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Volume 3, Issue 1 by Jeanie PaekTRANSCRIPT
Division 38 West Newsletter
CNH | KEY CLUB
Volume 3| Issue 1 | June 2012
A Letter From the Editor..……...1
Insert from the previous
Newsletter Editor...…............... 2
Inserts from Club Members and Alumni…………………………... 3
Meet the Presidents.………..... 6
Meet the DLT………………….. 10
Overview of the DCM………. 11
Event Updates….……………. 13
Contact Information.............. 14
In this Issue:
CNH District | Region 5 | Division 38 West 1
Hello Division 38 West!
How are your summer vacations so far? Hopefully you all are
well rested after finals! However, remember that Key Clubbers
do not only serve during the school year, but also whenever
serving is possible. It is our duty to stay active Key Club
members. So let’s begin those service projects to transform our
community as well as build ourselves into better people.
My goal for this year is to keep everyone connected using this
newsletter. To carry out my goal, I plan on including your
article submissions to increase communication and awareness
throughout the division. Therefore, I urge you all to send in
articles about a service project, a DCM, or just on your
experiences during your Key Club year. This is a new year for
Key Club, so let’s review our past experiences, learn from the
mistakes we’ve made, and make this year the best year ever.
Your Divisional Technology Editor,
Jeanie Paek “Caring -
Our Way of Life”
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Being the Division Newsletter Editor came with so many troubles. I stayed up well past
midnight; I had to learn how to avoid procrastination in order to balance school, Key Club
events, friends, family, and newsletters; I had to be ready at any instant where Peter would
require assistance. But with all the responsibilities and exhausting worries that accumulated
upon my shoulders, I have to say that I don’t regret a single moment of this past year.
Despite all the work, this year was also one of my most favorite years in being with Key Club
so far. By working as one of Peter’s assistants, I was granted the wonderful opportunity to
meet so many people and go to many places that I would not be able to go had I refused to
assume this office. In regards to the newsletter (the birth child of my sweat, tears, and
artificial insomnia), I would like to borrow – or rather, steal – the words of the tech editor
before my term, Veronica Cruz: ―Anybody that knows me personally will recall me always
advocating Key Clubbers to read the newsletter; it has SUCH major potential to keep our
division informed and unified.‖ I, too, support her claim, and I know that with this
upcoming year, Jeanie will display an insuperable work ethic that will yield yet another year
of great newsletters. To anyone else that will be interested in obtaining this position next
year, I invite you to do so, because this experience will be one that you will truly treasure.
Victor Ly
2011– 2012 Supreme Overlord Master
Dictator Division Newsletter/Technology
Editor
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Hi, my name is Susan Chor. I am Highland High School’s KEY Club vice
president and a divisional task coordinator. I just want to say that some of my
best memories of freshman year were with KEY club. I think that will hold true
in all of my years in high school! That is a little beside the point though. I wish to
reach out (especially) to other KEY club vice- presidents on a more personal level.
By doing this, I’d like our division to be brought closer. I understand that we’re
all busy, but a simple e-mail or text would be more than enough to get started.
Who knows, I may be stuck on a problem one day and need other vice
presidents’ advice! I encourage all other board members to do the same. In fact,
if need be, anyone can go ahead and contact me (or your DLT) as well for advice
or opinions on matters. I know our divisional leadership team members may be
scary sometimes though… For example, that cute little Korean girl, Jeanie Paek,
especially. Just kidding! Our divisional tech-editor, Jeanie, is awesome!
Susan Chor
HHS Vice President
“Mountaintops
inspire
leaders but valleys
mature them.”
-Winston Churchill
Words of a MemberWords of a MemberWords of a Member
Words from an AlumnusWords from an AlumnusWords from an Alumnus
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I have been a member of Key Club since my sophomore year, but never before have I been so motivated to become involved in fundraising and other club activities.
