The St. Marys Kiwanis Club meets every Tuesday evening, at 5:30 PM, in the Galen Cisco Room at the Eagles Lodge, 404 E. Spring St.
Our Kiwanis club is generous with its time. We are creative with our ideas. We are passionate about making a difference. And we have fun along the way!
Are you ready to help create communities that let all children thrive, prosper and grow? It’s pretty easy to do! Simply contact us with your questions and apply for your St. Marys Kiwanis club membership.
The kids in your community and the world are counting on you!
The Kiwanis Club of St. Marys was chartered and incorporated in 1956. The club consists of approximately 30 men and women committed to serving their community. It does not endorse political parties or persons and does not assess its members.
History of the St. Marys Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis is an international service club. Membership is composed of people in a wide variety of occupations who as a group work together can achieve what individuals cannot do alone.
St. Marys Kiwanis Honors, we are proud of:
Distinguished Club………………………………….… 2002 & 2003
Distinguished Club Presidents
Joe Cattarin 1966 Phil Young 1973
Terry Finke 1981 Marv Ruppert 1985
Sonnie Dershaw 2002 Mark Dominik 2003
Ohio District Distinguished Club (Started 2007)
Gold Victor Von Blon 2007
Distinguished Club Secretary
Larry Shelby 2002 & 2003
Club Officers Merit Award
Kurt Kuffner, President 1989
Doug Moran, Secretary 1989
Jim Elking, President 1990
Doug Moran, Secretary 1990
Doug Moran, President 1993
Outstanding Leadership Award
Jim Nuhfer, President 1999
Achievement Award
Honorable Mention: Stan Davis, President 1978
Third Place: Sonnie Dershaw 2002
Fourth Place: William Fitzgerald, President 2005
Past International President’s Award
Stan Davis 2011
Outstanding Club Project
Connelly Medal to Matt Axe
Murry Fitzgerald, President 1995
Diamond Growth Award
Darwin Zeigler, President 1992
Newsletter
Second Place Dennis Cisco 1998, 2007
Honorable Mention Dennis Cisco 2001, 2005, 2006
New Club Building
Coldwater 1969
Wapakoneta 2002
Auglaize Co. Aktion Club 2007
Lt. Governor
James Scott 1963 Ralph Selby 1997
Jack Kuffner 1970 Brice Smith (dist.) 1999
Larry Shelby 1980 John Moul 2009
Richard Ballenger 1986
Hixson Fellowship Award
Jack Kuffner 1998 Richard Ballenger 1999
Larry Shelby 1999 Brice Smith 2000
Past Presidents Award
Doug Moran 2002 Mark Dominik 2007
Ten Member Sponsors
Larry Shelby 51 Jim Nuhfer 31
George Neargarder 20 Joe Cattarin 14
Legion of Honor Members
Art Brubaker, James Scott, Jack Kuffner, Joe Cattarin,
Victor VonBlon, George Neargarder, Tom Smith,
Richard Ballenger, Larry Shelby, Stan Davis, John Moul,
Terry Finke, Don Hauenstein, Jim Elking, Jim Nuhfer,
Bill Salter
The St. Marys Kiwanis Club’s first project was sponsoring the “Kiwanis Braves” Little League baseball team.
The club established the Kiwanis/Campbell “Power of the Pen” award for McBroom Junior High students that are permanently endowed through the St. Mary’s Community Foundation in-order to financially award students for years to come.
When it Happened “The First 50 Years 1956-2006”
