Division 65 March Newsletter

Vol. 1 Issue 12

HEY KEY CLUBBERS, HOW DO YOU FEEL?!

MARCH 2013

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COVER PAGE 1

UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR 2

PROJECT:EDUCATE 3 PROJECT: EDUCATE 4

PROJECT: EDUCATE 5

PROJECT:EDUCATE DONATION FORM 6

READY FOR DCON? 7

FEBRUARY DCM MEETING MINUTES 8

FEBRUARY DCM MEETING MINUTES 9

LAST DCM. LAST NEWSLETTER 10

DISTRICT BOARD CONTACT INFORMATION 11

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

ALOHA. BEAVERTON. CENTURY. FOREST GROVE. GLENCOE. HILLSBORO. SOUTHRIDGE. SUNSET. WESTVIEW

March 17, 2013 Tentatively Planned DCON Meeting

@ Cedar Mill Library 2:00PM-3:30PM

March 22-24, 2013 PNW District Convention

@ Double Tree Hotel (Seatac, WA)

April 1, 2013 Each school will be required to hold a

fundraiser to go to division funds. Money

from these fundraisers will be due APRIL 1st

2013. This is MANDATORY for all clubs.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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Complete your Secretary Re-

ports by the 5th of every

month at:

http://bit.ly/pnw_club_report

KEY CLUB SERVICE PARTNERS

Key Club is a lifestyle.

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PRESENTING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST OF KEY CLUB INTERNATIONAL

2012– 2013 DISTRICT PROJECT!

NAME OF PROJECT: “Project Educate”

MONETARY GOAL: USD $30,000.00 (JMD 2,659,500.05)

OBJECTIVE: Helping to support the development of

early-childhood & primary education in the developing

country of Jamaica.

HOW WILL THE MONEY BE ALLOCATED TOWARDS EACH CONTRIBUTION?

GOAL #5 30,000 High school scholarships for 10 students across Jamaica

GOAL #4 27,050 St. Mary School (yet to be confirmed) school supplies

GOAL #3 23,050 Online classroom assistance to 150 students across Jam.

GOAL #2 20,050 Wakefield Primary School assistance for a new Library

GOAL #1 12,050 Mona Heights Primary School supplies & library equipment

+ =

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PROJECT: EDUCATE CHARITY TEES

$15 EACH

PROJECT: EDUCATE CHARITY WRISTBANDS

$1 EACH

You are all strongly encouraged to support this project by selling t-

shirts and/or wristbands at your high schools! If you would like to or-

der some to sell at your high school, please contact me as soon as

possible!

Another good idea is to come up with fundraisers on your own!

Please help this year’s District Project become a success by working

together to Educate Jamaica!

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MARKETING AND PROMOTION

“I CARE” CAMPAIGN

People will send in their

pictures, a quote, their

name, and title

A promotional picture will

be created for them

Spread the news via so-

cial media websites!

PROJECT: EDUCATE WEBSITE

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PROJECT: EDUCATE DONATION FORMS

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READY FOR DCON 2013?

I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S

ALREADY BEEN A WHOLE

YEAR!

“WELCOME TO

CONVENTION! WE’RE

REALLY GLAD YOU CAME!

64TH ANNUAL, IT’S GONNA

BE INSANE.

Here is a sneak peak of

this year’s Spirit Gear!

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FEBRUARY DCM MEETING MINUTES

I, Incoming Lieutenant Governor of Division 65, officially call this DCM to order on March 3, 2013 at 2:07PM.

