Elks Round-Up

June,2017

BPOE Kingsville Elks Lodge 1926 1404 S. 6th St.

Kingsville, Texas 78363 361-592-4444 bpoe1926@att.net

Volume 64 Issue 3

Supporting America’s Youth and Veterans

Message From the

Exalted Ruler

Marietta Murchison

The month of May has come and gone. Moth-er’s Day was wonderful with good food, friends, and family. What more could you want? On behalf of the lodge, I want to thank George Moore PER and Ike Eisenhauer PER for conducting the Mother’s Day Service.

The Flag Day Service will be held Wednesday June 14, @ 6:30 p.m. The American Legion Post 99 will be celebrating the service with us this year. After the flag service, the American Legion will be holding a flag retirement service in the backyard. If anyone has a flag that needs to be retired, you are invited to bring the flag to the service. Many of you have chil-dren or grandchildren living in the area; you are welcome to bring them as well. This would be a great history lesson for them. Speaking of history lessons, I thought I would share a few things I learned about our Nation’s flag while browsing the web.

Do you know who cut the America Flag into pieces and was honored for doing it?

Over what foreign country, did the Ameri-can Flag fly for the first time?

What is an expert on flags and their histo-ry called?

What do the color of the flag mean?

Red?

White?

Blue?

How many flags are on the moon?

A warm welcome to our newest members recently initi-ated at the May 16th meeting. Shown above are new members with their propsers: Roy Medina, *Trisha Gottschalk, *Pete Vasquez,Gonzalo Ruiz, *Frank Benve-nuto and Betty Haass. *new members

(Con’t) The next Fish Fry Fundraiser is June 23rd from 5:30 to 7:30. We always can use volun-teers...so give me a call.

The lodge initiated three new members in May. They are Trisha Gottschalk, Pedro Vasquez and Frank Benvenuto. When you see a new face in-troduce yourself, who knows you may be meet-ing your next best friend. Answers:

Robert Perry who left pieces of the flag at the North Pole.

Libya over Fort Derne on the shores of Tripoli

A vexillologist

Red symbolizes hardiness and valor. White symbolized purity and innocence. Blue rep-resents vigilance, perseverance and justice.

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ELKS CARE AND ELKS SHARE

Marietta Murchison, Exalted Ruler

Lodge Meetings Kingsville Lodge 1926 meets the 1st and 3rd

Tuesday of each month at 7:00PM Trustee Meeting

Kingsville Lodge 1926 Trustees meet on the 1st Monday of the month at 6:30PM. All members

are encouraged to attend. PER Association

Kingsville Lodge 1926 PER Association meets Quarterly on the fourth Tuesday of January,

April, July, and October at 6:30PM .

Elks Auxiliary Officers

Tammy Moore President

Joy Underbrink Vice-President

Sylvia Martinez Secretary/Treasurer

Karen Moore Chaplain

Stacy Core Tiler

Esquire

Chaplain

Inner Guard

Presiding Justice

Exalted Ruler

Leading Knight

Loyal Knight

Lecturing Knight

Secretary

Treasurer

Tiler

Marietta Murchison Exalted Ruler

James Cummins Leading Knight

J. Dean Craig Loyal Knight

Gonzalo (Bucho)Ruiz Lecturing Knight

George Moore, PER 5 yr. Trustee

Charles Underbrink 4 yr. Trustee

Gregory “Ike” Eisenhauer 3 yr. Trustee

Roy Medina 2 yr. Trustee

Betty Jo Haass 1 yr. Trustee

Marietta Murchison

James Cummins

J. Dean Craig

Gonzalo(Bucho) Ruiz

Richard Sunday

Y-vette Cave

Thomas Morgan

2017-2018 Elected Officers

Appointed Officers

Lena Core

Mary Malone

Izola Johnson

Nathan Fugate

Board of Directors

Current Membership

197

Lounge Hours Sun.& Mon. - 3PM to 7PM

Tues.-Wed.-Thur. 3PM to 10PM Fri. - 3PM to 11PM Sat.-3PMto10PM

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Accident Prevention

Americanism

Auditing

Community Activities

Drug Awareness

ENF

Flag Day

Hoop Shoot

House Committee

Membership

Lodge Activities

Memorial Service

PER Association

Public Relations

Scholarships/Grants

Veteran Services

Cyber Assistant

House Committee Meeting

2nd Tuesday of each month at 6:00 PM.

