What: WILLY'S March DCM (Divisional Council Meeting)
Where: Lake Poway Recreational Park
14644 Lake Poway Road
Poway, CA 92064
Who: Club officers and any interested club members!
When: Friday, March 28; 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Parking info: Luckily, parking is free! Once you enter the park, park inside near the pavilion and concession/tackle shop. The meeting will take place in the Rexrode Gazebo which will have a BEAUTIFUL view of Lake Poway!

Description: This month’s DCM will be a potluck! Bring food to feed five to 10 people and everyone will be happy Key Clubbers! Bring food and you will be fed! Don’t forget drinks or eating utensils (plates, forks, spoons, etc.)! Icebreakers, games, and EATING will start at 4:00, so be there to meet and socialize with the new club boards who will be serving 2003-2004! Unfortunately, renting the gazebo does cost money, and if everyone throws in a dollar or two, it’ll cover the cost! Thanks to everyone, and bring friends! The more, the merrier!

What: April DCM
Where: TBA
Who: Club officers and motivated members!
When: Tuesday, April 22; time TBA

Description: TBA

DCMs...

Key Club is infamous for its scattered use of unknown acronyms that confuse the everyday high school student. RTC, MRF, DCM, PCM, ROT, and LTG are just some of the large jumbles of letters formatively known as "Key Club lingo." DCM happens to stand for Division Council Meeting, and contrary to its official-sounding name, attendance is most definitely NOT limited to just "council" members. Hopefully these meetings will consist of club officers as well as club members. It's very important that members get involved at the divisional level to fully understand the role they play in their division as a Key Clubber.

At the meetings, the agenda usually follows a similar pattern. All the attending members usually introduce themselves and/or the school they represent. This provides members with opportunities to socialize with members from other clubs, whether they be near or far. This provides a brief break for each Key Clubber to escape from their typical surroundings and get a chance to breathe the air of Key Clubs further from their immediate surrounding location.

Over the course of the meeting, recaps of service done in the past month by each club are shared. Current projects and upcoming projects in the clubs and division are discussed, and any issues and concerns are quelled. The newsletter created by the LTG (Lieutenant Governor) is distributed, and any information in the newsletter may be passed on to members of the clubs. Once old and new business are resolved, the meeting is usually ended with some sort of entertainment/icebreaker activity.

In general, the meetings are meant to be full of FUN and a chance provided to Key Clubbers to get involved at a Divisional level. They can learn about the District Project, where many schools in the division work together in a unified goal to best serve their communities.

Before what we know today as DCMs existed, a term known as PCM (Presidents Council Meeting) was used as the meeting of the presidents of all the clubs in a certain division with their lieutenant governor. However, it was decided in the Cali-Nev-Ha District that these meetings should be open to all officers and members of the division so that more Key Clubbers can become informed, and therefore, the term PCM no longer exists within the Cali-Nev-Ha District. Now you've learned a new piece of trivia about Key Club!