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Golden K of Decatur In late 1980 an ad hoc committee was set up here in Decatur between what we now call the” Noon Club” and the Early Birds to set up a Golden K Club here. Needless to say there was not unanimous agreement that this was a good idea. The first official meeting of the club was held in June of 1981 at the former Dinner Belle in what was then Fairview Plaza (now Fairview Park Plaza. Kiwanis International Kiwanis International is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time — locally through Kiwanis club-sponsored activities and programs and globally through the Kiwanis international Worldwide Service Project.. Kiwanis The I-I District consists of all K-Family
clubs located in the state of Illinois as well those in the |
“THE
RENEGADE REPORT” This report is the most difficult of the five. But I could see it coming when I wrote report #3. The Detroit Club, the #1 Kiwanis Club, struggled with the purpose of Kiwanis in the first few months of its existence. Many early Kiwanians did not like the Kiwanis founder, Allen S.
Browne, and the financial arrangements he negotiated. The membership
fee, starting at $5 and escalating, was collected and kept by Browne
- in The first convention was held in Cleveland in 1916; the second in
Detroit one year later in 1917 where Kiwanis had grown to 70 clubs
with 5,700 members in two countries. The club in Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada By the time of the third convention in Providence RI, Kiwanis has
10,000 members in 83 clubs. “Yet within the organization a fire
still smoldered. When Allen The fourth convention at Birmingham, AL resolved the matter. When Brown’s contract was reviewed there, the terms were startling. Kiwanis could buy out Browne’s contract for the price of $17,500 - but only if the money could be raised in 24 hours. The Baltimore club put up the first $500. Delegates wrote checks and raised the remaining funds. Kiwanis then raised dues by 50 cents a year for two years (Kiwanis now had 17,000 members) to repay the loan. I tried to find what happened to Allen Browne after the buy-out. No success there. His story with Kiwanis officially came to its bitter-sweet end.
But the organization that Browne conceptualized and built was just
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