Community Support
The middle of the night? Sunday afternoon? Key Club is there to help
Bryce Connolly ’18 and Kyle Erickson ’18 (obscured) assist Holocaust survivor
Betty Grebenschikoff with the Remembrance Day candle lighting ceremony
106 Key Club members made lunches for a Kiwanis Foundation fundraiser
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Arriving at 4:00am at Raymond
James Stadium on Thursday, Oct. 19, an
army of 106 Jesuit Key Club members
assisted the Tampa Kiwanis Foundation
for three hours in preparing thousands
of lunches for its 49th annual Chicken
BBQ Fundraiser.
In addition to the huge manpower
supply – more than half of Key Club’s
195 members participated – Key Club
also raised $4,250 in ticket sales for the
event. The end result: The Kiwanis raised
more than $40,000, with all proceeds
benefi ting the Tampa Kiwanis Foundation
for local children’s programs.
At 7:00am, after providing a combined
418 hours of pre-dawn service,
the students, led by Key Club president
Kyle Erickson ’18 and moderator Amy
Martin, traveled the short distance up
Himes Ave. from the stadium to campus
for their school day.
On Sunday, Jan. 21, continuing
an annual tradition of support, 10
members of Jesuit’s Key Club served as
ushers and participated in the candle
lighting ceremony honoring survivors
of the Holocaust at the Italian Club in
Ybor City.
The event is held each year by the
Consular Corps of Tampa Bay on or near
Jan. 27, which is recognized by the
United Nations as International Holocaust
Remembrance Day. It is estimated
that between 1933 and 1945, more
than 11 million were murdered in the
Holocaust by Nazi Germany. Approximately
six million of these were Jews.
Representing Key Club at the ceremony,
at which Holocaust survivors
shared their stories, were Erickson,
Sean Doherty ’20, Jack Cullaro ’18,
Bryce Connolly ’18, Trace Nuss ’19,
Matthew Slowey ’20, Michael Lennartz ’18,
Tommy Pham ’18, Austin Covelli ’18,
and Ethan Sutton ’18.
The MacDill AFB Color Guard and
the Jesuit students initiated the candle
lighting, as the students brought the
ceremonial candles to each Holocaust
survivor. Survivor Betty Grebenschikoff
delivered a moving keynote address,
telling how her family was forced to
fl ee to Shanghai, China in 1939 when
her childhood was shattered by Nazi
violence against Jews. Japanese forces
occupied the region, and her family
was placed in a ghetto camp until
American forces freed the area from the
confi nement.