PASCHAL KEY CLUB April 2016 Newsletter
Texas Oklahoma Key Club District 1 South
What’s Inside
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Upcoming Events ……………………………………3 Le8er from the president ……………………….4 Meet the 2016-2017 Board ………….……..5-6 All About DCON …………………………………..7-9 Weekly Key Club Events ………………………..10 George C Clark Fun! …………………………….11 Contact InformaUon ………………………………12
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Big Events
Key Club Car Wash FundraiserSaturday May 14th 11-2 @PHS Trash Bash- Saturday May 21st 8:30-10am
Socials
New Board Initiation Dinner- Tuesday May 17th Shaw’s Patio Bar and Grille1051 W Magnolia Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76104 See ya seniors! Farewell party- Saturday May 28th Location and time TBD
Weekly Shenanigans
George C. Clark Book Shelving- Tuesdays 4-5 Braille Bibles- Wednesdays 4-5 Agape Feeding the Homeless- Thursdays 5:30-7:30 Recycling Club- Mondays and Wednesdays 4-5
In case you missed it… OUR CLUB IS NUMBER 16 IN TEXAS OKLAHOMA!!! That’s out of almost 400 clubs- keep up the good work guys!
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Letter From The President Hey Guys! I’m excited to serve as your new President for Key Club year 2016-17. First of all, thanks to those who came to the first service project, George C. Clarke Fine Arts Night! Although there are AP tests this week, don’t forget we still have service projects coming up and more exciting socials as well! Stay tuned to Emails and Facebook pages for updates! Let’s keep up the good work and continue to serve! Good Luck on your AP tests ☺ Yours in service, Diana Lee
Letter From The Editor Hey Guys! I hope your all surviving AP weeks! I’m so incredibly happy to be serving as y’all’s editor this year, and I promise to strive to improve each and every month. Additionally, I want this club to be always open for ideas for fun activities/ improvements, so if y’all have any ideas at all for socials, service projects, recruitment, text me anytime! Thanks guys! Sincerely, Sydney Smith
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A Quick “SnapShot” of your 2016-2017 Key Club Board! President- Diana Lee
Hello, My Name is Diana Lee and I am your new Key Club President for 2016-17 year. I have been in Key Club for past 3 years and at first I joined because my brother introduced me to it, then gradually I fell in love with Key Club and I love serving my community with other key clubbers. My favorite Service Project has to be the Trash Bash because a lot of people come to this event and we get a lot done. I get to meet many members and get to know them. This year as the president, I hope to increase the participation rate for service projects and general meeting as well. I hope we make top 10, but most importantly, I want to encourage others to join Key Club and let them know about amazing things we do. People should join Key Club because everyone in Key Club is like a big family, we volunteer together to better our community and we have very exciting socials as well! Outside of Key Club, I’m also in PHS Orchestra. I can’t wait for another amazing year with PHS Key Clubbers ☺
Vice President- Sujata Dalal Hi Key Clubbers! I enjoy long walks on the beach, scuba diving, and wearing socks with sandals. I joined this awesome organization my sophomore year at the insistence of a good friend and a great Key Club president. I do not regret this decision at all, in fact if I could go back I’d join my freshman year. By far my favorite service project is the Trinity Trash Bash, which everyone should attend next school year. As Vice President I hope to encourage and help all our board members accomplish their goals and also make top 25! Outside of Key Club I am involved in Whiz Quiz, JSA, Science club, and Penta club. Remember Young Metro doesn't trust you if you aren't in Key Club, so join!
Treasurer- Reid Yanney Hi Key Clubbers, my name is Reid Yanney and I am proud to say that I will be serving as your Treasurer for the 2016-2017 year. I enjoy playing with hand puppets, late night phone calls, and taxidermy. I joined Key Club day 1 my Freshman year, because both my older brothers were active members during their high school careers. I was a little nervous my first few meetings but I soon came to love Key Club and the people in it. Key Club is the perfect fusion of fun and community service and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who looking for a club to join or just to make a few more friends. My junior year I was Club Secretary and really learned the ins and outs of Key Club and how we function on the Club and District level. I hope to continue contributing to the club this year by planning fundraisers and raising money for the club in order to better serve the community.
