b'NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE, continuedA Letter from our State Historian Savannah Catholic Cemetary TourThe business industry and the military train that the best way to get a team rowing in the same direction is by bringing them togeth-er.(But) were having to do this distributed.The staff is rethinking how it does business. This is a quote from Brigadier General Dustin Schultz of the US Army Reserve Command, published in a recent article about how USARC is doing business during the COVID-19 crisis. When I read that, I was reminded that is exactly what we have had to do in our business of taking care of each other, our clergy, our parishes, and our communities. Like everyone else, we are now well into our second month of distributed operations. As your historian, I am interested in capturing how we are op-erating in this environment. It is important that we leave a body of knowledge for future Knights-leaders to look upon in the inevitable occurrence of a similar situation that we are experiencing today.State Secretary Jim Clifford as Col. Michael J OLeary the first GA Whether that occurs in our lifetime, or one-hundred years into theState Deputy During the Savannah Catholic Cemetary Tour.future; whether it is another pandemic or some other cataclysmic emergency, we do not know. But we do know that it probably willCouncil 12682 Scholarship Presentationhappen again. Therefore, I am asking every Grand Knight, District Deputy or oth-er leader in Georgia to document how this situation is challenging you and how you are responding. Everything is on the table. We need to know those challenges we were not prepared for, the les-sons learned and how they are impacting our operations (meetings, membership,programs,insuranceetc),bestpractises,achieve-ments, and recommendations. Please send them to me in whatever form suits you best. Ill take emails, narratives, spreadsheets, pre-sentations, bulletins, newspaper articles, website or social media posts, photos or whatever else you may have. This is not the story of leaders alone, it is the story of an organization, so I would like to Sharpsburg Council 12682 Scholarship Presentationhear anyone and everyone, be they leaders (including Chaplains),Foreground L- R(Dad) Ed Weilke, (Mom) Laura Weikle, (Sister) Em-individual Knights, and family members. Do not worry about formatsmie Weikle & (Scholarship Recipient) Sam Weikle Background L- R or whether your submission is publishable. History is not pretty. IfGK Pete Darcy, F/S Matt Brodowski, (Scholarship Chairman) SK I have any questions about a submission, Ill call you and we willTom Hanford (deceased Feb. 2020 may God Grant Eternal Peace), figure it out together. Send them now to this email address (state. Warden Gary Hawes.historian@gakofc.org) and keep sending them as things develop. There will be no end date to when Ill accept COVID-19 reports. Include names and numbers of parishes, councils, districts, and individuals. Annotate the dates, and locations whenever possible. I will file whatever I receive. At some point in the future, I will begin organizing the files, consolidating information, and using what we learn to tell our story and to make us better for those Knights of Columbus that follow in our footsteps.Jim CliffordState Historianstate.historian@gakofc.orgAnnual Convention Golf Tournament Leader Board1st Place after zero holes played: StateTreasurerT.J.McCaustland, 1862PastGrandKnightDinoCer-vone, State Warden Kevin York, Sate Program Director and District Deputy 19 Ed OConner.This group challenges you to beat them, should take about one hole to get ahead for good!95'