Knights of Columbus Council 11672 November 2009 Newsletter

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Shepherd's Watch
Knights of Columbus Good Shepherd Council 11672

Volume 13, Issue 11 November 2009

Grand Knight	Bob Spuhl	426-0030	robert-spuhl@us.army.mil
Deputy Grand Knight	Ed Gniadek	880-9037	kgniadek@aol.com
Newsletter Editor	Mike Rose	213-2876	sfmedic1970@bellsouth.net

NEXT COUNCIL MEETING	November 2, 2009	7:30 PM
PARISH BREAKFAST	November 8, 2009	8:30 - 10:30 AM
OFFICERS MEETING	November 17, 2009	7:00 PM

DECEMBER COUNCIL MEETING	December 7, 2009	7:30 PM
DECEMBER PARISH BREAKFAST	December 13, 2009	8:30 - 10:30 AM
DECEMBER OFFICERS MEETING	December 15, 2009	7:00 PM

Happy Thanksgiving - November 26!

November's Attendance Award - $20.00

Each Month one council member is selected to receive an attendance award. The only requirement is to be present at the monthly meeting. The attendance award accumulates until a member wins. Come out to the monthly meeting for a chance to win. November's Meeting Attendance Award is $20.00.

GRAND KNIGHT'S COMMENTS

Brother Knights,

Our Tootsie Roll drive for the intellectually handicapped is complete. I'm disappointed to report that losing the volume we had at Wal-Mart lowered our collection this year. The good news is the fantastic support we received from Kroger on S. Memorial Parkway and the collection from our parish collection.

I was quite proud on behalf of our council to present Catholic High School with a check for $1000 (matched with another $1,000 by a parishioner). We will have the opportunity to have a tree and a paver located on the new CHS campus in our council's honor.

Our fall social on October 19 was successful. We had three potential candidates complete form 100s. They are Jim Roades, Bob Benson, and Matt Boenker. We hope to induct them at a 1st degree ceremony during our December 7, 2009 monthly council meeting.

Upcoming Events:
November 1 - 40 days for life ends
November 2 - Monthly Council Meeting
November 8 - Monthly Breakfast
November 17 - Officer's Meeting
November 21 and 22 - After each mass, we have the "Keep Christ in Christmas" magnet sales
December 6 - Council Christmas party 1-3 p.m. at the Parish Family Life Center
December 7 - Council Meeting and 1st Degree Exemplification
Special acknowledgements:Our Council's Knight of the Month of September is Greg Grindstaff. Our Council's Family of the Month for September is the "Joel Mayo Scout Family" for the scout troop supporting of our Tootsie Roll drive. Ceremonies: 1st Degree Exemplification, December 7, 2009; It will be conducted in the Good Shepherd All Purpose Room.

New Transfers into our Council: None this past month.

Attendance Award: There was no attendance award winner at the October monthly meeting.

God Bless you gentleman.

Vivat Jesus,

Bob Spuhl

DEPUTY GRAND KNIGHT'S COMMENTS

Brother Knights,

In the event you have the opportunity to enter our Council Room, note that there is another Star Council Award affixed on the wall in recognition of the council's outstanding efforts in membership growth, in insurance membership growth and in our service program contributions the past fraternal year. This is the fourth time Council 11672 have been recognized by the Supreme Council since receiving its charter thirteen years ago.

Upon achieving our membership quota, we also received the Father McGivney Award. We further received the Founders' Award for reaching our insurance quota. Finally, we earned the Columbian Award by conducting and reporting involvement in four of the five Service Programs namely Church, community, council, family, and youth. This year pro-life has been added as the sixth program category. All three of these awards must be attained to earn the Star Council Award.

While we all should be justifiably proud of the aforementioned achievements, we must not rest on our laurels. Our membership quota this fraternal year is eleven new 1st Degree brothers and our insurance quota is four new insurance additions. I challenge each of you to seek out Catholic gentlemen who are at least eighteen years old who might be candidates to join Council 11672. Additionally, as I reported in an earlier Council Newsletter, the Supreme Council has designated this year as "The Year of the Volunteer". I ask that each of you consider volunteering to participate in one of the six Service Programs. Your return on the investment of a few hours of your time will prove to be rather rewarding.

