Glenwood High School
ABOUT
The Glenwood High School Key Club is apart of the Illinois-Eastern Iowa District of Key Club International under Division 28. Other schools under Division 28 include Sacred Heart-Griffin, Springfield Southeast, Riverton, New Berlin, and Porta. Our Key Club was founded on November 22nd, 1988. Since then, our club has helped numerous members of our community and people all across the globe. Some of the fundraisers/volunteer work that we've done include Trick or Treat for UNICEF, food drives for the Chatham Pantry, food drives for the Thirst Project, and Kiss the Seniors Goodbye for March of Dimes. In our own school, we also help with emptying out the recycling bins after school and to cleaning up the bleachers and surrounding areas after football games. We currently have about 150 students in our club. If you have any questions or need to get in touch with us, please go to the contact page for contact information.
Key Club International
Kiwanis
Founded in 1925 Key Club International has always strived to help high schoolers reach their full potentials in life. Currently, there are over 250,000 members in just about 40 countries. Key Club partners with many volunteer organizations including Nickelodeon and Children's Miracle Network (visit this page for more about our partner organizations). The current Key Club International Board consists of President Salma Eldeeb, Vice President Melanie Kim, and 11 trustees from each district
Kiwanis is Key Club's parent organization. Since 1915, Kiwanis has been dedicated to improving the lives of children all over the world. Through over 19 million service hours a year, $100 milion funds raised, and 150,000 service projects, Kiwanis have helped to educate and care for children all over the globe. The Club and all its branches, Key Club, K-Kids, and Circle-K, has over 550,000 members in 80 different countries.
History of Key Club
The first ever Key Club was founded in Sacramento, California in 1925. The club, of only 11 people, was started by two Kiwanis Club members, Albert C. Olney and Frank C. Vincent. They wanted to extended Kiwanis mission into high schools. The original club was comprised of a schools "key boys" (a.k.a. exceptional students) who were wanting to serve their school in any way possible and create school spirit. The club was named "Key Club" after it's members. Key Club only grew after that. In 1939, the Florida association forms, becoming the first ever district, in 1943, we elected our first president, Malcolm Lewis, and in December of 1946 the first ever Key Club week was celebrated. But we didn't stop there, in 1967, the first ever club outside of North America is found in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1977, the first female students are admitted into key club, two years later in 1979, the first three female district governors are elected. In 1991, the first female president is elected, in 1998, Key had raised over one million dollars for UNICEF, and in 2008 we had raised again over one million dollars to help fight HIV/AIDS is Swaziland. Today Key Club is the oldest and largest service programs for high schoolers (source: keyclub.org)
Objects of Key Club International
To develop initiative and leadership
To provide experience in living and working together
To serve the school and community
To prepare for useful citizenship
To cooperate with the school principal
To accept and promote the following ideas:
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To give primacy to the human and spiritual, rather than to the material values of life.
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To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
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To promote the adoption and application of higher standards in scholarship, sportsmanship and social contacts.
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To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive and serviceable citizenship.
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To provide a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render unselfish service and to build better communities.
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To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and good will.