The Southpaw | "Summer Sunset"

The Official Monthly Newsletter of Division 3S of the TexasOklahoma Key Club District from your Lt. Governor, Graciela Bachu.

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SOUTHPAW

AUGUST 30TH, 2020 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4 "SUMMER SUNSET"

Going the Distance

Texas-Oklahoma Region: 12, Division: 3s

Summer Sunset

The Official Monthly Newsletter of Division 3S of the TexasOklahoma Key Club District from your Lt. Governor, Graciela Bachu.

The

SOUTHPAW

AUGUST 30TH, 2020 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4 "SUMMER SUNSET"

Going the Distance

Monthly Message Hey Division Three South!

Hope you had an awesome August. I know I did!

The title of this issue is "Summer Sunset." You may be wondering why. Well, the sun is setting on our summer. The end of summer is approaching and, for the most part, kids across our District are already in school.

Highlights of Issue 4 Monthly Message - Page 1

However, that doesn't mean we have to be sad (although we may feel the urge to). The end of one chapter is always the beginning of another. So, even though this summer didn't go the way most of us planned, we can look forward to serving with Key Club throughout the year and, hopefully, attending the Convention at the end of the year.

Keeping Up With K-Fam - Page 4

International Updates - Page 7

District Updates - Page 9

Look Out For - Page 12

That being said, this will most likely be my last summerthemed newsletter. So, expect to see some changes next month. Again, that doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing, just a new one. In conclusion, going into this year, try to keep an open mind. Just because something is new, uncertain, or unexpected doesn't mean it's bad: just different. Stay safe!

Good luck with school!

- Graciela

Divisional Updates - Page 13

Divisional Project - Page 15

Club Tasks - Page 17

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The

ISSUE GUIDE Going the Distance

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO NAVIGATE THIS ISSUE

General

Keep Recent Additions!

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Keeping Up With K-Fam

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The K-Family

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Look Out For

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Divisional Project

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Monthly Message + Highlights

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Table of Contents

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Key Club 101

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The K-Family

Moving Updates

Forward Supplemental Information 19

Major Emphasis

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Service PartnersÂ

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Get in Touch

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Keeping Up With K-Fam

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International Updates

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District Updates

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Regional Updates

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Divisional Updates

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Club Tasks

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KEY CLUB 101 Mission Statement

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||||||||| Key Club is an international, ||||||||| student-led organization that ||||||||| provides its members with ||||||||| opportunities to provide service, ||||||||| build character and develop

Core Values

||||||||| leadership.

Leadership: Leadership is grounded in humility and service to others. A true leader listens, recognizes, and empowers.

Club

Character building: Character is built by everyday acts of kindness, integrity and teamwork to grow stronger relationships and communities.

Caring: Compassion for others is a cornerstone of the Key Club experience, inspiring action and service to one’s community.

Inclusiveness: We welcome people of all backgrounds

Pledge

and ethnicities to join in serving and making a positive

||||||||| I pledge, on my honor,to uphold the

difference in our world.

||||||||| Objects of Key Club International;to

In Websites ||||||||| Texas-Oklahoma Key Club: ||||||||| tokeyclub.com ||||||||| Key Club International: ||||||||| keyclub.org

||||||||| build my home, school and ||||||||| community;to serve my nation and ||||||||| world;and combat all forces which ||||||||| tend to undermine these institutions.

Quarters

KEEPING UP WITH K-FAM Kiwanis Coloring Book Project #2 The Kiwanis Membership Team is working on putting together a book on Heroes to be distributed to Elementary Students. It is a chance for students to think about the heroes during this pandemic and to also draw who their hero is for a surprise. I am reaching out to you all as I used some of your drawings in the first coloring book. We would really like to submit this book to Kiwanis Children's Fund for a grant but first, it has to be finished. I would like to ask that you consider submitting one of these pictures.

This is all we have left to finish!!

Remember these are for 3rd grade and below so big pictures and easy to color.

Please send it directly to susan.hennum@hotmail.com.

Consider these first: Fireman Teacher Police Officer & K9 Doctor Grocery Store Clerk Janitor 4

THE K-FAMILY

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INTERNATIONAL UPDATES

A Message & Announcements from KCI

Welcome to the new school year and a new year of service leadership! You know, tips for making your club thrive, ideas for successful service projec schedule. Got an idea for something you’d like to see? Tell us at shareyours Welcome Back, Key Club!

