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National Sojourners, Inc. Ft Sam Houston Chapter #17 Alamo Camp Heroes of 76

August

NEWSLETTER

NATIONAL SOJOURNERS, INC. FT SAM HOUSTON CHAPTER #17

ALAMO CAMP HEROES OF ‘76 SEE OUR WEBSITE AT

http://www.ftsamhoustonsojourners.txmasons.org Editor: Thomas J. Griffy

Email: [email protected]

Minutes of Business Meeting 4 July 2018

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The fact that the 4th of July 2018 fell on our Monthly Business Meeting of the Chapter, there was no meeting

held. It was left to the membership to celebrate the Birth of Our Nation with family and friends. Business meetings will resume in August and we go forward with the 100th Centenni-al of our Order.

Dinner Meeting 11 July 2018 The monthly Dinner Meeting was held on 11 July 2018 at the Barn Door Restaurant. An enjoyable social period beginning at 1800 hours was held. President Bro Hopkins welcomed those present at 1830 hours and had Chaplain Brother Albert Pike give the blessing on our endeavors and meal.

SICKNESS AND DISTRESS: Brother Sid Shaen-field is still basically home bound and need our calls. Brother Max Harvey also likes to receive your calls. Brother David Wolfe is having eye problems. Dan Carbaugh is having some difficulties, and Sharon Phillips, wife of Brother Tex Phillips is battling cancer. Brother Ed Travis still needs your calls. Brother Jim Stultz passed away on 4 July 2018. Visitation on 19 July with burial at Ft Sam Houston National Cemetery on 20 July 2018.

INTRODUCTIONS: Those in attendance were introduced by Brother McConnell. Himself James R. (Bob) McConnell, PNP, National Trustee and Houghton recipient, and his lady Pat. Brother Merlen F. Howe, PNP, National Trustee and his lady Judy. Sweethearts, Helen Kelly, Betty Sanders, Tina Lafferty, Mary Jane Brigham, and Mary Sue Cox. All Chapter officers were in attendance. As this was their first meeting since being installed, Brother McConnell introduced each one and their ladies. Guests attending were Ken and Tanja Whited, potential member, Brother Ben Linduff and his Lady and David Brighman, son of Sweetheart Mary Jane Brigham. Dinner was then served.

OPENING: President Hopkins opened the meeting at 1930 hours with the pledge followed by the Toast to the

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Flag, by Brother Lee Leopard, and the prayer by Chaplain Brother Albert Pike.

INITIATION OF CANDIDATES: None. PROGRAM: The program for the evening was giv-

en by one of our own, Brother Benjamin Franklin Linduff. Brother Ben is deeply involved in Masonry and is currently the Editor of the Texas Mason magazine, put out by the Grand Lodge of Texas. He is a member of almost every Masonic body in San Antonio, Texas. Born in Oklahoma, he opened his remarks telling about his childhood and the stories associ-ated with his growing up. The way he presented these stories kept the audience in stitches. His story on listening to Oral Roberts on the radio with his grandmother and grandfather was easily related to by the members present. He then went into his subject for the evening which related to our Independ-ence Day and why we celebrate. Drawing on the Declaration of Independence and when it was signed gave the audience a good view of why it was such a great document. His discus-sion of why we celebrate and why fireworks are associated with the 4th of July. He cited President John Adams that when he signed the Declaration of Independence, he wrote his wife that it was signed on 2 July not the 4th as we now cele-brate. It was quite informative and gave some new insights into our annual celebration that we all enjoy. He got a rousing round of applause upon completion of his presentation. Our hats are off to Brother Ben.

PRESENTATION TO GUEST SPEAKER: Brother President Hopkins presented Brother Ben

Linduff with a Certificate of Appreciation for his presentation. PRESENTATION TO WIDOWS: Widow of

Brother Robert Cox, Mary Sue was presented her widows pin, member card and certificate by PNP McConnell. She had been unable to attend the May Memorial and Widows meet-ing.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: President Brother Hopkins announced that the next Heroes Bivouac will be on 29 August 2018. The next Business Meeting will be on 1 August, and our next Dinner Meeting will be 8 August 2018. The next National Mid Winter Meeting will be in January 2019 and will be held in Tuscon, Arizona. And as will be stated later the Annual National Convention will be held in Omaha, Nebraska in June 2019 to celebrate the 100th Centennial. DRAW-

