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Betty Stearns Key Club International Trustee NewsletterTRANSCRIPT
Volume 1, Issue 2
LaMissTenn visit 2
Updates and Re-
minders 3
Special
Committees 4
Project Ideas,
TOMS and more. 5
Trick or Treat for
UNICEF 6
Key Club Week 7
Nickelodeon Day
of Play 7
My Contact Infor-
mation 8
Inside this issue:
Hey LaMissTenn, Mon-
tana, Utah-Idaho!
I hope you all are settling
into school and getting back into
the swing of service!
September has been a crazy
but amazing month for me. I start-
ed school again, and I had the pri-
vledge of being able to visit the
amazing LaMissTenn district board!
I want to give a special thanks to
Rachel and Reagan for taking me
the New Orleans for the first time,
and Tiffany for giving me a ble
French horn to perpetuate my How
I Met Your Mother obsession.
I was a little nervous going
into the board meeting not know-
ing everyone that well just yet, but
this board went above and beyond
to welcome me, from teaching me
how to wobble Saturday night, to
taking me on the full tour of Slidell
(Dakota) and giving me the amazing
surprise gifts, you all are amazing.
When my fellow iboard member
Colten Meisner told me LaMis-
sTenn was Cajun cray, I didn’t un-
derstand, but I now do! You guys
all know how to have a good time
while still getting the work done.
Going to LaMissTenn has just
made me so much more excited to
go visit Montana in November and
Utah-Idaho in January! I miss you
LaMissTenn board already, but I
am always just a phone call away.
To everyone, call me, beep me if
you want to reach me.
In Service, Betty Stearns
LouisianaLouisiana--MississippiMississippi--West TennesseeWest Tennessee
Visit UpdateVisit Update
LaMissTenn– Montana– Utah Idaho
W hen my fellow
Iboard member
Colten Meisner told me the LaMis-
sTenn District was “Cajun Cray,” He
was not joking. These board members
know how to get work done while still
having fun! Whether we were playing
tug of war at Cameron’s Rally, driving
through Slidell to get to the various
event locations, raising money for
eliminate, having committee meet-
ings, or going over board report cards,
there was never a dull moment during the meeting.
I was nervous going in being that it was my first dis-
trict visit, but from the first moment, I was welcomed either
from Rachel at the airport, Reagan’s gift of a Saint’s Tshirt
for our Sunday trip to New Orleans, or from Tiffany’s amaz-
ing Blue French horn for me (My fellow how I met your
Mother fan).
Going to this board meeting reconfirmed why I
chose to run for International Trustee and my love for Key
Club. I was honored to meet so many amazing dedicated Key
Clubbers and advisors that are truly dedicated to service. I am
honored to call these phenomenal board members my
friends. Keep up the amazing work LaMissTenn, and go forth
and conquer the Rally Season! Thank you so much Rachel
and Reagan for my first New Orleans trip, Dakota for driving
me through the ghetto of Slidell, all the members that taught
me how to wobble Saturday night, and everyone on the dis-
trict board that made me feel so welcomed into your meeting.
I honestly can not wait till DCON. I am already dress shop-
ping. Call me, beep me if you want to reach me.
LaMissTenn– Montana– Utah Idaho
Updates and Updates and
RemindersReminders YOF
Are you ready for the Youth opportunities Fund
deadline on October 15th? I hope you all have been work-ing with your clubs to get them to complete this applica-
tion. The youth opportunities fund is a huge resource for
you to pretty much get free money, the first step of accom-
plishing this though has to be applying! The application
and more information on the youth opportunities fun can
be found on the website at: http://www.keyclub.org/
service/fund/yof.aspx
The New Dues Process
New dues process? Yes!
The new dues process is finally
being released. The old mem-
bership update center was tedi-
ous and a pain to complete. This
one is amazing! The release date
has been pushed back a week,
but it is set to be up and run-
ning by Friday October, 5th!
What will this new process
entail?
It will be easier for your clubs to manage their information,
keep track of their members, submit dues, and much much
more.
Due to the later release date: Key Club International
has extended the due date for early bird dues until Novem-
ber 16th! The delinquent dues due date has not changed and will still be on December 1st. If your club does not turn in
dues by December 1st the will be considered suspended.
Please send in your dues as early as possible, for Key Club In-
ternational will be getting dues from thousands of clubs. I rec-
ommend you send in your dues 1—2 weeks ahead of the dead-
line. If you have to go through a school book keeper, I recom-
mend you plan accordingly to the pace of your book keeper,
the last thing you want is for your club to be considered sus-
pended!
If you want to see more about this new dues pro-
cess, please go to the sister districts facebook page and check
out the sneak peak of the new dues website video that I post-
ed. Share this with your clubs and advisors, it will be extremely
useful to all of them. All of the club advisors should be get-
ting a paper in the mail with your club number and password
so you can log into the new membership update center! Have
fun with this new website, and feel free to ask me any ques-
tions on how this website works or how to input dues, or hon-
estly anything at all.
Betty the Trustee’s Social Media
This is a useful tool for me to keep you immediate-
ly updated with international developments and get to
know your fellow sister district members. Please add all of
the members in your district!
