Welcome to Foothill Key Club's website! This is where we will be posting info on any upcoming events, pictures, and much more! Please feel free to contact us at knightskeyclub_gmail.com, on any questions you might have or you may contact the board members. You may also 'friend' our Facebook page for updates as well! Search 'Foothill Key Club' today!
Remember: You need to attend at least 5 events, 2 DCMs and 4 meetings per Semester!
Here at Key Club, we aim to do good for the community while having a positive attitude and having fun. We allow our members to meet other people from different divisions of this international club, so that everybody can also meet new people in the process of volunteering. We try our best to plan fun events such as Fall Rally(which is Six Flags!) and Beach Boomba (meeting other people at the beach). Key Club is not meant to burden our members ~ we just want our volunteers to have fun while helping out other people and making an impact in our community. Thanks for signing up this year, we really appreciate it when there are a lot of members who really want to help other people and their community.
No, this actually is not a club that makes keys! Key Club International is the oldest, largest, and most successful non-profit student-led organization for high school students. Through community service, we teach and spread our core values: caring, character-building, inclusiveness, and leadership. Key Club, which stands for Kiwanis Educated Youth, is a part of the community-service based Kiwanis International Family. There are approximately 250,000 members in Key Club and 5,000 clubs throughout the world. Key Club is represented in 30 countries. Members of Key Club are able to develop themselves into young leaders as well as positively impact their schools and commmunities.
The first Key Club was established at Sacramento High School in Sacramento, California in May 1925 with the help the local Kiwanis organization. The original concept was made by educators who wanted to replace the negative influence of destructive clubs and fraternities with wholesome youth activities. The charter for the club wasn't approved of until eleven young men signed a petition on March 25, 1925 to the Kiwanis International Office in Chicago requesting to be charted as a Junior Kiwanis Club. When the charter was finally granted and the club held its first meeting, membership had already risen to 25 members.
The club soon became known as Key Club due to the positive influence the key students that planned the weekly luncheon meetings had on the school's atmosphere. As the experience of Key Club grew, a trend developed expanding the original purpose of providing vocational guidance and worthwhile activities to students. Soon the entire Sacramento High student body was allowed to join a newly formed service organization, and a social program was offered to balance its service activities. Key Club soon expanded even further, growing beyond its original birth place. By 1939, about fifty Key Clubs were chartered, mostly in the southern United States. In the same year, Florida formed a State Association of Key Clubs (the first Key Club District). In 1943, the Florida State Association of Key Clubs invited Key Clubbers from Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee to attend its convention. Afterwards, Key Clubs formed an international association and elected Malcolm Lewis of West Palm Beach, Florida as its first president. In 1946, the official Key Club International Constitution and Bylaws were approved, and the association became Key Club International (KCI).
The California-Nevada-Hawaii District first started off when a decision was made in 1947 to form the California-Nevada (Cali-Nev) District. All Key Clubs and Kiwanis Clubs in California were invited to hold a conference in San Diego in October of 1947. The Key Club California-Nevada District Bylaws and Constitution were adopted and new district officers were elected. John Cooper of Oakland Technical High School was the first District Governor of the Cali-Nev District. The first official Cali-Nev District Convention was held in Oakland in March 1948. It was attended by eighty members representing the 23 recognized district Key Clubs. The California-Nevada District converted to the California-Nevada-Hawaii (Cali-Nev-Ha, CNH) District when McKinley High School Key Club was established in Hawaii in 1952. The first edition of the Cali-Nev-Ha Key appeared on May 1, 1954. As of now, there are over 36,000 CNH Key Clubbers from 638 clubs in 18 regions, made up of 63 divisions.
Motto
Caring- Our Way of Life
Objects
-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 ideals:
~To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than the material values of life.
~To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
~To promote the adoption and application of higher standards in scholarship, sportsmanship, and social contacts.
~To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and seriviceable citizenship.
