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10<br />

20<br />

CONTENTS<br />

FEATURES<br />

4 MUCH CAUSE FOR ‘CELEBRATION!’<br />

Supreme Council directs that we ‘Go The Distance’; $0 enrollment fee ALL YEAR<br />

10 ‘KOHL’S CARES’ MUCH MORE THAN AN AD SLOGAN<br />

Midwest retailing giant sends 500+ volunteers to <strong>Moose</strong>heart for spring cleanup<br />

14 2ND STRAIGHT TRACK TITLE FOR RAMBLER BOYS<br />

Sprinters, relays, and Abdulahi in the high jump are spring <strong>Moose</strong>heart standouts<br />

18 A CONVERSATION WITH TONIE EWOLDT<br />

Supplement to April/May cover story, thoughts of our Grand Chancellor from 1999-2005<br />

20 Cover Story: BIRTH OF A CITY OF CHILDREN<br />

Davis’ vision, Brandon’s planning, hard work created <strong>Moose</strong>heart, 100 years ago this summer<br />

32 FAREWELL TO THE MOOSEHEART CLASS OF <strong>2013</strong><br />

Meet the 31 seniors who received diplomas, vocational certificates, scholarships on May 25<br />

40 ‘GUARDIANS,’ INDEED<br />

Here is the 2012-13 League of Guardians, each of whom sacrificed to give $1,000 or more<br />

42 KATHERINE SMITH HALL OPENS AT MOOSEHAVEN<br />

Delays of more than a year finally over on facility designed specifically for dementia<br />

42<br />

Phone <strong>Moose</strong> <strong>International</strong><br />

Headquarters at:<br />

Headquarters will be closed:<br />

DEPARTMENTS<br />

The Director General.............................2<br />

Membership..........................................4<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> 25 Club.........................................8<br />

At <strong>Moose</strong>heart....................................10<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart Centennial Celebration..........30<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart Centennial Gift Items...........34<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart School Renovation Update.....36<br />

At <strong>Moose</strong>haven........................................42<br />

In Memoriam.......................................44<br />

Community Service.............................46<br />

Lodge/Chapter News...........................49<br />

Oct. ’13 Bermuda Cruise: LAST CHANCE!..50<br />

Ritual & Higher Degrees......................52<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Gift Store..................................54<br />

Member Benefits Overview...................56<br />

<strong>International</strong> Sports Tournaments..........58<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Leader......................................60<br />

Departed Pilgrims/<strong>Moose</strong> Crossword....64<br />

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THE DIRECTOR GENERAL<br />

Director General<br />

Scott D. Hart<br />

The time has come,<br />

now, to re-examine<br />

and renew the<br />

defining vision of our<br />

fraternity. We will be<br />

venturing into<br />

uncharted territory,<br />

just as our founders<br />

did a hundred years<br />

ago and more.<br />

Wow, what an outstanding celebration in Milwaukee at the 125th<br />

<strong>International</strong> Convention! From the Joint Grand Opening, to visiting<br />

our treasured Child City and finishing with the moving joint installation<br />

of officers—it was just as we had hoped and envisioned during our preparations.<br />

Now, this piece for <strong>Moose</strong> Magazine is being written roughly four weeks prior to<br />

your copy being printed and going to the Post Office—so the timeline doesn’t<br />

quite fit and there’s no way for me to know what occurred on May 24 and following—right?<br />

There is, however, a key phrase above that makes it possible for me to write with<br />

a certain degree of optimism of what is yet to come: “hoped and envisioned.” The<br />

past, present and future of our fraternity, our <strong>Moose</strong>heart and our <strong>Moose</strong>haven, are<br />

rich with hope and vision. Men and women, great and small, caught onto the<br />

vision of James J. Davis to change the world, with hope in the good things we<br />

could accomplish for our fraternal brothers, our co-workers and our communities.<br />

Members and their families, caught in a torrent of crisis, had the hope of<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart or <strong>Moose</strong>haven, depending on the need. We saw members rallying<br />

around the need of a fellow brother or co-worker; or a Lodge being a bonding<br />

agent to bring a community closer together.<br />

It isn’t by chance that in <strong>2013</strong> we’re celebrating the centennials of <strong>Moose</strong>heart,<br />

the Women of the <strong>Moose</strong> and the <strong>Moose</strong> Legion. It was the vision of fraternalism<br />

that lit the way in 1913 and has continued to, over each of the last ten decades:<br />

placing the needs of others before our own. It led to a commitments to do more<br />

than was expected—in bettering one’s Lodge home, in caring for our children at<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart and our seniors at <strong>Moose</strong>haven, in seeing needs in our communities<br />

and meeting them.<br />

The time has come, now, to re-examine and renew the defining vision of our<br />

fraternity. We will be venturing into uncharted territory, just as our founders did a<br />

hundred years ago and more. If you’re taking the time to read this, then I know you<br />

want to be the best <strong>Moose</strong> member possible, and a part of the finest <strong>Moose</strong> Lodge<br />

or Chapter around, in the greatest fraternal order ever known to man.<br />

Robert F. Kennedy said: “Each time we stand up for an idea, or act to improve<br />

the lot of others, or strike out against injustice, we send forth a tiny ripple of hope;<br />

and, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring,<br />

those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression<br />

and resistance.”<br />

I urge you to take a bit of time each day to perform an act of kindness for someone,<br />

providing hope that changes a life—and in keeping to our vision that together,<br />

we can make a difference in all our communities, large and small.<br />

If you are willing to Go the Distance for your<br />

community, and for <strong>Moose</strong>heart and <strong>Moose</strong>haven,<br />

then greater things are yet to come.<br />

God Bless! <br />

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<strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong> MOOSE 3


MEMBERSHIP<br />

Kurt T. Wiebe, Director KWiebe@mooseintl.org<br />

Reasons for ‘Celebration’!<br />

We ‘Go the Distance’ with an entire year of $0 enrollment fee!<br />

Beginning May 1, the <strong>Moose</strong> fraternity’s “Year of Celebration”<br />

began! And . . . wow, has the Membership Department<br />

come up with ways to celebrate!<br />

Four milestone events are being celebrated during this <strong>2013</strong>-<br />

2014 <strong>Moose</strong> year – the 125th anniversary of the Loyal Order of<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> (actually observed on April 12); the 100th anniversary of<br />

the Women of the <strong>Moose</strong> (which held its first organization-wide<br />

meeting at the 1913 <strong>International</strong> Convention in Cincinnati); the<br />

100th anniversary of the <strong>Moose</strong> Legion (our Degree of Service,<br />

founded in October 1913); and of course, the 100th anniversary<br />

of <strong>Moose</strong>heart, our community and school for children and<br />

teens in need.<br />

In recognition of these oncein-a-lifetime<br />

events, we’re asking<br />

each Lodge, Chapter, <strong>Moose</strong><br />

Legion and individual member<br />

to “Go The Distance” to make<br />

this one of the most memorable<br />

years in <strong>Moose</strong> history. Our primary<br />

goal, as always, is to grow<br />

our membership—and, as always,<br />

we’ve committed much time and<br />

resources on retention initiatives,<br />

as well as new-member production.<br />

A complete “<strong>Moose</strong> – Go The<br />

Distance” membership campaign<br />

package was mailed to each Lodge<br />

shortly before May 1—we didn’t wait for an announcement delayed<br />

until the <strong>International</strong> Convention nearly a month later. It<br />

included detailed campaign information, broadside campaign<br />

posters for the Lodge bulletin boards and several other promotional<br />

pieces to use to promote this program immediately. Other<br />

campaign merchandise was made available at the <strong>International</strong><br />

Convention in Milwaukee at the end of May.<br />

Here’s the big news, first announced May 1 and then again in<br />

Milwaukee: the Supreme Council has authorized General<br />

Governor Steve Greene to completely waive all application<br />

fees for the entire fiscal year. That’s right - $0 application<br />

fees all year long, from May 1, <strong>2013</strong> – April 30, 2014! This<br />

applies to all Loyal Order of <strong>Moose</strong>, Women of the <strong>Moose</strong> and<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Legion applications! There is no longer any “$20 excuse”<br />

to wait to bring new members into our fraternity!<br />

For all members who sponsor at least one new member into<br />

the fraternity, <strong>Moose</strong> – Go The Distance lapel recognition pins<br />

will once again be available through <strong>Moose</strong> <strong>International</strong>—as<br />

opposed to recent years when a small supply was sent in advance<br />

to every Lodge. Lodge officers should have requested an<br />

initial supply from the Membership Department, free of charge.<br />

When a member’s first two applications are reported and enrolled<br />

during this campaign year, he (or she) will once again<br />

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qualify for a year’s free dues in his/her primary Lodge/Chapter.<br />

(Any Life Member sponsoring two applications will receive a<br />

$15 gift certificate for the <strong>Moose</strong> Catalog Sales Store.)<br />

For each Loyal Order of <strong>Moose</strong> member qualifying for the<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> <strong>International</strong> 5 Club, $5 will be donated to the <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

