June 2018 Voice of the Spirit

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OHIO STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

JUNE 2018

State Deputy News and Notes Kevin Miller Brother Knights:

need EVERY SINGLE good Catholic man to help us in our Last month, I spoke about the efforts. Also, do a quick check to importance of our Knights’ councils make sure that all administrative preparing and planning for the paperwork for the year has been upcoming fraternal year. This processed. Do you have outstanding month, I’m going to be a bit more Form 100s that should have been tactical – as many of you know, June submitted? Do you have any in the Knights of Columbus is a time outstanding payments that need to be of transition: new fraternal year, handled? Has your District Deputy new Grand Knights, new officers, been looking for an unsubmitted new program year. Let’s review a report? This is a great time to do a quick checklist of “housekeeping” quick audit to make sure you’re off issues that make for a smooth and to a clean start for the upcoming simple changeover as we all move year! forward toward 2018-19.

Elections! By now, most councils Membership! As we already know, should have held council summer is a busy time for our elections. It is CRITICAL that each members – both personally with council following their election vacations and other projects, as we submit their Form 185 (Report of as in the life of our parishes with Officers Chose for the Term) to the festivals, parish picnics, and other State Council by June 30! We have activities. So if you have any tried to simply this process over the prospects, it’s best to get them to last year; Grand Knights/Financial join right now! Hold an Admission Secretaries should confer with their Degree using the DVD presentation District Deputy to ensure this (if you haven’t by now, it’s easy!), submission is complete. The contact or find a degree in your area by information on the form it critical in checking www.kofcohio.org. Don’t making sure that both Supreme and let these candidates slip away – we the State Council knows “who is

doing what” at your council and improves communications! Also, if you know who your program directors are for the coming year, why not submit your Form 365 (Service Program Personnel Report) now as well! Again, making sure we know who the leaders are in your council improves communications overall!

The Columbian Award! EVERY COUNCIL should be thinking about submitting their Form SP-7, the Columbian Award application. For many councils, this is one of the easiest awards to earn and easy to apply for – BRIEFLY report four

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(Continued from page 1) activities in each of the Knights six program areas (Church, Community Council, Culture of Life, Family, Youth) and you are eligible for the award. This is award is also essential to qualify for Supreme’s Star Council award and was required to “max” this year’s state program. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to recognize your council members for their hard work! Check with your District Deputy for assistance in completing your application!

Supreme MPC Notes Ray Lopez, Supreme MPC

I wish to take this opportunity to thank all my Brother Knights for their efforts and contributions to our Order during the past year. As some of you may already heard, there are new ideas in the works in 2018-19; changes that will make our programming more vital and effective to those we serve. More on that later; whatever changes may come, we are assured our purpose, our mission is unchanged – and is as important and critical as it was when Father McGivney gathered men together at his parish in 1882. Men, joining together as brothers, in

service to Christ, our Holy Church, our families, and our communities. Though the decades, this ongoing mission of the Knights of Columbus evolves but never changes – and as one chapter ends and another one soon begins, I look forward to joining with you on our upcoming journey. In His Honor, Vivat Jesus!

Kevin Miller State Deputy

protection. If you have not recruited yet this year I challenge you to go out and do not end in a negative.

Thank you all again. Ray Lopez

My Brother Knights of the Great State of Ohio

Reason to Recruit: June: Finish your fraternal year right and recruit a man, and start mentoring him for It was great to be with you during next year. In addition to this many the recent State Convention, and I are leaving taking well-earned want to thank you again for the vacation, but what about those who hospitality shown to my wife can’t? The young family that can’t Rebecca and me. Now the afford it. The older who can’t either, convention is over and we have 1 and so many others. Summer month left in the fraternal year so I programs can offer the needed fun would challenge you to go out and end the year with one more recruit, and fellowship. Don’t shut down our programs are needed more than and one more program. Take you think. Recruitment at these are advantage of your summer, hold BBQ's, Ice Cream socials, and a host critical to help those who are here of programs. To your councils close for the summer. to Star remember to get that last Membership 365 is a mindset of any member and make sure you are in time or place can be a time for compliance with the youth

Charity, Service and Recruitment. Ask the question.....are you a Knight?

