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KIMCHI KATZ PUP TENT NO 303 MEMORANDUM FOR 18 Oct 05 GRAND Historian GRAND Webmaster Following is an update to the Pup Tent 303 history file. Please post on our website and retain for you records. Jul 2004. Scratch held on 20 Jul 04 with 11 Cooties present. Atom Side Kick (Ralph) Connors was taken thru the 1st degree. Cootie Stone is departing the puptent and was recognized for his contributions as Sky Pilot. The Pup Tent received the following awards in the last department convention: 1. Outstanding Booster 2. Outstanding CCDB 3. Hospital Work 4. Hospital Work over 300% 5. Booster of the Year 6. Outstanding Pup tent of the year Motions made: 1. Donation of $500.00 towards purchasing a new computer for Fischer house. Aug 2004. Scratch held 19 Aug with 14 Cooties present. Voted to allow three new Atoms to join the seams. Motions made: 1. Donated funds to lay a wreath at Arlington Cemetery. 2. Pup Tent voted to sponsor the National Home. 3. Voted to move the next scratch to 23 Sept so the SS can be present for initiation Sept 2004. Scratch held 21 Sep with 13 Cooties present. Two Nits went through the 1st Degree initiatiation. One cootie was in the hospital giving birth to a lil cootie. Motions made: none Oct 2004. Scratch held on 19 Oct with 17 Cooties present. Three 3 Nits went through the 2nd Degree initiation. The total duffel from the scratch was $584.00 and $122.00 from the pup tent auctioneer, extraordinary for a total of $706.00. Motions made: 1. All duffle to go to National Home childrens Christmas Party. Nov 2004. Scratch was held on 16 Nov and there were 17 cooties present. Three graybacks were taken through the 3rd degree initiation. Letter read from Earnest A. Paulin, Grand master MOC of Michigan, thanking our Pup Tent for the generous offer of $706.00 for the national home Christmas party. Motions made: 1. Donated $300.00 to the Hilltop Club for right-arm night in December for recruitment. 2. Gift from top 3 chairs request $400.00 for a cootie in distress. Dec 2004. Scratch held on 21 Dec with 18 Cooties. Motions: 1. Donated $500.00 to the Boy Scouts. 2. Motion made for $500.00 to sponsor the 1st Cootie Night out. Jan 2005. Scratch held on 18 Jan with 16 cooties present. New elections brought up by Seam Squirrel. Superbowl party preparations discussed. Raffle would be done to help a cootie family in need. Motions: none Feb 2005. Scratch held on 15 Feb with 13 Cooties present. Letters of intent for the upcoming elections read and nominations for positions taken. Cootie outing was discussed and concluded that red cootie shirts would be worn. Read letter from 2 cooties to attend the convention in Utah. Motions: 1. Two cooties will represent the pup tent at the convention in Utah. 2. Boxes will be set up for donations for Afghan children. Mar 2005. Scratch held 15 Mar with 16 Cooties present. Cootie Teets started his elections while the pup tent continued with its elections. Positions gained are: Seam Squirrel Cootie Sims Blanket Bum Cootie Hudson Hide Gimlet Cootie Compton CCDB Cootie Lyons Shyster Cootie Ken Sky Pilot Cootie Lawrence Keeper of the Lousy Records Cootie Turnbow Pill Pusher Cootie Connor Tight wad 3 Cootie Morris Cootie Sims will make a Cootie Honor Roll. Cootie Teets will obtain Cootie Casey’s hat, frame it, and hang it in the Pup tent. Cootie Lyons 2nd a motion to pay for the framing not to exceed $100.00. Cootie Sims made the motion. Motion passed. Cootie Hudson brought up that we had already approved the SS $500.00 to go to the convention. He asked to amend that to $800.00 to include hotel. Cootie Teets made the motion. Motion passed. Cootie Sims close out the election and advised he would be calling personnel to fill the assigned positions. Jimmy Legs Cootie Behrend Provost Marshall Cootie O’Connor Hungry Cootie Cootie Brun VFW Booster Cootie Compton Hospital Chairperson Cootie Eldridge National Home Cootie Connor Shirt reader Cootie Bradley Guardian Sacred Ditty Box Cootie Winner Pestiferous Coffee Cooler Cootie Turnbow Newshound Cootie Teets Windjammer Cootie Quinata Delousing Crew Cooties Turnbow/Eldridge April 2005. Scratch held on 20 Apr with 15 Cooties present. Cootie Sims checked all his contacts by May 8th in relation