Midwood High School Key Club Volume 1. Issue #1
Table of Contents Key Club Mission and Pledge Lieutenant Governor’s Greeting Meet your Cabinet President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Assistant Treasurer Webmaster Editor The Secret Life of Pets Fundraiser Bowery Mission Soup Kitchen Event Africa Project Fun Facts about the Cabinet! Upcoming Events
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KEY CLUB PLEDGE
KEY CLUB MISSION
I pledge, on my honor, to uphold the objects of Key Club International; to build my home, school and community; to serve my nation and God; and to combat all forces which tend to undermine these institutions.
Key Club is an international student-led organization which provides its members with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership.
Lieutenant Governor's Greeting Greetings Midwood Key Club, My name is Raymond Liao and I am honored to formally introduce myself as the Lieutenant Governor of Division 9 for the 2016-2017 service year. I am even more so ecstatic to be featured in the newsletter of my home club! It is my belief that Key Club is more than just a school club. Key Club builds character, gives members the opportunity to acquire leadership skills, and members get to meet fellow Key Clubbers with the shared passion and dedication for service. I encourage you all to participate in a divisional event to learn what we are all about! I can't wait to meet you all whether it be Midwood club meetings or divisional meetings and I hope to have a great service year with you all! Yours In Service, Raymond Liao Lieutenant Governor
Let’s meet your 2016-2017 Board!
Josephine Leung: President
Birthdate: May 11, 2000 Height: 5’4 Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown Favorite Color: Lavender Favorite Food: Chicken Nuggets Passion: I love exploring and trying new things. For instance, talking long walks with great friends after trying a new cuisine. I enjoy making others happy because I love hearing their laughs.
Hey Key Clubbers! My name is Josephine Leung and I will be serving as your Club President for the 2016-2017 service year. My board and I have many new events, projects and fundraisers planned for this year. We are introducing new committees to help improve the club by allowing members to be more involved. We are extremely excited to work with all of you. For the past two months, you guys have made me so proud to see your passion for serving others. Whether it was walking at the March of Dimes, cleaning local streets or packing boxes with Mr. Grashow, I’m extremely amazed by all of your dedication. I can’t wait to continue making memories with all of you at future meetings, events and fundraisers. Let’s make this the most memorable service year.
Flora Tsui: Vice President
Hello Key Clubbers! My name is Flora Tsui and I currently attend Midwood High School as a freshman. I was born on April 9th, 2001 and my zodiac is aries. I'm on the short side of height of 5 feet but I make it up with passion. My eye color is a dark brown however you can't miss me with my blonde hair at the moment. I use to be a fiery red head if you've seen me a while back, and I am still the overwhelming enthusiastic girl you met for 2 seconds.
I will be the Vice President of Midwood High School's Key Club of the service year 2016-2017. One of my top favorite things to do is volunteering, it makes me feel like I'm doing a change in the world one life at a time. My goals for this service year is to make a change in a world starting with our club by improving activeness of members through hard encouragement and a strong engage. I hope by the end of the service year I can help my peers realize what key club really is.
Tiffany Yong: Secretary
DOB:8/28/00 Height: 5’2 Hair Color: Dark Brown Eye Color: Dark Brown Favorite color: Purple Hello fellow Key Clubbers! My name is Tiffany Yong and I am your secretary for the 2016-2017 service year. This year, I am hoping to be able to do more for the club with my board members.
We have many ideas in mind and things planned for the year and there are more to come. One of our many goals is to get more members involved in events such as cleanups, fundraisers, walks and etc. We want our members to be more active and understand what Key Club really is. When I first joined Key Club, I never knew it would be as important to me as it is now. As I learned more about it and got more involved, I realized that it wasn't just an ordinary club. It isn't just a club, but it is also a family. We all come together with the idea to help others in need and we work together to make it happen. With the help of each and every one of us, we can make such a big difference! Teamwork is something very important and with it, anything can happen. With our many goals, including this one, we hope to have a great year with everyone as your new board. As secretary, I will try to accomplish the objectives with the help of everyone and build upon it. I hope that this year will be very successful and fun! I will see you around.