Ray L. Lopez PSD Membership Program Consultant Department of Membership Growth (203) 444-2921 ray.lopez@kofc.org What can I do to help you?

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Faith In Action Supreme Council A new program model, titled Faith in A ction, will take effect as the umbrella for Knights of Columbus-related activities beginning with the 2018-2019 fraternal year.

Faith in Action replaces Surge… with Service, which was introduced nearly 50 years ago.

“This model is an evolution of the Building the Domestic Church W hile Strengthening Our Parish initiative that was introduced in November 2015,” Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson wrote in a letter to state deputies April 6. Faith in Action, the supreme knight explained, “ embodies a simplified overall program structure, featuring four instead of six categories.”

Refund Support Vocations Program (RSVP) Into the Breach Marian Icon Prayer Program Building the Domestic Church Kiosk Rosary Program Spiritual Reflection Program (new) Holy Hour (new) Sacramental Gifts (new)

Developed by the Supreme Council’s Fraternal Mission department, the Faith in Action model carries the Order’s unchanged mission into the challenges of a changing world. It includes a strong call to action and focuses on programs in four categories: Faith, Family, Community and Life.

Some other key points regarding the updated program model are: 

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Councils should appoint individual faith, family, community and life directors. They will no longer need to appoint a youth or council director, as the Youth and Council categories have been consolidated into the Community, Faith and Family categories.

The new model reduces the requirements to earn the Columbian Award, which recognizes excellence in programming and charitable outreach, to completing four programs in each of the four categories. To earn the award, there is one required program in each category, designed to enrich the spiritual life of the council, family and community. These are: a Spiritual Reflection Program; Consecration to the Holy Family; Helping Hands, and a Novena for Life.

All current Supreme Council priority programs — denoted in bold below — will continue. Nine new recommended programs will be introduced.

For additional information about the new Faith in Action program model, including answers to frequently asked questions, visit kofc.org/faithinaction.

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Food for Families Family of the Month/Year Keep Christ in Christmas (Posada, Poster Contest, etc.)

Family Fully Alive Family Week Consecration to the Holy Family Family Prayer Night (new) Good Friday Family Promotion (new)

Coats for Kids Global Wheelchair Mission Habitat for Humanity Disaster Preparedness Free Throw Championship Catholic Citizenship Essay Contest Soccer Challenge Helping Hands (new)

Marches for Life Special Olympics Ultrasound Program Christian Refugee Relief Silver Rose Mass for People with Special Needs (new) Pregnancy Center Support (new) Novena for Life (new )

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Measure Up 2018 Jeff Kiliany, State Warden

There is still time for your council to Measure-Up!

thank you for your promptness in sending these in. I am quite pleased by the checks that have been The 2018 Measure-Up Collection submitted already, many of them are Campaign was officially conducted on the weekends of April 26-29 and for substantial amounts, which has May 3-6. That is when we obtained a shown the success of their Measure statewide liability insurance policy to Up campaigns. Hopefully this will be another great year for Measure Up in cover other parties from any Ohio! negligence from K of C councils during their collections. We do June and July are typically “Special realize that a council is not always Olympics” months. The Knights of able to conduct their collection on Columbus in state of Ohio are a these particular weekends. Your significant contributor to Special council can do its’ Measure Up solicitations anytime throughout the Olympics. Many councils as well as the State Council designate year. We encourage councils to conduct other fundraisers throughout contributions to Special Olympics. the year, not just on these particular 2 Many councils also participate in weekends. You can do such things local Special Olympic events across the state. If you council hasn’t for instance, as a solicitation after Masses, with the permission of your participated in the past, perhaps you might encourage some of the Pastor. members from your council to become involved in your local events.

A number of councils have already You will not find a more rewarding sent in their Measure Up checks. I

experience. If members from your council do help out at local Special Olympics events, be sure to log your members hours and include them when submitting your council’s Survey of fraternal Activity. Supreme form #1728 that is due every year at the end of January.

