UW Madison Circle K

Official Club Newsletter

Summer 2016

Table of Contents

Letter From The President

Best Buddies Walk

District Update

Social Segment

International Convention

Kiwanis One Day

Aktion Club

GOALS

Hello Everyone!

My name is Isaac Buttke, and I'm proud to say that I am the President of UW-Madison's

chapter of Circle K International. We've had a great time as a club during the first

two months of my tenure, partaking in some fun service projects like cleaning the

Henry Vilas Zoo and making table decorations with the Aktion Club of Madison, while

also holding some social events such as our End-of-the-Year Cookout. I'm hoping we

can continue doing events like these over the summer and next year while also

making the meetings during the year more engaging and fun by incorporating

service projects and/or guest speakers to make things more enjoyable than they

already are. I'm going to work to implement these things while I'm at home in

Wausau over the summer so that we can have another great year as a club. I hope

everyone has a great summer, and I hope to see you all at the first meeting in

September!

Yours in Service,

President Isaac Buttke

Letter From The President

Happy 20th

Birthday

Isaac!

By: Maren Hjortnaes, UW Madison Club Secretary

If you know about Milwaukee, you probably know about the Bronz Fonz. If you

don’t, I highly suggest you go see him along with the gorgeous Milwaukee Riverwalk, just

like a bunch of people did on May 21st for the Best Buddies friendship walk.

I joined forces with the MSOE Circle K to volunteer at this great event. The walk was

a fully accessible 2 miles long and funds raised benefit Best Buddies International – the

world’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and

economic isolation of the 200 million people with intellectual and developmental

disabilities (IDD). They work to pair together “buddies” to help people with disabilities

form meaningful friendships with their peers and feel valued by society. Overall,

$66,433.03 was raised at the event, just short of the $70,000 goal.

Circle Kers and other kind souls helped direct people and traffic to the route,

cheered everyone on and petted a ton of really cute dogs. Everyone either had cowbells or

“Thundersticks” to help encourage walkers, and those directing traffic had stop signs. It

was a beautiful day which makes it an even better day for service, as well as free t-shirts

and lunch.

(Mikayla Landowski of MSOE Circle K at the Milwaukee Riverwalk for the Best Buddies Walk.)

Best Buddies Friendship Walk

District Update

Hello Madison CKI’ers!

It’s hard to believe we are already two months into the new Circle K year. There’s a lot we’ve

accomplished already, but there is much more work to be done as well!

We recently gained three new additions to the district board. Evan Timmermann from UW-Milwaukee

boldly stepped up to serve as your District Secretary. Annabell Pedersen from UW-Eau Claire is now your

liaison to the K Family as your K Family Chair. And, your very own Michaela Gombar is your new Service

Chair. I am very happy to have such great individuals on my team, and I am confident in their ability to

serve you, the members.

Underway is planning for three awesome, fun-packed, and- dare I say, even educational, District Events.

The first is CKIx. CKIx is our end of the year convention with International. It is being held in Toronto,

Canada from June 22-26. You can read more about CKIx in my other article, “On to Toronto.”

Our next event is the Membership Education and Recruitment Program, or commonly called MERP. MERP

is a one day event where members of all levels of Circle K come together to learn more about our

organization, the K Family, how to recruit and retain members, how to have a successful Organizational

Fair, and much more. But more than that, it is a great opportunity to meet and hang out with members

from all over Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, and we are hoping to have a social event afterward. MERP

is going to be held at UW-Green Bay on Saturday, August 6. Join our Facebook event for more details.

(https://www.facebook.com/events/113980339020989/)

Our final summer/fall event is the K Family Baseball Game (KFBG). KFBG is simply a day of fellowship. We

have members from every branch of the K Family from all over the state in attendance. The baseball

game is at Miller Park in Milwaukee, and the Brewers will take on the Reds at 1:10pm on Sunday, Sept. 25.

Even though the game seems far away, we need to have registration in by August 15. Feel free to invite

your friends, roommates, family, or anyone else who loves the Brewers. The cost is $20, 7 of which is

donated to Camp Wawbeek. We currently have $988/$3,500 so these donations will be huge toward

accomplishing our District donation goal.

We have a lot more fun things in store as we continue our year, and I would love to see all of you again

this summer. As always, feel free to reach out if you ever have any questions or concerns, or just want to

chat! Your lovely executive board will know how to reach me.

Yours in Service and WUM Love,

Kasey Hodges

Kasey Hodges, WUM District Governor

HUNTER’S SOCIAL SEGMENT

I’m Hunter Reed and I am ecstatic to be your new Social Chair for the UW Madison chapter of Circle K this

upcoming year! All you need to know about me is that I’m a junior studying Communication Arts, I love

meeting cool new people/taking Snapchat selfies with them, my heart loves travel even though my bank

account doesn’t, I dress like a middle-aged dad most of the time and I use words like “tight” and “rad” un-

ironically.

