Gene and Rosemary Gerlach were in an accident and are doing well after both were in surgery. The Gerlachs are the parents of Fr. Matt Gerlach. Please keep him in your prayers.

The Madonna House Project has been a success. As Christmas approaches, we can still use donations. We will be taking more stuff out after the next business meeting on December 3^rd.

The Council 4721 Christmas Party is set for December 13^th. It will be at the Hall, there will be a Pot Luck (the Council will supply the meat) and, of course, Santa Claus. The time will be confirmed later. Mass may be offered but that will be announced.

Running of the Rose – Ken Neal took the first rose at Mannford, followed by Paul Dudley, Lon Unsell, Jim Williamson, Leroy Weisman, and Bill Hull all walked a mile each heading west.

Lon would like to get a committee together for a 51^th Anniversary Celebration for the Council. 4721 was founded in 1959. It will be January 9^th.

St. Catherine’s Knights Council will have a 2^nd and 3^rd Degree this Sunday, November 22nd.

Priests’ Appreciation is coming. We will be working on a time frame for the dinner. Leroy is great for getting the Bishop there. January has been the usual time but, this is a bit late to schedule it then.

Ladies Appreciation, is usually around Valentine’s Day so what better than the 2010 Ladies Appreciation to fall ON Valentine’s Day! We will be looking to schedule that in February, Valentine’s Day is a Sunday.

Tomb of the Unborn at Calvary Cemetery. Phil is spearheading this through his councils to make a donation in the name of the man who will be doing the work to restore the statue and the plaque for the Tomb of the Unborn.

The Oklahoma Knights of Columbus State Convention will be in April and hosted by the Stillwater Council.

November 29^th will be the next Blood Drive.

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Grand Knight’s Report
The Halloween Party was a great success! A special thanks to the Ladies Auxillary and Bishop Kelly students for helping set up and carrying off a great party. The ladies decorated, arranged the food with the kids help as well as the kids carrying off the entertainment on the Scare Ride.
A thanks to all the participated in the 40 Days for Life Garden of Hope.
January 30-31st, 2010 will be the State Knights of Columbus Bowling Tournament – See or email Lon if you would like to participate.
We also had some old faces appear at the meeting this month! Welcome to our “NEW” old faces! Welcome back!
Catholic Charities is finally moving into their new facility, any help from our Brother Knights is appreciated. Give a call to Catholic Charities to find out what you can do to help our Tulsa Diocese apostolate.

Wednesday, November 11th, will be the Running of the Silver Rose. Our Council will be ‘running’ from Mannford to Yale, Oklahoma.
From the KofC Supreme Council Website, here is what the Running of the Silver Rose is all about:

A full week of Knights of Columbus events in Phoenix, including the 127th Supreme Convention, the Marian Congress and the lively Guadalupe Festival, was launched on Sunday (Aug. 2) with the presentation of the Silver Rose at Saints Simon and Jude Cathedral.
A symbol of the unity among peoples in the Americas, the rose had been carried over the course of months from Canada and through the United States.
The presentation in the Phoenix Cathedral at the 9 a.m. Mass was one stop on the long journey in the annual Knights of Columbus event known as the Running of the Silver Rose.
The rose is also a symbol of the Order’s commitment to the pro-life cause, and Our Lady of Guadalupe is claimed as the patroness of the pro-life movement. The rose’s final destination is the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12.
In the opening procession of the Mass, the rose was presented by members of the Columbian Squires, the youth group of the Knights of Columbus. Carrying the rose was Esteven Wetzel, a member of St. Mary’s Squires Circle #5000 in Phoenix. He was accompanied by fellow Squires Paul Taylor and Devin Morales.
The Squires were chosen for the honor because the annual Running of the Rose was started more than 50 years ago by members of the Columbian Squires.
“I think it is pretty cool to get to participate in keeping this tradition going,” Wetzel said before Mass. “I know the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe and I think it is amazing. Also, I am a pro-life person. I pray in front an abortion clinic with my pro-life group. I think it is an honor to represent the pro-life message with this rose.”
Celebrating the Mass was Father Paul Sullivan, director of vocations for the Phoenix Diocese. He told the congregation that the rose, which was placed before the cathedral’s large image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, was “a sign of our commitment to the protection of all human life.”
The Silver Rose will be a part of the celebrations at the Guadalupe Festival on Saturday, Aug. 8, when some 16,000 people are expected to fill the Jobing.com Arena for an afternoon and prayer, song, witness talks and intercultural exchange.
For 50 years, the Knights of Columbus has sponsored the Our Lady of Guadalupe Silver Rose Program to honor the Blessed Virgin under her title of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of America. The purpose of the is to honor our Lady of Guadalupe and to reaffirm our commitment to the sanctity of life.
This past May, three Silver Roses left Ontario, Canada, and have been traversing the United States by a Western, Central and Eastern route. In November, all three Roses will come together in Laredo, Texas, to travel over the International Bridge and be delivered to Knights from Monterey, Mexico.
The Western Rose, traveling south through the Mountain States, is the one that arrived in Phoenix.

