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THE CALLAWAY FAMILY ASSOCIATION Volume III No. 3 BULLETIN BILL'S BLURB
I am experimenting
with a new e-mail program called IncrediMail, which adds
backgrounds, animations, etc. To see the Bulletin on full screen,
hit the maximize button at top right. I hope this works! If you wish
to make any comments or suggestions, please send them to me at callawaybill
at shaw.ca .
We have started to
solve the problem of invalid e-mail addresses. Martha Winkler, our
Assistant Secretary, is sending letters by snail mail to those
members whose Bulletins have been returned as "undeliverable",
asking them to notify us of their current e-mail addresses. Out of
10 letters sent, we have had clarification from three so far.
If you
happen to change your e-mail address, please notify me, along with
all your other contacts. Also, if you move, Judy Ostler (our
Secretary, who keeps the membership database up-to-date) would
appreciate hearing from you, I am sure, so that her labels for CFA
mailings are all correct. You can e-mail her at jcostler at sat.net .
Now that the Winter
Olympics are over, many of us can get on with our normal routines.
What a great showing by the American athletes (34 medals) and Canada
had its greatest number of medals ever (17). It was amazing to
see the Australians win gold medals in Men's Short Track Speed
Skating and in Women's Freestyle Skiing. And how about Great Britain
getting a medal in Men's Downhill Skiing. I won't even mention the
Golds won by both the Women's and Men's Hockey Teams from Canada. It
was almost momentous enough for a National Holiday to be proclaimed!
DR.
PAUL SMITH CALLAWAY
Bruce Callaway of
Sydney, Australia has found an interesting article in the Google
search engine on Dr. Paul Callaway who was Organist and Choirmaster
at Washington National Cathedral from 1939 to 1976. He was reminded
of this distinguished musician by Sir Frank Callaway of Kallaroo,
Western Australia, himself a renowned Music Educator. Following is
the article which is on the web site of the Church of the Ascension
and Saint Agnes.
PAUL CALLAWAY TUBA
Then Sherrill Williams
searched through all her old Callaway Journals and came across an
article on Paul Callaway in Volume IV, 1979, pages 28-30, including
a photograph of him sitting at the great organ at Washington
Cathedral.
Another organist,
William Callaway, was featured (including a photo) in another
Journal, Volume VI, 1981, page 47. He is the son of Dr. E. Jordan
and Caroline Callaway, at that time of Covington, GA. Does anyone
have an update on that up-and-coming musician?
CALLAWAY FAMILY ASSOCIATION JOURNAL
Speaking of the
Journal, the Editor, Ben Callaway needs any material for the 2002
Journal submitted to him as soon as possible.
Back issues of the
Journal, Volumes I - XXVI (1976 - 2001) can be ordered through:
Mrs. Martha Callaway
Winkler
1350 South York Street
Denver, CO 80210
The cost to members is
$5. per copy, while non-members pay $10. The CFA web site,
www.callawayfamily.org ,
has an Order Form if you wish to use it.
As evidenced by the
two articles mentioned above, there is much interesting reading to
be found in those 26 volumes, all but the first one having been
edited by Ben Callaway - an incredible achievement. The Journal is
one of the fine hallmarks that has made the CFA one of the foremost
family associations in the world.