Attendance:

Aloha: Absent

Beaverton: Absent

Century: Jenny Ho, RIna Alazas, John-Nick Beronilla

Forest Grove: Absent

Hillsboro: Absent

Glencoe - Christon Senekham, Mica Annis

Southridge Winnie Lee, Katie Chanthakhoun, Betsy Quitugua

Sunset - Ailin Jiang, Kaelin Patel, Oskay, Natalie Valent

Westview- Tasmia Ahmed, Justin

Winter Board Recap - At Winter Board, I went through an overview of everything key club, the jobs and duties of

a Lieutenant Governor and basically the policies and protocols of maintaining a successful division in my term. I,

along with the other LtGs of the Portland area have started planning for Portland Rally. I shadowed over my

committees that I will be a part of once my terms starts, which is KeyTV(DCON) and Policy & Protocol(reviewing

and editing key club amendments and bylaws)

DCON Planning - March 22nd-24th @ the DoubleTree Hotel in SeaTac WA. This year’s theme is “Diving into Ser-

vice” This year, 67 students will be attending.

DCON Shirts:

1. Aloha - UNPAID - $140 due

2. Beaverton - UNPAID - $40 due

3. Century - PAID

4. Forest Grove - PAID

5. Glencoe - UNPAID - $50 due

6. Hillsboro - N/A

7. Southridge - UNPAID - $30 due

8. Sunset - PAID

9. Westview - N/A

Possible Spirit Gear? - T-shirts, Bandanas, capes, mardi gras beads, Facepaint, bring whatever green stuff you

have to the convention. ALSO, make “hug me” signs, “property of D65” pins, basically anything that will rep-

resent our division.

Transportation - It will be up to the individual Key Clubs to organize transportation. Talk to your school district

or kiwanis about arranging a bus to and from the convention.

Schools in the Hillsboro School District will be one the same bus for DCON.

*tentatively planning a PRE-DCON

meeting for March 3/17/2013 - ALL DCON ATTENDEES ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND*

DCON AWARD RANT - None of the schools in our division applied for the awards, so shame on us. Next year, we

are going to HAM on awards and bringing home the trophies for D65.

Fundraising for District Project - Each school will be required to hold a fundraiser to go to division funds. Money

from these fundraisers will be due APRIL 1st 2013. This is MANDATORY for all clubs.

Possible fundraiser ideas include:

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FEBRUARY DCM MEETING MINUTES

Key Club night at a local Restaurant - places like Five Guys, Burgerville, Pizza Schmizza, Buffalo Wild Wings,

Baja Fresh or Krispy Cremes and more places will be willing to work out some sort of deal like “bring in a

flyer and we’ll donate 35% back to your club.” - Talk to local restaurants!

Bowling night, Arcade night, etc - Same as the restaurants. Contact them!

Bake Sale - Hold a bake sale at your school,(

check w/ administration first) try selling these at large school events, the local grocery store,

church, etc. People will be willing to buy if your food is good

Door-to-Door fundraising - self explanatory

All proceeds made from these fundraisers will go towards paying for our dance and the rest will go towards

this year’s District Project.

End of the year Ceremony/Divisional Rally - Tentatively planning for late April @LtG Christon’s house in Hills-

boro. This will be a rally type event where all outgoing board members and incoming board members will for-

mally be taught how to correctly do their job as a boardie on their school board.

DANCE PLANNING - Hopefully @ Century HS, June 14th, 8-11 PM. Proposed name is “Service in the Sand” (not

official). Casual/non-formal dance - beach theme(?)

Once we have our location finalized(hopefully soon), we will decide on the DJ, food & drink and other recrea-

tions

Portland Rally - We are tentatively planning to hold this year’s Portland Rally at Westview HS for June 22nd,

2013.(Westview boardies - get on this). More info to come.

Innie Will - LtG Susie gave me a bunch of really useful stuff along with the spirit stick for my term as LtG. SHe ate

my Girl Scout Cookies, but that’s alright!

Special Announcement: We will be welcoming Jesuit High School to our division very soon! We are currently in

the process of chartering their club.

(Quick Note: Outgoing Presidents! Get me your school board’s contact info asap!)

I, Incoming Lieutenant Governor of Division 65, officially adjourn this DCM on March 3rd, 2013 at 3:30PM.

