2018-2019 Daniel P. Sullivan Council 10208 of Hot Springs Village Family of the Year Bob and Mary Anne Honzik

A well deserves award for Bob and Mary Ann!! 

They are huge contributors to the success of Council 10208:
Spearheaded Council 10208's  "Share-a-Chair" program, in which more than eighty living-room style chairs were donated, refurbished and delivered to the diocesan retreat center at Fletcher Hall in Little Rock; organized and ran the council's annual "Taste of Faith" seminarian fundraiser for eight years with this year's event raising $29,500.00; Bob is a past Grand Knight, current council Trustee and current Arkansas State Council Vocations Director; Mary Anne is the co-chair of the pricing committee for the council's biennial "Treasure Sale" that benefits St. John's School in Hot Springs and Our Lady of Fatima School in Benton raising over $8,000.00 for each school.  Bob is a high energy recruiter playing a big role in the steady growth of this Council's membership in recent years; in this fraternal year with his initiative, council 10208 has sent $5,000.00 to the State Council for the Bishop's newly announced "One Church" program to aid poverty stricken parishes in the Diocese of Little Rock; Bob and Mary Anne were the main drivers in our council's "Priest's Circle Initiative" motivating our members to raise over $7,000.00 to completely renovate the burial area.

Bob has been an active member of the Sacred Heart Parish Administration Council and an Usher for 16 years while Mary Anne is an Altar Server and Eucharistic Minister.  Bob sits on the Diocesan Board of Director's for Seminarian Endowment Funding.  With his close relationship to Bishop Taylor, Bob and Mary Anne have hosted a Gala Christmas Party for the past nine years at their home that allows our parish members to develop a closer relationship with our future priests. Bob has been instrumental in organizing a very successful parish men's retreat at the newly renovated diocesan retreat center at Fletcher Hall in Little Rock.  The Second Annual Retreat was held this past March.

In addition to all of the above, their involvement in the community includes: Sending cards and messages of sympathy to shut-ins, prepare and deliver meals to the sick, visit the sick at their homes or in the hospital and deliver food baskets to needy families at Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Bob and Mary Anne have been retired many years and could be spending their time relaxing.  Instead, they constantly look for ways to use their leadership abilities to help other people in so many ways.  Council 10208 is a high-performance council, but this level of success doesn't just happen.  It is a family like Bob and Mary Anne that inspires other Knight's to extend themselves and go the extra mile for their fellow man.  Doing this every day eminently qualifies them to be honored as "Family of the Year?

2018-2019 Daniel P. Sullivan Council 10208 of Hot Springs Village Knight of the Year – Colonel Thomas (Tom) Donnelly, USMC (retired) Ed.D.

Wow, where do you even start to show how much Tom has done for the Council.  Sir Knight Tom Donnelly has been a member of the Knights of Columbus Daniel P. Sullivan Council 10208 since 1999.  He has been a member of the 4^th Degree Fr. Victor A. Bieberle Assembly 2316 since 1999.

He has held the positions of Council Community Director, Deputy Grand Knight, Grand Knight twice, Membership Committee, Retention Committee, Recruiting Committee, State Council CPID Director, Warden for the District 10 Formation Degree Exemplification Team, 1^st Trustee and is currently the Faithful Captain of Assembly 2316, Honor Guard member, and 2^nd Trustee for Council 10208.


Not only has he done so much for the Knights, he takes a tremendous amount of time for the Church.

Perpetual Adoration, serves as an Usher, participates in Parish and Knights of Columbus Retreats annually, attends daily mass most days, attends the Catholics Men’s Conference annually, and either organizes or helps in most Parish and Knights of Columbus Activities.

I could go on and on about how much Sir Knight Tom does in the community and continues to help wherever there is a need.  His philosophy is to lead by example with the strongest emphasis on servant leadership; Leaders serve and lead from the Front!!  He lives the four tenets of our fraternal order: Charity, Unity, Fraternity and Patriotism.  In every and all endeavors he pragmatically encourages all of us to “be the best we can” with what God provides us.  He sets the achievement bar high, never asking anyone to do what he is not willing to do himself.  He demonstrates daily a sense of duty to his Church, his community his brothers.

An award well deserved!!  Congratulations Sir Knight Tom on being selected as the Knight of the Year.

June 2019 Family of the Month – Murray and Kim Claassen

Our Council is blessed to have this couple working so hard for us.  Their most recent activity was to coordinate the 2019 Sacred Heart of Jesus Taste of Faith Dinner and will continue to do so in the future.  If you attend the dinner, you saw what an excellent job they did putting it together.  They are both Perpetual Eucharistic Adorers.

Murray does the following for the Knights too:

Council Treasurer for Fiscal Year 2017 and 2018

CPID Chair for 2018 and 2019

Elected Deputy Grand Knight for Fiscal year 2019

Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish Finance and Administration Council Member

Chair of the HSV Public Services Committee 2018 and 2019

Member of the HSV Comprehensive Master Plan Advisory Committee

Kim’s additional work:

LOSH – St. Teresa Guild member

Tutors 2^nd and 3^rd Graders in reading and math weekly at Mountain Pine School

A well-deserved award for the this parish couple.

Just a few of the things that Scott has done for our council.  Most recently, he was chairman of the highly successful Knights of Columbus Charity Golf Tournament.  What makes this so special is that he organized and promoted the tournament from Tennessee where he was receiving Cancer treatments.

Chairman of the five to six Parish Breakfasts Annually

Perpetual Adoration Adorer

Assistant Coordinator for the Parish Pizza Card Sales

Ticket seller for numerous KoC events

Assisted with previous Mardi Gras functions

Former Inside and Outside Guard for 6 years for the KoC

Participates in the Annual Bishop McDonald Charity Golf Tournament in Little Rock

A well deserved award for Scott