OUR HISTORY
A newsletter is a near perfect method to get to know any organization. Located within our Knight Life is a plethora of anecdotal and random information that can tell you much if not everything about the Edward Douglass White Council. They can tell us what the priorities were in 1965. We can also find out about the groundbreaking for the Main Hall back in July of 1959 by Francis Crimmins and Jack Spates. Did you know that Jack "Mr. Knights of Columbus" Spates was EDW's first honorary member?
Having access to a complete collection of our Knight Life is a high expectation that can be achieved, but without your assistance it is impossible.
We want to thank Jim Holland, PGK, for donating a near complete collection of Knight Life's from 1988 to 1999.
A very special thank you, as well, to Janet Hankinson of Texas for mailing EDW a collection of Knight Life's that her departed father John Henry Martiny, PGK, had in his possession. She also forwarded photographs and documents concerning the Columbus Club.
We have an assortment of scattered Knight Life’s from 1947 to the present day. We have complete dates from January 2005. So please if you have even just one Knight Life in your home contact us so we can catalog it and scan it into our Web site for every brother and family to enjoy.
The Knight Life is believed to have first appeared in November 1946. There also appears to have been a predecessor published for EDW brothers serving in the military during World War II. It was called the Casey Cackle, but did not always carry that name on the masthead.
If you have a Knight Life from 2004 to the original in 1946, or a Casey Cackle, please donate or lend it to us. Ideally we would like them donated to EDW for the permanent collection. But we completely understand if you can only lend them to us for a short period of time.
We are in the process of scanning the Knight Life’s for our www.kofedw2473.org Web site with the invaluable help of our Web master, A.J. Valinote. This will allow all brothers, family and friends and potential new brothers to learn our history. Currently you can view editions from September 1950 to September 1951. The July 1951 issue is missing, so if you have it or others, well, you know, CONTACT US!
202.352.7955
history@kofcedw2473.org
2 Comments:
I notice the name Crimmins in the first paragraph of the post. There's a Crimmins Lane behind my house, a short little late, at the end of which is a radio station and a huge field containing 4 tall, slender radio towers. Now I'm wondering if there's a connection between this lane and the EDW member Mr. Crimmins?
I asked Fairfax County for information from your note on the Crimmins and the street near you.
Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning Historian, Ms. Susan Hellman responded:
From a deed search I learned that Crimmins Lane is named for the family that owned the land. Francis X. Crimmins and Margaret C. Crimmins sold just over 10 acres to Harold and Meredith Thoms in 1956. They reserved an ingress/egress easement as well as a sewer easement, so they apparently still lived adjacent to the site. They inherited the property from William A. Crimmins. Apparently the Crimmins family owned a fairly large amount of land in the area, as a nearby non-adjacent neighborhood, bounded by Powhatan Street, Elliott Ave, and North Nottingham Street, is called "Crimmins." In 1964 the Thoms sold the property that now encompasses all of the lots on Crimmins Lane to Thomsland.
As far as the year that street was named, the Fairfax County Master Address Repository shows "effective date" as March 1, 2004. As Thomsland sold the property to Ivy-Crimmins in that year, I would imagine that the street was named at that time. I would not be surprised if there were still some Crimmins in the area that may have more information. He may find more information about the Crimmins family at the Virginia Room.
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