Councils are asked to send one check with their total collections, making it payable to Knights of Columbus Ohio State Council and mailing it to: Jeff Kiliany, 559 Walnut St., Leetonia, OH 44431. Eighty per cent of the collected funds will be returned to the councils for their charitable contributions to agencies of their choosing. The other 20% is distributed by the Knights’ Ohio Charity Foundation to statewide agencies which assist those with developmental disabilities, and for the purchase of those special rulers which are given to the councils.

Super Cash Bonanza Wrap-Up Mark Siracusa Thank all you councils for your support for the great job on the 2018 Super Cash Bonanza "We Are Family" campaign. I know we will do even better next year.

Mark Siracusa "Charity Father"

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We Stand Strong On Ethical Ground Jeff Hearty

year out. The Order takes this commitment to our members very seriously. This means carefully planning when it comes time to invest. Our professional staff researches all transactions to insure that they fall in line with Catholic values.

If a transaction makes them uncomfortable, they don’t make it.

Some people believe that ethics in business is a contradiction in terms. They think that in order to be profitable, a company and its leaders must abandon morality and embrace the dark, greedy side that they see so often in the news and in movies.

At the Knights of Columbus, we know this isn’t true. A business can be both ethical and successful. We are.

“We exclude any company engaged in activity that conflicts with Catholic moral teaching: companies directly involved in abortion, contraception, human cloning, embryonic stem cell research, for-profit health care that pays for any of these, or pornography,” said Supreme Knight Carl Anderson. “There are many companies in the As a Catholic organization, we pharmaceutical and communications industries that understand the value and importance of our core beliefs would undoubtedly provide excellent returns for us, but and the original mission of which are not in our portfolio Venerable Father Michael J. McGivney. In fact, much of the because they engage in research strength and financial security and development or programming in ways that we provide to members and their families can be attributed violate the sanctity or dignity of to our ethical, moral standards. human life.”

More than 96 percent of Knights who buy our life insurance keep it, year in and

remain profitable, increase our assets and stay dedicated to this vision that will keep the Order financially sound for generations to come.

But don’t just take our word for it. In 2016 the Knights of Columbus was named a “World’s Most Ethical Company” by the Ethisphere Institute for the third year in a row. We were one of only two life insurance companies to earn the honor.

“Faithful Catholics have choices when buying life insurance,” said the Supreme Knight. “But they know that at the Knights of Columbus their policy is supplied by an insurer that shares their moral and ethical values and is guided in all of its investment and sales practices by those values.”

Contact me today to learn more about our products.

Agent’s name Jeffery Hearty Phone 216-592- 8514 Email-jeffery.hearty@kofc.org

In the end, the Knights of Columbus investment strategy is motivated by morality, not money. Yet, each year we

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State Membership Frank Iannaggi

The finish line The final line is just ahead with only a few days left in this fraternal year.

Many council have worked diligently to recruit new members. They have consistently recruited and worked the mandatory requirements to meets their goals and quotas.

Congratulations to all the councils received awards at convention. Most especially to these councils who maxed the program: Delaware Council 1056 St. Joan Council 10765 St. Peter Council 11216 St. Mary of the Falls Council 14416 St. John XXIII Council 14502 St. John the Baptist Dry Ridge Council 16706.

A thanks to all these councils you took in 2 or more members during the October blitz:

Thank you for attending the 119th State Convention in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati as delegates and taken a part in the selection of new leadership for the next 12 years. Congratulations to our new State officers and mostly to our new Warden Mike Felerski.

We welcome a new Archdiocesan As I write this article the Supreme Membership Director: FDD Bill Council Membership report indicates Keane of Saint John the Evangelist the State of Ohio has brought in 1,541 Council #13608. Bill will take over new members, losing 928 to from Mike for the 2018-19 fraternal suspensions and withdrawals leaving year. a net of 613 members. Although our numbers are below our expectations Once again, I must for a moment we did achieve 68.49% of our reflect on the last 11 months as your Supreme goal of 2,250.

Membership Director and say that it has been a joy working with each Brothers well done, 47 councils made diocesan membership director. Thank their Supreme quotas as of June1 you. being part of the IN His Honor and are on the path to star councils.

