Volume 4 Issue 1
JUNE 2017
“Surfing with Service”
2 Table Of Contents 3 Meet The District Administrators 4 Meet The Executives 5-11 Meet The Board 12 Volunteer opportunities 13 District Convention Recap 14-15 Divisional Rally Calendar 16 Board Contacts
Hello! My name is Jean Benoit and I'm the LaMissTenn District Administrator. I’m an Art teacher at St.Patrick in Biloxi, MS. I just moved, but I will probably join the Kiwanis Club of Biloxi. My goals for the district are to improve the member's Key Club experience through better resources, a more dynamic website and bulletin, and outstanding divisional/ district events like our Officer Training and District Convention. A fun fact about me is I bicycle an average of 1200 miles per year.Â
Hello LaMissTenn! My name is Anthony Simmons and I have the honor of serving as your Assistant District Administrator. I will be entering the 10th grade at John Curtis Christian School in the fall, for the 24th time! I am a member of the Kenner North Kiwanis Club where I serve as the chairman of the Service Leadership Programs Committee. I look forward to meeting you at your Fall Divisional Rallies. If I can answer any questions or help you in any way, please contact me anthonysimmons.lmtkc@gmail.com. I hope to see you soon and often.
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Hello LaMissTenn! My name is Anna Kate Broussard and I live in Covington, Louisiana where I am a rising senior at St. Scholastica Academy. I'm so excited to meet all of you. My goals this year are to increase the UNITY between clubs in our district and to GROW in the amount (and quality) of service and leadership training we provide. I plan on accomplishing this by establishing quarterly district wide service projects and by researching ways to strengthen our leadership training programs.Â
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Hello LaMissTenn! My name is Kari Stephens and I will be serving as your District Secretary Treasurer for the 2017-2018 school year. While serving on the board I will be a senior at Baton Rouge Magnet High School in Division 8A. I am so excited to return to the board after serving as a Lieutenant Governor last year. I can't wait to complete my goal for this year which is providing clubs and lieutenant governors with resources for planning inclusive service projects involving preferred charities. I am also excited to make lasting friendships on the board and at events this year. A fun fact about me is that I love tea!
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Hello LaMIssTenn! My name is Sebastian Canales from Riverdale High school. Im an incoming junior and I’m so excited and honored to serve as your district bulletin editor. I believe that I can improve Crawfish Tales in so many ways. Just look at the new look we have here. This year one of my biggest plans is to not only improve the bulletins but expand communication in our district through Crawfish Tales and social media. I want our social media page to be a lot better by adding more pictures of key clubbers all throughout our mighty district. One fun fact about me is that I'm ranked top 100 in the state of Louisiana for the Louisiana Speech and Debate League. I look forward to creating more bulletins that will hopefully interest everyone and feel free to send me any pictures from key club events @ sebastiancanales943@gmail.com Have a great day!
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Hello!!My name is Samantha Fortner. I am from Martin, Tennessee and I am serving as the Lt. Governor for Division 1B. I am a senior at Westview High School. This year I am most excited about meeting new people and creating long term friendships. My goals for this year are reestablishing communication among the clubs in my division and increasing memberships in my division. A fun fact about be is I love being in the marching and concert band. I play the xylophone and clarinet.
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Hi, my name is Andrew Bedell, I am from Memphis and I'm an incoming Senior. My home club is The Collegiate School of Memphis, and I serve division 1C. One thing I am most excited about this year is finally uniting all the clubs in my district, which is also my goal. One thing interesting about me is my parents are refugees from Vietnam whose families mostly served in the military.
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Hello Key Clubbers of the LAMISSTENN District, my name is Tyler C. Sanchez and I will be serving as your division 4A Lieutenant Governor for the 2017-2018 school year. This year my main areas of focus for the district will be promoting; a greater connection for communication through inner club affairs, building and promoting a greater sense of accountability for the environment and its inhabitants, and finally this year I will work to help to establish and promote a greater sense of education and its value and benefits for my division and hopefully other divisions as well. Im an incoming senior at Chalmette High School, and a varsity soccer player. Fun fact about me is that I have played soccer since I was seven years old! This year I am most excited about meeting new people from a variety of backgrounds, all the while working to a more cohesive community and world.
Hello everyone my name is D’Ivion Phoenix and I am so excited for the new Key Club year. I am the newly elected Lieutenant Governor of division 4C and I am glad that I was given this wonderful opportunity. I live in Gretna which is right on the outskirts of New Orleans, Louisiana. My home club is Thomas Jefferson high school which is also in Gretna, Go JAGUARS. I cannot wait until the divisional rally. The other LTGs and I are going to make this Divisional rally the best one yet. One of my major goals is to get all of the K-Family collaborating a lot more often. One fun fact about me is that I lettered in three sports without playing in a single game.
