division 16 newsletter-april 2013
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Division 16's Newsletter for the month of AprilTRANSCRIPT
APRIL 2013 NEWSLETTER
Ohana means family, and family
means no one gets left behind or
forgotten
This newsletter is dedicated to all the white tigers who have spent
their time serving, roaring, and loving key club. Thank you
especially to the white tigers who are leaving, your smiles and
inspiring passion in everything you do, whether it was
volunteering at a service event, or just hanging out at a fundraiser
with your fellow key clubbers, will never be forgotten. You will
absolutely indefinitely be missed and remembered by our ohana.
2012-2013 White Tigers
Photo courtesy of Beccs Lee
White Tigers, HOW DO YOU FEEL!?!? My name is Claudia Diaz and I am here to serve you as your Lieutenant Governor.
I joined Key Club my freshman year having known I was going to join since I was in the
seventh grade when I first attended a Key Club event with my older sisters. Since then, I have
known this was the right place for me. Key Club sparked a passion. Key Club has made me
want to do my best and be the best person I can possibly be. Last year I had the honor to serve
on the Division 16 Executive Board as Secretary and today, I am here finally fulfilling my dream of
serving you as Lieutenant Governor.
So Key Club? Do you make keys? Yes we make keys to open the doors of the future for
the future. As Key Clubbers, we wake up at 6 in the morning and give up our weekends all for
the love of service, the love of serving someone in need. Whether it is a marathon we help out
at or a homeless shelter, we are there. We are there serving our home, school, and community.
We are there leaving our paws imprinted on all of the hearts we touch by serving them.
This year I will stop at nothing to ensure Division 16 has the best year we can possibly have
before we realign. I want to ensure we are all having fun and are united as an Ohana. Yeah,
that’s right an Ohana. Division 16, we are a family of White Tigers so whether you be from
Valencia or East Valley don’t ever forget that we have each other. If you ever need advice or
just need someone to talk to, don’t ever hesitate to ask a fellow White Tiger because I know that
as Key Clubbers we will forever be here for each other.
Division 16 White Tigers, we will make our mark in the California-Nevada-Hawaii District and
we’ll show them all how fierce Division 16 really is and how loud we can ROAR. Whether you are
an underclassman, a junior, or are graduating in a few months, you are a White Tiger and will
forever remain a White Tiger.
I feel so honored to be able to serve you all and I really do look forward to meeting each
and every single one of you very soon. Thank you for all of your service, keep it up Division 16!
2013-2014 Lieutenant Governor,
Claudia Diaz
By Romulo Dinsay
Bell-Jeff Bulletin Editor
North Hollywood Key Club and NHHS Leadership held the
UCLA Blood Drive on March 19, 2013. The club members helped
spread the news and some was able to donate as well. It was a
day-long event that many students over the age of 16
participated in.
After donating blood, the donators were offered
refreshments and stickers. The donated blood is to be used in
blood transfusion or medical research.
The first key club
meeting lead by our new
officers occurred this past
week on April 3. One of our
main goals this year is to
increase our member
participation. We have many
key club members but very
few go to key club events
and meetings. To change this
we will now be doing various
new activities during our key
club meetings to get out
members more involved,
excited, and comfortable into
our white tigers family!
One of our new
activities includes various ice
breakers the officers will lead
and incorporate other
members to join.
One of our ice breakers
featured our officers going up
to various key club members
with pick-up lines. The
purpose of this ice breaker is
to be able to complete this
activity without ever laughing
and successfully turn down
the person hitting on you with
a straight face. This includes
smiling! It was a very difficult
task to keep a straight face,
First Meeting of New Term
but we did have a few
successful key club members.
Nevertheless, we all enjoyed this
ice breaker and it bonded our
club as whole even closer
together.
Another one of our activities
included more chants and
cheers to show our members.
The new cheer we learned this
week was "More pancakes!
Pancakes! Pancakes!". The point
of this cheer is to successfully be
able to yell this cheer out
repeatedly with the appropriate
hand signals. It may seem like an
easy task, but it is certainly not.
But despite the difficulty in this
chant, all the key club members
enjoyed as the officers began to
chant!
All in all, we had a very
successful first meeting after
DCON with our new officers
leading!
Piz
On April 6, Saturday, a fun bowling
fundraiser was held by the Division Kiwanis
group to celebrate Kiwanis One Day and
to raise money to support the Painted
Turtle. The fee for bowling was $25 and
helped to give kids with special medical
needs a fun time and camp experience.
The Santa Clarita Kiwanis Clubs and the
Santa Clarita Aktion Club worked together
to make this event a success.
Pizza was provided for lunch and
included in the $25 payment fee and at
the end of the day, awards were given out
for High Game and High Series.
The 2013 Key Club
International Convention is a
great way to meet Key Clubbers
from around the world. This great
event will take place in the
summer, July 3-7 in Washington
DC, at the Washington Hilton
Hotel.
Early bird registration ends
May 17 and the price for the
early bird tour is $175 and after
May 17 it will rise to $215.
Project EliMiNaTe What is Project EliMiNaTe? Project Eliminate is a five year international fundraising initiative. Every nine minutes a
baby dies from Maternal Neonatal Tetanus, that's about 60,000 deaths a year that both include the mother and the baby. The cost of a vaccine? For a smaller price than two bags of chips, a sandwich, or a beverage, $1.80 covers
the cost of immunizing one mother. Once the mother is immunized, all of her future
babies will now be immune from Tetanus.
Our goal? ELIMINATE MNT from the world by 2015.