Quartz Hill High School‘s Key Club President, Nikita Bakhru, along with the elected board of officers have truly turned our school‘s key club around. Our school went from having approximately 17 paying members two years ago to 75 paying members last year and received a plethora of awards which included District Tree, Membership Retention, and 100% Membership Increase, along with many individual officer and member awards. This would not have been possible without the incredible support that we have received from the dynamic duo who stepped up to the plate last year as our club‘s new co-advisers, David Brown and Chris Meester.
Last year was my first year going to Fall Rally, DCON, and a DCM. For the first time ever, I witnessed the incredible power that existed in the roaring of key club cheers shouted by clubs from all over the Cali-Nev-Ha district. ‗Exhilarating‘ cannot begin to describe the sheer magic in numbers that exists within Key Club.
The most memorable fundraiser that I participated in required the collective efforts of every single Quartz Hill Key Club member. We organized a pie-throwing booth where students were able to throw pies at teachers—obvious gluttons for punishment, or really devoted Key Club supporters—for $3 or $4 (depending on the distance between the students throwing the pies and the pie-faced teachers).
When asked how she would describe her participation in Key Club this year, 2012-13 D38W LTG, Rashika Choudhary, responded, ―I was really active and did all that I could to better serve those around me as both a club secretary and Executive Assistant for the Division. Key Club was the one thing I could honestly say I was passionate about. I put my heart and soul into serving others. I not only had the opportunity to serve my home club, but I also had the chance to become like family with fellow Robots. I was not just a member or an officer of Key Club; I became good friends with those around me as well. As the year was coming to an end, I was elected as LTG for the 2012-2013 term—a dream of mine since DCON in Anaheim 2011.‖
I will always remember last year‘s DCON as the time when I got to hang out with some of my best friends in a hotel room playing Nintendo 64 video games all night, wake up at the crack of dawn to eat breakfast and quickly hop on a bus headed to the Santa Clara Convention Center to carry out my official duties as SAA, cheer as loud and exuberantly as humanly possible by engaging in spirit battles with other key clubs in the district, attend as many workshops led by motivational key note speaker, Patrick Maurer, as possible, and make new friends from Key Clubs all over California, Nevada and Hawaii.
I will always remember last year‘s DCON as the time when I got to hang out with some of my best friends in a hotel room playing Nintendo 64 video games all night, wake up at the crack of dawn to eat breakfast and quickly hop on a bus headed to the Santa Clara Convention Center to carry out my official duties as SAA, cheer as loud and exuberantly as humanly possible by engaging in spirit battles with other Key Clubs in the district, attend as many workshops led by motivational key note speaker, Patrick Maurer, as possible, and make new friends from key clubs all over California, Nevada and Hawaii.
Last year was a truly remarkable year and I want to thank my school‘s club advisers, officer board, and members, along with all of the other active clubs and advisers in our division for making my senior year in Key Club the pinnacle of my entire high school experience. I have grown to learn that Key Club is not just a service organization, but an ohana—a family that supports one another—and I could not have asked for a better second family.
Next year I will be moving on to college life at Woodbury University, located in Burbank, CA. I recently contacted Burbank‘s Kiwanis President, Harvey Branman, asking if anyone would be willing to sponsor a Circle K chapter at Woodbury. He informed me that another girl had contacted him as well and he forwarded me to the university president‘s executive assistant/secretary to the board of trustees, who then put me in touch with a soon-to-be second-year Fashion Design major named Asia who already has many faculty members interested in starting a Circle K chapter at Woodbury.
Asia and I had correspondence and she asked if I would be the founding Vice President for the Circle K that we will be starting at Woodbury University next year. I gladly accepted, and I hope to employ my love for Key Club and the skill set that I have acquired during this most memorable year during my term as Vice President of the Circle K chapter at Woodbury. Thanks in part to some kind words of encouragement offered by our division‘s Kiwanis advisor, Ms. Jenn Skidmore, one day I hope to become Circle K‘s Division 16 Lieutenant Governor, and eventually Circle K‘s CNH District Governor. I will forever remember the lessons I have learned in key club and most importantly, I will continue to serve and treat others like family.