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Roger Hopkins Freddie Freeland J. R. “Bob” McConnell, PNP John H. V. Lorch J. R. “Bob” McConnell, PNP 9129 Bonny Brook 5818 Teal St. 8402 Quebec Dr. 3134 Mayfair Dr 8402 Quebec Dr. Windcrest, TX 78239 San Antonio, TX 78244 San Antonio, TX 78239 San Antonio, TX 7217 San Antonio, TX 78239 (210) 710-8773 (210) 639-1021 (210) 659-6813 (210) 415-1698 (210) 659-6813 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

http://www.ftsamhoustonsojourners.txmasons.org/

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August 2

ING: Brother Hopkins called upon Brother Flowers and Brother Kramer to conduct the monthly drawing. The winners were: Janet Kramer, wife of Brother Boyd Kramer, Susan Linduff, wife of Brother Ben Linduff, and Brother Phillip Gor-don.

CLOSING: Without further ado the meeting was officially closed at 2035 hours by Brother President Roger Hopkins. Peace and harmony prevailing.

SEE YOU NEXT MONTH

Brother Lee Leopard and the Toast to the Flag

Guest Speaker Linduff & President Hopkins Presenting Certificate of Appreciation

Mary Sue Cox Receives Her Widows Pin

Dinner Meeting Attendees

Dinner Meeting Attendees

New Officers Line Up

Chapter President Hopkins Camp Commander Lorch


August 3

SECRETARY/TREASURER NOTES Brethren and Ladies. If you have a change

of address or a change in your email, please let me know so that I can make the appropriate changes to the Chapter as well as the National information on you.

Returned from the Annual National Conven-tion with two more streamers for the Chapter. We received one for the Chapter Excellence Award and one for the Bridge of Light Award. Certificates ac-companied each of these awards as well.

All the resolutions submitted which impact the 100th Centennial Celebration were overwhelm-ingly approved. More on that later on in this news-letter.

We as a Chapter must gain 5 new members to qualify as a Centennial Chapter. But in addition to that, we should make a donation of $1,000 to Na-tional. We can designate the fund for which our donation is submitted. We will be discussing this in future meetings. Also, we will be setting up a “Birthday Celebration” meeting and sing Happy Birthday to ourselves. Brother Russell Flowers, the 2nd Vice President has already had some ideas on this event. Look for more information on the event in the future.

Hope to see you at the Business and Dinner Meeetings.

S & F

Please make every effort to attend our monthly meeting. We need your support.

FT. SAM HOUSTON CHAPTER 17

DEATHS

James R. Stultz 4 July 2018

August Birthdays

Lawrence Casey 8/2 Leland Potter 8/4 William Sizemore 8/4 Nelson Dunn 8/5 Brack Jones 8/5 Andrew McVeigh 8/5 Ronnie Pfeil 8/5 Louis Numkin 8/6 William Gower 8/8 James Pearlman 8/8 Juan Pena 8/11 James Davies 8/12 Douglas Smalley 8/12 Charles Blacknall 8/13 Loren Hayes 8/13 Lester Williams 8/14 Karl Starkloff 8/18 John Anthis 8/21 Robert Perkins 8/21 Michael Lally 8/22 Salvador Campos 8/23 Joe Estlack 8/23 Wendell Miller 8/26 Ed O’Banion 8/27 William Mullins 8/28

September Birthdays

Gene Carnes 9/5 Bruce Thomson 9/5 William Hayes 9/8 David Wolfe 9/11 John Morris 9/15 Moore Matthews 9/16 Carl Diamond 9/21 Joe Hollaway 9/21 Kermit Rosenthal 9/21 Robert DeWalt 9/22 Dock Dixon 9/23 Kenneth Mikell 9/23 Jimmie Martinez 9/28 Elmer Mitchell 9/29 Mort Jacobs 9/30


August 4

BUSINESS MEETING: Our next Business Meeting will be held on 1 August 2018 at the Barn Door. Come and order off the menu,

(Barn Door opens at 11:00 hours) with the meeting beginning at 12:00 hours. Normal business meeting with emphasis on the events for the 100th Centennial Celebration and things the

