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informational brochures. Anything that we can, of quality, that
we can put out there to the public. The Auxiliary, as
financially strapped as it is, a couple of years ago put out a
color pamphlet. We talk about the Senior Vice Commander Fund.
There are a couple of us in this room. Gary Gibson one of ‗em.
Patriotic Instructor at National, who is responsible for a fund
that he had to raise during his term of office. We don‘t use
those offices like that anymore. Perhaps we should.
Advertising in The Banner, gentlemen, some of you are better off
than others. Some of you are well-connected, better than
others. Please consider advertising in The Banner. At least at
this early stage, we hope that it‘ll still be in print. We
need to think about promoting the Order and as many of you have
used The Banner that way, it serves a purpose. Not just to sit
on the shelf or sit on the coffee table. But put it in
dentist‘s offices. Places where you frequent. To spread the
word of the Order. Thank you.
Leo F. Kennedy, Commander-in-Chief
Thank you, Brother.
Encampment
(applause)
Leo F. Kennedy, Commander-in-Chief
Brothers, we‘re going to limit this to two more speakers.
Okay? Brad please?
D. Brad Schall, Acting Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief
Brad Schall, Junior Vice Commander. I have thought about
this issue greatly. And I‘m trying not to ‗cause I could
probably speak to it for a long period of time. So I‘ll try to
be as concise as I can. I have every Banner I ever received.
The paper that I used to get is now so colored, I can‘t hardly
read it. I has the memories of many men who set in this room
with me over a great number of years, that are no longer here.
The Banner represents to this Organization a lot more than a
printed booklet that comes out four times a year. It means
really the heart to the greatest share of our members that are
out throughout the Camps and Departments in the country. I
think there are things within The Banner that we can change to
reduce the cost, but it‘s going to have to be over a two or
three year period of time. Including that of which getting
people used going to the internet, and then making that as a
personal decision for them. If that‘s the way they want to do
it. The per cost of the publication is another one. For those
here, it behooves all of us to go back to our Camps and our
Department, and we need to tell those Camps what we‘re facing.
And one of the choices is The Banner and the modification of it.
And then I think we need to bring that feedback, back to this
Encampment next year and not make any decision on whether to
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