I have a multitude of ideas on events to bring us closer together as an organization this year. Whether we’re

singing off-key karaoke, making some bomb s’mores at Picnic Point, taking time to chill out and enjoy the

Terrace, or simply studying together and trying not to fail our finals; we’ll have a good time no matter what

we’re doing! These events are going to be a great way for us to understand each other when we’re working as

a team and volunteering for the community. I’m super excited to get to know all of you and your

personalities come fall semester. Feel free to hit me up with suggestions for any events we can do as a group

that you are interested in; my email is hrreed@wisc.edu. Enjoy your summer, soak up the sun and I can’t wait

to see you all at the first meeting in September!

On To Toronto

What does poutine, 6:30am flights, serving the homeless, House of Delegates, and

thousands of CKI’ers have in common? CKIx of course! This year’s International

Convention is being held in Toronto, Canada from June 22-26.

Wisconsin-Upper Michigan (WUM) has 6 members and 3 Kiwanians attending the event

(that puts us at 90% of our attendance goal- Woo!) We have myself from UW-Whitewater, 2

members from UW-Stevens Point, a member from UW-Eau Claire, one member from

Michigan Tech, and Five from UW-Madison attending.

In Toronto we have a very full schedule. We will begin by spending a full day serving the

homeless in Toronto in various capacities and places. There is an estimated 5,000 people

living on the streets or in shelters in Toronto. I cannot imagine having to live on the streets

during winter in Canada (or anywhere really) so I am very excited for the opportunity to

help in any way. In addition to our day of service, Circle K Subregions were asked to bring

different packages of clothing to donate, such as underwear, socks, and hats. Hopefully

through our efforts we may reduce the number of people on the streets.

Next we have caucusing and elections. As you know, Five Yang is running for Subregion C

Trustee. We will spend time listening to him and many others speak and answer questions

about their visions for Circle K, specifically at the International level. Every club is allotted

two delegates for voting, so all of our attendees will get the opportunity to vote for our

International President, International Vice President, Subregion C Trustee, and bylaw

changes. It’s like at our own District Convention, but with tons more people.

Finally, we get to attend some workshops, watch the installation of the new board, and tour

beautiful Toronto. We are allowed to get dinner at various restaurants around Toronto all

week, so we will get the chance to eat, sight-see, and eat again!

I am very excited to spend a full week exploring all three of the CKI tenants with not just my

club, not just with my district, not even just with my subregion, but with CKI members all

over the world.

I can’t wait to tell you all about the experience once I’m home, but for now, I’m on to

Toronto!

Kasey Hodges

2016-2017 Wisconsin- Upper Michigan District Governor

Kiwanis One Day By: Michaela Gombar

Kiwanis One Day was Saturday April 16th at Henry Vilas Zoo. A big thanks to Five, Steph, Rachael,

Riley, and our advisor Rachel who came with us. The zoo has a Kiwanis garden that the local clubs

sponsor and work on yearly. We spent the morning raking leaves, gardening and spreading mulch in

that garden as well as other areas around the zoo. All these little things really help to jumpstart the

beginning of the work that the zoo needs to do to get ready for summer season. Afterwards, we

were able to walk around the zoo! (We really loved the red panda.) It was really cool to be able to

connect with the different groups there, such as the different Key Clubs and Circle K Clubs, as well as

members of the district board. I talked with a few Key Clubbers and it was really cool to give them

advice about college and high school. The Kiwanis One Day event is annual, so it would be really

cool to see a larger representation of our club there next year! I would also be open to investigating

more volunteering at the zoo, so please contact me at mgombar@wisc.edu if you are interested in

this!

Aktion Club

By: Five Yang

What is Circle K without that Kiwanis Family? We often hear about Kiwanis and Key Club, but how

much do we know about Aktion Club? Aktion Club is the branch of the Kiwanis for adults with

disabilities. However, Aktion Club is a very enthusiastic and excited group of individuals who are no

different than us. They are just as eager as we are to make a difference in the community. In the

Madison area we are very fortunate to have a club that is sponsored by the Madison East Kiwanis

Club.

On April 14, the Aktion Club invited the UW-Madison Circle K Club to attend one of their general

meetings and assist them with an arts and craft project. The meeting, which President Isaac Buttke

and Immediate-Past Governor Five attended, was very fun. It was filled with updates and many

great jokes. After they took care of their meeting business, Isaac and Five were asked to assist in

making table decorations for one of their upcoming fundraisers. They were able to use their coloring

and artistic skills from grade pre-school.

Overall, the meeting was very fun and exciting. They even invited us to attend their meetings again

in the fall when school is back in session and Circle K’ers are back on campus. So keep an ear out for

the next time we visit them. We hope you can join us!

UW MADISON CLUB GOALS FOR 2016-2017

1500 Service Hours

50 Paid Members

4 Socials Per Semester

$1000 Fundraised for the March of Dimes

4 Inter-clubs per semester

4 K Family events total

Thanks for Reading!

Congrats to

our graduating

Seniors!