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The Official January Newsletter of the Garland High School Division 2C Key Club
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Volume 2 Issue 2 The Official Newsletter of the Garland High School Division 2C Key Club January Edition
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Cover Page…..………..…..….…1
In This Issue……….…..……..……2
Presidents’ Corner……...…....…3
Pancakes with Santa........….… 4
Canstruction……………...…….. 6
ELIMINATE………….….……......... 7
A Year in Review……………….. 8
DCON………….................…..… 10
New T-Shirts…..….……….……… 11
Valentine’s Day Fundraiser……12
Upcoming Events.…………...... 13
Elections Info………………....… 14
Remind 101.………………………16
Key Leader……………………….17
Committee Page….………...… 18
Contact Page….……………. 19
IN THIS ISSUE
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President’s Corner: Juliana Zhang
- Juliana Zhang, President
Vice President’s Corner: Hannah Oden - Brunson
- Hannah Oden - Brunson, Vice President
Presidents’ Corner 3
Hi Key Club! Well we made it through the first
semester and I am very proud of our club. To be an
even better club, let's make sure to keep our
attendance up, to keep getting our hours, and to
keep your commitment to the club! DCON is also
coming up in April, so be sure to signup for that.
Elections are coming and I can’t wait to see the new
wave of leadership for our club. It’s been an honor
serving you all!
Hey Key Club! It’s been a great year with you guys and
congrats on getting through first semester. We’ve got
some great fundraisers and events in store this month!
Something to look forward to in April is DCON. I want
all of you to be there because the experience is awesome
and people are great. Make preparations now so that
you don’t have to be left out. Also, elections are coming
up this month, so for those interested, take the time to
evaluate your strengths and weaknesses as a leader. I
can’t wait to see who our next VP will be!
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This past month, we were able to connect
with out Kiwanis sponsor club by helping at
the Pancakes with Santa event.
This event was a great time to get in the spirit
of Christmas, which may have been hard for
the people studying for finals – it can be very
stressful Fortunately, we were able to blow off
some steam by helping the very generous
Kiwanis club with their pancakes! After
getting out name tags and looking so official,
we established a very well – run system for
serving the delicious breakfast. Some people
manned the sausages, others poured the milk
and of course the best of the best served the
pancakes. Afterwards, we were able to greet
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the Kiwanis members as well. It’s always
great to converse with people who have
the same passion we do and were able to
carry their love for service into adulthood.
Another wonderful treat was seeing the
adorable kids take pictures with Santa.
They faces lit up whenever they got to sit
on Ole’ Cringle’s lap and present their
requests. Let’s just hope they were all on
the nice list! If this event didn’t get you in
the Christmas mood, I don’t know what else
would!
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“Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water -it will make ripples throughout the entire pond…”
― Jessy and Bryan Matteo
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
― Maya Angelou
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Once again, our club participated in
Canstruction, where we collect cans and
compete with other clubs (though we don’t
want to outright say it, we do make it a
competition) and whenever we’re done
collecting, we make our cans into something!
Now, we’re not as professional as those pros
decorating Northpark Mall but we’ve got
talent and it’s really the thought that counts!
We incorporated our theme of Upholding the
Legends of Key Club this year and we made
the four essential pillars and added our little
mascot of the year – Appa! Thank you to
everyone who helped build our pillars, they
looked great!
Canstruction
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Packaging the cans up and loading them on the
truck was a struggle – for a while we didn’t have
eough boxes! Thankfully, we were able to locate
more, but that was after we had already double-
bagged some of the cans! Needles to say,
Canstruction and Destruction was an
adventure and collectively as a school we
donated over 17,000 cans for those in need of
food during the holidays. Great job everyone
who participated in Canstruction and thank
you to those who donated!
Question for Tashmira,
What do you think a person going to DCON for the first time can most look forward to this year?
-Garland HS Key Club
Help save lives.
Do YOU believe in the power of ZERO?
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We need another fundraising idea for ELIMINATE
for this year! The Ultimate Frisbee Tournament
was a success, shall we but on another
tournament? We’ve already raised $1,000,
what’s next for our club in 2014?
A Year in Review
Congratulations to all for surviving another year of school! Also, special congratulations to all of the freshmeat freshmen who completed their first semester of high school! Hopefully, you had some good moments leading up to this point. This year has been challenging, but rewarding for us as a club. I’d say the highlight for us as a club would be reaching our goal of raising $1,000 for The ELIMINATE Project and I’m really proud of everyone who made that happen! It really does take a team of gifted people who are motivated to complete great things, and we’ve managed to do that this year.
I absolutely think we can progress even more for 2014. This club has done so many great things in the past and we can only go up from here! My hope for this year is that more people are able to go to DCON and experience just how great being a Key Clubber is by meeting others and seeing the lives this organization has touched. I also hope we can spread more awareness about the ELIMINATE campaign – our job isn’t done yet! Awareness campaign has been successful in the past and with more experience, we can do better at spreading the word. Our Advertising Committee Head Lacie Block has done a great job and hopefully more of the club committee members work with her in the future. My biggest hope for 2014 is club participation. We have approximately 120 paid members and I would love to see each and every on of you at all of the events! Key Club is a great way to meet wonderful people and that can’t happen unless you attend events and meetings! I know this year, things can change for the better for our club, we all just have to do are parts. And always remember, the opportunities we have right now may not always be available in the future, but the experiences we take from these opportunities will last a lifetime. Thanks for a great year everyone and I look forward to an even great year with you all!
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DCON Theme Announced!
At the next meeting, we will discuss which
team we will be supporting, Peter Pan or
Captain Hook?
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We have our new t-shirt design and theme for this year! Our theme is Uphold the Legend of Key Club. Make sure you pay for your shirt if you ordered one.
