Michael Butkus has been a member of the Kiwanis Club of Georgia since 2012. He is a member of the USO committee, the Younger Years committee and the Boys & Girls Club Work committee. He has been married to Barbara for 41+ years, is the father of three grown sons who all played lacrosse and has seven wonderful, beautiful grandchildren who all live in the Atlanta area.
He retired from a 35 year career on “Wall Street” as an Institutional Research Salesperson and has been promoted to full-time grandparent and part-time lacrosse coach. 2022 is his 27th year coaching youth and high school lacrosse.
He began his lacrosse journey when, realizing his quest for the NBA was not likely to work out, he tried out for his high school lacrosse team in his sophomore year. He played college lacrosse at Princeton University and continued post collegiately to play for the NJ Lacrosse Club and the Atlanta Lacrosse Club. He is a past president of the Atlanta Lacrosse Club as well as the Georgia Lacrosse Foundation and the Atlanta Youth Lacrosse program. He continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Lacrosse Foundation. He founded and is President of Open Door Lacrosse of Georgia whose mission is to promote diversity and inclusion in the growth of lacrosse in Georgia. Along with former Kiwanian JD Humphries, he traveled to Thomaston, Ga. In the mid-90s to discuss the introduction of lacrosse as a GHSA sanctioned sport. He also visited many high schools in the Atlanta area as they were considering the introduction of a lacrosse program. He founded the lacrosse program at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School, coached the varsity program for four years before starting the middle school boy’s program and continues to coach there today. He was selected as Georgia Lacrosse Man of the Year in 2007 and was elected to the Georgia Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2009.
Hybrid Meetings Have Begun! We currently have spaces for up to 40 members - email the office for more information or register in the events section on our website at www.kiwanisatlanta.org! You can still attend via Zoom!
The annual club elections for Officers and Directors of the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta will be held in person on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. There is a unanimous ballot with only 1 person running for each officer and director position. All members in good standing* are encouraged to attend in person to approve the unanimous ballot! CLICK HERE to register to attend the April 5th Meeting in Person.
*Must not be in arrears on dues of more than 1 quarter.
The 2022 District Service Project/Camping Trip is scheduled for Friday April 8th - Saturday April 9th, 2022 at Amicalola Falls State Park , Dawsonville GA. We will be doing a service project on the Saturday morning.
Are you attending the KCA weekly meetings in person all the time and want to skip the registration process? Just email Karen at KiwanisClubAtlanta@gmail.com and have your name added to the automatic attendance list. Easy Peasy. All we ask is that you let us know when you ARE NOT going to be there so we don't have extra food ordered. Add your name to the list today and we will see you on Tuesday, Jan 4th!
We have had great speakers during our Kiwanis Club of Atlanta Zoom meetings! If you couldn't participate, we have saved all of them to Dropbox, but the most recent ones are available through the live link of the speaker name listed below! Click more to see the list of the most recent speakers and send an email to KiwanisClubAtlanta@gmail.com to let us know which meetings you would like to have. Remember, you can always check out past speakers by viewing the past bulletins archived on our web site.
Would you like to get to know our club members better and help greet them as well as our guests at our weekly in person meetings? If so, then join the Hospitality Committee ... all it takes is a smile!
Remember, you can always check out past speakers by viewing the past bulletins archived on our web site.