Parsippany Hills High School’s
KEY NOTES Volume I Issue VII | December 2014
Inside This Issue: Elections Elections Key Club Resolutions Kiwanis Centennial Recap of 2014 Final Remarks
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The President is responsible for: ● Presiding over meetings ● Sending e-mails about upcoming events ● Managing the facebook group ● Establishing K-family relations ● Participating in inter-club and district events ● Organizing club events ● Communicating among the adviser, executive board, and members ● Recruiting and maintaining members The Vice President is responsible for: ● Presiding over meetings in the absence of the president ● Assisting in presidential duties ● Ensuring that club monthly reports are mailed ● Ensuring that attendance is taken at every meeting
The Treasurer is responsible for: ● Handling all membership dues, fundraising money, and registration fees ● Maintaining accurate financial records ● Managing the club account ● Depositing club funds The Recording Secretary is responsible for: ● Collecting and submitting monthly reports ● Maintaining member and officer rosters ● Recording membership hours ● Assisting in handling registration and membership forms ● Helping complete the Annual Achievement Report
In order to run for President or Vice President, the candidate must have had prior experience on the Key Club exec. board.
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The Corresponding Secretary is responsible for: ● Attending and taking notes for every meeting ● Assisting in handling registration and membership forms The Historians are responsible for: ● Attending and taking pictures for chapter events ● Preparing a scrapbook for the yearly DCON scrapbook competition.
Club Positions and Responsibilities The Editors are responsible for: ● Informing members about the club’s monthly activities ● Preparing a monthly newsletter ● Communicating district events like ‘Key Club Week’ with members The Webmaster is responsible for: ● Maintaining and updating the club website: http://parhillskeyclub.webs.com/
Special Committees are responsible for: ● Planning and running our chapter’s two major events: October’s Halloween at the Hills and March’s Senior CItizen Dinner ● Assisting the rest of the exec. board members with chapter events Note: This position is selected, not run for.
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Key Club Resolutions It’s that time again to reflect upon the past year and establish goals for the new one. While breaking resolutions can be just as easy as making them, we hope that these small, simple goals towards Key Club service and improving our community can be accomplished.
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Volunteer for at least two hours every month! There are so many activities you can participate in at Key Club, from bringing in food donations to making CSH cards and working at K-family events. Most of the opportunities for service are fun and easy, and they’re all for improving our school and community. For January, you can earn up to two hours for bringing in candy for Valentine’s Day.
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Attend at least one meeting per month. You earn half an hour for every meeting you attend, and these easy volunteer hours can add up! Meetings are also the best way to stay informed and get involved. Sometimes, there are volunteering opportunities after, like packing candy or making decorations for events.
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Do something for the Eliminate Project! The Eliminate Project is a fundraiser committed to preventing and eliminating neonatal tetanus, and it only takes $1.80 to protect a mother and her future children through three tetanus vaccines. $1.80 can buy a large soda, an iTunes song, and a chocolate bar, but it can also buy enough vaccines to immunize one mother and her children. By skipping your morning coffee or afternoon snack, you can do something amazing.
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From 1915’s single Kiwanis club in Detroit to today’s multi-faceted Kiwanis organization, the K-family certainly has made a big difference in a century. This year we congratulate Kiwanis International for its centennial year! That’s 100 years of service and hard work to give back to our world’s communities. Comprised of groups like Aktion Club, KCI, and Key Club, Kiwanis International continues to donate more than 18 million hours of service each year and over $100 million in charitable donations. To commemorate, Kiwanis was able to feature its very own floats in the 126 Annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. At the event, Kiwanis offered over 7,000 volunteers 56,000 hours of service, which was by far the most volunteers for an organization out of the entire parade! Key Notes - December 2014 - Volume I Issue VII - Page V
Recap!
5 Extraordinary Things We Did in 2014!
1. Key Club gained even more members, jumping from 250,000 to 270,000! We stand as the oldest and largest volunteer program for high school students. 2. Kiwanis became even more international with China. Key Club is now in 33 countries across the globe! 3. UNICEF Representatives rang the NASDAQ bell in October to commemorate Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. The bell was rung by the New York Key Club Lieutenant Governor, Aaron Cheung. 4. Key Club announced its newest partner, Project Happiness, an organization dedicated to finding greater happiness within their communities. 5. Key Club received over 120 Youth Opportunities Fund grants, being awarded a total of $47,000 to help Key Clubs better their schools. Key Notes - December 2014 - Volume I Issue VII - Page VI
Feel Free to Contact our Executive Board:
Important Reminders: Club elections will be on January 27! Election materials will be distributed 1/13, and are due by 1/20 Start bringing in candy for staff gifts
President: Stephanie Datri Contact at: smdatri15@pthsd.net Vice President: Lindsey Magbitang Contact at: lamagbitang15@pthsd.net Treasurer: Rebecca Ho Contact at: rho15@pthsd.net Corres. Secretary: Ryan Stensgaard Contact at: rnstensgaard15@pthsd.net Recording Secretary: Patricia Kou Contact at: pjkou16@pthsd.net Editor: Vanessa Ting Contact at: vhting17@pthsd.net Editor: Arpan Bhavsar Contact at: abhavsar15@pthsd.net Historian: Catherine Mow Contact at: cjmow15@pthsd.net Historian: Kim Aldana Contact at: kmaldana15@pthsd.net Webmaster: Eva Cavanaugh Contact at: ercavanaugh15@pthsd.net Committees: Neena Andican Contact at: nandican15@pthsd.net Committees: Sneha Patwardhan Contact at: sspatwardhan15@pthsd.net
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