Circle K International
Inside the Circle
Volume 1, Issue 3 January 19, 2009
Gavin’s Gabble Take a LOOK! Happy New Year La-Miss-Tenn! I hope everyone had a great fall semester and is ready for the spring! To all of our graduates, Congratulations!!! I wish you much luck and success in your future endeavors and don't forget to serve! So, for a bit of business. Your district board has been up to a few things: We had a great district board and cabinet retreat in Gulfport with Mr. Dennis and Ms. Ame on December 19! During our board meeting we hashed the details of our 50th District Convention; this is a weekend you don’t want to miss! Also, the board has purchased an A.E.D., so we continue to challenge the District to raise funds to purchase another. The club that raises the most funds will be able to select a school of its choice to install the A.E.D. Also, members of the board will be cutting their hair for Locks of Love to further this initiative. Your lieutenant governors have been planning great things for divi-
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sional rallies. At our last meeting, all rally dates were finalized. Not only with rallies, but the board has been working with Kayla Dowling, our Conventions Director to plan a great 50th Annual Louisiana-MississippiWest Tennessee District Convention. The programming this year is a bit different and will feature more activities that YOU have been anxiously awaiting! I’ll leave the rest of DCON for Kayla to discuss! Please keep up with service hours! We are about halfway to meeting the goal of 4800 hours by March 31. Also, let’s get some new members this semester. We have set a goal to reach 250 members. I challenge each club to recruit 10 new members by DCON! This will increase our membership, with 80 additional members, by 32%. I’m sure that we can all reach these two goals by District Convention! See you at your rallies and District Convention!
Words of Wisdom
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Delta Central’s Shining Stars
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Are You a Fish Looking for a Net?
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An Editor’s Note
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Gavin Robert Governor
Gavin Robert Governor
Special points of interest: Learn about your district
DON’T FORGET!!! 50th Annual Louisiana-Mississippi-West Tennessee District Convention March 6-8, 2009 Natchez, MS Registration Packets already available!!! Lights, Camera, ACTION!!!
board’s plans as they go into the last leg of their term!!!
Get some reminders
about important events and opportunities available to you!!!
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Name this Sitcom??? Win a prize at DCON!!! Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name…. And they’re always glad you came… You wanna be where people see, your troubles are all the same… YOU WANNA GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME!!! Send me your guess via email, and the first correct submission gets a prize!!!
Find out what the district board is doing as we prepare for DCON and other exciting things to come!!!
Inside the Circle
Words of Wisdom FROM DENNIS AND AME, ADMINISTRATORS miss this celebration of our years accomplishments. This year we will be in Natchez, Mississippi Can you believe it? Our 2008-2009 year is at a beautiful location on the Mississippi River. flying by. In just about four months we will be 4. Service Initiatives: reviewing our results. There will be lots of Our District funded two grants for play"victories," and yes, some few things we may ground improvements. Also, plans are underway have done a little better. So we encourage all of to support the Kiwanis you to really "touch all the bases" to reach your District's plans to place AEDS in EVERY goals in the time we have left and to make this school in the LAMISSTENN DISTRICT.. one of the very best years in LAMISSTENN 5. Leadership Development: Circle K history. We know our District Circle K leaders have Your District Circle K Board under the leaderhad the opportunity to develop positive leadership ship of Governor Gavin Robert has been exskills. Part of their tremely busy being sure our District is "on tarresponsibility is to identify future leaders get" with our Mission: and to help them prepare for their time to 1. Service Hours: lead. ARE YOU THE ONE? Our District has accumulated 2130 hours We are enjoying our time as your Adminisof the budgeted 4800. We have a great opportrators. Although we have been close to Circle K tunity to reach this goal. for several years, this is our first opportunity to be 2. Membership: involved with the overall operation of this most This continues to be our No. 1 chalimportant member of the Kiwanis Family. lenge. We would ask every member to ask one We received some really good news on more to join our great organization. 12/19 that Kari Quinnelly of Ruston, Louisiana As of 12/18 we had a paid membership of has been appointed District Administrator for Cir146, which is well below the numbers we need cle K for the 2009-10 year. Kari, who has prior to "touch the lives" of those needing the Circle K Circle K experience, is currently the Kiwanis Lt. experience. Governor in Division 18. She will be attending a With each member's involvement, and training session in Baltimore, Maryland on Januseveral new club possibilities, your Board has ary 24. She is really looking forward to her new set 250 members as the absolute minimum goal assignment and meeting you all in Natchez in for Convention 2009. March. 3. District Convention 2009: Thanks for all each of you do for Circle Kayla Downing is making a list and checkK. Our wish for each of you is for your future haping it twice for all the hundreds of details inpiness and success. Remember a Kiwanis Club volved with planning the District Convention on is waiting for you!!! March 6-8, 2009. We know YOU won't want to
DO YOU WANT TO SEE GAVIN EAT PIE??? Bring some cash and watch him (and the rest of us!!!) get hit with KETCHUP, MUSTARD, RELISH, RANCH, BBQ SAUCE, and everyone’s favorite...WHIP CREAM!!!
