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Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels As the hour is close we will adjourn for lunch. I’ll ask your attention while the Chaplain closes the Bible. Lunch 124 th National Encampment (Second Session Afternoon August 5, 2005) Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels Reports of the National Standing Committees as we left off with the National Committee on Graves and Registration Brother Bob Lowe. Anything additional to report? National Committee on Graves Registration Chairman Bob Lowe Commander, only one recommendation from the Graves Registration Committee this year. This Encampment or the Council of Administration grant approval to conduct an investigation/cost analysis toward the ultimate goal of contracting with a computer programmer for additional enhancements and functions to the National Graves Registration Database. Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels Thank you. Glenn B. Knight, Department of Pennsylvania I move that the recommendations of this committee and all future committees be taken up at the time they are presented and that without objection they be approved at the sound of the gavel. Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels There has been a motion made and do we have a second? Charlie Kuhn, Department of Pennsylvania Department of Pennsylvania seconds. Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels Alright, discussion? All those in favor? Encampment Aye. Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels Opposed? A few Aye. Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels Motion carries. The recommendation Brother Lowe, if you would restate that for us one more time. National Committee on Graves Registration Chairman Bob Lowe That the National Encampment or Council of Administration grant approval to conduct an investigation/cost analysis towards an ultimate goal of contracting with a computer programmer for additional enhancements and functions to the National Graves Registration Database. Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels Thank you. Is there a motion to accept the recommendation? National Counselor, James B. Pahl Commander-in-Chief, I don’t necessarily rise to object but I do rise to ask for a point of information as to what he is thinking and why? Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels Okay. Brother Lowe. National Committee on Graves Registration Chairman Bob Lowe Currently the National Graves Registration Database on-line was an ongoing project dating back a few years ago. It has come with inherited problems to it. Some that we have been able to correct 20
through our National Signals Officer and other ones are needed. There are suggestions in my report on page 19. There is also a major consensus here within certain Departments that the database itself was based on a cobalt system, which was archaic, fifteen or twenty years ago. That data cannot be uploaded in a modern manner to the database and also cannot be disseminated in many ways. With these considerations in mind, we need to either improve the additional database, which I know you are going to hear some objection to that, or maintain this database and also simultaneously start an investigation to have a new database created, which is going to cost some funds. Hence investigation/cost analysis conducted by myself or someone else the Commander-in-Chief appoints to do that, that maybe has more knowledge in computer programming than I. There has been a good reception, by and large, through to the National Database countywide, in some cases worldwide. But there are some inherit problems. It is taking the Graves Registration Committee, the four or five people on that, it is taking a great deal of time and effort, many, many, many hours. The workload for that committee has grown exponentially. And I can see the present way that the database is being handled, that it is going to get to a point where it is not going to be a feasible for a small committee to do this and maintain the security of the database. I don’t know if that is proper or not if somebody would like to hit me over the head or something that’s fine. Pardon me. Right here is fine. Encampment Laughter... National Committee on Graves Registration Chairman Bob Lowe I would like to make one more comment. That the original Access-based database, unknowingly, was flawed. I did not realize that until we did some serious investigation after the last Encampment. I also, at the same time as the last Encampment received direction from the Counsel of Administration to proceed in a timely manner, thirty days, to proceed with the current database as it was created. I then played with the cards that I was dealt and did the best and the Committee did the best they could and I would like to see improvements. If not a new database, improvements on this one. I do not believe that we should go backwards and take the database off-line. It has been a great value to this Order. Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels Brother Pahl. National Counselor James B. Pahl I am going to object to the recommendation as stated and ask that, instead, the motion read as the current recommendation reads, but add the additional language that they be allowed to explore other software and with a view in mind of possibly changing the Graves Registration Database to an entirely different system and give the committee the authorization to look at that, in addition to enhancements and functions of the current base and I so move you. Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels Brother Knight seconded it. Alright, Brother Lowe would you accept that as a…. National Committee on Graves Registration Chairman Bob Lowe I would Sir. Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels Alright. Any other requests for information or comments? Brother Twining. Steve Twining, Department of Massachusetts What I would like to know about the database, was that I was informed that it was on Microsoft Access and what my problem has been with it is just that I don’t think that we have somebody that knowledgeable in Access to make the database as good as it could be. For example, and I’m not blaming anybody for this, I’m just making observations of some of the problems that may not be that expensive to change, and one of them is when you put in the data, you have a key, so every import gets a unique number. Because when somebody puts in John Smith is buried in Springfield Cemetery and you come back six months later and a John Smith in Springfield Cemetery belonged to the forty-ninth 21
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Page 11 and 12: IN MEMORIAM Richard C. Schlenker Co
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Page 15 and 16: Br. Michaels worked to build the Or
Page 17 and 18: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil
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Page 21 and 22: Doctor Robert Carroon Commander-in-
Page 23 and 24: Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels
Page 25 and 26: State of the Order National Officer
Page 27 and 28: Commander- in- Chief Stephen Michae
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Page 31 and 32: From the Pennsylvania Department.
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Page 43 and 44: Charlie Kuhn, Department of Pennsyl
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Commander-in-Chief Stephen Michaels
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Dale Theetge, Department of New Yor
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their allotment of seventeen, which
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and listen. There are Brothers in t
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Several Second. Commander-in-Chief
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Frank Tucker, Department of Massach
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carrying out the mandates of his of
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the discussion a substitute motion
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Henry Shaw, Department of Ohio Late
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we have created what is known as th
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National Counselor James B. Pahl Co
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Three: after consultation with the
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Past Commander-in-Chief Richard Orr
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Encampment Strucken, Laughter. Char
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Past Commander-in-Chief George Powe
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Department of Massachusetts Ed Norr
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Eagle Scout Certificate Coordinator
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same, so we can have a history of a
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Appendix 1 Reports of National Offi
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New Jersey: 6 New York: 12 Ohio: 12
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Grave-side Memorial Day services, a
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Treasurer (Max Newman) Due to last
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them to join the other Allied Order
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Eagle Scout Coordinator (Bob Petrov
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Franklin Haley (MA) Harold Slavik (
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I will be publishing a newsletter a
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this report, a preliminary draft of
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Web Site Usage - During the past qu
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That Departments/CALs which do file
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The intent of this law and the Stat
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CHAPTER III ARTICLE VII Committees
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een introduced since the start of t
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PC-in-C Loomis presented a memorial
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Remembrance Day (Bud Atkinson) The
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Tempe Boone Reynolds, age unknown,
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Appendix 2 Council of Administratio
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membership badge or miniature badge
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space for full mailing and e-mail a
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inform the Council if members will
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and business obligations. SVC-in-C
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summarized the feeling of many pres
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Officers present who wished to give
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Commander-in-Chief Michaels then re
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C-in-C Michaels reported on the inq
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that he could attend to this. Broth
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February 8, 2005 A motion was made
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Appendix 3 General Orders Of the Co
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16. We, as an Order, are limited on
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General Orders No. 5 SERIES 2004-20
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Lincoln Tomb Ceremony April 15, 200
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Sons of Confederate Veterans Reunio
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YEAR NAME DEPARTMENT 1881 Harry T.
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NUMBERYEAR DATES LOCATION 1st 1882
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Date of Report: 30 June 2005 Page 1
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National Organization - Sons of Uni
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