Key Club International is the oldest, largest, and most successful non-profit student-led organization for high school students. We teach and spread our core values through community service: caring, character-building, inclusiveness, and leadership which were adopted by our Key Club International Board in 2002. Members of Key Club, a part of the community-service based Kiwanis International Family, develop themselves into young leaders as they positively impact their schools and communities.
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PLEDGE
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CORE VALUES
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OBJECTS
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STRUCTURE
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CNH DISTRICT HISTORY
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REGION 8
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D19N LTGs
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AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS
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I pledge on my honor to uphold the Objects of Key Club International; to build my home, school and community; to serve my nation and world; and combat all forces which tend to undermine these institutions.
- To develop initiative and leadership. To provide experience in living and working together.
- 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 makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and good will.
- 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.
In 1924, Sacramento High School in Sacramento, California was in trouble. Destructive clubs and fraternities, although outlawed, moved underground and continued to exercise a negative influence on the student population. Educators and community leaders feared these detrimental effects and sought some means of replacing the clubs with wholesome youth activities.
The idea of a junior service club similar to Kiwanis was presented to the school in 1924, but it was not put into practice until eleven students signed a petition on March 25, 1925 which was sent to the Kiwanis International office with a request to be chartered as a Junior Kiwanis Club. By the time the charter was granted and the club held its first meeting, the membership had grown to twenty-five members. Through this group, Kiwanis hoped to provide vocational guidance to the students of the entire school.
The club became known as the Key Club because of the positive influence of these key students who held luncheon meetings each week to which Kiwanians came as guest speakers. Key Club members also attended Kiwanis meetings, thus bringing these young men into constant contact with the business and professional men of the community.
As the experience of the Key Club grew, the club became a complete service organization open to the whole school. A social program was offered to balance its service activities. Over the following years, Key Club went through a period of expansion by word-of-mouth. Other communities throughout the United States started Key Clubs patterned after the one in Sacramento High School. By 1939, about fifty Key Clubs were chartered, many of them in the Southern United States.
The first five clubs officially chartered by Key Club International were those of Sacramento, Monterrey, Oakland Technical, Hemet, and Stockton (now Edison) High Schools. Since Key Club was growing in the area of its birth, and a few clubs existed in neighboring Nevada, by 1947 it was decided that a district should be formed. The first step was to hold a conference in San Diego in October to which all the California Key Clubs and Kiwanis Clubs were invited. A full slate of officers was elected and a set of District Bylaws and a Constitution were adopted. John Cooper of Oakland Technical High School was the first District Governor of the Cali-Nev District. The first official District Convention was held in Oakland in March 1948; it was attended by eighty members representing the 23 recognized district Key Clubs. With the chartering of the McKinley High School Key Club in 1952, the district became Cali-Nev-Ha. The first edition of the Cali-Nev-Ha KEY appeared on May 1, 1954.
The advent of the new millennium saw the Cali-Nev-Ha Key Club District grow to over 500 clubs with nearly 29,000 members. It continues to grow. As of May, 2012, membership neared 45,500.
The idea of a junior service club similar to Kiwanis was presented to the school in 1924, but it was not put into practice until eleven students signed a petition on March 25, 1925 which was sent to the Kiwanis International office with a request to be chartered as a Junior Kiwanis Club. By the time the charter was granted and the club held its first meeting, the membership had grown to twenty-five members. Through this group, Kiwanis hoped to provide vocational guidance to the students of the entire school.
The club became known as the Key Club because of the positive influence of these key students who held luncheon meetings each week to which Kiwanians came as guest speakers. Key Club members also attended Kiwanis meetings, thus bringing these young men into constant contact with the business and professional men of the community.
As the experience of the Key Club grew, the club became a complete service organization open to the whole school. A social program was offered to balance its service activities. Over the following years, Key Club went through a period of expansion by word-of-mouth. Other communities throughout the United States started Key Clubs patterned after the one in Sacramento High School. By 1939, about fifty Key Clubs were chartered, many of them in the Southern United States.
The first five clubs officially chartered by Key Club International were those of Sacramento, Monterrey, Oakland Technical, Hemet, and Stockton (now Edison) High Schools. Since Key Club was growing in the area of its birth, and a few clubs existed in neighboring Nevada, by 1947 it was decided that a district should be formed. The first step was to hold a conference in San Diego in October to which all the California Key Clubs and Kiwanis Clubs were invited. A full slate of officers was elected and a set of District Bylaws and a Constitution were adopted. John Cooper of Oakland Technical High School was the first District Governor of the Cali-Nev District. The first official District Convention was held in Oakland in March 1948; it was attended by eighty members representing the 23 recognized district Key Clubs. With the chartering of the McKinley High School Key Club in 1952, the district became Cali-Nev-Ha. The first edition of the Cali-Nev-Ha KEY appeared on May 1, 1954.
The advent of the new millennium saw the Cali-Nev-Ha Key Club District grow to over 500 clubs with nearly 29,000 members. It continues to grow. As of May, 2012, membership neared 45,500.
Region 8 is composed of the five following divisions and their respective mascots
Division 19 North: Pirate Penguins
Division 19 South: Beastie Bunnies
Division 13 North: Green Monkeys
Division 13 South: Ninjas
Division 13 West: Hedgehogs
Division 19 South: Beastie Bunnies
Division 13 North: Green Monkeys
Division 13 South: Ninjas
Division 13 West: Hedgehogs
2008-2009: Willy Hoang (Lawndale)
2009-2010: Diana Nguyen (Lawndale)
2010-2011: Eugene Lee (CAMS)
2011-2012: Mian Ong (CAMS)
2012-2013: Tamara Garcia (Gardena)
2013-2014: Carolyn Kim (El Segundo)
2014-2015: Jacob Tran (CAMS)
2015-2016: Carolyn Chang (El Segundo)
2016-2017: Christopher Soo-Hoo (CAMS)
2017-2018: Hazel Cartagena (HMSA)
2018-2019: Jared Keating (CAMS)
2019-2020: Andrew Yang (CAMS)
2020-2021: RYAN SON (CAMS)
2021-2022: angela francisco / ruth moreno (cams/hmsa)
2022-2023: REBECCA SON (CAMS)
2023-2034: KAYCEE DAEZ (CAMS)
2009-2010: Diana Nguyen (Lawndale)
2010-2011: Eugene Lee (CAMS)
2011-2012: Mian Ong (CAMS)
2012-2013: Tamara Garcia (Gardena)
2013-2014: Carolyn Kim (El Segundo)
2014-2015: Jacob Tran (CAMS)
2015-2016: Carolyn Chang (El Segundo)
2016-2017: Christopher Soo-Hoo (CAMS)
2017-2018: Hazel Cartagena (HMSA)
2018-2019: Jared Keating (CAMS)
2019-2020: Andrew Yang (CAMS)
2020-2021: RYAN SON (CAMS)
2021-2022: angela francisco / ruth moreno (cams/hmsa)
2022-2023: REBECCA SON (CAMS)
2023-2034: KAYCEE DAEZ (CAMS)
Distinguished Lieutenant Governor
Distinguished Clubs
Distinguished Division Newsletter
Member of the Year
Spirit Stick Session Winners
- Ann Ly
- Christopher Soo-Hoo
Distinguished Clubs
- CAMS (2016 ,2017)
- Gardena (2017)
- HMSA (2017)
Distinguished Division Newsletter
- Mark Andal, Da Vinci (2017)
Member of the Year
- William Lam, CAMS (2017)
Spirit Stick Session Winners
- 2016
- 2017