1956 Charter Date
1956 July 17th, Charter Night Banquet (26 Members)
1956 Collected Tax Stamps for Needy Groups
1956 Sponsored Picture Show received 35% titled “ODONGO” to sponsor Little League Team
1956 Painted Vote November 6 on City Sidewalks
1956 Collected and Distributed Toys for Christmas. Joined Good Fellows 1962
1956 First Ladies Night was a Dinner Dance
1957 Kiwanis Braves
1957 Gum Ball Machines installed
1957 Purchased PA System and Record Player for Swimming Pool $272.95
1957 Sold SMACKO Tickets
1957 Scholarship Recognition Banquet – First in the US
1957 Rose Day Sales (Profit $492.57) 322 Dozen sold
1957 Kiwanis-Rotary Gold Outing
1958 Travel and Adventure series (ended 1991) borrowed money in 1960 to continue.
1958 Father and Son Night
1958 Pancake Day. (1967 Ed Splatter the Batter Stepleton) December 6, 1958.
1958 Club Bulletin Started January 1, 1958
1958 Youth Center Project
1958 Kiwanis Braves won City Championship
1958 “Hire Now” Campaign
1958 Supported Vocational Education Class for many years
1959 Prayer Tents Placed in Hotels and Restaurants
1959 COLORAMA Card Party
1959 Distributed Driver Safety Pamphlets
1959 New Teacher Banquet and Recognition “Apple for the Teacher”
1960 Auction Fund Raiser
1960 Road Signs Installed
1960 Key Club. School Administration allows No Clubs of this kind in St. Marys
1961 Float in Chamber Christmas Party (Stopped 1966)
1961 Ford Punt, Pass and Kick. (1979 Ford Stopped. Kiwanis continued Locally. (Stopped ???)
1961 Sponsored Slow Pitch Softball Team
1962 Couples Club Dance Coat Room and Concessions Fund Raiser
1962 KOCH’S Moved
1962 Combined Meeting with Kiwanis and Soroptomist
1962 Good Fellow Christmas Wrap (Odd Fellows then) Kiwanis by themselves from 1956
1962 Served Lunches at two auctions. Made $200
1962 Lawn Mower Safety Program
1964 Honored Retiring Police Chief Gilbert Gurstner March 10, 1964
1964 Initiated the practice of having a local lady provide piano music during the meal
1964 Distributed church information to local businesses.
1964 Kiwanis Division 2 Picnic. IDLEWILD
1965 Inter Club to Sarnia, Canada
1965 School Safety Patrol Fund
1966 Junior Achievement
1966 10th Anniversary, June 7, 1966
1966 Audubon Bird Count at Lake St. Marys
1967 Father Daughter Night – Annual Event
1967 Collected Eye Glasses for International Project
1968 Safety Flares Sales
1968 First Peanut Sale
1968 Donated to construct Basketball Courts at Swimming Pool
1968 Distributed Bicycle Safety Booklet
1969 Sponsored Coldwater Kiwanis Club
1969 Auglaize School Children Picnic
1969 Kiwanis Park Beech Street. $1,500 for Playground Equipment plus Installed
1969 Sponsored Young Child from India
1969 Purchased Material for High School Guidance Department and Display Case
1969 Supported National “Sing Out” Group
1969 Purchased Heifer at Auglaize County Fair
1969 Sponsored Student to Presidential Classroom in Washington D.C.
1969 September 2, Mayor of City was Presented Playground Equipment at Kiwanis Park.
1970 Operation “Drug Alert” by Ronda Shelby
1970 Offered Dale Carnegie Course
1970 Took Sons to Hockey Game in Dayton
1970 Advertised List of Young People wanting Summer Jobs
1970 Supply Kiwanis Magazine to Library and Hospital
1970 October 8, Constructed 15×20 Shelter House at Kiwanis Park
1970 June 9, Kiwanis Park Dedication. Held Picnic for Children and Parents located near Kiwanis Park
1971 Built a backstop and fence on one side of Kiwanis Park. $750
1971 Sponsored Air Force Band as Fund Raiser for United Way
1971 May, Student for Hire Advertisement
19?? Red Cross Swimming Instructor Training
1972 Candy Suckers to Emergency Room JTDMH for Children
1972 Distributed “You and the Law, Deciding About Drugs and What if they call me Chicken” to 8th Grade
1972 Ordered Pipe for Kiwanis Park Basketball Pole
1972 Elementary Track Meet
1972 Swim Team Ribbons and 1965 Event
19?? HOBY
1973 Miami-Erie Canal Development
1972 Boat Race Food Stand
1972 May, Started Building Canal Boat Float for Sesquicentennial Parade
1972 Ken Davis, U.S Olympic Basketball Team Member gave Program for Father Son Banquet
1972 North Front Street Kiwanis Kuck’s Cove Park 3.46 Acres
1974 $750 to city to purchase Playground Equipment
1974 Purchased Blue and Gold Jerseys for Youth Program
1974 Started Delivering Enterprise News Paper. Hired Clayton Cornel and Students
1975 Christmas Card sent to Valley Nursing Home Patients
1975 Good, Flag and Country FOE speech contest winners
1975 Reds Baseball Game
1975 Cook for Hospital Picnic
1975 Honored Dr. Dale Kile, 2-18-1975 (19 years Perfect Attendance)
1976 Moved from Koch’s Restaurant
1976 Kiwanis vs. Jaycee’s TUG(TON) of WAR Contest
1976 Bicentennial Parade Canal Boat Float
1976 July 20, Started meeting at Northmoor
1976 Sold Peanuts
1976 Helped Junior Rifle Club
1976 Lunch Stand at Walk with Nature
1976 Donated $500 to Youth Center, $200 to Day Care Center, $500 to Kiwanis Park for Playground Equipment, $500 St. Marys Community Foundation matching Gift.