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Hello! My name is Brook Covell and I am the new Lieutenant Governor for division 7A. My home school is Lafayette High School, and I’m an incoming Junior. I live in Lafayette Parish In Louisiana. I am very excited to be working with my division this year. My goals are to better the relationship between the clubs and to promote key club to the public. I will do this by having joint projects, being involved with the clubs, having good communication, putting up murals at schools and having clubs be more active in the community. This year I plan to focus on environmental and animal related projects. A fun fact about me is that I have been playing soccer for 11 years and in theatre for 5 years.
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Hi everyone, my name is Madison Liner, and I am the newly elected Lieutenant Governor for Division 7b of the LaMissTenn Key Club District. I have lived in Houma, Louisiana all my life, and I attend Vandebilt Catholic High School, where I will be a Senior for the 2017-2018 school year. One fun fact about me is that I started a ping pong club at my school this past year and had over 50 students join in the first week it was open to sign up! This year, I am most excited to meet so many new faces of students who share the same passion for Key Club as I do. Making a difference is one thing, but making a difference with others alongside you can bring you to new heights and experience new relationships. To me, Key Club is a way to give back and create a positive impact in the community, while also creating bonds with others who serve or are being served. My goal for the year is to help recharter clubs that have discontinued having Key Clubs at their schools, and for all students to have the opportunity to experience this kind of service. I hope to carry this out by spreading Key Club's mission and educating other schools about our organization. I hope to have a great year with the Mighty and Historic LaMissTenn District!
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Hey! Greetings from one of the three Sams on the board this year. I'm Samuel Vaughn from division 8a, and I'm so proud to be able to represent McKinley High School as lieutenant governor. I'm most excited about sharing my love for service with more people and making an impact within my division and the district as a whole. Being the 75th anniversary of LaMissTenn, I feel like this will be our biggest year yet. I plan to make this dream come true by welcoming a lot more clubs into our family this season.
9 n o i s i v Di Hi! I'm Lilly Kamberov, the Lieutenant Governor of Division 9. I'm a rising senior at my home club of Caddo Parish Magnet High School in Shreveport, Louisiana. I'm so excited to begin serving my Division and the LaMissTenn District. My goals as LTG are to charter more schools in my Division and to work to increase the productivity of our members. A fun fact about me is that I have dual citizenship so I'm a citizen of the European Union!! Thanks for reading, and I hope this is our District's best year yet!
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Hello! My name is Kassady Ryder and I’ll be serving Division 11 this year. I attend Pineville High School, and I'm an incoming senior. A goal of mine for this year is to start a Circle K or a K Kids in my area. I enjoy helping others in many ways and one of my favorite things to do it is through sports medicine. Sports medicine allows me to have hands on interactions and it has helped me figure out what I want to go to college for. I am so excited about this upcoming school year! I just can’t wait to see what it has in store!
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v i D Hello everyone! My name is Ali Ali from Barbe High School in Lake Charles, LA. I'm an incoming junior that will be serving Division 12 this year. I'm so excited for DCON! DCON will be so fun, so don't miss out on it! My goals for this year are to increase membership in the clubs I serve, to increase DCON membership from my division, and to increase Rally membership as well. A little fun fact about me is that I can speak 5 languages!
Hello! My name is Kasslyn Pugh and I can say with the biggest smile that I am so excited to serve Division 13A as the 2017-2018 Lieutenant Governor! I am a incoming senior at Ponchatoula High School and a four year Key Club member. I am involved in several clubs around campus and love to help out in my community.
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As Lieutenant Governor, my goal is to get the clubs within my division more involved. I hope to accomplish this by bringing the clubs together to bond over the one thing Key Clubbers love most: serving those in need! I also want to focus on raising money for The Thirst Project, Project Eliminate, and many other charities. It is truly an honor to serve you this upcoming year; I can't wait to see the difference we make on the world! Feel free to contact me anytime!
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Hello Division 13b Key Clubbers! My name is Catherine Kurucar, and I am honored to say that I will be serving as your 2017-2018 Lieutenant Governor! I am an upcoming junior at Archbishop Phillip M. Hannan High School in Covington La, where I am also a member of Campus Ministry, Student Ambassador, and Student Council. Key Club is very important to me because it has given me the ability to serve my community in a big way. Throughout this upcoming year, I hope to improve our divisional communication in order to strengthen ourselves as a division, expand our LaMissTenn K family, and have an overall impactful year! I am very eager to see what this next year has in store for us, and I look forward to serving our area with all of you! Please, feel free to contact me at anytime!