THE CFA WEB SITE Bill Callaway asked me if I would like to explain a little bit about CFA’s web site. (If any of you are already bored after reading this first sentence, just jump to the next section!) If you are still reading, here's what goes into creating our web site: 1. Choose a domain name Everyone knows about "dot com". That is a domain name extension. It is part of the name of your unique space on the world wide web. There are other dots however. CFA is a dot org. Org means, just as you suspect, organization. In our case, non-profit organization. Dot com and dot net are generally used for commercial sites, while dot edu is an educational institution. CFA’s full dot org domain name is callawayfamily.org and when you click on it in your web browser, it tells your computer where to go to display the site. This domain name is only leased, which means as long as you pay the lease you can use it indefinitely. If you stop paying the lease, someone else can lease and use it. Now you know! 2. Select a domain host Everyone’s web site has to be located or stored somewhere on some computer. There are many hosting companies that store web sites. CFA’s web site is hosted by Interland, which is located in Atlanta GA. Everyone has to pay rent to their hosting company to allow their site to live there. The cost of the rent depends on the size of your web site and the function capability your site needs. As with most everything, More is higher and Less is lower. 3. Determine the purpose of the site and what you wish to accomplish with it. Now we get into the more difficult part. Planning what your site will accomplish requires a great deal of thought and preparation. In CFA’s case many CFA members were involved in what we offer on our site, but the web site’s founding father is Russ Callaway. He made sure it happened. 4. Layout, design, content Think of this section as landscaping. It’s not only important what you say on your web site, it is also very important how you say it. A web site needs to be pleasing to the eye, easy to read and navigate, and contain information which visitors to the site find interesting, informative, and in general worth their time spent. After all if they don’t, leaving is as simple as clicking a button! Web surfers are a "tough audience". If they don’t like the site on their first visit, they are very unlikely to return. The CFA web site tries to offer information not only pertinent to CFA members, but to visitors world wide with an interest in the "Callaway" name and it’s history. 5. Interaction with visitors If your site allows visitors to write to you either through email or input forms it is important to respond to these visitors. CFA has two input forms on the site which are directed to Martha Winkler, CFA Assistant Secretary. She does a terrific job responding. The site also has contact email addresses listed, and these CFA members also do a great job responding. We also get many inquiries regarding Callaway genealogy and these are forwarded to Sherrill Williams, CFA Genealogist. Her mail box must be full all the time. She does a wonderful job responding to all those questions. 6. The Webmaster A web site needs to be fresh and appear to be frequently updated. No one likes old news! My job is primarily to keep the site operational, add new material when it becomes available and try to keep the site fresh and interesting for all our visitors. I’ve met many of our members through the web site, not to mention many visitors world wide who have stopped by for a visit at www.callawayfamily.org. It is a very rewarding experience. Donna Morgan, CFA Webmaster Editor's Note: We are indebted to Donna for the great job she has done on the Web Site since taking over the responsibilities of Webmaster almost two years ago. For a Bio on Donna, refer back to Bulletin 2000 - # 4, May 2000. ANCESTRY.COM Recently I attended a meeting of our local Family History Society, at which the guest speaker was Sherry Irvine, a noted genealogist from Victoria, British Columbia. She was our banquet speaker at the CFA Board Meeting last May, and ever since that time she has been included in our Bulletin mailing list to keep her informed of CFA news. Sherry advised me that we are welcome to use in the Bulletin any of her many genealogical articles that she has written, and which can be found at www.ancestry.com . All you have to do is go to that web site, click on the Learn tab, then type Irvine in the Search The Library space. Fifty-five results will show, 34 of which are articles by Sherry. It is hard to know which one might be of most interest to you, so check them out yourselves and read as many as you like. Enjoy! Thanks, Sherry. VIDEO CONFERENCING Several members of the CFA Board of Directors are experimenting with a couple of systems on the Internet which will enable us to have meetings via our computers. So far, with the aid of a computer camera and microphone, we have been able to talk to and see three of us at a time. Last Saturday, using Yahoo Messenger, Bruce Callaway in Australia, Kermit Bridges in West Virginia, and Bill Callaway in Canada were able to have a conversation amongst ourselves. This Saturday we are adding Gary Garnett, and later on the number of participants may increase as we become more competent using this technology. Who knows! Maybe we will eventually be able to have Board meetings from the comfort of our own homes, without having to travel thousands of miles for a weekend meeting. Progress reports to follow. CO - EDITORS Bill Callaway, Parksville, B.C., Canada Dr. Bruce Callaway, Sydney, NSW, Australia callawaybill at shaw.ca bruce at callaway.com.au ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - Copyright © 2002 Callaway Family Association |