WSC History - Knights of Columbus Washington State Council

Ed served the Colorado State Council as Retention Chairman, District Deputy, andAdministrative Assistant until moving to Everett during the winter of 1997. After transferring to theEverett Council 763 he has served as Deputy Grand Knight and Financial Secretary.In 2003, Ed was asked by State Deputy Patrick Maloney to establish the position ofAdministrative Assistant and to serve in that position. During the following year, Ed recommendedthat the title be changed to Executive Secretary, aligning it with that of Supreme's. The purpose ofExecutive Secretary is to relieve the State Deputy and State Officers of some administrative duties,giving them more time to devote to the 141 councils in the state.NOTE FROM THE COMPILERThe following is a re-assembly of the history published in 1990 by the Washington StateCouncil together with new material gathered by George Turk and myself. At the time of the originalprinting, there were 90 councils and 22 assemblies in Washington. Today there are 141 councils and38 assemblies. Since 1990, there have also been 8 state deputies, a vice-supreme master, 6 mastersand a supreme director. A State Squires Circle has been formed along with additional Circles.From 1990 to 2005, author George C. Turk PSD continued to gather new data for anaddendum to be published at the time of our Centennial (2004). The Centennial came and wentwithout an addendum being published. All of George’s data resides on a CD in the archives asindividual council and assembly files.Being stuck at home for a couple of days during February 2005, I resurrected George’s CDand attempted to electronically consolidate the data into a common file. This contained the original1990 data and the new material gathered up to that time. Unfortunately no photos were included inthe archived data. The consolidation required far more effort than originally thought. I have a greatamount of admiration for the efforts made by the author and share in his hope that councils,assemblies and circles will continue to contribute material in the future.Since 2005, I have continued to encourage councils to submit histories for an addendum. Thegoal was to have a history for each council and assembly before publication. Unfortunately, therewere over a dozen councils and half-dozen assemblies who did not respond to our many pleas. It istragic to omit the contributions members of these councils and assemblies have given towards theOrder and the church. I appreciate State Deputy Karl Hadley's efforts to obtain council and assemblyformation data from the Supreme Council. From this information we were able to publish theinstitution date and charter members.Some of the photos from the original document have been scanned and included in thepublication. Additional photos were added from the archives and from my personal collection. Thelist of councils and assemblies is in agreement with the 2006-2007 State Directory. The circle data isunfortunately very much lacking. Since the original publication, a State Circle has been formed alongwith many circles. I hope we can gather additional data about the Squires to add to the history.Additional photos were added from the archives and from my personal collection.Future contributions to the history should be sent to the current State Secretary who willforward them to the historian.Thomas L. Weber PSD, Compiler and Historian (2007)