Christine Tsang: Treasurer
Born: September 5, 1999 (I am currently a junior) Height: 5’6” Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Dark Brown Favorite Color: (Depends on my mood) Orange, yellow, purple, and red. Favorite Artist: Taylor Swift (She is my Goddess) My quote of the year: “Today’s hard work will be tomorrow’s success.” – David Tran
Hello my lovely Key Clubbers! I am Christine Tsang, your 2016-2017 Treasurer. My goals for this service year are to show the old and new members of Midwood High Club the true meaning of being a Key Clubber, and to increase the club’s pride. I hope to accomplish these goals by introducing more events that will help the members realize the power they have on their hands to change the world. Of course, I also want the members themselves to become more involved during club activities. For example, instead of just attending events and meetings, members should volunteer to be project captains or participate in committees. As an officer, I hope that with everyone’s help we will become the model Key Club for not only District 9, but for all Key Clubs around the world. I look forward to serving all of you this year. Happy Key Clubbing!
Lillian Chen: Assistant Treasurer Birthday: May 10, 2000 Height: 5’7 Hair color: Brown Eye color: Dark Brown Favorite Artists: Big Bang, BTS Favorite Beverage: Coffee Favorite food: I LOVE food so I don’t know what to pick Hey guys! My name is Lillian Chen and it is my honor to be your Assistant Treasurer for the 2016-2017 service year! Key Club means a lot to me and being a part of it allows me to experience so many new and amazing things that I wouldn't be able to experience outside of Key Club. I have met so many incredible people through Key Club and I hope that these friendships last forever! My goal for this service year is to make our home club interact more with other Key Clubbers whether it be within our home club, our division, or our district. What's great about Key Club is that being a part of this club allows all of us to have a common interest which can spark a new friendship! I’m currently in the Midwood’s Girls Swim Team and Midwood's Band where I play the clarinet. Along with that, I am a member of the Girl Scouts community where my love for service began. My interests include traveling around the world, exploring new places, trying new cuisines, drawing and taking pictures. I am so excited for this coming year and for what is to come. Key Club means a lot to me and I hope to inspire members to feel the same!
Wendy Lliguichuzhca: Webmaster
Birthdate: September 12th, 2000; Sometime around 10 am Height: (I'm pretty short) About 5’2 Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown Favorite Color: Blue Favorite Artist: Lana Del Rey, Melanie Martinez,etc. Hey Key Clubbers! My name is Wendy and I am the new webmaster.
I hope that this year more members will attend events and just gain a better understanding of what the true values of Key Club are. Most people view our club as a simple way of getting more credits and adding Key Club to their list of extracurricular activities on college applications. I hope that members, this year, take away more from our club than simply the credits. The lessons you learn from Key Club are amazing and I wish for everyone to gain this knowledge and apply it to their everyday life. From Key Club, I personally, have learned about different organizations around New York that are always open to volunteers and I've gained new friendships from these. Not only is Key Club a way for all of you to take action in your community, but also, it's a way in which you can create new friendships and experiences. Walking the March of Dimes and the AIDS Walk last year was amazing and tiring at the same time. Just being out there and knowing that by participating others may be inspired to donate or contribute to the cause was amazing to me. Let's make this service year a learning experience and let's go out there and help others.
Alice Mo: Editor
Born: July 1st, 2000 Height: 5’2 Eye Color: Hazel Brown Favorite Color: Green Favorite Movies: Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, Rudy Favorite Artists: Ed Sheeran, Florence and the Machine, Vance Joy Favorite Quote: “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” –Walt Disney
Hello Key Clubbers! My name is Alice Mo and I am honored to be your new editor this service year. As editor, it is my job to keep you all updated on what is going on with the club in the past, present and future through this newsletter. I hope you all enjoy the content in these newsletters and even decide to contribute to it as well. This service year, my goal is to help all of you see what key club is about. Through the numerous events we have planned, I hope that you will see what service to others truly means. Besides than that, I’m sure that you will make memories and form friendships with others that are just as dedicated as yourselves. The experiences that you learn through key club will not only follow you after high school but throughout your life, and I am so excited to be apart of this experience with you.
2016-2017 Midwood Board!
