D12E August Newsletter

Division 12 East August Newsletter: August Newsletter 1 1

KEY CLUB I CNH I REGION 17

Division 12 East

LTG'S MESSAGE Hey everyone! I hope you all had a blast at OTC. If you missed

OTC, don't worry! You can go to RTC. You can find out more

information on this in the RTC Information page later in the newsletter (page 6). If you missed RTC, FRN is coming up!

Remember that in preparation for FRN, you all should start

fundraising for PTP! If your club has already fundraised money

for PTP, please be sure to let me know, so that the money

can be accurately accounted for! If you have cash, please let me know so I can give it to one of our Region Advisors for

safekeeping (students should not be handling money), and if

you have a check, remember to make it out to CNH Key Club!

Every month, I will post a challenge that I would like for you all

to complete. You can post it on the division facebook page or

your home club page... maybe email it to me or someone else- whatever floats your boat! This is not mandatory, but it

would be awesome if you could all do it!

CHALLENGE: What has been your greatest Key Club

achievement? Are there still goals that you are striving to

reach? If so, what are they and how do you plan on reaching

them?

Vanessa Yeh,

2012-2013 D12E Lieutenant Governor


CLUB UPDATES

Basking in the warm sun. Bracing yourself for the heat. Baking yourself to a nice,

golden brown…or trying hard to remain light. Basically doing whatever you want to do.

Just like that, we hope everyone has been enjoying their summer! We at American

present to you a golden opportunity to have fun with friends and serve your community at the same time, with Relay For Life!

What is Relay For Life? Those of you who have attended the last DCM may remember

two special guest speakers talking to us about the relay, its purpose and origins. To

recap, Relay For Life is a subunit of the American Cancer Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fundraising money for cancer research and education. At

the relay (which is not really a marathon or anything like that), people will continue to walk the track for 24 hours to symbolize that, because cancer never stops for anyone,

we will not stop fighting it either.

Right now, American is planning to partner up with Irvington to make a team to attend the upcoming Newark Relay For Life, on August 11th to 12th. They need volunteers to

come and help them set up, clean up, and do other miscellaneous tasks on campus!

So if you decide to go right now, you’ll be saving two birds with one arrow-of-life by showing off your benevolent Key Club spirit and helping fight cancer! If you would like

to join our team or receive more information about it, please contact Stanley Han (American’s president) at [email protected], Vivian Nguyen (Irvington’s

president), or Agnes Chung (American’s bulletin editor) at [email protected].

Key Club + Relay For Life = Together, let’s K.O. cancer out of this world!

June was a busy yet very successful month for Independence High School's Key Club! We started off the month with American High School's Gala Night, where we bonded over

entertainment, food, and Key Club spirit! The executive officers held a board training conference to train our board members and to educate them about the history, goals, and roles of Key Club.

We participated in Election Night, where 20 volunteers helped our club raise $1,000!! With the club president off to Nicaragua for service, education, and adventure shortly after, the 4 other

executive officers put their leadership skills together to organize the Basket Boy Scavenger Hunt

event/fundraiser which allowed our club to raise $200. Although it was very hot, the event was successful, unique, and fun! CMF (Chinese Moon Festival) craft days also started, and many of

our Key Clubbers devoted their Friday and Saturday afternoons to help make creative crafts for kids. Our project directors showed their passion for service and led many events this month for

our members!

Our June 23 car wash was a huge success, with over $700 earned! June was a great month for us because we earned $1,935 and had over 700 service hours from our dedicated members!

Although our treasurer will be leaving to Nicaragua just after our president travels back to San Jose, Independence High School's Key Club will continue to amaze everyone as July comes

around the corner!!

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On Saturday, June 23rd, our club volunteered at Festival in the Park on Hellyer

Avenue in San Jose. Our officers and members worked to set up and tear down

exhibits, help with visitor and exhibitor registration and hospitality, and clean up

the park afterwards. Some of our key clubbers also became amusement ride

attendants and rest area and shuttle station attendants as well. It was an

extremely enjoyable event to begin the summer, and we were able to create a

good relationship with the County Park coordinators. In the future, we plan to help

County Park with their other events and fundraisers. For next month, we will

participate in the San Francisco AIDs walk with our members and are currently

organizing BART rides.

In July, we also plan to have an officer-member bonding event at a local park in

order to increase member and officer communication. For this bonding event, we

want to have a small picnic and play ice-breaker games, but not all the details are

set in stone yet. We are also planning to work with the Second Harvest Food

Bank closely to have a long-term service event for our key clubbers to participate

in. Although it is not finalized right now, our officers are currently planning a

Freshberry fundraiser for July and a Sweet Tomatoes fundraiser in August.

Irvington will also be preparing some more consistent monthly/bi-monthly

service events such as MS Nucleus Night (which is once a month) as well as host

more special/misc. events in the school year. These are the events are currently

being planned for the upcoming school year.

