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1 Knights of Columbus Council 9884 St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church Lewisville, Texas December, 2009 Council 9884 Calendar DECEMBER Council Business Meeting - 7:30pm - CLC 4 Casino Night for Pathways Core Training 5 Rosary For Life 8:30am - Mary s Garden Corporate Communion 7:30am mass 6 Lady Knights CCA Toy Store 12:30-5:30pm Feast of the Immaculate Conception - Holy 8 Day of Obligation 10 4th Degree Assembly Meeting 7:30pm CLC 12 Casino TWU for Point Bank 13 Pancake Breakfast 7:30-11:30am - CLC 15 Lady Knights CCA Toy Store 9:00-12:00pm 17 Council Christmas Party - 6:30pm - CLC 18 Lady Knights CCA Toy Store 9:00-12:00pm 19 Birthday Party for Jesus (open to parish) 20 Lady Knights Donut Social 25 Christmas 26 Greet the Troops - 4th Degree 28 Newsletter Articles Due JANUARY Mary Mother of God, Happy New Year! 2 CCA - Toy Store Teardown 2 Rosary For Life 8:30am - Mary s Garden 7 Council Business Meeting - 7:30pm - CLC 9 St Philip's got Talent & Chili Cook-off 10 Pancake Breakfast 7:30-11:30am - CLC 14 4th Degree Assembly Meeting 7:30pm CLC 17 Lady Knights Donut Social 21 Council Planning Meeting - 7:30pm - CLC 23 Casino St. Joseph in Arlington 23 Recruitment Drive #3 after 4:00PM Mass 24 Recruitment Drive #3 after all masses 27 Metroplex Meeting 28 Lady Knights Meeting 30 Greet the Troops - 4th Degree Don t forget: YOU can help your environment and St. Philip by recycling your paper and cardboard. Bring them to the containers in the church parking lot. Council 9884 Directory Officers Grand Knight: Joe Walker Dep. Grand Knight: Bob LaCroix Advocate: Chris Gannon Chancellor: Chuck Berneche Chaplain: Fr. John Stasiowski Field Agent: Kevin Pfister Fin. Secretary: Fred Chanslor Inside Guard: Lawrence Jermyn Inside Guard: Brian Lea Lecturer: Gary Osborne Outside Guard: Ed McCluskey Recorder: Bob Forsyth Treasurer: Rich Lubke Trustee (1 year): Pete Whelan Trustee (2 year): Bill Miller Trustee (3 year): Steve Robillard Warden: George Driscoll Directors and Program Chairs Admissions: Ray Lamarre Casino Bus. Mgr.: Bill Wilbur Casino Operations: Bill Miller Ceremonials: Grant Beagles Church Activity: Eddie Martinez Community Activity: Bob Dubek Council Activity: Marco Melara Family Activity: Gary Osborne Membership: Mike McArdle Newsletter: Lawrence Jermyn Photos/Scrapbook: Open Position Program Director: Chuck Bernache Pro-Life Activity: John Bowen Public Relations: Open Position Retention: Bill Miller Scouting: Tom Moore Squires: Pete Hatton Vocations: Joseph Eskew Youth Activity: Don Guzzardo

2 Brothers and Sisters, Grand Knight s Report I hope this newsletter finds everyone safe and sound after their Thanksgiving travels. The Advent Season is now upon us as we all patiently await the celebration of the birth of Jesus, the Reason for the Season! In the spirit of Christmas, always remember to share your blessings and may all of you have a Merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year. Fraternally, Joe Walker, GK Council 9884 Christmas Party EVERYONE is invited to the Councils annual Christmas party! It will be held at the CLC on the Third Thursday of the month in place of a planning meeting this month (December 17 th ), this year I ve decided to start it a little earlier, at 6:30pm in order to make it easier with families to attend on a school night! While it s free to all Council members and their families, please RSVP to me by Saturday December 12th at GK9884@gmail.com or I ll also be sending out an e-vite to all the folks on the electronic distribution so it ll be ultra-easy. I m recommending Christmas Casual as dress, but the main thing is to come ready to have fun. We will be also having an optional white elephant gift exchange so if you would like to participate simply bring an inexpensive gift of your choosing. Hope to see you there and have a merry Christmas! Joe Walker, GK. Vista Ridge Mall, (K)nightly toy pick-up Toy collection at Vista Ridge Mall