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An old toast, shared again
The Homesteader · September 2020
In the story: 7. They got there, 2011–2021.
In 2020, the Deschutes Historical Museum turned a club toast into greeting cards and shirts.
Staff found inspiration in the club’s toast while sorting the archives, and in 2020 the museum put it on greeting cards and shirts. The card sets the words in five weights of type, with the emblem small at the foot beside a line naming the toast and the town.
The same words are set in period type in the museum’s June 2020 newsletter, under the heading “THE EMBLEM CLUB TOAST”, which is where they can be checked as type rather than as lettering.
The toast is not the creed, and this site keeps them apart. The creed is what a member undertook to be — brave, honest, kind and cheerful. The toast turns the same four words outward, at everybody, everywhere, and does not ask anyone to join anything. That is why it is the part of the club a museum could put on a card in 2020 without reviving anything.
From the source
Here’s to everybody, everywhere, who is trying to be brave, to be honest, to be kind, and to be cheerful.
Measured
The 1917 rounding, the rounded construction. The 1912 cut's broad letters and three-armed E with corners that turn in a curve, and the last letter still tapering to a point.
Read at low confidence from 19 px of letter.
Not measured. The filed image is the printed toast; the emblem on it is too small to threshold. Excluding a drawing is itself a finding, so it is recorded rather than estimated.
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