Spring Edition: Kiwanis Kourier

By Patrice StewartKiwanis Kourier Editor

Savor crawfish risotto, crab cakes with remoulade sauce, jam-balaya and more Cajun and Creole food favorites, plus Bananas Foster.

Sample some jazz music by Branford Marsalis, Aaron Neville and the Smoking Time Jazz Club.

Mix that with inspiring speakers, club how-to workshops and the chance to meet Kiwanians from all over the world. Twenty-five years of women in Kiwanis will be cele-brated, too.

That’s what’s ahead at the 97th

annual Kiwanis International Convention scheduled June 28-July 1 in New Orleans.

Have you registered yet?At least 72 Alabamians have, but

District Secretary Pat Manasco knows many more are planning to

Save July 27-29, 2012, for Alabama District Convention in Montgomery at Embassy Suites

Alabama

Kiwanis Kourier

Spring 2012 Published by Alabama Kiwanis Foundation 21 pages

Marking 25 years of women in Kiwanis

Karla Moons, first female Kiwanis governor in Alabama, served in 2002 and 2003.

Kiwanians head for New OrleansConvention to be June 28-July 1

Follow Mary Jo and Steve Cragon to New Orleans for the Kiwanis International Convention June 28July 1. The VestaviaHoover members were first to register and won a Café du Monde gift basket with beignet mix and coffee at the Midwinter Confer ence.


When you see a Kiwanis-sponsored playground or a collection drive for school supplies or pillowcase dresses, you may be seeing a woman’s vision.

Providing that female touch is just one way women have impacted Kiwanis over the 25 years since women were admitted as members.

Alabama Kiwanians marked that milestone at the Mid-winter Conference dinner with the theme “Unmask the Potential: Celebrating 25 Years of Women in Kiwanis.” All the women got beads and feather boas, too, since the event promoted the KI convention in

These past and current governors are not only among the first women Kiwanis leaders in Alabama, but they are also among the first to become Walter Zeller Fellows, a fundraiser for the Eliminate Project (see Pages 46). At the Midwinter Conference banquet with Past KI President Dr. Wil Blechman are Pam Fleming left, Tammy Driskill and Colean Black, right.(See WOMEN, Page 20)

(See NEW ORLEANS, Page 9)

As I write this, I have just returned from the great Alabama District of Key Club’s 60th District Convention in Mobile.

It comes on the heels of Circle K’s District Convention in Birmingham, which fol-lowed our own Kiwanis Mid-winter Conference in Mont-gomery.

I would encourage each of you to attend both the Circle K and Key Club District con-ventions next year.

Timely information regard-ing registration will be posted on each website. You will be amazed at the service hours performed, and you will be rejuvenated as a Kiwanian.

In addition to the organization and time spent planning and executing each convention, the thing I most appreciate is the recognition by both Circle K and Key Club of individuals and clubs contributing to the success of the District.

A successful District is the product of much time and attention given by many over the course of the year.

Celebrating our success is important to our growth. I would like us to renew the District awards and recog-

nitions from the past.In addition to the distin-

guished criteria available to you on the website, several Special District Awards are set out in our District Policies and Procedures. That list is included in this edition of the Kiwanis Kourier.

We will recognize the clubs and individuals receiving those awards at our Mid-winter Conference in 2013.

To qualify for an award, the club secretary must request consideration no later than Oct. 1, 2012, by sending a brief report to District Secretary Pat Manasco outlin-ing the club’s achievements

during the 2011-2012 administrative year.

We will also recognize a club for an outstanding Kiwanis One Day 2012 event, as well as for an outstanding plan/event for the “May is Member-ship Month” campaign. The qualifica-tion procedure for those awards is the same as for the Special District Awards.

We have much to celebrate in the great Alabama District! Help us recog-nize those deserving individuals and

clubs at next year’s Mid-winter Con-fer ence.

Please contact me with any ques-tions regarding the awards.

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Let’s recognize our achievements

Governor’s GreetingsBy Tammy

Driskill

Alabama District Governor Tammy Driskill with Kiwanis International President Alan Penn of Medina, Ohio. Penn presented Driskill with her Governor’s Certificate at the KI convention in Geneva, Switzerland, last July.

