•January 2009•
Next Meeting, Thursday, January 15
St. Michaels, 7:30 PM
Shamrock Degree – Do not miss it!
Brother Hibernians,
I
want to thank you for giving me the honor of electing me your next President. Also, many thanks to Gene for the
great job he has done the last two years.
The
greatest challenge I believe we face as an organization is to recruit new members. There are many Irish Catholics in this
area and we should find ways to get them interested in their Irish heritage. We need to reach out to prospective members through
our activities that encourage that interest. I would like to have suggestions from the membership of new activities
and events that would accomplish this goal. There is nothing we can't accomplish if we all work together. Happy New Year
to all.
In Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity
Joe McGowan
President
Dues notices
have been mailed out – and the returns are slowly coming in. If you did not get a dues notice, please let your humble
financial secretary know and he will happily send you another notice or bill or whatever.
·
Note we will be exemplifying the Shamrock Degree at
the January Meeting. If you have not received the Shamrock Degree (Lesson of the Motto) or if it has been some time since
you have seen the Degree, you will not want to miss the January meeting. And…what a wonderful way to get things going
for your new President and his staff.
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With a new administration coming on board in Washington,
the Right to Life march on January 22 is a very important one. We must let everyone
know of our total respect for life – from conception to natural death. Please make every attempt to attend the march
– or to pray an extra Rosary on that day.
Congratulations
to your newly elected slate of Officers. They were installed as part of our Christmas Party at the Auld Shebeen. Men in new
positions include President Joe McGowan, VP Jim McLaughlin,and Inner Sentinel Bill McCabe. Gents, Thank you for stepping up
to help our Division. I am told the transition teams are now in place to assure a smooth takeover!! J Special thanks to AOH State Vice President Rich
Aleksy for an outstanding job in installing our officers. This was way more formal than Ed Kennedy’s “moving ceremony”
in the parking lot at St. Michael’s several years ago.
President
Joe McGowan
(703) 451-4071
Vice
President
Jim McLaughlin
(703) 569-3866
Recording
Secretary
Fred Koester
(703) 941-5266
Financial
Secretary
J. J. Kelly
(703) 455-1507
Treasurer
Chuck Curran
(703) 866-9825
Standing
Committee
Tom Gallagher
(703) 979-5370
Marshall
Dan Rhoades
(703) 532-6358
Outer
Sentinel
Sanford Stone
(703) 751-5663
Inner
Sentinel
William McCabe
(703) 462-9215
Chaplain
Vacant
Historian
Dan Rhoades
(703) 532-6385
Organizer
Jim McLaughlin
(703) 569-3866
Pro-Life
Vacant
Past
President
Gene Bransfield, Sr.
(703) 820-2464
D P Music Studio
6624 Green Ash Ct
Springfield, VA
22152
Phone
703-980-0705 |
· Thursday, January 15, Division Meeting. The Shamrock Degree will be exemplified.
· Thursday, January 22, March for Life, Washington,
DC.
· Saturday, January 24, AOH State Quarterly Meeting, 10 AM, Our Lady of Angels, Woodbridge.
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We have a lot coming up in the next couple of months. We have met with the pastor at St. Michael’s and he is
supportive of us taking the Five Car Raffle to the entire parish. This can be a very lucrative venture for both us and the
parish. We need your help.
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This statue of Annie Moore - the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island - stands on the dock in Cobh.
Co. Cork. She looks back towards the home she is leaving while
her brothers look out to sea and, beyond the horizon, the New World, three thousand miles
away.
Annie set off for America from
here aboard the S.S. Nevada, on December 20th, 1891. Imagine how excited and nervous she must have been when she and her brothers
arrived in New York on January 1, 1892. As the very first
of 700 immigrants to disembark from her ship and two other boats that day, she was given a wondrous welcome - and also a $10.00
gold coin!
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Disclaimer:
If it’s wrong – blame Joe, the new guy. I just type this thing. J