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Delta Central’s Shining Stars Considering the performances of the Millsaps College Circle K'ers this past semester, I would have to say that I would not do this article justice if I only mentioned one person. So, I will mention five. First of all, I want to recognize our secretary Anh Giang. Anh has done an amazing job as secretary. She has always turned in her paper work and monthly reports in on time, and she has always accomplished the tasks of which Millsaps’ Circle K has asked her to perform. Millsaps Circle K truly would not function without her. Secondly, I would like to recognize Teal Brechtel and Sharon Yoo
whose dedication to service projects throughout the year has been truly impressive. Sharon has always been willing to lend a hand, especially in times when I thought no one would be there. Teal truly showed the makings of a club president in her activism with Shack-a-Thon and the awareness week, and I am truly grateful to her. I would also like to recognize our club president Niki Agho for a job well done. She has always been willing to help with various tasks that we as a club need to have done, and she has truly done a great job in coordinating the Angel Tree project. It truly has been a huge success, and many children who might not have had
the opportunity to open gifts on Christmas had that opportunity to have something to open this Christmas. Finally, I would like to recognize Lissa McManus for her great support with Up 'til Dawn. She has always been on time for meetings, and she has always performed her tasks diligently and with a smile on her face. I am truly honored to serve alongside these fine members.
I know that it is hard to imagine CKI as a career tool, but picture this: You walk into a job or internship interview, and you are crazy nervous. You think you’re going to say the wrong thing or not be qualified enough for the job. Your scary interviewer peruses your resume, and then asks you about your experience in Circle K. Turns out, he’s a Kiwanian. SHPLAM! New job. Feels good, huh? (Good thing you were in CKI, because you probably weren’t qualified anyway.)
Delta Central LTG
Yours in service, Edgar R. Meyer Delta Central Division Lieutenant Governor
Are You a Fish Looking for a Net? I know it can get really difficult to keep up with doing this kind of stuff on top of balancing a family, academics, a job, and a social life. Believe me – I have to do it too. But I think the great thing about this organization is that it can become all of those things at once.
Edgar Meyer
World-rocking Scenario #2: You are reluctantly dragged to a Kiwanis meeting with a fellow CKIer because they need to gain some brownie points for that scholarship application (which is, coincidently, available to ALL CKI members). You are seated next to a lovely gentleman who, after chatting casually about the fantastic ranch dressing that comes with the awesome meal you are eating (completely gratis, by the way), tells you that he used to be a department head of that oh-so-hardto-get-into grad school you have been drooling over since you chose your major. What’s that called again? Oh yeah – NETWORKING!
communicate with a different crowd, try a Kiwanian on for size. You may think you won’t be able to relate to them, or they won’t understand what job hunting in today’s world is like. But most of the time, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Sweet. So, for those of you who are deathly afraid of “the real world,” and the pangs of having to
Bayou South Division
Y’ALL Conference this year was amazing!!! Next year the conference will be in Jekyll Island, GA!!! We hope to travel with all of you there!!!
After all, one of our three main tenets is fellowship. Who better to be “fellowly” with than our sponsors? You might find that they are much more useful than those stupid counselors they make us go see. And if nothing else, at least you get a free meal. Meredith Pursell Lieutenant Governor
Meredith Pursell Bayou South LTG
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Hanna Olivier P.O. Box 151050 Millsaps College 1701 N. State Street Jackson, MS 39210 Phone: (337) 501-2247 Email: olivihl@millsaps.edu or lmt_bulletin_editor@yahoo.com
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An Editor’s Note Hey Everybody!!! I hope you are all doing well. I just want to use my space to let you know some more details about District Convention coming up in March. This year for those of you who have attended DCON before the schedule will be a little different. We will be having a larger scale service project this year and no officer training during convention. Don’t forget about our House of Delegates and always anxiously awaited PIE AUCTION!!! And this year we
have a special guest...our International Representative Tiffany will be here with us. Kayla has worked really hard on planning our fabulous 50th annual convention, so please encourage all of your members and friends to make it to convention this year!!! We can’t wait to see you there!!! Yours in service,
Hanna Olivier
Hanna Olivier
Bulletin Editor
Bulletin Editor La-Miss-Tenn District
DON’T FORGET: We are raising money for an AED to put in one of YOUR local schools!!! So get out there and raise some money!!! And just remember...someone is going to get to cut the board’s hair!!!
WILL IT BE YOU??