june 2012 newsletter
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Texas-Oklahoma Division 5
In This Issue:
Presidential Council Meeting (PCM)
Hershey’s Track and Field Games
Key Leader
Club App
Monthly Checklist
Club Spotlight
Contacts list
International Convention (ICON) 2012
June 2012 Volume I Issue 2
This
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Soak Up In Service!
What: Presidential Council Meeting (PCM)
A meeting where Key Clubbers can learn more
about Key Club, have fun, and meet other Key
Club members in their Division!
Who: For officers and members of Key Club
International When: June 23, 2012 at 12 o’clock
Noon
Where: Rolling Oaks Christian
Church
7150 Stahl Road San Antonio,
TX 78247
Key Club International has a new co-sponsor. And Key Clubbers
have a new opportunity!
We’re excited to welcome The Hershey Company as a Key Club
co-sponsor for 2012—with a focus on Hershey’s Track & Field
Games. Now in its 35th year, HTFG serves children ages 9–14 by
helping them get active and develop a healthy lifestyle. More
than 10 million kids in the U.S. and Canada have participated in
HTFG.
Be part of the fun
Key Clubs can help organize HTFG events in their communities.
Work with a local organization, such as an elementary school,
community park, Boys & Girls Club or others.
Get other Kiwanis-family members
involved too! Recruit Builders Club and
K-Kids members as game participants.
And invite Kiwanis club members to assist
with game events—as timers, for
example.
Location: Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, Texas
Date: June 22-24, 2012
Discover Today!
http://www.key-leader.org/Home.aspx
About Key Leader
Key Leader is a weekend experiential leadership program for today's young leaders. This life-changing event focuses on service leadership as the first, most meaningful leadership-development experience. A Key Leader will learn the most important lesson of leadership—it comes from helping others succeed.
Participants begin by attending a Key Leader conference, which is a weekend retreat. Large and small group workshops, discussions and team-building activities take place over the course of the weekend. Students have opportunities to learn leadership skills that will help them to change their schools, communities, and world for the better. While exploring leadership in a whole new way, participants will make amazing new friends and have experiences they will never forget. Positive, ongoing interaction with other Key Leader graduates offers continuing reinforcement, encouragement and growth of leadership skills.
Available for iPhone and Android Users
Finally, an app for the world's largest
service organization for teens! Download
the Key Club app and use it to increase
the impact of your service, have fun with
your club members and grow your club.
* Invite friends to your club meeting with
personalized invitations.
Check List for the Month Plan Summer
Service
Have a Summer
Board/Officer
Meeting
Plan your school
year
Visit your
sponsoring
Kiwanis
Consistent service projects
throughout the summertime keep
members excited about service and
Key Club even when school is out
Having a summer board/officer
meeting during the summer will
assist you in planning events for the
new year
Plan your service projects, events,
fundraisers, and budget for the year.
Contact your Kiwanis in advance for
any financial assistance you will
need throughout the year
Kiwanis love to see a smiling face at
their meetings! Going to meetings
often, especially from all the free
time the summer offers, will
contribute to knitting bonds
between your Key Club and
Sponsoring Kiwanis Club. While
you’re there, ask them about any
service projects that you could assist
them with to further your summer
service plans
*Don’t forget to update your new officer’s info on the
District Website http://tokeyclub.com/
My Awesome Experience By Emily Campbell, 2012-13 Key Club Secretary, Bandera High
School Hands down, my most favorite service project that I've done so far in my year with Key Club, was when we went to the Haven for Hope in San Antonio. Haven for Hope is a nonprofit organization whose main objective is to transform homeless individuals. According to the Haven for Hope website, every night approximately 1,600 people inhabit the Haven for Hope Campus. It was nothing like I thought it would be, because truthfully, I thought it would be a small building and an even smaller amount of people, but once we got there, what stood before me surprised me. There were many buildings put together, all serving a different purpose, whether it be to house the once homeless people or to prepare the massive amounts of food that is needed. We found our way in and some cooks in a separate kitchen directed us where to go. We were led through a maze of rooms and smells, then finally arrived at the kitchen that we would be working in. One of the lunch ladies', the one that led us, told us to put on plastic gloves and a hair nets. All of us did this pretty quick, eager to start working and serving.
Immediately, each and every one of us was assigned to a task, as there were many, many of them to be done before it was time for the lunch rush. The first task that I was assigned to do, along with many other members, was to clean the tables out in the lunchroom that the inhabitants sit down at. Everyone seemed to enjoy this and once it was done some of us took out trash, swept floors, helped prepare food, washed dishes, and anything else that needed to be done. It took a while to prepare lunch, but thankfully, the cooks had many hands to help and it got done a whole lot faster than it usually does. Once lunch was over, we had to start preparing dinner.
The thing that I never thought about is the amount of effort, time and money that goes into the types of organizations like Haven for Hope. On the outside, what you see says nothing about what goes on inside. Once you step inside, you're introduced to a whole different world that beckons you to reach out and help people, whether you thought you could or not. My personal experience was so humbling and rewarding, because I knew that some fraction of the homeless people in San Antonio were getting the nourishment they needed as well as the love and support of each other and the behind-the-scenes cooks. The most rewarding part of the experience was seeing the happy faces of all the people that walked through the line of the cafeteria. Each person smiled and said thank you to all of us behind the counter. At the end of the day, we helped so much, that I'm pretty sure they hadn't had food out that quick before in the history of their establishment. Sometime I want to go back and help for the whole day just to see the smiling faces once again.
Need to Contact Someone? DISTRICT/REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR Walt Roetter
422 Meadow Ridge Drive Kerrville, TX 78028 830-733-0008
GOVERNOR Brian O’Hara
512-705-1707 [email protected]
SECRETARY Kevin Duong
14906 Bridle Bend Drive Houston, TX 77084 832-418-7745
TREASURER Maci Slater
580-247-0413 [email protected]
EDITOR Lindyn Davis
325-642-7740 [email protected]
CONV. LIAISON Roshni Chandwani
281-854-4553 [email protected]
INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEE Rebecca Riley
205-478-9616 [email protected]
LT. GOVERNOR Brianna Cook
210-577-2619 [email protected]
Key Club International
Convention
ICON
Have Fun!
To everyone going to Key
Club International
Convention, have a great
time in Orlando Florida at
Disney World and
Universal Studios!
Did you have fun in
Paradise at DCON?
Couldn’t make it to ICON
this year? Look out for
more info on Key Club
International Convention
2013 (ICON).
Texas-Oklahoma
Division 5 Key Club
Thank You for all you do! Bandera
Canyon
Judson Early
College Academy
Samuel Clemens
Center Point
Ingram
Johnson
New Braunfels
Our Lady of the
Hills
Reagan
Steele