School Renovation project, courtesy of your state/provincial<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Association. We’re asking each Association to use<br />

this additional $5, which has traditionally been collected to ship<br />

award items, as seed money to start a local campaign to help<br />

promote membership.<br />

Members sponsoring 25 or more<br />

during the “Go The Distance” campaign<br />

will qualify for the Director<br />

General’s Circle of Distinction, and<br />

have a Centennial <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

Brick dedicated in their name during<br />

the renovation project. Other<br />

incentives are also available depending<br />

upon the level achieved.<br />

Special “<strong>Moose</strong>heart Centennial”<br />

commemorative <strong>Moose</strong><br />

membership cards are being issued<br />

for any new or renewed<br />

membership during the 5/1/<strong>2013</strong>-<br />

4/30/2014 period. The cards are<br />

gold in color and feature the<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart Centennial Logo in the lower left corner. All other<br />

information on the card is exactly the same as before. Both the<br />

existing green membership card and the new gold card should<br />

be honored at all lodges, assuming the “paid to” date in the<br />

lower right corner is current! Cards that are not typically replaced<br />

annually (paid in advance, life members, etc.) will not be<br />

sent a new card—but you can receive one for a small donation<br />

to the <strong>Moose</strong>heart School Renovation project by contacting the<br />

Member Services team by phone at 630-906-3658 any time<br />

after <strong>June</strong> 1.<br />

As always, the Membership Department is available to answer<br />

questions and support you to help make this campaign successful<br />

in any way possible. Feel free to contact us at<br />

memberservices@mooseintl.org, or at 630-906-3658.


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<strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong> MOOSE 7


668th Group Since <strong>July</strong> 1,1940<br />

Eileen A. Halpin<br />

Surfside Beach, SC<br />

Chapter 1950<br />

Paul Lavorini<br />

Pacifica, CA<br />

Lodge 1944<br />

Our Esteemed Men<br />

and Women Who<br />

Have Sponsored At<br />

Least 25 Members<br />

Into the<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Fraternity<br />

Gene Herbst<br />

North Port, FL<br />

Lodge 764<br />

Larry D. Neher<br />

Forest Park, GA<br />

Lodge 1875<br />

Katherine Johnson<br />

Pacifica, CA<br />

Chapter 1595<br />

Louis L. Petit Jr.<br />

Lake City, FL<br />

Lodge 624<br />

James Keating<br />

Surfside Beach, SC<br />

Lodge 2351<br />

Dawn Pontious<br />

Surfside Beach, SC<br />

Chapter 1950<br />

Debora Russitano<br />

Pacifica, CA<br />

Chapter 1595<br />

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Donna A. Sargent<br />

Big Pine Key, FL<br />

Chapter 1810<br />

Diane Siegmund<br />

Surfside Beach, SC<br />

Chapter 1950<br />

Warren H. Siegmund Jr.<br />

Surfside Beach, SC<br />

Lodge 2351<br />

Glen Roy Smith<br />

Vallejo, CA<br />

Lodge 468<br />

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Nadine Bryant<br />

Billings, MT<br />

Chapter 877<br />

John Granger<br />

Yarmouth, MA<br />

Lodge 2270<br />

Mary L. Keating<br />

Surfside Beach, SC<br />

Chapter 1950<br />

Michael E. Raiford<br />

Hampton, VA<br />

Lodge 1514<br />

Patricia Clymer<br />

Lewes-Rehoboth, DE<br />

Chapter 1814<br />

Lori Granger<br />

Yarmouth, MA<br />

Chapter 1721<br />

Michelle Lavorini<br />

Pacifica, CA<br />

Chapter 1595<br />

Mark P. Ross Sr.<br />

Louisa County, VA<br />

Lodge 2065<br />

Upper-Division<br />

Salute!<br />

We recognize these sponsors who have<br />

risen to the 200 Division of the 25 Club<br />

(or higher) since the last listing.<br />

Name Lodge/Chapter New Division<br />

Robert J. Lanigan Port Charlotte, FL Lodge 2121 650<br />

Ernest Casali Jr. Anna Maria Island, FL Lodge 2188 650<br />

Judy A. Neu Bullhead City, AZ Chapter 1842 650<br />

Glenn W. Garbers La Crosse, WI Lodge 1920 500<br />

Laura Mullins Charleston, WV Chapter 317 500<br />

Fred J. Allen Albany, GA Lodge 1285 400<br />

Lloyd A. Chabal Iowa City, IA Lodge 1096 400<br />

Franz R. Griswold Dansville, NY Lodge 1130 350<br />

Whitney A. Graham Yuma, AZ Lodge 1627 300<br />

Robert Stuck Kenton, OH Lodge 428 300<br />

Marcia Hudson Muncie, IN Chapter 712 300<br />

Barbara Sue Cornell College Park, MD Chapter 1262 300<br />

Nancy DeCarlo Nitro, WV Chapter 757 300<br />

Gregory L. Detro Brazil, IN Lodge 780 250<br />

William E. Males Mechanicsville, MD Lodge 495 250<br />

Michael J. Schultz St Albans, WV Lodge 868 250<br />

Ron Luckerman Anna Maria Island, FL Lodge 2188 200<br />

David Long Beach Haven, NJ Lodge 1575 200<br />

John J. Chandley East Erie, PA Lodge 593 200<br />

C. F. Lucas Pearisburg, VA Lodge 1338 200<br />

Charles E. Ledsome Jr. Fairmont, WV Lodge 9 200<br />

Angelina Barber Port Charlotte, FL Chapter 1619 200<br />

Marie C. Cooper Ruskin, FL Chapter 1718 200<br />

Bettie Bookout Muncie, IN Chapter 712 200<br />

Jane Dickerhoof Cumberland, MD Chapter 914 200<br />

Diana Rager Hanover, PA Chapter 923 200<br />

Isabell Fristoe Dinwiddie, VA Chapter 1296 200<br />

Barbara Ann Hake Winchester, VA Chapter 1367 200<br />

Paulette G. Jones Fredericksburg, VA Chapter 1592 200<br />

Sharon Cardoza Vancouver, WA Chapter 970 200<br />

Please send your 25 Club photos to:<br />

Membership Department<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> <strong>International</strong><br />

155 S <strong>International</strong> Drive<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart, IL 60539-1183<br />

Or Email: KThompson@mooseintl.org<br />

Christine Stuart<br />

Overland, MO<br />

Chapter 821<br />

Tammy J. Trulove<br />

Surfside Beach, SC<br />

Chapter 1950<br />

Larry Weinheimer<br />

St Catharines, ON<br />

Lodge 936<br />

Edwina Williamson<br />

Huntington, IN<br />

Chapter 255<br />

Barbara Wilson<br />

Lenoir, NC<br />

Chapter 140<br />

OF FRATERNALISM<br />

<strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong> MOOSE 9


AT MOOSEHEART<br />

KOHL’S Again Shows How Much It Cares<br />

For <strong>Moose</strong>heart!<br />

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Midwest department-store giant<br />

brings 500+ staffers, $60K +<br />

in donations to 4th annual event<br />

They sat in a grandstand that had the word<br />

“<strong>Moose</strong>heart” spelled in large lighted letters behind<br />

them and a sign that read “Region One,<br />

Kohl’s Cares” in front of them. And the fourth annual<br />

Kohl’s “Go Green” event at <strong>Moose</strong>heart was just that<br />

kind of partnership of two organizations – with the<br />

people serving as the glue.<br />

During the event on Saturday, April 27, more than<br />

500 Kohl’s employees from 53 stores in Illinois and Indiana<br />

worked alongside <strong>Moose</strong>heart students and staff<br />

to beautify the campus, including “Team Gurnee,”<br />

which came in a van proclaiming their trip to <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

across its windows.<br />

Those volunteers, many who had been to <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

in 2012 (some since the first event in 2010),<br />

worked much of the day spreading mulch, picking up<br />

brush, pulling weeds and more. At the end, they<br />

watched as an oak tree was planted and dedicated to<br />

their efforts over the years.<br />

Throughout, the volunteers conversed. One referred


to the “<strong>Moose</strong>heart Phenomenon.”<br />

Other discussed<br />

their desire to<br />

attend the 2014 event.<br />

And they talked as they<br />

took a campus tour,<br />

viewing the 1,000-acre<br />

residential home for<br />

roughly 220 children inneed<br />

– the largest residential<br />

child-care<br />

community in Illinois.<br />

All of it was done<br />

under helpfully sunny<br />

skies, and to make the<br />

day just a bit brighter, a<br />

check for more than<br />

$60,000 was given by<br />

Kohl’s to <strong>Moose</strong> Charities.<br />

“We were blessed<br />

with great weather and<br />

great people; words can’t<br />

even come out to fully<br />

express the gratitude of<br />

today,” <strong>Moose</strong>heart Executive<br />

Director Gary Urwiler<br />

said. “It’s a great<br />

event, an outstanding event. These people from Kohl’s, it’s almost<br />

as if they’re family now. They’ve been with us for four<br />

years now.”<br />

The day started with introductory remarks from Urwiler and<br />

Kohl’s executives who attended the event. The brief but impactful<br />

address came from 2008 <strong>Moose</strong>heart graduate Chris<br />

Morones, who spent more than 17 years on-campus before<br />

graduating second in his class. Now a Lance Corporal in the<br />

U.S. Marine Corps, Morones welcomed the volunteers to the<br />

place he called home, and reminded them of the special connection<br />

between the campus and the children who live there.<br />

“Chris did a phenomenal job,” Urwiler said. “For him to<br />

come back and give his time and to speak as eloquently<br />

as he did was wonderful. It was a small message, but it<br />

was a very sincere and heartfelt message.”<br />

The work was needed. <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s campus had been<br />