Team has truly been an honor th June 30 is not that far off and our Below are the current Statewide efforts must be maintained and honed statistics by diocese. We can, with for the next fraternal year beginning your help achieve all the goals set for July 1. We want you keep that this fraternal year, simply because, all momentum into the new fraternal that we do, we do IN HIS HONOR! year. Continue to build you councils during these last few days, bring 5 new members in for monetary incentives. (see membership awards in program book).

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Recruitment Video St. John Neumann Council #14457 Sunbury, OH

For More Info, Contact: Keith Rubadue, Grand Knight Email: krubadue1@aol.com Phone: 614-354-1041

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General Programs Rod Anderson What a Great Year to Build On – “If You Build It, They Will Come!”

What a wonderful State Convention...THANK YOU, Cincinnati Archdiocese for planning and executing a great convention for your Brother Knights! The facilities and program set a very high bar for future conventions. It was a great place to cap off the year for all the Councils with a lot of well deserved “thank you” recognition awards In His Honor!

But now it’s back to business. There

is still time for Councils to wrap up the year with a push to reach the goal of Star Council. But time is running out fast. It’s time to get those new recruits through their First Degree and finish up paperwork to get them on the membership rolls. And it’s time to finish filling out the Form SP-7 with the Council Activities for the Columbian Award. Don’t forget to get your Field Agent and/or your General Agent to work to achieve your Council quota for new insurance members. It is not too late, but almost. You can do it, all In His Honor.

It is also time to continue making plans for the next fraternal year that begins on July 1. First, make sure to hold your Council officer election, and get your Form 185 submitted by

June 30. Then, make sure your Council has at least 2 Officers, preferably the incoming Grand Knight and the Financial Secretary, attend the State Tour Meeting in your Diocese in early July. And if you have not already done so, schedule a Council Planning Meeting to plan and schedule your Council Program and Activities to max the State Program next year. The program planning, including your membership recruiting efforts is critical to your Council’s future growth and success. Don’t forget that In His Honor,

“If you build it, they will come!”

Community

Family

Robert Walsh

Tom Buehner

The Council’s from this Great State did some very interesting activities this past year. From having Stations of the Cross for residents in Nursing Homes, prayer services for drug addiction, and helping Habitat for Humanity. All these activities helped people in their communities.

As we round out the fraternal year, continue to push to support the family in your parishes, councils, and communities. Provide ways to help Build the Domestic Church and support families. The best way to do this is by offering activities for families to practice, share, and deepen their Catholic Faith. As you plan various family picnics and activities this summer, please try to incorporate our Catholic Faith.

With the new Fraternal year starting in just a month, now would be a good time to plan for the year. This will give you more time to get ready, and implement your activities. With having programs that help the needy, maybe try ones that make memories or brings ones back to someone.

Last year, I mentioned about having a neighborhood decorating contest for Halloween or Christmas. Did anyone try it?

Thank you, again, to those of you that submitted activities throughout this fraternal year. It has been a great experience to read about the incredible good that the Order does in the state of Ohio. Keep up the great work, and keep the momentum going into the next fraternal year!

The most important thing that should happen with any program is that the Community is better off from the work your council does in it.

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Council Tim Mangan Brother Knights, what a great state convention we just had! I thought the hotel did a great job accommodating our needs. Everything flowed well. A great weekend for food, fun and fellowship! I for one really enjoyed this year’s state convention!

I would like to congratulate William Gazzerro for being the state winner of the Knight of the Year award! I would also like to congratulate Linda Ann Engle for being the state winner of the Lady of the Year award! Both individuals were truly deserving of their respected awards!

I would also like to congratulate Minster Council 2158 for getting the best state council activity award as well! Their largest annual fundraiser event on St. Patrick’s Day was a Hugh success! They did an awesome

