At Worthy Grand Knight Don Wilkinson's last meeting of his
term,
he recognized many of the key people that helped him throughout the year.
The meeting also recognized the Young Man and
Young Women of our Council for their contributions.
There were ten scholarships awarded.
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WGK Wilkinson recognized the Officers, Committee
Chairs, and others that helped throughout the year
Top Left: Dave Sharpe, Al Obuchowski, Chris Brensy, WGK, Dave Lopez,
Fidel Rodriguez, Gerry Rutkowski.
Top Right: Steve Morales, Jerry Hovan, Paul Armstrong
Bottom: Sandy Obuchowski
Young Man of the Year - Eric Beauchemin
Eric is an honor roll student, a past Chief Squire, a Boy Scout working
on his Eagle Scout attainment, an altar server and a volunteer
extraordinaire with Knight activities to include dinners, breakfasts,
Christmas tree offload and sales, clothing drive, Labor Day picnic,
KOVAR tootsie roll drive and many others.
Council 8600's Young Woman of the Year and
Virginia State Council's Young Woman of the Year - Catherine Ly
Catherine is an honor roll student who has received academic awards for
visual arts and physics and astronomy. She serves as the Chief Squire
Rose and received the Adults Silver Award for completing 175+ hours of
service in 2010 to include 15 or more different volunteer projects
within the church and community. She is a Girl Scout who was awarded
the Senior Girls Scout Career Award in 2010 and is a member of the U.S.
Tennis Association.
Knight of the Year - David Lopez
David is being honored for his service to the Church, community and the
fraternity. He is a
member of the pastoral council, an officer of this council, member of
the Board of Directors for Marian Homes, a National Shrine usher,
volunteer driver for fellow brothers and Supreme dignitaries. He was a
workhorse with the Christmas tree sales. He is an active 4th
degree member and is involved in all of our major activities. He
personally recruited several new members to the Order this year and was
our bowling team captain. Super effort Dave -- thank you!
Family of the Year - Dan Turgeon family
This family is very involved in the parish. I honor them because they
have been an inspiration to me. Both husband and wife have been great
mentors to me in the past year and excellent communicators with the
church front office and pastor. The whole family plays a major role in
the church with music and religious education but they go above and
beyond with their involvement and leadership roles in the Kairos Prison
Ministry and Paul Stefan Foundation for unwed mothers. They take part
in many events in the local community to include Food for Others, the
local hypothermia shelter, dinners and Lenten Soup Suppers, and the
Children’s Christmas party to name a few. Their daughters work with the
church as well to include singing in the choir, directing the children's
choir, assisting with Vacation Bible School or serving on the altar.
The Turgeon family has been a model for us to follow as their faith
shows through their actions.
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The Kelly Elizabeth Baker and
nine Knights of Columbus Council #8600 scholarships
were presented.
Twenty applications were submitted this year's
Councils awards!
Five of our winners are graduating high school students, representing
four different schools. Four of the recipients are college students,
three of whom are repeat winners. Of the nine winners, five are women
and four are men. The recipients include musicians, athletes, and
scholars, and all have distinguished themselves by their service to
their church, their community, and their schools.
Kelly Elizabeth Baker Memorial Scholarship
The co-sponsored Knights of Columbus, Council 8600,
Kelly Elizabeth Baker Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Lauren Rowson
on June 14th at a Special KofC Meeting. Lauren's essay stood out the
most based upon her improvement in her Senior year, Artistically,
Scholastically, Emotionally and Spiritually. She will be attending James
Madison University in the Fall with a major in theatre or teaching.
Congratulations, Lauren!
Timothy Tran will graduate from Thomas
Jefferson High School. Timothy has been active at St. Mary’s, serving
weekly as piano accompanist for the Youth Choir. He participated in the
Diocese summer work camp last summer. He coaches young Vietnamese how
to swim, in treasurer of the French Honor Society, and was co-captain of
the cross-country, winter track, and spring track teams at Jefferson.
He plays travel soccer, and has won competitive awards at various piano
competitions. Timothy will attend Princeton University.
