July Newsletter - Division 28

JulyDivision 28 Newsletter

Sirens

CONTENTS

Fall Rally

Summer

Yearly Planning

C.O.C.I.

Key Club 101

Contacts

Excited to start off the Key Club year? Join us at Texas-Oklahoma’s K-Family Day and Fall Rally 2015! Experience the absolute EXCITEMENT with our District at Six Flags over Texas. Meet other key clubbers that share the same passion for Key Club as you do whilst having the time of your life! Clubs will interact/team up with other clubs in the District and find out the theme of the next District Convention. In addition to these aspects, clubs will learn more about Key Club on the District and International level and also about the Governor’s and District Project! But wait… there’s more… Our event will be held during Six Flag’s annual FRIGHT FEST! When the sun goes down, the ghouls come out. Witness “the Awakening” as the park turns from “Thrills by Day” to “Fright by Night”. Check out Six Flags’ spooky haunted houses and their scare zones– this year with more ghouls than ever before. During K-Family Day and Fall Rally, all K-Family attendees will meet at 10:30 AM at the Southern Palace for our Rally. With exciting games, rivalry groups, and much more, you don’t want to miss it! After the Rally, your club is free to enjoy all of the park’s attractions. Not only will clubs get to spend the day in the thrilling theme park, but they will also get to attend at a low price. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to experience interacting with other key clubbers, gathering as a district to hear the release of the next year’s District Convention theme, and much more. Register now!

You can register on the T-O Website!

Fall Rally

YEARLY PLANNING

The summer is when you plan all that you will be completing throughout the year. There are many things that you need to plan for the upcoming year and I am providing a list of the most essential items that need to be put on the calendar.

- Schedule at least four meetings per month, two officer meetings and two member meetings (pick alternating weeks and then put every date on the calendar that you can, as to avoid conflicts with holidays and big school activities)

- Find at least one big project each month for your club and get each project on the calendar

- Plan however many fundraisers your school allows and being to allocate this money to your DCON fund.

- Create t-shirts for your club and offer the designs for sale at the beginning of the school year

- Plan at least one social event for your club each semester and get this on the calendar

- Print out your finalized calendar and put it up so everyone can see (especially officers). Every member should be able to plan ahead. If dates are subject to change, make a note of it on the calendar.

Once the upcoming year is planned, it is extremely easy to run your club. You rarely have to worry about what you are supposed to do next. You just look on your calendar and you know what to do.

When formulating your calendar, scheduling four meetings a month seems like a challenge, but honestly it’s not at all. There is only one meeting a week and only two of them require all members to present. It keeps a cohesion within your club and you have higher attendance at meetings and events. People like routine. One big project a month is something easy you can do during the summer. All you have to do is come up with at least nine projects. That’s super easy! Socials are also very easy to create. Maybe you could have a Key Club holiday party or have an annual Key Club banquet at a restaurant. You could even offer awards to those who were most dedicated throughout the year.

Fundraising is essential to your DCON attendance. Already put on your calendars that you’re coming to DCON. Not only fundraise, but contact your local Kiwanis club and ask how much they will offer your club. Often times, they will donate much money toward your DCON experience! Don’t forget the t-shirt. Everyone loves a good t-shirt.

Presidents, Faculty Advisors, and Secretaries take note: The C.O.C.I. is the registration of your club’s officers with the district board. This gives the district board the ability to observe and contact you as an officer. It’s essential that last year’s officers are removed from the roster and the new officers are placed in their respective positions on the district website. It is very easy to change your C.O.C.I. from the past year. All you need to do is login at www.tokeyclub.com with your school’s information, then just click on the tab for members only. You can make the changes to your C.O.C.I. here. It is pertinent that this is completed. Please include all of your officers. It will take a grand total of about five to ten minutes to change all of the officers information. Please complete this immediately.

All other officers: if the following officer positions mentioned in the previous paragraph are not completing the task of filling out the C.O.C.I., please contact them immediately and let them know that this issue needs to be handled promptly. Still, if no conclusion is being reached, please contact me personally and I will contact your club to have this matter settled.

All Officers: Division 28 is getting off to a great start and this needs to be handled before summer really kicks into full force. I hope the completion of the C.O.C.I. is not a challenge. If you have difficulty filling out the online information or finding the online information once logged in, I will gladly guide you through the process. Please just text me or give me a call, thanks!

Club Officer Contact Information

C.O.C.I

Key Club International is one of the oldest and largest service programs for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to encourage leadership through helping others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs. Many local Key Clubs are sponsored by a local Kiwanis club. The organization was started by California State Commissioner of Schools Albert C. Olney, and vocational education teacher Frank C. Vincent, who together worked to establish the first Key Club at Sacramento High School in California, on May 7, 1925. Female students were first admitted in 1977, ten years before women were admitted to the sponsoring organization, Kiwanis International.

Objectives:

• To develop initiative and leadership. • To provide experience in living and

working together. • To serve the school and community. • To cooperate with the school principal. • To prepare for useful citizenship. • To accept and promote the following

ideals, better known as the Objects of Kiwanis International:

• To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.

• To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.

• To promote the adoption and application of higher standards in scholarship, sportsmanship, and social contacts.

• To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.

• To provide a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render unselfish service, and to build better communities.

• To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and good will.

KEY CLUB 101

Pledge:

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

Some famous Key Clubbers:

Bill Clinton

Tom Cruise

Alan Jackson

Brad Pitt

Elvis Presley.

Governor Rachel Iselin [email protected]

Secretary Crystal Loh [email protected]

Treasurer Emily Zhao [email protected]

Editor Matthew Riley [email protected]

Convention Liaison Megan Reynosa [email protected]

CONTACTS

Lieutenant Governor Mason Woods [email protected] or [email protected]

Instagram - @masonwoods Twitter - @masonwoods1997 Facebook - www.facebook.com/masonwoods97

CONTACTS

JulyDivision 28 Newsletter