job in pulling it off. Once again, a job meeting with your officers and well done. directors. Figure out what your council wants to do and put it down If you have not done so already, your on the calendar. Plus, meet with your Columbian Award application is due pastor. Find out from him what and to supreme, state and your district how your council can support him th deputy by June 30 . You must submit and his parish. Now is the time to this report to get both the Columbian schedule open houses, membership Award and Star Council. So, don’t drives, etc. Get all your ducks lined wait to the last minute! Get it up in a row. Remember, a council submitted now! that fails to plan can plan to fail. So, put together a plan and execute that Now, as we wrap up the fraternal plan. year, now is the time to get ready for the next fraternal year. For you newly In closing, don’t forget about elected grand knights, now is the time submitting your Form 185 to to appoint you directors and chairman supreme, state and your district for the upcoming fraternal year. Start deputy. This form is due July1st! asking your current directors and Then on August 1st, your Form 365 is chairman if they will continue their due. As well as the first audit of the respective role. Anyone stepping fraternal year due on August 15th. So, down or vacancies, start filling them three forms due during the first two now. You want a full team to help months of the next fraternal year. Of with all council activities. course, don’t forget to report your activities as well.

Also, in July, hold a planning

enough about the cause to donate something. This is an opportunity to thank them for the donation and talk Brett Gissel with them about the cause or anything else that your council does that may Two For One If you hear me say something about a interest them. If the person is not already a member, they may decide to Two For One activity, you might join if you talk with them and ask think I am talking about Supreme Council’s Ultrasound Initiative. That them to join. is a good guess as Supreme Council will pay for half of the purchase of an Do you wonder why people do not come up to your table when you hold ultrasound machine if you raise the other half, which means that you get a Membership Drive? If your council is not having success with even two dollars for every one dollar getting people to approach your table, raised. Rather a Two For One consider holding a Diaper Drive in activity is one that is both a service conjunction with your Membership activity and a membership activity.

Drive. Aside from collecting diapers for families choosing life, this Let’s say that you are holding a increases traffic to your recruiting Diaper Drive. You have done your table. Engage them when they drop promotion of the drive and now just need to the diapers to be dropped off. off diapers. As others come into If it is an unmanned dropoff spot, you church, they see something happening miss out on a contact with a potential near your recruiting table and may be curious. Engage them too. If they are member. Whoever is dropping off diapers for your collection thinks well interested in what you are doing, they

Culture of Life

may be looking for a way to get involved.

Are you at a parish where your pastor will not let you setup a table to recruit? Maybe your pastor will let you hold a Diaper Drive instead.

Setup for your Diaper Drive, have your membership recruitment material displayed, and be ready to talk with people dropping off diapers.

Turning activities into Two For One activities works well for other activities too. Everything we do as Knights Of Columbus is an opportunity to show our Faith In Action, attract men to join us, to build a Culture Of Life, and to build up our Church.

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Youth Stewart Vetter Congratulations to all the winners from the state convention. It was great to see so many councils come together in fraternity.

more time” to “I don’t want to deal with kids” to “I’ve raised my kids.

Let them raise theirs”.

When I have more time: When do you think you’ll have more time?

Tempest Fugit Momento Mori. If we wait 10 year, 5 years, even just 2 years, think of the time we have lost For those that saw the Supreme when the kids are young. We make representative’s presentation about time for what’s important to us. the new Faith in Action program Shouldn’t the future generation of that’s replacing Surge for Service, the our order and the Catholic church be youth program has been rolled into important enough to demand your the umbrella of the four major time? programs BUT; Ohio has our own program that still includes youth. We I don’t want to deal with kids: You will see what future administrations know who likes to deal with kids? do but for 2018-2019 Ohio still has a YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat, Proyouth program and a Squires choice proponents, and the porn program. industry. If there isn’t a good influence in a child’s life, they will The time to get active with our youth follow whomever is in front of them. is NOW. Tomorrow they are a day Often, that isn’t the best influence for older and they have experienced making them moral, Catholic, another day of secular, non-Catholic productive citizens. Even a small influence. If you aren’t the one to be positive influence is better than no active with our youth, then who? If positive influence. today isn’t the day, then when? The excuses range from “When I have

I’ve raised my kids. Let then raise theirs: I’m sure you didn’t do it alone just like your parents didn’t do it alone. There was probably a counselor, coach, teacher, family friend, or some other adult that played a role in raising you and being a positive influence in your life.

What if they hadn’t been there?

Would you be the same person?

Whoever that person is for you, they didn’t intend to make a huge impression on your life. He or she just wanted to help and be involved.