Content from the Supreme Council Website Copyright © Knights of Columbus 2003-09. All rights reserved.

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On October 16th, from 11 P.M Friday night to 4 or 5 A.M. Saturday Morning, Council 4721 will be covering the 40 Days for Life prayer garden in front of the Planned Parenthood in Tulsa. We need volunteers to cover these hours. Currently, we have 11 pm covered. Please email Lon with the time you will volunteer for.

St. Pius has signed up to cover the 24 hrs starting from October 16th, Friday morning 7 A.M. to October 17th, Saturday morning 7 A.M.

If you can help us from  that would be great.

This fall, our community will once again be uniting with dozens of other cities across the U.S. for the largest and longest coordinated pro-life mobilization in history – the 40 Days for Life campaign.


People of faith are praying that this effort will mark the beginning of the end of abortion.

40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life campaign that has generated measurable lifesaving results in more than 130 cities where it has been implemented. Some locations have reported as much as a 28% drop in local abortion numbers and hundreds of new people getting involved in local lifesaving ministry efforts. The 40 Days for Life campaign is made up of three key components:

- Prayer and Fasting: inviting people of faith throughout our city to join together for 40 days of fervent prayer and fasting for an end to abortion

- Peaceful Vigil: standing for life through a 40-day peaceful public witness outside Reproductive Services, the abortion facility in Tulsa at 6136 E 32nd Place

- Community Outreach: taking a positive, upbeat pro-life message to every corner of our city through media efforts, church presentations, petition drives and public visibility

Learn how you can “speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves” here in Tulsa by contacting campaign directors Erick Bell and Tracy Callicoat at (918) 307-4939 or familylife.office@dioceseoftulsa.org.
To visit the Diocese of Tulsa 40 Days for Life page, visit www.40DaysforLife.com/Tulsa.

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Knights of Columbus are on the schedule to be the greeters for the Masses of the weekend of Oct. 3/4. We need to schedule at least two people for each Mass. If we can get more, we'll cover the side doors as well.


We need St. Pius X Knights for greeters for Saturday 5 o'clock, Sunday 8, 10, and 12:00 o'clock masses.

Thank you Brother Knights!

Lon Unsell, GK
J.A. Arroyo, DGK

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Grand Knight's Report:

• Grand Knight’s Report: 1st Degree practice went well after the Officer’s Meeting. Feast Day went well Saturday night at St. Pius. Knights picked up the chairs on Sunday morning. District Officers’ meeting was conducted by our District Deputy. Would like to talk to members of the team after the meeting. We currently show that we have 186 members on our roster. We will be working on getting those all active and accounting for these members. Lon talked to Principal at Pius X, he will help with marketing our blood drives, pancake breakfasts, etc. in their school newsletters. This is a great opportunity for the Knights since it will get KofC information in the hands of younger parents.

Chancellor's Report:

• Chancellor’s Report – Beginning a Retention Committee. We are going to call all the members and try to bring them back into the Council. We will be talking to them and getting them involved. Without the retention chairman, the council cannot take a member off the rolls, even if he has not attended meetings or paid dues.

Program Director's Report:

• Bob Caruso, Program Director:
• Blood Drive Scheduled for the 27th of September. Going to Veteran’s Hospital in Muskogee for Mass with the Veterans. A lot of these guys don’t get visitors so this is a valuable service to our servicemen. Thursday, leave Tulsa at 8:15 AM Desire to have a new Pro Life Director position.
• Pancake Breakfast and Blood Drive on September 27th.
• Next Pancake Breakfast is October 18th, November 29th. Took in over $200 for the last Pancake Breakfast.
  

