Announcements
Of Interest
David H. Olwell, Ph.D., State Advocate
November 2024
My Brother Knights,
My work as an engineering dean occasionally causes me to travel abroad to chair accreditation visits for engineering programs. In October, I was in Mexico for several days visiting a university in Puebla. The vagaries of air travel caused me to have half a day in Mexico City on my return, during which time I visited the Basilica of our Lady of Guadalupe. ...
Dang H. Nguyen, State Warden
November 2024
My Brother Knights,
Welcome to Q2 of the fraternal year! By now, we’ve completed 4 regional meetings of the fall with more to go this month. I wish to thank all of the District Deputies that have hosted us these past weeks. It really is a pleasure to go out to meet all of the council leaders during these meetings. I know that for many it is hard breaking away from your families and council activities to spend an entire day with us state officers, directors, and chairmen. Without you, our state council wouldn’t be what it is. I do hope that if you attended a regional meeting, you found the information helpful. ...
Gregory S. Mahoney, State Deputy
November 2024
My Brother Knights, The first principle of our Order, Charity, has been on brilliant display. August ushered in the state-wide Coats for Kids matching program that culminated in October with knights delivering many Holy Moments of love, warmth, and kindness to those in need and dealing several crushing blows to the devil and his plans. Councils took a stand against the prince of this world by imitating Christ – the Prince of Peace. In that stand, knights here in Washington delivered over 16,000 coats, making our Jurisdiction #1 in the Order for total coats distributed this year. The program continues to expand with God’s grace. ...
Rev Kenneth T. St Hilaire, State Chaplain
November 2024
My Brother Knights,
From a previous run set of articles…
If I walked into a Sunday School classroom and asked the children to use adjectives to describe Jesus Christ, I guarantee you they would generate a list like this: nice, kind, loving, gentle, forgiving, caring, and so forth. Maybe the older kids would mention brave, smart, wise, strong, obedient, or a few others. ...
Thomas C. Williams, State Secretary
November 2024
My Brother Knights
This will be a short article as I am dealing with a family issue.
I am following up with Councils on the Liability Insurance billing and the Per Capita billing, it is important to get those payments in as I am preparing the next cycle of billing. If your Council has not yet paid, please reach out to me asap as I will surely be reaching out to you! ...
Scott E. Hulse, PhD, State Treasurer
November 2024
My Brother Knights,
When addressing the first imperative of our Washington State Council’s Strategic Plan, to “Grow Our Order”, we focus on Blessed Michael McGivney’s reason for founding the Knights of Columbus, February 6, 1982, with the mission of charitably assuring the spiritual growth and well-being of Catholic families. How better to support Fr McGivney’s vision than to focus on providing Catholic families with information and fraternal support that will enable informed decisions about ways to protect their families while fostering relationships with other Catholics. ...
Kim L. Washburn, Immediate Past State Deputy
November 2024
My Brother Knights,
Good news, I survived another round of Oktoberfest’s. Not only Oktoberfest’s, but also the colors, smells, crisp air, tree leaves, harvest, etc. It is my favorite month of the year.
November is a slow time before we enter the Advent Season. Unfortunately, new membership usually falls behind the curve, as well. We must stay on course to gain another 2.5% reduction in our State goal, as we did last quarter. We have been so successful over the past three years and we should expect nothing less this year.
You officer team continues to amaze me how dedicated they are. The members of Washington State Council are so fortunate to have them as our leaders. If you have questions or problems understanding something, just let them know. ...