deluged, just as had been every other community in the<br />

area, during the wettest April on record in northern Illinois.<br />

But with the warm weather, the grass had turned<br />

from brown to emerald, and the benefits from the volunteers’<br />

efforts were immediately apparent.<br />

“When you have a 1,000-acre campus, you have a lot<br />

of maintenance and upkeep, especially in the spring –<br />

and especially this season with all the storms that we<br />

have had,” Urwiler said.<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart’s children attended and were there to lend<br />

more than vocal support. They helped spread mulch,<br />

helped dig, helped remove debris.<br />

“The power of people and the amount of people coming<br />

together for a great cause is wonderful,” Urwiler said.<br />

“For us to be able to unite at full strength in order to get<br />

work done at a ‘Go Green’ event like this is incredible.<br />

When you combine it with kids working hand-in-hand on<br />

our beautiful facilities, it makes for a memorable<br />

event.”<br />

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AT MOOSEHEART<br />

Outgoing NJROTC Leader’s Powerful Story<br />

As U-Conjay Nelson stepped to the lectern to deliver her<br />

remarks as outgoing Company Commander of <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s<br />

Naval Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps<br />

(NJROTC) unit, most of her audience had no idea how substantive<br />

and impactful would be the speech they were to hear.<br />

Instead of merely some platitudes to her time at <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

and some exhortations about prosperous futures, Nelson told a<br />

story – her story, but also <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s story as well – to the<br />

May 3 crowd before she handed the sword of command to incoming<br />

Commander Brandon Gadson.<br />

Nelson started by repeating core principles of the NJROTC<br />

program – Honor, Courage and Commitment – and said that<br />

these were at the core of <strong>Moose</strong>heart, as well as NJROTC.<br />

“The courage to lend a hand to families in-need,” Nelson<br />

said. “The commitment to help kids like me with my background.<br />

Having the honor of being the reason so many students<br />

become something more than the environment they grew<br />

up in.”<br />

“Kids like me.” Nelson described how her mother, a Liberian<br />

national, came to the U.S. while pregnant, and Nelson was<br />

born months later, but life was difficult from the beginning.<br />

“I spent the first four years of my life homeless,” Nelson<br />

said.<br />

When she was five, Nelson’s mother found a job working at<br />

an airport, but became ill and eventually had to stop working.<br />

“After school, I took care of her, and when I put her to bed,<br />

I started on my homework,” Nelson said. “When I got done, I<br />

went to go to bed. This process became known as ‘my life.’”<br />

Nelson came to <strong>Moose</strong>heart in eighth grade, and did not immediately<br />

see it for all that it could be in her life, saying she<br />

initially considered her time on the campus “a sentence.” She<br />

said she smiled, but that those smiles were faked.<br />

“But my smile soon became permanent, and making the<br />

best of everything no longer became work,” Nelson said.<br />

“When you’ve had the background that I’ve had, the littlest<br />

things make the biggest difference to you.”<br />

After she concluded her remarks, the annual Change of<br />

Command took place, and Gadson issued his first order to the<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart Corps. He will lead the unit through the end of the<br />

2012-13 school year and into the next year until he hands the<br />

command to his successor, in May 2014.<br />

“It’s been stressful but it’s been fun,” Nelson said. “It kept<br />

me plenty busy. I stayed out of trouble because I had so much<br />

to do.”<br />

Of those impressed by Nelson’s remarks was U.S. Navy<br />

Warrant Officer (Ret.) Rick Smith, the lead officer of <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s<br />

NJROTC program.<br />

“I thought it was a great representation of <strong>Moose</strong>heart itself<br />

and the success of this place,” Smith said. “It was all spelled<br />

out in her speech. She talked about being homeless, and she<br />

leaves <strong>Moose</strong>heart as the Company Commander of NJROTC.<br />

That’s a fine accomplishment, and she’s a fine person too.”<br />

Gadson said he was told he was to be the new Company<br />

Commander immediately prior to the start of the Change of<br />

Command ceremony.<br />

“It’s kind of a shock,”<br />

Gadson said. “We have a<br />

lot of good leaders in my<br />

class and a lot of people<br />

who could have stepped<br />

up. It’s great that it was<br />

decided that it was to be<br />

me.”<br />

Gadson has been at<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart since 2008,<br />

arriving as a seventhgrader.<br />

NJROTC is<br />

mandatory for all high<br />

school students at<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart, and Gadson<br />

said he has enjoyed his<br />

time in the program, and<br />

looks forward to his senior<br />

year as Company<br />

Commander.<br />

“I feel it encourages<br />

us to do well.” Gadson<br />

said. “It teaches you all<br />

the morals you need in<br />

life and it’s a great guideline<br />

to help anyone succeed.”


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AT MOOSEHEART<br />

Boys Claim 1st-Ever Track Sectional Title<br />

One of the strongest <strong>Moose</strong>heart boys track teams in recent<br />

years achieved an unprecedented series of successes<br />

this year.<br />

First the Ramblers won the Northeastern Athletic Conference<br />

for the second consecutive year. Then came six firstplace<br />

finishes at the <strong>Moose</strong>heart Relays.<br />

But the team highlight came on May 17, when the Ramblers<br />

claimed their first IHSA sectional title, outscoring Aurora<br />

Christian 102-82 in the Seneca Sectional.<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart qualified two relays and five individuals for<br />

the IHSA State Meet in Charleston.<br />

“The kids – all of them – did an outstanding job,” <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

coach Curt Schlinkmann said. “I'm just really proud of<br />

these guys.”<br />

Not all of <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s qualifiers competed in the state<br />

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meet as graduation took place the same weekend. Seniors<br />

such as Oumaru Abdulahi and Sahr Mahoney did their part by<br />

competing in the sectional, helping teams qualify and scoring<br />

points that led to the sectional title.<br />

Abdulahi, the 2011 IHSA high jump champion, won the<br />

sectional high jump and long jump titles and ran in the 1600-<br />

meter relay.<br />

“What matters is that you help your brothers, your teammates,<br />

out,” Abdulahi said. “You want to get that 'W' and to<br />

get to state. That's a cool experience when you get to go to<br />

state. Anyone who gets that chance deserves. If I can help out<br />

someone in getting to state, then I will.”<br />

The state track meet took place after deadline for this magazine.<br />

For coverage, check www.mooseheart.org.<br />

Improved Season For <strong>Moose</strong>heart Girls<br />

Moving from a year in which <strong>Moose</strong>heart didn’t have enough girls track athletes to<br />

even field a relay, <strong>2013</strong> marked a true new beginning for the Ramblers. Nearly 20<br />

competed for the squad, their times got better through the season, and in the field<br />

events they threw farther and jumped higher too.<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart’s season ended at the Lisle Sectional, where the team’s<br />

best performance came from senior Erin Stryker, who finished third in<br />

the 110-meter high hurdles.<br />

At every meet, the Ramblers showed improvement, including a competitive<br />

sixth-place finish in the Northeastern Athletic Conference meet.<br />

“We had the most numbers since I’ve been here coaching, and this is<br />

my third year,” <strong>Moose</strong>heart girls coach Dave Klussendorf said at the<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart Relays. “I was hoping we would have gone a little higher<br />

last week in the conference. But when I look at the times and the performances,<br />

we were there and we stepped up.”<br />

While the Ramblers lose seniors to graduation, there is a core returning<br />

for 2014 to continue building the program!