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n 14a Hello, my name is Esmond Tsang. I'm a freshman with the Biloxi Key Club and Division 14A Lieutenant Governor. I also play varsity tennis and concert trombone at Biloxi High School. This year, I am looking forward to connecting the Gulf Coast Key Clubs! My goal is to visit every club and let our clubs able to engage in service projects not just within their respective city, but all over the Coast. For me, Key-Club is about caring about the people and the environment we share together.
My name is Shana Bourgeois and I am from Stone High School in Wiggins, MS where I am an incoming junior! I am so blessed to serve division 14B, including: Gulfport, Stone, Harrison Central, West Harrison, Pearl River Central, and Long Beach High School! I am so excited to visit all of the clubs in my division and partner with the Lieutenant Governor from division 14A to host our Fall and Spring Rally! My goal for this year is to reactivate struggling clubs and charter at least one new club! Another goal of mine would be to strengthen the clubs that are already amazing. I enjoy competing in Archery and Academics for the many clubs that I participate in. I also spend my time babysitting, traveling, and spending quality time with my family!
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Here are some great websites to find service opportunities in your area:
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1. http://volunteermississippi.org
2. https:// neighborhoodofgood.statefarm.com 3. http://www.redcross.org/local/ mississippi/volunteer 4. http://volla.force.com 5. http://www.laworks.com 6. https://www.volunteermatch.org 7. http://www.allforgood.org
The 74th annual LaMissTenn District Convention celebrated another successful year of service in Jackson, MS. The theme was Wild for Service! There were over 450 students that attended the convention this year and they elected our new district executive board officers. Divisions finally got to display their new Lieutenant Governor. This year we raised over $26,000 for Project Eliminate! We had an amazing Keynote speaker, Mr. Walt Grayson, a newscaster. There were competitions such as Key Facts, Talent Show, Scrapbook, Key Club Video, Impromptu Essay, Oratorical, and Poster. There were many forums that students got to choose from, such as Service Projects, Dancing, Cool Science, Icebreakers, How to tie a tie, board games, watching lion king, sing-a-long, and public speaking just to name a few. Key Clubbers also had the opportunity to go swimming, work out, and dance at the street party. On the last day, the LaMissTenn District installed their new board and adjourned. We hoped you enjoyed it this year and we look forward to seeing you next year when we celebrate 75 years of service! By Ali Ali
14A &14B Divisional Rally
4A, 4B, 4C, & 7B Divisional Rally
6, 9, 11, & 12 Divisional Rally 13A & 13B Divisional Rally 8A, 8B, 7A, & 15 Divisional Rally
1A, 1B, 1C, 2, 10 Divisional Rally
Governor – Anna Kate Broussard
Division 8A – SAMUEL VAUGHN
EMAIL: governor.lmtkc@gmail.com
EMAIL: division8a.lmtkc@gmail.com
Secretary-Treasurer – KARI STEPHENS
Division 9 - LILLY ANNE KAMBEROV
EMAIL: sec.treas.lmtkc@gmail.com
EMAIL: division9.lmtkc@gmail.com
Division 1B - Samantha Fortner
Division 10 - SHIELDS HAIRE
EMAIL: samefort@ut.utm.edu
EMAIL: shields.haire@gmail.com
Division 1C - Andrew Bendell EMAIL: Division1c.lmtkc@gmail.com
Division 12 – ALI ALI
Division 4A – TYLER C. SANCHEZ EMAIL: division4a.lmtkc@gmail.com Division 4B – DESTINY DAVID EMAIL: division4b.lmtkc@gmail.com Division 4C – D’IVION PHOENIX
EMAIL: divisiion12.lmtkc@gmail.com Division 13A – KASSLYN PUGH EMAIL: division13a.lmtkc@gmail.com Division 13B – CATHERINE KURKUCAR EMAIL: division13b.lmtkc@gmail.com Division 14A – Esmond Tsang
EMAIL: division4c.lmtkc@gmail.com
EMAIL: division14a.lmtkc@gmail.com
Division 7A – BROOK COVELL
Division 14B – SHANE BOURGEOIS
EMAIL: division7a.lmtkc@gmail.com
EMAIL: division14b.lmtkc@gmail.com
Division 7B – MADISON LINER
Division 15 – SAMUEL FREIBERGER
EMAIL: division7b.lmtkc@gmail.com
EMAIL: division15.lmtkc@gmail.com