[Oe List ...] Salmon: [Dialogue] Order annuity

[William Salmon]

David and All: 
    Here are 10 of my suggestions for commemorating our decision of perpetual vows to be the Order.: Some are serious and others are less. You can decide. I want these to stir the imaginations of others. 
A.    All plans are contracted to be administered with ICA/International or some other friendly religious order:
1.    Tattoo the Order Wedgeblade on the inner left wrist or inner thigh;
2.    Buy a "Last Order Member" bottle of Scotch;
3.    Donations made to an "Order" scholarship at TU in Austin-- this could be in the name of those who wish to be memorialized--the bottle will be sent to the last survivor;
4.    Donations made to an "Order" scholarship at Perkins at SMU in the name of Joe Matthews;
5.    Burial plan to put an Order Cross on our tombstone or other memorial -- send a plan that could be copied;
6.    Burial plaque in 5th City--donate sufficient funds to place our names on it-- this could be commonly funded so that at death, everyone's name is on it, in addition to all those who previously died; 
7.    Order "Ash-Pit" in a common place where our ashes could be sent/placed with no names attached;
8.    5th City Vault for Order member ashes;
9.    To commemorate a famous Order Axiom, commission a bronze as a Memorial somewhere in Louisiana with a, "Shovel and a Bucket of Shit;" 
10.    All Order members donate to a common fund so that an Order Cross can be sent to all members and their children to be used as they wish. 

Does this stir the juices? 
Bill Salmon

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Dunn 
  To: Order Ecumenical Community 
  Cc: Colleague Dialogue 
  Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:58 AM
  Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Order annuity


  On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:41 PM, McCabe, Diann A wrote:


    Around the meetings in 1986 and 1988 when OE as a structure was ended, the small remaining amounts in order funds were distributed based on a complicated formula.



  It has been one of the great sadnesses of the last 25 years that I have somehow not been able to participate in that symbol of membership in the order I never left.


  How might we symbolize the gift and the blessing of perpetual vows?


  David


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  David Dunn
  dmdunn1 at gmail.com










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