UPCOMING

May 24                       Col. Eric Lind, Director of Staff, National Guard – Ron Trahan intro , ALSO: CLUB ELECTIONS.

May 31                       University ofMaineChancellor James H. Page – Allyson Handley intro

June 7                        Mike Tetreault, The Nature Conservancy – Jeanne Gibson intro   

JUNE 9…5:30: 90TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION   

June 14                     Dr. Laurel Coleman, Friends of Lithgow Library – Betsy Pohl intro

Meeting of May 17th:

Just like the swallows returning to Capistrano…our Kiwanians return to Augusta each Spring:

With Mark Johnston absent, Bill Tozier provided the dinner entertainment on Thursday.  Remember, Bill will be playing at our 90th Anniversary as well.

A full room of Kiwanians, Key Clubers, Builders Clubs and K-Kids for our annual Youth Services Luncheon.

 We set the day aside Thursday to recognize the accomplishments of our
sponsored youth organizations.
Invited to a Kiwanis luncheon were over 50 members of Kiwanis Key Clubs
from Cony, Hall-Dale, Monmouth and Richmond, and from Farrington Elementary
K-Kids, and Cony Middle School Builders Club.
Officers from, each of the youth groups told of community service
projects in which they had participated during the school year, involving
long hours of volunteer work at the Bread of Life Kitchen, Red Cross blood
bank, homes for the elderly and a number of other institutions. In
addition, they reported on charities benefitted as a result of various fund
raising activities.
Virgil Hammonds, superintendent of RSU 2, in which many of the youth
groups are located, praised them for their contributions and gave thanks to
the Kiwanis Club for its community service and support of schools.
He said, “You hear too often about the bad things kids do, but I don’t
see that. Kiwanis and the groups they sponsor perform community service,
not for recognition or rewards, but because it’s the right thing to do.”
It was also a day to welcome back the snow birds, Dr. Brint
Darlington, who just celebrated his 90th birthday, Dick Cummings, Dick
Barnes and Dale and Arlene Prescott.

Virgil Hammonds addresses the entire Kiwanis Family on Thursday. 

Chuck Calligan, to his embarrassment, won the brunch certificate. Clayton Rollins happily accepted the cash from the 50/50 drawing.

 PLEASE REMEMBER TO RSVP  For the Dinner on June 9th to celebrate our 90th Anniversary

 Our Master of Ceremonies for the night will be

our own past President Charlie Kanozak

THE PAST PRESIDENTS’ CLUB

The Augusta Kiwanis Past Presidents’ Club, which boasts 39 living members, is strictly a social group of has-beens who meet once a year in the interest of “riotous behavior and gluttony” in the words of the late Club President Don Tavner, (1983). Another past president remarked: “It is the expressed desire of this distinguished group to do nothing–and then rest afterward.”

Minutes of their meetings are maintained, but sadly, are read in an atmosphere of total disinterest.

The group is arguably the only one of its kind in Kiwanis nation. It was founded in 1972 by 1963 President Bill Sprague with the understanding it would remain forever a social group, exerting no pressure on senior club officers. The past presidents, however, contribute annually as a group to the Kiwanis Scholarship Foundation.

The late John Hanson, senior club president in 1960, became the first president of the P.P. Club in 1972. There have been a total of 39 past presidents of the Past Presidents’ Club. The only requirement for admission to the group is survival after serving as President of the parent Augusta Kiwanis Club.

It’ll be interesting to see the number of past presidents who attend the Kiwanis 90^th Anniversary night.

UPCOMING

May 17                       Youth Services meeting – speaker is Virgil Hammonds, Supt. RSU 2     grace: Keith Page

May 24                       Col. Eric Lind, Director of Staff, National Guard – Ron Trahan intro.

May 31

June 7

— SAVE THE DATE — June 9th: 90th Anniversary celebration 5:30 @  the Senator  Please remember to RSVP so we can get a head count for those attending.

THIS WEEKS PROGRAM :

One of the most popular and well attended meetings of the year was this weeks Distinguished Youth Awards.  After  interviews of the applicants at all area High Schools, Kiwanians pick a winner from each school and they attend out meeting and tell what “community service” means to them. Again this year we had very impressive receipients.

Erskine winner

Kalyn Van Valkenburgh

and Alice Savage

Winthrop Winner

Levi Hooper and Sherry Gregory

Richmond Winner

Sydney Choate and Jeff Chapman

Monmouth Winner

Kerstin Schkrioba and Jim Jurczak

Maranacook Winner

Jalen Thompson and Brianne McNally

Hall-Dale Winner

Kevin Zembroski and Philip Davidson

Cony Winner

Victoria Lovejoy and Gary Lapierre

Capital Area Tech Winner:

Annunziata Graziano and Clayton Rollins

Gardiner winner

Suzanne Kropp and Bob West

It’s club election time again.  Your nominating committee has come up with the following candidates.  Nominations will be taken from the floor this Thursday and next.

Augusta Kiwanis Club

Ballot 2012-2013

FOR PRESIDENT:

Linda Wohl

FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT:

Rick Maxwel

FOR VICE-PRESIDENT

Bill Tozier

FOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS: (Vote for 3)

   Megan Bourque, Beth Crummett, Matt Ellis, Clayton Rollins, Ron Trahan

FOR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION :

Vote for 3 : Betsy Pohl, Roger Pomerleau, Arlene Prescott 

FOR TREASURER

   Philip Davidson

FOR ASSISTANT TREASURER

   Gary LaPierre

  FROM YOUR COMMUNITY SERVICES CHAIR MATT ELLIS

The Community Services committee recently mailed out box #3 to the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute for the backpack program. We collected 28 coloring books and dozens of boxes of crayons. Thanks to all the Augusta Kiwanians who helped with our collections.

Remember:  Join us

Celebrating our 90th

Anniversary.  Saturday,

June 9th.

Our Entertainment that night will be provided by Kiwanian Bill Tozier

One of the “highlights”??? of the past 90 years was a contest for the best Lobster bake/Boat Cruise Hat.

WHEN AUNT JEMIMA CAME TO TOWN

It was in the Spring of 1960 when the talented Aunt Jemima, attired in the familiar red and yellow-checked apron and red bandana, captivated the school children of Augusta and Hallowell.

Her school visitations and radio and television appearances kicked off the Annual Augusta Kiwanis Pancake Festival held at the Augusta State Armory.  Nearly every Kiwanis member took part in the popular fund-raiser, promising “all the pancakes and sausage you can eat for $1.00.”  The 1959 Kiwanis president, the late Richard Baron, accompanied her around to area schools where she performed songs like “It’s a Great Day,” “This Old Man,” and “Whole Wide World.”  The iconic Aunt Jemima was a student of German, spoke fluent French and was a registered nurse.

Sadly, she was put out to pasture in a wave of political correctness.  The pancake project couldn’t keep up with the overhead costs of grills, pancake mix and sausages, so it was cancelled in favor of other fund-raising events.

Kiwanians will long remember those days when the Armory was filled with men, women and children, their lines winding around the building, through the lobby and into the outside entranceway.

AUNT JEMIMA won’t be there June 9 for the ANNIVERSARY BASH.  WE HOPE YOU WILL!!!