1976 20th Anniversary July 13, 1976
1976 Pass Shoot Dribble Contest
1978 July voted to go back to KOCH’S. Orchard Tree finished second in the voting
1978 Cooked for SM Township Fireman’s Jamboree
1978 Helped put in New Football Field
1978 Heritage Days 3 Day Lunch Stand
1978 Home Safety Checklist to School Children
1978 rchased Home Security Check List for Police for their presentations
1979 Kiwanis-Rotary Golf or Tennis Challenge
1979 Delivered Enterprise Newspaper. Discontinued September 1979 because of nonpayment
1979 Conscience Jar Started
1979 Helped WOF&G pour concrete shooting platform
1979 Ford Stopped Sponsoring PP&K. Kiwanis continued until ?
1979 Poster Contest for Pancake Day
1979 Install Day Care Center fence at St. Pauls Church
1980 Burger King Pitch, Hit and Run
1980 Installed New Roof at Kiwanis Park (cost $111.00)
1980 Steak for Winners and Beans for Losers Membership Contest
1980 Installed New Basketball Backboard at Bunker Hill School
1980 $200 Donated to “Become a Friend of the Library” program
1980 Won 3rd place in the Loyalty Day Parade with Canal Boat
1980 Sponsored New Brownie Troop
1980 Midget Football Donation
1980 Served at Hospital Picnic
1981 Air Freshener Sales
1981 Pass, Shoot and Dribble (Stopped ????)
1981 Playground & Equipment repaired at St. Marys Day Care
1981 25th Anniversary, June 16, 1981
1981 Purchased 50 tickets for Kiwanis sponsored Sea World Handicapped Children Day
1981 May, Honored retiring Superintendent of Schools Frank Dennings
1983 Took over “Walk with Nature”
1985 Vial of Live
1985 Chacter Education (Marv R.)
1988 First Woman Joined Club
1988 Daisy Scout for Kindergarten Girls formed. Kiwanis sponsored, Bunker Hill School.
1988 Motorized Tricycle for Handicap Woman
1988 Started working “Best of the Wurst” Food Stand. Summerfest
1988 Donated $750 for Light Bar in MHS Auditorium
198? Dune Buggy Float in Parade
1992 Red Kuck donated Kuck’s Cove Land for Kiwanis Park
1992 13 New Members inducted into Kiwanis. Contest between Officers and Club for a “Steak or Bologna” contest. Officers 5, members 8. Officers ate Bologna and the Club ate Steak.
