THE GARDA NEWS CELEBRATING 21 YEARS OF CAMARADERIE AND SERVICE Los Angeles Police Emerald Society April 2014 Editor - Dennis P. Sullivan President - T. Keleher Los Angeles Police Emerald Society WEB SITE: www.emeraldsociety.net Los Angeles Police Emerald Society FaceBook: www.facebook.com/PoliceEmerald 2014 Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Board Tom Keleher LBPD, President 562-810-6907 Mike Vela, LA County DDA, Vice President 562-972-1778 Dennis P. Sullivan LBPD, Treasurer 562-818-6969 Sean Carrion LASD, Sgt.at Arms 562-577-6716 Erin Colleen Sullivan LBHP, Quartermaster 562-760-5142 PLEASE REMIT YOUR 2014 DUES $25.00 per year or $300.00 Life Time Member NCLEES SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION National Conference of Law Enforcement Emerald Societies www.NCLEES.org will be awarding four (4) $500.00 dollar scholarships to eligible students. Students must be presently in their senior year of High School and planning to attend col- lege on a full time basis or must be presently attending college and planning to continue to attend college on a full time basis for the 2014 – 2015 school years. Students must be the child of an active Emerald Society mem- ber in good standing (2014 dues paid). The Emerald Society chapter must be in good standing as a member of NCLEES. (LAPES is in fact in good standing.) Only one application will be accepted per individual student, however, more than one student per family may submit an application. APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY MAY 1, 2014. The scholarship will be chosen on a lottery basis at the May NCLEES meeting in Washington DC. The winner will be noti- fied by the member organization (LAPES) and will be asked to show proof of attendance at schools that applicant states. Vice President Michael Vela is chairperson of our scholarship committee and will review all applicants prior to applications being sent to the NCLEES. See attached NCLEES Scholarship Application. Any questions contact Vice President Vela. 2014 ST. PATRICK’S DAY DINNER The 2014 St. Patrick’s Day dinner was by far the best in our 22 year history. How fitting that our best dinner is the dinner at which we recognized and thanked the four members responsi- ble for the founding of our beloved Los Angeles Police Emerald Society chapter in 1992. Those four were of course, Bill McNeely, Bill Murphy, Matt Mulvihill, and Patrick McNamara. Bill McNeely and Commander Bill Murphy spoke on the history and creation of our organization briefly at the dinner and how challenging it was to accomplish back in 1992. Bill McNeely has graciously offered to relay that fasci- nating story at a future date to our membership. We would be remiss as an organization, if we failed to develop our Emerald Society history in such a way that it will be avail- able for those that come after us. We have that opportunity now, to get our history in both writing and recorded by the founding mem- bers, in their own words and voices. Speaking of our dinner, the new venue at the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base surpassed all expectations. It was so well liked by our membership and guests, that we have al- ready booked our 2015 St. Patrick’s Day dinner for Saturday February 28, 2015 there. Tickets will be sold in advance only. Our apologies for those of you that waited too long to pur- chase tickets this year, only to find out that we had sold out. Please get your tickets early! What a Hooley it was! The Los Alamitos Joint Forces Base Color Guard started things off, compli- Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Newsletter
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THE GARDA NEWS CELEBRATING 21 YEARS OF CAMARADERIE AND SERVICE
Los Angeles Police Emerald Society
April 2014 Editor - Dennis P. Sullivan
President - T. Keleher
Los Angeles Police Emerald Society
WEB SITE: www.emeraldsociety.net
Los Angeles Police Emerald Society FaceBook:
www.facebook.com/PoliceEmerald
2014 Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Board
Tom Keleher LBPD, President 562-810-6907
Mike Vela, LA County DDA, Vice President 562-972-1778
sey’s- Seal Beach (Member Owned). Join 2014 Rose of Tralee
Kathryn Anne Bergman and Pipe Master Scott Walton. IN-
CLUDES EVENT T-SHIRT. Specific shirt sizes must be in by April 18!