The Alabama District of Kiwanis Policies and Procedures state that the following Special District Awards will

be given annually:a. Erskine Ramsey Award: the best

all-around Kiwanis club for communi-

ty service and club administration;b. Past Governor John N. White Key

Club Award: Kiwanis club making the most significant contribution in Key Club work;

c. Lieutenant Governors’ Circle K Award: Kiwanis club making the most significant contribution in Circle K work;

d. Past Governors’ Boys and Girls Award: Kiwanis club making the most significant contribution in boys and girls work (not Key Club or Circle K);

e. Howard Yielding Award: Kiwanis club making the most significant con-tribution in conservation and ecology;

f. Brother Bryan Award: Kiwanis club making the most significant con-tribution in areas of spiritual aims;

g. Albert J. Tully Major Emphasis

Your club can apply for these special awards

Alabama Kiwanis KourierPublished by Alabama District Kiwanis Foundation

Address news, photos and other correspondence to:Patrice W. Stewart, Editor

4519 Arrowhead Drive S.E., Decatur, AL 35603256-303-1668 n [email protected]

Tammy Driskill of Gadsden ([email protected]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GovernorWayne Sisk of Alexandria ([email protected]). . . . . . Governor-electBill Phillips of Pell City ([email protected] . . . . . . . . . . . Vice GovernorColean Black of Leeds ([email protected]) . . . . . . Past GovernorPat Manasco ([email protected]). . . . . . . . . . District Secretary

DISTRICT OFFICE: 85 Bagby Drive, Suite 206, Birmingham, AL 35209 Phone (205) 945-1334 or (800) 745-1334, Fax (205) 942-5348; alabama.kiwanis.org (See AWARDS, Page 3)


Register to share the Kiwanis New Orleans experience June 28-July 1

Kiwanis International president Alan Penn plans to recognize excel-lence in service at the convention in New Orleans, rather than wait-ing until after his administrative year has ended.

He has asked Governor Tammy Driskill and other governors and districts to nominate individuals and clubs and then assist with cer-tificate presentations during a breakfast June 30 during the KI convention.

Most awards will be one per dis-trict, except for SLP sponsor awards, which can be one per pro-gram area per district.

Following are the recognitions Penn plans:

n Presidential Inspiration Award for a member who has proven to be an inspirational leader this year through work with the local club, division, or district.

n Presidential Humanitarian Award for a member who, through work within their local club, divi-

sion or district, has performed humanitarian acts this year.

n Presidential SLP Support/Sponsorship Award for a club or district level administrator, school adviser or Kiwanis adviser who has shown exemplary performance in advising Service Leadership Programs (K-Kids, Builders, Key Club, Circle K, Aktion Club or Key Leader, or worked with Terrific Kids, BUG, or YCPO programs).

n Kiwanis One Day, for each dis-trict’s top Kiwanis One Day project.

n President’s Community Service Award, for each district’s top com-munity service project (this can be a club, division, or district level project).

n Presidential Leadership Development and Education Award, for the top 10 districts that have led the way in getting clubs to participate in Club Leadership Education programs (based on per-centage of clubs participating in CLE programs).

60 years of perfect attendanceThe Kiwanis Club of Valley celebrated its 61st birthday at the April

18 meeting. During the recognitions, member Marshall Lane received a 60year perfect attendance pin from presidentelect Julie Wood. Other perfect attendance pins were awarded to Mary Hamilton, two years; Patsy McKenzie, eight years; and Henry Bledsoe, 22 years.

Award: Kiwanis club making the most sig-nificant contribution in the Major Emphasis program;

h. Andy Chaffin Builders Club Award: Kiwanis club making the most significant contribution in Builders Club work;

i. Raymond C. Kirkpatrick Interclub Award: the club with the largest number of interclub meetings for the year;

j. Club Bulletin Award: to recognize the outstanding club bulletin in each member-ship size section (Diamond, Ruby, Emerald, Coral).

Apply by Oct. 1The District Achievement Committee will

select the winners of each Special DistrictAward each year. In reviewing the achieve-

ment of a Kiwanis club nominated for an award, consideration will be given to rating clubs on a per capita achievement basis.

Award winners will receive patches to be attached to club banners. Any club wishing to qualify for any of these awards and not submitting this information on the annual report must submit a separate form giving information on club activity in the area and submit this with their annual report to the Alabama District Kiwanis office.

Each governor may add one-time awards to reflect the emphasis of his/her adminis-tration. The approval and any fund require-ments will be included in each year’s annual budget.

Club size mattersThe following District Achievement

Awards will be given annually:a. Diamond Section (76 members or more)

n Single Servicen Multiple Service

b. Ruby Section (46 to 75 members)n Single Servicen Multiple Service

c. Emerald Section (30 to 45 members)n Single Servicen Multiple Service

d. Coral Section (29 members or less)n Single Servicen Multiple Service

The District Achievement Award winners will be selected by the District Achievement Committee from clubs’ Annual Report part II submitted each year in accordance with Kiwanis International criteria. Club winners will receive ribbons to be attached to club banners.

