:: The Pioneering Spirit ::

    The Queen once sent a messenger to the Seafarers and Adventurists' Club with an errand to identify one person who could make an egg stand. The messenger called a breakfast meeting where over a dozen famous and not so famous Seafarers were seated around the log table.

    The egg and the problem were passed around. None of them succeeded. Also sitting in the dining room was a simple stranger. He offered to do it. Amidst a lot of booing and jeering he came to the table, took the egg, tapped one end of it to flatten and stood the egg.

   This was the man the Queen commissioned on a voyage in search of the fabled rich land. What followed is history. That stranger was Columbus. A pioneer, with a spirit of adventure, a will to do, and the ability to do it.