Gregory“Ike”Eisenhauer,PER

Y-vette Cave

Mike Klepac, PDDGER

Y-vette Cave

Thomas Morgan

Rosie Swan

Michael Klepac, PDDGER

Sam R Fugate

Travis Murchison

Lena Core

Jeremie King

Marietta Murchison, PER, ER

Ken Moses, PER

Ken Moses, PER

Rosie Swan

Gonzalo “Bucho” Ruiz

Tony Deel

Committees 2017-2018

Please send all bulletin items to Rosie Swan at rswan4558@sbcglobal.net by the 20th of the month.

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House Committee House Committee House Committee For those of you who do not realize the amount of work it takes to run the Lodge and Lounge, please try not to make it any harder.

We had a wonderful Mother’s Day Program, good work Mary and Officers.

Want to thank Bucho, Mary, Charles and my brother Dick for helping with the inventory. I appreciate the assistance.

The Kitchen and Lounge staff look forward to serving you.

We get a lot of assistance from George, Tam-my, Donnell, Joy, Love ya’ll.

Thanks Rosie for doing the newsletter.

Fraternally Yours

Travis Murchison

Elks Auxiliary News

Congratulations and good luck to all graduates and especially to our own, Chyenne & Sierra Freeman, daughters of Sonya & Ibrey Nun-ez. Both Chyenne & Sierra are graduating from H.M. King High School and were each awarded $200 scholarships by the Elks Auxil-iary.

Thanks to George Moore and Gregory Eisen-hauer for the lovely Mother’s Day service, Elks for the corsages, the lounge for the ham and to everyone who brought the great sides and desserts. We couldn’t have asked for a nicer time with our elk families and friends.

Nice backgammon, chess/checker, parcheesi and Chinese checker game boards have been purchased by the auxiliary and available for members and guests to use, help your-selves. Thanks to Charles Underbrink for vol-unteering to make shelves for the games to be displayed on in the pool room.

Safe travels to everyone attending the state convention the first of June. We will have some pictures from the convention when you get your bulletin next month.

Come join us for a meeting the first Tuesday of the month and don’t forget our social night the third Tuesday during the Elk meeting, then stay to eat “pot luck” after the meet-ing. June’s theme will be stuffed baked pota-toes. Potatoes will be furnished, bring our fa-vorite toppings, side or dessert to share with all.

The Elks will host a public fish fry fundraiser on Friday, June 23rd, everyone is asked to bring a dessert for the bake sale, the more help the better.

See you at the lodge!

Tammy Moore, President

Proposition for Membership The following applications for membership have been received and following investigation and publication procedures, will be balloted upon at the next regu-lar session of the Lodge.

Wallace Glasgow Proposed by Gonzalo Ruiz

Alexa Haass Proposed by Betty Jo Haass

If a member knows of a valid reason why this candidate should not be admitted to member-ship, it is his/her duty as an Elk to contact the Chairperson of the Investigating Committee. He/She should also contact the candidate’s proposer, outline the problem, and make him/her aware of the objection to the candidate.

Sickness & Distress NONE

If you know or hear of an Elk or family member who are ill or has passed away, please notify us by leaving a note with the Lodge Attendant or by calling one of the Lodge Officers

