Inside the Circle
Circle K International Volume 1, Issue 3 October 10, 2008
What Can Gavin Do for You? Greetings Louisiana-Mississippi-West Tennessee! Hopefully everyone has had a great semester so far! From what has been reported, many of you guys and Girls :) are doing great with recruiting this year. So, cheers to every club! To let everyone know, this year we are supporting and participating in several service initiatives. Project P.L.A.Y., The Six Cents Initiative, Focusing on the Future: Children, and our newest initiative, the Kiwanis Major Emphasis Project, Placing AEDs in Schools. We have partnered with our La-Miss-Tenn Kiwanis and Key Club family to support this great program. The focus is to raise funds to purchase AEDs, Automated External Defibrillators, to place in schools across the District. “An AED is a small, portable, computerized device that talk users through lifesaving steps to zap a dying heart back to a normal beat during a cardiac arrest. Schools are a logical place to put defibrillators, doctors say, because on any given day as much as 20% of a community’s population passes through its schools, including teachers, custodians, parents, and volunteers.” More information on this project will
be given out during the weekend, here at T.I.O.G.A. and we will also have a live demonstration.
Inside this issue:
Gavin T. Robert District Governor
Many of you are probably wondering about Project P.L.A.Y. Well, it hasn’t gone anywhere! During the summer we had a large scale project planned, however, it was cancelled. So, your District Board is looking into another site and project date. At our last meeting, we discussed having a large scale project in Memphis and other locations throughout the District. Several ideas were suggested, and we will be looking into it further during our T.I.O.G.A. Board Meeting this weekend. Reading over a few of the club reports, I’ve noticed that several clubs have had projects focused on the International Initiative Focusing on the Future: Children. This is great, keep up the great work! So far, the District has approximately 1,504.3 service hours which is 3,295.7 hours away from the District’s goal of 4800 service hours. I know that you all have it in you to get those hours racked up! We are 31.3% into our goal with 6 months left. IT CAN BE DONE! Well, I think you are tired of me now, so will give you guys more info when I see you!
Gavin Robert
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TIOGA’s Thanks
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To Serve or Not to Serve
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A Semester of Service
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Mr Prez Says...
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What’s Up in Mighty Mississippi?
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An Editor’s Note
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LMT District Governor
Have fun at T.I.O.G.A. :)
Special points of interest:
A New Beginning HELLO CIRCLE K FRIENDS!!! We are Ame and Dennis Oliver. With the resignation of Mark Simmons, we have been asked to serve as Circle K Administrators for the remainder of 2008-09. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to continue our association with Circle K which began several years ago. We have followed with great interest the great job your
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Leadership Team is doing this year. We have assured him we are ready to "dive in" and do our part to make this the best year yet for the LA-MISS-TENN Circle K. As with Kiwanis, new members and new clubs remain our NUMBER ONE challenge. We would ask you all to vigorously pursue growing your clubs. Thank you. MORE MEMBERS-----MORE
SERVICE Our wish for each of you is to really enjoy your college experience and take many great Circle K memories with you. Most importantly, when you leave school, find a local Kiwanis Club to continue serving those less fortunate. Dennis and Ame District Administrators
Hear about service projects and activities that schools throughout the district are doing Learn about what is in store for you at TIOGA 2008 See what is happening with the K family
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K Family News Hello CKI members, It's that time of year again!!! That's right Key to College month starts October 1st! Jen Kaup Kiwanis Family Relations Chair
Key to College is a CKI program developed especially for high school students who are interested in gaining insight about college and university life, service, and leadership. Sponsoring a Key to College Program benefits both the high school audience and the CKI club in several ways: 1. High school students have
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the opportunity to learn about college life first-hand from college students. 2. The program gives members of CKI the opportunity to interact with high school students, often members of Key Club International. 3. CKI members may further develop their leadership and presentation skills by providing this needed community service. I am strongly encouraging each CKI club to consider
sponsoring a Key to College Program at a local high school or perhaps Key Club regional training conference or fall rally during this month. Also, I am looking for at least one member from each club to join my Kiwanis Family Relations Committee. If you have any members that are interested please email or call me. Hope to see you all at TIOGA. Yours in Service, Jennifer Kaup Kiwanis Family Relations Chair
A group of TIOGA attendees from last year!
