October 10, 2008

Volume 1, Issue 3

Circle K International

Gavin T. Robert

District Governor

What Can Gavin Do for You?

A New Beginning

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 Defibrilla-tors, to place in schools across the District.

“An AED is a small, portable, comput-erized 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.

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 meet-ing, 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 re-ports, 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!

Have fun at T.I.O.G.A. :)

SERVICE Our wish for each of you is to really enjoy your college ex-perience and take many great

Circle K memories with you.

Most importantly, when you leave school, find a local Ki-wanis Club to continue serving those less fortunate.

Dennis and Ame

District Administrators

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 remain-der of 2008-09. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to con-tinue our association with Cir-cle K which began several years ago. We have followed with great interest the great job your

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 mem-bers and new clubs remain our NUMBER ONE challenge. We would ask you all to vigorously pursue growing your clubs. Thank you. MORE MEMBERS-----MORE

Special points of inter-est:

Hear about service pro-jects 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

Inside this issue:

K Family News 2

TIOGA’s Thanks 2

To Serve or Not to Serve

3

A Semester of Ser-vice

3

Mr Prez Says... 4

What’s Up in Mighty Mississippi?

5

An Editor’s Note 6

Inside the Circle

Gavin Robert

LMT District Governor

K Family News

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 Rela-tions Committee. If you have any members that are inter-ested please email or call me.

Hope to see you all at TIOGA.

Yours in Service,

Jennifer Kaup

Kiwanis Family Relations Chair

Hello CKI members,

It's that time of year again!!! That's right Key to College

month starts October 1st!

Key to College is a CKI pro-gram 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

the opportunity to learn about college life first-hand from col-

lege students.

2. The program gives mem-bers of CKI the opportunity to interact with high school stu-dents, 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

TIOGA’s Thanks

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

I want to take this time to say thank you to EVERYONE who helped to make TIOGA a suc-cess. I enjoyed planning this event, and I hope all the atten-dees 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 eve-ryone leaves here knowing more Facebook pages, email addresses, and phone num-bers 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

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A group of TIOGA

attendees from last

year!

Tenaj Jackson

MD&E Program Director

UL Lafayette

ARE YOU READY FOR PENNY WARS 2008?

2007 REIGNING CHAMPS

LSU

Jen Kaup

Kiwanis Family Relations Chair

To Serve or Not to Serve

A Semester of Service

seasonal parties to celebrate

your club’s success. Such bene-

fits will reinforce members’ en-

couragement to continue per-

forming 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

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 peo-

ple yourself by literally pursuing

them—not in the creepy, stalker

way, but in the sincere, enthusi-

astic way that gets people inter-

ested in involvement in commu-

nity service.

As for membership

retention, that is a whole differ-

ent 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 icebreak-

ers, intriguing games, or even

sponsoring Kiwanis organization

and they want our help as they

begin building a local playground

for disabled children: Parc Inde-

pendence. We are excited and

can't wait! One of our biggest

projects this semester is still in the

planning stages. We hope to clean

up a local playground for children,

landscaping and possibly painting

worn down playground equipment.

As you can see, we have much

in the way of projects this semes-

ter! UL CKI is eager as we begin

work! We welcome you all to join

us in our project adventures!

Wishing everyone a fun, safe, and

successful semester!

University of Louisiana Lafayette

Circle K

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 Home-

coming, and continuing our recruit-

ment plans for new members! We

are also making Halloween goody

bags to donate to our local Fami-

lies Helping Families for their an-

nual "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 Initia-

tive and we are volunteering ser-

vice hours to a fellow organization

on campus. They need volunteers

for their Grad Expo, an event put

on for graduating seniors.

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 over-

grown and run down. Members of

CKI are working with the Univer-

sity's physical plant to plan and

organize clean up and landscaping

activities. Also in store for our club

this semester are activities like

making holiday cards for the sol-

diers overseas, a "Kisses for Kids"

project to honor March of Dimes,

and sorting canned goods at Food

Net, our local food bank.

We have been in touch with our

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Find our what UL has

in store for the city of

Lafayette!!!

YOU CAN’T MISS

THIS!!!

Volume 1, Issue 3

INTERNATIONAL

SERVICE

FUNDRAISER

Edgar Meyer

Delta Central Division

Lieutenant Governor

Mr. Prez Sayz...

Presidents’ Council meeting at T.I.O.G.A. and I hope our presi-dents 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

Hey Guys!!!

This year the presidents of La-Miss-Tenn have been keeping in touch better than ever be-fore. We now have a presi-dent’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 con-tinue 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 impor-tant for our presidents to under-stand that these reports are here to assist them with good ideas and serve as a network among all the presidents of La-Miss-Tenn. There will be a

What’s Up in Mighty Mississippi?

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

The Circle K at Millsaps Col-

lege 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 out-

side 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

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Find out what you fellow district members

are doing across the river! Visitors always welcome!

Well, I think its time to get down. Wind it up and shake loose! This year at TIOGA there will be a great work-shop 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

Jerod Frenzl

KT Governor 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 Dis-trict Secre-tary/Treasurer Justin Quarles this weekend!!!

Anh Giang

Millsaps College Secretary

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BULLETIN EDITOR

CIRCLE K

DISTRICT CONVENTION

DISTRICTS

FELLOWSHIP

GOVERNOR

KEY CLUB

KIWANIS

LEADERSHIP

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

MEMBERSHIP

SECRETARY

SERVICE

SUBREGIONS

TREASURER

Here is a word search with a few positions and key tenets that Circle K holds at its core! Enjoy!!!

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 get-

ting to meet the members who

just joined our amazing organiza-

tion! 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 do-

ing. 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 through-

out the district and internation-

ally has brought me some amaz-

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 pub-

lished right before Y’ALL Con-

ference in January, so please be

on the lookout for article re-

quests! As always, if you need

me, please feel free to let me

know!

Yours in service,

Hanna Olivier

Millsaps College

District Bulletin Editor

I pledge, to uphold the objects of Circle K International. To

foster compassion and good-will towards others through

service and leadership, to de-velop my abilities and the

abilities of all people, and to dedicate myself to realization

of mankind’s potential.

Hanna Olivier P.O. Box 151050 Millsaps College

1701 N. State Street Jackson, MS 39210

Phone: (337) 501-2247 olivihl@millsaps.edu

or lmt_bulletin_editor@yahoo.com

Live to serve, love to serve!!!

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International: circlek.org

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Bulletin Editor

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