DD Reminder goes digital in March District Deputy Reminder will continue to be posted online at www.kofc.org in a printable format on the first working day of the month. No internet capability? Let us know and we will mail it to you. Send your name, address, town, state, postal code and country with your district number to Richard McMunn, Knights of Colum- bus,1 Columbus Plaza, New Haven, CT 06510. District Deputy Reminder February 2012 Celebrate the Order’s birthday with new members Founder’s Day, March 29, 2012, is the 130th anniversary of the Order. On that date in 1882 the Knights of Columbus was chartered by the State of Connecticut. Councils should celebrate the Order’s birthday by bringing in at least one new member in March. The Orderwide intake goal is 13,000 new members in March. Help reach that goal by schedul- ing a First Degree and a Founder’s Day Mass in honor of Father McGivney in each council in the month of Founder’s Day. As district deputy be sure to file Form #450 or Form #450C (filed by the host GK or FS) after each degree in your district. Make certain the councils have permission from their pastor to recruit at the parish on the week- end before Founder’s Day (March 29), or a weekend that is more agreeable to the parish’s schedule. Remind your councils of the Blessed John Paul II medallions the recruiters may earn. For each month a Knight recruits a new member or members, he re- ceives a small medallion. He will earn a large medallion with a wooden display stand if he recruits at least four new members during 2011-12 fraternal year. Let us hear from you. Use the new Supreme Council mail box for district deputies: [email protected]. Fraternal Survey needed now! In 2010, Knights of Columbus councils, assemblies and circles do- nated nearly $155 million to charitable causes as well as 70 million hours of volunteer service. These numbers will be even more impressive for 2011 with your help. Just 78 percent of councils, assemblies and circles completed the 2010 Annual Survey of Fraternal Activity (#1728) and returned it to the Supreme Council office. The 2010 statistics could have been much better, but the charitable activities of 22 percent of Knights of Columbus were unreported. The deadline for returning the 2011 survey form was Jan. 31, 2012. The goal for this year is to have 100 percent of all units report- ing. To reach the goal we need the help of our district deputies. Please make sure all your councils file the Fraternal Survey. It is not too late! The Annual Survey of Fraternal Activity Form (#1728 for councils and #1728C for assemblies and circles) can be filled out and filed online, printed from kofc.org/forms and mailed or it may be found in each of the Report Forms Booklets (#1436 for councils, #325 for assemblies and #401 for circles). Make sure that each council in your district has filed the Fraternal Survey Report. If they haven’t, insist that they do so immediately. If the council is dormant or inactive, fill out and file the form yourself. Simply write the council number and the words “dormant” or “inactive” on the form and sign it as district deputy. If any of your councils sponsor Squires circles make sure the coun- cil sees that the circle form is filed. If the circle is dormant or inac- tive follow the same procedure as above. Why is there so much emphasis on the Fraternal Survey? These are the vital statistics of the Order. The Knights of Columbus can accomplish the charitable work it does in part because the Order is a tax-exempt fraternal benefit society. The Fraternal Survey proves the exemption is deserved and should continue. The numbers promote the Order and membership recruitment, while giving the Order the information needed to preserve its tax ex- emption. So, please, do it now!