Club History  

SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN DETROIT MICHIGAN IN 1915, KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL HAS DEDICATED ITSELF TO SERVING THE NEEDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD. THIS ORGANIZATION'S SERVICE TO EUCLID'S CHILDREN BEGAN ON DECEMBER 7, 1927 WITH THE CHARTERING OF THE KIWANIS CLUB OF EUCLID. THE CLUB'S CHARTER SPONSOR WAS THE KIWANIS CLUB OF EAST CLEVELAND. SINCE ITS BEGINNING, THE EUCLID CLUB HAS HELPED SPONSOR OTHER LOCAL KIWANIS CLUBS INCLUDING THE KIWANIS CLUB OF RICHMOND HEIGHTS, WHO ARE ALSO COMMITTED TO SERVING THRE CHILDREN OF THEIR LOCALITIES.

THROUGHOUT ITS THREE GENERATIONS OF EXISTENCE, EUCLID KIWANIS MAINTAINS ITS DEDICATION TO THE COMMUNITY AND ESPECIALLY TO EUCLID'S CHILDREN. HISTORICALLY, EUCLID KIWANIS HAS RAISED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS THROUGH FLOWER AND PLANT SALES, CORN ROASTS, PANCAKE BREAKFASTS, COMMUNITY AUCTIONS, BIG SHOW SPONSORSHIP, FLEA MARKETS, 5-K RUNS AND VARIOUS OTHER FUND RAISING ACTIVITIES. THE MONIES RAISED ARE RETURNED TO THE COMMUNITY BY THE EUCLID KIWANIS THROUGH ITS SUPPORT OF THE MARY MAVEC OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL, THE GRANTING OF THE EUCLID KIWANIS FRANK B. DAVIS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EUCLID PUBLIC LIBRARY, EUCLID KIWANIS ALSO SPONSORS THE KIDS IN SAFETY SEATS PROJECT AT THE EUCLID POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE FRED'S CLUB TUTORING PROGRAM AT THE MASTER'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE COMMUNITY BASED CHILD-CENTERED PROJECTS OF EUCLID KIWANIS.

EUCLID KIWANIS LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CHILDREN OF THE COMMUNITY IS ENHANCED THROUGH ITS 52 YEAR SPONSORSHIP OF THE EUCLID HIGH SCHOOL KEY CLUB. THE KEY CLUB IS THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH GROUP OF KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL. THIS WONDERFUL GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE HELD THEIR OWN FUNDRAISERS AND HAVE ASSISTED AT EUCLID KIWANIS ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THEIR EXISTENCE. AMONGST THEIR NUMEROUS ACTIVITIES, EUCLID KEY CLUBBERS DONATE COUNTLESS HOURS WORKING AT RONALD MC DONALD HOUSE AND TUTORING YOUNG CHILDREN. KEY CLUB MEMBERS SERVE AS POSITIVE EXAMPLES TO THEIR COMMUNITY AND THEIR PEERS.