TIOGA’s Thanks
Tenaj Jackson MD&E Program Director UL Lafayette
I want to take this time to say thank you to EVERYONE who helped to make TIOGA a success. I enjoyed planning this event, and I hope all the attendees and volunteers have the best weekend ever. It's exciting to see how all the planning has turned out. As we all know, TIOGA is probably the best place to get to learn more
about CKI and get to know our district. I hope on Sunday everyone leaves here knowing more Facebook pages, email addresses, and phone numbers than you did when you got here. This past DCON most of our district board ran for office on the platform of member growth and retention. Well, the best way to do that is to make
sure our CKI friendships aren't just at CKI events. It all starts here at TIOGA, but let's take it home with us so that the next time we see each other isn't at Y'ALL or DCON even. In the meantime ENJOY TIOGA!!!! Tenaj Jackson MD & E Program Director UL Lafayette
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To Serve or Not to Serve As a result of my Circle K travel this year, I have to come to strongly believe that the best way to build new clubs is to meet with the potential Circle K’ers one-on-one and truly show them what Circle K is about, what it means to you, and what you mean to it. Simple phone conversations will simply not cut it; however, when you cannot organize a meeting time to see them personally, you cannot share your experiences with them. Thus, I have come to realize that if you want to build clubs, you have to find the people yourself by literally pursuing them—not in the creepy, stalker
way, but in the sincere, enthusiastic way that gets people interested in involvement in community service. As for membership retention, that is a whole different ball game. My fellow club members and I do well to recruit new members, but we have a problem with members losing interest and not showing up for meetings and service projects. I have concluded in my two years as lieutenant governor that the best way to combat membership loss is to provide benefits. These may include snacks or meals at meetings, fun icebreakers, intriguing games, or even
seasonal parties to celebrate your club’s success. Such benefits will reinforce members’ encouragement to continue performing community service. The awards will create a competitive atmosphere to increase member involvement as well as provide an incentive for devoting time and energy into projects for which members may, at times, lose sight of the cause. Edgar R. Meyer Delta Central Division Lieutenant Governor
Edgar Meyer Delta Central Division Lieutenant Governor
A Semester of Service UL Circle K continues to be excited about the semester! We have many projects going on this month including participating in T.I.O.G.A., publishing our second newsletter of the fall semester, participating in a "Cajuns Can Care" food drive for UL's Homecoming, and continuing our recruitment plans for new members! We are also making Halloween goody bags to donate to our local Families Helping Families for their annual "Treats of the Village" event hosted at Halloween each year. We plan to "Trick or Treat" for Unicef this Halloween in order to contribute to our Six Cents Initiative and we are volunteering service hours to a fellow organization on campus. They need volunteers
for their Grad Expo, an event put
sponsoring Kiwanis organization
on for graduating seniors.
and they want our help as they
As the semester progresses we hope to clean up what is known as the "Circle K tree" on campus. The historic oak tree is home to a very important CKI Veteran's memorial. The area around the tree is overgrown and run down. Members of CKI are working with the University's physical plant to plan and
begin building a local playground for disabled children: Parc Independence. We are excited and can't wait! One of our biggest projects this semester is still in the up a local playground for children, landscaping and possibly painting worn down playground equipment. As you can see, we have much
activities. Also in store for our club
in the way of projects this semes-
this semester are activities like
ter! UL CKI is eager as we begin
making holiday cards for the sol-
work! We welcome you all to join
diers overseas, a "Kisses for Kids"
us in our project adventures!
and sorting canned goods at Food Net, our local food bank. We have been in touch with our
YOU CAN’T MISS THIS!!!
planning stages. We hope to clean
organize clean up and landscaping
project to honor March of Dimes,
Find our what UL has in store for the city of Lafayette!!!
Wishing everyone a fun, safe, and successful semester! University of Louisiana Lafayette Circle K
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FUNDRAISER
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Jerod Frenzl KT Governor
Well, I think its time to get down. Wind it up and shake loose! This year at TIOGA there will be a great workshop to do all this and more. My name is Jerod Frenzl, and I am the Governor of the Kentucky-Tennessee district. I will be teaching you a fun new dance that I hope will get your heart pumping. So if you want to get some great exercise and have a BLAST, come to the dance workshop at this year’s TIOGA. See you there, Jerod Frenzl KT Governor
Find out what you fellow district members are doing across the river! Visitors always welcome!