Currently we are up to fixing up our club and helping

Key Club regain its ground in James Logan High School,

and that's our priority for now. And we do have an

upcoming event which is on August 25 and it's the

Relay for life at James Logan's Track. And if anyone is interested in joining our team it's JLHS Key Club. Right

now we are currently planning a fundraising event with

Jamba Juice to help with donations to the American

Cancer Association for the Relay.

Though KIPP's Key Club has not been active

recently, we have big plans for the upcoming school

year. We want to hold three service events monthly,

and a project every other month. Though most of

our members are on vacation for the summer, we want to collect a team and participate in Mt.

Pleasant's Relay for Life. Last but not least, we want

to increase membership and have an amazing

experience in Key Club!

Irvington

Festival in the Park

James Logan KIPP


Milpitas Key Club helped out in the

Milpitas Relay for Life on June 23. Members were able to raise up to

$900.36 for the American Cancer

Society through donations. For the

month of July, members will be

painting murals at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center as community

service and attending Region 17's

annual Officer Training Conference.

Although Relay for Life was the only

event we had this month, we are currently planning and preparing for

the next school year: We hope to

host a charity dinner in the fall to

raise money for Pediatric Trauma Prevention before Fall Rally North.

Other smaller events to raise money

for events such as FRN and DCON

include merchandise sales, as the

cabinet is currently designing new lanyards and possibly sweatshirts

for members, car washes, and

Yogurtland fundraisers.

Mission San Jose Key Club hosted our annual “Kiss a Senior

Goodbye Grams” event in the month of June. We held meetings to

plan the event, publicize the event, and make the grams. During this fundraiser, freshmen, sophomores, and juniors bought cards

with Hershey kisses attached to give to the graduating seniors, in

sign of affection and respect. Our Key Club board members

delivered each gram to each senior personally during the senior's

3rd periods. Though the grams were specifically for underclassmen as well as the seniors themselves, to say a last farewell to their

fellow seniors many of the underclassmen had also bought these

grams to send to their fellow underclassmen. We were happy to

see the smiles on their faces when they received a gram.

Next year during MSJHS's orientation we will try to aim for

freshmen. Also we will connect more personally with our members via phone or email. This will make our members feel more bonded

with their officers, ultimately making them more motivated about

going to events as well as participating in fundraisers. For our

fundraisers, we will sell grams mainly during holidays, we will

continue doing our "Kiss a Senior Goodbye Grams".

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The San Jose High Key Club is preparing for the

upcoming school year financially, recruiting, and

events wise. We have been budgeting for all of the

events this upcoming year and have chosen most of the events we will be participating in. Our summer

meetings have also included coming up with ways

to increase our member count. We've also worked

on improving ourselves as a board and club in

general through bonding activities. I think my club is

well prepared for the upcoming school year.

Piedmont Hills Key Club is going through quite a

few changes,a change of board and a change of

mascot. With everything going on, I’ll admit that at

times it’s difficult to focus on what Key Club is really

about: service. There’s much to be done, such as training new officers or organizing the club binder,

but it all comes down to the members and their

participation in helping the community. For the

coming school year, I’d like to bring our club to a height that we’ve never reached before, with a

variety of activities so that there’s something for

each and every member to enjoy. This includes

socials so that the members and officers can grow

closer, promoting even better cooperation in our

efforts to serve.

Our school is preparing for the upcoming school year

by recruiting new members and spreading more information about Key Club on our facebook group

page! I'm looking back to some pros and cons of

how we ran events and meetings last year, and

hopefully, we can improve our club this year.

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JUNE Division Council Meeting DCM In the Japanese culture, 1,000 cranes

represent one wish. If you can wish for

one thing what would it be? Division 12 East made one wish on June 22, that is

for all patients of the Kaiser Permanente’s

Children Hospital to be healthy and happy.

In total we made 760 cranes. All were

donated to the hospital.

June DCM was held by American High School at Lake Elizabeth. Besides from

making cranes throughout the meeting,

we got an opportunity to meet Cancer

survivor and her best friend, who both

promote Relay For Life around the area. In the future, we hope to participate in Relay

For Life, an event that celebrates the lives

of many cancer survivors and fights for a

cure to this deadly disease.

Thank You American High School!

International Convention [ICON] I didn’t really know what to expect going to International Convention 2012. I

didn’t know anyone with the exception of Vanessa and Annie, and looking

back, I didn’t know much about Key Club at all. And yet, within less than a

week all of that changed: I met some of the most outgoing and friendly Key

Clubbers on the district and international level; I was inspired by others’ unwavering dedication to this organization; I admired the grace and confidence

that the international board members held themselves; I even stupidly chanted

and clapped alongside my fellow CNH bees (those who have seen me at

school rallies would be shocked because they can testify that I am possibly

one of the most unspirited people you will ever have the misfortune of encountering). Yes, I may have initially signed up for ICON to mainly visit

Disneyworld and consequently The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but I

ended up going away with much more than butterbeer in my stomach and

souvenirs in my pocket. When I returned one week later, I found myself more knowledgeable and more eager to serve, only wishing that I had more time as

a Key Clubber. After all, 4 hours of caucusing and nearly 5 hours spent in the

House of Delegates can not only induce a headache and sore back, but it can

also provide invaluable knowledge such as what fundraisers are typically

successful, how to approve proposed amendments, and who Robert F. Lucas was. Key Club International is completely different than Key Club on the club

level, but I naively didn’t realize the difference until ICON. On that note, I

encourage everyone, especially underclassmen, to attend ICON 2013 in

Washington D.C. because it is truly an unBEElievable experience!