There is no reason why another "Star" cannot be mounted on the wall of our Council Room in recognition of our efforts and achievements this fraternal year. I respectfully request the support of each one of you to make this happen.

Vivat Jesus,

Ed Gniadek, Deputy Grand Knight

EDITOR'S COMMENTS

Last month I am mentioned that I was concerned about members not getting Shepherd's Watch. This concern is that I do not have your correct email address, or because I am sending you an email with multiple addressees with an attachment (receiving ISP firewall issue), and because some of our brothers do not have email.

Due the efforts of John Bellono this is to be rectified. In the near future anyone will be able to pick up the Shepherd's Watch at the Parish information area. The Parish staff is also in getting this issue resolved, specifically Ms. Pat McNeal. We are so lucky to have such a great and responsive Parish staff.

Again, thank you Brother John Bellono for a job well done.

If you are not getting the Shepherd's Watch by email and you should be please send me (your editor) an email requesting the newsletter. This way I can capture your correct email and reply with an attached copy of the newsletter.

Again, please thank John Bellono for a job well done.

I would also like to thank the Faithful Navigator of Assembly #4, Paul Adams for bringing us a great reminder of the meaning of Thanksgiving in the words of the Great Abraham Lincoln. It seems to me that Mr. Lincoln's proclamation was appropriate for the day he proclaimed and just maybe more so today.

Vivat Jesus,

Mike Rose, The Editor

FAITHFUL NAVIGATOR'S COMMENTS

Sir Knights,

Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
October 3, 1863

It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.

We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand, which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengt hened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self- sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father Who dwelleth in the heavens.

Vivat Jesus,

Paul Adams, Faithful Navigator

MEMBERSHIP AND EXEMPLIFICATION EVENTS

Council Social and Recruitment Event Update

The Council Christmas party will be December 7, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Parishes Family Life Center

Personal Information Update

Please check to ensure that your contact information is updated with the Financial Secretary. This includes an email address (if you have one) for the sending the Monthly Newsletter. The Shepherd’s Watch subscription is available only through e-mail, it can be also downloaded or read off the Parish website.

New Council Members

No one this month.

Exemplifications Schedule Information

Please note that the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th degrees are typically offered once or twice a year in North Alabama. When they occur it is an opportunity to complete your journey to full Knighthood at a very convenient location. Please reflect on this and consider participating.

If you have any questions, please contact Bob Spuhl or Ed Gniadek.

First Degree Exemplifications

December 7 in the Parish multi-purpose room.

Second Degree Exemplifications

None scheduled for this month.

Third Degree Exemplifications

None scheduled for this month.

Fourth Degree Exemplifications

None scheduled for this month.

Council Resolution

WHEREAS, by the Knights of Columbus Council 11672, Good Shepherd Parish requires a majority of a quorum voice vote for the approval of the disbursement of all funds greater than $500 from established accounts;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the approval of the disbursement of funds totaling $600.00 to Good Shepherd Catholic Church Pastor's Discretionary Fund AKA "Father's Discretionary Fund" for use as the Pastor sees fit.

Respectfully Submitted by:
Robert A Spuhl
Grand Knight
Council # 11672

NEWS OF INTEREST

Birthdays

Officers and members of Council 11672 want to extend a Happy Birthday to the following members whose birthday falls in November:

Bruce W. Dombrowski 11/14

Juan L. Mendoza 11/4

Mike Poole 11/26

Paul M. Rivette 11/16

Estan J. Rodriguez 11/13

Bill Scheeler 11/20

Paul F. Shea 11/23

Robert B. Stephens, IV 11/2

Arthur C. Thompson 11/26

Knight and Family of the Month

The Council and members want to congratulate Brother Greg Grindstaff, the Knight of the Month, and the Family of the Month is the “Joel Mayo Scout Family” for the scout troop supporting of our Tootsie Roll drive.

Rosaries for our Soldiers

Our Brother Knight Merv Eberhardt is also spearheading an effort to make corded rosaries for the military. If you are interested in joining this effort, please contact Merv by email or 256-882-6819 (home) or 256-457-4881 (cell). Please consider supporting our troops in this worthwhile activity. Some background information is available at the “How To Make A Rosary” link on the Our Lady’s Rosary Makers home page.

