Division 16 Newsletter-April 2013

APRIL 2013 NEWSLETTER

Ohana means family, and family

means no one gets left behind or

forgotten

This newsletter is dedicated to all the white tigers who have spent

their time serving, roaring, and loving key club. Thank you

especially to the white tigers who are leaving, your smiles and

inspiring passion in everything you do, whether it was

volunteering at a service event, or just hanging out at a fundraiser

with your fellow key clubbers, will never be forgotten. You will

absolutely indefinitely be missed and remembered by our ohana.

2012-2013 White Tigers

Photo courtesy of Beccs Lee

White Tigers, HOW DO YOU FEEL!?!? My name is Claudia Diaz and I am here to serve you as your Lieutenant Governor.

I joined Key Club my freshman year having known I was going to join since I was in the

seventh grade when I first attended a Key Club event with my older sisters. Since then, I have

known this was the right place for me. Key Club sparked a passion. Key Club has made me

want to do my best and be the best person I can possibly be. Last year I had the honor to serve

on the Division 16 Executive Board as Secretary and today, I am here finally fulfilling my dream of

serving you as Lieutenant Governor.

So Key Club? Do you make keys? Yes we make keys to open the doors of the future for

the future. As Key Clubbers, we wake up at 6 in the morning and give up our weekends all for

the love of service, the love of serving someone in need. Whether it is a marathon we help out

at or a homeless shelter, we are there. We are there serving our home, school, and community.

We are there leaving our paws imprinted on all of the hearts we touch by serving them.

This year I will stop at nothing to ensure Division 16 has the best year we can possibly have

before we realign. I want to ensure we are all having fun and are united as an Ohana. Yeah,

that’s right an Ohana. Division 16, we are a family of White Tigers so whether you be from

Valencia or East Valley don’t ever forget that we have each other. If you ever need advice or

just need someone to talk to, don’t ever hesitate to ask a fellow White Tiger because I know that

as Key Clubbers we will forever be here for each other.

Division 16 White Tigers, we will make our mark in the California-Nevada-Hawaii District and

we’ll show them all how fierce Division 16 really is and how loud we can ROAR. Whether you are

an underclassman, a junior, or are graduating in a few months, you are a White Tiger and will

forever remain a White Tiger.

I feel so honored to be able to serve you all and I really do look forward to meeting each

and every single one of you very soon. Thank you for all of your service, keep it up Division 16!

2013-2014 Lieutenant Governor,

Claudia Diaz

By Romulo Dinsay

Bell-Jeff Bulletin Editor

North Hollywood Key Club and NHHS Leadership held the

UCLA Blood Drive on March 19, 2013. The club members helped

spread the news and some was able to donate as well. It was a

day-long event that many students over the age of 16

participated in.

After donating blood, the donators were offered

refreshments and stickers. The donated blood is to be used in

blood transfusion or medical research.

The first key club

meeting lead by our new

officers occurred this past

week on April 3. One of our

main goals this year is to

increase our member

participation. We have many

key club members but very

few go to key club events

and meetings. To change this

we will now be doing various

new activities during our key

club meetings to get out

members more involved,

excited, and comfortable into

our white tigers family!

One of our new

activities includes various ice

breakers the officers will lead

and incorporate other

members to join.

One of our ice breakers

featured our officers going up

to various key club members

with pick-up lines. The

purpose of this ice breaker is

to be able to complete this

activity without ever laughing

and successfully turn down

the person hitting on you with

a straight face. This includes

smiling! It was a very difficult

task to keep a straight face,

First Meeting of New Term

but we did have a few

successful key club members.

Nevertheless, we all enjoyed this

ice breaker and it bonded our

club as whole even closer

together.

Another one of our activities

included more chants and

cheers to show our members.

The new cheer we learned this

week was "More pancakes!

Pancakes! Pancakes!". The point

of this cheer is to successfully be

able to yell this cheer out

repeatedly with the appropriate

hand signals. It may seem like an

easy task, but it is certainly not.

But despite the difficulty in this

chant, all the key club members

enjoyed as the officers began to

chant!

All in all, we had a very

successful first meeting after

DCON with our new officers

leading!

Piz

On April 6, Saturday, a fun bowling

fundraiser was held by the Division Kiwanis

group to celebrate Kiwanis One Day and

to raise money to support the Painted

Turtle. The fee for bowling was $25 and

helped to give kids with special medical

needs a fun time and camp experience.

The Santa Clarita Kiwanis Clubs and the

Santa Clarita Aktion Club worked together

to make this event a success.

Pizza was provided for lunch and

included in the $25 payment fee and at

the end of the day, awards were given out

for High Game and High Series.

The 2013 Key Club

International Convention is a

great way to meet Key Clubbers

from around the world. This great

event will take place in the

summer, July 3-7 in Washington

DC, at the Washington Hilton

Hotel.

Early bird registration ends

May 17 and the price for the

early bird tour is $175 and after

May 17 it will rise to $215.

Project EliMiNaTe What is Project EliMiNaTe? Project Eliminate is a five year international fundraising initiative. Every nine minutes a

baby dies from Maternal Neonatal Tetanus, that's about 60,000 deaths a year that both include the mother and the baby. The cost of a vaccine? For a smaller price than two bags of chips, a sandwich, or a beverage, $1.80 covers

the cost of immunizing one mother. Once the mother is immunized, all of her future

babies will now be immune from Tetanus.

Our goal? ELIMINATE MNT from the world by 2015.

Service Project Idea: Baby Bottles for Project Eliminate

Clubs can obtain baby bottles (buy them from the dollar tree) for their members. The

members can then go around school asking for donations or any loose change for a

few weeks and help save babies and their mothers!