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Urgent Pro-Life Alert

July 22, 2009



The healthcare reform legislation currently before Congress contains an abortion mandate that is a grave threat to human life. The bill's language will result in federally mandated abortion coverage by nearly all health plans, recruitment of abortion doctors into local health networks, and the nullification of many state laws that place reasonable limits on abortion.

The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) has called this legislation the "largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade."

We urge you to write to your senators and congressman today. Click here where you can learn more about the health legislation and send a message to your two senators and congressman.






Please go to www.stoptheabortionmandate.com to register.

• Gary Elias died in auto accident,
• Father-In-Law of Phil, District Deputy, had hip surgery,
• Ed Cathcart – heart condition,
•  Dorothy Miller, State Treasurer’s wife, going through ChemoTherapy,
• Colleen Young, Tommy Young’s wife (retired Deacon from Ss Peter and Paul) – her health is deteriorating, COPD.
• Fr. Boniface T. Copelin, O.S.B. celebrates the anniversary of his ordination on the Feast of St. Pius X.

Mike Buckendorf – Knight of the Month

Family of the Month – Bill and Cheryl Hull, Mike Hull


District Deputy’s Report – Phil has been around the different councils. He is looking forward to being at the Officers’ Installation festivities on August 16th at 5:00 PM. He will install the Ladies Auxiliary at the same time. Looking forward to having a First Degree. Looks like we have plenty of candidates, just need the team.

September 19th at 8 to 4 – East District Officers’ Workshop at Pius X.
We will have the 1st Degree Team practice after the next Officer’s Meeting.
Bowling League starts about Labor Day (Wednesday before) - 7:30 on Wednesday nights at Sheridan Lanes.


4th Degree News

4th Degree – We will have an Exemplification of the 4th Degree on November 7th in Moore, OK – Initiation fee is $90. New District Master may change the cost of Exemplification. News will be forthcoming. Starts at Noon.
Blood Drive
Our blood drive on July 19 at St Pius X was a great success! We set a new standard of donors (24) which was 33% more than our previous high.

Eleven Knights (J. Arroyo, Mike Canfield, Bob Caruso, Scott Collier, Bill Hull, Pat McAuliff, Tom Metzler, Jim Miller, Matt Soerries, Mike Soerries and Jim Williamson) donated as well as three Knight family members (Cheryl and Mike Hull and Susan Stackler).
We plan to build on this success and have an even better turnout at our next drive on September 27th.
Thank you all for your gift of life.

Veterans' Mass
Each month, a handful of 4721 Knights (Lon Unsell, Leroy Weismann, Paul Dudley and Bob Caruso) travel to Claremore to join several other council Knights and ladies to accompany VA Hospital Catholic veterans to mass.
Fr. Eichhoff of St. Cecilia is the celebrant and holds the service in the hospital’s chapel. The service is held at 9:30 on the second Thursday of each month. Some of these veterans have few outside visitors and are very appreciative of our visits. Contact any of the above members to join our carpool to Claremore.

Bob Caruso

Grand Knight's Report

The Knights of Council 4721 are rather busy this month.

Sunday the 16th of August, is 3rd Degree Officer and Ladies Auxilliary Installationat the Hall, followed by a "potluck" dinner..
Friday the 21st, we will cook bratwurst for a party in honor of St Pius X Principal, Vereecke and his new wife Elizabeth.
The next morning, Saturday the 22nd, we will set up tables and chairs for the Feast of St. Pius X.
Sunday after lunch, we will take the tables and chairs down then the officers will go to the Knights Hall for a District Officer's meeting.

On August 30, we will have our frist Pancake Breakfast at St. Pius X after the 8 and 10 A. M. Masses
Lon Unsell, Grand Knight

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As a clarification, flockNotes is a means for the council to send out notices of meetings or events to the membership. This is, really, just what it says, a note. This is not used to send long emails, it is for reminders. Tonight, for example, I sent out a notice of the business meeting. On other occassions, I have sent out reminders for the Blood Drive, etc.

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Council 4721 has a newsletter online now! The articles which are being sent out by the newsletter emails will remain online at the BLOG!