Emily Smith, last year’s Kelly Elizabeth
Baker Memorial Scholarship, is a student at York College of
Pennsylvania. Emily was diagnosed with multiple types of arthritis at
an early age and has used her own life experiences to help others with
the same affliction. Following her graduation from high school, Emily
worked as a counselor at a camp for children with Juvenile Idiopathic
Arthritis in Pennsylvania, and donated her salary to the camper’s
scholarship fund so than a child with JIA could be sure to go to camp.
She has been invited by the Director of the National Institute of
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases at eh NIH, to speak at
the Scientific Symposium commemorating the institute’s 25th
anniversary.
Leah Pfeiffer, another repeat winner attends
the Culinary Institute of America in New York. Leah is president of
Catholics at the Culinary, a reader at Mass, and helps with the chapel
maintenance at her school. She was president of the Chef &
Restaurateurs Club in 2010 and a member of the Sustaining Agriculture
Club. She is presently working as an intern at the Inn at Little
Washington.
Eduardo Perez-De La Rosa will graduate from
Fairfax High School. Eduardo was the Chief Squire of the Columbian
Squires and has spent countless hours working at pancake breakfasts,
Lenten soup suppers, and improve-a home projects with the St. Mary’s’
Knights of Columbus. He was captain of his varsity swim team and a
member of the varsity track & field and cross-country teams at Fairfax
High School. Eduardo will attend the University of Virginia.
Collin Kourtz,
a repeat winner of one of our scholarships, is a student at Loyola
College in Maryland. Collin is a founding member of the Knights of
Columbus, Loyola University Chapter. He made a mission trip to
Chimbote, Peru last summer. He is a FIFA soccer referee and president
of the Loyola Physics Club. While at Loyola, he accompanied several
fellow students to hospitals when they were suicidal, sick, or
injured—spending the night in the ER with them to make sure they were
Kelly Gawne will graduate from Robinson High
School. Kelly was an active member of St. Marys Youth Group and a
singer in the Youth Choir. She did peer tutoring, rowed varsity crew at
Robinson—winning the Virginia State Championship in the eights, and
placed seventh nationally in 2010. She was a clarinet player and drum
major as well as a varsity swimmer at Robinson. Kelly will attend the
University of Notre Dame.
Michael Dulan will graduate from Robinson
High School. Michael was project manager for the K of C Improve-a-home
project at the Marian House. He was President of the Future Business
Leaders of America at Robinson, and a varsity cross-country and soccer
player. He is an Eagle Scout and saved another scout from hypothermia in
the mountains of New Mexico. Michael will attend Pennsylvania State
University.
Leah Bonuccelli is a student at Lynchburg
College. Leah is active in Lynchburg Christian Fellowship, mentors a
fifth-grader through the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Central Virginia,
and is a varsity basketball player at Lynchburg College. She is
currently the women’s basketball representative on the Student Athletic
Advisory Committee.
Ruth Madeline Bernero will graduate from
Bishop O’Connell High School. Madeline was active in St. Mary’s Youth
Group, and participated in diocesan work camps in 2008 and 2009, and
spent a week in the diocesan mission in Banica in 2010. She coaches
swimming to young children, rowed on her school’s crew team, and was
treasures of her high school’s Social Justice Club. Madeline will
attend Franciscan University in Ohio.
Award received by her father!
Contributions:
Young Man, Young Woman, Knight of the Year and Family of the Year
awards prepared by WGK Wilkinson.
Kelly Elizabeth Baker award prepared by Bill and Andi Baker.
Other scholarship awards prepared by Fred Walker.
Photos provided by Michael Ly.
Fred and Mary
Walker visited Guatemala with a group called TEACH. They are
trying to drum up more interest in the program as they are
working on a "scholarship" program--actually a program to
provide funding for Guatemalan children, completing their middle
school education, so that they can attend a high school. No free
public HS education down there. Read the
article.
Jim McHugh presented 2nd degree
award
Tom Silva accepting the Family
of
the Month Award on behalf of
Marques Silva
Paul Armstrong, Webmaster,
accepting Knight of the Month
Award
Council Knights awarded Life
Honorary and Honorary Awards
Sadly
or happily, our season ended with yesterday's tournament. As you know
both our teams had to face teams with 1 bowler short, and this of
course placed us in a great disadvantage. I don't think we will be
winning any trophies or plaques. In any case, I hope you had fun. I
surely did, except when you all started ribbing me about my first game
score. I admit it, it was ugly awful, and what makes it worst is that
I don't have any idea why I was so consistently bad on each frame.