Region 7 Crewnecks

This year, Region 7 will be opening up Region 7

Crewneck submissions to members. If you want

to see your design on many many Key Clubbers

then you should definitely submit a design! The

winner gets a free crewneck!

May 4th, 6:00 pm: Submissions Deadline

After all submissions are turned in, they will be

compiled into a survey and Region 7 members

will be able to vote. (:

All submissions need to be turned into

[email protected]

Not yet signed onto the Division 16 Key Club

Reflector? Then sign on here!

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups

#!forum/d16whitetigers

This is especially important for club officers, as

LTG Claudia Diaz will be sending out important

information through this group.

Spirit Wear is still available for sale!

This includes:

Key Club Swag Crewnecks for $10

Division 16 Shirt for $10

White Tiger Hat for $10

White Tiger Sunglasses for $5

Please email [email protected]

Got a tumblr?

Then follow us! @ d16whitetigers.tumblr.com

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pretty

please? I has food

yur gf dusnt

even exist

If this doesn’t convince you,

Look at it again.

Photo courtesy of whoever took these pictures lol

lol jk guys that wasn’t the end, but the next pages

are, and I hope you enjoy reading them

To Vance,

You're oh, so fab I

just can't.

Love, Vance

Dear Paolo,

WHERE DO I EVEN START. From our first time meeting

(if you can call it that, since you mostly just ran up to

me and told me I looked like Christina lol) to now

you have given me so many memories! It sucks that

you are a senior. Who's going to make up a

language with me or be crazy and stress out with

me? Who's going to mermaid dance with me? HOW

WILL I EVER FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN CHOKE ON

THEIR OWN TONGUE? ^^ You have been such an

amazing friend to talk to and to get advice from

and I'm glad that we became such good friends this

year. I seriously hope we keep in touch because I

need someone to have GIF wars with! I hope that

the people at college don't "treat you like a third

world animal" ahahah. I cannot fit all the memories

and laughs we had here, but I just want to thank

you for making this key club year so fun!

CRUSHED IT,

Jinny Lee

P.S.- I'm also good at pirate dancing.

Dear Vance,

I SWEAR TO GOD YOUR VIDEOS ON FACEBOOK

SHORTEN MY LIFESPAN. MY OLD HEART CANNOT

TAKE ANYMORE! Well anywho, I am sooooo glad

that I met you this year~ From bonding with you

and Paolo over our love for pitch perfect to

swearing that I will end your life after seeing your

various TERRIFYING videos on Facebook, I'm happy

to say that I met someone as awesome and as

hilarious as you! Good luck in college and stay

FAB-U-LOUS~ ahaha

Challenge complete,

Jinny Lee

P.S- Don't eat too many shrooms lol ;)

Dear senior white tigers,

Even though this is the farewell letter, is it really

farewell for good? Remember, once a Key Clubber,

always a Key Clubber! I was sooo honored to have

been able to grow as a person with you guys, and I

know that we will all do great things in the future.

From the first Key Club event to the last, I have had

the pleasure of being a part of this division with you

all. Events like Fall Rally and DCON, AIDS Walk and

Ohana Night, and those DCM's we've had at

Dockweiler, those are all memories that I will

remember forever. All the laughs we've shared, the

awkward moments, the inside jokes, the rants to

release stress...all of it, i will seriously miss. Good luck

with your future, seniors. Hopefully we'll come across

each other at some point again:)

Love,

Paolo Esguerra

IP VHS Key Club President 2012-2013

Valencia High School

IP Division 16 Spirit Chair 2012-2013

Region 7, CNH Key Club

Dear purffs,

Thank you STITCH, TOTO, PABU, and PAOLOLO for everything

that you did. From helping me with supplies to setting up the

activities, I couldn't have asked for a better group of people

to work with. I'm sorry that you guys weren't able to join in on

the fun and whatnot, but I'm really glad I had you guys by

my side! Thank you PABU for always having such amazing

dare ideas and for making the pins. Thank you STITCH for

always helping me in every way that you could, I seriously

would have gone craycray without your help taking pictures

and helping me with the heavy lifting ahah. Thank you TOTO

for the fun and quirky games you introduced me to like the

apple game! I know that the Division is in capable hands

and i'm proud to call you my momma tiger Thank you

PAOLOLO for joining in last minute and giving such great

ideas for themed dares!

Thanks so much guys!

With love and gratitude,

Tikitikikawaii <3

Dear Michelle,

Thank you so much for being there for me all the

time, for helping with Key Club, for encouraging

me, and for smiling and always giving me hope

all the time. You are literally an angel, one of the

most kindest people I’ve ever met. It was an

honor to have like all my extracurriculars with you

hahaxD You are an amazing person and I strive

to be like you, I’m really going to miss you next

year and every year after that! Thank you so so

much, I don’t think I can say thank you enough

to show you how thankful I am. You are also the

absolute definition of kawaii hahaxDD Thank you,

and I hope you continue to do amazing things,

thank you for inspiring me I will never forget you

Jenny Lee

Tylllerrrrrrr

Happy Birthday^^

Haha you’re my bffflll and I love you to

death, even if your “tagging me” on

facebook pics and obsession with

perfection and romance novels drives me

insane. You are amazing and hilarious and I

have such a fun time when I’m with youxD

thank you for joining key club with me, and

thank you for sticking with me through the

end I’m so happy for you for getting spirit

chair, you truly deserve it

Ps happy birthday

Jenny Lee

THE TIGER TIMES

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 combat all forces

which tend to undermine these institutions.

“

“

a Kiwanis family member

keyclub.org