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AT MOOSEHEART<br />

Thanks for the<br />

Apples, WSNIMA!<br />

There’s nothing like the sound of a bite being taken<br />

from a fresh apple, that crisp crunch that may or<br />

may not keep doctors away, but which certainly satisfies<br />

the appetite for a wonderful snack. <strong>Moose</strong>heart received<br />

a shipment of apples from the<br />

Washington-Northern Idaho <strong>Moose</strong> Association on April<br />

10. The apples were split among the campus’ roughly twodozen<br />

homes. But before that, <strong>Moose</strong>heart staffers and<br />

children took a moment with some of those apples and say<br />

“thanks!” to the men and women of the <strong>Moose</strong> who<br />

provided these mouth-watering goodies! <br />

New Citizens of the Child City<br />

Christine Flood Ariana Flood Cha’vonn Gette Jamison Hollister<br />

Hannah Tucker Howard Nealon Jr. Cedan Echols Estra ‘Star’ Hernandez<br />

Serenity Hernandez Jeremiah Moore Gregorio Hernandez Itzanyou Romero<br />

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<strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong> MOOSE 17


WOMEN OF THE MOOSE AT 100: An Addendum<br />

Ewoldt Has Spent Her Lifetime Serving<br />

Editor’s note: In the April/May issue of <strong>Moose</strong> Magazine,<br />

we reported that Tonie Ewoldt could not be reached for comment,<br />

and therefore her thoughts were not included in the<br />

cover story “Women of the <strong>Moose</strong> at 100.” She couldn’t be<br />

reached because we were dialing the wrong phone number! (It<br />

happens.) We did indeed reach Ewoldt for an interview for this<br />

issue; here it is:<br />

She has spent literally a lifetime in the Women of the<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>. And not only does Tonie Ewoldt still love the organization,<br />

she can’t wait to see what will happen as its<br />

second century of existence takes shape.<br />

Ewoldt was just 22 when she joined Davenport, IA Chapter<br />

106 in 1970, and her experience with the<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> extends much further back than<br />

that.<br />

“I was born a <strong>Moose</strong>,” Ewoldt said.<br />

“My mom and dad got married in 1947<br />

and my mom’s uncle gave a membership<br />

to my dad to the Loyal Order of <strong>Moose</strong>.<br />

I’ve grew up in the local <strong>Moose</strong> Lodge.”<br />

In those formative years, the fraternity<br />

certainly played a part in shaping Ewoldt,<br />

and the things that were important then –<br />

Lodge activities, for example – remain<br />

integral to success today.<br />

“When I think back to my childhood,<br />

the <strong>Moose</strong> was integral to my life,”<br />

Ewoldt said. “We did a lot of activities in<br />

the old Davenport Lodge. They had all<br />

kinds of activities and everybody brought<br />

their kids to the <strong>Moose</strong>.”<br />

Even if there wasn’t a child-related activity<br />

planned, there were still plenty of<br />

children in attendance.<br />

“I went with my mom when she went to help with the rummage<br />

sales,” Ewoldt said. “We’d help unload boxes and we’d<br />

have a great time with it. Or we would get together and play in<br />

a corner and have a great time with that too.”<br />

But long before the <strong>Moose</strong> was officially termed “The Family<br />

Fraternity,” Ewoldt’s home fraternity knew that by treating<br />

its members as part of one large family, those families would<br />

keep coming to events.<br />

“We had talent contests at our Lodge and Chapter,” Ewoldt<br />

said. “And I have fond memories of the <strong>Moose</strong> family picnic at<br />

the fairgrounds, and among other things, there was ice cream<br />

and pop. It was the next best thing to Christmas.”<br />

At one point, there was even some discussion if Ewoldt<br />

might get to visit <strong>Moose</strong>heart as more than simply a visitor.<br />

Though the health issues that sent her father to the hospital for<br />

three months in 1958 cleared, the family saw how <strong>Moose</strong> look<br />

after each other.<br />

“The <strong>Moose</strong> was there to support my family,” she said. “I<br />

know the benefit to the attitude of ‘all for one and one for all.’<br />

They gave my mom some money so she could see my dad.<br />

And that Christmas when he was in the hospital, we received a<br />

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Tonie Ewoldt<br />

Grand Chancellor<br />

1999-2005<br />

box of toys and food.”<br />

As she says, “I know the benefits of belonging to the<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>.”<br />

When she joined the Women of the <strong>Moose</strong> in 1970, Ewoldt<br />

was immediately moved into a leadership position.<br />

“My mom was the Senior Regent in the Lodge and she<br />

needed someone to be the <strong>Moose</strong>heart Chairman,” Ewoldt<br />

said.<br />

Ewoldt was familiar with the mantle of leadership within<br />

the fraternity. Her mother served as a Deputy Grand Regent in<br />

Iowa and her father received the Fellowship Degree of Honor.<br />

Then, he was mailed the call to receive the Pilgrim Degree of<br />

Merit–but died before he could receive the honor.<br />

But Ewoldt began serving the fraternity<br />

from the day she joined – and that<br />

service moved into a higher plane in 1988<br />

when she became office manager for the<br />

Women of the <strong>Moose</strong>. In 1990, she accepted<br />

a position as the Director of Administration.<br />

And she knows the value of the education<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart provides. After graduating<br />

from Wartburg College in Waverly,<br />

IA, Ewoldt taught business education and<br />

computer science classes for 18 years.<br />

“<strong>Moose</strong>heart is still a vital dream<br />

come true,” Ewoldt said. “We are still fulfilling<br />

James J. Davis’ dream, and we<br />

have to continue to do that. There are so<br />

many kids who are in desperate need of<br />

us, if only they knew <strong>Moose</strong>heart existed.”<br />

In 1999, she succeeded Tempie Peer as<br />

Grand Chancellor.<br />

“My years at <strong>Moose</strong> <strong>International</strong><br />

were very enjoyable,” Ewoldt said. “I enjoyed my years as<br />

Grand Chancellor and I wouldn’t give them for anything.”<br />

Being Grand Chancellor, Ewoldt was able to meet coworkers<br />

across the country – and she still enjoys doing that<br />

today.<br />

“I loved all the co-workers I met and worked with,” she<br />

said. “They’re the backbone of the <strong>Moose</strong>. I flew to Myrtle<br />

Beach and I was in Charlotte to make my connecting flight.<br />

Two ladies were standing there and one woman said ‘I became<br />

a <strong>Moose</strong>tte last week.’ I said I used to be the Grand Chancellor<br />

of the Women of the <strong>Moose</strong>. She said ‘we love to go on trivia<br />

days.’ I said ‘there’s a lot more than that.’ I hope to touch base<br />

with her and see how we can encourage her to become more<br />

involved and to get out of the terminology of ‘<strong>Moose</strong>tte.’”<br />

Ewoldt remained as Grand Chancellor until 2005 and said<br />

helping raise the $16 million for the LifeCare Center at <strong>Moose</strong>haven<br />

was one of her highlights.<br />

But though she is no longer Grand Chancellor, her lifetime<br />

of service continues. Ewoldt served on the <strong>Moose</strong> Charities<br />

Board of Directors from 2004-2007 and was a member of the<br />

Judiciary Committee from 2008-2010.


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A massive Ringling Bros. Circus bigtop<br />

tent was rented, as shelter from the<br />

blazing sun, for the ceremonial dedication<br />

of <strong>Moose</strong>heart on Sunday, <strong>July</strong> 27, 1913.<br />

In <strong>2013</strong>, on Saturday, <strong>July</strong> 27, a similar<br />

(but shorter!) ceremony will be held in<br />

roughly the same area, on the<br />

south lawn off<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart Road.<br />

Birth of a City of Children<br />

By KURT WEHRMEISTER<br />

with research from ROBERT ZAININGER<br />

It was against his better judgment that the Vice President<br />

of the United States arrived at a pair of conjoined, abandoned<br />

farms about an hour’s train ride west of Chicago<br />

on the hot morning of Sunday, <strong>July</strong> 27, 1913, and stepped<br />

inside a huge, ovenlike circus tent, rented for the day from<br />

the Ringling Bros. Circus.<br />

Thomas Marshall, the former Indiana Governor who’d<br />

been sworn in not five months before with new President<br />

Woodrow Wilson, had been buttonholed by Ralph Donges, a<br />

former legal aide of Wilson’s from the New Jersey statehouse,<br />

to speak at the dedication of a home for fatherless<br />

children being established by the audacious, swiftly growing<br />

national fraternal organization known as the Loyal Order of<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>—over which Donges was presiding that year as<br />

Supreme Governor.<br />

“I detest orphanages,” Marshall had irritatedly responded<br />

to Donges in initially trying to get out of the engagement.<br />

“When I was Governor I was forced in the course of duty to<br />

visit a number of orphanages. I thought they were terrible<br />

places, and I won’t help you lay the cornerstone for another<br />

one.”<br />

Donges, then 38 and a lawyer from Camden, NJ, sought<br />

to reassure the Vice President. “It will never be that kind of<br />

orphanage,” he said, referring to the dreary urban warehouses<br />

of abandoned children then common in U.S. cities.<br />

Most got their income via donations from couples who<br />

would come view children before selecting one to adopt.<br />

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That’s not at all what the<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> were planning,<br />

Donges insisted. “It will be<br />

a home and school for the<br />

children of our deceased<br />

members.” Marshall reluctantly agreed, but when he stepped<br />

off the train into the midday sun, what he saw was unimpressive:<br />

A decent enough farmhouse near the road (which<br />

would become the home of the 31-year-old Superintendent,<br />

Rodney Brandon,<br />

and his wife), but just<br />

a few other ramshackle<br />

buildings.<br />

But, there in the<br />

shade of the tent,<br />

there were also 11<br />

freshly scrubbed,<br />

gamely smiling children—ranging<br />

from<br />

the oldest, 12-yearold<br />

Walter Thompson<br />

of Muscatine,<br />

IA; to the youngest,<br />

two-year-old Robert<br />

Lee of Wayne<br />

County, IN. Each<br />

wore a specially lettered<br />

sash—“First<br />

Children at <strong>Moose</strong>heart”—for<br />

that was<br />

the name conceived<br />

for the place earlier<br />

Thomas Marshall, Vice President<br />

during President Woodrow WIlson’s<br />

administration.


