We are a Community Service club organized in Sept. 13, 1917, Chartered April 11, 1918. We take pride in belonging to a world-wide service club whose primary goal is to help children.

The History of our Club

Kiwanis  in Oshkosh began on August 3, 1917, when Hal P. Denton, a Kiwanis district organizer from Cleveland, Ohio came to Oshkosh to organize a Kiwanis club in Oshkosh.

Denton's first convert in Oshkosh was an osteopath, Dr. L. H. Noordhoff. These two men then signed up a dozen other businessmen by September 13, 1917, when the club was first organized on a temporary basis.

The organization lunchoen was held in a small upstairs sample room of the old Tremont Hotel, which then stood on the northwest corner of State And Waugoo Streets where the Oshkosh National Bank now has its drive-in. The temporary President was Charles C. Konrad, Assistant Cashier of the New Americn Bank, the temporary Secretary was H. A. Henkel, a partner in the insurance agency of West, Nevitt and Henkel.