to Memorial Day in Pusan. The event is 31 May at 1045 hrs tentatively. Cootie Compton volunteered to lay the wreath. The $42.00 for flowers was paid by district. Cootie Teets stated our only responsibility in the ceremony is to lay the wreath and participate. Motions: None May 2005. Scratch held on 17 May with 13 Cooties present. Motions: Cootie Teets brought up the John Randolph Scholarship Fund that is sponsored by the Grand of the Pacific. Cootie Teets 2nd a motion to donate $300.00 to the fund. Cootie Connor made the motion. Motion passed. Hungry Cootie read a request from the Walker YS for donations for their sports banquet. Cootie Connor 2nd a motion to donate $200.00. Cootie Brun made the motion. Motion passed. Cootie Turnbow read a letter from the 36th Sig Bn requesting funds for their organization day. Cootie Turnbow 2nd a motion to give them $50.00. Cootie Sims made the motion. Motion passed. Cootie O’Connor 2nd a motion to assign 3 delegates to the upcoming Grand Scratch. He then amended it to 5. Cootie Connor made the motion. Delegates are: Cootie O’Connor Cootie Morris Cootie Hudson Cootie Sims Cootie Compton Motion Passed. Cootie Teets brought up the Booster sheet for the Grand Scratch. He 2nd a motion to obligate $48.00 for the A__h__e cooties who did not pay. The motion also requested $129.00 from the CDDB to pay for the booster sheet and 3 blank checks to cover other charges. Cootie Jackson made the motion. Motion passed. June 2005. Scratch held on 21 Jun with 12 Cooties present. Motions: Clark Cemetery is in the hole $2000 and needs financial assistance. Cootie Connor 2nd a motion to donate $250.00 for the Clark Cemetery Cootie Bradley made motion. Motion Passed July 2005. Scratch held on 20 Jul with 11 Cooties present. Cootie Teets advised that in the last convention only 2 Pup tents won all the awards, us and Pup tent 8. We received the following awards: 1. Outstanding Booster Cootie Spense 2. Outstanding CCDB Cootie Sims 3. Hospital Work 4. Hospital Work over 300% 5. Booster of the Year 6. Outstanding Pup tent of the year Motions: Cootie Teets also brought up the Fischer House at Tripler Hospital in Hawaii. He stated that many comrades have stayed there and they need a new computer system. Since we support Hospitals and the Hospitals support us and soldiers, Cootie Teets made a motion to donate $350.00 towards purchasing a new computer for Fischer house. Cootie Stone amended it to $500.00. Motion passed. Cootie Teets will get the address for the Fischer House. Cootie Jessie stood up and offered a personal cootie donation of 20.00 to the Fischer House. August 2005. Scratch held on 19 Aug with 13 Cooties present. Motions: Comrade Dave covered the upcoming POW MIA Ceremony. He advised the Evergreen was booked with events and was maybe looking at using the Post Home. Cootie Sims interjected that he will check with the Walker Chapel. About this time Cootie CellPhone Charlie’s cell phone rang and interrupted Past All American VFW Commander, Prior Seam Squirrel, Current Grand Junior Vice Commander, Grand Fund Raiser Extraordinaire and Grand Auctioneer Cootie Dave Teets, but he also answered the phone and started a conversation. Obviously a low down scum sucking Cootie dear to our pitiful hearts. Meanwhile Cootie Behrends brought up the Hilltop Club as an alternate place for the ceremony. Cootie Teets was in the middle of explaining how a den of gambling, booze and greed would not be worthy for such a ceremony, I’d be damned if Cootie Cellphone Charlie’s cell phone didn’t ring again. And he did the same thing. Holy Cootie burger Cootie Cellphone Charlie was again holding a conversation, during the scratch and interrupted Past All American VFW Commander, Prior Seam Squirrel, Current Grand Junior Vice Commander, Grand Fund Raiser Extraordinaire and Grand Auctioneer Cootie Dave Teets again. Cootie Teets addressed Cootie Cellphone Charlie in a pleasant tone of voice (uhuh) and he put his phone away. Cootie Teets then 2nd a motion to set aside $300.00 for POW/MIA ceremony for food and drinks and such. Cootie Teets is finished. Cootie Lawrence made the motion and it unanimously passed. Cootie Teets said he read the minutes from the last 6 months and there was no business. Which is hard to believe because