cypress falls key club january newsletter
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Cypress Falls Key Club January NewsletterTRANSCRIPT
UPCOMING EVENTS
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 to combat all forces which tend to undermine these institutions.
Caring: Our Way of Life.
January 2014 Volume 1 Issue 8
KEY CLUB PLEDGE In this issue! Editor’s Letter .... 2 President Letter 3 Articles .............. 4 Contact Info . 5, 6 ELIMINATE .......... 7
C Y P R E S S F A L L S K E Y C L U B
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.” -William James
Get Social! Cypress Falls Key Club (Group) 1 @CypressFallsKeyClub cyfallskey.me
15 First Member Meeting of the Semester, Teaching Theatre, 6:45 AM & 2:45 PM
18 K2 Academy Parents’ Night Out, K2 Academy, 5:30-8:45 PM
Saturday
The fog doesn’t keep these Key Clubbers away from the Toys for Toys 5K! (photo by Dorothy Nguyen)
Wednesday
SERVICE
LEADERSHIP
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Editor’s Letter
Dear lovely Key Clubbers,
I hope y’all’s winter break was nothing short of fabulous! Y’all have done so much great service this year, and I just want to thank y’all for all the time and effort you put into making our community better. I always love the spring semester of Key Club, because that’s when DCON is. DCON is like one big treat for all your hard work at the end of the year. There’s parties, balls, and other fun activities, and you’ll regret it if you don’t go. It’s a lot of fun, and if you want to go, keep your eyes out for a meeting of some sort so you can get all the information you need so that you can go to Dallas and have the greatest time of your life!
Yours in frostbittenly cool service,
Hannah Norem
Letter from the PRESIDENT
leadership
inclusiveness
caring character building
Hey Sweet Serving Snowflakes (because snowflakes are awesome, just like y’all),
Y'all mean a lot to me. Thank you for putting all that you can into this club. I recognize that everyone here is trying there very best to improve our club and serve the community, and that means so to me. Thank you for your passion. I don't know where I would be if y'all were boring/unmotivated/apathetic about Key Club. Your passion drives me to make this year the very best for the Cy-Falls Key Club.
It's a new year so I just wanted to let y’all know about what we have coming up! Our first meeting back from the break is going to be on January 15th. I hope I get to see all of your happy, smiling faces because I have a lot of great events for y’all this next semester. It’s going to be the best semester ever, filled with great opportunities to serve our community, and that’s one of the best things ever. Also this semester, we have DCON. DCON is literally the most wonderful time of the year. It’s an unforgettable weekend, full of fun activities and excitement everywhere you go. You as a Key Clubber get to miss two days of school and stay at a really awesome hotel in Dallas AND get to meet Key Clubbers who are as awesome as you from all over the state of Texas AND Oklahoma. It’s basically like your birthday, New Year’s Eve, and Thanksgiving wrapped up into one weekend. You won’t want to miss it. Finally, we have the perpetually fantastic K2 Parents’ Night out on January 18th from 5:30-8:45. Like always, it’s going to be so much fun, and I encourage everyone to go.
When I graduate high school and move on into the world, I won't remember much about sophomore year except that I got to work with a wonderful group of people with the common goal of improving our community. Key Club has made all the difference for me; I hope it has for you. I can’t wait to see what the rest of the year has in store for this club. See y’all on the 15th!
Yours in Service,
Amy Jiang
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ELIMINATING MNT is “SNOW” joke!
This holiday season was full of Christmas carols, candy canes, and most important, PANCAKES! The main goal and theme this year for Key Club is the Eliminate Project, where we try to raise money to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus. The past year of 2013, we have done UNICEF where many have raise quite a bit of money for the project during the Halloween season. It really is amazing to know that extra coins that lie around can add up to so much! But, the main event we have to raise money is the Eliminate Pancake Breakfast. The Eliminate Pancake Breakfast was hosted during December in a gracious Applebee’s near Cypress Falls High School. Many of the key clubbers willing got in line to sell the tickets. It was common to see a key clubber sell their ticket to their parents, teachers, and fellow students because the tickets were ten dollars each. Some of the key clubbers even bought a ticket for themselves to attend! It was really a team effort to sell the tickets though, because times are hard, but the money did go to a better cause, and that’s what makes everything worth it. On the day of the breakfast, many woke up at the crack of dawn to go help set up the event at Applebee’s. They wiped down the tables and prepared themselves to be waiters and servers for the guests. As the place began to fill with people, everyone volunteering found themselves busy at work. Orders were taken, food was served, guests were greeted, and everyone enjoyed themselves. Around the midway mark of the event, the Key Clubbers prepared a special surprise performance for everyone. They made a cha cha line and sang a song for everyone to get in the spirit. The thing that made the highlight was the president, Amy, going around to every table thanking everyone for buying the ticket and explaining the Eliminate Project. Overall, the Eliminate Pancake Breakfast by CyFalls was a huge success and ended the year on a good note to reaching the goal of the Eliminate Projct. If everyone contributes just a little, together we can all eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus and help make the world a better place.
ELIMINATING Pancakes? By Annie Phan, Historian
Applebee’s: it was more lively than usual this Saturday morning. There were families together, eating pancakes and breakfast at a place minutes away from home. What was even more out of the ordinary was the amount of high schoolers there. This might have been what the average Applebee’s-goer might have observed.
