Greetings Cardinal Key members!

I want to talk about the location of our upcoming national conference, November 3rd-6th. We will be having some fun under the sun in Phoenix, Arizona!! If you haven’t been to Phoenix, what a great opportunity to broaden your travel experiences and meet a lot of amazing people. If you have been to the capital of Arizona then you can help us navigate our way around the big city. A lot of conferences that you attend you are stuck in meetings the whole time… Well, not at this conference! With us you will get a chance to get out and about and to see the city!

Fun facts about Arizona:

• It is illegal to hunt camels in the State of Arizona
• The name Arizona comes from the Indian “Arizonac” which means “Little Spring”.
• The state flower is the saguaro cactus—it will take between 50 and 100 years for a saguaro cactus to grow an arm.
• One fourth of the state is covered in forests.
• In the city of Glendale it is illegal for a car to back up… that makes it difficult to park in a driveway!
• Fun facts about Phoenix:
• Phoenix averages 211 days of sunshine per year! 85 days per year are only partly cloudy, leaving an average of 69 days of cloudy or rainy days. Our chances of having a sunny day while we are there are pretty good!!
• The Phoenix airport is the 6th busiest airport in the country.
• Greater Phoenix is home to more than 200 golf courses.
• Phoenix is one of only 13 U.S. cities with franchises in all four major professional sports leagues: Suns (NBA), Diamondbacks (MLB), Cardinals (NFL), and Coyotes (NHL).
• 13-15 million people visit Phoenix each year…. One of those people could be you!!!

We look forward to meeting you all and having some fun under the Phoenix sun!!

CK Love,
Janel Buchta, Midland Lutheran ‘09
National Parliamentarian

Hello CKs!

Just wanted to let you know a little information about the conference coming up.  Don’t forget to mark your calendars for November 3rd through the 6th! The conference theme this time around will be: “Celebrating the Virtues.”  When the National Officers took office almost two years ago, we started our KeyNotes with each of us focusing on one of the virtues:

Faith: Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.  -Rabindranath Tagore

Trust: You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. -Anton Checkhov

Fortitude: Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. -Sir Francis Bacon

Wisdom: By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter. -Confucius

These are the ideals of our Honor Society and during the conference each of the National Officers will cover one of the virtues.  If you want to slightly refresh your memory or read up on them a bit, check out issues of KeyNotes!   You should be receiving them to your email account now, if you aren’t, email us (nationalcardinalkey@gmail.com), and let us know!

Stefanie Zahourek, Wayne State ‘09
National Secretary

Just wanted to share a little about the National Conference coming up!  I want like to brag up the fact that each school gets to send a delegate for free (we cover the cost of travel and lodging)!!! There aren’t very many other collegiate student organizations that offer a free national conference! TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!
National Cardinal Key reimburses each delegate for travel upon arrival (or if you would rather have us book it for you we can handle it that way, too.) Since the conference is free for one delegate, think about doing some fundraising and try to send another student to the conference and then split the cost between the two of you. As they say, “The more, the merrier!”
Also try to get your sponsor to come along and learn more about the organization and what they can do to help improve your chapter. This is the first year that we will be offering a separate sponsor session to talk with the directors.
Registration is open!!  We all know how the income isn’t just rolling in while you are in college; we want to provide you with an opportunity to come learn how other chapters are doing things on their campus, get some ideas that you can take back to improve your home CK chapters, make friends all over the U.S. that you will have for a lifetime, and explore a city you may not have experienced before. You will also get to volunteer and be a part of the Phoenix JDRF walk.   How many people do you know that have been a part of something this awesome? There will be about 22,000 that will participate in the walk. The theme is “Blast-Off to a Cure”! As soon as you can, get registered, get your flight booked, and your get spot reserved. All things in life are even better when they are free!! =)

CK Love,
Janel Buchta, Midland Lutheran ‘09
National Parliamentarian