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FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 24, 2017
."Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is"
The Installation Banquet was a Huge Success!
Beside installing the new officers for 2017-2018 and the new Board, we were also treated by Rob Martin to a very special musical , "The Heart of Texas" Barbershop Group. They entertained our club with several close harmonic songs. Your editor also spent 25 years singing with the San Antonio Chordsmen in San Antonio.
Perfect Attendance Certificate were handed out by Tracy Herman, our outgoing President: They are: Beverly Crumley (1 yr); Tracy Herman (1 yr); Doug Balkman (3 yrs); Chester Banks, (3 yrs); Kelli Whigham (3 yrs); Gary Strunk (3 yrs); Del Brown (5 yrs); Rob Martin (6 yrs); Charles Johnson (8 yrs); Frederick Case (9 yrs); Pam Cook (10 yrs); Gary Nelson (19 yrs); John Polk (20 yrs); Moe Johnson (29 yrs); Lon Shell (33 yrs); Randy Cook (36 yrs); McBride Wilson (39) yrs); Ted Breihan (44 yrs); Glen Rydl (46 yrs).Kiwanis Legion of Honor: Chester Banks (40 yrs); Merwin Richards (25 yrs); McBride Wilson (40 yrs).
Kiwanis of the Year Award: Del Brown.
After the presentation of awards, Ken Baumbach, newly elected Lt Governor for Division 38 and from the Lockhart Club installed the new officers and Board members for the year 2017-2018. Pictures and names are located at the beginning of this bulletin.
All of these folks should be very proud of their achievements and wish their continued good service through this coming year.
"Here is the list of Greeters for the month of SEPTEMBER 2017
If you are scheduled to be Greeter for a particular Thursday, try to arrive at Grins by about 11:30am, put on the special Greeter's badge and then greet each and every member and visitors as they come in.
September 28...........Pam Cook
Monthly Board Meeting this coming Thursday, September 28.....
We have a new slate of officers now and a couple of new folks on our Kiwanis Board. Our new President, Doug Balkman will be sending a lot of e-mails out to our members, and I will try and keep up with them, and provide information to our readers as to what our club is concentrating on.
To begin with, Pres. Doug will be holding his first Board meeting this coming Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 5PM. It will be held at CTMC, 1305 Wonder World Drive - medical office building to the right of CTMC hospital. The Board will meet in the first conference room on the left as you enter. Let's try and have 100% attendance for Doug's first Board Meeting.
A Bit Late, but Better Late than Never!
This was a ramp built for Robert Parra, over in Martindale. It was built on September 9, 2017. The Ramp was 58 feet long and was built in 3 1/2 The prep and load time was 4 hours.
They had 16 Volunteers (some listed below) and they were from San Marcos Kiwanis Club, Heart-to-Heart Hospice, Texas State Students, Texas Ramp Warehouse Team,and Past Ramp Volunteers. The client was still in Rehab until the ramp was built.
Those from our club were John Polk, Doug Balkman, Gary Strunk and Gary Nelson. There were also friends of Kiwanis, John Harrison, Bill Stich and Courtney Taylor. A job well done by folks whose hearts go out to those less fortunate.
A Reminder to bring in your Sponsorships. These are important!.....Great Race...Lots of fun....Costume time....When: October 21, 2017.....Time: 9am....Set-Up, 6:30am. Deadline for Sponsors is October 6th.
Let us continue in prayer for Glen & Marilou Rydl, for Chester Banks and anyone who is either recovering from an illness, or surgery and need to know that their club friends are thinking of them ....and please, if anyone that you know is undergoing some trying times, please let your Bulletin Editor know, and whether they would let us keep them in our prayers.
lAttendance for Roundtable, Thursday Morning, Sept. 21, 2017.
Garry White, Francis Mendez, Doug Balkman, Del Brown, Charles Walts, John Polk, Lon Shell, Glen Rydl, Randy Cook, Rob Martin, Erick Garza( from Circle K-Texas State University)
A lot of important chit- went on, It was also a day for some quick cleanup at our camp. Gary Strunk, Randy Cook, Lon Shell worked for a short time to get the camp ready for active use this last weekend. The cleanup was going to continue on Friday - - not sure just who went out then. Thanks for those who helped.
Our Program For This Coming Thursday, September 28th.
We are so privileged to have one of our own members again bring the program, Dr. Stephen Furney will be bringing his own reflections with regards to his membership in our Kiwanis Club.
