Good morning ! This week in Kiwaniscope - this Saturday breakfast with the annual club meeting for elections. Please be present to contribute to a quorum. The business/board meeting portion will end before Speak Up. Also in this issue, a report on our first-ever Bunco night with the Key Club.



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MEMBERS’ MILESTONES

Treasurer (Is he counting the years?) Dan Lerner has a birthday on this coming Tuesday. Happy birthday, Dan!

Tonight, Thursday, February 29, 2024

Happy Leap Day Get Together

Barcelona Wine Bar, 4180 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield 4 - 6 p.m.

Happy hour is 4 - 6 p.m. Come anytime for five minutes or five hours. Meet at the bar. Order individually from the happy hour menu. Stay as late as you wish for drinks or dinner from the extensive dinner menu.

This Saturday, March 2, 2024 - Quorum Needed!

Breakfast and business meeting. Election to fill two board vacancies and the continuation of the adjourned annual club meeting for election of five officers and five directors with terms beginning October 1. This meeting will serve as the monthly club board meeting. Amy aims to get us out by ten o'clock to give those interested time to move to the Weston Public Library for the League of Women Voters of Weston Speak Up.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.

NEWS

Yesterday, Wednesday, February 28, 2024, was the Bunco Game Night - with the Weston High School Key Club and Weston Kiwanis Club, arranged by Key Club Advisor and Past President Dawn Egan. A fun evening was had by all. Thank you Key Club and Dawn!

Last Saturday at the club meeting, Tom Glass introduced two Weston High School sophomores and budding filmmakers, Jonah Rothlein and Nate Colman, co-producers of "Innocents Held Hostage - Morad Tahbaz, A Pawn," which they screened for the meeting. Weston resident Tahbaz, pictured on the screen, was one of the five Americans freed by Iran in a prisoner swap in September.

See this and other photographs by Jim McMorris in the meeting's album.

MARCH AND APRIL

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Breakfast meeting.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Breakfast meeting.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.

Community Service: assembly and finishing of picnic tables.

Lachat Town Farm at the Juliana Lachat Preserve, 10 a.m.

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Breakfast meeting. Program: Care Patrol

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.

NEW ENGLAND AND BERMUDA DISTRICT NEWS

Midwinter Conference, March 8-10, 2024, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Kiwanis Cruise Boston, Bermuda, Bar Harbor, Boston sailing May 17-24, 2024, on the Norwegian Gem

District Convention, August 15-18, 2024, Springfield, Massachusetts

DIVISION NEWS

January 1984 In answer to the include-females issue, Kiwanis began to charter Kiwanianne clubs, a service group for wives and widows of Kiwanians. Within the first year, more than 1,500 women joined.

July 1987 Delegates at the 72nd Annual Kiwanis International Convention voted to amend the constitution and bylaws to allow women to join Kiwanis clubs. 

March 1993 The Kiwanis Club of Weston admitted Judi Freedman to membership. (You may know the name - as our state senator, Judi cosponsored a bill with Weston Kiwanis charter member John Stripp two years later that established Green Up Day as the first Saturday in April.)

May 2015 Members elected Dawn Egan as the first of three women so far to serve the club as president. Dawn was followed in 2021 by Denise Murillo and in 2023 by Amy Jenner.

February 2024 Today we have our third woman president, and 25% (17 of 68) of our members are women!

Sources: Women in Kiwanis Timeline and Kiwanis Club of Weston permanent records.

Kiwaniscope is published weekly for the members and friends of the Kiwanis Club of Weston on Thursday mornings September through June by the Kiwanis Club of Weston, Connecticut, Inc.