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History

Key Club was started in May, 1925. It was the creation of the Sacremento Kiwanis Club. The original purpose of the Key Club was to provide an active, vocational guidance program for the student body. Later, in response to may other opportunities for service in the school, Key Club began to expand. Today Key Club is the largest high school service organization in the world. It has become the high school service club.

At the outset, Key Clyb grew with the help of Kiwanians who visited the Sacramento club and came away with the idea of introducing the high school service club to their own communities. This idea spread quickly, and soon Key Club began to form across the United States.

By 1939, Florida had enough clubs to hold a state convention and form an association of Key Clubs, thus starting the first district. In 1943, other districts, which had since formed, traveled to Florida for the first International Convention. There, Malcolm Lewis, from West Palm Beach, Florida, was elected the first International President.

Key Club experienced a banner year in 1946, during which the first Canadian club was established, and the official publication of Key Club International, KEYNOTER, was first published. Also in that year, at the convention in New Orleans, the Key Club International Constitution and Bylaws were adopted.

With the Constitution and Bylaws as a guide, Key Club international has since spread across North America and to seventeen countries, been divided into 31 districts.