St. Vincent de Paul Society

The following is a brief description from the web. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a worldwide organization founded in 1833 by six university students in Paris under the patronage of St. Vincent de Paul. Today the Society includes almost 900,000 members spread among 46,000 confraternities in 130 countries of five continents.

The Society's purpose is to provide direct aid to those who suffer, and to help individuals reduce and even eliminate the causes of their suffering, themselves. Society members use their own resources, sharing not only possessions but also the valuable gift of their presence.

Recently there has been an inquiry about establishing a St. Vincent de Paul group at Good Shepherd. Both the Knights and the St. Vincent de Paul Society have a strong focus on charitable works. The Holy Spirit Parish St. Vincent de Paul group is well established and has been active for many years. If you have an interest in learning more about this society and possibly help establish a group at our parish, please contact John Bellono at 256-882-6767 for more information.

Volunteer Hours

Volunteer Hours are due in January of each year to State Office. Please keep a running total of your hours during the year. It would be nice to report them on a monthly basis to the Deputy Grand Knight, as to not make this a major data collection effort at the end of the year. Please tally your volunteer hours for Council, Church, and Community activities and forward them to the Deputy Grand knight as soon as possible but no later than January 15 of each year. It's a time consuming activity to accumulate responses from all our members and summarize them as required - the sooner you can provide them to the Deputy Grand Knight the better. We often overlook community activities such as CASA, Burrett Museum, Habitat for Humanity, Harrison Hardware, and neighborhood swimming associations, etc. Please include these types of community organization activities in your totals. As you compile your volunteer hours, reflect how your time spent in the past year and prayerfully consider how you might better serve those in need in the future. May God Bless all volunteers everywhere no matter where in the world they are.

Insurance News

Seven Tips To Help Members Track Down Missing Life Policies

Family members are generally responsible for notifying life insurance companies of a policy owner's death. But all too often, family members aren't even aware a policy exists, or don't know how to find it. It is estimated that more than one quarter of all life insurance policy benefits go unclaimed on death of the insured. Missing life insurance policy benefits, by law, are held in trust until claimants come forward.

If you have clients or prospects who have reason to believe a life insurance policy exists but they don't know how to track it down, here are seven tips you can provide to help them, courtesy of the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI).

Check your loved one's papers and address and telephone books to look for life insurance policies and the names of insurance agents. Contact every insurance company with which they had a policy, even if you're not sure the policy is still in force.

Check with the employee benefits office at their latest and previous places of employment, the union welfare office.

Check bank books and canceled checks for the last few years to see if any checks may have been written to pay life insurance premiums.

Check the mail for one year after death for premium notices, which usually are sent annually. If a policy has been paid up, there will not be any notice of premium payments due. However, the company may still send an annual notice regarding the status of the policy or it may pay or send notice of a dividend.

Review your loved one's income tax returns for the past two years. Look for interest income from and interest expenses paid to life insurance companies. Life insurance companies pay interest on accumulations on permanent policies and charge interest on policy loans.

Check with the state's unclaimed property office to see if any unclaimed money from life insurance policies may have been turned over to the state. If, after a number of years, an insurance company the money over to the state.

Of course, you may wish to contact life insurance companies directly to see if a policy exists. Each state insurance department has a listing of life insurance companies licensed to do business in its state.
As an alternative to the above seven steps, MIB, an insurance membership corporation, offers a policy-locater service for a fee. For more information about this service, visit www.mib.com/html/lost-lifeinsurance. html.

If you are the owner or beneficiary of a life insurance policy written long ago, you may need help locating the life insurer that services and pays claims on the policy. Over the years, a policy owner may lose touch with the life insurer due to frequent moves, or the company that issued the policy may have changed its name or merged with another company.

Two sources of information can assist you in finding the life insurance company that currently services your policy:

The state insurance department of the state in which the insured person resided at the time he or she bought the insurance policy.