In case some do not know the credentials of Steve, here are a few: He is a university distinguished professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance where he has a office tucked in a corner on the first floor of the Jowers Center. The walls of his workspace there are covered with frames displaying some of the highlights of his life. Pictures of family -- he's a father to three and grandfather to five -- share space with his numerous awards and his multiple diplomas, one of which he says he got unintentionally.
Steve was just 31 when he 'accidently' earned his master's of public health and epidemiology from U.T. It was his fourth degree; in addition to his bachelor's, he had already earned a master's in health education from the University of Houston and a ph.D in school health education from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Steve's enthusiasm for education and his continual drive for self-improvement are clear indicators of why he recently had to make room on his office walls for one more accolade - an award that clearly was no accident at all. He was name a Piper Professor - the 19th such distinction bestowed upon a Texas State professor.
For this week's program, Steve is going to doing some personal reflections about the years he has spent in our club. Steve has seen many new folks join our club, in fact he has been Membership Chairman for as long as I can remember, and he has performed the pre-induction and induction process for many new members. It will be a real pleasure to hear from this man who also is preparing to retire from his current position with the university next year. Let's have a full house for Steve.
The Age of Imponderables! - (There are no answers to these imponderables, but if you think of a good answer, let me know and I will put it in?
1.....If a deaf person goes to court, do they call it a hearing?
2.....Do "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and "The Alphabet Song" have the same tune?
3.....On Gilligan's Island, the professor could make a radio out of a coconut. Why couldn't he fix the hole in the boat?
4.......Why does a dog get mad at you if you blow in his face, but then stick his head out the window when you take him for a car ride?
5.......Is drilling for oil boring?
6.......Is a oxymoron a really dumb bovine?
7.......Is that a flying saucer or a pie in the sky?
8.......If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
9.......Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
10.....If I save time, when do I get it back?
C
"Tooth and Nail!"
"Yes, it means exactly what cute little Mary Ann means when she goes after her pestiferious older small brother who is torturing her dolly.
She bites and digs in with her nails. and she and her ancestors before her, both sides of the family, have been using those natural weapons of offense and defense since Noah was a pup. Thus with tooth and nail long ago became an English phrase signifying 'With all the powers at one's command.' The old Latin equivalent was toto corpore atque omnibus ungulis, with all the body and every nail. In France, it's bec et ongles, closely approaching our English phrase, but with the literal meaning, 'beak and talons'"
In the United States, we live in a country where there are vast difference in culture and climate, ranging from simple country folk to sophisticated city dwellers and from temperate climates to the hot and humid. Let's take a humorous look at what we might call 'home'!
WYOMING:
*Your idea of a traffic jam is waiting for cattle to cross the road or three cars waiting to pass a tractor.
* You've never met any celebrities but the mayor knows your name.
* You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
* You have had to switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' on the same day.
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
* You know the difference between 'dry heat' and what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.
* You are happy to park three blocks away from your house because you found shade.
* You have over one hundred recipes for Mexican food.
* You can drive for four hours in one direction, and not leave town.
* The four seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
1........Neptune was not known to the ancients. It is not visible to the naked eye and was first observed in 1846. It's position was determined using mathematical predictions. It was named after the Roman god of the sea.
2.......Neptune spins on its axis very rapidly. Its equatorial clouds take 18 hours to make one rotation. This is because Neptune is not solid body.
3.......Neptune is the smallest of the ice giants. Despite being smaller than Uranus, Neptune has a greater mass. Below its heavy atmosphere, Uranus is made of layers of hydrogen, helium and methane gases. They enclose a layer of water ammonia and methane ice. The inner core of the planet is made of rock/
4.......The atmosphere of Neptune is made of hydrogen and helium, with some methane. The methane absorbs red light, which makes the planet appear a lovely blue. High, thin clouds drift in the upper atmosphere.
5.......Neptune has a very active climate. Large storms whirl through its upper atmosphere, and high speed winds track around the planet at up to 600 meters per second. One of the largest storms ever seen was recorded in 1989. It was called the Great Dark Spot. It lasted for five years.
6.........Neptune has a very thin collection of rings. They are likely made up of ice particles mixed with dust grains and possibly coated with a carbon-based substance.
7.........Neptune has fourteen moons. The most interesting moon is Triton, a frozen world that is spewing nitrogen ice and dust particles out from below its surface. It was likely captured by the gravitational pull of Neptune. It is probably the coldest word in the solar system.
8.........Only one spacecraft has flown by Neptune. In 1989, the Voyager 2 spacecraft swept past the planet. It returned the first close-up images of the Neptune system. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has also studied this planet, as have a number of ground based telescopes.
