April Newsletter

Official Newsletter of Division 1 South of the Texas-Oklahoma Key Club District

Volume

Issue 1

April 2012 K E Y C L U B

In this issue:

Meet your LTG 2

To-Do list + Goals

for D1S 3

Kiwanis One Day

Recap 4

DCON Recap 5

ICON 6

Calendar of Events 7

District Board

contacts 8

Congratulations to Cypress Woods High School, #1

Key Club in the Texas-Oklahoma District!

Please visit

tokeyclub.com for

more info

MEET YOUR LTG! (virtually)

Hello Division 1 South! My name is Thuy Tran, your new Lieutenant Governor for the

2012-13 year! I’m so very excited to start working with you guys this year.

I am currently a sophomore at North Crowley HS, in Fort Worth, TX. This will be my

third year in Key Club, as well as my 3rd year taking on a higher leadership position

within Key Club International (freshman: Freshman Class Rep, sophomore: Co-Vice

President, junior: ……..) Key Club has been a very important aspect of my life. I’ve

committed my time into serving others—it’s become my absolute passion. Serving

others and my community is what I love, and the rewarding feeling afterwards is just

an added bonus. As your LTG, I feel compelled to share my passion and my love of

Key Club towards all the members within the division (it’s not a bad thing to be

forced at) and encourage service projects all year round.

Besides Key Club, I do enjoy… well I actually don’t enjoy anything else besides Key

Club… awkward. But speaking of awkward, I am quite shy and awkward when you

first meet me; maybe even a little hesitant. That’s just a habit of mines I’m

desperately trying to break. However, once I do break it, I am (if I do say so

myself…) quite funny and a bit sarcastic! So please do get to know me. Socializing is

most definitely my forte. Obviously.

I have many things to look forward to this year, and I hope you do too! There are

plenty of goals for me to accomplish, and I hope one of your club’s goal is to

complete the year in the Top 25 clubs! Division 1 South will be well represented this

year. Cheers to a great year! (I am a KCI rapper)

Thuy Tran

To-do list Goals for Division 1s Club contacts

*If you have NOT sent me your club

officer contacts, DO THAT NOW. It is highly

important that you get your information to me

ASAP. Sending me contacts=you receiving

district updates (FUN!!!!!)

Monthly reports *Monthly reports are due EVERY

FIFTH OF THE MONTH. Please do not

forget to remind your secretaries that. Also to

mail out a hard copy to Kevin Duong, and

digital copies to: [email protected] (me),

[email protected] (Donna

Newsham; regional advisor) and to your

respective Kiwanis advisors.

Please visit

tokeyclub.com for

more info

Improve communication *Everyone says this about their

clubs—however, I want to achieve this goal by

encouraging communication amongst other

clubs, and joint-club service projects.

Division wide participation for the divisional project *I would LOVE for each member of

each club to be able to participate in my

divisional project—The Ronald McDonald

House Charities

Division wide participation for the divisional project

100% attendance for each

monthly pcm

100% on time reporting

for each club

100% of clubs on time

dues submission

Kiwanis one day

Kiwanis One Day was held on April 21, 2012, at Tarrant Area Food Bank. A big thank you to LTG D1N, Amy Chrostiner, Kiwanis LTG Dennis Keifer, North Crowley Key Club members, and all Division 1 Kiwanians for attending and participating with! We packaged over 28,000 pounds of food that day.

For those that don’t know, Kiwanis One Day is Kiwanis’ annual day of service. It is Kiwanis’ way of urging all Kiwanis family members to unite together for a day of service within our communities. Missed One Day? There’s always next year! MAKE SURE YOU ATTEND THAT ONE.

Kiwanis one day

#14: Southwest High School

#16: North Crowley High School

This year’s dcon’s theme was “service is the key to paradise.” And indeed, paradise it was! If you didn’t attend, you definitely missed out on what our now, ip- convention liaison, colten meisner’s “paradise” (dcon). This year’s dcon was packed with exciting activities such as hula dancing, and special guest speakers from smu. Consider attending next year if you want a weekend of key club-filled FUN.

DCON 2012: service is the key to

ICON 2012

Well, the deadline for International Convention dues is

now over, but what’s wrong with promoting ICON? This

year’s ICON will be hosted at Walt Disney World’s

Disneyland, in Orlando, FL. From July 4-8, 2012 hundreds

of Key Clubbers across the globe will gather together

and experience the time of their lives!

Calendar of events

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2 3 Club officer

installation: Paschal

4 5

6 7 8 Club Visit:

Southwest HS @ 3:45

9 10 Club Visit:

Crowley HS @ 4:10

11 12 North TX

Classic Bike Ride @ Ed Willkie Middle School

DCM JOINT-DIVISION CLUB OFFICER INSTALLATION

13 14 15 Club Visit:

North Crowley @ 6

16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30 31

(12) (Hunger Games reference)

District Secretary

Kevin Duong [email protected]

14906 Brindle Bend Dr

Houston, TX 77084

832-418-7745

Region 7 Advisor

Donna Newsham [email protected]

817-475-0870

District Administrator

Walt Roetter

[email protected]

830-733-0008