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Our Founding History<\/h3>\n

The Kiwanis Organization was organized on December 14, 1920, just five\u00a0years after the first Kiwanis Club was launched\u00a0in Detroit, Michigan. The club had\u00a053 charter members, with the official charter being\u00a0presented at a dinner meeting at the Clarke Hotel on January 12, 1921, by A. R. Edmiston, the District Governor from Lincoln, Nebraska.<\/p>\n

Kiwanians from Omaha, Lincoln, and Fremont, Nebraska, arrived on trains from to be present at the ceremony, with visitors forming\u00a0a parade to the Clarke Hotel headed by the Hastings High School band. The banquet and charter ceremonies were in the banquet room of the hotel, where tables\u00a0were set\u00a0for more than 200 people. That was the beginning of an army of volunteers ready to work for their communities, the needy, and our children.<\/p>\n

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