “The children of Vietnam are those most in need of help in a developing country still mired in poverty and recovering from many years of war. Children were the beginning and still are the primary focus for aid efforts of COPI,” RMD wrote on its website.
Kiwanis Stories
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Kiwanis had its 15th annual Kiwanis de Amigos Relay recently, celebrating another year of the tradition. There were 27 schools participating and countless volunteers who helped make the event a reality. Noon Kiwanis Aktion Club
The Kiwanis Club of Westgate had its Installation Dinner at Cucina Tagliani’s in Glendale October 3. The new new Lt. Governor Karin Church executed the instillation dinner that included awards and a good meal.
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Where are they Now? Jennifer R. Yee
Lieutenant Governor for the 12th Division of the Southwest District, a Phoenix attorney and past President of Downtown Scottsdale Young Professionals Kiwanis, Jennifer R. Yee has been involved in Kiwanis since her days in Key Club. Yee still remembers her first exposure to Kiwanis, where she was awarded by a Kiwanian for a competition in making the best business plan. She also donated musical instruments in high school to students who couldn’t afford them. A recipient of the Walter Zeller Fellowship, the proceeds of he award provided vaccinations to protect more than 690 women and their future babies from the effects of maternal and neonatal tetanus. Yee still remembers her first exposure to Kiwanis, where she was awarded by a Kiwanian for a competition in making the best business plan. She also donated musical instruments in high school to students who couldn’t afford them.
8 A recipient of the Walter Zeller Fellowship, the proceeds of her award provided vaccinations to protect more than 690 women and their future babies from the effects of maternal and neonatal tetanus. “Helping others is the only way to get anywhere,” Yee said. Yee said that Betty Misch and her late husband were the primary motivation she needed to grow and become a leader in her community. She worked hard to graduate during a recession, which taught her critical skills and how to set goals that led her to return to Kiwanis after getting a law degree at the University of Aouthern California. Yee said that, “I do the best that I can with my spare time” and that “I do what I can and work hard in hopes of following in their [older Kiwanian’s] footsteps.” In one example, Yee, who rose from the position of president, bulletin editor and finally governor in the Southwest District, planted 15 to 20 trees in Udall Park with help from Kiwanians. The Kiwanians helped fundraise for the project in one sitting, raising over $800 for Yee and the district to complete planting all the trees. “Their generosity overwhelmed me,” Yee said. “One room full of people made it happen.” She added later that, “We touch lives to people,” with the Kiwanians’ help being a prime example.
Then
and Now St. Mary’s Food Bank
Food banks are popular for their impact and simplicity in executing, particularly for volunteers. However, did you know that the first food bank was in Arizona? The first food bank in the U.S. was St. Mary’s, established in 1967 in Arizona. The founder, John van Hengel, used to volunteer serving meals when he had the thought to do even more for his community, according to Blacklemag. com. He heard a mother at St. Vincent DePaul where he volunteered say that she went to soup kitchens and dumpsters to get their food. Hengel then went to his local parish, St. Mary’s Basilica, to see how he could give people more access to food. The parish offered startup funding and a building to operate from, and the concept took off.
Remember When... First club meeting
For some members, their first club meeting for CKI may be easily forgettable but for others it may hold much significance to their time in CKI today. Whether you love them or hate them, those weekly club meetings are important for getting to know other members, participate in ice breakers and discuss future and past service projects and socials that members have attended. In a member’s first meeting, they get to see the culture of their club in action and get to meet with other like-minded individuals who probably share and inspire similar ideas to them. There is only one first for everything, however, so hopefully yours was good.
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THIS MONTH IN
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The effort to collect supplies after WWII was dwindling but wi idea it became regulated in 1953 to help children overseas, using known orange boxes to collect money.
Since then, Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF has received over $175 millio children who called out, “Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF!” every year.
According to Monroe Allison, son of the founders, he and his wife “visit with Brooklyn for Peace to help children understand that there are kids th age growing up in dire poverty and in refugee camps who are just as smart a funny as they are. Kids who are fighting for survival every day. And all of us help.” In the end, Monroe Allison wrote, children “have the capacity and the heart and the desire to make a difference.”