The fascinating 41-year<br />

relationship between<br />

Director General James<br />

J. Davis (far left) and<br />

Rodney Brandon (near<br />

left) shaped the course<br />

and future of the revived<br />

Loyal Order of <strong>Moose</strong>,<br />

and <strong>Moose</strong>heart. <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

as a community for<br />

the dependent wives and<br />

children of male <strong>Moose</strong><br />

members who died or<br />

became disabled was<br />

quite definitely the idea<br />

of Davis, who grew the<br />

Order from virtual extinction<br />

to more than<br />

400,000 in six years on<br />

the strength of that idea.<br />

But–creating what would<br />

be the community of<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart out of two<br />

raw farms was just as<br />

definitely Brandon’s<br />

achievement.<br />

in the year by another prominent <strong>Moose</strong> member,<br />

Ohio Congressman John Lentz.<br />

These 11 children were the center of attention for a surprisingly<br />

large crowd of several thousand inside the stifling<br />

big-top. Viewing the scene, Marshall (according to a writer<br />

who interviewed Donges nearly 40 years later) “skeptically<br />

wondered if he were watering the elephants for a <strong>Moose</strong><br />

publicity circus.”<br />

But he gazed upon the 11 kids—who now, after all, had a<br />

home of sorts, when they really<br />

hadn’t the week before—and<br />

declared with the most hopeful<br />

orator’s tone he could muster:<br />

“Thank God, here in this Middle<br />

West, here on this most sacred<br />

day, humanity has again provided<br />

its right to be called the<br />

children of the Most High; has<br />

again reached out its hand in<br />

love and loyalty to the needy<br />

brother, and has disclosed not<br />

only the right, but the duty of<br />

this great Order to exist!”<br />

A list of those sitting and listening<br />

to the Vice President<br />

under the tent that day reveals<br />

an intriguing, and illuminating,<br />

fact: Director General James J.<br />

Davis—credited then, and since,<br />

as the Founder of <strong>Moose</strong>heart—<br />

Near the entrance to<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart, circa 1913.<br />

The silo in the<br />

background is roughly<br />

where the Campanile<br />

Tower is today.<br />

Cover story design by EMILY A. ROLLINS<br />

was not present. The record<br />

doesn’t say for sure, but<br />

he was likely on the<br />

road, either on the train<br />

to, or already arrived in, Cincinnati, 330 miles away, greeting<br />

incoming members arriving for the next day’s opening<br />

of the 1913 <strong>International</strong> <strong>Moose</strong> Convention.<br />

Rodney Brandon, on the other hand, was present at<br />

(continued on page 22)<br />

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Birth of a City of Children<br />

The jacketless<br />

Davis, with his<br />

arm around an<br />

unidentified<br />

small girl, is<br />

flanked in 1915<br />

by Supreme Secretary<br />

William<br />

Trickett Giles<br />

(left) and <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

Superintendent<br />

Rodney<br />

Brandon.They’re<br />

welcoming a<br />

burro that has<br />

just arrived on<br />

the train; the<br />

railroad depot<br />

still stands as<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart’s<br />

Post Office.<br />

(continued from<br />

page 21)<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart, as he had been more often than not since the<br />

spring, attending to all the details of the dedication festivities.<br />

Each man’s situation that day was completely characteristic.<br />

Indeed, the nature of the relationship between Jim Davis<br />

and Rodney Brandon is essential to understanding how<br />

both the creation of <strong>Moose</strong>heart came about, as well as<br />

the huge and swift growth of the <strong>Moose</strong> fraternity which<br />

made it possible and sustained it. The historical record, and<br />

interviews conducted by this writer over the past 15 years<br />

with the few people then alive who personally knew both<br />

men, reveals a fascinating partnership.<br />

Davis and Brandon, who first met in Anderson, IN, in<br />

December 1906 (when the latter, working both as a journalist<br />

and in insurance sales, was enrolled as a charter member of<br />

a new Lodge there) were, by all accounts, quite dissimilar<br />

men. They were never personally close in all the 41 years<br />

they knew each other. But it was their mutual respect,<br />

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and mutual acknowledgment of their disparate talents,<br />

during the 15-year period between 1906 and 1921, that truly<br />

created the modern <strong>Moose</strong> fraternity, and <strong>Moose</strong>heart.<br />

Davis, the Welsh-immigrant steel mill worker (and later<br />

union organizer) from western Pennsylvania, was a charismatic<br />

salesman; plainspoken, with no formal education beyond<br />

eighth grade. Brandon, Indiana-born and eight years<br />

younger, was quiet, organized, detail-oriented and erudite,<br />

having been educated through high school and three years at<br />

Indiana University.<br />

Davis could (and did, time and again) step off trains in<br />

small towns all across North America, gather a meeting of<br />

50 men, and in less than a week institute a new <strong>Moose</strong><br />

Lodge, wholly on the strength of his own personality, his<br />

powers of persuasion—and one great idea.<br />

Brandon could (and did) keep this wildly mushrooming<br />

fraternal order organized—and its bills paid—working out<br />

of a small office in a converted frame house in Anderson.<br />

(continued on page 24)<br />

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Birth of a City of Children<br />

(continued from page 22)<br />

Davis’ “one great idea,” of course, is why he is duly credited<br />

as <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s founder. In his youth he’d seen men die<br />

in the steel mills—and their widows and children swiftly<br />

thrown into destitution as a result. He agreed, in an Oct. 27,<br />

1906 meeting with all 246 <strong>Moose</strong> members in Crawfordsville,<br />

IN, to tackle the job of reviving the foundering<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> order—which had been formed in April 1888 by Dr.<br />

J. Henry Wilson in Louisville, KY. Davis would do so on the<br />

basis of the idea of a “<strong>Moose</strong> Institute,” a place funded by<br />

workingmen’s dues, to house, clothe and feed the man’s<br />

widow and children, and to academically educate his children<br />

and train them in a trade. Taking his cut at $1 per new<br />

member minus expenses, Davis’ success in six years of recruiting<br />

deputy organizers and tirelessly crisscrossing the<br />

continent was astounding: From 246 members (he was the<br />

247th) in October 1906 to nearly 400,000 by the end of<br />

1912!<br />

But for all their differences, Davis and Brandon of course<br />

had shared beliefs. First, as partly expressed through their affiliation<br />

with Theodore Roosevelt’s “Progressivist” wing of<br />

the Republican Party, the two men shared an enthusiastic belief<br />

in social welfare for the working class, but not via government;<br />

rather through pooled private resources—through<br />

fraternalism.<br />

There was a second more personal trait that Davis and<br />

Brandon shared: Once a course of action was decided upon,<br />

they were both impatient to get it accomplished.<br />

By early 1911—more than four years into their membership-development<br />

efforts—<strong>Moose</strong> membership<br />

had grown to more than 200,000 (in another 18<br />

months that number would double to 400,000), and Davis,<br />

Brandon and the cadre of political leaders and businessmen<br />

they had together recruited as leaders of the swiftly growing<br />

fraternity realized that it was time to make good on Davis’s<br />

idea of “<strong>Moose</strong> Institute.” A <strong>Moose</strong> Institute Board of<br />

Trustees, having been appointed by the fraternity’s Supreme<br />

Council, considered and visited several centrally located<br />

Midwest communities, throughout 1911 and into ’12, to<br />

hear proposals from the promoters of each location.<br />

Several cities, and their Chambers of Commerce, offered<br />

attractive cash incentives; sentiment was evidently strong to<br />

accept a civic gift of 1,000 acres at a below-market price,<br />

near Anderson, 50 miles northeast of Indianapolis—and to<br />

keep <strong>Moose</strong> headquarters there as well. But the Institute<br />

Trustees finally decided to select a site based solely on its<br />

(continued on page 26)<br />

It was early during the Wilson Administration, before 1920, that the earliest network of fewer than a dozen “national highways”<br />

was established — and at least initially, most of them, outside major cities, were nothing more than dirt roads. But thanks<br />

to quiet lobbying by Brandon, the stretch of the new “Lincoln Highway,” running north-south in front of the <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

campus, became one of Illinois’ first stretches of rural roadway to be concrete-paved. In <strong>June</strong> 1914, more than 1,000<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> members volunteered with shovels and other equipment to prepare the roadbed and lay the concrete.<br />