Best's Insurance Reports, available in the reference section of many larger libraries. This annual update lists insurance company names and addresses, as well as insurer's name changes, mergers and other changes.
Of course, having met with your K of C field agent, He is already in a position to help you and your survivors.

Check out some of the insurance and estate planning your K of C Insurance can offer such as: Tax-Deductible Charitable Giving, Asset Protection, 401K Rollovers, Tax-Deferred Savings, IRAs, Life & LTC Insurance.

Serving Families for Over 125 Years

"A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created" --Will Rogers

Brother Mark P. Yosway, FIC
Field Agent
Knights of Columbus
P.O. Box 96
Madison, Alabama 35758
Tel/Fax: 256-772-7666
Cell: 256-679-5632

Canned Goods Drive

Don't forget those canned goods. Each Knight is asked to bring just one canned good or money to the monthly Council meeting. The food or money goes to the Church pantry for support of the poor and hungry in our community. Remember charity is a Knight's duty, not a courtesy.

PRAYER LINE

Taking care of our Brother Knights in distress is one of basic principles espoused by our founder, Father McGivney. Please remember our sick Brother Knights and those deceased in your prayers. If anyone knows of a Brother Knight in distress, contact Grand Knight Bob Spuhl by telephone (426-0030 or email).

Remember the Prayer Line also includes family members and friends. Being Catholic is not a requirement to have a person's name placed on the prayer Line.

A good person regardless of his or her religious beliefs should have our prayers offered to hopefully relieve their distress.

Please remember the following individuals in your prayers:

Dave & Judy Aiello

Jerry Dombrowski's grandchild

Rita Lukens - eye problems

Hugo Hart - Melanoma

Sandra Hart - Full time oxygen

Ed K. - Mother - fell and fractured vertebrae

Frank Tomasela's granddaughter - Newborn

AREA MASS SCHEDULES

Catholic Church Masses Reconciliation (Confession)

Saturday Sunday Week Day Holy Day Saturday Sunday
Good Shepherd,
882-1844 8:30 a.m.
(1st Sat.
only)
5:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m.
11:00 a.m. M None
T 6:30 p.m.
W 8:30 a.m.
Th None
F 8:00 a.m.
8:30 a.m.
7:00 p.m. 4:30 – 5:15 p.m. None

Holy Spirit,
881-4781 5:00 p.m. 7:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
11:30 a.m. M-F 7:30 a.m.
M, T, TH 12:00 p.m.
W 7:00 p.m. 6:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. 4:00 – 4:45 p.m. None
Military Chapel
Redstone Arsenal,
842-2175 0r
842-2178 5:00 p.m. 9:15 a.m. M None,
T-F 12:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m. 4:00 - 4:30 p.m. 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.

Our Lady
Queen of
the Universe,
852-0788 5:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m.
11:30 a.m. M None
W–F 12:00 p.m.
T 6:30 p.m. 12:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. None
Saint John
the Baptist,
722-0130 5:30 p.m. 7:00 a.m.
8:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
5:30 p.m. M,F 8:30 a.m.
T 6:15 a.m.
W, Th 6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Vigil
8:30 a.m.
7:00 p.m. Th 6:00 – 6:25 p.m.
S 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. None

St. Joseph,
534-8459 8:00 a.m.
5:00 p.m. 8:15 a.m.
11:15 a.m. M, W - F
7:00 a.m.
T 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Vigil
7:00 a.m.
8:45 p.m. 4:00 – 4:45 p.m. None

St. Mary,
536-6349 5:30 p.m. 8:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. M-F 8:00 a.m. As Announced 4:00 p.m. None

The Short Story Corner
> This month's short story came to the editor by way of a friend of his in Pennsylvania. He is not Catholic, but a very religious person and imperfectly like many of us tries to practice what Jesus taught us. I call it "Sharing" as it did not come with a title or an author's name.

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign, which read: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up with coins. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way. "I wrote: "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it."

Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

Moral of the Story:
Be thankful for what you have.
Be creative.
Be innovative.
Think differently and positively.

When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile Face your past without regret.

Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear.

The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling. From a third person's perspective what is even more beautiful is knowing that you are the reason behind it!

If you like, share your ideas and kindness.

