Issue 5, August 2012
A Letter from Your LTG
Goofiness at the Division 28 PCM
School's back in, and it's time to shake off the laziness of summer and get back to business. Invite me to your meetings -- if not the first one you have this year, then the second or third. Better yet, invite me to your service projects! I'd love to hang out and help out with everybody, and it's a much better way for me to get to know your club members. Fall Rally is coming up, ahhh! Get a taste of what Key Club is like for kids from the rest of Texas and Oklahoma, and sending members means your club gets a chance to win 1000 monthly reporting points at the Rally at 11am. Key Club Rallies at other districts are held in high schools and at local venues. So this is huge comparatively. If enough people don't sign up, the District won't be willing to do it again! So get as many members as you can to go! No matter how much you love Key Club, school and grades can get crazy, so don't hesitate to ask me if you need help with your Key Club affairs. Or for some help on your pre-cal homework. I still remember a lot from that class.
Key Club Love,
Nancy Huang
There are so many more people I'd like to feature on this section than I had space for. If you don't see your name this month, I'll definitely get you in my next publication! :)
I actually got to see a bunch of you this month! Hurray! Here a bunch of awards I made up to express how much I love you guys. Keep in touch and invite me to your meetings so I have stuff to write for this section every month! You can also send in suggestions for people by email and I'll put them on here too! The Evil Dictator Award Carlos Sotelo, Sam Rayburn For stepping up and making sure his club ran smoothly by taking over the club newsletter this month. And also for taking over all of his school's organizations. Very impressive and a little scary. The Sweetiepie Award. Bahar Zendehel, Ball High - For being sweet and enthusiastic and awesome every time I email/call/see her. You're the best, Bahar! <3 The Happy Owl Award. Heather Yang, Ball High - For always remembering to reply to my emails! After my PCM many of you have been actually responds, so thank you! My displeased owl face is no longer. The Validated Lieutenant Governor Award: Kellie Harris, Bay City - For making me feel special (and a old... haha) by calling me "Ma'am" when she first talked to me this summer. I just found that so adorable. The Non-Procrastinator Award. Angelo Rios, Robert E. Lee - THIS GIRL got her club's monthly report out before the due date! Before I made secretary calls! Just.. applause. The Division 28 Anti-Award Carlos Sotelo, again, for picking exactly the most embarrassing picture on Facebook of me possible for the Sam Rayburn club website. Why, Carlos.
That's all for this month.
Stuff to Keep in Mind
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[] Recruited new members out of this year's crop of freshmen [] Joined the Division 28 group on Facebook [] RSVP'd to the Fall Rally Event Page on Facebook [] Marked your calendar for the Fall Training Conference on September 22nd at Robert E. Lee High School. [] Ordered your boxes for Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF []Filled out the COCRFs on the District Website [] Sent in your application for the Youth Opportunity Fund (deadline October 15) [] Downloaded your club's Resource CD off the T-O website. [] Started planning for Key Club Week in November [] Started collecting dues to make the Early Bird Deadline (October 15) and get 100 extra reporting points
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Submitting dues to International (note: not the District Treasurer) for 15 members by November 1st will earn your club 100 points. That means you'll be that much closer to being in the Top 25 (to put that in perspective, a Top 25 club typically earns 500 points per month). Sending in dues is what keeps your club recognized by Key Club International! Don't risk probation or losing your charter! The minimum of dues for the T-O district is $12.50, but each club can charge up to $19 per member if they wish. The dues process can be a headache, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask me or District Treasurer Maci Slater at macislater@hotmail.com for help! If you've lost your password for the T-O website (tokeyclub.org), email District Admin Walt Roetter at secwr@stx.rr.com.
You legitimately want to do a good job in your officer position. Remember, Key Club is completely student-run, which means it's up to you to take responsibility for the success of your club. Nobody else is going to do it for you! Key Club is one old and humongous organization, which means running your club is going to take a bit of extra training to make sure you know what you're doing!
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You want to be the next Lieutenant Governor. Not gonna lie, Lieutenant Governors never want to give up their positions in
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April. Why? Because everything from the stress of planning events to working with an amazing board to getting to know everyone in your division is not something you ever want to end! Unfortunately, as this is my last year in high school, I have to decide on a successor in January or February. Think you're up for the job? There's a forum just for prospective LTGs! You want to hear a great speaker talk about community service. The Keynote speaker will be the Westview Director of
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Development John Moring, who has made service to Houston his career. You want to meet everyone else in the Division. Do you crave awkwardness? Well there'll be plenty of that in our
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icebreaker! You want to meet other members of the District Board. Ah, the District Board. I'm sure you've heard the whispers about
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Governor Brian O'Hara. Like how he's awesome and stuff? Yeah, it's true. And guess what? He'll be there. You're hungry. And there will be free lunch. And many snacking opportunities.
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You don't have any excuse not to. Because you really don't. Unless you talk to me about it beforehand (because you
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actually might :P). You love your Lieutenant Governor. Because I will be forlorn if you don't show up!
