Peter Lebeck Chapter #1866

The Kern County Chapter of E Clampus Vitus

For Our Humbugs

The Humbug Speaks!

Greetings and salutations (or hallucinations) -

My thanks to the brethren for entrusting me with the responsibility of keeping you in one piece at our doin's. I pledge that I'll do my best to promote Peter Lebeck 1866 as well as the Order in general. I've been around long enough to realize that this will require occasional sobriety, but I'll try not to let you catch me in such an appalling condition.

We started off the year with a stupendous Widders Ball that I'm sure some of you must remember, at least in part. Good weather, good fellowship and good fun were the order of the day. Now it's on to Whiskey Flats Days in Kernville to strut our stuff and make Peter proud. Come Saturday, February 14th, we'll be marching in the Whiskey Flats Parade, so break out your Clamper Finery, check the Clog for details and don't forget to show up!

April 23-25 will find us in Tehachapi where we will have an erection right downtown with a plaque denoting the location of the southernmost point of the Sierra Nevada mountain range (and, coincidentally, the northernmost point of the Tehachapis), as well as a nod to the City of Tehachapi's Centennial and the town's importance to the development of the railroad and the area in general.

I'll have to amend this message as event dates or times change, but I want to welcome all of you to any of our events as well as your proposals for anything you may think we're fit to participate in. I realize that may be a very short list, but give it a go anyhow.

Last, but certainly not least, bring in those PBCs!! They are the life's blood of our chapter in addition to providing us with amusement when they are brought in to see the light. If you've stayed away because you got annoyed with something previous, give us another shot, please. We'd love to see you and your PBCs anytime!

To all my Brothers, here's wishing us all another great year.

Timbo Gillespie

PXL NGH #49 -- 6015

Our Graybeards

PETER LEBECK CHAPTER, #1866
Honor Roll of X-Noble Grand Humbugs

  1. 1962 Ralph Kreiser *
  2. 1963 Walter Bowman *
  3. 1964 George Hewett *
  4. 1965 Frank Miller *
  5. 1966 Walter Stewart
  6. 1967 Howard deVilleroy
  7. 1968 Ralph Myers *
  8. 1969 Karl Thurber *
  9. 1970 Tom Hagelstein * (X-proctor)
  10. 1971 Max G. Bowser
  11. 1972 Jack G. Davis
  12. 1973 Richard Davis
  13. 1974 Robert E. J. O. Waite*
  14. 1975 Tom Hagelstein * (X-proctor)
  15. 1976 Gene Boultinghouse *
  16. 1977 Richard Francisco
  17. 1978 Sharkey Denman *
  18. 1979 John McAteer *
  19. 1980 Chris Brewer
  20. 1981 Bud Bradford *
  21. 1982 Charles Pomeroy
  22. 1983 Tom Hagelstein * (X-proctor)
  23. 1984 William Cordes *
  24. 1985 Kenny Young*
  25. 1986 Robert E. J. O. Waite*
  26. 1987 Bob Newman
  27. 1988 Tony Panici
  28. 1989 Jim Adams
  29. 1990 Jack Hogue *
  30. 1991 Don Rowe
  31. 1992 Bill Howard
  32. 1993 Dave Phillips
  33. 1994 Gene Duncker (X-proctor)
  34. 1995 Wes Frisinger
  35. 1996 Joe Szot
  36. 1997 Bob Cordes
  37. 1998 Kent Holland
  38. 1999 Pat McGhee
  39. 2000 Kenny Young*
  40. 2001 Wes Kutzner
  41. 2002 Al Eastin
  42. 2003 Steve Weaver
  43. 2004 Keith Fraser
  44. 2005 Steve Born
  45. 2006 Paul Weaver
  46. 2007 Don Johnson
  47. 2008 Bob Clemensson
  48. 2009 Dale Charter

*All Humbugs and Graybeards remain members of the Grand Council of E Clampus Vitus until called by the Highest Authority to His diggin's in the Golden Hills.

CREDO QUIA ABSURDUM EST

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