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International Annals
In 1975, there were elections for a new Circle K International President and Gregory Faulkner of the New York District was elected to the new position. To date, Faulkner, a student at Baruch College, was the first and only African-American international president. Faulkner’s election was shortly after the decision to admit female members into CKI, which was “symbolic of the new level of maturity and responsibility Circle K International had assumed over 20 years of service, growth and development,” according to the district board book. aulkner received the 2010 Circle of Service award, “The highest honor that Circle K International bestows on an individual,” according to the Kiwanis New York District website. 2009 CKI International President Kristen Reed awarded it to him for his dedication to the NY District Kiwanis Committee on Circle K, “volunteering as a CKI International LeaderShape and Leadership Academy facilitator, for endless years in Kiwanis advocating for SLP projects and programs, and for serving the youth in the LaGuardia community.” Greg received his award and was pinned by Reed Aug. 7, 2010, at the 55nd Annual Circle K International Convention held at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑ The first club to be officially chartered outside of the United States and Canada was the College of the Bahamas on April 25, 1977. A fourth nation joined Circle K International on October 27, 1977, when Mico College of Jamaica was chartered. CKI extended into a fifth nation with the chartering of a Circle K Club at the University of Suriname, South America, which became part of the Eastern Canada and the Caribbean District of CKI.
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Partner Parables UNICEF: The ELIMINATE Project In 2010, Kiwanis international selected UNICEF to be its partner in a $110 million effort to eliminate neonatal tetanus (MNT) by 2015. Within two weeks of birth, MNT kills up to 90 percent of newborns with this disease, resulting in the loss of over 34,000 babies and a significant number of women; with the help of Kiwanis these numbers have already dropped. UNICEF Ambassador Téa Leoni announced the partnership and its goal on June 24, 2010 at Kiwanis International’s 95th annual convention in Las Vegas. The support allowed UNICEF to immunize over 129 million women who were at risk of contracting tetanus during labour and delivery, mobilizing nearly 600,000 Kiwanis volunteers to help raise resources and awareness about MNT as part of their mission to serve the world’s children. “Kiwanis believes that no baby or mother should have to suffer the devastating effects of MNT,”said Kiwanis International President Paul Palazzolo. On the Eliminate website, a post read, “We did it! We reached our fundraising goal, raising US $ 110 million in cash and pledges since 2010. However, our job is not done yet. Now, more than ever, we are determined to finish what we started. “Mothers and babies in 16 countries are depending on Kiwanis. They’re waiting for us to fulfill our pledges — so we can turn promises into funding; funding into vaccines; and vaccines into lives saved and futures protected.
The end of this disease means the beginning of better health for so many of these families.� Many countries have already eliminated this disease but less than 20 countries remain.
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So far behind Sunday
Do you remember what it feels like to be Wild for Service? Last year, members from across the Southwest District met together to enjoy two days full of service, fellowship and leadership at the Fall Rally held in Vanderwagen, N.M from Friday, Oct. 14 to Sunday, Oct. 16. The theme, Where the Wild Things Are, represents CKI’s passion for helping others through our volunteerism. Service events ranged from raking up leaves from the trees to painting the church and cleaning out the basement at Kamp Kiwanis. Members also got to do a trust fall, worked together to climb a wall and participate in a ropes course. This year, members will get to travel to Vanderwagen once again from Friday, Oct. 20 to Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017. The theme of this year is “Get a Clue,” which includes a murder mystery.
BLAST
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PAST
In celebration of past CKI service weeks, let’s harken back to one year, back in 2015, when we celebrated CKI Service week by wearing purple, donating books to Better World Books and supporting the March of Dimes’ efforts to create a safer world for infants. Subregion B worked focused on serving March of Dimes, which is a nonprofit organization that improves the health of mothers and babies by preventing premature birth, infant mortality and birth defects through fundraising, particularly by participating in March for Babies. The first day of Service Week, U of A CKI club held a book drive to donate books and help expand literacy to the world. Later that week, clubs wore purple to show their solidarity and support for March for Babies and its mission, posting photos on Facebook and sharing the word about all its efforts, even joining several March for Babies later in the month.
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Thank you for reading!