• This year's golf outing will be held at The Sanctuary Golf Course on June 18, 2021 and more details regarding this event will be forthcoming;
• Thanked Sue Marzano for the wonderful job she has been doing with the new member orientation;
• Reminder that the Thurman Munson Scholarship Dinner will be held on Friday, June 25, 2021 at Skyland Pines Event Center.  For more details on this event contact Steve Fettman;
• Thanked Mark Clendenin and Becky Clark for their work on this year's Spring Raffle;
• Thanked Paul Hervey, Program Chair for the month of May, for his excellent programs.

It was originally called Decoration Day

To honor the deceased, soldiers would decorate graves of their fallen comrades with flowers, flags and wreaths. Hence Decoration Day. Although Memorial Day became its official title in the 1880s, the holiday wouldn’t legally become Memorial Day until 1967.

It wasn’t always celebrated the last Monday of May

After the Civil War, General John A. Logan, commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, called for a holiday commemorating fallen soldiers to be observed every May 30. But due to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which took effect in 1971, Memorial Day was moved to the last Monday of May to ensure long weekends. Some groups, like the veterans’ organization American Legion, have been working to restore the original date to set Memorial Day apart and pay proper tribute to the servicemen and women who sacrificed their lives defending the nation.

Waterloo, New York is considered the birthplace of Memorial Day

According to the Waterloo’s website, in 1966 Congress unanimously passed a resolution to officially recognize Waterloo as the birthplace of Memorial Day. However, it remains a contentious debate, with other towns, like Boalsburg, Pa., claiming the title of “Birthplace of Memorial Day” as well.

More than 36 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home this Memorial Day

*Time.com