Trustee Times 1.2

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

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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.


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

Facebook

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!

Twitter

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

Instagram

This is my personal insta, but I do post some key

Club info on here. Follow @bettystearns to see my day to

day life.

http://www.keyclub.org/dar.aspx


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


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


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!


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!


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!!!


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!


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!!!

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