Additional permanent annual awards may be added upon approval by the District Board of Trustees.

Awards(From Page 2)

KI president will recognize districts, members for service in New Orleans


Deadline is June 15, 2012, for the summer online edition of the Kiwanis Kourier

David Beasley, Eliminate Project coordinator for the Alabama District, was assisted with the Midwinter Conference display and workshops by Cristina Gomez, a KI staff member for the worldwide service project and lead campaign area director. The new $1,250 Zeller Fellow honor that is raising money to help eliminate maternal/neonatal tetanus around the world is taxdeductible. “One Zeller saves 694 lives,” Beasley said.

“Help us encourage the Mother’s Day Zeller pin (see Page 6) as a special gift for Mother’s Day,” said Beasley. This limitedtime pin “has some pink color for the ladies, and the combination is a unique way to honor the women in your life on Mother’s Day,” he said. Gomez added that through Zellers, “we can help change the lives of those in other countries.” See www.theeliminateproject.org for more information.

By David BeasleyAlabama District Eliminate Project Coordinator

Appreciation is expressed to the 30 Alabama Kiwanians who have donat-ed or pledged to donate to the Eliminate Project.

Seventeen have pledged or donated Zellers; four have donated Hixons; and nine others have contributed to Eliminate.

This $55,498 will save nearly 31,000 infants and mothers from the dreaded maternal neonatal tetanus death.

All total, Alabama district clubs have pledged and donated over $213,000.

Key Clubs have taken on the Eliminate Project with great gusto! Thirty-two Alabama clubs have thus

far raised over $11,000. Good job, Key Clubs.

Club coordinators are needed for every club. Presidents, you are encouraged to recruit an individual from your club to serve in this capacity for the duration of the Eliminate cam-

paign.These Kiwanians will coordinate

The Eliminate Project activities within your club with support from a divi-sional coordinator.

However, several division coordina-tors are still needed in divisions 3, 7, 8, 10 and 12. If you would like to

serve in a divisional coordinator role in one of these divisions, please let me know.

What others are doingThe Kiwanis Club of Birmingham is

a 100K Club, while Florence and Rogersville clubs are Model Clubs for the Eliminate Project.

Florence Kiwanis Club members enjoyed an evening at Texas Road House April 10, with 10 percent of their checks going to the Eliminate Project.

Texas Road House offers not-for-profit organizations this benefit once per quarter on Tuesday evenings. An invitation is made available for mem-

Club coordinators needed to expand District’s participation in Eliminate

David Beasley

(See ELIMINATE, Page 5)


Read about the KI worldwide service project at www.TheEliminateProject.org

bers to distribute to friends and rela-tives, who bring them to the restau-rant between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. The invitation is necessary for the contri-bution.

Share what your club is doing for Eliminate.

Thanks for the helpThanks to these Kiwanians and oth-

ers for their time and efforts directed toward the Eliminate Project:

Ernest Hulsey, Ervin Dailey, Teri Williams, Woody and Susan Anderson, Jim Durrett, Jim Jayne, Bill Phillips, Armond St. Raymond, H. Hammond Cobb, III, Phil Knight, Kim Butler, Patricia Bedgood, Tom Lott, and Percy Blackman.

How to givePhone calls indicate that clubs need

information about making contribu-tions to Eliminate.

Please instruct individuals and clubs to make their donations to: Kiwanis International Foundation; noted to Eliminate with the club “key” number written on the check. Mail the check to: Kiwanis International, The Eliminate Project: Campaign Office, 3636 Woodview Trace, Indianapolis, IN 462678.

Let us encourage all Kiwanians to make a contribution. Large checks and small checks are appreciated. Zeller pledges are allowable over a two-year period. Other pledges may be made for five-year periods from the date the pledge form is dated.

Cathy Gafford of Opelika, director of the Jean Dean Reading Is Fundamental program, received a Zeller honor from the Alabama District at the Midwinter Conference. About $2,038 for the Eliminate Project was raised there. With Gafford, front center, are Kiwanis International Trustees Pam Fleming of Sheffield and Johnny Johnson of Marietta, Ga.; Governor Tammy Driskill; and Past Inter national President Wil Blechman of Miami, who spoke about defeating maternal/neonatal tetanus. Zeller awards are helping raise funds for the worldwide service project. Ann Shields, not pictured, is another recent Zeller honoree. Lt. Gov. Ervin Dailey of Chickasaw passed a baby doll, which is used to make points about maternal/neonatal tetanus during talks, to Deborah Stokes of the Kiwanis Club of TriCities/Florala.