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Secretary- Morgan Dehoyos I've been in Key Club for two years! Next year will be my third year. I joined because a large group of my friends were raving on and on about what service projects they were doing that weekend or a social they had just went to. It sounded not only like a great way to get more involved in the community, but also a great way to have fun and meet new people. My favorite service project is anything where I get to directly interact with people I am helping so I love service projects like Ronald McDonald House and Sundance Square with Santa. I hope to accomplish outstanding reports that are full of everything necessary to qualify as a successful report, in addition to gaining points for Paschal Key Club in anyway I can as Secretary. Outside of key club I am involved in Junior Statesman of America, a politics and debate club and National Honors Society. Everyone should join Key Club because it is a phenomenal opportunity to meet wonderful people and get involved in parts of your community that you never even knew existed. Volunteering leaves you feeling like you made an impact on the place you live in and everyone should experience that feeling at least once in their high school career. I look forward to serving as your secretary for the 2016-2017 school year! I hope to see everyone at all the meetings and service projects!
Editor- Sydney Smith I’ve been in Key club for two years now, when a really good friend told me joining was one of the best decisions I would make. Outside of key club I do musical theatre as well as volunteer at cooks children’s (look forward to a ton of service projects there this year ☺). I love volunteering at key club because I love to see the looks on peoples faces when they see us taking an active part in our community. I love making new friends (seriously feel free to hmu I like coffee a lot we can go) and I have serious attachment issues with a number of TV characters. If you’re around me for more than 10 seconds chances are I’ll start singing without even realizing but that’s okay. I think everyone should join key club because I’ve made so many new friends in this club and volunteering is something we all could stand to do a little bit more ☺
2016 DISTRICT CONVENTION
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My DCON Experience BY Henry Alvarez
The 2016 Texas-Oklahoma district convention was so much fun! There was so much to do, and every day was entertaining with my friends, old and new. Even though I was on crutches, I still had tons of fun! My roommates and I went to the required forums on Friday, dreading it at first, but they were actually really entertaining and informative. Even though we were only required to go to 3 forums, we ended up going to 5 because they were really exciting actually. We went to the “Diffuse the Bomb” forum on Friday morning and it was really fun watching everyone run around playing catch and running in circles. The other forums were fun as well, at one point we got to play Rock, Paper, Scissors, turning from eggs to chickens to dinosaurs. I got to meet a ton of people from other districts all around Texas and Oklahoma, and even bond with people in my own club that I didn’t know that well before. We all had fun hanging out around the pool and going to forums together.
Oh, and the food was GOOD. The opening ceremony was entertaining also, the guest speaker was great and made us all laugh really hard. The closing banquet was also very fun! We got to eat good food while hearing people’s speeches for the contest, and we even got to listen to a lot of talented people sing. And when we won 16th club in the Texas-Oklahoma district we all jumped up and cheered really loud and all gave each other high fives because it’s the highest rating our club has ever gotten. I’m pretty sure we were actually louder than the club that won first place! The Governor’s ball after the closing ceremonies was also a blast. Even though I was on crutches, I didn’t feel out of place because I still got to dance with a ton of people and the music was really good. I would really recommend that you go next year, because you form amazing friendships with really cool people from all over Texas Oklahoma, and all bond over your common love of service and community! I absolutely loved District Convention 2016 and I’m so glad I got to be a part of such an amazing club my senior year in high school. I recommend that everyone join Key Club at Paschal and go to District Convention next year!
DCON Photo Gallery 8
From Le^ to Right: Senior Key Club Members Andrea Rios, Page Tro8er, Moni Gunderson, Chloe Underwood
“Crunk Circle” a^er the closing ceremonies on Saturday
Quick selfie before closing ceremonies (le^)
Members Diana Lee and Sujata Dalal at the Friday forums (right)
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Thank You to everyone who contributed in making 2016 DCON the best year yet!
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Y L K E E W NTS E V E The Best Service Projects By Sujata Dalal Paschal high school D1S
Even though big events that our club parUcipates in are very fun, the best service projects in my opinion are the weekly service projects our club does! It is a great way for our members to get involved in the community every week and make new friends, while earning a lot of hours. My favorite weekly events are Braille Bibles and Agape (feeding the homeless). At braille bibles we go to Saint Lutherans Church and print chapters of the bible in braille wriUng so that it is more accessible to people who are blind.