Advance Ticket Purchase Only! Limited Seating. NO TICK-
ETS WILL BE SOLD DAY OF EVENT. Refreshments will be
served onboard. Appetizers at every stop. Contact Erin Col-
leen Sullivan 562-760-5142
MAY 14 & 15, 2014: National Conference of Emerald Societies
Memorial March and meeting, Washington D.C.
www.NCLEES.org.
May 18 2014: LAPES member Rick Boyle
(Trooper Thorn) performing 4PM-8PM at
The Harp in Costa Mesa.
www.facebook.com/TrooperThorn.
The Irish Fair Foundation, Inc. Board of Di-rectors is pleased to announce that the 39th BIG IRISH FAIR & MUSICFEST will be hosted on June 14-15, 2014 at ELDORADO REGIONAL PARK in Long Beach, California - where the 405 & 605 Freeways meet on the border between Orange and Los Angeles Counties. The new site adjoins Seal Beach and Los Alamitos. Isn't great to celebrate our St. Paddy's Day in June! The 2014 BIG IRISH FAIR will star The YOUNG DUBS, the FENIANS and ANITA AND THE YANKS. The new site is central of all of Southern California. Eldorado Regional Park is a fabulous expanse of green lawns with nu-merous mature trees and lakes. There will be plenty of space for all of the BIG IRISH FAIR & MUSICFEST activities and pro-grams from the lakeside Shamrock Bowl to Dirty Nellies Pub, the 6 stages of Irish Step Dancing competitions, sheepherding shows, the Irish Auto Show staring the 1952 Shamrockmobile, our special Irish Dog Exhibit, the lakeside Royal Tara Village and our Harp and Fiddle Traditional Music stage. Bagpipers
will be parading Irish sporting games and over 100 vendors of Irish Imports and specially arts & crafts. See the Irish fairy queen in Leprechaun Kingdom for the wee ones. Over 2000 performers showcased in 16 on-going separate entertainment zones - the BIG IRISH FAIR & MUSICFEST is the largest outdoor exhibition of Irish music, song, dance and sport west of the Mississip-pi. Over 30,000 Irish Fair attendees will be celebrating their Irish-ness. Come and join them. For more information, please refer to www.irishfair.org Boston National Conference.
September 25-28th, Boston: 2014 National Conference of Law
Enforcement Emerald Societies Fall meeting. The host hotel is
the Back Bay Hilton. Limited rooms remain. Activities are
planned every day including a Boston Red Sox vs. New York
Yankees baseball game. Also planned is a Boston city tour by
Boston Irish Cops! A unique, one of a kind opportunity…
www.NCLEESBoston.org
THE DOG TOWN PARADE AND ST. PATRICK OF ARMAGH.
By Bill Donoghue, Sgt. Ret. APD
I have just had the good fortune to visit my old hometown St. Louis, Missouri. My younger sis-ter, Kitty Murphy and my niece, Mary Celeste,
allowed me to join their excursion on March 12, 2014, for the annual St. Patrick’s Day and long awaited family visits. I ended up staying until March 24 and was honored to represent our brotherhood as retired Anaheim Police Sergeant; past presi-dent of The Los Angeles Police Emerald Society (LAPES) and with the friendship and blessings of The Orange County Hiber-nians (AOHOCCAL).
I was expecting to be marching in the historical “Dog Town” parade, instead I was allowed to ride in a van that was towing a “Blarney Castle” , wearing my All Ireland Green kilt, with an Anaheim police sergeant’s uniform shirt and was further per-mitted to travel the whole parade route, all the while passing tootsie rolls to the cheering crowds en route.
I was given the honors as I have described through the efforts of Mike Rowe of The Missouri Emerald Society, St. Louis Met-ropolitan Police Chapter and I was escorted and befriended by Det. Chris MacNamara and his colleague “Chip”. I couldn’t have had better guides and companions. After Dog Town, we visited the grand old McGurk’s establishment, in the colorful and also historic Soulard neighborhood of the great old town.