Eliminate(From Page 4)

If you’re in David Beasley’s family, you know what you’ll find in your birthday card.

The Alabama District coordinator for the Eliminate Project said he has three children and five grandchildren.

“For each of their birthdays and as an added gift, I donate $9 to the Eliminate Project.

A birthday card is printed from my computer stating that a gift to save five lives has been made in their honor.”

He includes a note giving the name and address of the honoree when he sends the check to the Eliminate Project.

“The Eliminate Project has followed up with a letter to the honoree confirming the donation made in their name,”said Beasley.

“I include my club number on the check to add to the club’s total.

“This extra $72 yearly for four years will save 120 lives and is in addition to my Zeller pledge,” he added.

E-mail David at [email protected] for an electronic copy of the birthday card.

Your birthday card can save many lives



A mother’s love can change the world. Give to The Eliminate Project: Kiwanis eliminating maternal and neonatal tetanus, and become a Mother’s Day Zeller Fellow. You can make your gift in the name of your mother—or any woman who has been an inspiration to you. Through the Zeller Fellowship Program, a gift of US$1,250 to The Eliminate Project saves or protects more than 690 lives from maternal and neonatal tetanus. With the Mother’s Day Zeller Fellowship, you can protect those mothers and children while celebrating a woman in your own life.

If you give US$1,250 in full between March 1 and June 15, you’ll receive: Zeller Fellowship medallion Limited-edition Mother’s Day lapel pin Personalized certificate If you make your gift in someone's name, she will receive the recognition items above—and a postcard informing her of the gift made in her honor. Other giving options available. What better way to share the love of someone who has played such a special role in your life?

Learn more at www.TheEliminateProject.org/mothersday.


Read about the KI worldwide service project at www.TheEliminateProject.org

The Kiwanis Club of Dothan has chartered an Aktion Club at Vaughn-Blumberg Center.

Lt. Gov. and club member Robert Helms said it was a “great time” for Kiwanis. “If we have ever done anything right, the Aktion Club at Vaughn-Blumberg is it.

“It was so inspirational to see the love and beautiful servant hearts of these fine club members,” he said, and there was excitement from the minute Kiwanis members walked into the room.

“We were greeted with a huge round of applause and cheers, and most of them came forward shaking hands and hugging necks,” Helms said.

After the call to order and pledge, the meeting took on the sounds of a pep rally, with the words “We are Aktion, we are Aktion” chanted over and over, louder and louder.

AKTION ... at charter party in Dothan

(See AKTION, Page 8)


Have questions? Call the District Office in Birmingham toll-free at 1-800-745-1334

Helms, Dothan club president Susan Holmes and other helpers pinned each new Aktion member and presented certificates.

Following a charter party March 30 that included lunch and time at the ball field, the new club members have already started serving their community. Their first projects included cleaning up around Dothan Kiwanis Park and holding a food drive for the Wiregrass Area United Way Food Bank.

Along with service projects, the Aktion club will stress leadership, inclusiveness, character building and caring.

Their sponsoring Kiwanians, meanwhile, have been working the telephones during a Radiothon for Children’s Hospital, sponsoring the DSI/Lewis-Smith Golf Classic to help local charities, and making plans for their annual citywide Fourth of July celebration.

(From )

A preview in New OrleansSeveral Alabama Kiwanians got a preview of the site of the

Kiwanis International Convention to be held in New Orleans June 28July 1 when they attended meetings of the Kiwanis International Council and district secretaries there Jan. 1214 (early arrivals participated in the University of Alabama National Championship celebration in the French Quarter). From left are Kiwanis International trustee Pam Fleming of Sheffield, Alabama Kiwanis Governor Tammy Driskill of Gadsden and Alabama District Secretary Pat Manasco of Birmingham. While they worked on amendments to be presented to the House of Delegates in June and checked out sites for district dinners, spouses and partners helped create nosew fleece blankets for a service project. David Fleming, Pam’s husband, shows off his dogandbonepatterned blanket, while Olivia Humphries of Dadeville, whose husband, Ed, is a member of the Kiwanis International Foundation board, created a sportsballthemed blanket. These creations can be given to children’s hospitals, nursing homes, emergency personnel and other crisisresponse teams. (Photos courtesy of Tammy Driskill)

Aktion(From Page 7)

You can sign up to join Kiwanis International president Alan Penn, who will host a golf outing Monday, June 25, at Lakewood Golf Course in New Orleans.