Quotes, Sayings, Puns and Facts
November 1, 1914 - The Battle of Coronel, Chile began. This World War I naval battle was fought between the German and British navies. This was a German victory.

November 7, 1805 - Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.

November 12, 1982 - The Columbia was the first spacecraft to be launched twice.

November 18, 1820 - United States Navy Captain Nat B Palmer discovered Antarctica.

November 23, 1859 - William Bonney, also know as Billy the Kid, was born.

November 29, 1803 - Christian Doppler discovered the Doppler Effect (Color Shift) was born at Salzburg, Austria. He died on March 17, 1853.

The average yearly salary of a DJ you listen to on the radio is only $20,000!

In England, in the 1880's, the word 'Pants' was considered a dirty word. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.

The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

"Do Not Place Hand In Fan While Fan Is Running." Warning label on central air conditioning unit.

"We'd like to avoid problems, because when we have problems, we can have troubles." Wesley Bolin, Governor.

"I really didn't say everything I said." Yogi Berra, Baseball player

Did people build this, or did Indians?" Tourist question at Mesa Verde National Park.

He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings." Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins.

"Now, the only thing that remains unresolved is the resolution of the problem." Thomas Wells, Ontario legislature minister.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

"SAFETY FIRST: Please put on your seat belt - prepare for accident." Sign on backseat of Taxi.

"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to." Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player, on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece.

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964." Roger Daltrey, Singer/Actor

The Poet's Corner
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day
By William Shakespeare (Sonnet 18)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Newsletter Submissions

This is your Newsletter and that anything you would like to let the Officers and Council members be aware of, please submit the information to the Newsletter Editor, . His telephone number is 213-2876 and his e-mail address is sfmedic1970@bellsouth.net.

The information submitted can be of a general interest to the Council members. It does not necessarily have to be directly connected to the Council, the Knights of Columbus, or the Church, e.g. a Boy Scout or Girl Scout event, or something the members might enjoy such as a play or art show. It can be of interest to the Huntsville community at large. Please submit text, photographs, etc. Anything submitted is subject to review and editing by the Editor.

The deadline to have information included in the next publication of the Shepard's Watch is the 20^th day of the month preceding the next publication.

The Council is also always looking for material to submit to the One Voice and the Columbia.

We ask you also to keep you mailing address, telephone numbers, and e-mails current.

Questions for the Mind

September's Questions:
October's Questions:

What is an isosceles triangle?
A triangle is one of the basic shapes of geometry: a polygon with three corners or vertices and three sides or edges, which are line segments. A triangle with vertices A, B, and C is denoted ABC.

An isosceles triangle is a triangle, with two congruent sides.

Exactly equal in size and shape. Congruent sides or segments have the exact same length. Congruent angles have the exact same measure.

So an isosceles triangle is a triangle with two equal sides and also it has two internal angles that are equal.

What is a right triangle and why is it called a right triangle?
A right triangle (American English) or right-angled triangle (British English) is a triangle in which one angle is a right angle (that is, a 90 degree angle).

The word "right" is used for this angle because the word has the meaning of "true" or "correct." An example is when a carpenter is building a house and he positions a wall, he wants that wall to be correctly placed; to be "right" or "true." So when the wall is vertical then it is correctly placed or "true." A correctly placed "true" wall is perfectly vertical and so it makes a "right" angle with the ground. This is what a right angle or a 90 -degree angle is.

Who was Pythagorean?
Pythagoras of Samos circa 570 BC - 495 BC was an Ionian Greek philosopher and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist.

He is best known for the Pythagorean theorem, which bears his name. Known as "the father of numbers", Pythagoras made influential contributions to philosophy and religious teaching in the late 6th century BC. Because legend and obfuscation cloud his work even more than with the other pre-Socratics, one can say little with confidence about his life and teachings. We do know that Pythagoras and his students believed that everything was related to mathematics and that numbers were the ultimate reality and, through mathematics, everything could be predicted and measured in rhythmic patterns or cycles. Accordin g to Iamblichus of Chalcis, Pythagoras once said that "number is the ruler of forms and ideas and the cause of gods and daemons.