9.........The Great Dark Spot in the southern atmosphere was first discovered in 1989 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. It was an incredibly large rotating storm system with winds of up to 1,500 miles per hour, the strongest winds recorded on any planet.
10........Neptune has an incredibly thick atmosphere comprised of 74% hydrogen, 25% helium and approximately 1% methane. It's atmosphere is subdivided into the lower troposphere and the stratosphere with the tropopause being the boundary between the two.
Week September 22 - 28, 2017
September 22, 1996 - - Australian Bob Dent, a cancer victim, became the first person to commit legally assisted suicide, via a lethal injection, under a voluntary euthanasia law.
September 23, 1952 - - Vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered his Checkers Speech on television and radio to address accusations of financial misdeeds.
September 24, 1957 - - President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the National Guard to enforce racial integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.
September 25, 1513 - - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa first sighted the Pacific Ocean after crossing the Isthmus of Panama.
September 26, . 1687 - - The Acropolis in Athens was attacked by the Venetian army attempting to oust the Turks, resulting in heavy damage to the Parthenon.
September 27, 1964 - - After a 10-month investigation, the Warren Commission Report was issued stating a lone gunman had been responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
September 28, 1542 - - California was discovered by Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo upon his arrival at San Diego Bay.
America the Beautiful.....NEW JERSEY
1......... New Jersey has the highest population density in the U.S. An average 1,030 people per square miles, which is 13 times the national average.
2.........New Jersey has the highest percent urban population in the U.S. with about 90% of the people living in an urban area.
3........New Jersey is the only state where all its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.
4........North Jersey is the car theft capital of the world, with more cars stolen in Newark than any other city. Even the two largest cities, NYC and LA put together.
5.........New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the US.
6.........New Jersey has the most diners kin the world and is sometimes referred to as the diner capital of the world.
7 ..........North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius.
8 ..........New Jersey has over 50 resort cities and towns, some of the nations most famous, Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Cape May.
9 ..........Jack Nicolson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Novi, Redman, Das EFX, Naughty by Nature, Sugar Hill Gang, Lords of the Underground, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifa, Shaq, Judy Blume, Aaron Burr, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Frank Sinatra, Grover Cleveland, all New Jersey natives.
10 .........Fort Dix is named for Major General John Adams Dix, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Civil War. During his distinguished career, he was a United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, Minister to France and Governor of New York.
"America the Beautiful....."Clinton, New Jersey"
When the Clinton Post Office was established in 1829, it was named for DeWitt Clinton, Governor of New York and the primary impetus behind the then-newly completed Erie Canal.
The town of Clinton is perhaps best known for its two mills which sit on opposite banks of the South Branch Raritan River. The Red Mill, with its historic village, dates back to 1810 with the development of a mill for wool processing. Across the river sits the Stone Mill, home of the Hunterdon Art Museum for Contemporary Craft and Design, located in a former gristmill that had been reconstructed in 1836 and operated continuously until 1936. In 1952, a group of local residents conceived of a plan to convert the historic building into an art museum, which is still in operation today.
The Red Mill for over 100 years was used at different times to process grains, plaster, talc and graphite. The Mill was also used to produce peach baskets, as well as to generate electricity and pump water for the town. Every October, the Mill was transformed into a haunted house given the title, the Red Mill Haunted Village. The Haunted Village tends to attract visitors from all over the east coast to the small town. The Red Mill Museum Village was featured on an episode of Ghost Hunters in 2008.
You don't know how wonderful I felt last Thursday when I was selected as 'Kiwanis of the Year' in our club. I am humbled by the whole thing. I don't feel that I was doing anything above what I enjoy doing - creating a bulletin each week, with the intention to make me learn some things I didn't know about, and hopefully give you who read the Bulletin an idea that there is a wealth of information available to all of us, and I am so proud that you feel that my bulletin (and yours) is worth awarding me of this most special award. My heart goes out to all of you, and hope that all those who receive the bulletin, might be able to say, 'I didn't know that before, Thanks Del. To me, we never stop learning, and even if it is just a bit of information that we never knew before, it was truly worth putting it in our Bulletin.
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Kelli Whigham, Pres. Elect
Glen Rydl, Secretary
Chas. Johnson, Treasurer
Tracy Herman, Past Pres.
Gary Nelson,Board Mbr.
Beverly Crumley, Bd Mbr.
Francis Mendez Bd Mbr)
Cynthia Bentley, Bd Mbr.
Rhonda White, Bd Mbr
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