2014–2015 Guide to TST

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In this document:

Get to Know Your LTG

Directory

Important Dates

Division Project : Pop Tab Manual

First Meeting Advice

TST Recruitment Resources

Get to Know Your Lt. Governor

Hello TST!

For those of you who do not know me yet, I am your Lieutenant Governor for the 2014-2015 service year! I am here to be a liaison between The Southern Tier Division and the New York District of Circle K International. I am currently a junior at Cornell University studying environmental science, but more importantly I am a passionate Circle Ker just as many of you are. I’ve been in the Kiwanis Family since Builders Club and am so happy to have found a home here in The Southern Tier division.

I wanted to make this guide as a resource for club officers and members of TST so that we are all on the same page and can have the most successful service year that we can! I hope that it gives you a look ahead at what’s in store this year for TST so that you can take District and Division events into consideration when planning your own club events.

Thank you for taking the time to read this over and as always feel free to reach out to me about anything at all! I would love to hear from you with any ideas or questions you have!

Yours in Service,

Becky Hopkins

Southern Tier Lt. Governor (516) 640-9384 | Becky.hopkins@nycirclek.org

TST Directory District Administrator John Keegan: JohnnyK11@juno.com District Governor Renée Girard: renee.girard@nycirclek.org District Secretary Brian Kenny: brian.kenny@nycirclek.org District Treasurer Walaa Ahmed: walaa.ahmed@nycircle.org Southern Tier Lt. Governor Becky Hopkins: becky.hopkins@nycirclek.org (516) 640-9384 Southern Tier Executive Assistant Jessica Wolfe: jwolfe2@ithaca.edu Cornell Circle K President Michelle Wan: mmw94@cornell.edu Binghamton Circle K President Jeffery Cimo: jcimo1@binghamton.edu Ithaca Circle K President Lindsey Adelstein: ladelst1@ithaca.edu Elmira Circle K President Natalie Grigoli: ngrigoli15@elmira.edu Hartwick Circle K President Hannah Placzek: placzekh@hartwick.edu

Important Dates

What: District Large Scale Service Project (DLSSP) When: September 12th – 14th, 2014 Where: Kamp Kiwanis What: First Divisional When: Saturday, September 20th, 2014 Where: Ithaca, NY after the Ithaca Out of the Darkness Walk What: Regional Training Conference When: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 Where: Syracuse University What: New York Speaking When: November 7th – 9th, 2014 Where: Lake George What: District Convention When: March 27th – 29th, 2015 Where: Albany

Important Dates

More information regarding each of these events will be provided as they approach!

Pop Tab Manual

For our Division Project this year I decided to continue our pop tab initiative for the Ronald McDonald House! Please help TST collect as many pop tabs for this charity as possible! You can collect them individually or as a club and bring them to division and district events where I will collect them all in order to bring them to the Ronald McDonald House! Read on to learn how you and your club can help TST “Pick Up the Tab” for the Ronald McDonald House and how our efforts will help!

History of the Ronald McDonald House®

The First Ronald McDonald House

The idea of a home for families of hospital patients first developed in Philadelphia, PA, in 1973. Fred Hill, a member of the Philadelphia Eagles football team learned that his daughter had leukemia. During the course of her successful treatment, Hill and his team members and management asked what they could possibly do to help the children's hospital. The idea of a place for children's families to stay was born at that time. The Eagles

football team worked together with the local McDonald's®

stores to raise funds, and eventually a home was opened in Philadelphia. The founders selected the name “Ronald McDonald House” because Ronald McDonald was a symbol of happiness to children around the world. That House became the first Ronald McDonald House in the country.

Today there are local Chapters in 51 countries and 272 Ronald McDonald House® programs in 30 countries.

Helping the Ronald McDonald House is easy as 1-2-3 TST!

1) Pull off the pop tab tops on aluminum cans. 2) Collect a bunch.

3) Bring them to our divisional events to be brought to the Ronald McDonald House!

It’s so easy to collect pop tabs! The tabs on aluminum cans can easily be removed by rocking them back and forth until they break off. Since the actual tabs are so small they can be collected in many types of convenient containers, such as plastic bags, buckets, water bottles, and more! Once TST has collected a large quantity of tabs I will bring them to the Ronald McDonald House!

Pop Tab Fun Facts!

