How many
members of your club have never visited another club?
How many of your members don’t even know Kiwanians in another club or
even know which other K-Family clubs are near yours?
What a great
way to get your new members involved and provide them with the opportunity to learn about
Kiwanis from varied perspectives. How many of your long-time members need some good
old-fashioned revitalization? How many of
your club members can you get to go on inter-clubs this year? Don’t let only a
handful of your members have all of the fun. By going on only the required eight visits to
different clubs as inter-clubs and qualifying for the Minn-Dak District Inter-clubbing
Award, you should have at least sixteen members participate. Many clubs go on more than
eight inter-clubs each and every year.
Through
inter-clubbing Kiwanians learn that all Kiwanis clubs are not exactly alike. It’s
safe to say that no two clubs are exactly alike. You have no idea what a visit to another
club can lead to. This is a super way of
energizing your own club with fresh ideas for new programs, new service projects or social
activities.
To count as
an official inter-club, it only takes two of your club members attending a meeting of any
Kiwanis club – any club, anywhere - or
any sponsored youth club. Please remember, however, you can only count a visit to any one
club once toward the award. You must visit 8
different clubs during the year to count for the award. Be sure to visit as many
sponsored youth clubs as you can this year. They
love to see Kiwanians at their meetings and it means a lot to our young people to show we
are interested in them and their club. Please remember, however, that conventions, region
meetings, non-meeting oriented fundraisers etc. do not count as inter-club visits.
An inter-club is just what it says- a visit to another club’s meeting.
When you go
on an inter-club, be sure to report it on your monthly and also record it on your
club’s inter-club list. When you have at least eight, send me your Inter-club Report
Form by June 15th and I’ll be very happy to present your club with an
Inter-clubbing Award banner patch at the Minn-Dak Convention in August.
To report
your list of inter-club visit, you can either send me an e-mail at:
JHESCH@AOL.COM or send your list via regular mail (a.k.a.
“snail mail”) to me at 3854 E. Superior St. Duluth, MN 55804.
There is no
standard form for reporting your visits. Any legible format will do. However, please
include the following in your report to ensure credit: date, club visited, city of visited
club, the names of your club members who went on the visit and one-way mileage traveled.
Also, please be sure you have your club name and region number along with the name of your
reporting interclub chairperson included on your report so I know which club should get
credit.
If you send
your report to me via e-mail, I will send a reply indicating I received it. I will not
mail a written reply back if you use regular mail for submitting your report. However, if
you include an e-mail address in your mailed report, I will be happy to send you an e-mail
to indicate I received your report.
Finally,
please remember, you will receive your patch at next year’s Minn-Dak convention. The
patches are not available until the convention in August, so please do not expect a patch
by return mail when you submit your report. They will not be ready until the Minn-Dak
District convention.
Have a great
inter-clubbing year and I hope to see many more club reports in 2007.
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