Volume 25 | Issue 1 | May 2020 

Circle of
Sharing
The Official Publication of Wisconsin Upper Michigan Circle K District

DCON 2020
RECAP
A congratulations to our
District Convention award
winners and a thank-you to
our graduating members.

MEET THE
NEW BOARD
The 2020-2021 District
Board is filled with some new
smiling faces, and you could
be one of them!

CKI IN A
PANDEMIC
Find out what you can be
doing to stay active in CKI.
 Table of Contents 07 A Word from the DCON Chair
08 New District Board
02 District Goals 10 District Board Opportunities
03 CKI Acronyms 11 Member Spotlights
04 Calendar of Events 12 CKI during COVID-19
05 DCON Recap 13 COVID-19 Resources
06 DCON Award Winners 18 District Board Directory

DISTRICT GOALS
At the start of each CKI year, the newly-appointed District Board publishes the goals for the
district. The timeline to complete these goals run from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021 for this
CKI year.

350 4750 60 25
Total Members Service Hours K-Family Events Interclub Events

$1500 $550 $2500 35

Spring Fling
Camp Wawbeek Bay Cliff Other Charities
Attendance

10 75 50 85 100
Kiwanis Family Membership Awareness Kiwanis Family DCON
CKIx Attendance
Baseball Game Conference Hockey Night Attendance

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A Circle K International has a lot of
acronyms that can be confusing if you

C
don't know them. Let's start off the year
right by learning what all of these
acronyms mean.

R CKI Circle K International

O
DCON District Convention

CKIx Circle K International Convention

COR Club Officer Retreat

N KDCON

KFBG
Kiwanis District Convention

Kiwanis Family Baseball Game

Y
MAC Membership Awareness Conference

KFHN Kiwanis Family Hockey Night

M
LTG Lieutenant Governor

MUC Membership Update Center

S
MRF Monthly Report Form

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 MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

WUM CKI DISTRICT

EVENTS 2020-2021
Virtual Spring Fling - April 25th, 2020

CKIx '20 - July 19ish, 2020 - VIRTUAL

Club Officer Retreat (COR) - July 24-26, 2020

Kiwanis Family Baseball Game - September 20th, 2020

Membership Awareness Conference (MAC) -

October 16-18, 2020 - Camp Wawbeek, WI Dells

Kiwanis Family Hockey Night - Winter

District Convention - February 26-28, 2021 - Green Bay

EMAIL WUMCKI.GOVERNOR@GMAIL.COM WITH ANY

QUESTIONS

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DCON 2020 Recapped

We recently held the 57th annual Wisconsin Upper Michigan CKI District
Convention (DCON) in Madison, WI on February 28 - March 1, 2020. This was
a weekend full of service, leadership, and fellowship where clubs were able to
meet members from other clubs throughout our District.  We started the
weekend with activities and service projects to get to know members from
other clubs and serve our community.  At DCON, members attended
workshops to develop their leadership skills and learn more about the Kiwanis
Family.  Members met Kiwanians and other members of the K-Fam at the
Kiwanis Family Luncheon. Attendees also had the opportunity to run for
District Board for the 2020-2021 year, and members from across the District
were elected to serve on the District Board.  On Saturday night, we thanked
our past District Board and Club Presidents at the Presidents and Parents
Banquet.  On Sunday, the new District Board was installed, and we celebrated
another successful year of Wisconsin Upper Michigan CKI District.
-Joanna Carman

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DCON 2020 Award Winners

This year, there were so many amazing applications for District Awards, and choosing
winners was not an easy task. We would like to thank everyone who applied for awards
and congratulate our winners for their work last term! 

Club Awards:
Outstanding Club President: Alexandria Prostko, UW-Madison
Outstanding Club Vice President: Madeline Dimeo, UW-Madison
Outstanding Club Secretary: Katelyn Van Buren, UW-Madison
Outstanding Editor in Chief: Sofia Paredes, Milwaukee School of Engineering
Distinguished Alumni: Katie Rash, UW-Platteville
John D. Lee Outstanding Faculty Advisor: Laurie Miller, UW-La Crosse
Robert S. Wilson Single Service: St. Norbert College, Challenge Walk MS
Outstanding Club Member: Alyssa Belling, UW-La Crosse
Preferred Charities Award: Michigan Technological University, Monster Mash for UNICEF
Outstanding Club Social: UW-La Crosse, Coins for Cause & UW-Oshkosh, Circle K Potluck
Most Improved Club: UW-Madison
Frat Craanen Outstanding Kiwanis Advisor: Ken Saville, Edgewood College & Kathy Sims,
UW-La Crosse
Club Achievement: UW-Oshkosh
Outstanding New Club Member: Austin Rovge, Milwaukee School of Engineering
Interclub Award: UW-Madison
Outstanding Club Fundraiser: Michigan Technological University, Annual Charity Ball
Outstanding Social Media Presence: St. Norbert College
Outstanding Kiwanis Family Relations: UW-Oshkosh

