Key Club makes strides

The Key Club at Douglas High School is a student-led community service organization. Key Club stands for Kiwanis Educating Youth and the club is a high school aged Kiwanis group. The club at Douglas High School has approximately fifteen members. The officers are president Mary Brockhage, vice president Ali Witteman, secretary Jessica Eisele, treasurer Peggie Hannah and historian Matt Gilkerson.

Over the past 2005-2006 school year the Key Club has organized many community service activities. The most popular Key Club activity is the Rake-N-Run, which is performed in the fall. The club rakes the front yards of some homes and leaves a little note behind wishing them a happy fall. The Key Club at Douglas High School is very active in the Special Education class at school. The club has helped them make cookies and participate in a Halloween scavenger hunt. In May, the club hosted their Special Education Spring Fling Prom. The dance was sock-hop themed. The students had a great time dancing to hip and '50s music. To see the smiles on their faces was priceless. In March, the club sold paper shamrocks for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The club sold the shamrocks to family and friends, selling more than $700 worth of shamrocks. The club made enough money to pay the full tuition of one child and partial tuition for another child to attend a muscular dystrophy summer camp. The Key Club was awarded a plaque for earning the most money out of all other Reno and Carson City schools.

The Douglas High School Key Club will continue their excellence in community service as the new school year starts. The Douglas High School Key Club strives to fulfill the Key Club International vision "to develop competent, capable and caring leaders through the vehicle of learning."