• A pop tab withstands up to 110 pounds of tension exerted against it by the carbon dioxide in the soda. But only 3-4 pounds of pull on the tab causes the tab to rupture, releasing the contents inside.

The ring pull can was invented in 1962 by Ermal Fraze.

The Kettering’s Fraze Pavillion amphitheater in Dayton is named after the inventor of the pop tab.

1 mile = 63,360 pop tabs 1 pound = 1,552 pop tabs

The Ronald McDonald House collects only the tabs and not the can because of cleanliness and storage space. Also, the aluminum alloy is more pure in the tab than in the can. This enables you to recycle the cans for yourself or another organization.

The aluminum pop tabs are recycled and the money generated from recycling the tabs is used for a “Family Emergency Fund” which helps Ronald McDonald House families with unexpected expenses such as purchasing groceries, personal hygiene items, and clothing.

“What you do makes a DIFFERENCE. You have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” –Jane Goodall

FELLOWSHIP

SERVICE

Preparing for your first meeting is always an exciting but somewhat scary moment. After all, this is your first meeting and people will be looking at it as the standard for future meetings. But fear not! With these tips and tricks, you can make sure that your first meetings, and all the meetings afterwards, are going to be a huge success for your board, your club and your 2014-2015 year!

And while this is geared towards people speaking, these tips apply to any officer or anyone speaking at a meeting. J Before the meeting, here are some things you should do:

-­‐ Prepare an agenda for your members and officers to follow -­‐ Distribute your agenda to your officers early! This way, they know exactly what you’re

talking about. -­‐ Print out and write notes on your own agenda. This way, you can add more details that

you may forget during your first meeting. At the meeting:

-­‐ Don’t be scared to look down at your agenda. That is what it’s there for! -­‐ Leave yourself time to ask if any members have questions. This will give you some

breathing space and move the spotlight to the members. o If you can’t answer something yourself, you have other members, a Kiwanis

advisor, a faculty advisor and the club’s executive board to help you out! Chances are, someone else will have an answer.

-­‐ Thank your members! After the meeting:

-­‐ Have a really short executive board meeting to go over how you feel the meeting went. Other members of the board may have picked up on things that you may not have.

Other tips:

-­‐ Ice breakers are a great way to start any meeting! -­‐ Relax! Everyone at a Circle K meeting is there to support you and make sure your year is

a success! -­‐ Enjoy yourself! Have fun! Energy is like smiling: very contagious! When you exert spirit,

others will be encouraged to pump it up! Yes, meetings can be a little stressful, but don’t forget, everyone’s there to have fun, to learn about service projects and to be part of the CKI family! Just breathe, prepare and really enjoy yourself! I wish you all great success at your first meetings!

First Meeting Advice

Through service we give the gift of the right to be loved

Circle K is part of the Kiwanis family, which includes Key Club (High School), Builder’s Club (Middle School), K-Kids (Elementary School), Aktion Club (Disabled Adults), and Kiwanis International, our parent (sponsoring) organization. We are all dedicated to serving the children of the world, one life at a time.

CKI Circle K International

What is Circle K International?

Live to serve, love to serve. That is the motto of Circle K International, the largest collegiate community service organization, dedicated to serving the world through its tenants of service, leadership and fellowship. Comprised of over 12,600 members in 17 different countries throughout the world, we serve our global community every day with individual actions and group service projects.

For more information about Circle K International, visit:

www.circlekinternational.org

Circle K’ers are energetic, motivated and are willing to undergo long hours to help those in need, even if it’s

2AM. This dedication and spirit is transferred into everything they do, from their service projects to club meetings, fundraisers to conferences, and everything in between.

Circle K International has three tenants: - Service - Leadership - Fellowship

Our Pledge: I pledge to uphold the objects of Circle K International, to foster compassion and good will towards others through service and leadership, to develop my abilities and the abilities of all people, and to dedicate myself towards the realization of mankind’s potential!

Circle K participates in a variety of different of different service activities, including park clean ups, hospital visits, reading to children, fundraising for good causes, book drives, soup kitchens, animal shelter volunteer work and much more! We are dedicated to serving not only our immediate local community, but our global community as well.

Circle K is an international)non-profit organization, run by students, with students and for students. We are here to serve our communities and to make a difference in the world, by helping serve the needs of children and by providing leadership opportunities for college students.

For more information about Circle K International, visit:

www.circlek.org