Champions of Change: Kiwanis Club

For Danny and Pam Spitler, business success and a love for travel has created opportunities to change children’s lives. Danny is a graduate of Arizona State University with a degree in business...

Robert L. Moore is a practicing attorney in Venice, Florida. A 44-year member of the Kiwanis Club of Venice, he has held all elected positions in Kiwanis International, including service as 2003–...

A resident of Ashland City, Tennessee, John Mayfield makes his concern for children’s health and development a part of his life. The charter president of the Cheatham County Kiwanis Club and...

Susan Hennum is a resident of Garland, Texas, and a member of Kiwanis International—and she supports Kiwanis’ mission to serve the children of the world in a unique way. Since 2000, she has...

Sheena Curley has spent the last 37 years teaching and working with special-needs and at-risk children and their families, focusing for the last 19 years on children and women affected by...

In 1988, Sanford Tollette transformed a summer camp for underprivileged kids, expanding it into a year-round program called the Alternative Classroom Experience. Located at Joseph Pfeifer Kiwanis...

William Beard is the retired cofounder of Beard Industries, a global distributor of grain dryers, but his service to others hasn’t slowed down since his retirement in 2002. He has continued to...

Staff Sergeant Jeffery M. Woods is the Unit Supply Sergeant for Headquarters Support Company, 527th Engineer Company, Ruston, Louisiana, of the 225th Brigade, Camp Beauregard. Jeffery also is the...

As a first-generation college student at the University of Texas- Brownsville, Sanjuana Zavala holds back $50 from every paycheck and $200 from every scholarship—all to protect and save the lives...

Like many people, Brenda Batschelet is shy by nature, but she became a leader in her community when the opportunity arose. As a member of Aktion Club, a Kiwanis service organization for adults...

Josie Grant, a high school senior, lives in Taneytown, Maryland. She is the current Capital District Division 9 Lieutenant Governor for Key Club International, the Kiwanis International program...

Baseball is the American pastime, and Bradley Blizard showed great American spirit in 2009, when he recognized an opportunity to help children with special needs in Jamestown, North Carolina....

Emily Lang fills her days with service—to children and adults alike. A fifth-grade student at Crescent Harbor Elementary School in Oak Harbor, Washington, she has served as chairman of the school’...