[From the Ontario District's newsletter, The Trillium, issue 60-02, April - June, 2006 , Waldo Redekop, editor.]
[ED: The following is an excerpt from an email (used with permission) from Dick Cote, publisher/editor of the Fullerton California Chapter’s Barbershop Clippin’s. It was sent in response to the article that I had in the last Trillium about the Angel Fund.]

President’s Fund

I also noted your squib on Angel Fund. Shortly after  I joined the Society, probably in 1996, I noted such a need in Fullerton, and proposed the establishment of such a fund. My lovely wife, Kay, agreed with the idea and we contributed $250 as seed money and a fund called the “President’s  Fund” was established.  

It now has at least four times that amount in it and is available to members in need, either as a loan or, if warranted, as an outright  grant. It’s administered by the current and two previous presidents and is very nice to have. It might be good if all chapters would consider such a fund.

Yours in harmony, Dick Cote.        k