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E-Bulletin for June 11, 2020 (294)
Posted on Sep 14, 2020
"Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose." (Richard M. Nixon)
SINCE WE HAVE NOT MET SINCE MARCH 16TH, WE HAVE NO ATTENDANCE TO RECORD IN THIS ISSUE
GREETERS FOR THE MONTHS OF MARCH & APRIL 2020
March 19........Rhonda Young
March 26........Gary Strunk
April 2.............Glen Rydl
April 9.............Merwin Richards
April 16............Francis Mendez
April 23............Garry White
April 30............Andrew Gary
Moe Johnson's name was drawn for Big Bucks, and guess what - - he kept it because he had his pin on.
The Program from Last Week "Wow, you talk about a detailed program....well we had one last week as Doug Balkman led our club through all of the different steps that our club needs to go through to put on a very successful Pancake Breakfast and Silent Auction. It takes a lot of last minute details to make sure that we will have a very successful event. Every member of our club has a job to do, and how to do it, because we are doing it all for the privilege of serving pancakes and displaying silent auction items for our community.
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Our Program for this coming Thursday, December 19th will be brought by Francis Mendez.
Birthdays during the Month of February 2020
.........Charles Walts.........February 11
.........James Collier...........February 17
Anniversaries Celebration in February 2020
No Anniversaries
OUR OCTOBER DASH WAS A GREAT SUCCESS!
You couldn't have asked for better weather for this year's October Dash Race. You couldn't have asked for a better crowd. Over 60 runners, food was great, lots of water and great turnout from our club, wonderful door prizes and great trophies. Rhonda White and the rest of her committee made a fantastic showing. Those members from the club were: Charles Walts, Andrew Gary, John Polk (Batman), Del Brown (Bone Head), Kelli Whigham, Steve Whigham, Rhonda White, Darrel White, Gary Nelson, Ted Breihan, Rhonda Young, Doug Balkman, Jean Balkman, Lon Shell, Gary Strunk, John Roppolo (and son), Chester Banks and Charles Johnson with Medical Explorers.
Just think that in 4 years, our Club will be Celebrating 100 years!
From 1923 when Dr. L.L. Edwards was our first President to Rhonda White, our current President, we have been operating for 96 years. Thanks to Doug who emailed to our members our current list of presidents, we can keep up with things. 2023 will be on us before we know it, so let us all think of ways we can celebrate this historical moment. Some of our current members have been Presidents more than once....Andrew Gary (2); Moe Johnson (3- & will be 4 next year); Gary Nelson (2); Lon Shell (2).
History Facts from March 13 to March 19.
March 13, 1943 - - - A plot to kill Hitler by German army officers failed as a bomb planted aboard his plane failed to explode due to a faulty detonator.
March 14, 1833 - - - The first female dentist, Lucy Hobbs was born in New York state. She received her degree in 1866 from the Ohio College of Dental surgery and was a woman's rights advocate.
March 15, 1767 - - - Andrew Jackson, the 7th U.S. President was born in a log cabin in Waxhaw, South Carolina. As a boy he volunteered to serve in the American Revolution. Captured by the British, he refused an order to clean an officer's boots and was slashed by his sword. Jackson later gained fame as a hero during the War of 1812. In politics, he helped form the new Democratic Party and became the first man from an impoverished background to be elected President, serving from 1829 - 1837.
March 16, 1968 - - - New York Senator Robert Kennedy announced his intention to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
March 17, 1776 - - - Early in the American Revolutionary War, the British completed their evacuation of Boston following a successful siege conducted by Patriots. The event is still commemorated in Boston as Evacuation Day.
March 18, 1974 - - - The five month old Arab oil embargo against the U.S. was lifted. The embargo was in retaliation for American support of Israel during the Yom Kipper War of 1973 in which Egypt and Syria suffered a crushing defeat. In the U.S., the resulting embargo had caused long lines at gas stations as prices soared 300 percent amid shortages and a government ban on Sunday gas sales.
March 19, 2003 - - - The United States launched an attack against Iraq to topple dictator Saddam Hussein from power. The attack commenced with aerial strikes against military sites, followed the next day by an invasion of southern Iraq by U.S. and British ground troops. The troops made rapid progress northward and conquered the country's capital, Baghdad, just 21 days later, ending the rule of Saddam.
"Why Do We call it 'KNICKERS'
"It's a long way from the early knickers to the knee-length breeches that bear that name today. The first knickers (when New York was still New Amsterdam) were clay bricks. The man who baked them was, of course, the 'knicker baker' Like many other occupational names (such as Taylor and Mason), Knickerbaker became a family name, sometimes changed to Knickerbocker. Since the name was so common among the Dutch settlers, Washington Irving used it as the name of the invented author of his book A History of New York, Diedrich Knickerbocker. The illustration shows a person wearing loose knee pants. Such breeches came to be called 'knickerbockers,' which was later shortened to 'knickers'."
Where Did Nebraska Get It's Name?
"Nebraska was named after the Platte River, which the Omaha Indians called Nibthaska meaning 'flat water.'"
"Know Your Presidents - -Lyndon B. Johnson
"Lyndon Baines Johnson, was the 36th President of the United States, serving from 1963 - 1969. Johnson's most popular nickname was Landslide Lyndon because he won the 1964 election in such a landslide. He was also referred to by his initials, LBJ."
"Death Valley, California"
"Death Valley was named in 1849 when a band of gold seekers got lost in this desolate desert known for its excessive heat and blistering sun. Although they named it Death Valley. only one of the miners in the group lost his life."
"A man had just presented his wife with the fox coat she had been coaxing and cajoling him to buy her for weeks. Now he was perplexed to see her examining it with a sad look. 'What's the matter, sweetheart? Don't you like the coat?' he asked. 'I love it,'she answered. 'It's just that I was feeling sorry for the poor little creature who was skinned alive so that I could have the pleasure of wearing this coat.'
'Why, thank you,' said the husband.'"
"Where did the Word Spoonerism come from?"
"A spoonerism is an error of speech, or a transposition of sounds from one word to another. Rev. William Archibald Spooner (1844 - 1930), who taught at Oxford University is credited with having invented the spoonerism. He was said to have described Queen Victoria as 'our queer old dean'. And once he is reported to have shouted at students: 'You have tasted the whole worm. You have hissed by mystery lectures. You were fighting a liar in the quad. You will leave by the town drain,'"
"I Wonder ........Did You Know!!
"Teams at the University of Florida in Gainesville were nicknamed the Gators by Philip Miller, a Gainesville merchant who owned and operated a drugstore specializing in student goods. While ordering some team pennants and banners, Miller realized the university had no mascot. He chose an alligator because no other university had adopted it and the alligator was a native to the state."
"Go West Young Man, Go West"
"Horace Greeley is usually attributed with originating the remark, 'Go west, young man, go west.' , however, Greeley did not first use this expression. His role was simply to reprint in an 1851 edition of his New York Tribune an article by John L. Soule in which Soule wrote, 'Go west, young man, and grow up with the country.'
The expression caught on with the public and, because it first appeared in Greeley's newspaper, it became popularly associated with him. Despite repeated attempts by Greeley to disclaim credit for the remark, most people still believe he originated it."
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