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Show Kiwanis Charters 5,000th Club in Indiana Services Thomas M. Ivory, president of the Kiwanis Club of Sugar House received word from Kiwanis International, In-ternational, Chicago, that Kiwanis Ki-wanis received its 5000th Kiwanis Ki-wanis Club, Chartered April 30 in special ceremonies at Ball State College Student Center in Muncie. President I. R. "Whitey" Wit-thun, Wit-thun, Milwaukee, presented the charter to Paul B. Huntzinger, president of the new club. There were 57 charter members present. pres-ent. The Kiwanis Club of Muncie, headed by President Floyd Mc-Williams, Mc-Williams, sponsored the 5000th club. Witthun characterized the event as "the attainment of another an-other milestone in Kiwanis' 47-year 47-year history of growth and progress." prog-ress." He said that the circumstance of the Kiwanis Club of South Muncie receiving the number 5000 was a mathematical happenstance. hap-penstance. He characterized it, however, as "a happy coincidence coinci-dence because Muncie, 'home of the 5000th club, was once selected select-ed as the most typical of American Ameri-can communities for a now-classic sociological study called 'Middletown'." "That the 5000th Kiwanis club should be established here," he said, "proves that the most typi- 1 A a J 1 i i Club of Hamilton, first Kiwanis Club in Canada; Clum Bucher, Bloomington, Indiana, International Interna-tional Trustee; D. Dean Rhoads, Fort Wayne, Governor of Indiana District; Dr. William E. Lapar, Winchester, Lieutenant Governor, Gover-nor, Division 7, Indiana District; and O. E. "Pete" Peterson, Chicago, Chi-cago, Secretary of Kiwanis In- cai oi American institutions, tne service club, is today more vital than ever in the life of the typical typi-cal American community Muncie, Indiana." Included on the program were Harry A. Young, Detroit, last living founder of Kiwanis; H. Lloyd Fawcett, Hamilton, Ontario, On-tario, representing the Kiwanis ternationai. In accepting the charter, Paul Huntzinger, president of the new club, pledged himself and his 57 fellow charter members to meet the special challenge imposed im-posed upon the 5000th club; to be a credit to the organization, to the nation, and to the community com-munity in which they will serve. |