Thank you for your love and support, D38W Kiwanians.
Words from an AlumnusWords from an AlumnusWords from an Alumnus
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Michael Giovanni Durso
Key Club Alum of 2012
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Meet the PresidentsMeet the PresidentsMeet the Presidents
My name’s Brentyn Hewitt and I’m Lancaster High School’s Key Club
President. My goals this upcoming school year for Lancaster is to boost
member spirit throughout the year, increase membership, make sure we serve
the community, and have fun doing so. I look forward to being Lancaster's
president and meeting all the other fellow Key Clubbers in the division
including the DLT. Go Division 38 West Robots!!
Brentyn Hewitt
LnHS President
“Though no one can go back and
make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.”
-Carl Bard
Meet the PresidentsMeet the PresidentsMeet the Presidents
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Hey,
I'm the president of the Sherman E. Burroughs High School Key Club,
and I have been a member for 2 years going on 3.
My goals for this year are to increase my members attendance to DCM
meetings, increase my members attendance of weekly meetings by an occa-
sional party throughout the year, and also raise more money for the service
projects that we take part in and have more fundraisers so we can afford to
send more members to DCON!
Daniel Villarreal
Sherman Burroughs President
Meet the PresidentsMeet the PresidentsMeet the Presidents
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Hello! My name is Ashlee Davis and I am SOAR High School's Key Club
President for the 2012-13 school year. Last year I was on SOAR's Key Club execu-
tive board as treasurer, and it being only our first year as a club, things were
thrown together quite haphazardly. But this is a new year, and I would really
like to see our club take off and become more active. I also hope to boost club
meeting attendance because in our first year not many people knew what Key
Club was all about. Finally, because our home club is so new to the game, I would
like to organize and hold events with other Key Clubs, such as Highland High
School's Key Club, which has already graciously offered a helping hand should we
ever need it.
Ashlee Davis
SOAR High School President
“We are in the business of exceed-
ing people’s expectations.”
-Michael Eisner
Meet the PresidentsMeet the PresidentsMeet the Presidents
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Hello, this is Jannah Villaflor from Highland HS Key Club! Serving my
presidential term as a sophomore will definitely be a demanding feat, but it
will be a challenge that I look forward to face. With a large portion of our
active members graduating along with inheriting our new adviser, I realized
that it will be a "build-up" year for us. During the 2012 - 2013 school year, I
hope to gain at least a 20% increase in my club's member count. I also want
to spread our spirit to accumulate more active members because it does not
matter how many members you have if none of them are active. Performing
more community centered service will also be one of my main objectives. I
feel that we've been focusing more on fundraising and providing the members
some simple, doable service projects will be the push we need to getting us
closer to our full potential. Having my club mingle with other school clubs
during service and fundraising projects is also something I am excited to
accomplish in the upcoming year. I look forward to working with my club as
well as the rest of the division during my 2012 - 2013 term!
Jannah Villaflor
HHS President
“ The best way to
find yourself is to lose yourself in the
service of others.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Meet the DLTMeet the DLTMeet the DLT
You know our LTG, Rashika, but do you know the rest of the Division Leadership Team?
Cecilia Nguyen
Position: Executive Assistant
School: Highland High School
Grade: Sophomore, 10th
“Stop thinking of what could
go wrong and start thinking of
what could go right.”
Jeanie Paek
Position: Technology Editor
School: Highland High School
Grade: Sophomore, 10th
“Forgiveness liberates the soul. It re-
moves fear. That is why it is such a
powerful weapon.” - Nelson Mandela
Ashley Beltran
Position: Divisional Secretary
School: Lancaster High School
Grade: Sophomore, 10th
“Shoot for the moon, even if you
miss, you’ll land among the
stars” - Les Brown
The Division Leadership Team looks forward to working with all the members in our
division! We thank you for being the basis of our division and hope for members to stay
active during the school year. Our goal as the DLT is to help unite the division as well as
advise our LTG in any circumstance. We hope you know that we will put immense efforts
into our actions. Thank you for all your support and let’s make this a year to remember!
