Citizenship Awards
Rewarding Hard Work
Each year the Club awards a cash Citizenship Award to a graduating senior for each where we sponsor a Key Club. The award differs from a traditional scholarship in the award goes directly to the student, rather than the bursar of their chosen post-secondary school. We currently only have one active Key club at Pike High School. At right, 2018 winner Kesha Baht receives her award from Committee Chair John S. & then Club President Tom F.
We set aside the longest awarded award, the Michael A. Carroll Memorial Citizenship Award, for Pike High School. It remembers civic leader and NW Kiwanian Mike Carroll, who lost his life in a 1992 mid-air collision after viewing the future site of White River State Park.
A notable recipient of the Mike Carroll Award is Pike High School and Butler University alumni Chris Gahl (left), Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Visit Indy. The 1996 Pike High School Graduate went on to attend Butler University in Indianapolis.
Other Citizenship awards are the A.G. Terry Shaffer Memorial Citizenship Award and the Mason Bell Memorial Citizenship. Terry, along with being a Past President of the NW Indy Club, served for many years as Executive Director of Kiwanis International. Mason was a pillar of our Club, an Army veteran and long-time General Motors executive who is credited with bringing the Soap Box Derby Championships to Indianapolis.
At left, Terry (seated to the left) and Mason (far right) attend a Kiwanis function with Past Club President Pat Hreachmack, and our Current Club President Roy.
At left, Terry (seated to the left) and Mason (far right) attend a Kiwanis function with Past Club President Pat Hreachmack, and our Current Club President Roy.