A message to Key Club International members and advisors from newly elected International President Alex Drahos.

Ready, Set, Recruit!

A new school year means a chance for new members.

Try these tips for attracting fresh faces to your meetings, whether you're at home or in person.

Virtual Club Meeting Agendas Clubs meeting virtually will have resources that advisors and club members can use to conduct productive and fun virtual meetings.

Videos, activities and discussion points will be provided. Virtual club meeting agendas will be available in September 2020. Watch for additional announcements in future newsletters.

Membership Experience Survey Members, officers and advisors: Your input is important to us! Complete this survey to help Key Club International build our 2021-25 strategic plan.

MESSAGE

u’ll receive this e-publication twice every month — with news you need to cts and suggestions for keeping yourself sane while navigating your busy story@kiwanis.org. (Announcements found Below) Important Dates SEPTEMBER 2020 1 - Youth Opportunities Fund grant application Opens (due 10/15) OCTOBER 2020 5-9 - Kiwanis Youth Protection Week 15 - Youth Opportunities Fund grant application closes at 11:59 p.m. EDT. 24 - Kiwanis One Day NOVEMBER 2020 2-6 - Key Club Week 17 - National Prematurity Awareness Day 30 - Dues Payment due to Kiwanis

Serve With Our Partners Virtually Wouldn’t it be great if you could gain medical experience and community service hours from your home? We're excited to introduce you to Global Health TeleSquads, the first international, virtual experientiallearning and volunteer program for high school student groups. Reach out to erik@squadsabroad.org for scholarship and itinerary info! Learn More.

Lunch With A Leader Did you miss the new Key Club International president and vice president?

We’ve got you covered! Meet Alex Drahos and Caroline Bushnell. Learn more about them — and their vision for Key Club. Click 8 Here!

DISTRICT UPDATES

Officer Trainings

New Logo!

With everything going on this year, our dedicated District Staff decided to hold multiple DistrictWide Officer Trainings.

Secretary Training: 8/15 Editor Training: 8/15 Webmaster Training: 8/29 Secretary + Webmaster: 9/5 Upcoming At 9 AM

Our District has a new logo!

From now on, use this logo in the place of the previous T-O Logo. It can be used in newsletters, but is not a requirement. District Tech Producer Alina Dam has also offered to customize the logo text for specific club or division use. Details are in an email I forwarded with the subject "New Texas-Oklahoma Key Club Logo Files."

The training recordings are available on this youtube page. I highly encourage y'all to attend the upcoming training and look out for more on the T-O Insta.

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Nice Job T-O!

The District Newsletter: Tex-O-Key

District Board Message

Our District Editor, Katelyn Tran, publishes our District Newsletter: The Tex-O-Key. The Newsletter is an excellent source of District updates beyond these and inspiration for your club newsletters. The links to this publication and the T-O Issuu page are provided below.

Good morning y’all! We are so excited to introduce our new Pen-Pal Program. This was formed through a partnership with Governor Kareena Patel and the Membership Committee! For more info visit the link below.

July & August Tex-O-Key T-O District Issuu Page Look out for more publications in the future!

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T-O District's Pen Pal Page Go check it out! See if you want to participate.

District Opportunity!

REGIONAL UPDATES Top Tips for this Section What is a Region?

A Region is Comprised of Multiple Divisions. Our Region is Comprised of 3C 3W 3E 3N 3S (Us!) 9E 9W

Remember This?

This was the Region 12's 2019 Regional Training Conference Promotional Poster. Towards the beginning of the school year, we'll have one too. Be on the lookout for an announcement!

Our SumBo Regional Meeting Discussion Centered on a Virtual RTC. More Info Soon!

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RTC = Regional Training Conference All Day Event Serves as a Formal Meeting for Different Divisions and Clubs in our Region.

We Train New Officers and Have Tons of Fun in our Forums led by Your Region 12 Lt. Govs.

Learn About Key Club Intl.

More RTC Info Coming

LOOK OUT FOR

Website Club Info Form At my DCM, I showed the attendees a part of the divisional website that hasn't been completed yet. You can view that section is called, "Get to Know The Clubs in Our Division."

In essence, the section would serve as a hub for inter-club collaboration. The section will have one email/contact for each club and a picture.

Top Tips for this Section My hope is that, this way, club officers will be able to contact each other for any cooperative service projects they may want to work on.