He was the first man to call himself a philosopher, or lover of wisdom, and Pythagorean ideas exercised a marked influence on Plato. Unfortunately, very little is known about Pythagoras because none of his writings have survived. Many of the accomplishments credited to Pythagoras may actually have been accomplishments of his colleagues and successors.

Who first measured the circumference of the earth at the equator?
A fellow named Eratosthenes was the first person to measure the circumference of the planet earth. He was the curator of the great library at Alexandria in about 250 BC.

While traveling in the south of Egypt one summer at the town of Syene (now Aswan), he noticed that the midday sun at the solstice shone directly down a well, illuminating the bottom. He had noticed that this did not happen at home.

He measured the distance between Syene and Alexandria, and noted that at Alexandria the sun was off vertical by 7.2 degrees - 1/50 of a circle. Multiplying the distance from Syene to Alexandria by 50, he came up with a number, which was nearly correct. We don't know exactly how close he was, because the exact length of his unit of measurement has been lost. But his method was sound and his measurement was good.

Eratosthenes played around with gnomons. A gnomon is basically a stick in the ground. The stick casts a shadow based on the position of the sun, and you can learn about the relative movements of the sun and earth by tracing the path of the end of the shadow; in doing this, then moving a specified distance and doing it again, Eratosthenes came up with a diameter for the earth that was more accurate than anyone would have for more than 1000 years. Columbus thought he had reached India because he greatly underestimated the distance because he had bad data on the circumference of the earth. Eratosthenes could have helped him!

What is the Pythagorean Theory?
In any right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the square of the two legs (the two sides that meet at a right angle). The theorem can be written as an equation:
a2+ b2=c2
Where c represents the length of the hypotenuse , and a and b represent the lengths of the other two sides.

Right Triangle

November's Questions:

What is referred to as the scientific method?

Which individual who later became President of the United Sates came up with a novel algebraic method of proving that a2 + b2 = c2?

What contribution did Ada Lovelace contribute to computers?

Who was Charles Babbage?

Who was Grace Hooper?

What is origin of zero?

Bruce W. Dombrowski	11/14
Juan L. Mendoza	11/4
Mike Poole	11/26
Paul M. Rivette	11/16
Estan J. Rodriguez	11/13
Bill Scheeler	11/20
Paul F. Shea	11/23
Robert B. Stephens, IV	11/2
Arthur C. Thompson	11/26

Catholic Church	Masses				Reconciliation (Confession)
	Saturday	Sunday	Week Day	Holy Day	Saturday	Sunday
Good Shepherd, 882-1844	8:30 a.m. (1st Sat. only) 5:30 p.m.	8:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.	M None T 6:30 p.m. W 8:30 a.m. Th None F 8:00 a.m.	8:30 a.m. 7:00 p.m.	4:30 – 5:15 p.m.	None
Holy Spirit, 881-4781	5:00 p.m.	7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m.	M-F 7:30 a.m. M, T, TH 12:00 p.m. W 7:00 p.m.	6:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.	4:00 – 4:45 p.m.	None
Military Chapel Redstone Arsenal, 842-2175 0r 842-2178	5:00 p.m.	9:15 a.m.	M None, T-F 12:00 p.m.	12:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.	4:00 - 4:30 p.m.	8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Our Lady Queen of the Universe, 852-0788	5:00 p.m.	9:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m.	M None W–F 12:00 p.m. T 6:30 p.m.	12:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.	3:30 – 4:30 p.m.	None
Saint John the Baptist, 722-0130	5:30 p.m.	7:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m.	M,F 8:30 a.m. T 6:15 a.m. W, Th 6:30 p.m.	7:00 p.m. Vigil 8:30 a.m. 7:00 p.m.	Th 6:00 – 6:25 p.m. S 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.	None
St. Joseph, 534-8459	8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.	8:15 a.m. 11:15 a.m.	M, W - F 7:00 a.m. T 7:00 p.m.	7:00 p.m. Vigil 7:00 a.m. 8:45 p.m.	4:00 – 4:45 p.m.	None
St. Mary, 536-6349	5:30 p.m.	8:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.	M-F 8:00 a.m.	As Announced	4:00 p.m.	None