Service Project Idea: Baby Bottles for Project Eliminate
Clubs can obtain baby bottles (buy them from the dollar tree) for their members. The
members can then go around school asking for donations or any loose change for a
few weeks and help save babies and their mothers!
Region 7 Crewnecks
This year, Region 7 will be opening up Region 7
Crewneck submissions to members. If you want
to see your design on many many Key Clubbers
then you should definitely submit a design! The
winner gets a free crewneck!
May 4th, 6:00 pm: Submissions Deadline
After all submissions are turned in, they will be
compiled into a survey and Region 7 members
will be able to vote. (:
All submissions need to be turned into
Not yet signed onto the Division 16 Key Club
Reflector? Then sign on here!
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups
#!forum/d16whitetigers
This is especially important for club officers, as
LTG Claudia Diaz will be sending out important
information through this group.
Spirit Wear is still available for sale!
This includes:
Key Club Swag Crewnecks for $10
Division 16 Shirt for $10
White Tiger Hat for $10
White Tiger Sunglasses for $5
Please email [email protected]
Got a tumblr?
Then follow us! @ d16whitetigers.tumblr.com
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pretty
please? I has food
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If this doesn’t convince you,
Look at it again.
Photo courtesy of whoever took these pictures lol
lol jk guys that wasn’t the end, but the next pages
are, and I hope you enjoy reading them
To Vance,
You're oh, so fab I
just can't.
Love, Vance
Dear Paolo,
WHERE DO I EVEN START. From our first time meeting
(if you can call it that, since you mostly just ran up to
me and told me I looked like Christina lol) to now
you have given me so many memories! It sucks that
you are a senior. Who's going to make up a
language with me or be crazy and stress out with
me? Who's going to mermaid dance with me? HOW
WILL I EVER FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN CHOKE ON
THEIR OWN TONGUE? ^^ You have been such an
amazing friend to talk to and to get advice from
and I'm glad that we became such good friends this
year. I seriously hope we keep in touch because I
need someone to have GIF wars with! I hope that
the people at college don't "treat you like a third
world animal" ahahah. I cannot fit all the memories
and laughs we had here, but I just want to thank
you for making this key club year so fun!
CRUSHED IT,
Jinny Lee
P.S.- I'm also good at pirate dancing.
Dear Vance,
I SWEAR TO GOD YOUR VIDEOS ON FACEBOOK
SHORTEN MY LIFESPAN. MY OLD HEART CANNOT
TAKE ANYMORE! Well anywho, I am sooooo glad
that I met you this year~ From bonding with you
and Paolo over our love for pitch perfect to
swearing that I will end your life after seeing your
various TERRIFYING videos on Facebook, I'm happy
to say that I met someone as awesome and as
hilarious as you! Good luck in college and stay
FAB-U-LOUS~ ahaha
Challenge complete,
Jinny Lee
P.S- Don't eat too many shrooms lol ;)
Dear senior white tigers,
Even though this is the farewell letter, is it really
farewell for good? Remember, once a Key Clubber,
always a Key Clubber! I was sooo honored to have
been able to grow as a person with you guys, and I
know that we will all do great things in the future.
From the first Key Club event to the last, I have had
the pleasure of being a part of this division with you
all. Events like Fall Rally and DCON, AIDS Walk and
Ohana Night, and those DCM's we've had at
Dockweiler, those are all memories that I will
remember forever. All the laughs we've shared, the
awkward moments, the inside jokes, the rants to
release stress...all of it, i will seriously miss. Good luck
with your future, seniors. Hopefully we'll come across
each other at some point again:)
Love,
Paolo Esguerra
IP VHS Key Club President 2012-2013
Valencia High School
IP Division 16 Spirit Chair 2012-2013
Region 7, CNH Key Club
Dear purffs,
Thank you STITCH, TOTO, PABU, and PAOLOLO for everything
that you did. From helping me with supplies to setting up the
activities, I couldn't have asked for a better group of people
to work with. I'm sorry that you guys weren't able to join in on
the fun and whatnot, but I'm really glad I had you guys by
my side! Thank you PABU for always having such amazing
dare ideas and for making the pins. Thank you STITCH for
always helping me in every way that you could, I seriously
would have gone craycray without your help taking pictures
and helping me with the heavy lifting ahah. Thank you TOTO
for the fun and quirky games you introduced me to like the
apple game! I know that the Division is in capable hands
and i'm proud to call you my momma tiger Thank you
PAOLOLO for joining in last minute and giving such great
ideas for themed dares!
Thanks so much guys!
With love and gratitude,
Tikitikikawaii <3
Dear Michelle,
Thank you so much for being there for me all the
time, for helping with Key Club, for encouraging
me, and for smiling and always giving me hope
all the time. You are literally an angel, one of the
most kindest people I’ve ever met. It was an
honor to have like all my extracurriculars with you
hahaxD You are an amazing person and I strive
to be like you, I’m really going to miss you next
year and every year after that! Thank you so so
much, I don’t think I can say thank you enough
to show you how thankful I am. You are also the
absolute definition of kawaii hahaxDD Thank you,
and I hope you continue to do amazing things,
thank you for inspiring me I will never forget you
Jenny Lee
Tylllerrrrrrr
Happy Birthday^^
Haha you’re my bffflll and I love you to
death, even if your “tagging me” on
facebook pics and obsession with
perfection and romance novels drives me
insane. You are amazing and hilarious and I
have such a fun time when I’m with youxD
thank you for joining key club with me, and
thank you for sticking with me through the
end I’m so happy for you for getting spirit
chair, you truly deserve it
Ps happy birthday
Jenny Lee
THE TIGER TIMES
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.
“
“
a Kiwanis family member
keyclub.org