Spend a day before the Kiwanis International convention opens at this event to raise money for the worldwide Eliminate Project, which targets maternal/neonatal tetanus.

Lots of prizes are planned, along with a jambalaya lunch pro-vided by the Cortana Kiwanis Club.

The fee is $85 per player, plus renting clubs. Transportation will be provided from the headquarters hotel to and from the golf course, where a 9 a.m. shotgun start is scheduled.

The deadline to register is June 1. Mail your $85 check to Joe Pratt, New Orleans Convention chairman, 2009 N. Woodlawn Ave., Metairie, LA 70001. Include your name, address, email and phone. Players will be assigned to teams. You can also bring your own team; list names of four players with checks, and give contact information for the team captain.

Golf with president in N.O.


Support Reading Is Fundamental with books, readers and donations

or should.“I encourage clubs to pick officers or

members to attend,” she said. “We’d love to see representatives there from all our clubs, and you can send two voting delegates from each club, plus alternates.” Clubs should be sure to fill out and send in delegate papers in advance so they can easily vote on Kiwanis business and candidates.

Alabama District’s adviser from the KI board, Johnny Johnson from Marietta, Ga., will be there with a big Georgia delegation.

“Show your love for New Orleans – register for the convention and be there,” he told Kiwanians at the Mid-winter Conference in Prattville. “There’s no reason you shouldn’t have a ton of people from Alabama there, because you’re so close.”

Type in www.kiwanisone.org /convention for details and register by June 1 for $250, before the price increases and you have to wait in line at the registration booth in the Ernest Morial Convention Center.

The good news is that the Alabama District’s assigned hotel, the New Orleans Marriott Convention Center, is right across the street from the con-vention Center, so you won’t have far to walk.

“In fact, you may want to consider leaving your car at home and flying to New Orleans,” said Manasco. “There have been some good airline deals out there, and you can walk across the street to meetings and later catch the trolley to the French Quarter.”

While other hotels are available nearby, she likes the idea that this Marriott is directly across the street and has a restaurant and a Starbucks.

“We will have an Alabama District hospitality room in the hotel,” she said.

Manasco said those attending should be sure to sign up for the District Dinner on Thursday, June 28, when Alabama Kiwanians will gather at Jax Brewery, 600 Decatur, St., a for-mer brewery building overlooking the Mississippi River that now houses res-taurants and shops.

“The menu will be fabulous,” said Manasco. A selection of four New Orleans-style appetizers will be served during the 6 to 7 p.m. recep-tion with cash bar: petite crab cakes with remoulade sauce, rosemary shrimp, grilled fillet atop garlic croustade, and flash-fried vegetables with dipping sauce.

The buffet dinner beginning at 7

p.m. will include jambalaya, sirloin tips, marinated chicken breasts with mushroom cream sauce, grilled tila-pia, crawfish risotto, roasted potatoes, vegetable medley, salad greens with honey-lime vinaigrette plus Louisiana-style coffee and Bananas Foster with ice cream.

The New England and Texas-Oklahoma districts will join Alabama Kiwanians for the dinner, so you can make new friends there.

“We are going to have a good time,” said Manasco, who plans the District Dinner in a different site each year. By June 1, send in a check for $80 per person payable to Alabama District Kiwanis, 85 Bagby Drive, Suite 206, Birmingham, AL 35209, or sign up and pay online from the invitation on the district website.

Kiwanians attending an honors reception prior to the District Dinner may want to book a ride on a shuttle from the hotel to Jackson Brewery. Manasco said that can be arranged with her for an additional $10 each.

Kiwanis-family service also will be highlighted in New Orleans, where Kiwanis, Circle K, Aktion Club mem-bers and Key Club and Circle K alum-ni will all gather at the same time. Kiwanis members will have several options for service during the conven-tion, including some involving other K-family members.

New Orleans(From Page 1)

While “Unmask the Potential” was the theme for the Midwinter Conference, District Secretary Pat Manasco kept her mask on to promote the convention in New Orleans coming up June 28July 1.

Key LeaderDuring the Mid

winter Conference, Key Leader administrator Jamie Brabston set up information on the Key Leader week

end. She recruited about 50 students for

the 2012 session at the Alabama 4H Camp in Shelby

County April 2729.



ALABAMA DISTRICT DINNERThursday, June 28, 2012

Please join us at JACKSON BREWERY for our annualAlabama District Dinner.

We will be joined by the TX-OK Districtand the New England District .

A night full of Great Fun and Fellowshipis being planned just for you.