District Board Awards:

Outstanding Executive Board Member: Annika Hentz
Outstanding Lieutenant Governor: Jessica Wells
Outstanding Chairperson: Katelyn Van Buren
Janet M. DeGroot Unsung Hero Award: Jessica Wells
Michael J Pierski Golden Gavel Leadership Award: Katelyn Van Buren
William H. Lamberg Sparkplug Motivator: Gavin Lloyd

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 DCON 2020 A Word from the DCON Chair

Hello, everyone!

Thank you SO much to all of you who were able to attend the 2020 WUM CKI District
Convention back in February. It was an incredible weekend filled with some amazing
memories, and I hope that you enjoyed it just as much as I did. With an attendance of 141
guests, it was our largest convention since 2015!

If I had to choose my favorite part of the District Convention weekend, it would certainly
be meeting all of you. Having members come together from across Wisconsin and Upper
Michigan with a common love for service makes for a great time; I could not ask for a
better weekend. Having the chance to interact with each other and share ideas is one of
the best parts of our organization, and this all happens at DCON! I may be biased as the
DCON chair, but this is hands down my favorite event of the CKI year.

It was an absolute honor to be able to plan DCON 2020 alongside of a spectacular

committee. I would like to thank Maddy Dimeo, Kevin Jacobson, Joseph Rinaldi, Lauren
Pondikati, Maggie Ollmann, Dayna Porter, Bilguun Altangerel, Alexandria Prostko, Reid
Parks, and the 2019-2020 District Board for putting in the effort that allowed for such a
successful convention. Without all of these individuals, there is no way that DCON would
have been as spectacular as it was.

I now have the pleasure of serving as the 2020-2021 Wisconsin Upper Michigan CKI
District Governor, and I am thrilled to be a leader in this organization once again. I hope
that you will all join us for the next District Convention, taking place February 26-28,
2021 in Green Bay, Wisconsin!
-Katelyn Van Buren
2019-2020 WUM CKI
District Convention Chair

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 Meet the new
District Board!
Elected at DCON 2020, a new District Board began their terms April 1, 2020. Check out
these District leaders for the 2020-2021 CKI year!

Katelyn Van Buren Brooke Steeno Annika Hentz

District Governor District Secretary District Treasurer
University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wisconsin-Platteville University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gavin Lloyd Ella Dykstra Meagan Ebertz

Capital Lieutenant Chippewa Lieutenant Lakes Lieutenant
Governor Governor Governor
University of Wisconsin-Platteville University of Wisconsin-La Crosse St. Norbert College

Jonathan Totsky Douglas Arnett-Arnold Luke Neumann

Metro-Southeast Lieutenant Superior Lieutenant Awards, Regulations,
Governor Governor & History Chair
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Michigan Technological Univeristy University of Wisconsin-Platteville
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 Meet the new
District Board!
Elected at DCON 2020, a new District Board began their terms April 1, 2020. Check out
these District leaders for the 2020-2021 CKI year!

Joanna Carman
Maddy Dimeo Grace Bartow
Membership Development
District Convention Chair Kiwanis Family Outreach Chair
& Growth Chair
University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Angel Yang
Trevor Ciebell Maggie Ollmann
Assistant District Convention
Service Chair Special Events Chair
Chair
University of Wisconsin-Platteville Edgewood College
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Justin Hahn Lena Scheibengraber Ann Pilot

Assistant Administrator
District Administrator
Waterford Area Kiwanis Metropolitan Milwaukee Nights
Kiwanis Club
Rachel Leader
Assistant Administrator
Assistant Administrator
Metropolitan Milwaukee Nights
Madison After Hours Kiwanis
Kiwanis Club

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 A Place for YOU on
the District Board...
The District Board is a great way to gain leadership experience, become more involved in
CKI, and make life-long friends. Lucky for you, there are ways that YOU can still join the
District Board in leading WUM CKI.