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2017-2018 ENF Donor Board

Alexander, Gary L

Algott, Larry L

Baker, Clem C

Bogener, Jerry D

Booth, Carl E

Boulware, Wayne, PER

Burris, Homer A

Cantu, Lori

Catchings, Billy R

Cave, Janet Y

Coleman, W H

Core, Lena

Crabb, David O

Craig, J Dean

Dear, Karrian

Deel, Anthony W

Dietz, Steve

Dodds, Scott R

Eisenhauer, Ike, PER

Ford, Dale C

Fugate, Sam R

Gattis, Mark

Gibson, Gerald L

Haass, Kenneth F

Hahn, Sherry Mae

Harris, Joseph M

Higbee, Claude E

Hoekstra, Garland

Hubert, Donald

Jackson, George

Johnson, Izola

Karnath, Carl J

Karnath, Colin J

King, Donnell

King, Jeremie

Kittleson, Brian L

Hatley, Gary

Klepac, Michael, PDDGER

Larkins, Cdr Markel H

Lawson, James R PER

Lawson, Kay Ann

Lawson, Terry PER

Loewe, Robert J

Mangum Jr, Arland J

McCauley Jr, Joe D

+McCauley, David C

Medina, Raul

Morgan, Thomas A

Morris, Ned C

Moses, James K SDVP

Murchison, Marietta, ER-PER

Murchison, Travis L

Nicholson, Wesley

Nix, Harrel D

Orr, Ronald L., PER

Peterson, Terry H.

Pruemer, Ida

Ray, Nancy

Rivera, William

Rodriguez, Mandy

Ruiz, Gonzalo P

Russell, Carl D

Sears, Jim

Sheeley, Paul H

Simpson, E.C.

Smith, William D

Sourgose, Charles J

Stewart, Donald J

Sunday, Richard M

Swan, Harvey T.

Swan, Rosie

Underbrink, Charles C

Wood, Louis H

Wright, Eric

Wright, Randy

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Lodge Receives ENF Gratitude Grant

Kingsville Elks Lodge 1926 applied and was ap-proved to receive the ENF Gratitude Grant this past month. The Elks National Foundation helps Lodges serve their communities by offering $2000 Gratitude Grants. Lodges qualify to apply after meeting the Grand Exalted Ruler’s per-member goal for giving to the Foundation. In ad-dition, Lodges that exceed 15% membership sup-port this last year may be eligible for an addition-al $500 bonus. Our Lodge met the criteria! The event being planned by Co-Chairs Ode More-no and Rosie Swan will take place on June 7th and named ChickaBoom Reading Camp. We have had very good response from members, spouses, auxil-iary and community members which will definitely make our project a success. We’re excited!

ENF Programs The mission of the Elks National Foundation is to help Elks build stronger communities. We fulfill this pledge by investing in communities where Elks live and work. We provide tomorrow’s leaders, our youth, with lifelong skills; honor the Elks’ pledge to never forget our veterans; help the state Elks associations accomplish their charitable objectives and fund projects that improve the qual-ity of life in local Elks communities.

At its February meeting in Savannah, Georgia, the Elks National Foundation Board of Trustees approved appropriations and distributions for the 2017-18 fiscal year totaling $33.14 million.

Community Investments Program

State Elks Association Grants

Scholarship Programs

Elks National Veterans Service Program

Elks Hoop Shoot Free Throw Contest

Elks Drug Awareness Program

Elks Memorial Building Maintenance

$9.81 million

$9.10 million

$4.31 million

$1.46 million

$952,760

$729,330

$705,900

The Elks National Veterans Service Commission was established in 1946, immediately after World War II, with the sole mission of serving our nation’s veterans. Though much has changed since then, the Elks’ dedication to serve veterans and military members in need has never wavered. In VA clinics, veterans’ homes, USOs, homeless shelters and more, thousands of Elks volunteers give generously of their time, ener-gy and resources to serve veterans and military members each year.

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Auxiliary

02 Charles and Amy Schultz

07 Billy and Paulette Catchings

10 William and Debbie Tiffee III

15 James and Leila Lawson

22 Randy and Karen Wright

04 Algott, Larry L 11 Smith, William D

04 Lile, Bradley 12 May, Barney M

08 Ruiz, Jesus Roel 13 Wood, Louis H

09 Klepac, Mike PDDGER 18 Garcia, Mario

09 Larkins, Markel H 22 Moses, James, SDVP

01 Tammy Moore

16 Rainee Cummins

24 Sonya Nunez

25 Tody Tiffee

25 Gene Koch

27 Linda Boulware

Pictured above are Officers and new mem-bers present for initiation night meeting: Y-vette Cave, Trisha Gottschalk, J. Dean Craig, Mary Malone, Roy Medina, Mary Murchison, Izola Johnson, Pete Vasquez, Betty Haass, Frank Benvenuto, Bucho Ruiz, Charles Underbrink and Ike Eisenhauer.