Front Row: Peter Tompkins and Toni Maltagliati
Back Row: Dave Lopez, Paul Armstrong, Mike Coughlin, Joe Scavetti,
Paul Maltagliati and Jerry Hovan
So how did the Knight Riders (Paul M, Toni, Peter, & Dave) vs. the
Knight Flights (Paul A, Jerry, Joe, & Mike) do? Here are the final
scores.
Game 1 Knight Flights win 536 v. Knight Riders 384
Game 2 Knight Riders win 474 v. Knight Flights 470
Game 3 Knight Riders win 512 v. Knight Flights 507
Hope to see you on October 7, 2010. That's when we start up again to
get ready for the 2011 tournament.
I wish to thank all who helped
make the Memorial Mass for Harold Brown on Friday January 15 very special
for the Brown Family, St Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church, and friends
and colleagues of Harold. I have heard many compliments for the effort
put forward by the Knights of Columbus Fourth Degree, especially by
Father Barkett, the Pastor, who has expressed his sincere appreciation on
the numerous times I happened to see him over the weekend.
The final roster of the participants (I regret
I do not have Assembly affiliation information for all of the Sir Knights):
1. SK Ralph
Rossi, Vice Supreme Master, Calvert Province (light blue)
2. SK Richie
Head, Master, Virginia Jurisdiction (gold)
3. SK Thomas
Trudeau, PFN, District Marshal - Arlington Diocese (green)
4. SK George
Billy, FN Fr Malloy Assembly #1894, Color Corps Commander (purple)
5. SK Cy
Alba, PFN, PSD Assembly #1894 (white)
6. SK Rich
LaRoche, FN Rappahannock Assembly #1613 (white)
7. SK David
Chichester, PGK, FDD, PFN (white)
8. SK Dick
Owens, PGK, PFN Assembly #1894 (white)
9. SK Dick
Lee, PGK, PFN Assembly #1894(white)
10. SK Dennis
Brown, PGK, FC, Fr Malloy Assembly #1894 (red)
11. SK Johnny
Restivo, PGK, DD District 14 Assembly #1894 (red)
12. SK Loui
Stevens, PGK, DW District 11 (red)
13. SK Dan
Turgeon, GK Council #8600 St Mary of Sorrows Assembly #1894 (red)
14. SK Randy
Bordelon, GK Council #4654 Santa Maria Assembly #1894(red)
15. SK Fred
Hundemer, FOS Fr Malloy Assembly #1894 (red)
16. SK Al
Obuchowski, PGK, FDD Assembly #1894(red)
17. SK Paul
Gauthier, PGK Assembly #1894(red)
18. SK Jerry
Hovan, PGK Assembly #1894(red)
19. SK George
Johnson, PGK (red)
20. SK Paul
Armstrong Assembly #1894 (red)
21. SK Greg
Bacani Assembly #1894 (red)
22. SK Bill
Baker Assembly #1894 (red)
23. SK Larry
Brindza Assembly #1894 (red)
24. SK Tom
McFarlane Assembly #1894 (red)
25. SK Joe
Osborne Assembly #1894 (red)
26. SK Gerry
Rutkowski Assembly #1894 (red)
27. SK Joe
Scavetti Assembly #1894 (red)
I believe the Honor Guard was
the largest turnout of Sir Knights for an event at St Mary of Sorrows Parish
in Parishioners' memory, and the first time all echelons of Knights of
Columbus 4th Degree leadership within the Calvert Province were represented.
In addition, the Rappahannock
Assembly Honor America Corps provided a static display of flags which added
a significant patriotic flair to the Memorial Mass for Harold Brown who was
killed in the line of duty serving the Nation in Afghanistan.
Virginia State Secretary SK Bill McCarthy, PFN
will be representing the Virginia State Deputy (3rd Degree) and will not be
in regalia.