~To provide a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render unselfish service, and to build better communities.
~To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which will make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.
Mission Statement
Key Club is an international, student-led organization providing its members with opportunities to perform service, build character, and develop leadership.
Vision
To develop competent, capable, and caring leaders through the vehicle of service.
Core Values
Caring, Character-Building, Inclusiveness, and Leadership
A District Project is a specific project focus selected every other year by the District Project committee made up of members of the District Board. The current CNH District Project for 2010-2012 is Project Shine: Bringing Life Into Someone's Life. Every CNH club can come up with a project or community service activity that coincides with this project's focus throughout the year.
Project Shine: Bringing Light into Someone's Life focuses on individuals with special needs, whether it is academically, physically, or mentally. As Key Clubbers who become dedicated to this project focus on helping those with disabilities, we can now be the leaders and examples in our schools and communities on how we should be treating those with special needs, and how to help and support them as best we can. As Key Clubbers, our motto is Caring- Our Way of Life. Those with some type of disability need people to care for them and to show them acceptance. We now have the chance to exemplify our motto and truly live up to it.
And, besides directly helping those with special needs, we can also work on educating and spreading awareness to people in our community about the different disabilities. It would offer people a better understanding on the various types, which in turn can lead them to be more empathetic and understanding. Overall, our District Project is helping to unite people with differences, and to also help to change the negative ways people with special needs are treated.
How Do You Feel?
(Everytime someone asks "How do you feel?")
We feel good!
Oh! We feel so good!
UH! (With a super intense pelvic thrust)
We feel fine, all of the time!
ABOOGA! ABOOGA! ABOOGA BOOGA BOOGA! (Starting spinning around with your fist above your head)
(Start cheering and stuff)
*When you're doing this by yourself, say "I feel good". When you're doing this in a group, saw "We feel good".
How Do You Feel Remix
(Whenever someone yells "REMIX!" after you do "How Do You Feel?")
Hold up! Wait a minute!
Let me put some booty in it!
UH! Some booty! (Start wiggling your butt)
UH, UH! Some booty!
We've Got Spirit!
(Spirit Battles)
We've got spirit! Yes, we do! We've got spirit! How about you!?
*Repeat as many times as necessary/possible. Don't forget to gradually become louder and more spirited!
Key Club Song- Show Your K
On, our coats,
we wear a little button.
We wear it in the winter and
the summer so they say.
If, you ask, us why the decoration,
we'll say it's for our Key Club and
we're proud to show
Our K.
Show your K!
Cali-Nev-Ha Cheer
CALI-NEV-HA!
(Clap your hands on HA)
ABOOGA, BOOGA, BOOGA!
(Wiggle your butt whilst doing this)
HA, HA, HA!
(Throw your fist over your head)
*Repeat 3x, each time louder
Cali-Nev-Ha Rap
From the east to the west,
You know we are the best!
We're the district with the sting,
and that's why we sing:
WE'RE THE BEES! BUZZ, BUZZ!
It's all about the party hardy!
CNH Bees!
Number One
One, we are the bees!
Two, a little bit louder!
Three, we still can't hear you!
WE ARE NUMBER...!
(Repeat)
Goldfish Rap
Goldfish got the Goldfish got the SPLASH, SPLASH
4-EEEEEEAST, 4-EEEEEEEEAST
Pump it Up!
Pump pump pump it up
Pump that goldfish spirit up!
Keep keep keep it up
Keep that 4 East spirit up!
When I say GOLD!
When I say GOLD, you say FISH!
GOLD! (Fish!), GOLD! (Fish!
When I say FOUR, you say EAST!
FOUR (East!) Four (East!)
(Repeat 3 times, each time louder)
Couldn't Be Prouder
We're from 4 East couldn't be prouder...
If you can't hear us... we'll shout a little louder
We're from KEY Club couldn't be prouder...
If you can't hear us... we'll shout a little louder!