6:00-7:00 Reception with Cash Bar7:00-10:00 Wonderful New Orleans Style Dinner

$80.00 PER PERSON

Make checks payable to:Alabama District Kiwanis85 Bagby Drive, Suite 206

Birmingham, Alabama 35209

Reservations are due by June 1, 2012



Mid-winter Conference Prattville, Feb. 24-25, 2012 Photos by Patrice Stewart


Remember your annual gift of $5 per club member to the Kiwanis International Foundation

Mid-winter ConferencePhotos by Patrice Stewart


Support Reading Is Fundamental with books, readers and donations

Mid-winter Conference Photos by

Patrice Stewart


Register to share the Kiwanis New Orleans experience June 28-July 1





When officers are elected for 2012-13, send that information, with address-es, phones and e-mails for presidents and secretaries, to Pat Manasco, Ala-bama District of Kiwanis, 85 Bagby Drive, Suite 206, Birmingham, AL 35209.

Also fill out and submit to Kiwanis International the election form that can be found on the KI website.

Report election of new officers




The Kiwanis Mid-winter Conference evening celebrating 25 years of female members included all ages – including some not yet born when Kiwanis admitted women but now reaping the benefits.

Rebecca Riley of Birmingham, an elected member of the Key Club International Board, addressed the crowd, which included Alabama’s elected member of the Kiwanis International Board, Pam Fleming of Sheffield.

While Rebecca’s chauffeur and escort for the evening sat next to her and drew plenty of attention, he was not the star of the evening’s show.

Rebecca’s grandfather is former two-term State of Alabama Governor Bob Riley. He did not reveal whether he has been grooming her for a future in politics or giving her tips on how to win Key Club International posts.

Rebecca, a junior and member of the Homewood High School Key Club, served as a lieutenant governor for Alabama Key Clubs in 2010-11. Her 2011-12 term on the International

Board started in July after she was elected at the Key Club International Convention in Phoenix, Ariz. Then she attended training sessions in Indianapolis, followed by visits to the three districts she counsels.

She told the audience that as one of 11 members elected to the Key Club International Board, she works closely with three of the 33 districts. She is assigned to Georgia, Kansas and Texas-Oklahoma, which together have nearly 26,000 Key Club members.

Key Club leaders are looking for

Key Club International Board member Rebecca Riley of Birmingham addressed Kiwanians at the Friday evening Midwinter Conference banquet in Prattville. She was accompanied by her grandfather, former Alabama Governor Bob Riley, who is at left in the lefthand photo. Key Club Governor Jeremiah Stone is sitting next to Rebecca Riley.

Leaders of Key Club, Circle K stress connections to Kiwanis

During the Saturday luncheon, Kiwanis awarded RIF Barnett honors to current Key Club Governor Jeremiah Stone (left photo), a senior at Tuscaloosa County High School, and Circle K Governor Kyle Pierce from Gadsden, a junior at the University of Alabama. “Circle K in Alabama is positioned to grow strong and grow fast, but we need your help,” Pierce told Kiwanians. “We want to be your partner in service.” Stone asked for more communication between Kiwanis and Key Clubs, including attending each others’ meetings and board gatherings. Presenting the plaques were Governor Tammy Driskill, left, and RIF Director Cathy Gafford.

(See YOUTHS, Page 18)


Remember your annual gift of $5 per club member to the Kiwanis International Foundation

ways to let everyone know it is the “coolest” club on cam-pus. They have been busy translating club application forms into other languages and creating graphic overlays for Facebook profiles that say Key Club at the bottom. The board also created a Key Club Week celebration, as well as participating in many traditional service projects – and some non-traditional ones, such as hosing down a golf course in winter so that it turns to ice for a charity challenge, and holding “Stop the Music” days at schools, where students pay to stop songs being played over the intercom between classes.

In Alabama, Rebecca said, they paint wagons for Children’s Hospital to pull

children around, hold knit-ting parties for the hospital’s neonatal unit and make sandwiches and take them to a park to pass out to home-less people.

Her recent travels have included trips to New Orleans for the winter coun-cil meeting and to Universal Studios and Orlando, where the Key Club convention will be held this summer. There’s been time for fun, lake par-ties and shopping along the way.

“I love all the Kiwanis women I’ve met, and I hope to one day be among y’all,” Rebecca told the group gath-ered at the Feb. 24 banquet.

And that is exactly what Kiwanians are hoping – that Rebecca and all her friends will want to move up from Kiwanis sponsored-youth service groups to Kiwanis club members.

