2009 December 19 Meeting
Please join us for the Chapter meeting on 19 December where our speaker will be dual member Billy Templeton, who will impersonate Ben Franklin!
Benjamin Franklin: author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer; published "Poor Richard’s Almanack" 1732-1757; founder & 1st president of American Philosophical Society 1769-1790.
Here are a few of his famous quotes:
- "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
- "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
- "All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."
Benjamin Franklin -
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin’s mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah. In all, Josiah would father 17 children. Josiah intended for Benjamin to enter into the clergy. However, Josiah could only afford to send his son to school for one year and clergymen needed years of schooling. But, as young Benjamin loved to read he had him apprenticed to his brother James, who was a printer. After helping James compose pamphlets and set type which was grueling work, 12-year-old Benjamin would sell their products in the streets.