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