Youths(From Page 17)

Barnett Awards honor Kiwanians during Mid-winter Conference

Several J. Mercer Barnett Fellowship Awards were given at the Midwinter Conference by Alabama Kiwanis Foundation president Mike Winstead. One went to Cecilia Ann Dailey (left photo), given by her husband, Lt. Governor Ervin Dailey, in recognition of her service to the Chickasaw Kiwanis Club and RIF. Others were presented Friday night to Loraine Harris (center photo), Chickasaw club, and Mary Jo Cragon, VestaviaHoover. On Saturday, a RIF Barnett was announced for Henry Phillips of the Chickasaw club; Tom Hayward, left, delivered the award to Phillips in Chickasaw during a club meeting. Each award means a $500 gift to the Alabama Kiwanis Foundation, which helps fund Reading Is Fundamental and other projects.

Save these dates!

July 27-29, 2012Alabama Kiwanis

District ConventionEmbassy Suites

in downtown Montgomery

Hosted by the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery.Watch for registration information soon at

http://alabama.kiwanis.org/.


Keep up with Kiwanis International news and information at www.kiwanis.org

Distinguished Club

awards

Past Governor Colean Black presented certificates to representatives of Distinguished Clubs for 201011 during the Midwinter Interclub Luncheon. The following clubs worked hard to attain “Distinguished” status:

Metro HuntsvilleRogersvilleTuscaloosa

ChelseaAnnistonPell City

MontgomeryTallasseeMonroeville

ChickasawCitronelle

Funeral services were held in Gads-den Jan. 22, 2012, for Elsie Manning Chaffin, 94, a member of the Kiwanis Club of Gadsden.

For years she worked on Kiwanis and other projects beside her husband, Andrew A. Chaffin, a past Alabama Kiwanis governor and retired colonel who died in 2003.

She worked closely with him to advance the Builders Club, a Kiwanis-sponsored service organization for middle-school students. Together they founded the North Alabama Kidney Federation to help dialysis patients with transportation and medicine.

The Chaffins also worked to estab-lish the Veterans Memorial at Noc-

calula Falls Park. Mrs. Chaffin was active in the Gadsden-Etowah Patriots Association and the Military Officers Association of America, and in 2006 she was inducted into the Patriots Hall of Honor.

She was past president of the Gadsden Woman’s Club and active in Altrusa, the Gadsden Music Club and the Mountain Laurel Garden Club. She served as a board member of the Gadsden Museum of Art and was a longtime member of 12th Street Baptist Church.

Mrs. Chaffin was born in Buzzard’s Roost in Cullman County. She grew up in Gadsden and lived all over the world as a military wife. After high school, she

graduated from Gadsden Business College and became an IRS agent.

She is survived by a daughter, Glenda Selman of Gadsden, who serves as the Alabama Kiwanis District’s Aktion Club administrator, and a son-in-law, Philip Selman, who is the district K-Kids administrator.

Other survivors include a son, Gari Chaffin, and daughter-in-law Renee Chaffin; two granddaughters, Rachel (Mark) Mason and Cornelia Lynn Selman; and a great-grandson, Wyatt Mason.

Mrs. Chaffin died Jan. 19. Following visitation and the 3 p.m. service Jan. 22 at Collier-Butler Funeral Home chapel, burial was in Forrest Cemetery.

Elsie Chaffin, active in Gadsden and state Kiwanis, dies at 94


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New Orleans in June. Emcee Dianna Michaels, Anniston television meteo-rologist who said she also was one of the early women in Kiwanis, put together a video featuring many female members, with music, space shuttles, hurricanes and other events of 1987.

Rish Wood shared emcee duties and some history. The amendment approv-ing women members passed by two-thirds on July 7, 1987, during a Kiwanis International convention in Washington, D.C.

The first two clubs to admit women were in Great Neck, N.Y., and Colorado Springs, Colo. More than 3,000 women were added in six months. In Alabama today, about one-third of Kiwanians are females.

“It was controversial, but I think it’s the best thing that ever happened to Kiwanis,” Wood said.

Karla Moons of Mobile’s Azalea City club (20 years), first woman governor of Kiwanis in 2002-03, attended the banquet, along with other women who followed her in the top Alabama Kiwanis role over the past 10 years: Pam Fleming of the Sheffield club, Colean Black of the Homewood/Mountain Brook club (18 years) and

Tammy Driskill of the Gadsden club (15).

Fleming, who helped build an acces-sible playground while one of Moons’ lieutenant governors in 2002-03, was one of the first women elected to the Kiwanis International Board and will complete her three-year term this year.

