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FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 4TH, 2017
"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results."
"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 7.............Doug Balkman
September 14...........Frederick Case
September 21...........RoundTable.....Installation Banquet
September 28...........Pam Cook
Attendance for August 31st 2017
Doug Balkman, Chester Banks, Del Brown, Cynthia Bentley, Frederic Case, Randy Cook, Pam Cook, Steve Furney, Charles Johnson, Moe Johnson, Rob Martin, Lon Shell, Kelli Whigham, Ted Breihan, Garry White, Tracy Herman, Francis Mendez, John Polk, Glen Rydl, Gary Strunk. (20)
"BIRTHDAYS DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2017
September 17, 2017.........McBride Wilson
Those who have Anniversaries in the Month of September, 2017
September 8............Ted & Francis Breihan
September 22...........Tracy and Gary Herman
Let's continue to pray for physical improvement for McBride Wilson, for Gary Nelson that he continues to improve. Also pray for Chester Banks, who was taken to the hospital with possible pneumonia.
New Member Joins Our Club!
Shown in the photo is Steve Furney, our Membership Chairman inducting our newest member, Cynthia Bentley into our club on Thursday, August 24, 2017. To her right is Frederick Case, her sponsor and Mentor. Cynthia is no stranger to Kiwanis, coming to us with 18 years under her belt and from the New Orleans Kiwanis Club in Ponchartrain, La. She has been president 3 times, Secretary, Board of Directors (17 yrs); Lt Governor; Kiwanian pf the Year (3 times) District President; Roberts Fellow; Eliminate "Mother's Day" (2 times), has recruited over 100 new members; helped establish 3 new Kiwanis Clubs. We welcomed Cynthia and praised her past history. Welcome Cynthia!
Last Week's Program
I'll have to hand it to Garry White for filling in at the last minute when his scheduled speaker had an important board meeting to attend. The subject was Boysville, located in Converse, TX, and what a presentation Garry gave, because he has been an active mentor for about 3 years now over at Boysville. As we mentioned in last week's bulletin, Boysville's mission statement was to 'provide a safe family environment for children in need so they may become responsible adults.
I guess what was the most inspiring part of Garry's presentation was when he would give personal experiences he has had while mentoring boys at Boysville. You could tell by his comments that he truly loves working with them and giving them the adult companionship that perhaps they were lacking prior to their entry into Boysville.
Garry said that Boysville is 'the best resort in the world', Their motto at Boysville is 'Cradle to College'.
Boysville started in 1943 and Kiwanis and the Optimism Club help to start them. In the beginning, they only accepted boys, but in 1986, they opened the doors to girls. In 1995, they built an Emergency Shelter, and in 2004, they came to accept infants and toddlers. What a legacy one might leave to know that just by being a friend to a boy or girl who didn't have that love and friendship in their homes, and as a mentor, come to feel what true friendship is and that you helped to mold an unfortunate boy or girl into a responsible adult. Wow! Thanks so much Garry for a tremendous, caring program.
Our Program for this coming Thursday, September 7th.
Francis Mendez will be providing the program for this coming Thursday. It is going to be a rare treat because he is bringing 28 year old Melbourne Aces shortstop, Dominic Christian Ramos, who was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 17th round of the 2005 MLB June Amateur Draft. During his two years in the Red Sox farm system, the former Texas State University player made a few stops - - including Boston Single-A affiliates Lowell Spinners and Greenville Drive - - before joining the Can-Am League in 2007 . Making his debut with the Worchester Tornadoes in Massachusetts, Ramos put together a .311 batting average with five home runs and 43 RBI, After being traded to the Brockton Rox in 2008, he broke loose with 116 hits - second-most in club single-season history. 2009 was equally as impressive as he hit .294 and finished fourth in the league with 108 hits.
Ramos hit at a .288 clip in 2010 with 35 RBI, 19 doubles and one homer.
Before heading 'Down Under' to play in the ABL, the five -foot-ten Texas native finished the 2011 Brockton season with a .284 batting average, 34 RBI, 23 doubles and four home runs.
Every time he steps up to the plate, he puts a cross in the dirt, carrying his faith out on the field with him to withstand the intense and competitive pressure. You won't want to miss this wonderful program. Bring a friend!
Family Get Together Social, Enjoyable Time for All!
Our Kiwanis Club had a great time on the 29th of last month, when 14 club members gathered at the Grist Mill in Gruene, TX for a 'get together time'. We didn't have as many as was expected, but we had a great time, and everyone felt that it was definitely worth while, so there will probably be another social time in a couple of months. Thanks to Doug & Jeanne Balkman for setting this one up.
Those present were: Gary & Tracy Herman, Pam Cook, Kelli Whigham, Doug & Jeanne Balkman, Moe & Dianna Johnson, Glen & Marilou Rydl, Del & Marie Brown, and John Polk. The picture was taken by our waiter at the Grist Mill.
It's Almost Installation Banquet Time Again!
Our New Lt. Governor will be installing our new President, President Elect, Secretary and Treasurer, plus three new members to serve on our Board of Directors.
Our new President will be Doug Balkman, (Tracy Herman stays on as Past President in a non voting capacity). Kelli Whigham will be the President-Elect, Glen Rydl will remain on as Secretary, Charles Johnson will remain on as Treasurer, and we will need to replace three new Board Members, as Gary Nelson goes off, Kelli Whigham moves up to Pres. Elect, Beverly Crumley goes off, so she will need to be replaced. Francis Mendez and Gary Strunk will remain on for another year. Del Brown remains on as Bulletin Editor in a non voting member.
Week September 1st - September 7th, 2017
September 1, 1939 - - At 5:30 am, Hitler's armies invaded Poland starting World War II in Europe.