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Birth of a City of Children<br />

(continued from page 24)<br />

quality: its quality of soil for farming, its adjacency to a railroad<br />

and river, and its proximity to a major city.<br />

In early fall 1912, Rodney Brandon and a Supreme Council<br />

committee visited six Illinois and Indiana sites including<br />

three in the Chicago area: In Waukegan, north of Chicago on<br />

Lake Michigan; in Elgin, on the Fox River northwest of<br />

Chicago; and finally, an<br />

available site about 15<br />

miles downriver to the<br />

south, north of Aurora, 40<br />

miles west of Chicago,<br />

consisting of two<br />

parcels—the 750-acre<br />

Brookline family farm<br />

and its buildings near the<br />

western bank of the Fox<br />

River and two rail lines,<br />

plus adjacent acreage to<br />

the west and north owned<br />

by two other families—<br />

1,023 acres total. Meeting<br />

jointly in Chicago on<br />

Dec. 14, the Institute<br />

Trustees and the Supreme<br />

Council selected this site.<br />

Negotiations with all<br />

parties were conducted in<br />

January and February<br />

1913, with final purchase<br />

expense totaling<br />

$264,000, and possession<br />

to be taken on March 1.<br />

On Feb. 1, another joint<br />

meeting of the Council<br />

and the Trustees unanimously<br />

approved Congressman<br />

Lentz’s idea for<br />

the new Institute’s name:<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart. “This will always<br />

be the place,” said<br />

Lentz, “where the <strong>Moose</strong><br />

fraternity will collectively<br />

Rodney Brandon’s two<br />

most important hires, in<br />

late 1913, were J.A.<br />

Rondthaler (above),<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart’s first Dean<br />

of Students, heading<br />

both its academic and<br />

residential operations,<br />

and its first Chaplain as<br />

well; and Robert F. Havlik<br />

(right), a civil engineer<br />

from Detroit, who<br />

supervised the details of<br />

the entirety of <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s<br />

public works and<br />

building<br />

construction.<br />

pour out its heart, its devotion and sustenance, to the children<br />

of its members in need.”<br />

In the January 1913 issue of Call of the <strong>Moose</strong> magazine,<br />

announcing the selection of the site, Trustee E.J. Henning<br />

used creative imagery to place the best possible “spin”<br />

on the hard fact that the newly acquired property had very<br />

few facilities: “We expect that the potato patch will be our<br />

gymnasium, a cornfield our campus, and a cow pasture our<br />

running track.” In the same article, Henning also noted the<br />

obvious: “Someone must be found big enough, wise<br />

enough, charitable enough and humane enough to take<br />

charge of building so great an enterprise.<br />

At the Cincinnati Convention that immediately followed<br />

the <strong>July</strong> 27 dedication, the fraternity’s leadership identified<br />

that man: Supreme Secretary Rodney Brandon.<br />

Brandon was already technically in charge of the business<br />

affairs of the new <strong>Moose</strong>heart campus, in his role as Secretary/Treasurer<br />

of the <strong>Moose</strong> Institute Trustees (newly redubbed<br />

the <strong>Moose</strong>heart Board of Governors, with Davis<br />

installed as its Chairman). But in early August, after the<br />

Convention, Brandon returned by rail to <strong>Moose</strong>heart as its<br />

first de-facto Superintendent—taking residence with his<br />

wife Harriette and infant daughters in one of the two existing<br />

frame houses near the east front of the property. (The<br />

other, larger one became a girls’ dormitory, christened Aid<br />

Hall.)<br />

Brandon brought with him an associate from Anderson, a<br />

vigorous, 69-year-old Presbyterian minister, who had helped<br />

him organize a new <strong>Moose</strong> youth offshoot in 1911, the Junior<br />

Order of <strong>Moose</strong>, which would operate until the early<br />

1930s. J.A. Rondthaler would become <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s first<br />

Dean of Students, heading both its academic and residential<br />

operations; and its first Chaplain as well. Rondthaler was<br />

also presiding officer of the “<strong>Moose</strong>heart Assembly,” a daily,<br />

after-supper meeting of teachers, caregivers, and students, in<br />

which every person, of every age, had one vote—the Dean,<br />

presumably, retaining veto authority as necessary!<br />

Short on textbooks and most other supplies during that<br />

first 1913-14 academic year—as new admissions swelled<br />

the student population from 11 to around 50—Rondthaler<br />

and three female teachers resorted largely to reading aloud<br />

to students from the Chicago daily<br />

newspapers, and discussing the<br />

substance of articles as they could<br />

be applied to various concepts in<br />

science, mathematics, history, geography,<br />

civics and the arts.<br />

Brandon had quickly re-hired R.R.<br />

Luman, the man who had served<br />

as farm superintendent for Brookline’s<br />

previous owner; and Brookline<br />

farmhand E.T. Lane as<br />

“commissary steward.” He gratefully<br />

accepted the part-time nursery<br />

and landscaping help of J.A.<br />

Young, the city forester for nearby<br />

Aurora.<br />

At Brandon’s recommendation,<br />

the <strong>Moose</strong>heart Board had swiftly<br />

commissioned a consulting architect<br />

and building contractor to design and supervise construction<br />

of a single-story, railroad-trackside concrete<br />

structure to serve as a combination campus main office, train<br />

depot, and U.S. Post Office (it remains <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s Post<br />

Office a century later!); and a much larger, three-story dormitory<br />

to house more than 100 boys, dubbed Loyalty Hall.<br />

(It would serve as Supreme Lodge corporate headquarters<br />

from roughly 1920 until 1956; afterward, this building has<br />

had multiple uses; today it houses the offices of <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s<br />

Residential Living Department.)<br />

But, of course, it was much more than buildings that<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart needed—it was street foundations, heating tunnels,<br />

water and sewer pipelines, a power plant and electric<br />

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Birth of a City of Children<br />

(continued from page 26)<br />

lines. Brandon quickly convinced the Board that a resident<br />

engineer was needed to supervise planning and construction<br />

of all of that. Robert Havlik of Detroit was interviewed and<br />

hired in October 1913. After more than a half-dozen intensely<br />

busy years of planning, design and construction,<br />

Havlik would gradually transition into duties as <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s<br />

first director of vocational education.<br />

Brandon also realized that the burdens of essentially creating<br />

a small town from scratch left no time to run the office<br />

of a still-growing fraternal organization. He assumed<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart’s superintendency full-time in January 1914—<br />

turning over his duties as the fraternity’s Supreme Secretary<br />

to William Trickett Giles of Baltimore. (Brandon would resume<br />

the post in 1918, after new <strong>Moose</strong>heart Superintendent<br />

Matthew P. Adams was well established.)<br />

The first week of August 1918 was momentous for<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart, as it marked its fifth anniversary of existence.<br />

The eastern 200 or so acres resembled much<br />

more a new suburban neighborhood than the dilapidated<br />

farm it had been five years before. Its entrance drive was not<br />

rutted dirt but rather concrete paving—as was the brand-new<br />

Lincoln Highway, the first coast-to-coast national highway,<br />

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which ran right in front of the campus! (Davis had pulled<br />

political strings to make sure of that routing, and Brandon, in<br />

summer 1914, had enlisted the aid of Illinois Gov. Dwight<br />

Green to have this portion of the new highway be one of Illinois’<br />

first stretches of rural highway to be concrete-paved—<br />

with volunteer labor supplied by more than 1,000 <strong>Moose</strong><br />

members!)<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart’s innovative program of mixing academics<br />

with vocational training for older students was beginning to<br />

be emulated in schools across the nation (including a a<br />

brand-new Nebraska institution which would soon be nicknamed<br />

Boys Town—whose founder, Father Edward Flanagan,<br />

had<br />

visited <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

with keen<br />

interest the<br />

year before!).<br />

The <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

campus,<br />

now boasting<br />

more than 400<br />

students and<br />

some 78 buildings,<br />

hosted the<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> fraternity’s<br />

30th annual<br />

<strong>International</strong><br />

Convention.<br />

Invited back to<br />

speak to the assemblage—<br />

this time<br />

beneath the<br />

graceful plaster<br />

ceiling of a<br />

newly built auditorium<br />

instead<br />

of an<br />

overheated circus<br />

tent—was<br />

Vice President<br />

Thomas Marshall,<br />

who had<br />

been reelected<br />

with President<br />

Wilson in 1916. Marshall recalled his sweaty celluloid collar,<br />

and his healthy skepticism, beneath that torrid big-top of<br />

five years before, on <strong>July</strong> 27, 1913.<br />

“Five years after that hour,” Marshall said, “Let me tell<br />

you that when I spoke, there was a reservation in my mind . . .<br />

I felt that, like many of the good ideas and good devices of<br />

humankind, it was only a circus performance and when the<br />

tent went down, the show would soon be over<br />

“Thank God that today,” the Vice President continued, “I<br />

can stand before your and say that . . . the age of miracles<br />

has not passed. All that I hoped for, longed for, and prayed<br />

for on that interesting occasion five years ago has come to<br />

pass at <strong>Moose</strong>heart. Thank God for miracles!” <br />

During the 1913-15 period, an entire network of water and sewer lines, steam tunnels for heat, and<br />

electric lines were laid out all over the new campus--along with with construction of paved roads and<br />

“fireproof” concrete-block residences--several of which survive, still sturdy and in use, nearly a century<br />

later.


