KEY CLUB WORDMARK INSTALL
"because every Kiwanis club should have the right to install a Circle K House and because certain colleges do not permit Greek letter fraternities because certain colleges have limited the number of fraternities on the campus, which limit is now reached and because from a selfish standpoint we want to keep the 'K' our affiliated organization, we decline the request of the club to change its name." President Emerson's first objective for the 1946-47 year was to "consider every boy and girl an opportunity for Kiwanis service." He was determined to expand youth work by Kiwanis clubs, and his enthusiasm for his home club's Circle K project ran high.Īt the February 1947 meeting of the International Board, the Circle K Club of Pullman, Washington, requested permission to rename itself using Greek letters, a traditional designation of fraternities. During the tenth anniversary year of the Circle K House, its founder became President of Kiwanis International. Emerson, a member of the Pullman, Washington Kiwanis club, had first presented the plan in 1936, and the residence was called the Circle K House.Ĭircle K's origin was therefore a fraternity. The club had purchased a house in which the young men lived for $20 each per month, which covered their room and board. Seventeen years later, in 1939, the March issue of The Kiwanis Magazine carried an article titled "Pullman Sees Them Through." The article detailed an activity of the Pullman, Washington, Kiwanis club that enabled twenty-six young men to attend college. But after hearing out the proposal and discussing it thoroughly, the Board dismissed the idea as impractical. The secretary of the Michigan District asked permission to appear before the Board to fully review the possibility of expanding Kiwanis youth service work to the college campus.
KEY CLUB WORDMARK FULL
The Executive Committee took no definitive action and so the matter appeared as Item 14 on the agenda of the June meeting of the full Board. It asked the Board to investigate the forming of junior Kiwanis clubs in colleges and universities. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Board in April of 1922, a letter was received from the chairman of a committee appointed by the Michigan District governor.
Working with service-oriented college men came relatively early in the history of Kiwanis club activities.
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