Cumulative Member Participation
(Minimum criteria for membership participation is 60%)

Ed Blumenauer 100
Ed Crawford 100
Leslie Davidson 100
Ken Dell 100
Larry Fellows 100
Eric Gatrell 100
Mark Gaver 80
Patrick Haley 100
Bud Jackson Senior
Jerry Jenkins 100
Jim Krysiek 100
Glenn Magaha 100
Dave Maloney 100
Charlie Mertz 100
Frank Parker 100
Phil Pople 100
Bob Rankin Senior
Austin Rippeon Senior
Doc Schaden 100
Christine Semon 100
Paul Sheets Leave
Ellis Stroup 100
Rob Summers 100
Jim Wiggins 100

Click here for District-wide Calendar of Events

Apr 7 - Ken's Krazies - Board Meeting
Apr 14 - TBA
Apr 21 - TBA
Apr 28 - TBA

Ken's Korner by Pres. Ken Dell

We are moving along towards an interesting, exciting (?) Spring/Summer with a lot of things to accomplish and a lot of work to do. Dave Maloney is doing a yeoman's job of continuing the dialogue with downtown on a possible merger of our two clubs. He’ll keep the committee and the rest of us posted as thing move forward. Phil Pople really needs your help with ticket sales, especially for the Art Auction. We all need to call a few friends and acquaintances and tell them about this. We can’t sell tickets if YOU don’t ask anyone. This project needs to have 150 to 175 or more people in attendance to generate a “good” profit. You can’t grouse about a project not being suited to our club if you don’t help. Please try.

Eric needs your help too with membership. How many of you have at least talked up Kiwanis with anyone? If you don’t act enthused how can you expect to interest someone? You like being here for whatever reasons so pass it along!

4H Therapeutic Riding will be starting this month and I really look forward to working with the kids. Come out and watch if nothing else and see some kids smile because a lot of them do not have a lot to smile about.

Remember to come to the meetings, I’m embarrassed when Patrick, who is doing a great job, gets great speakers here and only 13 or 14 people show up. If you are having a problem with someone or something we are doing, please talk to me, especially if you think it’s me <g>. Don’t stop coming because if you 1) don’t come and 2) don’t tell us why then our club will be in extremely bad shape. It’s like cutting off your nose to spite your face. We are all adults with diverse thoughts and interests and cannot expect to be pleased with everything all the time. Remember, our #1 Priority is to work with and help the children of the world. It takes you to enable us to get there. ‘Till next time, Ken.

As members know, we have worked Men's and Women's home basketball games at the Mount's Knott Arena for the past three seasons. This past season (2004-2005) you might say that Mike Hardisky has called us for a foul. Our club finally received payment for the games worked since November 2004. However, instead of a check for approximately $4,500, Mike directed Mount St. Mary's to pay us only about a third of this figure. Phil Pople brought this to the attention of Jim Krysiek, and Jim telephoned Mike Hardisky to find out what had happened. Hardisky told Krysiek that the Mount was expecting our club to provide 16-18 people for every Men's game and 3-4 people for every Women's date. "We didn't get this," Mike observed. Thus, he reduced our payment for 2004-2005. According to Krysiek, Hardisky never said anything to him during the season about prorating our payment based on the number of workers we put in the arena per game. Nevertheless, Krysiek concedes that he can understand Hardisky's action. "How many people it really takes to work a men's or women's game is not the issue here. The Mount had expectations and we failed to meet them. I wish Mike had spoken to one of us about his concerns while the season was in progress, but he didn't. Maybe he felt that we'd quit on him mid-season." Will there be a next season with Suburban Frederick? "Hardisky did not say anything about next year," reported Krysiek. "Assuming that Mike Hardisky is willing to put us back into red jackets for 2005-2006," Jim observed, "the club needs to talk seriously about next year if we expect to receive full payment for the games that we work. We'll need to meet Mike's expectations, and not try to get by game after game with fewer people than the Mount wants in order to make ushers visible and accessible to the fans. We tried partnering with Circle K and the Frederick Club, but even with this, it proved impossible this season to compensate for our club's declining membership."

I wanted to let you know what the Middletown Middle School Builders Club has been up to lately. We have 35 students in our group at this time. We try to meet every Thursday after school from 3:15-4:15. So far this year we have raised $400.00 for UNICEF to help the Tsunami victims, we held a service learning fair that allowed different volunteer organizations in the area to come and share information about how our students could volunteer their time (i.e., Frederick Memorial Hospital, Volunteer Frederick, Special Olympics, Middletown Food Bank, and others), "blankets for soldiers" where we made cheerful fabric squares and sewed them together in order to make a blanket to give it to a soldier who is recuperating at Walter Reed Medical Center,
we are scheduled to participate in the Potomac Clean-up on April 2nd at the Antietam Battlefield (students will clean up trash and do any other odd jobs needed), in May we will be participating in a program called "Bowl for Kids" where students will bowl and at the same time raise money for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Frederick, and we will be making cards to send over to the soldiers in Iraq to brighten up their day. I will let you know of any other activities we do in the future.

Click here?for the Press Release regarding the $1200 our club recently made to the to Frederick County Law Enforcement Explorer Post #1218.

The shrimp put on by both the Downtown and Suburban Frederick club will be held April 9, 2005 from 4:30 - 7:00 PM at the Old Armory at the corner of 2nd and Bentz street in Frederick. Tickets are $25.00 per person and can be purchased at the door. Raw oysters, shrimp, hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken, beer, soda, pretzels, potato chips, will be served. We will also be selling cakes and pies at the feed.

The art auction will be held at the Holiday Inn at the corner of Baughman's Lane and Rt 40 in Frederick, MD on April 30th 2005 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM. Ross Galleries from New York is running the live auction of paintings along with sports memorabilia, music memorabilia and sculpture. Artist include Rembrandt, Renoir, Rockwell, just to name a few. There will be a 1 hour preview between 7 and 8 PM. Bidding starts at 8 sharp. Tickets are $10 per person, $15 per couple. Hors d'oeuvres, Cash bar, Coffee & Tea, will be served. Master Card, Visa, Discover & AM Express will be accepted. For tickets please call Phil Pople at: 202-364-1648 (Weekdays between 9 and 3) or 301-695-4316 (evenings before 8). Tickets can also be purchased at the door. Hope to see you there. Click here to read the Press Release regarding the event.