started Friday 27 November. Council 9884 has traditionally picked up toys at mall closing and delivered to the CCA warehouse. This is an easy, family event. So far, we are covered through 15 December except for the 4th and 12th of December. Please bring your schedules to our business meeting 3 December to pick a date. Below is what we have so far... POC: Bob Dubek, Community Programs Director; Fri 11/27 Jay Darling Fri 12/11 Jay Darling Sat 11/28 Jay Darling Sat 12/12 Sun 11/29 Mike Crivello Sun 12/13 Bill Miller Mon 11/30 Bob LaCroix Mon 12/14 Bob LaCroix Tue 12/1 Bob LaCroix Tue 12/15 Sean McIntyre Wed 12/2 Don Guzzardo Wed 12/16 Joe Walker Thu 12/3 Bob Dubek Thu 12/17 Fri 12/4 Fri 12/18 Sat 12/5 Sun 12/6 Jeremy Stephens Sat 12/19 Jeremy Stephens Sun 12/20 Mon 12/7 Mike McArdle Mon 12/21 Sean Tue 12/8 McIntyre Tue 12/22 Joe Walker Wed 12/9 Don Guzzardo Wed 12/23 Thu 12/10 Bob Dubek

3 20 th ANNUAL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SCHOLARSHIPS Casino Nights Dealers needed; please commit ASAP (Fri), Radisson Hotel on Stemmons for Pathways Core Training, 200 players, 30-dealers required 4PM Setup 7:30-10:30 Deal (Sat), Denton Hubbard Texas Woman s U. Radisson Hotel on Stemmons for Pathways Core Training, 200 players, 30-dealers required 4PM Setup 7:00-10:00 Deal 1/23/10 (Sat), Arlington St Joseph Church fund raiser, Council 13470, need 28-dealers POC: Bill Miller at Men s Small Community of Faith Get in on the Genesis of an All Men s Bible Study group at St. Philip. We meet at 6:30AM Thursday s in the parish office conference room. In getting this study group started, we are covering the topic of Why Catholic?, that is, why do we have the faith that we practice. We anticipate that this topic of study, at least 12 weeks long, is just the beginning for a Bible Study from a men only perspective. For more information, please contact Dan Jacobs, (972) The Knights are planning to have a St. Philips Chili Cook-off and Talent Show All audience members will participate in the voting along with a "celebrity" panel of judges on the best Chili recipe. We need talented singers, dancers, etc. to entertain and compete for prizes. Your college aged kids should be home for the event also! For more information contact: co-coordinators Marco Melara, Council Programs Director jaburu09@hotmail.com or Bob Dubek, Community Programs Director family_of_7@msn.com. Thanks to a "Few Good Men" CCA Christmas Toy Store set up A small but dedicated group met at CCA Saturday 14 November to get the Christmas Toy Store set up. Unfortunately, with only 5 Knights - Bob L, Bob D., Ken, Pete W. and Mark M (plus Gene with a sling for moral support), we only got the "bones" set up and other volunteers came in later to put on the shelves. Please mark you calendars for Saturday 2 January to help us take the shelving down and repalletize. POC: Bob Dubek, Community Programs Director family_of_7@msn.com.. Application forms are available in the parish office, from S.P.Y. director Jim Weir, in the counselors offices at Marcus High School, Lewisville High School and Flower Mound High School and at this URL: There are five $600 scholarships, at least three of which will be given to a graduating Catholic senior from each school who plans to attend a two-year or four-year college. Also eligible for two of the five scholarships are Catholic seniors who attend any other high school if their father is a member of Council 9884, St. Philip the Apostle parish, or Our Lady of Lebanon parish. The application involves listing school and church service and writing a short essay on the topic, The Need to Serve. Deadline for application is February 16, The scholarships are provided by Knights of Columbus Council 9884, the Pope Paul VI Fourth Degree Assembly, and the Lady Knights. Questions? POC: Mike Crivello at or macrivello@hotmail.com

