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kiwanis Club Of Richmond
Mission Statement:
-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 the application of higher social, business and professional standards.
-To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive and serviceable citizenship.
-To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
-To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.
History:
The Richmond Kiwanis Club came into existence because of a snowstorm. The governor of the Kentucky-Tennessee District, Twiman Humphry, was driving south on old US 25 in December of 1945 on his way to speak to the Corbin Kiwanis Club when the road conditions became so bad he could not continue. He was forced to take lodging in the New Richmond Hotel.
The first community activity of the Club was to cooperate with Rotary, Lions and Exchange in sponsoring the Boy Scout Banquet. During the first year, the Club became involved in a city beautification project, the Agriculture Committee sponsored a Farm-City Dinner and a soil conservation demonstration that was attended by 150 farmers. The Support of Churches Committee assisted the Second Presbyterian Church in building a sidewalk and the Boys and Girls Committee found an adequate house for a boy and his mother who were living in an old dilapidated shed.Not a bad beginning for the fledgling Kiwanis Club. By the end of the year the Club had grown from 26 to 30 members.
-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 the application of higher social, business and professional standards.
-To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive and serviceable citizenship.
-To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
-To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.
History:
The Richmond Kiwanis Club came into existence because of a snowstorm. The governor of the Kentucky-Tennessee District, Twiman Humphry, was driving south on old US 25 in December of 1945 on his way to speak to the Corbin Kiwanis Club when the road conditions became so bad he could not continue. He was forced to take lodging in the New Richmond Hotel.
The first community activity of the Club was to cooperate with Rotary, Lions and Exchange in sponsoring the Boy Scout Banquet. During the first year, the Club became involved in a city beautification project, the Agriculture Committee sponsored a Farm-City Dinner and a soil conservation demonstration that was attended by 150 farmers. The Support of Churches Committee assisted the Second Presbyterian Church in building a sidewalk and the Boys and Girls Committee found an adequate house for a boy and his mother who were living in an old dilapidated shed.Not a bad beginning for the fledgling Kiwanis Club. By the end of the year the Club had grown from 26 to 30 members.