It all began when a group of young men who were members of the Walter Johnson Key Club in 1966 came over to read and tell stories to my brother Bruce.  Then in 1968 I became a  Key Clubber at Woodward High School and served (ironically) as its treasurer for the two years until I graduated.  Our Kiwanis advisor at that time was Reverend John Walker.  So in 1982 when I bumped into an old classmate by the name of Robert Brewer who invited me to lunch, imagine my surprise that it was at the same Kiwanis club that had sponsored both Key Clubs that I had been associated with during my high school years.  I had visited them once, when they met on Connecticut Avenue.  I have been fortunate to have worked besides the likes of Fletcher, Pennington, Volkman, Powers, Leder, Morrison, Mann, Leitner, and many others. Unfortunately, time constraints make it very difficult to spend as much time as I once did.  All the more reason to be one of many as having a working club SHOULD allow us to share the wealth with all the members so that all can benefit from the experience.  It would be great for our membership to get some youth in it and become more hands-on like it was in the past.  THAT would make our club fun again.  Because if it is not fun then there are a lot of people who would ask what is the point?  I am a Kiwanian to try to give back to society what had been given to me back in my youth.  The mentoring by adults to help teach youth values to live by.  It is my opinion that there are more precious things in life than the pursuit of material things.  My most meaningful years were those that I was able to help be an advisor to the Walter Johnson Key Club and see young men and women grow from innocent and naïve fourteen year olds to responsible adults.  Some of those adults have become Kiwanians where they now live.  THAT is the real point.    I  have kept up my membership primarily for a chance to serve the young people, elderly and other disadvantaged in our community, for the fellowship and for a chance to meet other people I otherwise would not know.

                                                                               Gary Boswell, joined 1982