PCM/Social Recap After a haphazard game of Two Truths and a Lie ("Wait... you don't like blue, and that's the lie, so you don't not like blue... so that must mean... wait."), Ball, Sam Rayburn, and Sterling Key Clubbers got a quick divisional update and then watched Up while munching on ice cream cups. Everyone had lots of fun and experienced first-hand my penchant for tangents. Hopefully your club will attend next time!
Ball
Indeed.
Barbers Hill
Nope.
Bay City BCA Clear Lake
Mhm. Not yet. Yup.
GCM La Marque Pasadena Memorial
Not quite. No. No.
Lee Sam Rayburn
Yup. Yessir.
Sterling
Some, but not all. D: No, ma'am.
Texas City
Make sure you've given me a number for your club's attendance by September 15! I want representatives from every single school to come!
At the PCM I made a BIG deal about responding all my emails so that I know that you've read the updates I send you. Everything I send is in a pretty timely manner, so I ask all of you to at least skim through the message so you're not only reading an email about a thing you have to do in June by the middle of September. Many of you have been replying quite regularly now, so thank you all very much and keep it up! Communication is the key to running anything, and we're getting much better at it as a division.
Invite me to your club meetings, your socials, your whatevers. I want to meet you and your members and I don't mind giving you a runthrough of the stuff I talked about while I'm there! BE SURE to attend the upcoming Fall Training Conference (or get in touch with me to work something out if you really can't and your club can't send anybody). Officers MUST be trained to run their Key Clubs properly for the year.
Dear Sir or Madam...
You are cordially invited to the following district and divisional events. Your Lieutenant Governor will be attending all of them and they are all guaranteed to be brimming with fun, friendliness, and Key Club enthusiasm.
Division 28
Fall Training Fall Rally
Conference
September 29th, 2012
September 22nd, 2012
Six Flags Over Texas
Robert E. Lee High School
Come and go as you wish; Rally starts at 11am
1809 Market Street
Fee: $30 per member Send in your club's form by September 21st!
Baytown, TX 77520 Fee: Anything off the Children's Miracle Network list (this counts as participation in the Governor's Project!) RSVP by September 15!
District Convention April 3-7, 2013 Dallas, TX Fee: Estimated to be $130 per member, so start fundraising for your trip as soon as you can!
Need a ride? Let me know if you're planning on going to any of these events! Chances are other people in the division need one as well and we could set up a carpool or get a bus! That pumpkin is Cinderella's carriage, by the way. Didn't know if you'd catch that.
Causes to Love No idea what to do for a project this year? Here are some great causes your club can adopt alongside other clubs across the division and the district. Talk to me if you have any questions about doing any of these projects! I'm happy to answer anything.
The Didi Project Every year, autistic kids in Houston go to The Westview School, where these children can learn and actually make friends with their classmates. The problem is, Westview's tuition averages to $15,000 a year and almost all the families struggle to keep their kids' school bills paid for, on top of therapy classes, clubs, special diets, and medications -- all to help their children one day fit into normal society. Parents sacrifice a LOT for their autistic children, which is why I want to create a scholarship so that they have one less financial burden to worry about.
Here's Didi! Teaching my brother how to take webcam photos is harder than you'd think.
To fundraise for the Didi Project, your club can hold a bake sale, a walkathon, or just ask around for donations! You can award the clubber who raises the most money with a Skype session with Didi, the kid who started it all. The B.R.O. Project Participate in the Brothers Reaching Out project! Direct service and fundraising will drastically help the Children's Miracle Network (CMN), a network of hospitals that makes sure that children get the best healthcare they possibly can.
Project Eliminate Surely by now you have heard of the Eliminate Project! The TexasOklahoma District Project has now become a two-year district initiative! To meet Kiwanis' deadline of raising $110m by 2015, us Key Clubbers have to step it up to raise enough funds to wipe maternal and neonatal tetanus from the face of the earth.
Contacts
Brian O'Hara District Governor governorbrianohara@gmail.com
Maci Slater District Treasurer macislater@hotmail.com
Kevin Duong District Secretary kevin.duongkc@yahoo.com 14906 Bridle Bend Dr. Houston TX 77084 Hardcopies of secretary reports go to me!
Lindyn Davis District Editor davis.lindyn2013@gmail.com Send articles/pictures for the Tex-o-Key to me!
Roshni Chandwani Convention Liaison roshni.chandwani.kc@gmail.com
Walt Roetter District Administrator
secwr@stx.rr.com David Black Regional Advisor dblack71@comcast.com Email copies of secretary reports to me!
Nancy Huang Division 28 Lt. Governor n.huang94@gmail.com 281-779-9749 Call me maybe (:
Email copies of secretary reports to me!
Resources & district updates can be found on the new T-O District website Don't forget to check out the summer issue of the TexO-Key. Do you love your district? Then go like the T-O Facebook page Add me on Facebook! facebook.com/huangfuciu s Learn more about the BRO Project. Get lots of great Project Eliminate Resources. Get a Dropbox and download your Club Resource CD.