Honoring The Legion Of Honor - Murat Shrine
Honoring The Legion Of Honor - Murat Shrine
Honoring The Legion Of Honor - Murat Shrine
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<strong>Legion</strong> of <strong>Honor</strong><br />
By the time you read this, the<br />
International Association <strong>Legion</strong>s of<br />
<strong>Honor</strong> annual convention will be history.<br />
To all who attended, I hope you<br />
enjoyed yourselves and came away with<br />
fond memories and just maybe a new<br />
friendship or two. I’ll be able to offer<br />
more details in the next issue of the<br />
magazine.<br />
This month, the <strong>Legion</strong> of <strong>Honor</strong> is<br />
teaming up with the Transportation Club<br />
to participate in the Paper Crusade. This<br />
annual event is held specifically to raise<br />
awareness of the great work the Shiners<br />
Hospitals do for the kids. All money collected<br />
goes directly to <strong>Shrine</strong>rs Hospitals<br />
or to <strong>Murat</strong> Transportation Fund.<br />
Motorcycle Fun<br />
Club<br />
Tom Austin<br />
<strong>The</strong> warm weather is finally here<br />
and we have our bikes out and are starting<br />
to ride. Our meetings are showing<br />
life again with the anticipation of riding<br />
as a group to different events.<br />
We have scheduled several rides<br />
already and hope to see you out there<br />
with us. We have the Grand Masters’<br />
ride, lunch/dinner rides, and car and<br />
motorcycle show events.<br />
We welcome new members to<br />
join our Club – growing with enthusiasm,<br />
good fellowship and fun activities<br />
planned every month. All you need is<br />
a licensed street worthy motorcycle and<br />
you are ready to go! We meet the third<br />
Thursday of each month at 8 p.m. in the<br />
Mecca Room.<br />
We need you to come to our<br />
meetings so we can better plan events<br />
and get organized to make this a fun<br />
club once again. Please feel free to stop<br />
by and visit to learn more about our<br />
Club. Contact Tom Austin, our Club<br />
president, at 752-0519 if you have any<br />
questions. We look forward to seeing<br />
you on the road.<br />
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Discussed at our April Stated Meeting<br />
was the possibility of touring a military<br />
museum in Anderson, IN. From what<br />
I’ve been told, this particular museum<br />
has an extensive collection of military<br />
vehicles, many of which have been utilized<br />
in the making of several movies.<br />
At this point, a tentative September date<br />
has been set. I’ll share more details<br />
when they become available.<br />
Also, again this year, the <strong>Legion</strong> of<br />
<strong>Honor</strong> is planning a bus trip to Arlington<br />
National Cemetery over Veterans Day<br />
weekend, in November, for the wreath<br />
laying ceremony at the tomb of the<br />
Unknown Soldier. We are considering<br />
adding another day to the trip so as to<br />
Chanters<br />
Bob Watson<br />
give us more time to see the sights.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is so much to do and see in our<br />
nation’s capitol. As we did last year, if<br />
we don’t have enough <strong>Legion</strong> of <strong>Honor</strong><br />
members to fill the bus, we will then<br />
open it up to any <strong>Shrine</strong>r. I’ll have more<br />
information on this at a later date.<br />
Don’t forget the <strong>Legion</strong> of <strong>Honor</strong> is<br />
dark in July and August, but the Color<br />
Guard will be available to present colors<br />
at your Club or Unit’s function. Contact<br />
our Color Guard captain, John Cheeley,<br />
to make arrangements. Remember, “It is<br />
an honor to belong to the <strong>Legion</strong> of<br />
<strong>Honor</strong>.”<br />
Gayle L. Byers<br />
A POP QUIZ<br />
School is out for the summer so it’s time to test what you’ve learned this year<br />
through the informative and erudite materials that have been brought to you in this<br />
column. Take a minute and see how you score.<br />
1. Who is the current president of <strong>Murat</strong>’s premier singing ensemble?<br />
2. <strong>The</strong> Chanters are proud of having two Past Potentates in the Unit – who are<br />
they?<br />
3. What famous Golfmeister is an honorary Chanter, but not allowed to sing?<br />
4. What annual fall event at the <strong>Shrine</strong> provides not only great food, marvelous<br />
liquid libations, and enormous hospitality but also the most fabulous display<br />
of talent under one roof?<br />
5. What <strong>Shrine</strong> event will you mark on your calendar now for October 6, 2007,<br />
and promise not to miss?<br />
6. What currently “inactive” Chanter was recently feted as a Prom King and was<br />
photographed in the clutches of a dowager Queen?<br />
7. If you had your choice of eating a gizzard, drinking a blizzard, being enchanted<br />
by a wizard or slithering with a Lounge Lizard, which would you choose<br />
for maximum enjoyment?<br />
8. Who would you put money on to be late for his own funeral (or any other<br />
activity requiring his presence)?<br />
9. Whose Fez did the Chanter Director have to borrow for a recent photo shoot<br />
in the <strong>Murat</strong> Magazine?<br />
10. What reward is yours for the successful completion of this quiz?<br />
Answers 1. Greg Edwards 2. Robert Hancock, Jr. and Philip Thrasher 3. Donovan Melvin 4. <strong>The</strong> Chanter<br />
Men’s Show 5. <strong>The</strong> Chanter Men’s Show 6. Charlie Edmonds 7. Name Withheld 8. Ed Adams 9. Imperial<br />
Sir and P.P. John A. Cinotto 10. Are you kidding?<br />
THE MURAT MAGAZINE
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