Key to Caring

Providing service of your home, school, and community impact the lives of many
in the simplest of ways. Whether it’s helping a classmate with a math problem or
working an event, Key Club has taught its members to make minuscule changes in their
own lives in order to influence the lives of those around them.
In Key Club, most students are influenced to become members because it looks
good on college applications, their friends are in it, or because they want to go to the
District Leadership Convention (DCON), but they stay in Key Club for a much deeper
reason: they find their niche. Throughout my freshmen year of high school, there were
always sign-up sheets for NHS events in my Accelerated English class, and since I had
nothing going on that day, I’d sign up to work the events, even though I wasn’t yet a
part of the club. Little did my freshman self know that community service would
become a large part of my life. Since my freshmen year, I have been a member of Key
Club with a total of over 500 service hours throughout my high school career thus far.
Furthermore, I have applied to NHS not only for college scholarship opportunities or to
wear the stole at graduation, but because I wanted more volunteer opportunities. As a
senior in high school, I have learned to sign up for events and chair them as much as
possible, instead of only doing it as a default. I have fallen in love and developed a
passion for helping the members of my community. The love for the purposes of these
events is the key difference between being a member of some club at school and being
a proud member of Key Club International. The key to caring is working events even
though you may have loads of homework, fundraising for the greater good, being
president to pass this passion along to others. I encourage you to watch the following
video. It will be worth your while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZGghmwUcbQ.
By Elise Langdon, Escanaba Key Club
Caring Key Clubber
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