Key Club 101
Key Club is an agency that dedicates (partially if not fully) their lives to their community, school, and home with a strong emphasis on children. The long term goal is to make a better place for the children of today and tomorrow. Key Club Members vary from academic excellence to social butterflies, and members believe Key Club is a way to meet friends for life. The pledge (see below) sums up what Key Club is all about, dedication and giving.
Key Club Motto
"Caring- Our Way of Life."
Key Club Core Values
Caring
Character Building
Leadership
Inclusiveness
Objects of Key Club International
To develop initiative and leadership.
To provide experience in living and working together.
To serve the school and community.
To cooperate with the school principal.
To prepare for useful citizenship.
To accept and promote the following ideals:
To give primacy to human & spiritual, rather than the material values of life.
To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
To promote the adoption and application of higher standards in scholarship, sportsmanship, and social contacts.
To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
To provide a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render unselfish service, and to build better communities.
To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and good will.
Key Club Pledge
I pledge on my honor to uphold the objects of Key Club International;
To build my home, school, and community;
To serve my nation and God;
And combat all forces which tend to undermine these institutions.
The Pecatonica Key Club is currently home to the 2009-2010 Division 12 Lt. Governor Megan Caulk. It was past home to the 2007-2009 I-I District Technology Chair Cody Reed, 2007-2008 Division 12 Lt. Governor Emily Mullen, 2007-2008 Internation Trustee, 2006-2007 I-I District Governor, and 2005-2006 Division 12 Lt. Governor Joe Hartsoe. We have hundreds of projects every year, taking place with over 50 members in a school of 305 students. We are proud to be serving the Village of Pecatonica, population 2,191, for 15 years.