I'll be sending out a google form to collect this information some time soon. I'll aim to update the site with this information by the end of the month as well.

Look Out for An Email

DIVISIONAL UPDATES

August DCM Recap We had a great turnout for our Fourth DCM held on Saturday, August 8th. Here are some things for those who couldn't make it!

Meeting Resources: Minutes Presentation Recording Part One Recording Part Two Presidents! Have officers who were unable to attend go through these resources!

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Club Resources Folder

I got a lot of useful presentations, images, and other resources from the staff and the rest of the board at SumBo. So, I compiled these resources into a public Google Folder for y'all to use. Again, there are other helpful resources on the District & KCI Website as well, but these are a few from the Summer Board Meeting. Let me know if you have any questions about any of the info presented!

Click Here for the Folder!

CLUB

CALLS September DCM

Club Calls

This month, we're going to have our DCM relatively early to give y'all enough time to use the resources provided and prepare for the upcoming school year. I've got a fun icebreaker game planned too!

In the past week, I had individual club calls. These calls were held for me to relay information and talk with each club about their unique situations this year. I recently sent out the agenda in an email and I'll also link it here.

General Information: Date: Saturday, Sept. 5th, Time: 4:00 PM Joining Info: Sent In Email Aim to Have Your Entire Board In Attendance!

Agenda Link Thank you to everyone who attended! I really enjoyed being able to talk with everyone.

They Were Great!

DIVISIONAL PROJECT

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CLUB TASKS

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General

Since we've been doing pretty good so far, I've decided to organize this month's club tasks as "keeps."

Keep Up

Keep

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Resolve Any Issues Still On The Table From Previous Month’s Tasks Including But Not Limited To (1) All Officers On Remind 101 & (2) Email Me Your 2 LTG Reps

Keep In The Know 1

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Go Through: August DCM Recap If You Missed It

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Read: Newsletters

Up

Keep Serving 1

Keep Showing Up! 1

Keep Coming to DCMs & PCMs

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Giving Your All!

Participate in Our Divisional Project: Service Doesn’t Stop

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Group One & Group Two

Group Two Clubs Should Focus On Member Retainment & the Process of Virtualizing Club Meetings

Group Two

Group Two: For the Rest of August Begin the Process of Virtualizing Your Meetings 1

Inform Advisor

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Reach Out with 2019-2020 Platforms

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Provide Virtual Service Events Early

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Focus on Member Retainment

Group Two: For the Month of September 1

Secretaries: Submit Monthly Reports!

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Treasurers: Learn How to Access the MUC & Pay Dues

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Editors: Submit a Monthly Newsletter and CC Me!

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Webmasters: Fill Out Club Web Presence Form By 30th

Group One Clubs Should 1

Set Up Individual Meetings With Me

Group One

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MAJOR EMPHASIS

The Thirst Project Thirst Project is a nonprofit organization that works with the support of young people to END the global water crisis by building freshwater wells in developing communities that need safe, clean drinking water. Why Water? By providing a community with safe drinking water, disease rates can drop by up to 88% virtually overnight! Child mortality rates can drop up to 90%- overnight!

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SERVICE PARTNERS

Members work together by sponsoring fundraising events and conducting service projects at their local children's hospitals. Contact your local CMN hospital and invite a representative to a club meeting to share ideas and create a partnership.

Since the 1940s, Key Clubs have worked with March of Dimes to make a positive impact in the lives of babies everywhere. Today, Kiwanis members continue that culture of service by supporting the March of Dimes all year long by hosting service projects, raising funds and educating communities about the crisis of preterm birth.

UNICEF is the only organization of the United Nations dedicated exclusively to children.

Working with other United Nations bodies, governments and nongovernmental organizations, UNICEF helps to provide for children’s needs in more than 150 developing countries through community-based services in primary health care, basic education and safe water and sanitation.

GET IN TOUCH

GRACIELA BACHU

Position: Lieutenant Governor Email: ltg3s@tokeyclub.com JUDY POMORSKI

Position: Regional Advisor Email: region12@tokeyclub.com SHANE MILLER

Position: Regional Advisor Email: region12assistant@tokeyclub.com

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Elkins High School

R e p r e s e n int g

Austin High School

Kempner High School

Clements High School

Hightower High School @tokeyclub3s

Ridge Point High School

John Foster Dulles High School

Thurgood Marshall High School

Harmony School of Innovation (SL)