4 Membership Tenure for December Knight Years of Svc Anthony J Perry 44 Luke A Legrand 27 Kevin M Mahl 26 Gerald D Slowey 21 Dr. Timothy A Beste 20 Thomas R Kupper 20 Terrance M Gibbons 18 James R Seastrom 14 Dennis Hergenrether 9 Charles C Bryant 4 Richard G Williams 4 Joseph S Eskew 4 William E Wilbur 2 December Birthdays Knight B day Daniel H Jacobs 2 Brian J Stecklein 3 Kenneth E Himel 5 James M Coyle 5 Charles W Robinson 6 Randy E Loboda 7 Donald R Merlau 8 David W Centilli 8 Barry E Wachal 10 Terrance M Gibbons 11 Daniel J Poe 12 David L Kerr 12 Greg C Walterscheid 12 Gary A Osborne 13 Mark B Popowski 15 Troy J Rohr 15 Kyle S Scarmardo 16 Raymond Gama 17 Lawrence P Jermyn 21 Jerome T Weber 21 Phil H Nguyen 23 Khoi V Tran 24 Timothy E Jasper 25 Johnny Thomas 25 Edwin M Pelster 26 William J Miller 27 Jess A Emerson 28 Thomas F Skaugen 29 Christopher B Angus 31 William H Massoth 31 Glenn A Weaver 31 ENDANGERED SPECIES Those Readers in Danger of No Longer Receiving a Newsletter Starting Jan 1! We haven't heard from a few folks who currently are on the USPS mailing list and who currently do no have an listed with the council. IF YOUR NAME IS ON THIS LIST, YOU WILL NO LONGER RECIEVE THE COUNCIL NEWSLETTER IN HARDCOPY if you do not submit an Opt-in form, read the Newsletter Alert story on the next page, or we don t have an address to use prior to the January newsletter. Please double check this list even if you have responded, just in case we lost your info! Abanaka James Leising Daniel Barta Randy Luber Timothy Beagles Philip Lucio Francisco Bedard Denis Marincel Joseph Beres Frank Martinez Benjamin Beste Timothy Masching Richard Boes Ronald Mavros John Burbidge Burt Mc Ardle Christopher Centilli David Mc Bride Chris Chochrek Leonard Mc Dade Hugh Columbus Wayne Murphy Steven Conroy Thomas Nurre Cletus Cook James Olivarez Paul Covey Clayton Orbock Gregory Crotty John Panico Ciro Dodd Thomas Perry Anthony Donegan James Pidcock Thomas Emerson Jess Poe Daniel Fernandez Jorge Polzer Stephen Fontana Michael Popowski Mark Freibert Richard Quiroz Juan Fulton Wayne Ramirez Miguel Gaines Paul Rayome Peter Gama Joseph Reinhart Patrick Gama Raymond Rockne Nils Garces Juan Sandoval Juan Germann Joseph Seastrom James Gibbons Terrance Seran Joseph Gregory William Sheguit Mark Harris Robert Slowey Gerald Herrera John Stubblefield Jack Hoskins David Tuffin John Hunter Melvin Walterscheid Greg Johnson Danneil Weber Jerome Keeley John Weber Sean Kline Steven Wesley Edward Kubacak Ernest Wischnewsky Kenneth Kuehn Randall Wright Marvin Lambert Charles Yebra Mariano Legrand Luke

5 In the Pro-Life Corner In light of the fact that I m new to the Knights; this year, and new to the Pro-Life chair; this month, let me start by introducing myself.i m John Bowen and have been a member of St Philip s since moving here with my wife (Jan) and 2 children (Katie, 26/ Sean, 24) in 1993 from Raleigh, N.C. I m retired from the Air Force and am currently a pilot with American Airlines. Being new to this position I d like to take the next month to organize my thoughts on the Pro-Life program for our council and would certainly appreciate hearing from members on your ideas for developing a meaningful program. Presently, the only ongoing event we have is the first- Saturday (8:30AM) Pro-life rosary in the Mary Garden which I would encourage all to continue to support. The good news is that a recent Marist Poll shows Americans continuing to move toward Pro-Life position on abortion: 86 percent favor significant restrictions; a majority believes abortion hurts a woman long-term. The bad news is that the fight on Capitol Hill over abortion funding in the health care legislation is far from over. Fortunately, our TX reps are all pro-life oriented but that does not preclude us from praying for our Bishops pro-life provisions being adopted by the other members of Congress. Please keep this intention in your daily prayers. Use this URL for more details on the Marist Poll Questions and Responses. documents/poll_abortion_ pdf Although abortion usually, and rightly so, gets most attention, there s other issues like the death penalty, endof-life