It’s really fun when a lot of people go because we turn on music and try to see how fast we can print the chapters. Our record for a book of Psalms is 4 minutes and 28 seconds! That’s for over 90 pages! My other favorite weekly project that we do is called Agape. It is where the homeless and less fortunate people of downtown Fort Worth can come to Broadway BapUst church and get a free hot meal and get to talk and sit together as a community. Our job is to serve all of the tables, such as refilling drinks or taking out deserts or cleaning up all of the plates. It’s really amazing to be a part of because these are people who struggle so much every day and I’m so fortunate to have so much, and now I have the chance to help them directly. It’s really cool to see what a bit of kindness and community mean to the people who a8end the events. Then we all get to sing songs together. I’ve met a countless number of people and got to hear their stories and hopefully I make their Thursday nights a li8le be8er. Other weekly projects include shelving books at George C. Clark Elementary School. It’s really fun because a lot of members in key club went to that elementary school, and now they have a chance to give back. So I really like the big or annual projects we do, but I think what represents our key club is the li8le acts of kindness that we get to do every single week. They give us the chance to impact the community directly, and I think they truly make the biggest difference. A^er all, as the DCON speaker Houston Kra^ said, “The biggest difference can come from the li8le acts of kindness we do every day.”
Answer to joke- Because they hate fast food!!!
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George C. Clark Elementary
Fine Arts Night By Diana Lee Paschal High School Division 1S
On April 28, 2016, Paschal Key clubbers and the National Honors Society students went to George C. Clarke to help set up, run, and clean up the stations for George C. Clarke Fine Arts Night. When we arrived, around 10 key clubbers separated into groups of 2 or 1 and were assigned to variety of stations. In one room, Reid Yanney and Sujata Dalal helped to set up station to show the students how to make crazy hats. In Cafeteria, there were variety of stations, making whale or turtle out of egg cartons, making figures out of pipe cleaners, coloring on paper, making collage, and so much more. Few students from Paschal High School played guitars and sang a song. I was assigned to show children how to make whale and turtle out of egg carton at first and I was excited because I personally love art and I have heard that art helps to maintain good mental health! It was pretty neat looking at all these kids eager to make an artwork out of simple things. Although it was pretty hard to glue the stuff together, the students tried their best with tape and glue that they had and they were happy with their result.
Also, I could see what their personalities were based on how they decorated their base to put the turtles and whales on because everyone used different colors to present their creativity. Later on, few members had to leave early so I had to go over to pipe cleaner station and met other sweet children. One student caught my attention because he took the entire time trying to make one dinosaur. It actually surprised me because I didn’t think students will be very eager in this event, but everyone tried their best and they were so eager to go to the next station with their parents. Making Crazy Hats was definitely one of the most popular station during the Fine Arts Night. Although I didn’t know how to make figures out of pipe cleaners, as a group, we helped each other and finally figured out how to make carrots, key chains, flowers, and keys. Now we can say that Key Club actually makes keys! I was so glad that many people volunteered to go to Fine Arts Night because it was my first big service project serving as the new president of key club and I was really worried that nobody will show up, but this event turned out to be one of my favorite service projects of the year! Many students told me that this event happens yearly so I cannot wait to volunteer there again next year and meet another enthusiastic artist!
Contact Information Paschal Board Diana Lee- Paschal President 817-694-5124 Paschalkeyclubpresident@gmail.com Sujata Dalal- Paschal Vice President 817-313-0445 Paschalkeyvicepresident@gmail.com Morgan Dehoyos- Paschal Secretary 682-551-5175 Paschalkeysecretary@gmail.com
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Texas Oklahoma Board Dianna Cardenas- Governor governor@tokeyclub.com Kennie Merbach- Secretary secretary@tokeyclub.com Nithure Rema- LTG D1S ltg1south@gmail.com
Reid Yanney- Paschal Treasurer 682-597-9197 Paschalkeytreasurer@gmail.com Sydney Smith- Paschal Editor 817-980-7654 Paschalkeyeditor@gmail.com Sign up for Remind101 for updates of all projects! Text @paschalk to 817-803-5967 Want to see more? Follow us on Instagram and Facebook- @Paschalkeyclub