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   Website: http://rosemeadkiwanis.org   email:  kcrosemead@aol.com

Sergio Medrano, President

David Barron, Vice President

Mario Manzano, Secretary

Elizabeth Landing, Co-Treasurer

Carol Mahoney, Co- Treasurer

Ron Robertson,  Immediate

     Past President

Board members:

      Bob Bruesch, Jerlene

      Hales, Frank  Quintanilla,  

      Ken Pike, Rachel Richman

   (Note: distribution of this issue includes both the RKC Kiwanicle and the RKC Reporter)

Monday, December 19, 2011

Speaker change for Thursday December 22 meeting ---see details in Calendar section below.

Attendance:

Present at the Thursday, December 15, 2011, meeting of the Rosemead Kiwanis Club were Kiwanians: Dave Barron, Bob Bruesch, Frank Contreras, , Art Landing, Elizabeth Landing, Ken Pike, Lou Reade, Jan Robertson, Ron Robertson, Sandy Johnson  and Don Wick.

Announcements, News

Rose Float Decoration – Kiwanis Division 10 on December 26 will be serving meals to rose float volunteers as Rosemont Pavilion from 5:30-7:00 pm.  The K-family has responsibility this year for decorating twelve floats and will be using teams of around 5000 members in multiple shifts.

Rose Float Luncheon --- See calendar entry for December 30 below for details of Rose Float luncheon featuring Kiwanis International President Alan Penn plus an artist’s rendering of the 2012 Kiwanis Float.

Masthead Change  – Although the scheduled RKC/RKF Board meeting did not occur for lack of a quorum at the beginning of the meeting it was requested that names of Board members be added to the Kiwanicle masthead. This wish has been accommodated beginning with the current issue (and will be done retroactively for newly indexed issues as well)..  

SLP News

RHS Key Club – President Elnora Phu has given a congratulatory shout out to Rosemead High School’s CIF Club for their cooperation in supporting the 2011 Yoplait Yogurt lid drive. According to this Internet link the company is donating $10 for each pink lid submitted up to a maximum of $2 million to the fight against breast cancer.

Education Review

Teachers Writing Own Textbooks? – A novel approach, but one that apparently works under the right conditions, writes Erin Richards in an article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel featured in the 12/14/2011 issue of Education Week, found here.

Its all part of an approach based upon a model in Finland that has “resulted in soaring test scores” and is “widely (and heatedly) under discussion in the U.S.”  

Comparing the approach to that of Montessori one California teacher comments “As a social studies teacher in an urban public high school in San Diego, I've found that project based learning and Socratic seminars are both helpful approaches to build engagement and collaboration in my classroom.  PBL, if it is done right, helps to decentralize the role of the teacher.  I become facilitator and coach rather than "fount of knowledge."”

Meeting and Community Events Calendar

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Thursday, December 22, 2011 – Regular Meeting

Scuba Diving Adventures – Chris Glaser, South Pasadena Kiwanian, certified dive master, and a volunteer diver for the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. will give us a behind the scenes look with slides and a video of the facility. what goes on there. According to an email “Divers at the Aquarium feed fish, clean exhibits, monitor fish health, give presentations and many, many activities.”

[Note: Our previously announced speaker for this date had to cancel due to a family medical emergency; we intend to reschedule her for a later date]

Thursday, December 29, 2011 – Dark

Due to the New Year holiday and associated rose float activity there will be no RKC meeting on this date (Note: for the same reason there is no Rosemead Connections meeting this month either).

Friday, December 30, 2011 – Special Luncheon

                         Artist rendering of the 2012 Kiwanis Rose

                               Parade Float

-                    -- Courtesy of Kiwanis Rose Float News

FEATURED NEWS

       (In left column):

 Rose Float Decoration   

 International President

    Visitation/Interclub

   Masthead change

    Yoplait yogurt lids

        fighting breast cancer

FAX OF LIFE

      INSPIRATIONAL

              MONOGRAPH

      Letter from Jesus

            About Christmas

       The Real Reason

             for the Season

. ..  

CLUB/COMMUNITY   

      CALENDAR

     (details at lower portion

      of left hand column)

Thursday, Dec. 22. 2011

    RKC meeting:

      Scuba Diving

          Adventures

Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011

     Dark – no RKC meeting

Friday. Dec. 30, 2011

      Interclub and KI

     President’s Visit

HAPPY/SAD DOLLAR

     REMARKS

Ron Robertson – still has two rental vacancies for the first time in memory, a reflection of today’s economy.

Sandy Johnson – Sad for having to dole out more budget cuts due to additional state funding reductions’.

Elizabeth Landing – People for People and the Open Bible Church will be distrib-uting food and blankets (courtesy of Wal-Mart) at Rosemead’s Tanner Park on December 24.

Art Landing – Next week’s special program will focus on RIF-oriented fundraising;  special effort will be made to encourage attendance by all Kiwanis RIF coordinators.

A GOOD THOUGHT

Why is Q&A learning better retained than lecturing or books?

“Research has demonstra-ted time and again that asking questions improves learning.

“It has further shown that the higher the level of learning* of question, the higher the achievement.

“Learners learn better when answering questions than when they merely listen.”

                    --- Rick Yount

 Kiwanis Kwiz

[A drawing with a prize will, as time allows,  be held at an upcoming meeting among  those attending and giving the correct answer)

What is the main topic of the first object of Kiwanis?

1) Helping children

2) Community service

3) Spiritual values

4) Patriotism

Previous Kwiz Q&A

  Q

The original Kiwanis WWS (World Wide Service) project helped to eliminate IDD.  IDD stood for:

  A.

 Iodine Deficiency

           Disorder:

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