Ancient Egyptian Order of Sciots
Long Beach Pyramid #43
Volume XV, Issue 2
November, 2015
TOPARCH
SCRIBE
O’Sciots:
I would like to thank the Brethren and ladies (Tag-ALongs) for a fun-filled October meeting and feast
afterwards. The dinner, arranged by Pastophori
Jonathan Dilley, consisted of salad, meatballs,
spaghetti, lasagna, and left no one hungry. Everyone
enjoyed Joan Nead’s fantastic table decorations and
the edible jelly eyeballs, ears, and fingers were a fun
treat! Thank you Jan Eligh, Duane Nead, and the
ladies for clean-up. We would be lost without you!
The DUES are coming in slowly! They were due by
September 30, 2015, Sciot year 2016, which means
you are already delinquent. Please send your Dues in
and relieve me from all the letter writing.
November is dark due to Annual Supreme Sessions
being held in San Jose.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are special times that we
as Sciots can express our gratitude to our Veterans by
giving back. If you are interested in volunteering to
feed Holiday meals to Veterans and their families,
contact Mobib Mike Selix for details.
O’Sciots, if you still haven’t paid your 2015 or 2016
dues of $24/yr, please contact Scribe Chuck
Bruggeman.
Also, I am getting way too many letters and e-mail
correspondence returns. PLEASE be sure your
address, phone number, and e-mail are current with
me in order for my communications with you can
continue uninterrupted.
In November, we have eight Officers attending
Supreme Sessions in San Jose. Decisions will be
made and a possible Semi-Annual Session location. A
fun tour to the Winchester Mystery House for the ladies
and at the Izzers & Wuzzers Banquet, wear a costume
of your favorite Sci-Fi character. Sounds like a lot of
fun at the Supreme Sessions.
Fraternally,
PP Chuck Bruggeman, Scribe
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Fraternally,
Mike Williams, Toparch
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More is lost by indecision than by a wrong
decision………………..
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Happy “NOVEMBER” Birthdays
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IMPORTANT DATES to Remember
November 11 – Veterans’ Day...an official United
States federal holiday honoring people who have
served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
November 26 – Thanksgiving Day...a national
holiday celebration and Thanksgiving religious service.
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FIVE LITTLE TURKEYS
Five little turkeys standing at the door,
One waddled off, and then there were four.
Four little turkeys sitting near a tree,
One waddled off, and then there were three.
Three little turkeys with nothing to do,
One waddled off and then there were two.
Two little turkeys in the morning sun,
One waddled off and then there was one.
One little turkey better run away,
For soon it will be Thanksgiving Day.
Tag-A-Longs
News
Volume XV, Issue 2
TAG-A-LONGS
NEW YEARS DAY
Tag-A-Long Ladies:
October was my first meeting as your newly elected
Tag-A-Long President and I couldn’t have made it thru
the meeting without everyone’s guiding help! Thanks
for taking time out of your busy schedules to show up,
support us, and offer your helping hands.
What a delightful pasta meal we had thanks to
Jonathan Dilley. Joan Nead outdid herself once again
with the fantastic table decorations as well as her
delicious punch. The ladies provided desserts and I
saw very few left-overs on that table! I also received a
lot of positive feedback regarding how enjoyable and
relaxed the whole evening was!
This month will be dark (no meeting) due to the Annual
Supreme Session being held in San Jose that so many
of us that will be attending.
Don’t forget that Thanksgiving Day is an opportunity for
you to give back by helping out with the annual
Veterans Feast served at The Villages at Cabrillo in
Long Beach. Mike Selix has been heading up this
event so don’t hesitate to contact him if you have any
questions.
A reminder that we will be needing lots of raffle gifts for
December--nothing extravagant, just things you think
the ladies from Cabrillo might enjoy.
Susan Laverty-Williams, President
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WELLNESS
June Meigs had surgery. Chuck & I visited her in the
hospital; she was in pain, but doing okay. She is home
now, in good spirits, and each day is a better day with
less discomfort. ~ Jan Bruggeman
November, 2015
In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag
Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is
acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving
celebrations in the colonies. For more than two
centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by
individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in
the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham
Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be
held each November.
For most people, enjoying turkey, mashed potatoes,
cranberry sauce, and pumpkin for Thanksgiving is as
traditional and American as, well, apple pie. But how
did the Pilgrims really celebrate on what we now
regard as the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth,
Massachusetts, in 1621? The only written record of the
famous meal tells us that the harvest celebration
lasted three days and included deer and wildfowl.
Potatoes—white or sweet—would not have been
featured on the 1621 table, and neither would sweet
corn. Bread-based stuffing was also not made, though
the Pilgrims may have used herbs or nuts to stuff
birds.
Instead, the table was loaded with native fruits like
plums, melons, grapes, and cranberries, plus local
vegetables such as leeks, wild onions, beans,
Jerusalem artichokes, and squash. (English crops
such as turnips, cabbage, parsnips, onions, carrots,
parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme might have also
been on hand.) And for the starring dishes, there were
undoubtedly native birds and game as well as the
Wampanoag gift of five deer. Fish and shellfish were
also likely served at that time. What a healthy feast!
- 2 -There is no concrete way to know if they had any roast
turkey that day, but we do know there were plenty of
wild turkeys in the region then, "and both the native