The Key Club is a relatively quiet group of Gloucester High School students that devotes itself to serving the community. The Club itself started at Sacramento High School in 1925 and has since spread to 5,000 different high schools in thirty countries around the world.
Because the Key Club is a primarily student-run organization, it provides great community service while simultaneously teaching its members good leadership skills and bringing them closer to the community in which they live. The GHS branch of Key Club has participated in many local charity dries and has played a significant role in keeping the community, as well as the school free of litter. This year, the club is participating in a food drive called “Stop Hunger Now.” The unique thing about this particular food drive is that the food collected and packaged by students and distributed to international countries, not just to Gloucester County.
In addition to providing students with a way to help the needy and become involved in their communities, joining the club will open up new opportunities for students to obtain scholarships. Not to mention being in the Key Club looks really good on a college application. It is not hard to join the Key Club, but it is a commitment once you do.
“It’s a great club,” says Mr. Alexander, the club’s advisor, “[and] you don’t have to be in the top 10% of your class to get in.”
Mr. Alexander has been the advisor of the Key Club for three years and says that he loves being involved in a club that “promotes leadership and community sharing” among its members.
If you want to join Key Club, all you have to do is show up to one of their meetings which are held every Wednesday after school. As with most things in life there is a fee, but no worries! It’s only fifteen dollars for a whole year which is a small price to pay to take part in such a great cause. •