George Remembers

One day, while I was fishing in Duck Lake, a sheriff patrol boat came along side of my boat, as I wondered what misdeed I was about to be ticketed for.  

Instead, it was my neighbor, Carl Pearce, inviting me to a forthcoming Kiwanis meeting. I went, liked the club, and soon joined.  [George joined the Kiwanis Club in 1998.]

My first project was raking leaves at the Women's Resource Center.  Over the years, I secured volunteers for the NMC Barbeque, chaired the Community Service Comittee, and, most recently, secured volunteers for the State Theater. 

Kiwanis is a great organization.

George Townsend

via e-mail, 14 November 2014

Chartered

The Kiwanis Club of Traverse City, Michigan

was chartered by Kiwanis International

on November 26, 1924

The Club has been serving children and our community

and meeting weekly for over 90 years.

The Objects of Kiwanis - Our Standards

The six permanent Objects of Kiwanis International were approved by Kiwanis club delegates at the 1924 Convention in Denver, Colorado. Through the succeeding decades, they have remained unchanged.

• Object 1 - To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.
• Object 2 - To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
• Object 3 - To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards.
• Object 4 - To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
• Object 5 - To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
• Object 6 - To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.

from Kiwanis International Website - Click here