then asked BobR
to lead us in GBA. RevRoberta called on God to bless us and our
endeavors, and reminded us we are His stewards. BobR introduced a very
special guest, his bride, Esther. Welcome Esther; we were all so
pleased to have you at our luncheon! Circle K'ers Diane, Josh, Sooyun,
Peter and Kenneth also joined us.
DATES TO REMEMBER (Kiwanian contact in parenthesis)
August 28: Circle K working at Music Festival (Phuoc)
September 1: Luncheon Speaker is Benito Delgado-Olson on the East Bay
Scholarship Fund
September 5-6: Circle K Garage Sale 9-5 at Ace Hardware (Phuoc)
September 8: Luncheon Speaker is Chris Finn, Head Coach of the USA
National Power Soccer Team
September 9: Dine Out at Café Casa 5:30 (Phuoc)
September 10: Our new Lt Gov's Virginia's installation at My Big Fat
Greek Banquet Room (VC)
September 13: Solano Stroll (Denise)
September 15: Luncheon Speaker's topic: The History of the Fizz Off
September 29: Interclub lunch at San Leandro; Englander Restaurant (BC
or Denise). THIS WILL
COMPLETE OUR ROUND ROBIN!
September 29: Installation of Roberta and Tamara as Half and Half
(their reign will be rich) Presidents. (Frank)
DETAILS OF EVENTS
AUGUST BOARD: Our sponsored youth—Circle K, Berkeley Key Club, Oakland
Tech Key Club-- presented their budgets for the coming year.
YEA: Sandy led a successful session of sandwich making this week for
YEA
SOLANO STROLL: We'll have face painting and a rocking horse and a
rocking dinosaur and e-books and Entertainment books. Volunteers still
needed. Denise is the contact.
HAPPY DOLLARS (and a few sad ones)
-Art: Happy for one week of perfect attendance, convention in San Diego
and the start of the Kitchen Project
-JohnP: Proud that, when he sat at his table, the average age of the
table went down
-Evie: Happy that the average age went down even more when she joined
the table
-Josh: For the first Board Meeting
-RevBill: For youthful JohnP
-Jeff: Happy for young JohnP, but sad that the scribe was using a
…….pencil, rather than her computer
-Duane: An Info Dollar—The US spent millions on inventing a pen that
would write in weight-less space; the Russians used a…….pencil
-NewBob: Sad for the BART increase (his sad dollar became 30 cents)
-RevBill: Sad for no basket ticket (he did finally end up with one)
OTHER NOTES AND COMMENTS
RevRoberta provided us with a September Daily Meditation booklet.
Thank you, Roberta.
PrezDenise had a ½ price sale on The Basket. Once $25.00 was
collected, the raffle was held. The Basket was filled with yummy sweet
treats; Frank was the
winner.
Membership shows Berkeley Kiwanis at a +2.
SPEAKER
Art Paradis was our speaker. His talk, Mystery Solved, recounted his
adventures and research to discover the story behind a counterfeit
fractional currency note from Civil War times.
Art traced the history of a counterfeit note--famous because it was the
only counterfeit note reproduced by using an actual captured printing
plate--from the time it was featured in the 1867 Heath Counterfeit
Detector book (a book containing info to help banks and businesses
detect counterfeit money) back to the arrest of the counterfeiters and
the capture of the plate from the privy.
Art's detective work included trips to the New York Public library,
purchases of old books on eBay and a lucky find at an auction. The
story of the capture of the gang and the printing plate involved a
rival counterfeiter hiring a private detective to raid his rival's
press. The actual raid resembled a Keystone Cops fiasco with the main
counterfeiter jumping out the window, the son of the local sheriff
being captured, and the printer throwing the printing plate into the
privy.
The main counterfeiter, Charles Brockway, was later captured and worked
for the Secret Service as a way to stay out of jail—the Secret Service
believed in the old adage: it takes one (in this case a counterfeiter)
to know one (another counterfeiter). Brockway did such a bad job of
turning in other counterfeiters to the Secret Service, he finally ended
up serving 15 years in prison.
Art enjoys researching to uncover the history behind the mystery.
Thank you, Art, for a fascinating talk and a look at a segment of
history we rarely see.
(scribe: TJP)
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