Chapter can perform. THE MONTHLY DINNER MEETING is sched-uled for 8 August 2018 at the Barn Door, 8400 North New Braunfels, (Inside Loop 410). Social time at 1800 hours with dinner at 1830 hours (NOTE CHANGE). Order of business will be information

on the 100th Centennial Celebration of National Sojourners, Inc., Come and enjoy the fellowship. Dinner will consist of Salad, 6 oz. Filet, or Salmon, Baked Potatoes, Dinner Rolls/Butter, Iced Tea and Water, Coffee by the cup and Complimen-tary dessert. Price of the meal – Steak $25.00 Salmon $30.00. Reservations to Bob McConnell, at 210-659-6813 or [email protected], or Lee Leopard at 210-434-7429 not later than 6 August 2018. Sign up early and come and enjoy the fellowship.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Bob Perkins

John Lorch

This Months ROTC Uncles

Sid Shaenfield

100th Centennial Celebration information extracted from the “Tool Kit” Individual Participation: The following indicates how you can receive the Centennial Medal. Each area indicates how you can become eligible for the award of the medal. Option A and B1 columns, Kick-off ANC, has already passed and if you did not attend then you should consider B2 and C to qualify.

To qualify for the Centennial Bar to go on the Centennial Medal, one must join the Patriots Club, by a donation of $1,000, but can be spread over 5 years at $200 per year. There is also a selection of Centennial merchan-dise for purchase. Go to the National Sojourn-ers web site under Centennial Celebration in the National Resources Area of the Sojourners Only Section for additional information and order in-formation /instructions. Much more information is on the National Web Site and one should check out this information. We will be discussing more about the Centenni-al Celebration at our August Business Meeting and at our August Dinner Meeting. Hope to see you there.




August 5

.This Month in History (Chronologically ordered by day)

August 2, 1923 – Vice President Calvin Coo-lidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding. August 3, 1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight car-riers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal. August 6, 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United King-dom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to at-tack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea. August 6, 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning. August 7, 1794 – U.S. President George Wash-ington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to sup-press the Whiskey Rebellion in western Penn-sylvania. August 9, 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand peo-ple are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers. August 11, 1332 – Wars of Scottish Independ-ence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots un-der Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol. August 13, 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City.[3] That evening, at a state dinner in Los Ange-les, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.[4]

This Month in History(Continued)

August 14, 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edi-son's phonograph in London, England. August 16, 1858 – U.S. President James Bu-chanan inaugurates the new transatlantic tele-graph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks. August 18, 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war. August 19, 1812 – War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides". August 22, 1910 – Korea is annexed by Ja-pan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japa-nese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II. August 24, 455 – The Vandals, led by king Genseric, begin to plunder Rome. Pope Leo I requests Genseric not destroy the ancient city or murder its citizens. He agrees and the gates of Rome are opened. However, the Vandals loot a great amount of treasure. August 27, 1956 – The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becom-ing the world's first commercial nuclear pow-er station to generate electricity on an indus-trial scale.


August 6

SUPPORT YOUR BLUE LODGE. THEY NEED US AND WE NEED THEM! CONTACT A BROTHER WHO HASN’T BEEN TO LODGE AND ASK HIM TO GO WITH YOU.

SECRETARY NOTES: If you have a change in your address or phone num-ber, please send a note to Bob McConnell, 8402 Quebec Dr. San An-tonio, TX or call 210.659.6813. If you have a change in your email address, please send an email to FtSamChap-

[email protected] or call 830.368.4071 with the new information.

Return Service Requested

NATIONAL SOJOURNERS, INC. Ft Sam Houston Chapter #17

Alamo Camp Heroes Of 76 Bob McConnell

8402 Quebec Dr.

San Antonio, TX 78239

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS: Please keep our Military Forces and their families in your prayers. Take the time to stop them and thank them for their service to our country. We can’t

thank them enough for their dedication and sacrifice to maintain our freedom and liberty.

They are the finest and best this country has to offer, and we, as citizens, need to express our gratitude to them at every opportunity.

If you are receiving this newsletter by US mail and have email, please send your email address to [email protected]. Each printed copy costs your chapter more than $1.50 to produce and mail; the only cost for email is my time.

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER BIVOUAC OF ALAMO CAMP

HEROES OF 76

Attention all Heroes: A bivouac is scheduled for Wednesday, 29 August 2018 at Grady’s BBQ, 6510 San Pedro. Put it on your calendar. Dine at 1700. Degree at 1800.




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