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SAVE THE DATE!<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart Child City & School<br />

Centennial Celebration<br />

SATURDAY, JULY 27, <strong>2013</strong><br />

Rick K and the Allnighters<br />

9:00 AM Centennial Challenge 100 min. Walk/Run – Stadium Track<br />

11:00AM Rededication Ceremony: Recalling 7/27/1913: Centennial Plaza<br />

12 Noon School Construction Dedication – <strong>Moose</strong>heart School<br />

12 Noon Centennial Carnival – Fieldhouse Parking Lot<br />

Noon-4:00 PM Pony Rides, Petting Farms – Fieldhouse Parking Lot<br />

Noon-4:00 PM Bus Tours of Campus – Fieldhouse<br />

1:00-4:00 PM <strong>International</strong> <strong>Moose</strong> Cornhole Tourney – Fieldhouse<br />

4:00-6:30 PM Rick K and the Allnighters – Live Music (Fieldhouse)<br />

7:00-9:30 PM Music: American English – Live Music (Fieldhouse)<br />

9:30 PM Fireworks – Fieldhouse<br />

MORE INFORMATION AT WWW.MOOSEHEART.ORG! ‘LIKE’ US ON FACEBOOK<br />

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Oumaru Abdulahi<br />

Cedar Rapids, IA<br />

Temidire Celestina Alade<br />

Carpentersville, IL<br />

Farook Tolani Anifowshe<br />

Chicago Heights, IL<br />

Chelsie Bernice Brady<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart, IL<br />

Robert Michael Bonifacio III<br />

Danbury, CT<br />

Lodge No. 304<br />

Lodge No. 1958<br />

Lodge No. 828<br />

Lodge No. 2655<br />

Lodge No. 1373<br />

MOOSEHEART HIGH<br />

CLASS OF<br />

The 31 members of the <strong>Moose</strong>heart High School Class of <strong>2013</strong> — the 95 th senior<br />

academic diplomas and vocational certificates during Commencement Ceremonies<br />

Coverage of Commencement will appear in the August/September issue of <strong>Moose</strong><br />

Cody Austin Henderson<br />

Oil City, PA<br />

Lodge No. 78<br />

Marquise Johnson<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart, IL<br />

Lodge No. 2655<br />

Salta L. Kendor<br />

Cedar Rapids, IA<br />

Lodge No. 304<br />

Jennifer Crystal Ledcke<br />

Iowa City, IA<br />

Lodge No. 1096<br />

Sahr Yusif Mahoney<br />

Greenwood, IN<br />

Lodge No. 2079<br />

Brandon Cruz Romero<br />

Batavia, IL<br />

Lodge No. 682<br />

Olawale Afolabi Sanni<br />

Elgin, IL<br />

Lodge No. 799<br />

Junior Gary Smith<br />

Capital City, IA<br />

Lodge No. 2589<br />

U-Jay Dwight Smith<br />

Maplewood, MN<br />

Lodge No. 963<br />

Samuel Lee Anthony Strickland<br />

Anderson, SC<br />

Lodge No. 2018<br />

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Kyshona Latreece Dunn Heather Candice Frank Kolawole Kevin Gbadebo<br />

Bellwood, IL<br />

Annapolis, MD<br />

Carpentersville, IL<br />

Lodge No. 777<br />

Lodge No. 296<br />

Lodge No. 1958<br />

SCHOOL<br />

<strong>2013</strong><br />

Christopher Florin Gustafson<br />

Crown Point, IN<br />

Lodge No. 260<br />

Monica Gutierrez<br />

Chicago Southwest, IL<br />

Lodge No. 44<br />

class to graduate from the Child City — received their<br />

at <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s Fieldhouse at 3:30pm on Saturday, May 25, <strong>2013</strong>.<br />

Magazine.<br />

Jonathon Dean Hart<br />

Day Student<br />

Peter Godwin Mator<br />

Capital City, IA<br />

Lodge No. 2589<br />

Nezra Leeland McCarty<br />

West Marion, FL<br />

Lodge No. 2356<br />

U-Conjay M. Nelson<br />

Newark, DE<br />

Lodge No. 630<br />

Andrew James Remy<br />

Day Student<br />

Jose Jovani Robles<br />

Berwyn, IL<br />

Lodge No. 424<br />

Erin Nathalee Stryker<br />

Daytona Beach, FL<br />

Lodge No. 1263<br />

Rebecca Lee Stryker<br />

Daytona Beach, FL<br />

Lodge No. 1263<br />

Paul-Douglas Robert<br />

Lloyd Thomas<br />

Woodstock, ON<br />

Lodge No. 1141<br />

Christian Anthony Villarruel<br />

Yuba City, CA<br />

Lodge No. 1204<br />

Itzel Zamora<br />

Joliet, IL<br />

Lodge No. 300<br />

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MOOSE CHARITIES<br />

We Need YOUR HELP!<br />

to Renovate <strong>Moose</strong>heart School!<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart Child<br />

City & School –<br />

Celebrating 100 years<br />

and planning for<br />

the next 100. . .<br />

As we celebrate the Child City’s Centennial, we<br />

are also addressing the need for the <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

School to be renovated. The current school was<br />

built in 1954 and now, 59 years later, it seriously needs<br />

to be updated. Asbestos needs to be removed, new<br />

HVAC equipment installed and classrooms need to be<br />

equipped and rewired to help our students better prepare<br />

for the future.<br />

This $10,000,000 renovation needs the financial assistance<br />

of every member and Fraternal Unit.<br />

We cannot forget about the future years. The time<br />

capsule will be placed during Founder’s Day weekend in<br />

October. Since YOU have been a part of the past and an<br />

active part of its present, we are excited to introduce an<br />

opportunity to be remembered and shared with the future.<br />

Introducing the TIME CAPSULE fundraiser.<br />

Be part of the <strong>2013</strong> <strong>Moose</strong><br />

Fraternity’s Book of Tributes.<br />

Individuals, Fraternal Units, Councils of Higher<br />

Degrees, and Associations — provide names, articles,<br />

personal notes, and pictures.<br />

To donate and be a part of the <strong>Moose</strong> Fraternity’s<br />

Book of Tributes go to<br />

www.moosecharities.org<br />

TIME CAPSULE<br />

GOD BLESS MOOSEHEART!<br />

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Visit www.moosecharities.org today!<br />

An artist rendering of the renovated<br />

school building.<br />

$<br />

3,314,000 Pledged as of April 30, <strong>2013</strong><br />

P L E D G E D B Y<br />

Women of the <strong>Moose</strong><br />

Virginia <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Centreville VA Lodge 2168<br />

Ohio State <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Pennsylvania <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Pennsylvania <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Florida-Bermuda <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

<strong>International</strong> <strong>Moose</strong> Legion<br />

Illinois <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Indiana <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Michigan <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Oregon <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Tennessee <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

2012-<strong>2013</strong> Supreme Council<br />

5 Club - <strong>Moose</strong> Int'l - LOOM & WOTM<br />

Alaska-Hawaii <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Arizona-New Mexico <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Crystal Lakes OH Lodge 2464<br />

David Smoot, Leesburg, GA<br />

Iowa-Kansas-Missouri-Oklahoma <strong>Moose</strong> Associations<br />

Kentucky <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Maryland-Delaware-DC <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart Lodge 2655 & <strong>Moose</strong>heart Chapter 3001<br />

New Jersey State <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

New York State <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

North Carolina <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Oregon <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Rochester, NY Lodge 113<br />

Southwestern New York Council of Higher Degrees<br />

Terrence & Elizabeth Lucke, Kennewick, WA<br />

Texas <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Washington-No. Idaho <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

West Virginia <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Williston, ND Lodge #239<br />

Woodstock, IL Lodge 1329 - MHT Challenge Committee<br />

Woodward, OK Lodge 452<br />

Alberta-Saskatchewan <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Arkansas <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Evan & Carol Davis, Drummond Island, MI<br />

Lockport, IL Chapter #575<br />

Louisiana <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Mississippi <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Montana <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Pennsylvania <strong>Moose</strong> Legions<br />

Ron D. Presley, Woodstock, GA<br />

South Carolina <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Wyoming-W.Nebraska <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Idaho/Utah <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Mark Klein & Donna Ridont, West Lake, CA<br />

