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Brush up on your Kiwanis history

How well do you know Kiwanis history? If you’ve read The Kiwanis Legacy, you may have a better handle on the organization’s past than most. Here are 10 events underscored in the two volumes of Kiwanis’ history. Your challenge is to list them in correct historical order, from the oldest to the most recent.

The International Board creates the Legion of Honor, designed to recognize Kiwanians with 25 years or more of membership.
Delegates at the Denver Convention unanimously adopt the six “permanent” Objects of Kiwanis.
Kiwanis launches the Worldwide Service Project.
Kiwanis Club magazine makes its debut.
An inter-clubbing meeting is officially defined as “one which is jointly planned by two or more clubs and duly announced as such in advance through notices. No less than four members of the visiting club must be in attendance.”
The Birmingham Convention, which would forever be known as “the cradle of Kiwanis’ rebirth,” is called to order.
“We Build” becomes the official Kiwanis motto.
Some 80 percent of delegates to the Kiwanis International Convention vote in favor of allowing women into Kiwanis.
Work begins on the McGraw-Hill Building, a block north of the “Magnificent Mile,” one of many buildings to serve as Kiwanis headquarters in Chicago.
Canadian and Michigan Kiwanians gather for a ceremony dedicating the first of many “boundary tablets” marking the peaceful boundary between the two North American nations.

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