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Key Club is the largest high school organization devoted to providing service to communities. Through our work, we gain experience in the areas of leadership, responsibility, and teamwork. Worldwide, there are 186,965 members, 4512 clubs, 31 districts, and participation in 19 countries. The first Key Club was sponsored in May 1925 at Sacramento High School in California by the Kiwanis club of Sacramento. The original concept was to develop a vocational guidance program aimed to combat the problems of student fraternities. From this evolved the idea of a service organization for the home, school and community. The idea slowly spread throughout the country and by 1939, Florida had a sufficient number of Key Clubs functioning to hold a state convention and form a district. Other districts followed Florida's lead, and finally in 1943, a national organization was started. In 1946 the first club in Canada was formed. Also, to establish a strong foundation, the Key Club International Constitution and Bylaws were adopted during that same year. In October of 1947, the California-Nevada-Hawaii District was formed and had its first convention the following year in Oakland, CA. As time passes, Key Club International continues to grow at an astounding rate. Today there are clubs in Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Philippines, Taiwan, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States, Colombia, Bermuda, Panama, and New Caledonia.

Key club is organized in a triangular form, like the food pyramid. On the bottom of the Key pyramid are individual key clubs. Then all these high school clubs join and form a division. Our division is 35. GO DIVISION 35!!! As we climb up the pyramid, we met up with a region. Our region is 12, made up of divisions 35, 10 and 3. We're almost at the top the pyramid! That is where the CALI-NEV-HA district is! Joe Gaudet is our District Governor. We are here at the pinnacle of the Key pyramid! This area is known as Key Club International. It brings all of the Key Clubs all over the WORLD together!

Purpose and Scope. Every Key Club has the responsibility to conduct an active program of service for the school and community. Through this program, the members fulfill the objectives of the Key Club. which are:

To develop initiative and leadership.
To provide experience in living and working together.
To serve the school and community.
To cooperate with the school principal.
To prepare for useful citizenship.

To accept and promote the following ideals:

To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to 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
serviceable 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 make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.

"Caring, our way of life." With this motto, we, Key Club should care and be in service of others. Key Clubbers learned that through helping others, they achieve joy and satisfaction as the result of serving others.

To understand what the Cali-Nev-Ha district is, one must first understand the organization of Key Club. There is first the actual Key Club headed by the Presidents. These Key Clubs are organized in geographical divisions headed by a Lieutenant Governor. Then these divisions are organized together and are called districts which are led by a Governor. Finally, the Districts make up Key Club on the international level and this is headed by the Key Club International President. So Cali-Nev-Ha District, whose mascot is the Bee, is a district with a little under 50 divisions, 505 Key Clubs, which boasts over 25,000 members, which is about one-fourth of all the members Key Club International is composed of. This number is still growing each year which results in more service.

CALI-NEV-HA's Motto

"Service, we deliver" Through Key Club's work in the home, school, and community, Key Clubbers have learned that their organization is built around the concept of caring, Key Club will continue to be an effective and contributing organization in our homes, schools and communities.