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Key Club 101

International

Key Club International is the oldest, largest, and most successful non-profit student-led organization for high school students. We teach and spread our core values through community service: caring, character-building, inclusiveness, and leadership which were adopted by our Key Club International Board in 2002. Members of Key Club, a part of the community-service based Kiwanis International Family, develop themselves into young leaders as they positively impact their schools and communities.

 

Just the Facts

  • Key Club has approximately 251,000 members

  • There are approximately 5,000 clubs

  • Key Club is represented in 40 nations

CNH District

In the California-Nevada-Hawaii District:

    • +22,000 members

    • +700 clubs

    • 80 divisions

    • 18 regions

    • CNH mascot is the Bees

    • District Goals:

      • - 900,000 Service Hours

      • - $260,000

      • - 38,000 Dues-Paid Members

Region 1

We are a part of Region 1! A region is composed of all the divisions within a certain area.

Division 21

The Division 21 West Hippos are a group of clubs scattered throughout San Diego County.  Division 21 West is in Region 1, in the Cal-Nev-Ha District. There are 10 official clubs in Division 21 West:

Schools:​​

  • Bishop's

  • Clairemont

  • High Tech

  • High Tech International

  • High Tech Media Arts

  • Mission Bay

  • Point Loma

  • La Jolla

  • University City

  • Preuss​

Mascot: Hippo

University City Key Club

Founded January 12, 1982, one year after the school opened, University City Key Club has been serving the greater San Diego County for over 30 years. Although there is no denying its turbulent history, the club has contributed tens of thousands of volunteer service to various organizations benefiting causes such as the Arthritis Foundation, Friends of Rose Canyon, and Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Pediatric Trauma Program. The club has worked extensively with its home school, University City High School, as well as its surrounding neighbors Curie Elementary School and Standley Middle School on the improvement of the community as a whole. At the moment, the club has 41 official paid members- each as passionate, dedicated, and hard-working as those who came before them. With service projects held almost every week, University City Key Club stays true to its motto, "Caring-Our way of life."

What We Stand For

Key Club Pledge

"I pledge on my honor to uphold the objects of Key Club International; to build my home, school, and community; to serve my nation and world; and combat all forces which tend to undermine these institutions."

 

Key Club Motto

“Caring – Our way of Life.”

Through Key Club’s work in the home, school, and community, Key Club members have learned that their organization is built around the concept of caring. With this concept as the foundation of the organization, Key Club will continue to be an effective and contributing organization in our schools and communities.

 

Objects of Key Club International

-To develop initiative and leadership

-To provide experience in living and working together

-To serve the school and community

-To prepare for useful citizenship

-To cooperate with the school principal

-To accept and promote the following ideals:

  • To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.

  • To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.

  • To promote the adoption and application of higher standards in scholarship, sportsmanship, and social contacts.

  • To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.

  • To provide a practical means to form  enduring friendships, to render unselfish service, and to build better communities.

  • To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which will make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.

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