1994 Connelly Medal to Matt Axe
1995 Shots for Tots
1996 40th Anniversary, June 4, 1996
1997 Kiwanis Peanut Days at Summerfest
1998 Started Golf Outing
1998 Gold Team Wins Kiwanis Sweatshirt for Best Attendance
1998 Worked Kings Island
1998 IDD Hixson awards planned to honor past living Lt. Governors
1999 Left Orchard Tree Restaurant (Orchard Tree Closed)
1999 Honored Past Presidents on Presidents Day
2000 Left Magg’s EZ Restaurant, went to Matt’s Restaurant
2000 Started Kiwanis/Campbell “Power of the Pen”
2001 Sponsored Girls Softball
2001 Started Meeting at Matt’s Restaurant
2002 Started Wapakoneta Kiwanis Club Matt’s Restaurant (Old Koch’s) Burned down May 4, 2002 Started meetings at Eagles Lodge August 6, 2002 Distinguished Club, President, Secretary Awards received, First Time all three 2003 Bowling Team Memorial School – Perfect Attendance Ribbons Started Distinguished Club, President, Secretary Awards 2004 Community Pride Picnic at Kiwanis Park 2005 Kiwanis Community Pride Contest started in 4th Ward Summer Bible School at two Kiwanis Parks Summer Wiffle Ball at Kiwanis Parks Started Kindergarten “Terrific Kids” Kits. 2006 Started Kiwanissm.org – Website January 20, 2006 2007 Started Aktion Club – Spring
Kiwanis helps kids around the world. Our Kiwanis club looks out for our community and the Kiwanis international organization takes on large-scale challenges, such as fighting disease and poverty.
For more than a century, Kiwanis has created opportunities for children to be curious, safe and healthy regardless of the community in which they live. When you give a child the chance to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive, great things can happen.
The Kiwanis Mission & Vision
Kiwanis empowers communities to improve the world by making lasting differences in the lives of children. Kiwanis strives to be a positive influence in communities worldwide — so that one day, all children will wake up in communities that believe in them, nurture them and provide the support they need to thrive. Our Kiwanis club fulfills the Kiwanis mission by serving our community through Kiwanis Community Service Projects
Kiwanis Service
Service is at the heart of every Kiwanis club, no matter where in the world it’s located. Members stage approximately 150,000 service projects and raise nearly US$100 million every year for communities, families and projects. By working together, members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone.
Our Kiwanis club focuses on changing the world by serving children, one child in our community at a time. To reach more people and have a greater service impact on their communities, many clubs sponsor a Kiwanis family club — K-Kids for primary school children; Builders Clubs for adolescents; Key Clubs for teens; Circle K clubs for university students and Aktion Clubs for adults living with disabilities.
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Sorry, nothing found.About Our Kiwanis club
The St. Marys Kiwanis Club meets every Tuesday evening, at 5:30 PM, in the Galen Cisco Room at the Eagles Lodge, 404 E. Spring St.
Our Kiwanis club is generous with its time. We are creative with our ideas. We are passionate about making a difference. And we have fun along the way!
Join Us
Our Kiwanis club fulfills the Kiwanis mission by serving our community through Kiwanis Community Service Projects.
Are you ready to help create communities that let all children thrive, prosper and grow? It’s pretty easy to do! Simply contact us with your questions and apply for your St. Marys Kiwanis club membership.
The kids in your community and the world are counting on you!
The Kiwanis Club of St. Marys was chartered and incorporated in 1956. The club consists of approximately 30 men and women committed to serving their community. It does not endorse political parties or persons and does not assess its members.
History of the St. Marys Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis is an international service club. Membership is composed of people in a wide variety of occupations who as a group work together can achieve what individuals cannot do alone.
St. Marys Kiwanis Honors, we are proud of:
Distinguished Club………………………………….… 2002 & 2003
Distinguished Club Presidents
Joe Cattarin 1966 Phil Young 1973
Terry Finke 1981 Marv Ruppert 1985
Sonnie Dershaw 2002 Mark Dominik 2003
Ohio District Distinguished Club (Started 2007)
Gold Victor Von Blon 2007
Distinguished Club Secretary
Larry Shelby 2002 & 2003
Club Officers Merit Award
Kurt Kuffner, President 1989
Doug Moran, Secretary 1989
Jim Elking, President 1990
Doug Moran, Secretary 1990
Doug Moran, President 1993
Outstanding Leadership Award
Jim Nuhfer, President 1999
Achievement Award
Honorable Mention: Stan Davis, President 1978
Third Place: Sonnie Dershaw 2002
Fourth Place: William Fitzgerald, President 2005
Past International President’s Award
Stan Davis 2011
Outstanding Club Project
Connelly Medal to Matt Axe
Murry Fitzgerald, President 1995
Diamond Growth Award
Darwin Zeigler, President 1992
Newsletter
Second Place Dennis Cisco 1998, 2007
Honorable Mention Dennis Cisco 2001, 2005, 2006
New Club Building
Coldwater 1969
Wapakoneta 2002
Auglaize Co. Aktion Club 2007
Lt. Governor
James Scott 1963 Ralph Selby 1997
Jack Kuffner 1970 Brice Smith (dist.) 1999
Larry Shelby 1980 John Moul 2009
Richard Ballenger 1986
Hixson Fellowship Award
Jack Kuffner 1998 Richard Ballenger 1999
Larry Shelby 1999 Brice Smith 2000
Past Presidents Award
Doug Moran 2002 Mark Dominik 2007
Ten Member Sponsors
Larry Shelby 51 Jim Nuhfer 31
George Neargarder 20 Joe Cattarin 14
Legion of Honor Members
Art Brubaker, James Scott, Jack Kuffner, Joe Cattarin,
Victor VonBlon, George Neargarder, Tom Smith,
Richard Ballenger, Larry Shelby, Stan Davis, John Moul,
Terry Finke, Don Hauenstein, Jim Elking, Jim Nuhfer,
Bill Salter
The St. Marys Kiwanis Club’s first project was sponsoring the “Kiwanis Braves” Little League baseball team.
