Montana District, Pacific Northwest District, Utah-Idaho District, and Western Canada District
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About Us
Circle K
is a co-educational service, leadership development, and friendship
organization, organized and sponsored by a Kiwanis club on a college or
university campus. It is a self-governing organization and elects its
own officers, conducts its own meetings, determines its own service
activities, and establishes its own dues structure. Its Objects include
the Objects of Kiwanis. Once organized, a Circle K club continues to be
sponsored by a Kiwanis club. Although the ultimate responsibility for
Circle K is that of the Kiwanis Board of Directors, the sponsorship
function is most directly carried out by the Kiwanis club Committee on
Circle K Clubs, assisted by a faculty advisor (who may or may not be a
Kiwanian) designated by the college or university administration.
Sub-region A
is made up of the amazing
Districts of Montana, Pacific Northwest, Utah-Idaho, and Western Canada.
This area comprises six and a part U.S. States, four and a
part Canadian provinces, and two Canadian territories stretching across
four time zones. Although
we are a large area, all of the clubs and members in Sub-region A have
many things in common: a
passion for service, a desire to lead, and a love for fellowship!
Circle K International History
Eleven years later in 1947, Donald T. Forsythe,
Trustee of Kiwanis International, aided in transitioning Circle K from a
fraternity to a service-oriented organization. That year, during
September, the first Circle K club similar to our present day
organization, was chartered at Carthage College in Carthage, Illinois.
(The college moved to its present-day location of Kenosha, Wisconsin in
1962.) For two years, the Carthage College Circle K Club
existed alone. But on March 26, 1949, the University of Western Ontario
became the second Circle K Club to charter. Carthage College and the
University of Western Ontario were soon joined by the Louisiana
Polytechnic Institute on May 13, 1949. Circle K gained momentum and grew
rapidly throughout the United States; sixteen more clubs chartered in
1950.
For more information about the history of Circle K International, visit
the Circle K
International Website and the
History of Circle K Page. |
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at could be
rented to young men in need of assistance to attend the local college.
The plan became a reality as the Kiwanians established the "Circle K
House" at Washington State College. For ten years the "Circle K House"
became affiliated with a Greek letter organization as Kappa Iota Phi,
although it continued to be sponsored by the Pullman Kiwanis Club.