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For those of you who missed it, there was a DCM (Divisional Council Meeting)/Service Project at the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds on Saturday, June 9th. Key Clubbers from our division gathered for the DCM and then Key Clubbers participated in a trash pick up. Dur-ing the DCM, members from Highland, Quartz Hill, Eastside, and Lancaster gathered as the 2012– 2013 Division Leadership Team was introduced, the basic idea of DCON 2013:
A Million Waves of Service was discussed and our PTP fundraising goal of $1,000 was established.
The June DCMThe June DCMThe June DCM
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The June DCMThe June DCMThe June DCM
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Attendance Point System
Another topic that was discussed at the DCM is the new Attendance Point System. The goal of
the Point System is to help increase member attendance and participation at DCMs and other
events.
The goal of a member is to gain as many points as possible. At the end of the year, we will
have several gift baskets to raffle off. So, the more points you have, the better chance you have
of winning a gift!
You can gain points from the following actions:
1 point for every DCM attended.
1 point for every fundraiser & event attended.
1 point for bringing things such as cookies, drinks, etc. for everyone to share at a DCM/event.
2 points for every friend you get to join Key Club.
3 points for attending events such as RTC, DCON, ICON, etc.
The points will be recorded, so remember to sign in at events and meetings!
T-Shirt Design Submissions
Also, remember that all submissions must be received by no later than 6 PM on
July 1st. Please contact Rashika for any further questions.
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Event UpdatesEvent UpdatesEvent Updates
ICON 2012
The 69th Annual Key Club Interna-
tional Convention will be held in the city
of Orlando, Florida on July 4th - 8th, 2012.
Here, Key Clubbers from all over the world are
given the opportunity to meet each other, start
new friendships, and learn more about other
Key Clubs. It is also where the 2012—2013
International Board will be elected. To those
who are attending ICON: We hope you have a
fun and safe trip! To those who are not: Don’t
worry; there will always be next year!
To learn more about ICON, please visit the
following sites:
http://cnhttp://cnhkeyclub.org/convention/
international-convention hkeyclub.org/
convention/international-convention
http://www.keyclub.org/events/
convention.aspx
Officer Training Conference
(O.T.C)
Meet other members and club officers at O.T.C!
O.T.C is an annual training conference held by
lieutenant governors for club members and
officers. Here, you will be trained by LTGs
including the topics of positional leadership,
committee structure, how to lead meetings, and
service opportunities. Attendance is highly
recommended.
Region Training Conference
(R.T.C)
Mingle with members within the region! R.T.C
is held yearly by the current LTG in the
division in conjunction with other Lt.
Governors in the same region or group of re-
gions. At R.TC. you will meet Key Club mem-
bers from all the other clubs in your region and
division and learn new icebreakers. You will
leave this conference knowing so much more
about Key Club and how to be a more effec-
tive officer and /or member. Workshops may
include membership development, service pro-
jects, fundraising, member recognition, run-
ning for office, all officer workshops, District
Projects, Kiwanis Family, Major Emphasis Pro-
ject, and Key Club 101.
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Contact InformationContact InformationContact Information
Divisional Board
Lieutenant Governor Rashika Choudhary
661-400-9094
Divisional Executive Assistant Cecilia Nguyen
661-916-2896
Divisional Secretary Ashley Beltran
661-268-9263
Divisional Technology Editor Jeanie Paek
310-999-3582
Regional Advisors
Ms. Jenn Skidmore
Mrs. Alyson Palmer
Club Presidents
Burroughs President
Daniel Villarreal
Eastside President
Maribel Hernandez
Highland President
Jannah Villaflor
Lancaster President
Brentyn Hewitt
Quartz Hill President
Niki Bakhru
SOAR President
Ashlee Davis
Key Club International: www.keyclub.org
CNH Cyber Key: www.cnhkeyclub.org
D38W Reflector: groups.google.com/group/div38w