We have some extra orders if you would like to buy a shirt so bring $15 to Mr. Stolar’s room.
Special thanks to Nicha Meyer for her epic design!
We will have a fundraiser at lunches
for Valentine’s Day on Friday
February 14th.
You can sign up later this week to
help at lunches if you would like.
We would like for everyone to help
spread the word this week and at
lunches especially.
Anyone can pay $1 to take a photo
of yourself, with a friend or with your
“bae” but don’t feel bad if you
don’t have one! You can still take a
picture!
Please please please spread the
word!
GISD Arts Festival – February 1st
Chili’s Fundraiser Night – February 4th
TWIRP Week – Dress up and take pictures – February 10th – 14th
Valentine’s Day Fundraiser at Lunches – February 14th
Key Club Elections – February 29th + sign-up ends February 19th
Scottish Rite Donations – Two items for 1 hour. Max is 2 hours
Talent Auditions – March 19th
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Go to the website for more updated info on upcoming events : http://ghskeyclub.tumblr.com/
Key Club Elections will be at the end of this month: February 26th, 2014
The following positions will be available:
Club President – make all official executive decisions
Club Vice President- help the president with executive decisions
Club Secretary of Hours – you must document the hours of each member every month so
people know what they’re hours are and also take attendance for board meetings. This job
is very important because your information gets sent to Key Club International in the
form of a report!
Club Secretary of Minutes – you must document all decisions discussed by the board and
also record the minutes of each meeting. Your information also gets sent to Key Club
International as well in the form of a report each month.
Club Treasurer – You’re responsible for making sure all our dues get to KCI on time and
you also should know how many official members we have.
Club Editor (props to whoever runs for this, you’re already awesome) The editor is
responsible for making a newsletter every month capturing what we’ve done as a club and
also what’s in store next month. You can also send in articles to the District Editor to be
posted in the Tex – O – Key if they’re really good! You also must send in reports to the
District Editor each month.
Club Webmaster – If you are interested in graphic design, this is the spot for you! You are
responsible for maintaining and updating the website.
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Club Historian - (there will be two elected for this spot) You will take pictures at events
and meetings and since there are so many, we like to have two spots. Make sure you are
in the position to attend a good number of events, because this is also a very important
spot because we really love documenting all of our memories!
Sergeant at Arms – You make sure we have all of the materials before the meeting
begins (computer, overhead, microphone) and you instill order when its lacking. You
also need to know parliamentary procedure.
It’s important to write a speech, if you look unprepared when you go up there your
chances won’t be very good!
Some questions for those who are running:
Are you willing to make this club your priority?
How willing are you to lead a club?
Where do your strengths lie? (Media. Organization, Spirit, Money management?)
The people elected will be officially replaced after DCON, but it’s important that you
show up to the next board meeting after you win to receive preparation for your
position.
Contact Juliana Zhang if you want to run! The Deadline for signing up is
Monday, February 19th
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Sign Up to receive messages and updates concerning our
club straight to your phone with Remind 101!
Text @55cbb" to the number 972-675-7475.
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The Key Leader 2014 weekends are as follows: January 17-19 at Mt. Lebanon Retreat &Conference Center near Cedar Hill, Texas Registration due January 10th February 14-16 at Carolina Creek Christian
Camp between Huntsville and Trinity, Texas
Registration due February 7th March 28-30 at YMCA Camp Classes near
Davis OK
Registration due March 21st
Important Websites
Key Leader Homepage:
http://key-leader.org/Home.aspx
District Website links (this has
information if you’re looking to receive
apply for a scholarship)
http://tokeyclub.com/register-for-key-
leader-2014/
What is Key Leader?
Key Leader is a weekend camp for
those interested on working on their service
leadership. If you attend, you will meet
students excited to learn about how to be a
better leader like yourself, and you could also
get a head start on learning what it takes to be
a KI leader if you’re looking to fun for LTG,
District or Club spots this year. You’ll also be
able to meet some great students from Texas
and Oklahoma and hopefully see them at
DCON as well!
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Committees Advertising - We need you all to spread the
news about our Valentine’s Day backdrop to
anyone you know! This is supposed to be a fun
fundraiser. We also need help spreading the
word about going to DCON as well.
Scrapbook – The pages of the scrapbook are
looking great! Thanks to everyone who has
participated so far and if you haven’t been
able to attend meetings, you’ve still got time!
We take pride in all of our scrapbooks and
they’re pretty cool to keep over the years!
Please attend all committee meetings after
general meetings as well!
DCON – We’ve got to inform everyone of all the
contests and information for DCON. It’s honestly
a great experience. The talent show audition will
be moved to March 19th. Every great needs to
have at least one act represented per grade
and then we will chose one to represent our
club. Also, the contest package has been
released on tokeyclub.com so check it out if
you would like to go!
Fundraising – We need to have more
organization and coordination with the
fundraiser! We also need a fundraising idea for
ELIMINATE in the Spring and possibly a
fundraising idea for people who want to go to
DCON as cut their fees a bit. As of right now, we
don’t have any use for the whipped cream, so
we need a new idea!
Contacts! Juliana Zhang – Club President
Hanhah Oden –Brunson – Club Vice
President
Michael Nguyen – Club Secretary of
Minutes
Tiffany Yang – Club Historian
Thomas Le – Club Historian
Angelo Echiverri – Club Webmaster
http://ghskeyclub.tumblr.com/
Justine Phan – Club Treasurer
Frank Moreno – Secretary of Hours
Luke Broussard – District Governor
Isaiah ValleQuinones – District
Treasurer
Steffi Lee – Division 2C LTG
Usman Hyder – District Secretary
Tashmira Hossein – District Editor
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Henry Nguyen Sargeant at Arms
