october newsletter
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Fall Rally Recap, Tshirt, etcTRANSCRIPT
K E Y C L U B October 2012
Division 39 SouthVolume 1 Issue 7
Official Newsletter of Mansfield Summit Keyclub T-O District
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• Fall Rally Recap• Carnival Time• Shirt Design• Homecoming• UNICEF• ELIMINATE• Meet the Board
in this issue:
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Jrecap l By Whitney Nguyen Some people wondered whether Fall Rally was
worth the price because of the weather that day. Many people went home, wanting to do their own business after the meeting, but not us. Even though it poured that entire day, our club had one of the best bonding moments we could ever have had.
Each and every ride was exciting and incredibly fun , screaming and hollering with the whole club as a group. We rode the Texas Giant and Mr. Freeze twice! Can you believe that? Not to mention it was painful to ride them both because the rain practical-ly stabbed our faces caused by the speed and height of the roller coaster. But even with the pain, we all agreed it was worth it.
The time our club had together was priceless. It was a great time to bond. Everyone got closer mentally and physically to prevent from freezing to death! We shared laughs and took many group pictures.
To be honest, I became 2x closer to my fellow keyclubbers and got to know the ones i never really talked to. Honestly, the whole day was filled with smiles and laughter. I couldn’t have asked for a bet-ter day.
I’m really thankful for Fall Rally! Without it, I wouldn’t have been able to buy my batman rain-coat, or get closer to my keyclub buddies, or know the feeling of rain hitting your face on a roller coaster, or eat that heavanly funnel cake, or well...there’s too much I want to add. Anyways, I am truly thankful for Keyclub. Keyclub has really brought out my leadership skills and pushed me to my limit. I love community service now and can’t wait to help other people in need. Thank you for the won-derful time Kiwanis!
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dues As you all know, in order to be a member of keyclub, you
have to pay your dues. This year, the cost will be $25 to become a member. A shirt will be included as well.
Becoming a member doesn’t automatically put “keyclub” into your resume or record. You have to earn that title. There are some guidelines to being a keyclub member. You should be interested in service, qualified scholastically, have good character, and possess leadership potential. Each member also must be willing to complete 50 hours of volunteer ser-vice to their home, school, and community annually.
$$$>> CVDues = Membership
why pay dues?
club shirts
Your dues contribute to fundtraiser pro-jects, volunteer events that are in need of money, the district, the benefit of our club, and the shirt!
$25
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Official 2012-2013 Summit Keyclub shirt design has been chosen! Shirts come with dues (unless paid individually). Members who have paid will re-cieve shirts by the end of Novem-ber!
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unicef
meeting surprise
what to look forward to
ecurring olunteervents
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Help eliminate tetanus by grab-bing a unicef box! Don’t forget to pick one up after the meet-
ings! $10 = 1 hour
Ran out of events to do? Have no fear! There will always be these volun-teer services that you can do every week.
Every Monday & Wednesday 4-7pm
Volunteers are needed to do a variety of services from mov-
ing around items, packing and shelving, organizing and basi-cally anything else asked. Lo-
cated at 210 West South Street Arlington TX 76018
Every Tuesday & Thursday4-6pm
Volunteers are needed to do a variety of services from tutor-
ing, reading to the kids, or even making arts and crafts
with them. The Kromer Branch is located 200 E. Cravens Park
Arlington Texas 76018
1) Mission Arlington
2) Boy’s and Girl’s Club
On Halloween, our Spirit Chair Elizabeth Hang gave everyone a “scary surprise”. After our weekly meeting, She brought out a bag of candy. There was a large assortment of different flavored hard candy and chocolate. The surprise brought smiles from all the members as they came up to the front to recieve their surprise! Thanks Eliza-beth for your delicious surprise!
What makes Summit Highschool Keyclub signifi-cant is how much effort we put in to make our meetings exciting! At every meeting, our spirit chair will usually announce upcoming birthdays and congratulate them. There are always fun icebreakers to go with the meetings as well.