The Secret Life of Pets Movie Fundraiser The Secret Life of Pets Movie Fundraiser was our very first fundraiser of the service year. We worked with Bronx Science Key Club to raise $224.12 for the Governor’s Project, Voices for the Blind. It was a huge success! After officers took attendance and collected the admission fee, members walked into the theater to collect their ticket and kids pack. The kids pack included a small popcorn, candy and a small refillable drink! Afterwards, we sat in really comfortable, reclining chairs while waiting for the movie to start since there were some technical difficulties with screening the movie. Despite the wait, members had a great time getting to know each other, catching PokÊmon and eating their popcorn! Overall, we are extremely proud of the outcome of this fundraiser and we hope to have another fundraiser just as successful! Yours In Service, Josephine Leung President
The Bowery Mission Soup Kitchen Event Having to wake up as early as I normally wake up for school on a Saturday in the middle of Summer vacation isn't the most pleasant thing to do. However, this experience made it worth it. The staff of the Bowery Mission was very kind and helped to make this a very memorable experience. I remember one of the staff members telling us how he treats the elderly women who utilize their services as if they were his grandmother because she unfortunately passed away a few years ago. It was a really touching statement that still gives me feels. My absolute favorite part of this experience was whenever a short and sweet "Good morning!" was reciprocated with a cheerful smile. This has to be one of the most touching events in my life and I hope we get to do this again. Yours In Service, Alfredo Lorenzo Member
Africa Project
On Saturday, August 6th at 7:15AM, I was on my way to what I knew was going to be a productive morning. After meeting up with other key clubbers, we arrived at the site where multiple containers consisting of soccer balls, books, clothes and more were being held. We quickly began helping to lift boxes filled with books from subjects like history, trigonometry, and chemistry. Our goal was to move every single box from one container into another, so that the one filled would be shipped off to Ghana. Even though some boxes weighed more than 50 Ibs., it was manageable due to knowing where these books would end up and by seeing how eager others were to help out as well. In between our work, Mr. Grashow told us of how great of an impact the materials we were loading actually made. For example, he explained how a school didn’t have enough books so they couldn’t let any students take the books home. This motivated us to keep going and get the last box on that truck. Overall, this event left me sore for a couple days, but was extremely rewarding. Yours In Service, Alice Mo Editor
Fun Facts about your cabinet- WHO SAID? 1. WHO SAID…? I am a bit of a bookworm, I prefer books over movies most of the time. I absolutely love math and science. History is a close third. I can do rather crazy/random things when surrounded by my friends. 2. WHO SAID…? I can play the piano, and I have been learning for about 10 years now. I like art and drawing. My favorite season is Summer. 3. WHO SAID..? I love chicken nuggets! I LOVE roller coasters!! I met A$AP Rocky on June 3rd! 4. WHO SAID..? I love the soft colors like sky blue and amber red. I love the K-pop groups such as BTS and Exo. I love almost all kinds of food but I promise you, with a simple purchase of mashed potatoes you will receive my heart.
5. WHO SAID…? Some of my hobbies are swimming, traveling around the world, exploring new places, trying new cuisines, drawing and taking pictures. 6. WHO SAID…? Basketball is my stress-relieving activity. It brings out the fun/competitive side of me. I love to do volunteer work because although the things I do might seem like nothing now but eventually all my hard work will pay off and it will help change someone’s life for the better. I love smiles. I believe that they are your armor to your everyday life. 7. WHO SAID…? I think thanking someone is one of the most important things to do. Sunsets are my favorite things to watch. Chemistry, English, and History are my favorite subjects. One of my favorite TV shows is Friday Night Lights.
Upcoming Events: Bensonhurst Clean Up Date: Saturday August 20th, 2016 Time: 9:30 AM Location: 29 Bay 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11214 (between 86th Street & Benson Avenue) *Deadline to sign up is Monday, August 15th! Midwood Bowling Fundraiser Date: Thursday, August 25, 2016 Time: 12:00pm (ends at approximately 2:30pm) Location: Melody Lanes 461 37th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Price: $15 (includes admission & shoe rental) Answers: 1) Webmaster 5) Assistant Treasurer 2) Secretary 6) Treasurer 3) President 7) Editor 4) Vice President
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Happy Key Clubbing!