Among early women members hon-ored were Cathy Dean Gafford, direc-tor of Jean Dean Reading Is Funda-mental and the first female president of the Opelika Kiwanis Club (22); Glenda Chaffin Selman, Gadsden (23), district Aktion Club administrator; Pat Manasco of Homewood/Mountain Brook (20), who has gone from club president to lieutenant governor to District Secretary; and Patrice Stewart (20), editor of the Kiwanis Kourier.

The longest association was credited to Lyn Stuart, now an Alabama Supreme Court justice, who joined the Kiwanis Club of Bay Minette 25 years ago. “It was important to me that I was wanted by Kiwanis while Rotary was still fighting, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, to not have female members,” she wrote.

Ann Dial McMillan, retired bank marketing executive, joined the Kiwanis Club of Birmingham — the largest club in the world — 24 years ago, while Jo Ann Cook, retired from

the Extension Service, joined the Greater Tuscaloosa club 24 years ago.

Others recognized included Nan Williams, Anniston (22); Betty Lester, Alexander City (19); Betty Hayes, Dadeville, (19); Mary Prather, Auburn (19); Gayle Cunningham, Kiwanis Club of Birmingham (17); Ginny Hulsey, Huntsville (11); Maggie Glass, Chelsea (5); and Jean Phillips, Pell City (4). They have been active as club officers and directors and lieutenant governors.

Some of these grew up in Kiwanis families; the fathers of Gafford and Selman were Kiwanis governors. Some married Kiwanis members and later joined themselves, becoming offi-cers and committee chairs. Many have helped with K-Family service much longer than they have been Kiwanis members.

Some, like Tracy Silas of Huntsville West (17), met their husbands through K-Family activities such as Circle K, while others, such as Rachel Mims Taylor of the Kiwanis Club of Tuscaloosa (6), started in Builders Club and progressed through Key Club and Circle K to Kiwanis.

Read more history of women in Kiwanis at the KI website, and plan to participate in the 25-year celebration at the New Orleans convention.

Alabama Kiwanis 201112 Governor Tammy Driskill handed an award to Past Governor Colean Black, right, 201011. “I was recognized by KI president Alan Penn for having a new Young Professionals club in Alabama, so I’m passing this award on to Colean, who made it happen,” said Driskill. She also gave Black a Governor’s Home Club banner to mark 201011.

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The Midwinter Conference dinner celebrated 25 years of women in Ki wanis. Special banner patches were distributed.


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By Olivia HumphriesKiwanis International Foundation Alabama District Chair

Congratulations to Division 10 Lt. Governor Pat Padgett of Auburn, who is the first 2011-2012 lieutenant governor to reach the $5 per capita goal.

Thanks, Pat, for your concern and encouragement in getting the clubs in your division to participate in the Annual Club Giving Campaign that assists the Kiwanis International Foundation.

Take a look below at the District statis-tics through April 15. I want to encourage each club to give to the Annual Club Giving Campaign.

We need your help in getting the Alabama District up to goal. We currently are at $2 per capita, so we have quite a

way to go to reach our goal, but I know that we can make it.

A summary of divisions in the Alabama District is shown below.Division No. of No. of Membership Per capita clubs clubs giving1 9 3 315 $0.842 10 0 389 $0.003 5 1 113 $0.444 4 0 116 $0.005 8 2 232 $1.346 6 2 626 $4.547 7 2 357 $1.688 8 2 202 $0.829 7 1 529 $0.4110 9 8 387 $5.1911 9 2 216 $2.7812 7 1 337 $1.4813 6 2 146 $2.0214 5 2 138 $2.68

As you can see from the above data, we have a big hill to climb since we are at mid-year.

I want to thank each of you in advance for your concern and encouragement for the Annual Club Campaign.

These funds all go in support of our SLP (Key Club, Circle K, Builders clubs, K-Kids, Aktion clubs and Junior Leadership) units, grants, disaster relief, children of the world, and training programs.

Olivia Humphries

Lt. Gov. Padgett, Div. 10 clubs are the first to reach KIF giving goal

RIF donation honors governorKevin Yates, president of the Kiwanis Club of

Gadsden, said during the Midwinter Conference that his club is making a $100 donation to Jean Dean Reading Is Fundamental in honor of the 201112 governor. “This is Governor Tammy Driskill’s home club, and we want to show her how proud we are of her,” he said.

Trailer for disaster suppliesThis trailer was recently purchased to help the Ala

bama District haul supplies it has been collecting to disaster sites around the state. George Aiken, a past governor and current lieutenant governor, showed it off at the Midwinter Conference in Prattville.

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