The club established the Kiwanis/Campbell “Power of the Pen” award for McBroom Junior High students that are permanently endowed through the St. Mary’s Community Foundation in-order to financially award students for years to come.
When it Happened “The First 50 Years 1956-2006”
1956 Charter Date
1956 July 17th, Charter Night Banquet (26 Members)
1956 Collected Tax Stamps for Needy Groups
1956 Sponsored Picture Show received 35% titled “ODONGO” to sponsor Little League Team
1956 Painted Vote November 6 on City Sidewalks
1956 Collected and Distributed Toys for Christmas. Joined Good Fellows 1962
1956 First Ladies Night was a Dinner Dance
1957 Kiwanis Braves
1957 Gum Ball Machines installed
1957 Purchased PA System and Record Player for Swimming Pool $272.95
1957 Sold SMACKO Tickets
1957 Scholarship Recognition Banquet – First in the US
1957 Rose Day Sales (Profit $492.57) 322 Dozen sold
1957 Kiwanis-Rotary Gold Outing
1958 Travel and Adventure series (ended 1991) borrowed money in 1960 to continue.
1958 Father and Son Night
1958 Pancake Day. (1967 Ed Splatter the Batter Stepleton) December 6, 1958.
1958 Club Bulletin Started January 1, 1958
1958 Youth Center Project
1958 Kiwanis Braves won City Championship
1958 “Hire Now” Campaign
1958 Supported Vocational Education Class for many years
1959 Prayer Tents Placed in Hotels and Restaurants
1959 COLORAMA Card Party
1959 Distributed Driver Safety Pamphlets
1959 New Teacher Banquet and Recognition “Apple for the Teacher”
1960 Auction Fund Raiser
1960 Road Signs Installed
1960 Key Club. School Administration allows No Clubs of this kind in St. Marys
1961 Float in Chamber Christmas Party (Stopped 1966)
1961 Ford Punt, Pass and Kick. (1979 Ford Stopped. Kiwanis continued Locally. (Stopped ???)
1961 Sponsored Slow Pitch Softball Team
1962 Couples Club Dance Coat Room and Concessions Fund Raiser
1962 KOCH’S Moved
1962 Combined Meeting with Kiwanis and Soroptomist
1962 Good Fellow Christmas Wrap (Odd Fellows then) Kiwanis by themselves from 1956
1962 Served Lunches at two auctions. Made $200
1962 Lawn Mower Safety Program
1964 Honored Retiring Police Chief Gilbert Gurstner March 10, 1964
1964 Initiated the practice of having a local lady provide piano music during the meal
1964 Distributed church information to local businesses.
1964 Kiwanis Division 2 Picnic. IDLEWILD
1965 Inter Club to Sarnia, Canada
1965 School Safety Patrol Fund
1966 Junior Achievement
1966 10th Anniversary, June 7, 1966
1966 Audubon Bird Count at Lake St. Marys
1967 Father Daughter Night – Annual Event
1967 Collected Eye Glasses for International Project
1968 Safety Flares Sales
1968 First Peanut Sale
