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THE INTERIM KNIGHT/JANUARY-FEBRUARY 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

THE INTERIM KNIGHT/MARCH-APRIL, 1959
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:

Trustee  W. J. Fesperman
(Fills Office until June 20, 1959)
Rec. Secretary  H. Zitzelberger
Delegate  James Merrill
1st Alternate  George Altenbach
2nd Alternate  Pete McPartlan

FOURTH DEGREE ELECTS OFFICERS
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.

THE INTERIM KNIGHT/MAY 1959
 

THE INTERIM KNIGHT/JUNE-JULY 1959
SHELMAN RE-ELECTED FOR SECOND TERM
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
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.

CATHOLIC FORCES WON FINAL GREAT BATTLE
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).

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