June 2000

Number 12

The 32nd Annual Voluntary Campaign has ended and the total funds received from Sir Knights, Ladies, Organizations and Friends produces a total of $1,184,415.83.  All those who helped are to be commended for their support of this Great Humanitarian Charity.

Top Grand Commanderies

No. 1               Texas                          $ 144,983.69

No. 2               Missouri                     $ 139,007.69

No. 3               Pennsylvania              $   87,516.08

Top Subordinate Commanderies

No. 1   Anchorage No. 1, Alaska          $ 4,190.00

No. 2   Heidelburg No. 1, Germany      $    900.00

No. 3   Solo Di Aruba No. 1, Aruba      $    700.00  

Thank You!

The Officers and Trustees of the Knights Templar Eye Foundation extends their thanks to all who helped make the 32nd Annual Voluntary Campaign a success. 

Permanent Donor Funds Update

There are now 14 Permanent Donor Funds with a total in excess of $ 150,000.00.

For Information Contact:

5097 North Elston Avenue, Suite 100

Chicago, IL 60630-2460

Phone: (773) 205-3838

Fax: (773) 205-1689

Our Record as of 6/1/00

Payments on Cases . . . . . . . . . . Over $69 million

Research Grants . . . . . . . . . . . ..  Over $5 million

Applications Received . . . . . . . . . . . .Over 63,900

For persons 65 years of age or older, the National Eye Care Project is as close as your phone at 1-800-222-EYES. Be sure to state that a Knight Templar referred you.

Case #63059

This is a note to let you know how much I appreciate the financial assistance granted to me.  You have helped me to be able to continue to see.  Because without the treatment I would have lost my sight in my left eye.  It is agencies like yours that make a difference in this world.  May God bless you and all the persons that make this assistance possible.

Once again, thank you.  You were an answer to my prayers!

Thanks from West Virginia

Case #62899

I am writing to thank you for approving the funding for my recent eye surgery.  If it wasn't for your organization I wouldn't have been able to pay for the surgery.

Your organization does great things for many people in need, and I am so greatful ltht you could help me when I needed it.

Thank you so much for all you did.

Words from Wyoming...

Case # 62379

Thank you so much for the cataract surgery.

Now I can see out of the eye.  It is almost 20/20 vision.  Before the surgery, I could only see light and dark shadows.

Dr. Dodd said before sthe surgery that there was only 2% chance of getting worse.  That would be if I went blind in the eye.

Thank You.

Useless Trivia

Life in the 1500's

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and were still smelling pretty good by June.  However, they were starting to smell, so brides carreid a bouquet of flowers to hide the b.o.

Baths equalled  a big tub filled with hot water.  The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, the all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children.  Last of all the babies.  By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.  Hence the saying, "Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water".

Trivia Continued….

Houses had thatched roofs.  Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath.  It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the pets… dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs lived in the roof.  When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall of the roof.  Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."

England is old and small, and they started running out of places to bury people.  So, they would dig up coffins and would take their bones to a house and reuse the grave.  In reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive.  So they thought they would tie a string on their wrist and lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.  Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell.  Hence on the "graveyard shift" they would know that someone was "saved by the bell" or he was a "dead ringer ".

Bread was divided according to status.  Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the "upper crust".

"God Speaks on Billboards"

Let's meet at my house Sunday before the game.

-God

What part of "Thou Shalt Not…" didn't you understand?                                                     -God

Keep using my name in vain, I'll make rush hour longer.                                                      -God