I can barely make out the words in some of those myself, and I wrote them. Anyway Cootie Teets and Cootie Charlie/Jasper/Jimmy recommended a Cootie picnic in Sep or Oct on Cp walker. Pup Tent will provide all the food/meat and other Cooties/people will bring side dishes. We were also informed by the Older Cooties that this will be to recreate and not procreate. Definition: [v] have offspring or young; "The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly". It was also voted on to set aside $500.00 for the Cootie picnic. Cootie Teets 2nd the motion and Cootie Hudson made the motion for the picnic..not procreating. Motion was carried. Cootie Teets is finished..again. Cootie ken also gave $20.00 for the last 2 months and also paid $20.00 for the Seem Squirrel. September 2005. Scratch held on 19 Sep with 10 Cooties and 2 Greybacks present. Nominations were opened for Sky Pilot. Nominations will remain open until October Scratch. Ivan Winner was nominated. Motions: Fees for Cootie Bradley 2nd a motion to pursue the purchase of a 42” Plasma TV to be raffled off Thanksgiving. Cootie Connor made the motion. The Shyster will run issue through JAG and check on any ration issues. Motion passed. Motion made to donate $200.00 to the VFW to support the Boy Scouts efforts in the relief of Korean families who were victims of Hurricane Katrina Motion passed. October 2005. Scratch held on 18 Oct with ____ Cooties present. Letters of intent for the upcoming elections read and nominations for positions taken. Motions: Pup Tent 303 had a very successful year. Carl D. Turnbow Cootie 30, PT 303 Historian Below is a summary of Pup Tent highlights for the 2005-2006 year under Seam Squirrel Jasper Sims. Pup Tent Performance: Pup Tent Membership Prior Year 40, Membership Present Year Membership 42. Increase in Number of Members 2. Increase in Membership Percentage 5% Hospital Program Percentage of PT Quota achieved 537% Number of Hospital Visits by SS 14 Number of Hospital Visits by PT 347 Booster Program Number N/R/LM Recruited by PT 558 Brief Recommendation (not to exceed this area):Pup Tent 303 achieved the following during the 2005-2006 Term: · Three Cooties recruited 100+ new VFW members. · Received Supreme Citation for 100+% in membership prior to Dec 05. · Established a MOC Life Membership payment plan for PT members. · PT had a total of 776 Cooties participated in over 1110 Community Activities logging in over 6571 hours with more than 125,034 miles with money totaling $9,530. · Conducted fund raiser for Clark Cemetery – Provide $500.00 Check to Clark. · Established a Pull Tab Fund Raiser to assist the PT as well as the VFW post 10033 when needed. · Funds the VFW House Band for the VFW Post for monthly performances. · Host the District III annual Memorial Day Ceremony at the Busan International Memorial Cemetery. · PT provided a free Super Bowl breakfast for all VFW members and guest. · Assisted Post 10033 with Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts sponsorship activities. · Funded Post 10033 Children Christmas Party to include party foods. · Received Supreme 100% Membership Citation for VFW Booster Program. · PT held the 1st Annual Swam. · PT provided CARE packages to the 160th SOAR unit deployed to Iraq. · Provided funds to support the Katrina Relief. · Assisted in briefing the Child Care Development Center on how the VFW supports the Community and Veterans. Pup Tent 303 did very well at the 2005-2006 Grand Scratch in purloining some of the most coveted awards. Outstanding Pup Tent of the Year Outstanding Cootie of the Year (Cootie Ralph C) Outstanding New Cootie of the Year: (Cootie Jim P) Outstanding Hospital Chairman (Cootie Butch) Outstanding Booster Recruiting Post 1st Place Pup Tent Hospital Individual awards were also presented: Supreme Aide de Camp Recruiting Class: Phillips, Winner, Sims. Certificate for signing 2 Cootie Life Members: Sims, Lyons S. 25 Hospital Visits: Winner, Hudson, Brown, Behrend, Cartwright 5 Hospital Visits: Morris, Sims, Connor, Brun, Lawrence, Lyons S, Bradley, Swierzewski, Teets, Sass, Phillips, Quinata, Lyons L. Update for year 2005-2006 provided by the Keep of Lousy Records, Cootie 15, Dave Teets, Pup Tent 303. |
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