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E-Bulletin for July 29, 2019 (Issue 263)
"Good People are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.....One who doesn't try cannot fail and become wise."
(William Saroyan)
Attendance on June 25, 2019
Doug Balkman, Chester Banks, Del Brown, Frederick Case, Randy Cook, Pam Cook, Charles Johnson, John Roppolo,Charles Walts, Kelli Whigham, Rhonda White, Ted Breihan, Beverly Crumley, Andrew Gary, Francis Mendez, John Polk, Merwin Richards, Glen Rydl, (18) (Guest: Cynthia Bentley)
"Here is the list of Greeters for the month of August, 2019
August 1, 2019..........Andrew Gary
August 8, 2019...........Charles Walts
August 15, 2019.........Merwin Richards
August 22, 2019.........Rhonda White
August 29, 2019.........Tim Tippitt
A Belated Birthday last Thursday
Since Francis Mendez' birthday was on June 30, and he was not able to be here to the club to celebrate his birthday, his balloon and cake were shared last Thursday. Unfortunately, the balloon was a bit worn out, but the cake was delicious. Thanks to all those who make the cakes and furnish the balloons. Much appreciated!
Board of Directors Meeting...
Our Board of Directors met last Thursday with the following members present: Kelli Whigham, Doug Balkman (Non Voting) Randy Cook, Rhonda White, Glen Rydl, Pam Cook, Andrew Gary, Charles Walts, and Del Brown (non voting).
It was a very short meeting, minutes were read & approved, Treasurer's report was given and approved. The main bit of business was regarding the upcoming Convention coming up and who our delegates will be, and a brief discussion on how to vote on the new Bylaw Amendment Proposal. Also short information regarding an upcoming Eagle Scout project request to be done at our camp.
The new officers for the coming year were discussed, and will be presented to our club this coming Thursday. The new officers will include, President, President-Elect, Secretary and Treasurer. Also those board members who will go off the board this year and those members who will stay on the board will be brought up this Thursday.
Our Program last week took our breath away!
In celebration of Charles's birthday, he also was presented a balloon and some delicious cake. But in addition to that delicious food, he also gave a most wonderful travelogue talk when he went to Africa on a Safari experience. The photo to the right is Charles taking a mountain lion out for a walk (at least I think he had a leash on), but everyone of Charles travel experiences takes his audiences on a fantastic journey, and this was no exception. Charles has been all over the world (it seems like), and he is chuck full of information. How can he remember it all. Thanks again Charles for a fantastic program last week.
The Program coming up this coming Thursday, August 1.
Andrew Gary will be bringing Clay DeStefano, owner and administrator of the Price Center here in San Marcos who will tell some of the new things that are happening there. We've all been there and know some of the great programs that have been put on there, so let's have a good turnout for this week.
From July 26th - August 1
July 27, 1953 - - The Korean War ended with the signing of an armistice by U.S. and North Korean delegates at Panmunjom, Korea. The war had lasted just over three years.
July 28, 1932 - - The Bonus March eviction in Washington, D.C. occurred as U.S. Army troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower and Major George S. Patton, attacked and burned the encampments of unemployed World War I veterans. About 15,000 veterans had marched on Washington, demanding payment of a war bonus they had been promised. After two months'encampment in Washington's Anacostia Flats, forced eviction of the bonus marchers by the U.S. Army was ordered by President Herbert Hoover.
July 29, 1883 - - Benito Mussolini was born in Dovis, Italy. He ruled Italy from 1922-1943, first as prime minister and then as 'Il Duce,' the absolute dictator.
July 30, 1975 - - Former Teamsters Union leader James Hoffa was last seen outside a restaurant near Detroit, Michigan. His 13 year fedal prison sentence had been commuted by President Richard M. Nixon in 1971. On December 8, 1982, seven years after his disappearance, an Oakland County judge declared Hoffa officially dead.
July 31, 1776 - - During the American Revolution, Francis Salvador became the first Jew to die in the conflict. He had also been the first Jew elected to office in Colonial America, voted a member of the South Carolina Provincial Congress in January 1775.
August 1, 1944 - - Anne Frank penned her last entry into her diary. 'I'll keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like to be, and what I could be, if.......there weren't any other people living in the world.' Three days later, Anne and her family were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. Anne died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on March 15. 1945, at age 15.