Youtube
The Mid Monthly minutes will be posted on my
youtube page. I will post the link to all of the videos on face-
book, but expect a short(1 minute update) around the mid-
dle of every month!
For some personal and Key Club related tweets
follow me @stearnsbetty.
Tumblr
This hasn’t become an active source of information
yet, but once I see more followers, I will start to use this as a
more important tool of information
This is my personal insta, but I do post some key
Club info on here. Follow @bettystearns to see my day to
day life.
LaMissTenn– Montana– Utah Idaho
Key Club SpecialKey Club Special
CommitteesCommittees
F or the first time, you have the opportunity to work
with people all over Key Club International on an
International Committee! The jobs that these com-
mittees do are not jobs that will be done by any
board member or International Board Committee. You will
have great responsibility for the organization as a whole. This
is a great opportunity to meet Key Clubbers all over the
world, see work outside of your district and learn so much of
this great organization. International Board members will
not be apart of these committees, it’s all on you! You will not
be able to find the link to these committee applications on
the website because we want to make sure that the people that
are applying for these applications are serious and ready to
serve. If you want to apply, as your district board members, or
ask me and I will gladly send you the link. The application
deadline is October 15th! Don’t procrastinate!
Bylaw Review Team
Committee Description:
The Bylaw Review Team will be thoroughly picking over Key
Club International's Bylaws and Policies to help eliminate
discrepancies, provide
clarification, and correct
structural/grammatical
issues. It will not be al-
tering content. The By-
law Review Team will
present its suggestions to
the Key Club Interna-
tional Executive Com-
mittee, who may then
choose which revisions
to take to the Key Club
International Board.
Global Task Force
Committee Description:
The Global Task Force will serve to highlight the diversity
and international flavor of our organization, as well as pro-
mote our core value of "inclusiveness" as a way to attract more
members. The Global Task Force will help draft educational
resources and collect stories and video for further use by the
standing International committees.
Service Ambassadors
Committee Description:
Our Service Ambassadors will help promote the Eliminate
Project and our Preferred Charities by encouraging Key Club
members to participate in projects with them and by provid-
ing ideas to help members to know how to participate with
the Eliminate Project and our Preferred Charities. We hope
they will indirectly make service attractive for members by
displaying their
own personal
passion for the
Eliminate Pro-
ject and our
Preferred Chari-
ties in all as-
pects of their lives.
Helpful Hints
Don’t procrastinate! This is an amazing opportunity and many people will be
applying for these positions, so make sure
your application highlights you!
Do the optional letter of recommendation! Yes, its not required, but getting an outsider’s
perspective of how amazing of a person you
are will make you stand out!
LaMissTenn– Montana– Utah Idaho
TOMS World Sight Day and MoreTOMS World Sight Day and More
Open Your EyesOpen Your Eyes
W e can change the way the word sees. On
October 11, 2012, TOMS shoes is sponsor-
ing World sight day which is the interna-
tional day of awareness for the global issue of
avoidable blindness and visual impairment.
Join the global movement on October 11, 2012 to bring awareness
of visual impairment and blindness as a solvable world issue. You
can get involved by going to the TOMS website and checking out
the DIY (Do it yourself ) tool kit to get creative for getting the
word out. Create creative vision test, use the stencils online to get
the word out in a trendy way, or look at what others have done for
inspiration. This is a fun project that goes outside the realm of Key
Club International work, but it is popular cause that is sweeping
the teens and it could be a good way to give your Key Clubs the
“cool” factor they need.
For every pair of stylish sunglasses you buy, you are giving another
person in the world eye sight by either glasses or surgery. Join the
movement and help TOMS with this amazing day.
A nother Out of the Box project Idea:
Cathedral High School’s Key Club, from LaMissTenn, held a
“Pink Wave project” in order to raise money for breast cancer.
“The Key Club, football team, cheerleaders, and
dance team got together and decided to do a huge project to raise money for
cancer. Everything we did was in pink. We got shirts, and bracelets and the
football team and cheerleaders got pink jerseys in honor or in memory of someone with cancer. At the pregame and half time show they announced who every-
one was playing for and then after the game they auctioned off the jerseys. We also
had a walk before the game and a bake sale at school that day. All in all we raised over
$10,000 to donate to Relay for Life!” -Rachel Benoit, LaMissTenn Governor
October is National breast cancer awareness month. Rachel’s
project was a great idea to help with Relay for Life (a project I
know many Key Clubbers are involved in) and it is a great
way to spread the awareness of breast cancer. Great job Ra-
chel!
If you have any project ideas, please email me at kcitrus-
[email protected]. They will most likely be used in my
newsletter!
LaMissTenn– Montana– Utah Idaho
Help Project Eliminate withHelp Project Eliminate with
Trick or Treat for UNICEFTrick or Treat for UNICEF
T rick or treat for
UNICEF
stared in 1950
when a Penn-
sylvania family
decided to collect change
for the children impacted
by WWII. In the past 62
years over $160 million has
been raised through trick
or treat for UNICEF.
