EPHRAIM DAGGETT CHAPTER 36

Sons of the Republic of Texas

Minutes of 12 April 2008 meeting

The meeting was called to order by President Duane Blair at 10:00 am and the invocation was offered by Russell Leavens. The pledge of allegiance to the American and Texas Flags was led by President Blair. Mr. Blair asked that those in attendance stand and introduce themselves and give a review of their ancestry making them eligible for membership in SRT.

Jerry Spencer read the minutes from the two prior meetings and a motion and second to approve the minutes, as read, was followed by a unanimous vote for approval by voice vote. Don Goodman reported that the bank balance at 1 February 2008 was $2,813.54 and the balance at 12 April 2008 was $2,806.90 which revealed a squandering of $6.64 over the last two months. Don asked for guidance related to retention of financial records of the club since his files were taking up a lot of room. The decision was to keep only the five previous years of records.

Vaughn Oliver related information about a “lending library” of SRT wherein books would be passed from member to member as they are read and Vaughn had a copy of “Almonte’s Texas” which he had received from David Hanover of the Piney Woods Chapter on April 5, 2008 and Vaughn passed it to Jerry Spencer on 12 April 2008. There is no time limit for the exchange to be made.

President Blair announced that there are four new members in our club, Fred Patterson, Jr. of Denton Texas, Robert Franklin Pitts of Grand Prairie, Jackie Lee Pitts of Mabank Texas and Bruce Harley Daniel of Harrisburg North Carolina.

Virgil Ellis called on D.A. Sharpe to introduce Robert A.E. Callanan, Admiral in the Texas Navy, who presented the program which was a review of the functions and organization of the Texas Navy along with some historical information related to that organization. Virgil Ellis presented the speaker with an honorarium in appreciation for his service.

Virgil announced that the program for the June meeting would be about the Star Spangled Banner presented by Willard Thomas and the program for August would be about the Texas Legation and for October the program would be about the Final Battle of Palo Duro Canyon.

President Blair reported that the SRT had asked each chapter to make an effort to get April 21^st designated as San Jacinto Day in their local area. He had sent a letter and a sample proclamation to Mayor Mike Moncrief of Fort Worth and Duane received a telephone call response, from Mr. Brian Chapman, saying that city policy dictated that such actions would only take place on “significant dates” and the next “significant date” would be on the 175^th anniversary of the battle at San Jacinto which would be three years from now. This means that we would have to apply again in the year 2011 to ask for a San Jacinto Day proclaimed by the City of Fort Worth. President Blair stated that a file of these records would be kept and passed on to future officers of this club for their action in this regard.

Russell Leavens offered the benediction and President Blair adjourned the meeting at 11:40 am.

Submitted by Jerry Spencer

Secretary