Open Board Positions: Bulletin Editor & Asst Special Events Chair
There are currently just TWO open positions left on the 2020-2021 WUM CKI District Board, and one
of them could be filled by YOU! We are in need of a District Bulletin Editor and an Assistant Special
Events Chair. Each of these roles is unique and an important part of our team. To learn more about
these positions and to apply, reach out to Governor Katelyn Van Buren (wumcki.governor@gmail) or
look on our website at wumcirclek.weebly.com

Join a Committee!
If you are looking to get a bit more involved in CKI, joining a District Committee may be the perfect
move for you! Help out a District Chair by joining their committee and being a leader in the
organization. This is your chance to get involved at the District Level as a leader without a high level of
commitment. Our new chairs would absolutely love to talk to to you about their committees, and you
can reach out to learn more!

Awards, Regulations, and History Membership Development and Growth

wumcki.arh@gmail.com wumcki.mdg@gmail.com
District Convention Service
wumcki.dcon@gmail.com wumcki.service@gmail.com
Kiwanis Family and Outreach Special Events
wumcki.kfam@gmail.com wumcki.events@gmail.com

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M Club officers choose an outstanding member from
E their club to spotlight each month. We want to
show our appreciation to the following Member
M Spotlights that were submitted from April!

B
E Brystal Schultz Carthage College

R Maggie Ollmann Edgewood College

Maeve Kim Ripon College

S Katelyn Vanastern St. Norbert College

P Alicia Barber University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

O
Angel Yang and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joseph Rinaldi

T Alexis Oliver University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

L Brooke Steeno University of Wisconsin-Platteville

I Sydney Goldman University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

G
H Congratulations to each of you, and thank you

T
so much for all that you do!

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CKI during
COVID-19

The world is in a weird place right now. We don't know what will happen in the future, but we
do know that we as CKI members can continue to make a difference in the world. Just
because we are in a pandemic does not mean that we have to stop living and loving to serve.
We can still live out our tenants of service, fellowship, and leadership from home.

The WUM CKI District has created resources for you with ideas on how to stay active in CKI
during this pandemic. The following pages of this newsletter include these resources for you
to check out. 

Circle K International has created a Google Folder compliling all COVID-19 resources for
you utilize as well. This can be found at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10z2rofo2_-
MMFkTtawUsL29Xcc_4Q8ly

If there are any clubs in need of assistance, ideas, or are struggling during these times, please
reach out to District Governor Katelyn Van Buren (wumcki.governor@gmail.com) or any
District Board Member. We are 100% committed to helping our members and making sure
that we are all okay.

-Katelyn Van Buren

2020-2021 WUM CKI
District Governor

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 KI DURING A PANDEMI :
WHAT S THERE TO DO?
C C
'

CONTINUE TO STAY ACTIVE IN CIRCLE K!

Virtual Service
(these can all be done over a group video call!)
Make cards for nursing homes Volunteer online with Crisis Text Line
Send virtual cards to children's hospitals sign up and be trained for free to be a crisis
Find them on the websites for St. Jude counselor
Children's Hospital or March of Dimes Search for online service opportunities through
Write letters to soldiers and veterans through A Catchafire
Million Thanks Make popsicle stick puzzles for children
Make Love Letters for Literacy (all you need are Pick up litter (but make sure you wear
paper and writing utensils) gloves and wash your hands after!)
Color pictures with Color-a-Smile Help out animal shelters virtually through
Make "plarn" out of plastic bags sitting around FreeKibble.com
Spring cleaning? Make dog toys out of old t- Decorate lunch bags for Meals on Wheels
shirts! Learn about food insecurity and donate rice by
answering trivia at FreeRice.com
Fellowship Online
Host a social over group video call (Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Facetime, Skype,
etc) and play online games such as Quiplash or online Cards Against Humanity. You could
even play Cool Math Games at the same time!
Get matched with a Social Distancing Buddy! Sign up and make a new friend:
https://forms.gle/fmpucszKjL5tMxhe6
Have a CKI family dinner! Everyone makes the same meal at home and you all eat together!
Try a new recipe and see whose food turns out the best.
Do a trivia night! One person comes up with trivia and puts everyone to the test on Kahoot.
Watch a movie together! Pick a film on Netflix and everyone starts it at the same time!