Have You Ever Heard the Phrase, 'Fit As a Fiddler?"
"In fine form or condition, in splendid health. Although 'fiddles' were known in England back at least in the early thirteenth century, it was some four hundred years later, evidently, before their shape, form, tone, and other qualities became so pleasing as to invite complimentary applications to humans. To play first fiddle was to occupy a leading position, and one 'fit as a fiddle', or 'fine as a fiddle' was beyond further need of improvement in health or condition. Apperson traces the metaphor to Haughton's England for My Money (1616), 'This is excellent, i' faith, as fit as a fiddle.'"
"EMBARRASS, WISCONSIN
This small town in northeastern Wisconsin was named by French Canadian loggers. They called the river on which the town sits Riviere Embarrass, which means 'to obstruct,' 'to entangle,' or 'to impede' in French. The river was shallow and rocky, and consequently, logs that were floated from upstream were constantly getting stuck. It was later renamed the Embarrass River (giving it an English-sounding name) and when the town was incorporated in 1895, it too was called Embarrass."
"While Milgrom waited at the airport to board his plane, he noticed a computer scale that would give your weight and a fortune. He dropped a quarter in the slot, and the computer screen displayed: 'You weigh 195 pounds, you're married, and you're on your way to San Diego.' Milgrom stood there dumbfounded!
Another man put in a quarter and the computer read: 'You weigh 184 pounds, you're divorced and you're on your way to Chicago.' Milgrom said to the man, 'Are you divorced and on your way to Chicago?' 'Yes,' came the reply.
Milgrom was amazed. Then he rushed to the men's room, changed his clothes and put on dark glasses. He went to the machine again. The computer read: 'You still weigh 195 pounds, you're still married, and you just missed your plane to San Diego!'"
History of the New Jersey State Flag
" New Jersey's official state flag was adopted on March 28, 1896.
The flag has a buff (light yellow-brown) background: this is the color of part of the uniform selected by General George Washington in 1779 for his New Jersey Continental Line. Part of the state seal (which was designed by Pierre Eugene de Simitiere in 1777) is in the center. In the center is a blue shield with three plows in it. On the sides of the shield are the goddess of liberty (holding a staff and the cap of freedom) and the goddess of agriculture (holding a cornucopia filled with food). Above this is the head armor of a knight, a horse's head, and blue filigrees. Below are the words, "LIBERTY AND PROSPERITY" and the date "1776". The goddesses symbolize liberty and prosperity."
"Oh Well!!!!!
1...…….How long is the long arm of the law?
2.........How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?
3.........How many weeks are there in a light year?
4.........How much can I get away with and still go to heaven?
5.........Why aren't there any guilty bystanders?
6.........Why buy shampoo when real poo is still free?
7.........If a fly has no wings, would you call him a walk?
8..........If a food processor slices and dices food, what does a word processor do?
9..........Why did the pot call the kettle black?
10..........Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
Here's Some more 'Myth Information"
"Nothing in American folklore is so well established as is the image of the cowboy. However, as a cattle-driving trailhand, the cowboy flourished for only a short twenty-year period in the American west.
The name cowboy did not even originate in the western United States. Along the Atlantic Piedmont in the eighteenth century, cattle were herded by cow boys, pronounced then as two words. During Revolutionary times, the cowboy was used to refer to Tories operating with cowbells in New York to lure patriots into an ambush. By the 1820's the Spanish vaquero and the English buckaroo gave way to the term cowboy in the American west.
Primarily just ranch hands, the cowboy took on his more familiar and legendary role in 1867. It was then that a livestock trader named Joe McCoy - - the original real McCoy - -hired some ranch hands to bring longhorn cattle from Texas along the Chisholm Trail to the railhead in Abilene, Kansas. It was on these grueling and often rowdy journeys that the cowboy acquired his popular image.
But by 1887, bad weather, the spread of homesteaders' barbed wire, and the extension of the rail line ended the reign of the cowboy as the cattle-driving vagabond of the west. Their legendary role on the trail lasted just twenty years, after which they returned to their more sedentary duties as ranch hands. From this brief period, novels and other popular fiction enabled the cowboy to attain immortality as the self-reliant, silent hero of the west, an image later perpetuated by movies and television. ("Myth Information" by J. Allen Varasdi)
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'Fit As a Fiddler?"
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"Oh Well!!!!!