Arizona District, John H. Reddin Province

Knights of Columbus 4th Degree

Sir Knight Michael Kingman, Master of the Fourth Degree

From The District Master

To: Worthy Faithful Navigators and Sir Knights all

From: Sir Knight Michael Kingman, Master of the Fourth Degree

District Assembly Bi-Annual Meeting

I would like to take this opportunity and thank Our Supreme Master Larry Costanzo, State Deputy Herb Maddock and IPSD Stan Schroeder for attending the meeting and sharing their thoughts and ideas. I would also like to thank the delegates of the 23 Assemblies that participated in the District Assembly Bi-Annual Meeting that was conducted on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at Corpus Christi Parish in Phoenix AZ. In my letter to all Faithful Navigators dated February 8, 2010 I mentioned that this meeting was mandatory and that every Faithful Navigator and delegates should make every effort to attend this meeting. I did receive a call and email from 3 Faithful Navigators stating that they could not attend. That means that 16 Faithful Navigators and assemblies did not have the opportunity to share much needed information from Fourth Degree Standardization to Assembly reports, Ceremonials and Assembly Programs. Some key items that came out of the meeting are as follows:

AZ District Master nominees submitted for the fraternal years 2010-2012.

Robert Holsinger, Pete Karculias and Michael Kingman,  

Elected 3 Trustees for District Master’s Audit Committee

Ray Obral, Bill Strube and Ray Cruz

Resolution was submitted and approved by the delegates at large and will be submitted to Supreme to include the U. S. Flag pin as part of the official uniform of a Fourth Degree Sir Knight in the United States of America

Wheel for Vets funds raised was $31, 174.86

When funds are raised checks should be made out to American Wheelchair Mission and mailed to the following. Just let me know what the check number will be and the amount of the check.

Dan Moberg, PGK, PFN, FDD
American Wheelchair Mission
2600 E. Seltice Way Suite A172
Post Falls, Idaho 83854

208-457-0745

dmoberg@amwheelchair.org

National Shrine Restoration Project;

The Arizona District attained 80% of it’s goal and raised $8,159.00

Next Exemplification

Our next 4^th Degree Exemplification will be on June 5, 2010 and will be held at the Sheraton Crescent Hotel in Phoenix Arizona and will be hosted by Rev. Msgr. Paul Koscielniak Assembly 2736. The Honoree for this exemplification will be the IPSD Stanley Schroeder. Stan has contributed much to the success of the Knights of Columbus in Arizona and we are honored to have him accept our invitation to be our Class Honoree. Registration packets have already been sent out and registration information can be obtained from this website.

From the 23 Faithful Navigators that attended the Bi-Annual meeting we have approximately 91 candidates. As you can see we still have a lot of work to do to reach of goal 300. Again I am asking each of the Faithful Navigators to get with your Comptrollers and make sure you get the Form 4’s submitted by May 23, 2010. I am also asking all our Sir Knights and their families to make this a weekend in which you come and meet your Brother Sir Knights and share ideas and get to know each other, after all one of the principles of Our Order is Fraternity and what better way is there than to socialize with one another and family. If you can I ask you to please stay at the hotel on Friday and Saturday as they have given us some great rates and sign up for the Saturday night dinner. I would love for you to socialize with our Class Honoree IPSD Stan Schroeder, and Vice Supreme Master Jerry O’Connor.

Last year at the June Exemplification we brought in 218 new Sir Knights and this year I am challenging the Arizona District to bring in 300 new Sir Knights. This may seem like a large number but if we work with the 130 plus active councils and have each council provide us with just 3 candidates each we can easily meet this goal. I am asking each Faithful Navigator and or his representative to attend each of your councils, business meetings and start the recruiting process over the next 3 months. I know that this is a surmountable amount but let’s do our best and see what we can do.

Last year we had 600 attend the Saturday Night Banquet and hopefully we will have just as many if not more. So make your room and meal reservations soon. Don’t be left behind.

Assembly Programs

I am asking every assembly to submit an Assembly Activities Report for all of the programs and activities your assembly participated in for both Fraternal years of 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. I am also requesting that every Assembly submit a SK of the Year report as well. I would like to have both of these reports by May 10, 2010. These reports will be reviewed individually by the Marshals and my self. Each of us will separately review and rate on a scale from 1 to 10 with 1 being the lowest and 10 the highest rating. From these results an Assembly and SK of Year will be selected. So please get involved and let’s recognize one another for all the great works you perform throughout the year.

Membership

The challenge is on! Colorado District Master Joseph Tafoya challenged Arizona District Master in membership. He stated that Colorado would beat our district in membership and make us eat crow. I do not care to eat crow nor do I think that we in Arizona want to come in second to the Colorado District.

This brings me to the membership goals set by Supreme for our district. Arizona needs to bring in at least 372 new 4^th Degree members into our ranks. But I think that Arizona can do better. Last year we brought in 462 new Sir Knight and I see no reason why we cannot attain 500 new Sir Knights this fraternal year.

In the outlying areas if you have some potential candidates that will not or cannot travel call the District Master and we can discuss alternatives.

In Arizona we have the potential of starting 3 new assemblies this fraternal year. One in Anthem, associated with Council 13719, Vail, Councils 7521 and 14230 and Buckeye, Council 9467. Vail Council 7521 will be conducting an Organizational/Open House meeting to solicit the 30 members needed to start a new assembly. Buckeye has submitted their paper work to the District Master and Vail is in the process of filling out their paper work in order to submit to the District Master. We look forward to welcoming these 2 new assemblies in the very near future.

Reports due

The following reports will be due soon so please review with your Program Chairmen and Comptroller to get these reports submitted in a timely fashion. Remember if you submit electronically you still need to submit a hard copy as some reports are not getting to Supreme.

TBP-1  To be a Patriot Award Entry Form                     June 1, 2010

2863A  RSVP/Plaque Application                                 June 30, 2010

2321     Civic Award Application                                  June 30, 2010

186 Report of New Officers                                          July 1, 2010

Once again I am extremely honored to be able to serve as the Arizona District Master for the John H. Reddin Province and I hope to work with each of you in some capacity in the near future.

Yours in Christ

Michael H. Kingman
Arizona District Master, IPSD
John H. Reddin Province