Leadership Continues
Train your new officers virtually! Make the transition into the new Circle K year smoothly
by helping new officers understand their roles in the club.
Set goals for the year with your officer team and come up with a plan to accomplish them!
Get ready for fall recruitment! It may seem early, but it will be here before you know it!
Watch Ted Talks on leadership!
Find free leadership development courses offered online.

Questions? Reach out to WUM's Katelyn Van Buren at wumcki.governor@gmail.com

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 CKI MEETINGS DURING A PANDEMIC
CKI DOES NOT STOP, WE ADAPT!
Hold club meetings despite not being able to see each other in person! Here are some ideas for getting to
know your members, quick ice breakers, and fun games to play as a group during meetings!

GETTING TO KNOW YOUR MEMBERS:

Soul Mate
One person acts as the leader and closes their eyes or turns around in their seat. They begin listing
facts about themselves. If the fact is true for the audience, they will keep their camera on. When an
audience member hears a fact that is not true for themselves, they turn their camera off. When there is
only one member left with their camera on other than the leader, they are declared the other's "soul
mate" and will be the next leader to list facts. This is a great way to get to know club members!

Two Truths and a Lie OR Two LIES and a Truth

A classic. Everyone goes around and says two truths about themselves as well as a lie. The rest of the
group tries to guess which of the three facts is a lie. As a change up, you can make it where each
person says two lies about themselves as well as a truth and everyone else needs to figure out what
the truth is. This can be super fun and interesting!

Baby Picture Matching

Before a meeting, ask everyone to send in a picture of themselves from when they were a baby/very
little. Put them all in a powerpoint and go around during a meeting trying to figure out who is who. This
will most likely lead to members sharing stories from when they were younger and help you all to get
to know each other a bit better.

Contact WUM CKI District Governor, Katelyn Van Buren,

at wumcki.governor@gmail.com with any questions!

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 Pet Show and Tell
People LOVE showing of their fur babies to others. Designate a time during your meeting to let
everyone introduce their pets (and maybe a story about them)! This can be a good ice breaker or nice
time to take a brain break if you are covering a lot of content.

Spin the Wheel

Before a meeting, go onto https://wheeldecide.com/ and create a wheel with random getting-to-know-
you questions such as "what's your favorite food?" or "tell us your favorite joke" During the meeting, go
around and spin the wheel for each member to decide what they will share with the rest of the group.
The questions that you decide on are super flexible and will set the tone for how the activity will go.
Make sure each member has a chance to share!

Wow, Pow, Chow, Now

A good activity for the start of your meetings depending on the size of your club. For this activity,
everyone will go around and share about themselves. Wow is a high from the week, pow is a low, chow
is something good that they've eaten recently, and now is how they are currently feeling. This is a really
good way for members to be able to open up! It's very similar to "highs and lows," but has an extra little
spin on it to make it more fun.

Personality Tests
Have members take a few minutes to take some sort of personality test such as a free Enneagram quiz
or a Love Language test. Everyone can go around and share their results (if comfortable) so that
everyone can get to know each other a bit better and ultimately find out what the best way to connect
with individuals would be based on their results.

House/Apartment Tours
If members are willing, have them go around their house or apartment and show you around! It can be
super interesting to see where other people live (channel your inner HGTV).

Contact WUM CKI District Governor, Katelyn Van Buren,

at wumcki.governor@gmail.com with any questions!

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 Ice Breakers and Games:
Kahoots!
Kahoots can actually be used for both fun and getting to know your members. You could do a
random trivia Kahoot OR you could ask members for facts about themselves and turn it into a Kahoot
for the rest of the group to play. (ie have a true/false slide on a specific member or list a fact and then
have 4 different member names as options so that the group can guess who the fact applies to)

Draw What You See

Have one person in the meeting be the "describer." You can give them 2-3 minutes to describe to the
group how to draw a random item in their house (without revealing what the item is until the time is up).
For example, they may have a calculator in front of them and start telling the group to "draw a
rectangle with the longest sides going up vertically." Then, they would keep going to describe how to
draw a calculator. At the end of the time frame, the describer will reveal their object and the group
shows off what they've drawn based on the descriptions given to them.

Modified: search for some basic images on google such as a train or a rabbit and send the picture out
to chosen members who will be describers. They will describe that image during the meeting.

Special Edition/Final Round: have everyone do their drawings on top of their heads so that even they
cannot see what they are doing! This makes for some interesting results to say the lest.

