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  First, a huge thank you goes to our diocesan deputies, district deputies, Grand Knights, Council Membership Directors, and our individual recruiters for making it happen.  Our State Deputy asked you to help grow the Order in a style that we are all accustomed to in this Great State of Texas, and YOU DID IT !!!  WOW !!!  WOW !!!  WOW !!!  YOU DID IT !!!  THANK YOU !!!  THANK YOU !!!  THANK YOU !!!

The Constitution and Bylaws in Section 108 provides that a Grand Knight will appoint an Admission Committee of seven members. Though any member in good standing may serve, it is quite often the Council’s Recruitment Chairman who also serves as Chairman of the Admission Committee.  Often the Deputy Grand Knight, Financial Secretary, Chancellor and three Trustees serve as the other six members, but any member in good standing can be appointed to serve on the Committee.  With a total membership of seven, four members is the minimum quorum to conduct business and a majority of at least three votes (or four …

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MEMBERSHIP WORLD SERIES - FIRST ROUND
The good news at the end of the first round (end of July) of the Supreme Council Membership World Series is that the Texas recruitment numbers were better than California (285) and New York (165).  However, since the standings are ranked on a percentage, California remained #1 at 6.552% and Texas was #2 at 5.898% with New York coming in at #9 with 3.131%. (Refer to attached file for details).

In addition to email,  the Texas State Council Website, http://www.tkofc.org is a great tool to communicate a host of information, dates, events, news and announcements.  Through the guidance of webmaster, Mark Johnson,  we have access to Featured news, State Council news, State Deputy messages and links of interest to Brother Knights.

The State Ceremonial Team is looking forward to another great Fraternal Year. There were 73 Major Degrees held the last Fraternal Year in Texas

The Constitution and Bylaws in Section 108 provides that a Grand Knight will appoint an Admission Committee of seven members. Though any member in good standing may serve, it is quite often the Council’s Recruitment Chairman who also serves as Chairman of the Admission Committee.

As a District Deputy and Diocesan Deputy, it is important to teach Grand Knights how to plan and perhaps help them with what should be in a plan. The elements of a good plan should include the following.

Answer:  One Year to Life

This morning I had the privilege to beg on the street corner in our semi-annual Diocesan wide Tootsie Roll Drive.  As everyone knows we are in a tough economy and of course no one has money left over for charity, right? Wrong!!!!!

As most of you probably know way back in 1954 the Knights of Columbus led the way to include these words in our Pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag. Recently the Knights in California successfully defended keeping “ONE NATION UNDER GOD” in the pledge.