-Ying Luo, Milpitas Key Club President

Past Events

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Upcoming events Region Training Conference [RTC]

Division Council Meetings, DCMs, are events where schools within our division get together to plan upcoming

Key Club events. The best thing about DCMs is that they are opened to ALL the KEY CLUBBERS! Every time, I attend a DCM, I meet someone new. DCMs are the events that keep us closer as one division. I hope to see

YOU at the next DCM! Please ask your club president for more information.

August DCM Location: Milpitas food pantry

Time: August 11, 3-5 PM.

September DCM Location: Region Training Conference

Time: September 30th, 2012

August and September DCMS

KICKING OFF SCHOOL with RTC, the first region event of the school year.

What’s better than meeting Key

Clubbers all around Regions 9, 15 & 17,

camping overnight with your fellow

superheroes, and learning about the

Key Club?!

This year, RTC’s theme is “Surfing for

Service.” We, Key Clubbers serve our

communities and everyone else around

us. By serving, we create ripples of

effect, changing the lives of others who we helped. Surfing for Service simply

means making a difference in our

community just by starting with one

kind act. So come join us at RTC, and

we’ll go “Surfing for Service.”

RTC is a two days event, starting on September 29th to the 30th. If you’re

interested in going, please contact your

club president!


As a member, Aliza has shown incredible dedication to not only Key Club

but also the community. She has done more than 50 hours this year

as a freshman, which is more than what most members and even some

of last year officers have done. She is polite and courteous at events, and

given the push she has the potential to rise to a leadership position.

Aliza Truong Milpitas High

Anna Hoehenrieder Irvington High

Anna worked for several hours looking up potential

summer service events for our club to do such as

Festival in the Park and Second Harvest Food Bank.

She is also currently looking into the local YMCA as a

possible permanent service event our club could help

out with. Anna has attended the majority of division

events (such as the installation banquet, DCM) as well

as participated in many service events we have held

as well. She has consistently communicated with the

other officers as well as Shanel (our vice president)

and myself, Vivian, regarding future events and

updates. She is an excellent asset to our officer team

and has more than held up her end of her job :) Thank

you for everything, Anna!

Members of the Month are the dedicated Key Clubbers who always put service above self, who

care for the others as much as they care for their community and who truly represent Key Club for

what it stands for! Congratulation to Aliza Truong and Anna Hoehenrieder for being our Members of the Month! Whether it’s because of your service or simple kindness, you are the role model of our

division. So once again, congratulation!


Lieutenant Governor

Vanessa Yeh [email protected]

(408) 332-1625

Division Executive Assistant Leon Eng [email protected]

(510)565-5742

Division Secretary

Rachel Tan [email protected]

(408)896-8020

Division News Editor Phong Hong

[email protected]

(408)332-0837

Division Team American

Stanley Han [email protected]

Independence

Jessica Yu [email protected]

Irvington Vivian Nguyen

[email protected]

James Logan

Katie Carol Wong [email protected]

KIPP

Austin Quach

[email protected]

Milpitas

Ying Luo

[email protected]

Mission San Jose

William Cheung [email protected]

Piedmont Hills

Allison Mac [email protected]

San Jose

Fadumo Osman

[email protected]

Washington

Aileen Liang [email protected]

Irvington: www. ihskey.tumblr.com

KIPP: www.ksjckeyclub.tk

Milpitas: www. milpitaskeyclub.tumblr.com Mission: www.facebook.com/groups/6126404531/

You finally reached the end of our August Newsletter! This newsletter is covered with fireworks, statue of

liberty, and the American flag. You can pretty much guess the theme of this Newsletter. It’s 4th of July. I hope

that everyone enjoyed reading the newsletter as much as seeing all the fireworks. Besides from the amazing

fireworks, our clubs really showed amazing achievements through all their activities whether it’s volunteering at Relay for Life or planning for the upcoming school year. Even though it’s only summer, I can already tell

that next year will be a blast from reading all the plans that each school has. Asides from planning for the

future, we looked at our past events such as June DCM and ICON and saw the amount that we have done in

just one month! Don’t worry if you miss out the past events because upcoming events, RTCs and DCMs, will

be as much fun or even more! Last but not least, we revealed our Members of the Month, who are the hard working bees that deserve great appreciation just like all the Key Clubbers out there. This is the end so thank

you for reading the August Newsletter, and see you next month!

Phong H.

Closing Message

Caring – Our Way of Life

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