We're Not a Foundation But We're Still a Charity

I just noticed today that I've been using the wrong corporate name. It's just Bald Knob Cross of Peace, according to the annual filings with the Secretary of State's Office.

Previously it had been Bald Knob Mountain Recreation Association and before that Cross of Peace Foundation. Since I've been going through the original bylaws and paperwork that's where I kept adding the "foundation" to the current name.

The Cross of Peace Foundation was organized in 1976 and became the successor organization of the Save the Cross Committee which organized in the early 1970s and the original Bald Knob Christian Foundation which Wayman Presley and others organized in the 1950s to purchase the land atop Bald Knob.

Nevertheless, we're still a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization that we've been since the beginning. Donations to Bald Knob Cross of Peace are tax deductible charitable contributions. Donations can be mailed to the group at Bald Knob Cross of Peace, PO Box 35, Alto Pass IL 62905.

Transitional Update

Members of the new transitional board received copies of the Bald Knob Cross of Peace Foundation's bylaws earlier today.

I've been reading over my copy as well as the settlement agreement while I go over the notes and ideas that have been circulating among the new members and the attorneys involved in the settlement.

I'm hoping we'll be calling our first board meeting sometime the following week which will allow us to meet each other in person for the first time. The main focus of that meeting will be to elect officers which is the necessary first step before the corporate records, financial documents, etc., can be turned over to us.

Checking out the by-laws it looks like the annual meeting of the membership is set for the second Tuesday of February. The actual place and time is determined by the president, which we won't know until we elect one at the upcoming special board meeting. Still mark your calendars for Feb. 10, 2009.

Meanwhile I've been reading old newspaper articles found on Ancestry.com, mostly out of the Edwardsville Intelligencer that regularly ran UPI stories on the development of the cross and Easter services in the 1950s and 1960s.

What I didn't realize was the length of time between the initial groundbreaking and construction of the iron support structure of the cross and the covering of it with the panels that are currently coming off.

For most of the Kennedy Administration, the cross was uncovered.

Be patient as we organize ourselves, and please keep us in your prayers.