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LAST DCM. LAST NEWSLETTER.

Dearest Division 65 Key Clubbers,

This year has been an incredible one and I am so thankful that you have all been a part of it. I

first knew I wanted to run for LTG when I was a freshman and I cannot believe that I am writing

my final newsletter as a senior today. In my election speech, I promised that I would put my

term towards increasing membership, strengthening club bonds, improving communication,

and enhancing the quality of club resources. Fortunately, I have succeeded in doing most. We

have successfully chartered clubs at Hillsboro High School and Forest Grove High School, which

is now one of the most participating schools in our division. I also applaud Westview High School

for increasing membership by over 100 students! As for strengthening club bonds, this cannot

necessarily be measured by membership or units of intimacy. However, I can confidently say

that this year, I have grown closer to the other high schools in our division and can honestly call

most of you my friends. I hope that the frequency of this year’s DCMs, divisional bonding events,

and District events have allowed all of you to grow closer to each other, as well. We have im-

proved communication through expanding the media that our division reaches. Currently run-

ning on Tumblr, Facebook, E-mail, Issuu, and Instagram, our division is now easy to follow and

very student-friendly. Lastly, at the beginning of my term, I remodeled the standard newsletter

which is now a light mix of recurring news and updated information in a reader-friendly text and

Key Club official format.

Now, at the end of my term and having learned the most out of all four years, I realized one

thing that took me off guard. Key Club International’s motto is “Caring — Our Way of Life”. We

have a reputation of serving our community through volunteering. Yet, shouldn’t volunteering

be priceless? Let’s think about it. The District Project’s entire goal is to raise money to donate to

project:Educate. And, how do we raise money? Selling project:Educate t-shirts and wristbands.

How did we raise money for KCCP? T-shirts and wristbands. UNICEF? Trick-or-treating from door-

to-door on Halloween for money. How do we raise funds for anything? Miracle minute (District

board members running around the meeting room to collect loose change). I understand that

in order to have a functional organization, money must be spent in different areas. However,

the importance of fundraising has been over-emphasized the point where it overshadows the

SERVICE part of COMMUNITY SERVICE. Key Club is now known for (excuse my language)

“money-whoring”. I am truthfully not sure if this is a matter worth fussing about however I just did-

n’t want my Key Clubbers to forget that it’s really not about the money. Serve the community

because you can and because there are people that really do need your help. Your money

can only be taken so far but caring and serving the community through volunteering has its im-

pact that outlives the profits from purchasing any t-shirt.

Regardless, I am so proud of everything our division has accomplished this year and although I

have a new paradigm on the meaning of service, I know that Christon is going to better Key

Club in so many different ways next year and even the world itself in the future. So, be good to

him and be ready for another year of service and fun.

WE SO FLY. SIXTY-FIVE,

OUTGOING LTG. VAN SUSIE THAN

P.S. Thank you for putting up with my nonsense this year. I will still be around to support Christon

in his first few months after DCON but…….. Once D65. Always D65. So, contact me whenever!

CARING– OUR WAY OF LIFE

VAN (SUSIE) THAN

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

DIVISION 65

CELL PHONE: 503-724-1208 (+text)

E-MAIL: [email protected]

SKYPE: susiethan

PROUD N’ WILLING TO SERVE

WHAT’S UP,

PNW’S DISTRICT EXECUTIVE BOARD?

DISTRICT GOVERNOR

Giovanni McKenzie

[email protected]

DISTRICT SECRETARY

Kelsie Hoppes

[email protected]

DISTRICT TREASURER

Kenneth Lam

[email protected]

DISTRICT BULLETIN EDITOR

Bassel Hamieh

[email protected]

CONVENTION CHAIR

Andy Nguyen

[email protected]

DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR

John Jay

[email protected]

ASSISTANT DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR

Suzanne Endroedy

[email protected]

FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR

Kevin Buyer

[email protected]

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