Honor them by being that positive influence in another child’s life. The parent’s should take the leading role but it takes a village to raise a child.

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position in your Council. As you change the officers, you will see a red notice at the bottom that the data has changed. Not to worry, it is a safeguard for you to let you know Robert Gilliland that something was changed. If a particular office is unfilled (no one is Printing out and submitting the elected to that position and it is Council 185 and 365 Forms also empty), simply leave it at the “-using the new State Email Please Select --” option and the addresses for emailing your position will remain unfilled when Once the data has been saved, click forms!!! the form is printed. on “Print Form” and after a few seconds, a PDF document will Council Administrative Forms When all of the Council officers have download to your computer for you This month of June is again where been entered into the State website, to print off and keep for your records. the Council Financial Secretaries and click “Save Form” on the bottom of Council Grand Knights can begin the page so that the selected When the “Submit Form to Supreme” processing their Form 185 (Report of information can be stored in the State button is pressed, the same PDF that Officers), and Form 365 (Service Website. This is important because is generated in the “Print Form” will Program Personnel) forms on the the forms are generated from the be electronically emailed to Supreme State website. Council Financial saved data.

Council, the State Council, your Secretaries and Council Grand District Deputy, and to the Council Knights will have access to a special Financial Secretary.

Council Administrative Forms section on the State website.

The nice thing about this new system is that the “Submit Form to Supreme” can be repeated, without having to enter the data again. The saved data will be used for the report. This also make is easier to submit a new form partway in the fraternal year is any officer position changes. This system is an important step in building up If at any time an officer is changed, the Council Officers for the State even if it is clicked on the “Print Directory and keeping it current with Form” and “Submit Form to up-to-date information about the Supreme” buttons will be hidden Council and its officers.

The Form 185 (Report of Officers) and a message reminding the user to save the information will be The Form 365 (Service Program The Council Financial Secretary will displayed (see next image). You need Personnel) Report see a screen like the one below that to simply click the will allow selection of any member in "Save Form" button and the buttons Just like the Form 185, the Service the Council roster to fill the elected will become visible again.

Program Personnel r epor t conveys position. information about who in the Council You can save the form and come is in charge of the various service Start the process by clicking on the back to it at any time in the future. programs like the Council General Officers Election Date and select the The website will remember what Program director, the Church, date of the Council Election of officer you have selected for a Community, Council, Youth, Officers from the calendar date particular office and you can Membership, and Retention directors. picker that pops up. continue filling the form in when you This is normally submitted by the come back to it at a later time.

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address for you to send forms or Round Table Coordinator) Council communications to the State form2630@kofcohio.org (Round Deputy.

Table Report) It is preferred that everyone use these new email address to send the respective Council and District forms to both the State Council and Supreme Council. These new email address AUTOMATICALLY SEND TO SUPREME, and they ar e considered “Hot” emails.

Grand Knight as he appoints the various service personnel. The Financial Secretary will have access to this form to help the Grand Knight if need be.

Using New State Email Addresses for Emailing Forms to State AND Supreme!!!

The State Council has several new “Hot” email addresses, one for each type of form submitted (Council and District Deputy). The State Deputy now has a special StateDeputy@kofcohio.org email

Council Level email addresses (Forwards to both State and Supreme): form100@kofcohio.org (New Member Form 100) form185@kofcohio.org (Report of Council Officers) form365@kofcohio.org (Report of Program Directors) form1295@kofcohio.org (Council Audit) form1728@kofcohio.org (Fraternal Survey) formsp7@kofcohio.org (Columbian Award Application) form2629@kofcohio.org (Report of

District Deputy Level email addresses: form133@kofcohio.org (Notice of intent to start a New Council) form136@kofcohio.org (Notice of institution of a new Council) form133@kofcohio.org (Notice of intent to start a New Council) form450@kofcohio.org (Degree Exemplification Report) New State Level email addresses: StateDeputy@kofcohio.org identical to CouncilForms@kofcohio.org StateMembership@kofcohio.org to be used to email the State Membership Director (Frank Iannaggi) and State Insurance Liaison (James Valent).

Please feel free to email me at bobgkofc@gmail.com if you have any questions.

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