Lance Incitti was in Key Club for one year. But in that year, he met a man whose passion for service would change his life—and the lives of millions more.

During his senior year at Williamsport High School in Pennsylvania, Incitti volunteered alongside his Key Club’s faculty advisor, P.D. Mitchell. It was Mitchell’s dedication to the club that inspired Incitti to give back.

As a Kiwanian himself, Incitti has served as president of the Denville, New Jersey, Kiwanis Club, as well as lieutenant governor and governor of the New Jersey District—receiving distinguished honors in all of his positions.

In the 1990s, he also served as chairman of the sponsored youth committee for Kiwanis’ worldwide initiative to virtually eliminate iodine deficiency disorders in the 1990s. At one point, Incitti was invited to Saidu Sharif, Pakistan, to observe the fight against IDD. Thanks to the presence of Incitti and his team, Saidu Sharif mandated that only iodized salt could be produced in the area. That edict touched the lives of 2.5 million people.

Forty-six years have passed since Incitti’s senior year of high school, but he still credits Mitchell for results like the one in Pakistan. “This is a case where an advisor had an impact on a Key Clubber, and he didn’t realize then that he would eventually have an impact on millions of people in Pakistan,” Incitti says.
 
Married to fellow Denville Kiwanis Club member Ruth, Incitti is now a grandfather of four. And he’s still involved with the Kiwanis family. For instance, he currently serves as 2011–12 treasurer for the Kiwanis International Foundation. He also devotes time and effort to The Eliminate Project: Kiwanis eliminating maternal and neonatal tetanus.

“I joined Kiwanis in 1987 to work with kids in my community, and now here I am working with The Eliminate Project to help protect 61 million people,” he says. “It really doesn’t get much better than that.”