Circle K Club

Press Release dated January 10, 1950 regarding the organization of the Circle K Club at East Carolina Teachers College. This and other press releases may be found in the records of News Bureau, Record Group IA1300, Series 1, News Release File, 1939-1988 in the University Archives.

Citation for this particular press release is:
News Release, January 10, 1950, ECU Universty Archives, Record Group IA1300, Series 1, Box 2, Folder A.

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Organization by a group of men students at East Carolina Teachers College of a Circle K club, a campus branch of the Kiwanis club, was completed this week, and officers to head the new club were chosen. Application for a charter for the new organization has been made to Kiwanis International through the Greenville Kiwanis club. The aims and work of the campus branch are similar to those of Kiwanis clubs.

Virgil Clark, Greenville senior, will serve as president of the Circle K club for the remainder of this school year. Others officiers are Jeff E. Warner, Thomasville, vice president; Hilton G. Styron, Davis, secretary; Robert Eugene Midgette, Fairfield, treasurer; and Carl G. Connor, Windsor, and George Morris, Winston-Salem, reporters

Dr. John O. Reynolds, professor of mathematics at the college, will be faculty advisor of the group. He will work with a board of directors composed of the following students: Samuel G. Nelms, Oxford; Keith Kilpatrick, Kinston; Paul Morris, Winston-Salem; and G. Raz Autry, Dunn.

A series of bi-weekly dinner meetings will be initiated next Tuesday evening. Projects for the year will be discussed at this time, and a guest speaker, yet to be announced, will address club members.

Membership in the Circle K club will be limited to fifty students, including 25 seniors, fifteen juniors, and ten sophomore