January Newsletter Region 3 | Division 25S/31 | Volume 1 | Issue 7
Table of Contents Letter from your LtG pg. 3 Reminders and Updates pg. 4 February Task and Article Prompt pg. 5 DCON Info pg. 6 Contests And Awards Information pg. 9 Keep T-O Beautiful pg. 10 Preferred Charities pg. 11 Stay Connected pg. 12 District Contact Information pg. 13 Regional Contact Information pg. 14
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Letter From Your Lt.G I hope you guys have had a great basketball season so far, what is your school’s b-bsll rival? Stilwell’s is Roland. To those of you that run track, off season sucks but the payoff is worth it. We just have a couple months left until DCON, so you guys can start registering and getting your contest items set up! I want to encourage y’all to try to do at least one contest if you are planning to attend DCON, but more if you are able to. I want to hear about one big service project you are each working on, and your favprite that you have done this year.
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Reminders and Updates 1. I do still need cell phone numbers for each club advisor and contact information for each club’s officers as we are no longer using the COCI and I need to give your contact information to the District Secretary. 2. The MUC is open and both the District and International are accepting dues! http://keyclub.org/MUC is the link. You guys need to get your dues sent in so you can go to DCON!!! 3. Y’all I need pics and articles for the newsletter so that everyone can see what everyone else is doing and get ideas. 4. I want you guys to let me know what day of the week you would be able to have this month’s DCM, Tuesdays are the ony time I can’t this month. 5. Mingo Valley is the only club that is not currently suspended, so make sure to send in your dues everyone!!
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Article Prompt And Task of the Month 1. What is your club looking forward to accomplishing this month? 2. How will/does your club promote DCON? 3. What fundraising techniques is your club planning on doing to raise money for DCON? 4. Explain how Key Club can benefit you in the future. 5. Submit a Humans of Texas Oklahoma! How was your Key Club Experience and what is Key Club to you? Submit with a picture of you You are always free to write about any Key Club-related topic! The articles should each have at least 1 JPG photo and be sent as Microsoft Word documents. Have the author, school name, division, article title, and prompt/whatever topic you choose at the top of the document. Email February articles by March 5th to Editor@tokeyclub.com with the email subject: Division School February Articles.
Task of the Month None this month.
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DCON INFO!! ****DCON REGISTRATION IS CURRENTLY CLOSED**** 2019 DCON is set for April 25-28, 2019 IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT DCON You MUST have PAID ALL CLUB DUES. Otherwise you’re not considered an official club by International bylaws. Outstanding Officer/Advisor Awards must be turned in NO LATER than 2 WEEKS prior to DCON. Seating priority is assigned by the order in which Payment is RECEIVED. You must provide 1 chaperone per every 10 students per gender. Or work with another club to reach this requirement. You must book the hotel prior to registering. Best room rates are only available up to 3 weeks prior to convention, so make your reservations early! **HINT** If you don’t have enough students to pay the “Quad” prices, you can work with other clubs to share rooms. Scholarship Information can be found at www.tofoundation.com Should you have questions, please email DCON@tokeyclub.com or call Asst. District Administrator, Kelly Poland @ 405-923-0318.
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Contests And Awards Information
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Keep T-O Beautiful Keep T-O Beautiful is our District Project this year. It is focused on the environment and keeping it clean and beautiful! Oklahoma and Texas have incredible scenery and we need to work together to keep it that way. Example of our beautiful scenery
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Preferred Charities
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Stay Connected Keep the conversation going and stay up to date with all things Key Club by following our social media accounts. Tag us in your posts and news articles for a chance to be featured on our accounts. Don’t forget to use our official hashtags: #keyclub & #joinkeyclub
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District Contact Information
Governor Addi Duerkson governor@tokeyclub.com Secretary Bunsri Patel secretary@tokeyclub.com Treasurer Addie Flores treasurer@tokeyclub.com Editor Kyra Burke editor@tokeyclub.com Tech Assistant Aina Sebastian techassistant@tokeyclub.com Convention Liaison Nadia Rodriguez cl@tokeyclub.com District Website http://tokeyclub.com/ International Website https://www.keyclub.org/
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Regional Contact Information
Regional Advisor Angela Syverson region3@tokeyclub.com Lieutenant Governor 25N ltg25n@tokeyclub.com
Luke Baber
Lieutenant Governor 25W ltg25w@tokeyclub.com
Kathryn Aung
Lieutenant Governor 25S/31 Megan Hughes ltg25s@tokeyclub.com (918)507-1927
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