"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art."(St, Francis De Sales)
Doug Balkman, Chester Banks, Del Brown, Frederick Case, Randy Cook, Pam Cook, Charles Johnson, John Roppolo, Charles Walts, Rhonda White, Beverly Crumley, Andrew Gary, Garry White, John Polk, Glen Rydl, Ronda Young (16)
"Here is the list of Greeters for the month of January 2019
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.
Our program last Thursday was provided by John Roppolo. Our speaker was Erica Flores who is a mentor for The Seedling Mentoring Program.
Seedling is made up of people just like us who are dedicated to making a difference in the life of a student attending public schools.
Seedling launched the Mentor Program in February 2006 at the request of a group of school principals who were concerned about the gr4owing number of children affected by the incarceration of one or both of their parents. Seedling recruits volunteers from the community, matches them with eligible children and offers ongoing support to both children and mentors. The mentors provide stable, long-term relationships for the students that can help them develop and maintain positive attitudes towards school.
Since its inception ion 1997, Seedling (formerly the Travis Community Education Foundation) has had at its core a deep concern for the safety, well-being, and prosperity of Austin area public schools, their students, their families and their facilities. Their founder and Austin attorney John C. Blazier often repeated the mantra: 'As go the public schools in our community, so goes the health and well being of Austin. Our speaker, Erica is relatively new in this endeavor, but is highly enthusiastic about the results she is getting from the mentoring program. Thank you John for bringing her last week.
Chester Banks will be bringing the program this coming week. He will be bringing Coach Karen Chisum, Texas State volleyball head coach. She led the Bobcats to a place last year to a place they had never been to - - the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Texas State won the Sun Belt regular-season championship, conference tournament title and earned a berth into the NCAA tournament. With a 3-1 win over Rice on November 29, 2018, the Bobcats won their first ever NCAA tournament match. Let's have a good crowd on Thursday and enjoy the great enthusiasm that Coach Chisum always gives us.
It was a cold, blistery morning, when our club put up flags honoring Martin Luther King Day, but that didn't stop our patriotic duty. Those that were responsible for putting out and bringing in flags on that day were: Glen Rydl, Garry White, Randy Cook, Gary Nelson and Randall Grizzle, Del Brown, Frederick Case, Lon Shell, and Moe Johnson, Doug & Jeanne Balkman, James Collier, Charles Johnson, Charles Walks and Ted Breihan. Thanks guys & gal, Good job!
January 18, 1966 - - Robert Clifton Weaver was sworn in as the first African American cabinet member in U.S. history, becoming President Lyndon B. Johnson's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
January 19, 1966 - - Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India in succession to Lal Shastri who had died eight days earlier. She served until 1975 and later from 1980 to 1984, when she was assassinated by her own bodyguards as she walked to her office. Her only surviving son, Rajiv, became the next prime minister. In 1991, he was assassinated while campaigning for reelection.
January 20, 1649 - - At the conclusion of the English Civil War, King Charles I was brought before a high court of justice at Westminster Hall on charges of treason. The Civil War had been fought over whether the King's power was absolute or was limited by the powers of Parliament. Oliver Cromwell had led the Parliamentary forces to victory over the Royals. In the trial that followed, Charles was found guilty and condemned as 'a tyrant, traitor, murderer, and public enemy' and was beheaded several days later in front of Whitehall Palace in London.
January 21, 1976 - - The Concorde supersonic jet began passenger service with flights from London to Bahrain and Paris to Rio de Janeiro, cruising at twice the speed of sound (Mach 2) at an altitude up to 60,000 feet.
January 22, 1905 - - Five hundred protesting Russian workers were killed by the troops of Czar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg. The event became known as 'Bloody Sunday', and marked the beginning of the violent revolutionary movement of 1905 which ultimately failed. A second revolutionary movement in 1917 succeeded and the Czar abdicated.
January 23, 1849 - - Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming America's first woman doctor.
January 24, 41 AD - - Roman Emperor Caligula was assassinated at the Palatine Games by his own guard after a reign of just four years, noted for his madness and cruelty including arbitrary murder.
Just a Reminder......Our Club Board of Directors will meet this coming Thursday evening, January 24th at 5pm, meeting on the third floor conference room of CTMC. See you there!
"Very, very vexed! Though, unlike a duck, a hen does not deliberately seek water in a pond and is not disposed to leave a dry shelter in search of food in the rain. This metaphor has never made good sense, yet many a man, woman, and child, with far lesser cause, is said to become 'mad as a wet hen'. Be that as it may, whether sensible or not, the expression has been good American since at least 1823
"Moved by the church service, the richest man in town stood up and addressed the congregation. 'I remember the day I earned my first dollar,' he said. 'That night I went to a church meeting and the speaker told us about his humanitarian work. I had only that single dollar, and I had to make a decision. Give it to his worthy cause or keep it. So I gave him all the money I had. I believe that God blessed that decision, and that is why I am a millionaire today.'
As he sat down, a woman shouted, 'I dare you to do it again.'"
"The Alaska State flag was designed by John Bell (Benny) Benson, a thirteen year old in an orphanage in response to a contest sponsored by the Alaska Department of the American Legion. The flag was adopted by the Territorial Legislature in May, 1927 as Alaska's official flag. Whe3n Alaska entered the Union in 1959, the territorial flag became to state flag. The blue field represents the sky, the sea, and mountain lakes, as well as Alaska's wildflowers. Emblazoned on the flag are eight gold stars: seven in the constellation Ursa Major, or the Big Dipper. The eighth being the North Star, representing the northern most state."
"Mark Twain used to tell a pathetic story of his childhood. It seems, according to the story, that Mark was born twins. He and his twin looked so much alike, that no one ,not even their mother, could tell them apart. One day, while the nurse was bathing them, one of them slipped in the bathtub and was drowned. No one ever knew which twin it was that was drowned - - 'And therein,' says Mark, 'was the tragedy. Everyone thought I was the one that lived, but I wasn't. It was my brother who lived. I was the one that was drowned!'"
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