Don’t forget your dues! You need to turn them into your club treasurer; they are $35! If you have any questions, please see our District Secretary/Treasurer Justin Quarles this weekend!!! Mr. Prez Sayz... Hey Guys!!! This year the presidents of La -Miss-Tenn have been keeping in touch better than ever before. We now have a president’s report, like the monthly club reports, that must be turned in every month with information about each club’s activities and the progress of the president and club. The Presidents’ Council serves as a way to exchange ideas about fundraising, service projects,
and other club activities and projects, and I expect to continue the exchange of ideas with the help of the monthly president reports. With Gavin, I have been able to send out emails keeping up with other clubs in the district. It is important for our presidents to understand that these reports are here to assist them with good ideas and serve as a network among all the presidents of LaMiss-Tenn. There will be a
Presidents’ Council meeting at T.I.O.G.A. and I hope our presidents are able to attend. See ya’ll at T.I.O.G.A.! - Raymond Boudreaux LA Tech Circle K President La-Miss-Tenn Presidents’ Council Chair
What’s Up in Mighty Mississippi?
Anh Giang Millsaps College Secretary
The Circle K at Millsaps College has tried very hard to get involved in as many services around campus this year. The club plans weekly services to go to places such as the Stewpot to serve food during lunch, the Mustard Seed, the Bethlehem Center, and others. The biggest service project the club has put on so far this year has been Shack-A-Thon. The purpose of this event was to promote
homelessness awareness. We had great people show up to help out at this event. These volunteers set up shelters outside on campus and stayed in them for 24 hours. In all, the club was able to raise about $370, and all of these proceeds went to Stewpot. The next big event that our Circle K is about to put on is Up Til Dawn, which will be held October 22nd. We are expecting a great turn out
with live bands and food. The proceeds of this event go to St. Jude’s Research Hospital to save the lives of children stricken with catastrophic diseases. We are excited to get this event up and going within the next few weeks. Anh Giang Millsaps College Secretary
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BULLETIN EDITOR CIRCLE K
J E W E J V O O I U I Z Q I S E O U M O Q Y A I R D K R F V V U U I W I D T L N P C T D Y U C B L H J C X S T A U S O R
DISTRICT CONVENTION DISTRICTS FELLOWSHIP GOVERNOR KEY CLUB
J L G L E L S G U T U X G N K B N S F E O U T N E R G A I Z L B E N A U T I K V M B E K P F S I E X Q V N M S X Z J S O F L T M Z L J H H R N D S O O S V A G G
KIWANIS LEADERSHIP LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY SERVICE SUBREGIONS
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L V H R R U S I C P P Z G M T L M I T N L T M Q A Z W T T F G C E C E Y K A T A O I D J T D C A W C J M I L M Q V Y M N W O R T E I I K E P B R G R N H Z G Z E S V X W R B U L L E T I N E D I T O R T H X N T C O E O R S N O I G E R B U S U I I S E E M P S I G O V E R N O R U O E P I I F S T H D J Y L U H G P M W Q C I D F J P K I B S B K A F L T O Y O W E L S A S I P E T G X J X V H D X Z K F U N E C I V R E S M D S S H Y X T Q N O T A
Here is a word search with a few positions and key tenets that Circle K holds at its core! Enjoy!!!
Circle K International Hanna Olivier P.O. Box 151050 Millsaps College 1701 N. State Street Jackson, MS 39210
I pledge, to uphold the objects of Circle K International. To foster compassion and goodwill towards others through service and leadership, to develop my abilities and the abilities of all people, and to dedicate myself to realization of mankind’s potential.
Phone: (337) 501-2247 olivihl@millsaps.edu or lmt_bulletin_editor@yahoo.com
Live to serve, love to serve!!!
Check us out on the web! District: lmtcirclek.org International: circlek.org
An Editor’s Note Hey Everyone! I am so excited to be seeing all of you again at TIOGA!!! I love this conference because we are out in the fall weather, and getting to meet the members who just joined our amazing organization! This is such an exciting time for our district, and I am so pumped to be able to share with you everything that we are doing. As we bust it out and rock Louisiana, Mississippi, and West Tennessee I encourage you to get to know your fellow Circle K members. I am sure by the end of the weekend, you will here people say that some of their best friends are not even from their home clubs!!! I can honestly say I feel the same way. Keeping in contact with people throughout the district and internationally has brought me some amaz-
Hanna Olivier Bulletin Editor
ing friends and soul mates in service. I just want to let all of you know that the district board is not only here to help you with service ideas, but to help you find ways to communicate that will build lasting partnerships in service to ultimately better our world! The next bulletin will be published right before Y’ALL Conference in January, so please be on the lookout for article requests! As always, if you need me, please feel free to let me know! Yours in service, Hanna Olivier Millsaps College District Bulletin Editor
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