issues and health care reform that directly impact Catholic moral teaching. Since the support and strengthening of the family is one of the core tenets of being a Knight, let s work together to build an active pro-life program for our council. Other local councils are involved in prayer vigils at abortion mills which is something I d like you to think about so we can discuss it at a future meeting. The Hike for Life Texas is another program we may want to consider. If anyone knows of other pro-life activities, or would like to help me in developing a program, please let me know. In the meantime, if you have any thoughts on these or other ideas, please contact me at jandjbowen@verizon.net Your Brother Knight in Christ, John Bowen Jer 1:5- Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you MEMBERSHIP IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS! I want to thank our Worthy Grand Knight for having the faith in me to appoint me Membership Director for the Council. As Director, my primary responsibility is to work toward the overall success of our Council and the Order. All of our Council Officers and Directors share this common goal, but we concentrate on different areas. Directors cannot be successful by themselves. We need to establish plans and solicit the help of the membership. Our members ensure the success of the Council through active participation in our events. The Membership Directorship is no different. Our primary events include recruitment drives, home visits, 1 st degree ceremonies, recognition of outstanding participation, and celebrating our successes. But that s not all. It involves working with our Admissions Committee and Insurance Agent. It also encourages members to advance to the Major Degrees and ultimately the Fourth Degree. All Brother Knights have an obligation to help the Council and Order grow. I m just a catalyst. Let me offer the following as to how you can participate right away: 1. Wear your name tag to Church. Be proud to be a Knight! Someone may join because you joined! 2. Volunteer to be a home visit member. Never done it before? No problem. We ll team you up with a veteran! 3. Come to a 1 st Degree Ceremony to support the new members! Here is the calendar of upcoming Recruitment Drives and Degrees. I ll update this each month. Recruitment 1 st Major Degrees Drives St Philip s 1/22-23-St. 2/20-St 1/10/2010- Philip s 4/10-11-St. Philip s Philip s-9am 3/18-St Philip s- 6:30pm Ennis 3/21/2010- Richardson Cathy & I hope you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving and we wish you all a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Fraternally, Mike McArdle, PGK, PFN, FDD

6 Newsletter Alert: Going Green and saving some Greenback$ As I first announced in the September issue of Knight Lines, over the next fraternal year, we are ramping down the number of physically printed and regular mail copies of this newsletter. The reason for this is because of the ever increasing cost of postage and printing we are actually spending well over $2000 every year just to print and mail this newsletter, that s a significant amount of money that could be focused on more charitable items every year. A second reason, is because of the physical costs of printing, it limits some of the content that we can add, because the longer the newsletter or more pictures we add the more it costs to print and mail, and, last, let us not forget that if the newsletter runs 5 sheets of paper and we mail over 200 copies. That s 1000 pieces of paper we can save every month, plus ink and other energies to send it so we are also helping the environment. Below is included a regular USPS mail opt-in form that will need to be mailed to our new worthy Newsletter editor Lawrence Jermyn at the address indicated on the form, and if you want to continue to receive the newsletter by regular mail you will need to return that note via regular mail with your current address to make sure we have the right address. If you would like