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The Kiwanis Club of

Burlington , Iowa

PRESIDENT . . . . . . . . Wyman Weinbeck

VICE PRESIDENT . . . David Stoermer

VICE PRESIDENT ELECT

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kay Sackville

SECRETARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pam Farr

TREASURER . . . . . . . . . Linda DeFosse

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donna Logan

ACTIVITIES CORP. CHAIR

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lois Blythe

ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wayne Johnson

SERGEANT AT ARMS

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melissa Warner

BULLETIN EDITOR

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Cameron

WEEKLY ATTENDANCE

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tom O’Keefe

PHOTOGRAPHER . . . . . . . Duane Lee

PIANIST . . . . . . . . . . . . Gerald E. Parks

TRUMPETER . . . . . C. Lawrence Paule

SONG LEADERS

. . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Rucker, Don Lofgren

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

Dear Brother and Sister Kiwanians . 

We have been given a very unique opportunity to BE THE CHANGE  in the lives of our communities. children.  The president.s message this month is a story shared with your Board of Directors at their last meeting.  Becky Godfrey, in her appeal to us for financial assistance for camperships to the Shining Trail Girl Scout Camp, shared the following personal experience with us ... .

A couple summers ago a little camper came to camp for a few days with the help of financial assistance.  I want to tell you about this little girl.  She helped me understand the potential we have to make a difference in the life of a child. 

A little girl sat at my table at breakfast one morning at camp and I realized she had the same clothes on that she had worn the day before.  When I had a chance I asked her in private if she would like me to walk with her back to her cabin to put on some fresh clothes for her last day of camp.  She told me .Teacher, these are the only clothes I brung..  I confirmed this with the camp health care manager who also told me we had supplied her with a bathing suit, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, and hairbrush during her stay.  All the camper had brought with her to camp was a blanket, a pillow, and a pair of pajamas. 

The camper went on about her last day of camp, having a great time.  I saw her several times, dirtier than ever but smiling as large as life.  The end of the last day of the session drew to a close and parents came and went picking up their girls and their suitcases.  All the campers were gone except the little girl who had worn the same clothes.  I began making phone calls according to her emergency contact information and got hold of a grandparent who had no way to pick up the little girl and after several tries I was able to reach the mother.  I reminded her that it was time to pick up her daughter and that we had been expecting her. The mother asked me how she was supposed to get her picked up, she didn.t drive. I inquired about several other options and the mother suggested in anger that she really had no idea how her daughter was going to get home.  So I buckled the sandy brown-haired smiling girl in the back seat of my car and set the paper sack with her blanket, pillow and pj.s on her lap.  The whole way to town she talked enthusiastically as I watched her in my rear view mirror.  She talked about the names of the girls in her cabin, the names of her .teachers., the name of the horse she rode; I heard about her learning to blow bubbles in the water at the pool,  and  cutting  up  apples  by  herself  at  cookout,  and  on  and  on.    About  5 minutes from her home, she was suddenly silent and I looked in my mirror and saw her head nodding over the shoulder strap of her seat belt.  She had fallen sound asleep.

President's Message Continued on Page 2