{"id":427,"date":"2019-11-08T15:06:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kiwanistiger.org\/?p=427"},"modified":"2019-11-09T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T13:42:13","slug":"from-the-presidents-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderik.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/08\/from-the-presidents-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Greet\u00adings, Fel\u00adlow (e)Tigers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Wel\u00adcome to the Eye of the Tiger eKi\u00adwa\u00adnis Club for the 2019\u201320 Kiwa\u00adnis year. Thank you to return\u00ading mem\u00adbers for the part that you played in open\u00ading 434 new clubs in the 2018\u201319 Kiwa\u00adnis year and 411 new clubs in the 2017\u201318 Kiwa\u00adnis year and also achiev\u00ading net growth in that year. Thanks to you, we have strength\u00adened the orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion that we dear\u00adly love, helped oth\u00aders learn how to open new clubs, and brought in many new mem\u00adbers of diverse ages, eth\u00adnic\u00adi\u00adties, and gen\u00adders to serve the chil\u00addren of the world. And wel\u00adcome to our new members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">We owe a big thanks to Imme\u00addi\u00adate Past Pres\u00adi\u00addent Gary Levine for his out\u00adstand\u00ading lead\u00ader\u00adship dur\u00ading our first year of exis\u00adtence and to the oth\u00ader offi\u00adcers, Sec\u00adre\u00adtary Alan Guire and Trea\u00adsur\u00ader, Valar\u00adie Brown-Klin\u00adgel\u00adhoe\u00adfer; and Board Mem\u00adbers Kat\u00adri\u00adna Baranko, Bob Larsen, and Car\u00adson Schreiber for their lead\u00ader\u00adship. Thank you also to our Kiwa\u00adnis Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Imme\u00addi\u00adate Past Pres\u00adi\u00addent, Sage, and Head Tiger Jim Rochford for his always wise lead\u00ader\u00adship, coun\u00adsel, and inspi\u00adra\u00adtion. And thank you and kudos to our cur\u00adrent Assis\u00adtant Sec\u00adre\u00adtary, Julia Levine, for devel\u00adop\u00ading this newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">I hope that you are famil\u00adiar with our fan\u00adtas\u00adtic web\u00adsite devel\u00adoped by Past Pres\u00adi\u00addent Gary Levine: <a href=\"http:\/\/aderik.com\">Kiwanistiger.com<\/a> and with the field guide on the site. It lists our&nbsp;goals:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Open a new Kiwa\u00adnis club at the site of the Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Convention,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Train Kiwa\u00adni\u00adans how to open new Kiwa\u00adnis clubs, and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adate and con\u00adtin\u00adue to devel\u00adop the Eye of the Tiger new club open\u00ading method\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy honed in the 2017\u201318 Kiwa\u00adnis&nbsp;year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">And, of course, part of our mis\u00adsion from our very first meet\u00ading is to devel\u00adop lead\u00aders at dis\u00adtrict and inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal lev\u00adels in the cul\u00adture of grow\u00ading Kiwanis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Toward that end, we agreed at our first board meet\u00ading of this year to add mem\u00adbers to our club in the North Amer\u00adi\u00adcan dis\u00adtricts in which we do not cur\u00adrent\u00adly have mem\u00adbers: Kansas, Ken\u00adtucky-Ten\u00adnessee, Min\u00adneso\u00adta-Dako\u00adtas, Mon\u00adtana, Nebras\u00adka-Iowa, New York, Ohio, Pacif\u00adic North\u00adwest, South\u00adwest, Texas-Okla\u00adhoma, Utah-Ida\u00adho, West\u00adern Cana\u00adda, and Wis\u00adcon\u00adsin-Upper Michi\u00adgan. So if you know like\u00adly mem\u00adbers from those dis\u00adtricts, please bring them into the club. We also need mem\u00adbers from around the world; we are for\u00adtu\u00adnate to have Richard Lim of Malaysia as one of our mem\u00adbers, and we want to add mem\u00adbers from Asia Pacif\u00adic, Europe, South\/Central Amer\u00adi\u00adca, and Africa. We are ask\u00ading every cur\u00adrent mem\u00adber to recruit one new mem\u00adber into the Eye of the Tiger eKi\u00adwa\u00adnis&nbsp;Club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Many coun\u00adtries around the world cel\u00ade\u00adbrate a har\u00advest fes\u00adti\u00adval by giv\u00ading thanks. I under\u00adstand that in Malaysia, the cel\u00ade\u00adbra\u00adtion is in May; in Cana\u00adda, it is in Octo\u00adber; in the U.S. it is in Novem\u00adber. At Thanks\u00adgiv\u00ading time, I think of all the things for which I am thank\u00adful. I am thank\u00adful for each and every one of you and your self\u00adless giv\u00ading of time, tal\u00adent, and trea\u00adsure to open new Kiwa\u00adnis clubs. We must keep Kiwa\u00adnis strong and vital to serve the chil\u00addren of the&nbsp;world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Let\u2019s grow!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Grate\u00adful\u00adly,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Barb Thomp\u00adson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">2019\u201320 Pres\u00adi\u00addent<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Eye of the Tiger eKiwanis<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greet\u00adings, Fel\u00adlow (e)Tigers, Wel\u00adcome to the Eye of the Tiger eKi\u00adwa\u00adnis Club for the 2019\u201320 Kiwa\u00adnis year. Thank you to return\u00ading mem\u00adbers for the part that you played in open\u00ading 434 new clubs in the 2018\u201319 Kiwa\u00adnis year and 411 new clubs in the 2017\u201318 Kiwa\u00adnis year and also achiev\u00ading net growth in that&nbsp;year.&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aderik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aderik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aderik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aderik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aderik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/aderik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/aderik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aderik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aderik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aderik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aderik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}