September 2, 1666 - - The Great Fire of London began in a bakery in Pudding Lane near the Tower. Over the next three days more than 13,000 houses were destroyed, although only six lives were believed lost.
September 3, 1939 - - Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany after its invasion of Poland two days earlier.
September 4, 1886 - - The last major U.S.-Indian war came to an end as Geronimo was captured. He died of natural causes in 1909 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
September 5, 1774 - - The first Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia with 56 delegates, representing every colony, except Georgia. Attendants included Patrick Henry, George Washington, Samuel Adams and John Hancock.
September 6, 1991 - - Leningrad was renamed Saint Petersburg by Russian legislators following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia's second largest city had been known as Leningrad for 67 years in honor of Vladmir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union.
September 7, 1994 - - The U.S. Army closed its headquarters in Berlin, ending the American military presence in the oncd-divided city after nearly half a century.
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.....Why do people park in driveways and drive on parkways?
2.....Why do people tell you when they are speechless?
3.....Why do they call it life insurance?
4.....If all the world is a stage, where are the audience sitting?
5.....If athletes get athlete's foot, do astronauts get mistletoe?
6.....Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
7.....If corn oil is made from corn, what is baby oil made from?
8.....If everything is part of a whole, what is the whole part of?
9.....If flowers don't talk back to you, are they mums?
10....If rabbit's feet are so lucky, then what happened to the rabbit?
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America the Beautiful.....Beautiful RHODE ISLAND!
1......Rhode Island is the smallest state in size in the United States. It covers an area of 1,214 square miles. Its distances North to South are 48 miles and East to West 37 miles!
2......Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state.!
3......Judge Darius Baker imposed the first jail sentence for speeding in an automobile on August 28, 1904 in Newport!
4......St. Mary's Rhode Island's oldest Roman Catholic parish was founded in 1828. The church is best known as the site of the wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier to John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1953!
5......Rhode Island has no county government. It is divided into 39 municipalities each having its own form of local government!
6......The first circus in the United States was in Newport in 1774!
7......Rhode Island is known for making silverware and fine jewelry!
8......The world's largest bug is on the roof of New England Pest Control in Providence. It's a big blue termite, 58 feet long and 928 times actual termite size!
9......Rhode Islanders were the first to take military action against England by sinking one of her ships in the Narragansett Bay located between Newport and Providence. The English ship was called "The Gaspee"!
10.....The era known as The Industrial Revolution started in Rhode Island with the development and construction in 1790 of Samuel Slater's water-powered cotton mill in Pawtucket.
"America the Beautiful.....Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum...Bristol Rhode Island.
The Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum is an arboretum of 32 acres, located at 101 Ferry Road, Bristol, Rhode Island, on Bristol Harbor with views over Narragansett Bay. It includes a mansion, with a 9.9 acre lawn and over 300 species of woody plants in its arboretum and gardens, including both native and exotic species.
The Mansion and its grounds were established in the 1890's by Augustus and Bessie Van Wickle as their summer retreat. Augustus Van Wickle was from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, with a fortune in the coal-mining business, and donor of the Van Wickle gates at Brown University. Today's grounds are primarily the design of john DeWolf, and date between 1896 and 1913. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
"To Get One's Dutch Up!"
"To get one's dander up; to arouse one's temper. The reference is, of course, to the Pennsylvania Dutch, to the people of Germanic origin who, in the early seventeenth century, fled from continued religious persecutions in the Palatinate, chiefly, and brought their brands of Protestant faith into the sanctuary provided by William Penn in eastern Pennsylvania. They were a peaceful people, and they practiced their religion. Accordingly, they were slow to anger, keeping their tempers under control. Nevertheless, so the historian Bancroft tells us, although representing only one-twelfth of the population at the time, the Pennsylvania Dutch composed one-eighth of the army in the Revolutionary War, some of those Pennsylvania Dutch folks had flaring tempers - - although they might not let 'the sun descend upon their wrath'"
"Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found an elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet - who insisted he didn't need my help to leave the hospital. After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator. On the way down, I asked if his wife was meeting him. "I don't know," he said. "She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown."
1........Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the solar system.
2.........The ancient Babylonians were the first to record their sightings of Jupiter. This was about the 7th or 8th century BC. Jupiter is named after the king of the Roman gods. To the Greeks, it represented Zeus, the god of thunder. The Mesopotamians saw Jupiter as the god Marduk and patron of the city of Babylon. Germanic tribes saw this planet as Donar, or Thor.
3..........Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets. It turns on its axis once every 9 hours and 55 minutes.
4............Jupiter orbits the Sun once every 11.8 Earth years.
5.............Jupiter has unique cloud features. The upper atmosphere of Jupiter is divided into cloud belts and zones. They are made primarily of ammonia crystals, Sulphur, and mixtures of the two compounds.
6..............The Great Red Spot is a huge storm on Jupiter. It has raged for at least 350 years. It is so large that three Earths could fit inside it.
7...............Jupiter's interior is made of rock, metal and hydrogen compounds. Below Jupiter's massive atmosphere (which is made primarily of hydrogen), there are layers of compressed hydrogen gas, liquid metallic hydrogen, and a core of ice, rock and metals.
8................Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system. Jupiter's moons are sometimes called the Jovian satellites. Ganymeade measures 5,268 km across, making it larger than the planet Mercury.
9.................Jupiter has a thin ring system. It's rings are composed mainly of dust particles ejected from some of Jupiter's smaller worlds during impacts from incoming comets and asteroids
10................Eight spacecraft have visited Jupiter, Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo, Cassini, Ulysses, and new Horizons missions. Future missions may focus on the Jovian moons Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, and their subsurface oceans.
"When God measures a man, He puts the tape around the heart instead of the head"
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.Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum...Bristol Rhode Island.
Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the solar system.
