2014 May Staff Newsletter

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NEWSLETTER

2014 May STAFF

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CONTENTS

CONTRIBUTIONS

Cover Photo by Luke Broussard

03 Governor’s Report

FACT OF THE MONTH

04 Secretary’s Report

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

07 Treasurer’s Report

JOKE OF THE MONTH

08 Editor’s Report 10

CL’s Report

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Contact Page

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Why did the picture go to jail?

Answer on page 7!

find the VALUE in service

Kaitlyn’s Keynotes Finally Summer has arrived! You know what that means…SERVICE PROJECTS! Please notify your club officers that this is the best time to begin setting up the 2014-2015 Key Club year and service projects. This would be a great time for the clubs to begin the process of contacting the Children's Miracle Network!

June 5th, 2014

What do Lt. G’s need to do before Summer Board?

1. Create and email a Divisional Roaster to the District Staff due July 31st to all Staff emails.

2. If you have a DCON 2015 theme in mind?

Create a presentation to present your theme at Summer Board. Let me know so I can put you on the schedule.

1. All Monthly Reports must be postmarked 2. All Articles and Newsletters are due to secretary@tokeyclub.com and editor@tokeyclub.com

June 10th,2014 We will announce the new Committees and Committee Chairs

July 2-8th ,2014 ICON- You can find the amendments that will be voted on athttp://keyclub.org/fad/gov/brdmnts.aspx If you have questions please email me at governor@tokeyclub.com

Secretary Samuel’s “Keys” to Success Hey LTGs,

LTG Checklist:      

Encourage clubs to report Make sure to have clubs update COCI Get involved by joining T-O Secretary Page on Facebook Email resources to all clubs Make sure your info on the District Roster is correct Remind clubs to report

Congrats to the new Staff: Editor: Emily Zhao CL: Ashlyn Salvato Video Producer: Bobby Thakker Make sure to welcome them!

Congrats on your first month in your positions! I know each of you will do a fantastic job and serve your areas to the fullest of your ability. If you have any questions what so ever regarding the monthly report or anything at all I can help with please don’t hesitate to ask. Many clubs reported this month and I was so pleased to have as many reports as I did. My goal is to gain even more reports and get more clubs involved in reporting. If any of your clubs do not report try to get them involved. There are many resources and tools you can use, and once again if you need any help locating those please contact me. Keep up the good work!

Samuel Kinnin

Have you seen my contact info? If clubs need it make sure you distribute it to them

Recognitions

Top 5 Service Projects Kiwanis Hospital Dolls: Port Neches-Groves Key Club recently participated in a service project that included making Kiwanis Hospital Dolls for the children at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. The dolls are used to help doctors comfort and communicate with the children.

Children use them to express where their pain might be and to overall comfort them in their time of distress. By: Taylor Reasons Cinco Ranch Run for Cancer: Key Clubbers worked together with several other school organizations—including National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Science National Honor Society, and Future Business Leaders of America—to host a 5K run. Over 100 people donated money and participated in the event. All of the money was sent to the American Cancer Society. By: Christina Xu Special Olympics: At Cy-Fair High School, we have been working closely with Special Olympics, the world’s largest sports organization for children with intellectual disabilities. In our local community, there are a few dozen kids in this organization that participate in sports like softball, swimming, and track. Throughout the year, we attend their practices where we cheer the kids on and help them in any way possible. By: Naveen and Courtney Faith Based: Jenks faith based allows people to participate actively in their own faith, while receiving hours for service. Faith based emphasizes the importance of giving back to your community, by helping those in need. Faith Based Hours include babysitting children, cleaning up your temple or church,giving food to the homeless, and teaching kids your faith.

By: Kanjan Manohar SnackPack 4 Kids: Hereford filled 25 bags each week with food items to go in backpacks for elementary student up to high school students who do not have enough food to eat over the weekend and holidays- it is a lifesaver for many of these students. These kids are not hungry thus they can perform much better in school.

Shout out to 3N and Amy Jiang for 100% reporting for April! Keep up the good work!

Continued

Feedbacks I have sent out all the feedbacks to the LTGs and Regionals. Every month I will be sending the feedbacks of the clubs to you so you can see who is reporting and who is not within your division. I hope you enjoyed seeing them and if any clubs have any questions or need help you can tell them to ask me.

Do your clubs need help report? Do they want some tips?

Check out my Monthly Report Tutorial and make sure to distribute it!

The link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi87zUXhclA It is also on the website under Secretary Resources!

Also be on the lookout for more resources!

Task of the Month: I will be sending out a task of the month on the District Website for secretaries each month. The Task of the Month I will get out the week reports come in from the last month.

May Task of the Month: Please describe what plans you have or goals your club hopes to achieve in the next year for the Governor’s Project (Children’s Miracle Network).

Remind 101: I will use this to help remind secretaries about many things like reports being due or feedbacks being in. If you would like to also get info please subscribe. https://www.remind101.com/j oin/tosec

Be sure to remind clubs to update their club officer contact information on the District Website. Spread the word!

Keep up the good work!!!

Summer, summer, summer, summer, WOO! C’mon!

What time is it?

Summer time, it’s our vacation!

What time is it?

Key Club time, that’s right say it loud!

Congratulations everyone, we have all made it through another year of school. I hope you all will continue to gain knowledge over the summer and volunteer in your community. Remember that although your school year is over, your Key Club year is not.

So, keep up the good work and make some memories this summer!