1968 Donated to construct Basketball Courts at Swimming Pool
1968 Distributed Bicycle Safety Booklet
1969 Sponsored Coldwater Kiwanis Club
1969 Auglaize School Children Picnic
1969 Kiwanis Park Beech Street. $1,500 for Playground Equipment plus Installed
1969 Sponsored Young Child from India
1969 Purchased Material for High School Guidance Department and Display Case
1969 Supported National “Sing Out” Group
1969 Purchased Heifer at Auglaize County Fair
1969 Sponsored Student to Presidential Classroom in Washington D.C.
1969 September 2, Mayor of City was Presented Playground Equipment at Kiwanis Park.
1970 Operation “Drug Alert” by Ronda Shelby
1970 Offered Dale Carnegie Course
1970 Took Sons to Hockey Game in Dayton
1970 Advertised List of Young People wanting Summer Jobs
1970 Supply Kiwanis Magazine to Library and Hospital
1970 October 8, Constructed 15×20 Shelter House at Kiwanis Park
1970 June 9, Kiwanis Park Dedication. Held Picnic for Children and Parents located near Kiwanis Park
1971 Built a backstop and fence on one side of Kiwanis Park. $750
1971 Sponsored Air Force Band as Fund Raiser for United Way
1971 May, Student for Hire Advertisement
19?? Red Cross Swimming Instructor Training
1972 Candy Suckers to Emergency Room JTDMH for Children
1972 Girl Scout Troop #604 Sponsor. Cooked Meal 4-11-1975
1972 Distributed “You and the Law, Deciding About Drugs and What if they call me Chicken” to 8th Grade
1972 Ordered Pipe for Kiwanis Park Basketball Pole
1972 Elementary Track Meet
1972 Swim Team Ribbons and 1965 Event
19?? HOBY
1973 Miami-Erie Canal Development
1972 Boat Race Food Stand
1972 May, Started Building Canal Boat Float for Sesquicentennial Parade
1972 Ken Davis, U.S Olympic Basketball Team Member gave Program for Father Son Banquet
1972 North Front Street Kiwanis Kuck’s Cove Park 3.46 Acres
1974 $750 to city to purchase Playground Equipment
1974 Purchased Blue and Gold Jerseys for Youth Program
1974 Started Delivering Enterprise News Paper. Hired Clayton Cornel and Students
1975 Christmas Card sent to Valley Nursing Home Patients
1975 Good, Flag and Country FOE speech contest winners
1975 Reds Baseball Game
1975 Cook for Hospital Picnic
1975 Honored Dr. Dale Kile, 2-18-1975 (19 years Perfect Attendance)
1976 Moved from Koch’s Restaurant
1976 Kiwanis vs. Jaycee’s TUG(TON) of WAR Contest
1976 Bicentennial Parade Canal Boat Float
1976 July 20, Started meeting at Northmoor
1976 Sold Peanuts
1976 Helped Junior Rifle Club
1976 Lunch Stand at Walk with Nature
1976 Donated $500 to Youth Center, $200 to Day Care Center, $500 to Kiwanis Park for Playground Equipment, $500 St. Marys Community Foundation matching Gift.
