The Official Division 28 Newsletter / November 2012

Letter from Your LTG Causes to Love New District Editor selected!

COCIs Membership Dues District Contacts

Dear Division 28, How was November for you? Hopefully you survived the Thanksgiving festivities, and now it's time to brace ourselves for December. I want to thank you all for making the Mats for Uganda PCM a great success! To be honest, it'd been a while since I'd seen so many people not in Key Club doing Key Clubby things. It was rather surreal. And it was great going around and talking to all of you and catching up with what you guys were up to.

It's also amazing how resourceful you guys are. Two girls from Dobie High School took like two pounds of plastic bags from Kroger and brought them here, giving us plastic bags to last us the rest of our lives. (Even though the point was to use recycled bags so that it was still good for the environment and whatnot... but it's still impressive that you were able to pull something like that off!)

Recently, my camera has gone missing (oh nooo!), and my doodling skills are atrocious, so I wasn't able to include a picture of my recent visit to the lovely ladies of Ball High School ! I can say, though, that I got to munch on yummy cake and cookies and watch Madea's Witness Protection Program! Yayyy. I think this was the first movie I'd ever watched by Tyler Perry even though I'd heard a lot about him. One more way Key Club exposes you to diversity and new ideas, I guess, haha. The best part, of course, was seeing all the Ball High officers again and meeting the students of Ball High!

Stay amazing!

Nancy Huang

No idea what to do for a project? 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. 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.

Have you heard about Grace Liu yet? On November 16th, she was appointed by Brian O'Hara to be the new District Editor for the remainder of the 20122013 school year! She's already been doing a great

Check out the latest issue of

job, and even published the Tex-O-Key on time with

the Tex-O-Key, The Spirit of

just two weeks' time! And it turned out really, really well. I'm looking

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Key" in Google!

In the meantime, Grace (and any D-Editor, really) can only published the Tex-O-Key with articles written by you, the officers, the club members, etc.

Key Club would be nothing without the individuals making it up, and the Tex-O-Key would be nothing if no one submitted articles.

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Article submissions for the next publication are due

Let the district know what you've been up to! All the best ideas were stolen from somewhere ;)

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Easy points on your monthly report!

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Reflect on the month's activities and remind yourself that you're involved in service not just for the hours or for the credit, but because every little thing you do can make a much bigger impact if you choose to help others

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Bask in the glory of state-wide fame in Texas and Oklahoma

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Make sure you have a title, your club, and your name!

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Include a picture of relatively good quality. Should be clear and include diverse Key Clubbers having fun doing service. Grace might even include your picture on the front page of the Tex-O-Key!

1) What event have you attended that was made to help Children’s Miracle Network, March of Dimes, or Unicef?

2) How does your club make meetings interesting and fun?

3) Name some events that are great for starting off the new year! State when it starts, where it’s at, and what you do.

As of Saturday afternoon, this was my screenshot on the t-O website of the clubs who have successfully inputted their club officer contact information. Thank you so much to:

Here is a happy owl for your troubles.

Now, that' s less than 50% of the divisi on that I am on speaking terms with. Barbers Hill, Bay City, Robert E. Lee, La Marque, Pasadena, and Texas City, let's take our relationship to the next level! Or I'm going to be showing up at your doorsteps soon.

To submit your club officer contact information, log onto the district website with your information (which you can get again from Walt Roetter at secwr@stx.rr.com if you've misplaced it), go to the "Members Only" tab, click on "Update Club Officers", and put in all your officers' contact information!

Due to backlog in trying to get the new membership center up (we all love technology), a lot of clubs did not make the Early Bird Deadline of December 1st. If this includes you, do not fret! You are not alone.

Rebecca Riley reported that we are far behind last year's schedule in terms of number of paid clubs by this time of year because of technical issues with the new Membership Update Center. We're all in this together!

If you're having problems, tell me immediately! Describe your problem, and if you applicable, include a screenshot in an email so I can describe the problem to Walt or International better. A lot of the issues come errors in International's records, and trying to set up our MUC accounts have sort of made everything go crazy because of that.

1. Go to www.keyclub.org/MUC to access the Membership Update Center.

2. Click "Register/Reset Password."

3. You'll be prompted to enter an email address. If the faculty advisor who paid dues last year is still your faculty advisor, enter his email address. He should receive a confirmation email that provides him with a unique hyperlink which will allow him to set his own password to access the Membership Update Center.

4. If you have a new faculty advisor or your faculty advisor's email has been rejected, you need to email memberservices@kiwanis.org with a request to update your club's faculty advisor contact information before you can set yourself a password. Once your information is updated, then you should be able to go through the process detailed in Step 3.

- The ID numbers and passwords from last year are no longer being used to access the MUC. Instead, all clubs, new and old, must complete the process of setting a new personal password. Clubs will be able to use this password to access the Membership Update Center every year from here on out.

-Login privileges will also be provided to club secretaries whose email is on file with Kiwanis International. Once you long into the MUC, add a club secretary (and a corresponding email) to your list of club officers, and your club secretary should be able to long into the MUC using his/her email address and update records on behalf of your club using the club password.

- If officer information is updated immediately following elections, when a club still has regular contact with its outgoing officers, next year's secretaries don't encounter the same problems as this year's.

District Governor

Convention Liaison

governorbrianohara@gmail.com

roshni.chandwani.kc@gmail.com

District Treasurer

International Trustee

macislater@hotmail.com

kayla.lash@gmail.com

District Secretary

Regional Advisor

kevin.duongkc@yahoo.com

dblack71@comcast.com

14906 Bridle Bend Dr.

Email copies of secretary reports to me!

Houston TX 77084

Hardcopies of secretary reports go to me!

Division 28 Lt. Governor n.huang94@gmail.com

District Editor

Email copies of secretary reports to me!

graceliu@comcast.com

Feel free to ask me anything (:

Send me those Tex-O-Key articles!

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