Yours in Service, Colin Gonzalez Texas- Oklahoma District Treasurer Email: ColinGonzalez.KC@gmail.com

Youth Opportunity Fund EVERY CLUB SHOULD APPLY TO RECEIVE FREE MONEY! This grant provides funds for service opportunities which means free money for your club to do spectacular things with!

http://www.keyclub.org/service/fund/yof/ yofgrant.aspx

THE YEAR IS OVER! D -TREAS CHECKLIST: • • • • • • • •

VOLUNTEER YEAR ROUND Make plans for your summer months on how to stay active (do stuff with your clubs, even if its just the officers) Plan a rough accurate budget for the following year Have an idea of how and when your club BE PASSIONATE AND COMPASSIONATE HELP ONE ANOTHER BE ENTHUSIASTIC ENCOURAGE EVERYONE

EDITOR’S ❝

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A LETTER TO you FROM ME Good Day T-O District Board!

It’s Emily Zhao, the former LTG of Division 24N. But now, I’m the 2014-2015 District Editor.

Gosh, there’s so much to say and be thankful for, but in all, I’m definitely looking forward to a fantastic year with you all!

Feel free to run your newsletters by me for any suggestions and tips. I will be assigning articles to LTG’s every month, rather than every LTG submitting an article every month. However, feel free to write articles and submit them at will!

Always ask me if you ever have any questions or concerns about newsletters, Key Club, or life in general (I’ll try me best to help you with the latter but no promises).

I can’t wait to see all of your majestic faces at Summer Board!

Stay Awesome Ya’ll, Emily Zhao T-O District Editor

✁------------T-O District Editor Emily Zhao 512-284-3234 Editor@tokeyclub.com

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District Board Remind 101: Text @DistBoard to 512-982-9275

Editors Remind 101: Text @TOEd to 512-982-9275

EDITION ABOUT ME ❶ ❷ ❸ ❹ ❺

I am currently a sophomore at Cedar Park HS I have a refined taste for tomatoes I preserve a healthy obsession over purple Answer: It was framed!

Key Club is the bomb like yo diggity

GOALS ❶ ❷ ❸ ❹ ❺

Sustain a wider T-O audience for the Tex-O-Key Give feedback to each & every club newsletter Create publications that serve as helpful resources Aid LTGs as much as I can in their endeavors Have a fantastically successfully splendid year!

LTG CHECKLIST ☑ ☑ ☑ ☑ ☑ ☑

sign up for my District Board Remind 101 get editors to sign up for my Editors Remind 101 send me any Key Club photos with criteria on right send me your newsletter if you want feedback submit articles by the 5th of the month if assigned send me any Key Club-related photos

ARTICLE CRITERIA ❶ ❷ ❸ ❹ ❺

attached to email as word doc have LTG name & division article title & prompt or topic at top ≥1 high quality photo with caption due on 5th of following month

JUNE ARTICLES ❶ ❷ ❸ ❹ ❺

Alisa Prachan An Bui McCrey Guillory Tien Huynh Mason Woods

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Rachel Iselin Amy Jiang Matthew Riley Ivanna SotoMedrano

PHOTO CRITERIA ❶ photographer name(s) ❷ short description of activity(ies) in photo(s) ❸ article title & prompt or topic at top ❹ names of people in photos with ≤4 people

-------------------------Document Title & Email Subject Title: Division First Last Name Month Assignment ex: D99 Charles Darwin March Article ex: D62W Marquis de Lafayette Photos (no month needed for photos)

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ASHLYN SALVATO TEXAS-OKLAHOMA CONVENTION LIAISON

MAY 2014

TO- DO LIST: !. ADS

RIGHT NOW you can start selling ads!

You are REQUIRED to sell $500 dollars worth of ads, no excuses. This is a topic that will not be taken lightly. I except you all to meet the requirement and go beyond that.

2. Pitch a Theme If you have any idea at all of to what the DCON theme could be for next year, email Katie! The Staff wants you to pitch your theme idea to the Board so we can find the perfect theme.

2. Forums

HEY LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS! I hope each of you have enjoyed the beginning of a great summer. I am so excited to work closely with each of you because I already love you all. I wanted to express the fact that I’m available if you ever need anything at all! Saying that I’m excited to be Convention Liaison is an understatement, no

I will send out forum applications soon! If you have any suggestions to any possible forum topics let me know. I strongly encourage all of you to apply.

HMU

words can describe how I feel. Also, I want to apologize in

CONTACT INFO:

advance for all the emails and phones you’ll receive from me

Email: cl@tokeyclub.com

regarding ads, forums, etc. See you all in a couple of months!

Cell: 806-881-7486

ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN DAYS AWAY Just because DCON is far away, doesn’t mean it’s too early to start planning. Publicize constantly about DCON to your clubs. The Staff and I plan on making promotion videos asap so that you can show them early on to your Division. CC me in every mass email you send regarding District Convention.

CONTACT

T-O Treasurer

COLIN GONZALEZ

T-O Secretary

SAMUEL KINNIN

KAITLYN WILSON

T-O Governor

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(512) 284 - 3234

(214) 236 - 3271

(214) 236 - 3271

Governor@tokeyclub.com

Secretary@tokeyclub.com

Treasurer@tokeyclub.com

T-O Editor

T-O Convention Liaison

EMILY ZHAO

ASHLYN SALVATO

WALT ROETTER

T-O Administrator

(512) 284 - 3234

(806) 881 - 7486

(830) 733 - 0008

Editor@tokeyclub.com

CL@tokeyclub.com

Administrator@tokeyclub.com

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