Learning about the history of the JCI Senate and the U.S. JCI Senate can be time consuming, so we encourage you to get a bottle or cup of your favorite beverage before delving into this. Sources for this section of our site include the Junior Chamber International website and documents produced by numerous individuals over several years, some of which are available for download so you can review them offline.

We fully anticipate that various of our members will submit articles of their own for inclusion in this section or simply suggest that we add things as time goes by. Those additions or suggestions will be implemented as soon as time permits. One page of this section includes links to historical documents, such as minutes of past Board of Directors and other meetings, and some of these documents are very large, running into several megabytes in some cases, which take a very long time to download over a dial-up connection.

As a result, we have contemplated placing these documents on a CD-ROM disk and making it available on our products store site for a nominal fee, say $5, to cover production and mailing costs. (Storing those documents on our web server is not the issue, since we have a lot of storage space available to us.) Please let our Historian know if you would like our historical documents made available on a CD-ROM by clicking here.

PLEASE NOTE: Read the 'Right to Use Content' provisions of our Terms of Use policy before uploading any document you have obtained from this site to any other website. Also note that the PDF files available for download from this section are password protected.

To make navigation of this section of our site easier for you, we have divided it into several different pages, as follows:

• History of the JCI Senate, the international organization, which was formed in 1952
• History of the U.S. JCI Senate, which was formed in 1972. Links on that page include:
  • Early formative years of the U.S. JCI Senate
  • Highlights of the first twenty-five years of the U.S. JCI Senate. (We'll expand this to the first 30 years as soon as your webmaster obtains a copy of the 30th Anniversary program.)
  • Minutes of Executive Committee and Board of Directors' meetings from the 1972-73 year through the 2000-2001 year. If anyone can add minutes to this list, please contact the webmaster.
  • History of the U.S. JCI Senate's budget

From any of those pages, you can click your browser's Back button to return here.

History of this website

The U.S. JCI Senate would like to express appreciation to JCI Senator Robert E. Holbert #27166, who advocated for and prepared the original site and maintained it for the initial three years. We would also like to thank the Board of Directors of AzTeC,  the community Free-Net in Phoenix, AZ, for allowing the U.S. JCI Senate to use its web servers to house the U.S. JCI Senate Web Information Center during its first five years of development. After that, the site was housed, again for free, on servers belonging to Systems and Methods, Inc. (SMI) in Carrollton, GA until June 2004.

Additional thanks go out to the succession of webmasters following Robert Holbert: Lowell Vahl #40315 until June 2000, Terry Couture #48130 from June 2000 until June 2002, and Larry Pierce #56660 from June 2002 until June 2004.  Larry redesigned the website to offer a more modern look.  In 2003 the U.S. JCI Senate launched the JCI Senate Store, where you can order our products securely paying by check, credit card, or your PayPal account. In June 2004, this site was moved to a different web server and set up as a XOOPS site by its current webmaster, George Nowell #33085. George is also webmaster for the JCI Senate Store.