THE GARDA NEWS CELEBRATING 21 YEARS OF CAMARADERIE AND SERVICE
Los Angeles Police Emerald Society
April 2014 Editor - Dennis P. Sullivan
President - T. Keleher
And we finally ended up at St. James Church, to complete the march.
I had been thoughtfully supplied by Mike with a handsome, green jacket, bearing a Missouri/Metro St. Louis Police Emer-ald Society patch, so that my Anaheim PD shirt need not re-main in evidence as we dined and supped.
All of the aforementioned might have been quite enough, to describe my gratitude to LAPES and especially LAPES presi-dent Tom Keleher, for allowing me to represent in this way. But being the history buff that I admittedly am; I was addition-ally awed by the story that unfolded, as we continued to share the police and Irish experience from California to Missouri. And special recognition must be given to the “Old Rock Church” of St. Patrick of Armagh.
It all began when my cousin, Betty Range, offered me an issue of “The St. Louis Review” suggesting it might be a good read. An article entitled “Irish Eyes Are smiling” by Joseph Kenny stood out. It seemed it might fit the moment. It was an account of the history of an” Old Rock Church” in Franklin County, just west of St. Louis, wherein Joseph Kenny tells of the many rea-sons for celebration at St. Patrick’s of Armagh.
Established in 1843 and receiving the first resident pastor in 1847. Fr. John O’Hanlon, made do with a “log structure”, until a larger structure had to be made of stone, “Quarried by hand”. One Billy Murphy, President of St. Patrick’s Preservation Socie-ty, which now maintains the church and cemetery is quoted by Kenny as saying: “We have everything rebuilt now. It took 40 years to get it done”. A caretaker lives at the rectory and some weddings and baptisms take place”.
This account by Joseph Kenny also contains the following star-tling and inspiring statistics and reasons for this special house of worship :
In the early 1800s, the area included almost all Irish immi-grants. The priest used to ride his horse once a month from Richwoods. The people for 10 miles around (now imagine traveling that distance in a buggy). Lutherans, Baptists, Pres-byterians, United Church of Christ were so starved to hear the Word of God, they would all take off work and come for ser-vices and dinner.
Many of the Protestant family members are buried in the cem-etery.
The traditional picnic takes approximately 300 people to put it on, Billy Murphy said and 150 of them are Protestant.
Central to this remarkable article, Joseph Kenny describes why Greg Caldwell, from Villa Ridge could have spent the day at
Dog town’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, but thought that attending at the Old Rock on the Saint’s feast was even more appropriate.
Caldwell is described as a quarter Irish, including one John Colter, who was hired to go on the 1804 Lewis and Clark expe-dition. Another of Greg’s ancestors is Kincaid Caldwell, a col-league of Daniel Boone, and settled in what is now called Mar-thasville.
This should have been more than enough to make anyone en-thusiastic about The Old Rock Church, but when I then visited my sister, Sister Brigid O’Donoghue, DC, at her retirement home in Bridgetown, MO and began relating what I had learned from Joseph Kenny’s article; I became doubly im-pressed when her good friend, Sister Joan McDermott, was even more familiar with the story of St. Patrick of Armagh, as her own family had been devoted members of the congrega-tion. Who could’ve known. It is a small and wonderful world.
Many thanks to Sisters Brigid and Joan; to LAPES; to The Mis-souri Police Emerald Society, St. Louis Metro Branch, especially Mike Rowe; to AOH St. Louis and AOHOCCAL.
Many thanks for the friendship and brotherhood of Tom Kele-her; Chris Macnamara; “Chip” and Mike Rowe.
Sla inte,
Bill Donoghue
Future Events TBA:
Whiskey Tasting: Auld Dubliner Long Beach.
Tour: USS Iowa, San Pedro
Social &Meeting: Ocean front American Legion-Newport Beach
Tour: Ireland May 2019 ?
Erin Colleen Sullivan is looking for members who may be
interested in a trip to Ireland in May 2019? Contact Erin if