Scavenger Hunts
Come up with a list of common household items. During the meeting, set a timer for 30 seconds and
have members go around their house individually to search for as many items that they can find in that
short amount of time. Have the person bring the items back to show everyone and calculate their total
(ex items: toilet paper, a spoon, a hairdryer, etc.). Members can also be palce into teams to count up
scores and make it more competitive.

Contact WUM CKI District Governor, Katelyn Van Buren,

at wumcki.governor@gmail.com with any questions!

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 Charades
The leader of the meeting can either come up with a list of charade words to act out or go to
https://www.thegamegal.com/word-generator/ to have words generated for members. Send the actor
a list of words to try to act out and see how many they can have members guess in 30 seconds-1
minute. This will get everyone involved and can be a really fun bonder.

Alibi
Pick one person to be the "detective." This person will turn their volume all the way down/leave their
computer. The rest of the group comes up with a fake crime to report out (the crime doesn’t really
matter, it's just a fun part to be creative with). Also, pick one person to be guilty of the crime. Invite the
detective back and tell them what the crime is. Next, everyone will take a turn sharing their alibi, what
they were doing at the time of the crime. (Ex: “I was making green tea, I was walking my dog around
the block, I was helping my sister with her math homework, etc.). Next, everyone will share their alibi a
second time, except the “guilty” person who will change their alibi (Ex: I was making green tea, I was
walking my bulldog around the block, I was helping my sister with her math homework, etc.) Finally, the
detective has to guess who changed their alibi (in this case -”dog walker” to “bulldog walker”) and is
guilty of the crime!

Pictionary
A super easy way to play pictionary with your group is through https://skribbl.io/. One person should
go to this site, click the blue button that says "create private room," and then they will get a link to be
able to copy. They can send the link to the rest of the group, and you all take turns drawing and
guessing what other people are drawing!

No Smile Game
This one is GREAT for breaking up a meeting or getting people warmed up. What you do is, for 60
seconds, have everyone have their cameras on and Zoom call in gallery mode while they try their best
to not smile. If they smile, they turn their cameras off and "lose." After the minute is up, the leader will
start telling jokes to get people to smile until the last person remains.

Contact WUM CKI District Governor, Katelyn Van Buren,

at wumcki.governor@gmail.com with any questions!

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 District Board Directory
The 2020-2021 WUM CKI District Board is here for each and every one of you! Please do
not hesitate to reach out to any of us with any questions, comments, or concerns.

District Governor District Secretary District Treasurer

Katelyn Van Buren Brooke Steeno Annika Hentz
wumcki.governor@gmail.com wumcki.secretary@gmail.com wumcki.treasurer@gmail.com
920-557-1475 920-609-7857 608-566-4606

Capital LTG Chippewa LTG Lakes LTG

Gavin Lloyd Ella Dykstra Meagan Ebertz
wumcki.ltg.capital@gmail.com wumcki.ltg.chippewa@gmail.com wumcki.ltg.lakes@gmail.com
715-370-7484 920-238-3970 920-517-1844

Metro-Southeast LTG Superior LTG Awards, Regs, History Chair

Jonathan Totsky Douglas Arnett-Arnold Luke Neumann
wumcki.ltg.metrose@gmail.com wumcki.ltg.superior@gmail.com wumcki.arh@gmail.com
262-894-7195 906-396-5525 414-881-0867

District Convention Chair Assistant DCON Chair Kiwanis Family Outreach Chair
Maddy Dimeo Angel Yang Grace Bartow
wumcki.dcon@gmail.com wumcki.dcon.assistant@gmail.com wumcki.kfam@gmail.com
608-477-6141 920-860-0254 920-306-5690

Membership, Development, & Service Chair Special Events Chair

Growth Chair Trevor Ciebell Maggie Ollmann
Joanna Carman wumcki.service@gmail.com wumcki.events@gmail.com
wumcki.mdg@gmail.com 608-921-0090 715-281-0235
920-460-5138
District Administrator Assistant Administrator Assistant Administrator
Justin Hahn Lena Sheibengraber Ann Pilot
wumcki.districtadvisor@gmail.com lena.wum.cki@gmail.com ann.wum.cki@gmail.com
414-510-1609 414-418-9779 262-939-1614

Assistant Administrator
Rachel Leader
leader.rachel@gmail.com
952-240-9481

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