However, they weren’t there to eat—they were serving food! With Santa hats and reindeer headbands, Key Clubbers waited on each family with a smile as they gave them their breakfast. As I took my family over to Applebee’s to support them (by eating a great breakfast), my 14-year-old brother asked, “Why are we spending $40 to eat pancakes?” “Not just pancakes, silly Padawan. Pancakes, eggs, sausage, and fruits galore! (Hashtag, worth it)” I responded back with my usual grin. “It’s for a good cause. These 40 dollars should be put to the best use possible.” And what better use than to save a life? However, saving a life is still a bit of an understatement. A closer estimate is more like saving anywhere from 40 to 100 lives. How, you ask? ELIMINATE, that’s how.
Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT), a disease that plagues many in third-world countries. I bet you’ve never heard of it. That’s because for the most part, MNT has been eliminated from most developed nations through medical advances and vaccinations. But here’s the real question: if we have these vaccinations, why haven’t we been doing anything to eliminate it from the rest of the earth?
A question like this was probably asked by Kiwanis and UNICEF years ago, because both organizations jointly launched ELIMINATE: a huge service project with the goal of eliminating MNT from the rest of the earth—and Key Club is giving their all to see this vision realized. This project was created to answer and solve the previous question. We haven’t been able to do this earlier because of one thing: the cost. On a massive scale, it would be huge (I don’t know the exact amount)! However, there is a great deal of people in just the US. How much would it add up to if each person donated just $10? $10 to eat pancakes, $10 to bring a smile to a family. $10 to save about 15 lives, or even more! So what’s $10 to us? A meal at Chipotle? A Starbucks gift card? How about we make the most of what we have? How about we use $10 for something of far greater value? How about we use $10 to save a family? Now that would be a good Christmas gift.
MNT, Service, and Pancakes By Louis Kirkley, Webmaster
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Contact Info
NAME POSITION EMAIL PHONE #
Amy Jiang President [email protected] 832-‐526-‐0598
Blake Jones Vice-‐President [email protected] 281-‐536-‐3371
Mohammad Syed Treasurer [email protected] 281-‐933-‐7775
Hannah Norem Editor [email protected] 713-‐448-‐9649
Emily Salgado Secretary [email protected] 281-‐221-‐5302
Alea Hon Asst. Secretary a-‐[email protected] 832-‐758-‐7128
NAME POSITION EMAIL PHONE #
Abdur-‐Rahman Zakir Fundraising Chairman [email protected] 832-‐758-‐3751
Sachit Saksena District Project [email protected] 713-‐306-‐9027
Louis Kirkley Web Editor [email protected] 832-‐244-‐7610
Maggie Backs Head Historian [email protected] 281-‐755-‐6343
Brianna Gibson Historian [email protected] 713-‐865-‐6510
Dorothy Nguyen Historian [email protected] 281-‐937-‐2152
Annie Phan Historian [email protected] 832-‐348-‐3143
Vivian Young Historian [email protected] 832-‐620-‐2490
Malaaz Ghandour Governor's Project [email protected] 832 683 0516
Nafeesa Abuwala Governor's Project [email protected] 832-‐620-‐8288
Tri Pham Class Rep 2014 MALE
Hannah Zimmerman Class Rep 2014 FEMALE [email protected] 281-‐961-‐6134
Jacob Jacobson Class Rep 2015 MALE
Lesley Caron Class Rep 2015 FEMALE [email protected] 832-‐755-‐7736
Chandler Yoon Class Rep 2016 MALE [email protected] 832-‐955-‐2678
Leen Eagle Class Rep 2016 FEMALE [email protected] 281-‐948-‐6842
Winnie Lu Class Rep 2017 FEMALE [email protected] 281-‐345-‐8237
Sammitha Cheruvu Aragon's Builder's Chairman [email protected] 281-‐857-‐2149
Ashish Sacheti Aragon's Builder's Club [email protected] 713-‐319-‐6054
Julie Chen Aragon's Builder's Club
Dante Romano Aragon's Builder's Club [email protected] 832-‐538-‐8397
Vedant Sureja Aragon's Builder's Club [email protected] 832-‐576-‐4599
Osvaldo Lara Labay Builder's Club Chairman [email protected]
Angela Lam Labay Builder's Club [email protected] 281-‐704-‐8616
Jenny Ijoma Labay Builder's Club [email protected] 713-‐594-‐3271
Bryan Tran Labay Builder's Club [email protected] 832-‐692-‐1139
Stephanie Doan Labay Builder's Club [email protected] 713-‐382-‐6988
Matthew Stone Publicity [email protected] 281-‐723-‐4549
2013-2014 Cypress Falls Key Club Officers
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Contact Info, cntd.
2013-2014 Texas-Oklahoma District Staff
Governor Luke Broussard [email protected] 325-998-1384 Secretary Usman Hyder [email protected] 817-715-5111 Treasurer Isaiah ValleQuinones [email protected] 580-458-1432 Editor Tashrima Hossain [email protected] 713-505-2252 Convention Liaison Grace Liu [email protected] 817-962-8945
2013-2014 Division 3N Lieutenant Governor
Gabi Bradshaw [email protected] 832-341-6930
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ELIMINATE Pancake Breakfast!
The ELIMINATE Pancake Breakfast held last month was a great success! We raised over 450 dollars for the ELIMINATE Project. This
money will go towards vaccinating over 250 mothers and babies in third world countries and protecting them from tetanus. I’m sure y’all have
gotten your tetanus shots before, and they definitely hurt-‐ a lot. But while the pain of the vaccination is just temporary, it is way better than getting the actual disease. And thanks to y’all’s hard work with selling all the
pancake breakfast tickets and those of y’all who actually volunteered that day at Applebee’s, you helped save the lives of mothers and babies. You also helped make tetanus a thing of the past. So if you helped out in any
way with the breakfast, I sincerely thank you. Y’all are awesome!
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