Volume 5 Issue 8 May 2012

Official Newsletter of Virginia Tech CKI

Celebrate, Remember, Fight Back. American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life is an overnight relay-style event where teams of people camp out around a track. They take turns walking the track during the event while food, games and activities are provided for entertainment and fundraising opportunities. The key moments in a Relay experience include a survivor’s lap and a luminaria ceremony followed by a lap of silence.

Relay for Life began in Tacoma, Washington in the mid-1980’s when Dr. Gordy Klatt spent 24 hours running around a track to raise money for the local American Cancer Society. He ran for more than 83 miles and raised $27,000 to fight

[ CKI 101 ]

Fact: CKI has three tenets: Service, Leadership and Fellowship.

At the heart of the organization is service-members perform more than 1 million hours of service

every year. Members can assume leadership

responsibilities at all levels of the organization to become

active citizens. Also, members experience

fellowship and develop lifelong relationships with fellow collegians, advisors, Kiwanians and citizens in

their communities every day.

[ event recap | meet the board | member spotlight | upcoming events ]

Live to Serve. Love to Serve.

HOKIEHOKIEHOKIE HOLLERHOLLERHOLLER

Relay for Life Event Spotlight:

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Did You Know?

Relay for Life at Virginia Tech raised over $500,000 online ALONE in 2011, making VT the university that raised the most money online in the nation.

As of Saturday April 29th, one week after the event itself, Vir-ginia Tech raised around $570,000 for Relay.

How cool is that??

“Lady of the Night at Relay this year was a pretty unusual experience.

Normally I wouldn't dress up as a woman but it was for a great cause

and I had a lot fun doing it. Big ups to all you ladies out there!”

- Ash Elmelik

cancer. His vision of a 24-hour team relay event to raise even more money sparked today’s Relay for Life celebration. Virginia Tech has been the world’s largest collegiate Relay and has raised over $1.5 million in the past three years alone. Let’s go Hokies!

April Events Recap

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[ event recap | meet the inductees| member spotlight | upcoming events ]

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FYI: how much did we make?

Frosty Parrot night : $158 -- goes to the National

MS Society

Moe’s bake sale: $228 -- goes to the American

Cancer Society

Relay for Life event: $296 -- goes to the American

Cancer Society

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Spring Inductions Award Recipients

[ event recap | award recipients | member spotlight | upcoming events ]

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Spirit of Circle K– ERIC DELEON

Outstanding Member– MATT SAVAGE

Outstanding Project Chair– MARIE WARD

Outstanding Committee Chair– LACY GRINDSTAFF

Outstanding New Member–

DANIELLE BRITTIGAN

Creeper of the Year– CHRIS RODGERS

Superior Service and Super Senior–

CHRISSY BARTON

Sponsor-Sponsee– JEFFREY MCGUIRE and ROBERT KUCZMARSKI

Super Senior– KERRY BEYER

Meet Your Newly Inducted Members! Spring Inductions 2012

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[ event recap | meet the inductees| member spotlight | upcoming events ]

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Nikko Tanap

Danielle B

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Kyle G

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Donna M

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CJ Caudill

Quang N

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Jeffrey McG

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Karly Succop

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Meet Your Newly Inducted Members! Spring Inductions 2012

[ event recap | meet the inductees| member spotlight | upcoming events ]

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Melanie B

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Ryan B

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Ashley U

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Dan W

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FELLOWSHIP

Member Spotlight:

Danielle Brittigan

The Outstanding New Member award given at each semester’s inductions ceremony recognizes one of the club’s new members who has shown great dedication and participation to the club and the drive to become a fully-inducted member. This year, this award was given to Danielle Brittigan. Danielle’s willingness to serve was put towards numerous projects this semester. She participated in (just to name a few) the Easter Egg

Hunt, Big Event, and Relay for Life with CKI and could always be found at socials and weekly meetings with her positive attitude and upbeat personality. A freshman Biology major from Forest, Virginia, Danielle has aspirations of attending medical school and becoming a forensic scientist. She played basketball and soccer throughout high school and works as an intermural basketball

referee. Outside of Circle K, she is involved in the Baptist Collegiate Ministries of Virginia Tech as a leader of a bible study. Danielle likes long walks on the beach and dreams to one day be able to finish a carvelanche from the Carvel store in Hokie Grill.

Great job, Danielle! Keep it up!

Kiwanis One Day– Spring 2012

LEADERSHIP

[ event recap | meet the inductees| member spotlight | upcoming events ]

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UPCOMING EVENTS. UPCOMING EVENTS.

Want more information?

VTCKI’s website www.vtcki.org

Capital District

(our district) website www.cdcki.org

CKI homepage www.circlek.org

[ event recap | meet the inductees| member spotlight | upcoming events ]

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A big shout out and congratulations to all of VTCKI’s

2012 graduating seniors:

Jordon Kellam Jason Kellam Alyssa Hosey Jane Giesken Catherine Conti Marie Ward

Chrissy Barton Kerry Beyer Ross Dion

Linda Nguyen Ben Lord

Cooper Nagy Ravi Dihayi

Thank you for all you’ve done and

good luck in the future!

ICON: Circle K International’s 57th Annual International Convention

This year, ICON will be held June 27th-July 1st, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Those attending the convention will be participating in orientations, receptions, workshops, an Eliminate Walk, and a Dance to Eliminate. The convention will take place at the same time as the Kiwanis convention and the Aktion Club Training and Leadership Conference. There will be opportunities for CKI’ers to share sessions with Kiwanians and Aktion clubbers as well as have CKI-focused and individual events. Our very own Chelsea Stallworth, Lacy Grindstaff and Rob Kuczmarski will be in attendance! Have fun, guys!