1976 20th Anniversary July 13, 1976
1976 Pass Shoot Dribble Contest
1978 July voted to go back to KOCH’S. Orchard Tree finished second in the voting
1978 Cooked for SM Township Fireman’s Jamboree
1978 Helped put in New Football Field
1978 Heritage Days 3 Day Lunch Stand
1978 Home Safety Checklist to School Children
1978 rchased Home Security Check List for Police for their presentations
1979 Kiwanis-Rotary Golf or Tennis Challenge
1979 Delivered Enterprise Newspaper. Discontinued September 1979 because of nonpayment
1979 Conscience Jar Started
1979 Helped WOF&G pour concrete shooting platform
1979 Ford Stopped Sponsoring PP&K. Kiwanis continued until ?
1979 Poster Contest for Pancake Day
1979 Install Day Care Center fence at St. Pauls Church
1980 Burger King Pitch, Hit and Run
1980 Installed New Roof at Kiwanis Park (cost $111.00)
1980 Steak for Winners and Beans for Losers Membership Contest
1980 Installed New Basketball Backboard at Bunker Hill School
1980 $200 Donated to “Become a Friend of the Library” program
1980 Won 3rd place in the Loyalty Day Parade with Canal Boat
1980 Sponsored New Brownie Troop
1980 Midget Football Donation
1980 Served at Hospital Picnic
1981 Air Freshener Sales
1981 Pass, Shoot and Dribble (Stopped ????)
1981 Playground & Equipment repaired at St. Marys Day Care
1981 25th Anniversary, June 16, 1981
1981 Purchased 50 tickets for Kiwanis sponsored Sea World Handicapped Children Day
1981 May, Honored retiring Superintendent of Schools Frank Dennings
1983 Took over “Walk with Nature”
1985 Vial of Live
1985 Chacter Education (Marv R.)
1988 First Woman Joined Club
1988 Daisy Scout for Kindergarten Girls formed. Kiwanis sponsored, Bunker Hill School.
1988 Motorized Tricycle for Handicap Woman
1988 Started working “Best of the Wurst” Food Stand. Summerfest
1988 Donated $750 for Light Bar in MHS Auditorium
198? Dune Buggy Float in Parade
1992 Red Kuck donated Kuck’s Cove Land for Kiwanis Park
1992 13 New Members inducted into Kiwanis. Contest between Officers and Club for a “Steak or Bologna” contest. Officers 5, members 8. Officers ate Bologna and the Club ate Steak.
1994 Connelly Medal to Matt Axe
1995 Shots for Tots
1996 40th Anniversary, June 4, 1996
1997 Kiwanis Peanut Days at Summerfest
1998 Started Golf Outing
1998 Gold Team Wins Kiwanis Sweatshirt for Best Attendance
1998 Worked Kings Island
1998 IDD Hixson awards planned to honor past living Lt. Governors
1999 Left Orchard Tree Restaurant (Orchard Tree Closed)
1999 Honored Past Presidents on Presidents Day
2000 Left Magg’s EZ Restaurant, went to Matt’s Restaurant
2000 Started Kiwanis/Campbell “Power of the Pen”
2001 Sponsored Girls Softball
2001 Started Meeting at Matt’s Restaurant
2002 Started Wapakoneta Kiwanis Club
Matt’s Restaurant (Old Koch’s) Burned down May 4, 2002
Started meetings at Eagles Lodge August 6, 2002
Distinguished Club, President, Secretary Awards received, First Time all three
2003 Bowling Team
Memorial School – Perfect Attendance Ribbons Started
Distinguished Club, President, Secretary Awards
2004 Community Pride Picnic at Kiwanis Park
2005 Kiwanis Community Pride Contest started in 4th Ward
Summer Bible School at two Kiwanis Parks
Summer Wiffle Ball at Kiwanis Parks
Started Kindergarten “Terrific Kids” Kits.
2006 Started Kiwanissm.org – Website January 20, 2006
2007 Started Aktion Club – Spring
Kiwanis helps kids around the world. Our Kiwanis club looks out for our community and the Kiwanis international organization takes on large-scale challenges, such as fighting disease and poverty.
For more than a century, Kiwanis has created opportunities for children to be curious, safe and healthy regardless of the community in which they live. When you give a child the chance to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive, great things can happen.
The Kiwanis Mission & Vision
Kiwanis empowers communities to improve the world by making lasting differences in the lives of children. Kiwanis strives to be a positive influence in communities worldwide — so that one day, all children will wake up in communities that believe in them, nurture them and provide the support they need to thrive. Our Kiwanis club fulfills the Kiwanis mission by serving our community through Kiwanis Community Service Projects
Kiwanis Service
Service is at the heart of every Kiwanis club, no matter where in the world it’s located. Members stage approximately 150,000 service projects and raise nearly US$100 million every year for communities, families and projects. By working together, members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone.
Our Kiwanis club focuses on changing the world by serving children, one child in our community at a time. To reach more people and have a greater service impact on their communities, many clubs sponsor a Kiwanis family club — K-Kids for primary school children; Builders Clubs for adolescents; Key Clubs for teens; Circle K clubs for university students and Aktion Clubs for adults living with disabilities.