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October 30, 2007 No. 4 Vol. 86
This Week’s Program: Norman E. Brown, President,
NAACP-St. Petersburg
The mission of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political,
educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and
to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. The vision of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure
a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no
racial hatred or racial discrimination.
Last Week’s Program:
The field trip to the
Holocaust Museum was a tremendous success. Our meeting kicked off on the
third floor of the museum. We were surrounded by puzzles for peace
artwork created by children for the museum. My favorite was the barrels
of two AK-47s twisted into the shape of a heart. It was enough to make
Mitch Cochran cry. Our forward thinking fearless leader Markus
decided we would forgo the closing song by accurately predicting that
most of us can’t climb two flights of stairs twice in one day.
Ron Scoggins had several guests from the
government and General Dynamics. Ron O’Neal was still looking for
a few more volunteers for “Project Save A Smile” on Saturday. Bigger and
better teeth for everybody.
Harvey Ford announced another successful
interclub at Sunshine City was attended by 9 members. Guy
VanMiddlesworth, in his signature style, muttered something
unintelligible for a few minutes. Harvey interpreted that the next
interclub will be at Gulf Beaches.
Doug Lampe was the fine master and did an
excellent job taking the fun out of college football.
Kiwanian of the Day, Cathy Swanson, gets
the award for briefest introduction for her “Enjoy the museum”
introduction of Carolyn Bass, current acting director for the
Holocaust museum. In Cathy’s defense, as she made her introduction, her
mouth was full of a turkey sandwich so there was a choking concern.
Carolyn took us on a 30 minute guided tour that
normally would take a few hours. The museum provides tours for over
15,000 children each year. The museum also sends out traveling trucks
that teach over 50,000 kids the history of the holocaust.
The current Ann Frank display has been a smashing
success. The wood carvings of Hitler’s murder victims are a real tear
jerker. The museum also preserves the history of much other genocide
such as the Armenians, the Polish, Rwanda, etc. The message of the
museum also includes today’s geo-political issues and encourages people
to get involved.
If you want to understand what happens when evil
goes unchecked, visit the Florida Holocaust Museum. Also, the museum is
actively seeking corporate and individual sponsors for their many
events.
Who’s Who In Kiwanis
The 2007-2008 Membership Rosters are available on
the sign-in table. You can look up new members and old friends for
business networking or you can make prank calls!
TODAY’S QUIZ:
1) On June 12, 1963, what activist and NAACP Field
Secretary was assassinated with a bullet to the back in Mississippi?
2) Which is more healthful to ingest: castor oil
or caster beans?
3) Ten inches of snow
equals how many inches of rain in water content?
4) What three races make up the Triple Crown?
LAST WEEK’S QUIZ:
- Only one foreign country has a capital city
named after American president James Monroe. It’s Liberia and the
capital is Monrovia.
- The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a
blind person in 1938.
- Over 2,500 left-handed people are killed each
year from using items made for right-handed people.
- The name for the Latin dance, samba,
means “to rub navels together” in Spanish.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
Gracious God, we thank you for creating us in
your image, women and men, children and youth of every nation and of one
race - the human race.
Help us to see your image in every person we meet, to
have respect for the dignity of every human being, to work for
justice and peace among all people, always loving our neighbors
as ones like ourselves.
Inspire us to move beyond the labels and categories to which we
cling - of race, of gender, of sexual orientation, of culture, of
religious practices - to embrace You by embracing the diversity of your
creation.
We thank you for bestowing upon us the gifts of language and
reason: enliven us to use these gifts to work for equality in the
economic, social, political, and religious systems of our lives so that
poverty, discrimination, and divisions may end once and for all.
Open our hearts to the truth that reconciliation and love are
the most powerful forces in the universe and the only way to find
true and lasting peace.
So guide us in our search for a greater knowledge of your will,
that our human efforts may, with the help of your Most Holy Spirit,
bring justice to the systems of our society and true respect and
understanding to all our relationships.
And, as you helped Dr. King, help us to risk, help us to stand
up for righteousness, to stand up for justice, to stand up for truth,
knowing that you will be with us, even to the end of the world.
All this we pray in your Holy Name. Amen.
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