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We encourage you to email our seminarians as often as you can. I am including email addresses and pictures of our seminarians for you to keep these men in your prayers and thoughts. During the summer, many are back in the Diocese for various assignments. Click on the picture to email the Seminarian

Kerry Wakulich

3rd Theology
St. John Vianney Theological Seminary
1300 S. Steele St.
Denver, CO 80210

wakulich@yahoo.com

Ernesto Calvillo

3rd Theology
St. Meinrad School of Theology
200 Hill Drive
St. Meinrad, IN 47577

semi_81@hotmail.com

Alex Carroll

2nd College
Tulsa Community College
440 S. Florence Ave.,
Tulsa, OK 74104

Andrew Dever

4th College
Conception Seminary College
PO Box 502
Conception, MO 64433

Sean Donovan

2nd Theology
North America Pontifical College
00120 Vatican City State, Europe
North America Pontifical College

Kevin Gasperino

2nd College
Conception Seminary College
PO Box 502
Conception, MO 64433

imgas2@cox.net

Jorge Gomez

2nd Theology
St. Meinrad School of Theology
200 Hill Drive
St. Meinrad, IN 47577

jorgelmoxad_tulok@hotmail.com

John Grant

1st Theology
St. John Vianney Theological Seminary
1300 South Steele Street
Denver, CO 80210

johngrant27@gmail.com

Michael Judkins

Pre-Theology II
St. Meinrad School of Theology
200 Hill Drive
St. Meinrad, IN 47577

Bryan Ketterer

4th College
St. John Vianney College Seminary
Mail #5024, 2115 Summit Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105

Todd Nance

4rd College
Conception Seminary College
PO Box 502
Conception, MO 64433

toddnance19@yahoo.com

Duy Nguyen

1st College
Tulsa Community College
2720 South 129th Street East Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74134

nvtd_tommy@yahoo.com

Jorge Perez

3rd Theology
Pontifical University of Mexico
Victory #98, Col. Tlalpan CP 14000, Mexico, DF

Mike Pratt

2nd Theology
North America Pontifical College
00120 Vatican City State, Europe

homer6923@sbcglobal.net

Joe Thummel

3rd Theology
St. John Vianney Theological Seminary
1300 S. Steele St.
Denver, CO 80210

wildthumbs3@hotmail.com

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On June 14th at 5 PM, the Fourth Degree provided an Honor Guard for the Corpus Christi Procession.egan and ended at the Holy Family Cathedral in downtown Tulsa.

H G's in attendance;

Leroy Wiesman, PSD

Lon Unsell, FN

Jon Kidd, FN as of 6/1/09

Howard Coughlin

Gene Gerlach

Jeff Kessler

Jerry Struble

Chris Victor

Mike Schorer

J A Arroyo

Dave Lozano - ADM

July 1, 2009

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At the June, 2009 General Meeting, the following were elected to serve as Council officers for 2009-2010

Chaplain	Fr. Jim Caldwell	Advocate - Ken Neal
Grand Knight	Lon Unsell	Recorder	Tom Metzler
Deputy Grand Knight	J.A. Arroyo	Outside Guard	Thomas Perry
Chancellor	Michael Arroyo	Inside Guard	Mike Buckendorf
* Financial Secretary	Arthur Barber	Trustee - 3 Yr.	Bill Hull
Treasurer	Jim Miller	Trustee - 2yr	Phil Nickel (2 years left in office)
Warden	Pat McAuliff	Trustee - 1 yr	Mike Soerries (1 year left in office)

* Financial Secretary is appointed by Supreme

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At the Officer's Meeting, we identified members for our new 4721 First Degree Team. In the past, we have had an active 1st Degree team (our incoming DGK, SK Arroyo was a member with Rob Rauner in years past!). The new team will be manned by:

Lon Unsell, Bill Hull, J.A. Arroyo, Michael Arroyo, Leroy Weisman, Bob Caruso and Arthur Barber

Also agreed upon were some of our new chairmen for the fraternal year ending in 2010.
Bob Caruso will be the Program Director for the Council. Under him will be:

• Bill Hull, Community Director,
• Scott Collier, Church Director,
• J.A. Arroyo, Council Activities,
• and Michael Arroyo, Membership.

Thomas Perry will probably be Youth Activities Director.

Thanks to our Brother Knights for stepping up to the plate and taking charge of these worthwhile activities. There are still Chairman positions open as well as committee positions for our Brother Knights to fill.

Please talk to Bob Caruso, Lon Unsell, or J.A. Arroyo about filling some of these worthwhile Council Activities!

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Mark your calendars for the following activities through the end of June and July:

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