THE INTERIM KNIGHT/JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1959 THE INTERIM KNIGHT/MARCH-APRIL, 1959 Trustee W. J. Fesperman FOURTH DEGREE ELECTS OFFICERS THE INTERIM KNIGHT/MAY 1959 THE INTERIM KNIGHT/JUNE-JULY 1959
OFFICERS 1958-59
Chaplain Rev. Robert Grant
Grand Knight Irvin Shelman
Deputy Grand Knight Mike Smerick
Chancellor George Altenbach
Warden Jake Bartula
Advocate William Murphy
Financial Secretary Frank Hartman
Outside Guard Max Touchon
Inside Guard Denis Lavy
Recording Secretary Cecil Touchon
Treasurer James Grace
Trustees Ed Steiner, James Merrill, John Schriever
ELECTION RESULTS
In order
to fill vacancies of Council officers, and to choose the delegate and alternate delegates to the State Convention, the Council held an election on April 2nd. The results are as follows:
(Fills Office until June 20, 1959)
Rec. Secretary H. Zitzelberger
Delegate James Merrill
1st Alternate George Altenbach
2nd Alternate Pete McPartlan
At a special meeting held at the Davis Lambright Council Hall on Monday evening, March 23, The General Worth General Assembly, Fourth Degree, elected a group of new officers. Elected were Stan Renner, Faithful Navigator; Ed Galantowicz,
Faithful Captain; and Mike Smerick, Faithful Pilot. These Sir Knights will serve for the remaining three months of the fraternal year.
OFFICERS 1959-1960
Grand Knight Irvin Shelman re-elected for Second Term
Deputy Grand Knight William Murphy
Chancellor George Altenbach
Warden Jake Bartula
Advocate Pete McPartlan
Inner Guard Milton Schmidt
Outer Guard Denis Lavy
Recording Secretary Martin Ashour
Treasurer Jim Grace
Trustee W.J. Fesperman – 3 year term
Other Trustees James Merrill, 1 year remaining; John Schriever, 2 years remaining
GENERAL WORTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS NEW OFFICERS CATHOLIC FORCES WON FINAL GREAT BATTLE
These figures assume new importance when we remember that Washington had less than 18,000 men with whom to protect New York in 1776. That is why the city was lost to Howe. The British army then was twice at large. In a weighing
of the French contribution to the war, it is well to remember that the British, who took the American capital, Philadelphia, Sept. 26, 1777, retreated from it in the summer of 1778 only because a French fleet was on its way to aid the
Revolutionists. The story of the Catholic role in the winning of independence is not too well known. But it is a major role. It is one among many arguments why, if Catholic loyalty to the republic is questioned by any one, the
falsifier deserves public rebuke--Monsignor Matthew Smith--Reprinted from Catholic Register, June 29, 1959. THE INTERIM KNIGHT/AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1959
At their regular meeting held June 17, the General Worth General Assembly, Fourth Degree, Knights of Columbus, elected a slate of officers to serve for the coming 1959-60 fraternal
year. The results are as follows: Stan Renner, Faithful Navigator; Frank Kavanaugh, Faithful Captain; Ben West, Faithful Pilot; Dick Hatton, Faithful Admiral; Michael Smerick, Faithful Scribe and Comptroller; Ray Martinez,
Inner Sentinel; and Norman Walle, Outer Sentinel. The meeting was held at the Msgr. Nolan Council hall.
Father Blied leads up a quotation from Father John M. Lenhart, who gives the actual
figures and shows that the Revolution was really won in its final great battle by Catholic forces. He said: "The American Declaration of Independence was written with golden letters into the book of history by 1,500 German Catholic
soldiers fighting in the French army, by 2,000 Irish Catholic soldiers fighting in the French and Spanish armies, by 14,000 Spanish Catholic soldiers clearing the South of the British and setting the stage for the final victory at Yorktown,
and by 45,280 French Catholic soldiers and sailors who won independence for the United States. On the battlefield at Yorktown, where the British forces were crushed and independence secured, there were five times as many Catholics as
Protestants fighting for American liberty." The war "was crowned with success by a Catholic victory, the surrender of the British forces at Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781" (Catholics and the American Declaration of Independence, p.70).