Chapter President

S teve Manis

C hapter Vice President

Ronnie Schoolcraft

Chapter Secretary

Clark Wright

Chapter Treasurer

Bill Mayo

Media

Robert Gindratt

Quartermaster

Larry Armstrong


Sidney Sherman Chapter #2

Minutes

May 15, 2018


The Sidney Sherman Chapter #2, Sons of the Republic of Texas gathered at Kelley's Family Restaurant in Texas City before 6 PM. on May 15, 2018.

President Steve Manis called the meeting to order at 6:40 pm. Vice President Ronnie Schoolcraft gave the invocation and led us in the pledges to the U.S. and Texas flag.

KSJ attendees: Tom Green

Chapter Members attending: Billy Mayo, Bill Usher, Clark Wright, Dan Burnet, David Ware, J.B. Kline, James Cantrell, John Lucas, Mike Mitchell, Mike Turner, Robert Gindratt, Rodney Mize, Ron Schoolcraft, Scott Lea, Steve Manis

SRT Members attending: Albert Seguin Gonzales, for a total of 17 SRT members

Guests attending: included 2 representatives from the Galveston News, Carol Ann Cowan, Chaille Manis, Christy Erickson, Connor Behrens, Kelsey Walling, Lois Gibson (speaker), Lyn Daniels, Lynne Mize, Melody Amaya, Robin Davis, Rodney Mize Jr and his wife Theresa, Stephen Connor, Thomas Aucoin with Roslyn Davis, Tom and his wife Pat Godwin for a total of 19 guests

Minutes of recent meetings are all available online on the Chapter Web Site. Contact any of the officers for comments or corrections. The chapter Treasurer reported 4800 dollars in the bank account.

Recent Chapter Activities: Steve reported that the San Jacinto fund raiser was very successful, clearing over 2000 dollars. Beside which, the chapter now has property including a camera, several coolers, flags and more. He indicated that some 18 supporters participated in this activity. Tom Green said that we would have done even better had the weather not been so threatening as it was.

Upcoming activities: We hope to have a delegation attend the Sam Houston Celebration in Huntsville, May 17-19. Steve also mentioned a celebration at the park in Washington on the Brazos on June 19th. Both Steve and Ron will be attending the Quarterly Meeting and 25th Celebration in Bay City, June 8 and 9th.

Additional FUNDRAISER: We will attend the Jane Long Festival on Boliver Peninsula in sometime in October or November.

Speaker:



Steve had Tom introduce Lois Gibson who is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as The World’s Most Successful Forensic Artist. Surviving a near-death attack at the hands of a murderous felon motivated Lois to create the forensic artist job at the Houston Police Department where she has helped bring in over 1,266 criminals. She wrote Faces of Evil, a gripping true-crime book detailing her most fascinating cases. She also constructed the first textbook teaching her profession to other artists titled Forensic Art Essentials. She teaches forensic art to students from all over the world at Northwestern University. She is a graduate of the University of Texas and the FBI Academy Forensic Artist Course. Gibson used her expertise to identify the Sailor kissing the nurse in the famous end of WWII photo. Lois has been an accomplished portrait artist for 44 years. She was the artist chosen to paint Houston’s Mayor Robert C. Lanier, Texas hero Juan Seguin (Seguin Texas is named after him) and two other mayors of San Antonio. She currently appears in exciting segments of TRU TV Network’s Forensic Files, A & E’s First 48, and Investigation Discovery---the ID Channel.



The meeting was adjourned at 7:33 P.M.



On June 20, Chapter 2 officers met to discuss chapter business. Attendees were: Robert Gindratt, Larry Armstrong, Steve Manis, Billy Mayo, Clark Wright, and Ron Schoolcraft. Ron had passed around a new members book that the Piney Woods chapter produces for each of their new members. This is a loose leaf binder with about 30 pages of information about the chapter, the society and other organizations for which they have Association. Steve indicated that he would look into doing something like this for our new members. Steve indicated that he would be going to the meeting of the Lamar chapter which holds its meetings in Richmond. This will be reactivation of that chapter. Steve indicated that it would be desirable to get reimbursement from each of the four chapter in the district in order to give reinstated chapters seed money. We next discussed the issue of printouts that have to be done for the meetings: the agendas, menus, applications, etc. Billy does the menus but Steve has used up his printer and needs another. Robert moved to reimburse Steve $170 for a new printer, the motion was amended to buy the chapter a printer. There was no dissension to this motion. Billy moved to reimburse Steve for his expenses and also to cover pass expenses which Steve has incurred. The motion to buy a printer was seconded by Billy and passed unanimously. We then moved into the expenses for the speaker for the July meeting. Steve indicates that she has to drive some distance and it was passed that the chapter should pay $50 for her expenses to get to the meeting. We discussed the new Veteran Medals. Ron indicated that a number had been provided at the annual meeting but that there was one left over and he purchased it. We asked where the next annual meeting would be held and it was indicated that it would be in Beaumont. We discussed upcoming meetings. We will not be meeting in August. But the subject of the October meeting was discussed and we will probably set that during the next regular membership meeting, July 17th.



Prepared by Clark P. Wright, Secretary, May 16 at 7 PM