Key Club decided
to join in on the fundrais-
ing fun in 1955 and we
have raised over $5 million
through Trick or Treat for
UNICEF! This year, all the money raised through Key Club-
bers from Trick or Treat for UNICEF will be going towards
project ELIMINATE!
This year UNICEF is distributing blank boxes for
Key Clubbers to use their creative side and decorate these
boxes. You can submit a design to the design contest at con-
test.trickortreatforunicef.org.
Did you forgot to order your boxes? Not to worry!
You can still download the canister wrappers at
youth.unicefusa.org/trickortreat/resources. You can find
more information as well as the form to mail in collections at
the same link. The official website is youth. Unicef.org/
trickortreat
Through all the Kiwa-
nis SLP groups, we have raised
almost $600,000 through
Trick or Treat for UNICEF for
Project ELIMINATE. This is
such a fun project and
UNICEF’s new creative ele-
ment to the project just makes
it that much more fun.
Get your club together
to decorate the boxes, and
then go out on Halloween to
collect that change! The trick
or treat for UNICEF website
has copious project ideas to
help with your fundraising,
including a fundraising calen-
dar for October! Why are you
still reading this! Go check it
out! (Just kidding please keep
reading).
Share your fundrais-
ing tips, plans and ideas on the
sister districts page to help
other members in your sister
districts jump start their fund-
raising for October! GO GO
GO check out the website and
make your boxes!!!
LaMissTenn– Montana– Utah Idaho
Prepare for NovemberPrepare for November
Key Club WeekKey Club Week
K ey Club week typically falls within the first full
week of November. This year Key Club Week
will be held on November 5-9, 2012! Start plan-
ning now! I included information under each
day for what my club is planning to do or has done in the
past. Good luck! Tell me your plans for Key Club week and I
will promote them in my next newsletter!
Monday
Show your K in everyway:
publicize Key Club through
your attire, recruitment
posters, announcements,
community publicity, ect.
Getting all the members to
wear club or convention
shirts will be a great way to
promote Key Club to your school.
Something my club does is we give candy to current members
at the following meeting that wore their shirt to give them an
incentive to promote Key Club in a positive way.
Tuesday
Kudos to the Key players:
thank those who matter in
Key Club, like your faculty
advisor, club officers, club
members, or district and
international officers, aka,
everyone! Show apprecia-
tion as best as you see fit!
What my club does is buy flowers or certificates for all the
faculty and members that have helped our club get to the
place we have. Without this, we risk losing our position in
our school and the benefits from the faculty and members we
currently get.
Wednesday
Connect the K’s: partner
with a Kiwanis club,
Builder’s club, K-Kids,
Circle K, or Aktion
Club for a K family pro-
ject.
We my club does is we
invite our Kiwanis to
our Wednesday meeting
an have a project at that meeting like making cards for
Troops or teachers, ect.
Thursday
Bring a friend to Key Club: Recruit new members by bringing
a friend to a “membership drive” or
project you planned.
What my club does includes a little
Key Club week cheating (I hope I
don’t get in trouble for this) but we
give members candy that bring a friend to out Wednesday
meeting.
Friday
Your way: showcase Key
Club however you like!
It’s all up to you! Sell
Key Club to everyone
you might know by
highlighting what it is
that you love best about Key Club. Chances are, they’ll love it
too!
Something my club does is we have a social the last day of Key
Club week to welcome the new members we have gained
throughout the week!
LaMissTenn– Montana– Utah Idaho
Key Club InternationalKey Club International
Nickelodeon and My InformationNickelodeon and My Information
Nickelodeon’s Day of Play
On Saturday October 6th Nickelodeon will be black-
ing out their network for 3, from 12:00pm-3:00pm hours to
promote the 3rd annual Nickelodeon’s Day of Play! The pur-
pose of this craziness is to encourage kids to get off their elec-
tronics and couches and go outside and play!
If you notify Nickelodeon of your project you could
have the chance of having your club’s name roll across the
screen during those three hours.
Help out our fellow vision partner, Nickelodeon, and
create a project around October 6th to help promote activity
in your community. Get more ideas from the official Day of
Play website. There are a plethora of project ideas, resources,
project planning kits, and posters available for download
from the official day of play website!
You also have the chance of sharing your project with
the millions of views of the day of play website. Go to the site
and send your project in-
formation and pictures to
the link they provide!
Your project can inspire
millions to follow your
great lead! Go for it and
do it! Why? Because
#YOLO.
Contact Information/ Newsletter information
All the information on this newsletter can be found on the Keyclub.org website. If you have any issues with anything
regarding the newsletter please feel free to contact me. I am more than willing to show you where you can find this infor-
mation, help you get some ideas for new newsletter topics, or even just talk about Key Club stuff (or Life). I am here for you
and talking to you is my favorite part of this job!
My Contact information:
Email: [email protected]
Cell: (805)5091797 ( I have unlimited minutes, so don’t worry)
Skype: betty.boop9000
Can’t wait to meet all of the Montana board in November! And eventually Utah-Idaho! I You all are doing a great job! Keep
up the phenomenal work!!!