{"id":1868,"date":"2016-05-23T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T17:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2016-05-23T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T17:23:33","slug":"changes-by-lewis-r-crist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"Changes by Lewis R. Crist"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Summer of 1965, the 59th<\/sup> Grand Nest Convention was held in St. Louis.\u00a0\u00a0 At this time, the United States was hopelessly mired in the jungles of Vietnam.\u00a0 People resented the War.\u00a0 Even returning soldiers were spat upon.\u00a0 We were facing protests and riots in the streets.\u00a0 There was arson and looting on a large scale, destroying the hearts of many cities.\u00a0 Insurance was no longer available in certain areas.\u00a0 This would give rise to what is now known as \u201c The Fair Plan\u201d, which provided people in those areas with access to an insurance market. \u00a0It still operates today.<\/p>\n

Our MLGG Earl S. Hannan refused to allow these historic events to deter the St. Louis pond from conducting a memorable convention. \u00a0\u00a0But, it was reported that this was the only time that the presentation of colors and the singing of anthems was mentioned in the Convention minutes during the turbulent 1960\u2019s.\u00a0 Those minutes also reflect that the meeting was dominated by insurance industry issues, as well it should have in those years of stress. \u00a0The meeting opened with an insurance seminar.\u00a0 The only change of note was a request to admit employees of The Retail Credit Company as members.\u00a0 It was rejected.\u00a0 \u00a0Character, Charity, and Fellowship were in short supply it seemed.<\/p>\n

Some thirty six years later, the St. Louis Pond readied itself to host another Grand Nest Convention, in 2001.\u00a0 \u00a0Much had happened in the intervening years. \u00a0\u00a0Overall, our membership was changing.\u00a0 The insurance industry was no longer supplying a dominate number of members.\u00a0 Many members now came from the ranks of vendors, and independent contractors who worked with the insuring public after a loss.\u00a0 \u00a0The Gordon F. Crowther Charity Award was launched to recognize the Pond\u00a0 that did the most varied works of charity.\u00a0 Also, the use of technology was spreading.\u00a0 Eight Ponds and the Grand Nest were reported as having a website.\u00a0 Online convention registration was introduced for the first time for the St. Louis Convention.\u00a0 \u00a0In 1989 females were approved for membership.\u00a0 Charles L. Cramer, our MLGG, visited seven other Ponds just prior to the Convention, and commented that every one of them had at least one female officer.<\/p>\n

Then, some five weeks after the St. Louis Convention, it was September 11, 2001, and the World Trade buildings came down in the vicious attack of that date.\u00a0 Five Blue Goose members were lost.\u00a0 Let us never forget.<\/p>\n

The trinity of Character, Charity, and Fellowship seem to be emphasized more these days in all of the Ponds, but especially here in the St. Louis Pond.\u00a0\u00a0 A gentler, kinder approach is evident.\u00a0\u00a0 We are all the better for it!\u00a0 What changes will happen at the 2016 convention? \u00a0\u00a0Or after it? \u00a0\u00a0No one knows for sure, but based on past history, we all know that changes will occur.\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Summer of 1965, the 59th Grand Nest Convention was held in St. Louis.\u00a0\u00a0 At this time, the United States was hopelessly mired in the jungles of Vietnam.\u00a0 People resented the War.\u00a0 Even returning soldiers were spat upon.\u00a0 We were facing protests and riots in the streets.\u00a0 There was arson and looting on a… Read More »Changes by Lewis R. Crist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}