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Randall Key Region 1 | Division 7/33
Volume 5 | Issue 1 | August 2020
Table of Contents Editor’s Note
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Photos
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General Assembly Meetings
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Riddle of the Month
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HOTO
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Upcoming Events
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September 2020
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Recruitment During Covid-19
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Photos
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Officers
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Partnerships
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Editor’s Note Howdy, Key Club!
Happy first six-weeks! This year is different and new with everything going on, but we’re all in this together and we’ll help others along the way. Have a good year, be sure to wear your mask, and keep it classy!
Your Editor, Katherine Fox
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As a community, we strive for togetherness, a place to belong and give to others. Throughout this year, however, our circumstances have changed and it is harder than ever before to collect our hearts and minds and serve others the way we are used to. At Randall High School, students are given the opportunity to participate in a period called Flex Time, where classrooms are open for tutorials, meetings, and free time. Clubs meet at this time of day on the regular, to talk about agendas and plan out future events. At Randall, the Division 7/33 Key Club takes this time to go over upcoming projects and bond as a team. Due to the ongoing threat of Coronavirus, the high school, along with many high schools across the nation, is changing the way we view Flex Time. Steven Singleton, Randall High School’s principal, has made the executive decision to reduce large gatherings on campus during this period of Flex. This means various clubs, such as Key Club, or Randall’s Chair Kicking Club, are no longer allowed to host meetings in their previous classrooms, as the population would be too high for the high school’s guidelines. Presidents and Sponsors of various clubs across campus have struggled to figure out a logical solution to hosting meetings. Google Meets, our trusted companion throughout quarantine, has become our safe haven once more for club meetings. As the club’s board met in a distanced manner, they discussed the best opportunity for the general meetings to take place. While flex time presented itself off-limits, the options of before and after school became more popular. Many of the participants of Key Club are involved in other activities around the school and community, such as band, choir, art, and UIL competitions. Many time options are available, yet have been filled by other events. In the Google Classroom, our President, Emily Klein, has posted a voting poll for which day of the week after school would work best for those planning on attending. Many have already voted, and the meetings will begin shortly once the voting ends. Each general assembly meeting will continue as a normal meeting would, with the agenda and the minutes all included just as though the participants were at the school. Key Club members will enjoy their meetings from the comfort of their own homes, and learn about the upcoming events from our sponsors and board members throughout the Google Meet. We are working hard to ensure that each member is accounted for, and that we spread the information to the students of Randall High well!
General Assembly Meetings BY: Katie Fox
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Riddle of the Month
Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: The dictionary. 5
Human Of Texas/Oklahoma
Emily Klein, RHS Key Club President
Dear Randall Key Club, My name is Emily Klein, and I am the President of the club. I am going to tell you about why I joined and why I continue to give my time and efforts to this club. I joined Key Club my freshman year of high school after I saw my friend’s older brothers at a Santa Meet and Greet where they told me that they were volunteering that night for the Key Club, and I was intrigued; why would two teenage boys spend their Saturday night helping children decorate pictures of Santa? I wanted to know what motivated them to do such a thing, so the first club I joined at my high school was Key Club, and I soon understood. Key Club is based on the idea of helping someone purely for the good of others, and that is the most important, selfless service that one can perform. As I served in different places throughout the years, whether at the local Ronald McDonald House, the Family Service Center, or Snak Pak 4 Kids, the common theme at all of them was the importance of selflessness. What a concept! They continue to remind me that I am working towards a goal that is larger than myself. This is the thing that has kept me in Key Club for the past four years, and it is why I will continue to serve others and perform community service in college and even later on in life. Personally, Key Club has helped me grow as a person, and it has taught me more about others and leadership than I would have ever expected. The characteristics of a good leader, as I am discovering, are not definite. Good leaders are found everywhere, with every type of personality, and with every variety of experience. Some leaders are admired and followed because of their reputation or achievements, others because of their humor and relatability, and others still due to their hard work and efforts. One thing that I find common in good leaders, however, is a dedication of themselves to the people they are leading and a mind of servitude. These two qualities ensure that leaders are going to do whatever is best for their people, not themselves or their personal goals. This is the message that Key Club teaches, and this, I believe, is why two teenage boys would spend their Saturday night helping children decorate pictures of Santa.
Photo by:Emily Klein
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Upcoming Events ● Monday, September 7, 2020 - Flag Pickup at 4pm ● Saturday, September 12, 2020 CMN Marathon ● Saturday, September 26-Friday, October 2,2020 - CMN Miracle Week
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Recruitment During Covid-19 BY: Katie Fox
Before the CoronaVirus hit Texas, along with the rest of America and the world, people could gather in large numbers and join new organizations any day they wanted. In Amarillo, Texas, students are back in school, and are searching for the place they belong in high school. Our campus is loaded with activities, but some new rules have been implemented to secure our students health and safety. Clubs are allowed to meet, but there must be no large gatherings, no mask breaks, and six foot distancing. These changes are odd to everyone attending any school, but especially to freshman in high school, who are already struggling with the ideas of finding a place to eat lunch, or who they have classes with, new course materials, and most importantly, figuring out where they fit in. Key Club, as most of you may know, is a wonderful solution to many of these problems! Recruitment for returning students and freshman has always been an important aspect to the beginning of the school year, and it continues to be. This year, however, recruitment has changed. For many years, Randall High School’s Key Club has relied on face to face interaction between incoming and returning students. They have achieved this by asking permission from teachers to speak to their classes, and spread vital information about the club, its purpose, and its mission. While the board members were still allowed this face to face opportunity, they had to comply with the guidelines in place, such as keeping their masks on while speaking, standing at least six feet away from the students they were speaking to, and straying away from handouts with information on them. In years past, the board members were allowed to hand papers with codes for things like Classroom and Remind on them, and this year, the members could not. Instead, the board created a digital flyer highlighting the topics they spoke about, and emailed it to each teacher they gained permission from. This way, the flyer could be emailed to students and the passing of germs through paper could be eliminated. Another opportunity for recruitment has been through posters hanging around the school. The club’s generous sponsors have printed and laminated various posters to hang around each building of the school with the information needed to join, and the outcome has been great, with many new members signing up to join. The Key Club of Randall continues to collect more students to participate in service!
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Meet Your Officers! President: Emily Klein, (806) 290-7474 Vice President: Leila Tharp, (281) 546-7656 Membership Secretary: Maci Kyle, (806) 236-3963 Recording Secretary: Kaeleigh Miller, (910) 358-4661 Parliamentarian: Zane Perry, (806) 231-6881 Editor: Katherine Fox, (817) 739-3106 Historian: Niki Borron, (806) 673-1651
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Partnerships
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