ELDER WILLIAM BREWSTER SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVE SENDS ME FRIENDLY REPLY E-MAIL NOTES IN JANUARY 2008

On Sunday, January 6, 2008 11:44 AM, "GThomp5749@aol.com" wrote:

Hi John:

In regards to your questions, I'll try and answer them in order that you asked..

1. regarding members who live in the Austin area, I do not have those records, they are kept by the treasurer. I'll see if I can get some information from her about that.

2. Same as above.

3. The best way to meet other members of the Brewster Society, would be to come to our Trienniel meeting in Plymouth, Massachusetts being held next year. Also, the newsletter that we send out, is really for information only. We really don't advertise to other members. You can access our newsletter on our website. www.brewsterfamily.org

4. We are going to discuss an endowment and or scholarship at our next meeting. This is something that we've talked about for many years, but never really got it off the ground. I have been working very hard to get membership going so that this would be possible. If you'd like to help with it, I can let the president know at our meeting.

5. a GREAT idea.. I'm going to see if we can possibly come up with something that would go along with your ideas.

Thanks for your sincere interest, and please keep in touch.

Sincerely,

Gregory Evan Thompson

Brewster Society Historian and Membership Chairman.

Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year.

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 John McMillan

To

GThomp5749@aol.com

01/03/08 at 11:44 PM

Dear Mr. Thompson,

Thank you for your helpful reply message.

I would also like to ask you a few follow-up questions:

(1) Do you know of any members of the Elder William Brewster Society who reside anywhere in the Austin area of Texas? Among towns near the capital city of Texas where I am living are: Westlake Hills, Texas; Round Rock, Texas; Cedar Park, Texas; Pflugerville, Texas; Georgetown, Texas; Bastrop, Texas; and San Marcos, Texas.

(2) As an alternative way of asking this same type of question, I could ask you whether you know of any other members who reside in a geographical location with a zip code that begins with, "787." I pose that question because I myself reside at the zip code area of 78759. It would be truly wonderful if I could meet some member of our Elder William Brewster Society who resides in the very same zip code as myself, in fact.

(3) If you aren't able to give out information of that type, is there some newsletter for our society into which I could at least pay for an announcement about myself wanting to meet several other members of our society who reside in the Austin area? I would find it very inspirational to have the opportunity to treat a fellow Elder William Brewster Society member to lunch or dinner or breakfast or tea and conversation in a nearby restaurant in the Austin area.

If there is an Austin chapter or other Texan chapter of the William Brewster Society, I would be very pleased to obtain the name of the president or secretary of that society.

Some brainstorming ideas I would like to share with you and your fellow officers of the Elder William Brewster Society include the following:

(1) Might there possibly be a benefit to our society raising funds at some point in order to finance one or more seminary-education-related financial scholarships for honorable seminary students who are themselves direct descendants of the Rev. William Brewster?

I raise this question partly because it would be fitting for our group to foster the educations of future clergymen, in the hope that they might prove to be of the caliber of Rev. Brewster himself. Also, the traditions of integrity and morality maintained by the gentleman who inspired the establishment of our non-profit group might be especially evident among seminary students and clergymen, it seems to me. Inevitably I find myself sensing that if Rev. Brewster himself had been consulted about the matter toward the latter stages of his career as a clergyman, he might have been very pleased to sense that future clergymen would be offered special nurturance and assistance through an endowment fund inspired by Rev. Brewster's life as a clergyman.

(2) If an endowment fund for this could somehow be established, I sense that it would also be very fitting for our Elder William Brewster Society to possibly sponsor an annual "Brewster Award" or "Rev. Brewster Integrity in Government Award" to the elective official or appointed government official who in the most recent 12-month period exhibited particular integrity, courage, honesty, diligent obedience of the law, cleanliness of speech, civility, generosity, moral vision, and dedication to addressing the broader needs of the city, county, state, and nation in which that government official is situated.

I offer this idea partly because Rev. William Brewster did, after all, preside over much of the governance of the colony of Puritan settlers in what is now Massachusetts.

(3) Many Americans are aware that a President of Yale University a few decades ago, Kingman Brewster, was himself a descendant of the Rev. William Brewster, from what I understand. If that is true, do you think that possibly the Elder William Brewster Society should consider offering a special award each year to the highest-ranking administrators of educational institutions around the United States who are themselves descendants of the Rev. William Brewster? It also seems to me that possibly there might be a benefit from establishment of a Brewster Scholarship at Yale University that might be earmarked for descendants of the Rev. William Brewster or, otherwise, for students planning to pursue a career in the ministry or in higher education, say...

Thank you again, Mr. Thompson, for your very kind and friendly reply letters. I would be very pleased if any of the very tentative brainstorming ideas from myself are useful to our Elder William Brewster Society.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.

Phone: (512) 342-2295.

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GThomp5749@aol.com

To

mcmillanj@att.net

01/03/08 at 5:39 PM

Hello John:

You check should be cashed this week. The treasurer had been out of town but is now back. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Gregory Thompson

Brewster Society

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mcmillanj@att.net>

To

GThomp5749@aol.com

01/01/08 at 1:49 PM

January 1, 2008

Dear Mr. Thompson,

Happy New Year to yourself, and thank you again for the official confirmation you have mailed to me via the U.S. Postal Service and Internet that I am now an official member of your very prestigious Elder William Brewster Society.

I was reminded again today, as I reviewed my checking account records on the Internet, that the $12 check (Chase Bank Check Number 112) that I wrote and mailed Nov. 7, 2007, to yourself and your admirable non-profit organization at your cited post-office box mailing address in Branford, Connecticut, still has not been cashed.

I am very hopeful that you will be willing to cash that Chase Bank check from myself in the very near future, which will simplify my ability to balance my checkbook without any complications.

Thank you, and Best Wishes to yourself and all of your Elder William Brewster Society members,

from John Kevin McMillan,

11411 Research Boulevard, Apt. 325, Austin, Texas, 78759.

Phone: (512) 342-2295.

P.S. Some of the non-partisan causes I hope that the Elder William Brewster Society can endorse or champion, and thereby translate Elder William Brewster's admirable beliefs into a 21st Century context, include:

---freedom from religious or political persecution;

---freedom from persecution or discrimination relating to one's being law-abiding and vigilant (such as by reporting possibly illegal activities to legal authorities), consistently civil, and honest and alcohol-free and tobacco-free and clean-talking and tattoo-less, for instance, there being outrageously immoral favoritism by many Americans of today toward Americans who are dishonest, law-breaking, uncivil, verbalize death threats to others, consume alcohol, consume tobacco, swear frequently, and have tattooes or body piercings on their own bodies.

---the freedom of assembly and freedom of association Constitutional and legal right to associate with persons who actually do agree with and feel comfortable with one's own beliefs and lifestyle conduct, and to develop lasting and mutual-consent and honest personal friendships or career-related professional relationships with those individuals.

----development of utopian-style communities in the United States of today where illicit-drug-addiction, alcohol consumption, tobacco consumption, and incivility are virtually non-existent.

----the conferment of a "Puritan of the Year Award" to the American citizen of the 21st Century who most embodies the very finest of the Puritan Colonists' ideals.

-----sponsorship of an anthology book containing the very finest and wisest of the written observations of Puritans, and particularly of the Rev. William Brewster.

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GThomp5749@aol.com wrote:

Hi John:

I received your application and information in the mail this afternoon. I haven't had a chance to do a thorough exam of the information, but it looks fine.

Thanks and welcome to the Brewster Society.

Gregory Evan Thompson