Dear Kiwanians:

I want to thank all of those clubs that have had a Membership Round-up already this year.  It is not too late to have a new membership event in your club before the upcoming District Convention.  We have had one club hold a very successful roundup and gain twelve (12) new members.  Roundups can and do work!

We have a great deal of work on membership growth ahead of us.  These next four months, if each Kiwanian in the Indiana District would invite a friend to join them at an upcoming meeting of their club and then physically ask them to join Kiwanis, helping make a difference in their community and in the lives of children around the world, our membership numbers would grow to around 14,000 Kiwanians!  I know that each of you has a friend, colleague, neighbor, or family member that would join you in helping to make a difference if they were only asked to join Kiwanis.  I am asking you to pick up your cell phone and ask that person to join you at your next meeting, next service project or fundraiser or next social event for your club so that they too can share your love of Kiwanis and make a difference together.

A special thanks to Lt. Governor of the Scenic Hills Division, Dr. Mariane Carlton-Fisher, and her team for building a new club in Jeffersonville.  The Charter night for the Kiwanis Club of Jeffersonville will be June 14, at 6:00 p.m.  Last year, the Kiwanis Club of Whitley County began to really struggle and needed to transition to a club satellite.  They have since gained new strength in leadership, and membership, and are beginning to come together so they can return to being a stand-alone club.  We are still working on building a Kiwanis Club in Butler, Indiana, which is in the upper northeast corner of Indiana, in the Cardinal Division.  Lt. Governor Marilyn Baker is working very diligently to make this new club come together in her division.  Special thanks to Past International President Don Canaday and his team, along with the La Porte club, for coming together to build a new club in Michigan City during the week of June 7th.

We still have time to build more new clubs.  Let our emphasis be on new club building and membership growth these next few months.  As your District Governor, I will give $200.00 to the club that brings in the most members either by building a new club or increasing club membership between June 1 and August 5, 2010.  Let us set a fire in the Indiana District for membership growth like never before.

We all have to start believing that new clubs and membership growth will happen this year and that new clubs and membership growth will make a difference in the amount of service that we can provide in our communities, in our district and in our world.

Please plan to join us August 6-8th at District Convention in Merrillville.  We have a great convention planned.  I think I can promise that it will not snow or that we will not have a blizzard!