HomecomingDanceHomecoming Decorating l By Melanie Louv If you asked anyone at Summit High School, they would say
that this year’s Homecoming was, without a doubt, the best of all time. You’re probably wondering, why exactly was it so great this year? It‘s just Homecoming, right? Well, it’s obviously be-cause of the dance, of course! A lot of people, members of Key Club or not, took time out of their busy lives to come out and help create beautiful decorations for the dance.
This year’s theme was going to be unique and something that no one had ever seen before; vintage circus. Thanks to the hard work of the head of the Homecoming Committee, the wonder-ful Anna Gutierrez, and the actual committee itself, the dance truly was the “greatest show” on Earth! The decorating itself took place on Tuesdays and Thursdays and started three weeks before the date of the actual dance. But on Friday, everyone who volunteered stayed late to ensure that the cafeteria was com-pletely transformed into a whole different place where circus animals, like lions, cheetahs, and elephants, adorned the walls and multi-colored streamers decorated every inch possible of the ceiling.
In the end, all of the hard work, blood, sweat, and tears of the
extraordinary committee paid off. Everyone could agree that the once drab and ugly looking cafeteria had completely changed into something completely different; a beautiful dance floor. Even the well-known Jag Room looked great with all the deco-rations! One of the most active members of the committee was the gorgeous Elizabeth Hang.
“It went really, really well! We got a whole bunch of stuff done and definitely made the commons and Jag Room look totally fabulous and vintage! I absolutely cannot wait until next year to decorate with everyone who helped out this year again! And I hope to see a lot of new faces as well!” said Elizabeth when we asked her how the actual process of decorating for the dance went.
A big thanks goes out to everyone who came out to help,
especially with all of the other events going on that week. The Homecoming dance could not have been possible without the help of the committee. All of the supplies that were brought in and the effort it took to transform those into decorations really set the stage for an amazing dance. If you didn’t attend the dance this year, you definitely missed out. But its okay because next year’s will be even better, even though it’ll be hard to top off the amazing job that everyone did this year!
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spooktacularCARNIVALl By Ashley Neace
On October 25th, D.P. Morris Elementary School held an event
called Spooktacular. This event has been held at the school for a couple years, but this is my first time attending. There were many fun things to do there, such as a cake walk in the library, bowling with pumpkins, concessions, nail painting, face paint-ing, a haunted house, and a whole lot more! This Spooktacular was a good event for various ages! As I walked around, I saw cute little kids around ages five to ten years old in their costumes. The older kids that were there were also dressed up! The mood of the event was very joyous and happy; there was always some-thing there to do.
The first thing I did was volunteer at the pumpkin bowling sta-tion. The decorations there were very cute and creative! They used paper towel rolls as bowling pins, which had ghost faces drawn on them to add a Halloween touch! Each child that would come up to bowl looked so excited! The little kids who came up to bowl, got an advantage to come up closer and bowl so they would have a higher chance of hitting more pins. Bowling with the pumpkins was actually pretty difficult since the pumpkins were so heavy, but other than that, the activity was fun! When someone would knock down any amount of pins, they would get a handful of candy, which was very exciting to the little kids!
After volunteering at that station I went inside for a bit to check
out what they had there! In the cafeteria area, there were tables set up with concessions that you could buy, for a fairly decent price! Soda and such was only around a dollar! There was also a man walking around in a ghost costume. He would walk around and “booooo” at people, but he was a friendly type of ghost! An-other thing that I thought was pretty cool was that some of the volunteers there saw their old teachers from elementary school!
It was awesome that they got to catch up with them and talk! Even though I didn’t go to D.P. Morris., the teach-ers seemed very sweet and friendly! This even lasted about two to two and a half hours long, and it was definitely worth it! Around Halloween time next year, I look for-ward to volunteering at a carnival thing like this again!
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boardMEET the
PresidentUsman Hyder
Vice PresidentElizabeth Phan
Co SecretaryMy Lam
Co SecretaryDiem Tran
Co SecretaryJunior Sanchez
TreasurerKristy Joseph
EditorGrace Liu
Editor DelegateMelanie Louv
Co HistorianWhitney Nguyen
Co HistorianSarthak Gupta
Activities DirectorAshley Neace
Spirit ChairElizabeth Hang
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