to change to electronic distribution you can send your address to Newsletter editor Lawrence Jermyn at KofC9884@gmail.com. If you already receive the newsletter via , you don t have to do anything! We ll continue to send physical copies to the current list of people as is through the December 2009 newsletter. Starting with the NEXT issue in January 2010, the newsletter will go electronic only and USPS mailings only to those who have sent in the opt-in form for a physical copy because they do not have ready access to or the internet. If you have any questions please let me know. Joe Walker, GK gk9884@gmail.com or Opt-In for USPS mail Delivery of Knight Lines Newsletter To: From: Lawrence Jermyn 3212 Springwood Circle Flower Mound, TX With my initials, I confirm that I do not have ready access to an electronic source for delivery of the Newsletter and would like to continue to receive the newsletter via regular old fashioned USPS mail at the above From: address. Council 9884 Rookies for 2009 A recap of the men who have joined our Council in the past year! Steven Bagley, Charlie Berneche, John Bowen, Gary Capps, George Cone, Jim Dare, Don Doughtery, Godfrey Edokpia, Donald Guzzardo, Matt Hergenrether, Gene Holder, Timothy Jasper (re-entry), Thomas Kapurch, Mark Lyczak, Tomas Martinez, Ed McCluskey, Sean McIntyre, Henry Miner, Thuoc Nguyen, Tim Pate, Juan Quiroz, AG Stockstill, Chris Webster, Nixon Williams

7 Shining Knight Program For new members you must: Be involved in at least 3 council activities. Attend at least 3 council business meetings. Receive their Second and Third degrees. Meet with their council s insurance representative. (just meet) For Veterans: Be involved in at least 4 council Activities Attend at least 4 council business meetings. Achieve 2 nd and 3 rd degrees (if not already 3rd degree) Recruit at least one new member. We ll track this with these cards; each event must be initialed by an Activity director, Programs director, DGK, GK, or Insurance Representative when applicable. Joe Walker, GK gk9884@gmail.com Reminder: Re-name the Casino Nights Contest As those of you who attended the June business meeting know, we have decided to rename our casino night operations in honor of one of it founders and long time operations chief, the late SK Norm Urban. The current proposal is Urban Knights Entertainment Services. I would like to announce a contest open to friends and family of Council #9884 to come up with a new logo incorporating the new name (or variation there of as long as it includes an honorarium for Norm s outstanding contributions to the council over the years). This logo will then be utilized to create pamphlets, information cards, etc to support the advertisement of the service. The entrants will be judged by the current GK, DGK, Programs Director, Trustees, and the current Casino Nights Operations committee chairs and the winner will be awarded a $100 prize. Deadline for entries has been extended to December 31, 2009 and are to be submitted to GK9884@gmail.com. They must be submitted in a computer graphic file (JPEG, GIF, TIFF, etc...) with preferably a minimum of 300 dpi. The winner and new logo will be unveiled at the Founders Day banquet in March! NEW SCOUT UNIT! + Vicitms of Ft. Hood and their families + John Louree, brother of Bill Monique Melara Maroc Melara, Jr. Debbie Elliott John Newton Patricia Friedrichs Frank Frenbach Jean Robillard Kathy La Croix Ruben Cerezo Blanca Cerezo Sergio Moreno Margie Jermyn Lois Kinney David Hoskins Family All Brother Knights Seeking Employment Our Council recently chartered a new Venture Crew, a unit for older Scouts and young women. Crew 451, an outgrowth of our 13-year-old Troop 451, was chartered in November with its mission to offer the goals of Scouting through a high adventure program. Scouts meet twice a month to plan for the activities of the Crew. POC: Tom Moore, , is our point of contact with the Troop and Crew.

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