Colorado <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

N A M I N G O P P O R T U N I T Y<br />

Multipurpose Gymnasium/Auditorium<br />

NJROTC Classroom/Rifle Range<br />

Elementary School Wing<br />

Middle School Wing<br />

High School Wing<br />

Computer Education Classroom<br />

Superintendent's Office<br />

Chemistry/Physics Classroom & Lab<br />

Cosmetology Classroom<br />

High School Library<br />

Art Room<br />

Art Room<br />

Seventh Grade Classroom<br />

Foreign Language Classroom<br />

Sixth Grade Classroom<br />

Advanced Mathematics Classroom<br />

Health Occupations Classroom<br />

Social Studies Classroom<br />

Music Classroom<br />

Eighth Grade Classroom<br />

First Grade Classroom<br />

Reading Resource Room<br />

Second/Third Grade Classroom<br />

Junior/Senior English Classroom<br />

Dean's Office<br />

Pre-School Classroom<br />

Fifth Grade Classroom<br />

Freshman/Sophomore English Classroom<br />

Elementary Library<br />

Basic/Intermediate Mathematics Classroom<br />

Fourth Grade Classroom<br />

Kindergarten Classroom<br />

Academic Center<br />

Senior Seminar Classroom<br />

Health Occupations Classroom<br />

Principal's Honor Roll<br />

Principal's Honor Roll<br />

Principal's Honor Roll<br />

Principal's Honor Roll<br />

Principal's Honor Roll<br />

Principal's Honor Roll<br />

Principal's Honor Roll<br />

Principal's Honor Roll<br />

Principal's Honor Roll<br />

Principal's Honor Roll<br />

Principal's Honor Roll<br />

Dean's Honor Roll<br />

Dean's Honor Roll<br />

Dean's Honor Roll<br />

$ 1,926,136.13 Raised as of April 30, <strong>2013</strong><br />

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MOOSE CHARITIES<br />

League o<br />

A very special group of Members are recognized<br />

for their annual giving ($1,000 and up)<br />

to <strong>Moose</strong> Charities. Donations from each<br />

spouse count towards membership in the<br />

League of Guardians.<br />

It is our pleasure to recognize this exceptional<br />

group with a Guardian lapel pin, an invitation<br />

to the annual League of Guardians Recognition<br />

Dinner and a limited edition custom crystal<br />

award.<br />

We are grateful for all levels of giving<br />

and for your commitment to both<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart Child City & School and <strong>Moose</strong>haven,<br />

our City of Contentment.<br />

www.moosecharities.org T: (630)-966-2200<br />

155 S. <strong>International</strong> Dr. <strong>Moose</strong>heart, IL 60539-1100<br />

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Smoot, David L.<br />

Mahoney, Mary Ann<br />

Batta, David M.<br />

Davis, Evan & Carol<br />

Lucke, Terence & Elizabeth<br />

Presley, Ron & Donna<br />

Smith, Robert W.<br />

Solis, Judy<br />

Airey, William & Jean<br />

Ansell, Leslie & Donna<br />

Bille, George & Mary<br />

Coyle, Paul & Carol Ann<br />

Cummings, Warren & Cathy<br />

Dougherty, Matthew & Jodi<br />

Fanslow, Thomas & Janelle<br />

Feigenbaum, Stephen M.<br />

Hestekin, John & Geraldine<br />

Kesling, Ray & Betty<br />

O'Connor, Jerry & Nancy<br />

Rice, Charles A. & Mary<br />

Vanhoose, Jesse<br />

Williams, Daniel & Beryl<br />

Berger, Bruce & Donna<br />

Capes, John & Kristina<br />

Courtney, Frank & Young, Kathy<br />

Crowder, Wesley I.<br />

Del Corso, Stephen J.<br />

Fregulia, Frank & Jan<br />

Greeson, Lindsey & Dianne<br />

Griswold, Franz R. & Beth<br />

Hampton, Lowell R.<br />

Henderson, Jim & Joyce<br />

Hines, W. Otis<br />

Hogarth, David & Karen<br />

Hood, Don & Esther<br />

Hott, George & Marcia<br />

Kitchens, Willard & Kay<br />

Lapinski, James<br />

Lentz, Sarah<br />

McCoy, Shirley<br />

Mock, Michael & Peggy<br />

Mohr, Ron & Harriet<br />

Owens, Larry & Linda<br />

Parker, Kelvin & Elizabeth<br />

Peters, Michael G. & Sloan-Peters,<br />

Linda<br />

Spingler Sr., Robert & Barbara<br />

Tatum, Leonard<br />

Thomas, Ray & Delight<br />

Walsh, Margaret J.<br />

Wance, Levi & Adeline<br />

Wilcox, William S.<br />

Albert, Danny & Louise<br />

Baile, Shawn & Denielle<br />

Black, Warren<br />

Blake, Earl & Abbie<br />

Burke, Thomas M.<br />

Burton, Ted & Dianne<br />

Cappadona, Susan M.<br />

Chappell, Harvey & Dianna<br />

Cushing, Scott & Maria<br />

Davis, James & Judith<br />

Dean, Norman<br />

Duffer, James & Carolyn<br />

Dupree, Tom & Nancy<br />

Edwards, Grady & Nelda<br />

Ellison, Stanley & Connie<br />

Fiske, Scott & Cindy<br />

Francisco, Elinor L.<br />

Froning, Dan & Mary<br />

Frye, Richard<br />

Gatto, George & Ann<br />

Gilmer, Donald & Edna<br />

Gooder, Suzanne<br />

Goodwin, Everett<br />

Gramling, Tom & DeAnna<br />

Gruber, Stephen P.<br />

Hammond, Rodney<br />

Harris, Richard & Carrie<br />

Hart, Timothy & Wendy<br />

Hatcher, Thomas<br />

Hauf, Michael & Colleen<br />

Higgins, Andy J.<br />

Hobbs, James & Rosalie<br />

Kelly, Tom<br />

Kleinendorst, Dennis J. & Ann<br />

Koons, Joseph & Connie<br />

Krabec, Lois A.<br />

Kronemeyer, David & Jean<br />

Leitnaker, James & Vickie<br />

Lombardo, Edward & Joan<br />

Masopust, Bruce<br />

McKiness, Rick<br />

McLaughlin, Byron & Gaila<br />

McPherson, Floyd & Barbara<br />

Megee, Ernest & Beatrice<br />

Miller, Jerry & Leanna<br />

Moneypenny, Guy E. & Beatrice<br />

Norris, Wynn<br />

O'Brien, Darrell & Melissa<br />

Ogletree, Doris<br />

Pacheco, Manny & Laurie<br />

Parella, Don & Patricia<br />

Patten, Lance<br />

Polhamus, Steelman & Jean<br />

Riggle, David & Susan<br />

Roach, Robert & Margaret<br />

Rosener, Dean<br />

Russell, Aaron & Louise<br />

Russell, Raymond & Cathleen<br />

Schmidt, Carl R. & Olivia<br />

Schuettner, Dave<br />

Seaman, James & Alice<br />

Shaw, Sandra<br />

Shelnutt, Donald & Virginia<br />

Simunich, Gregory & Cathy<br />

Smith, Allen B.


Guardans<br />

Smith, David & Debra<br />

Staugler, Charles & Troas<br />

Steffens, Bob & Roberta<br />

Steiner, Elizabeth J.<br />

Sweetman, Ronald & Pearl<br />

Taylor, Gloria<br />

Taylor, Robert M.<br />

Thomas, Peter J.<br />

Thompson, Glen & Sandy<br />

Tippett, James & Cindi<br />

Upton, Renee<br />

Uvanile, Joseph<br />

Walls, Terry & Kathleen<br />

Walter, Marge L.<br />

Welch, Charlene<br />

Wolfe, Richard & Emily<br />

Zurowski, Walter & Peggy<br />

Albang, Anthony & Sandra<br />

Albert, Holly B.<br />

Alcorn, Timothy & Rebecca<br />

Aldrich, Robert & Laverne<br />

Allen, Louis & Carolyn<br />

Amundsen, Pamela L.<br />

Anderson, Dean<br />

Angeles, Andres & Denise<br />

Ashlock, Gerald & Virginia<br />

Austin, Robert<br />

Babcock, Duane & Virginia<br />

Bagley, William & Susan<br />

Bailey, Stephen & Beverly<br />

Baker, Ronald G.<br />

Bakman, Robert R.<br />

Bally, George & Debbie<br />

Bauer, Robert S. & Kathleen<br />

Becht, Burns<br />

Bellais, Frank & Jean<br />

Bellamy, C. Cameron & Nita<br />

Benard, Juanita P.<br />

Bendickson, Dennis & Kathleen<br />

Bennett, Dennis & Jayne<br />

Berry, Frank & Debbie<br />

Berwick, Keith & Canova<br />

Betz, Bill & Jo<br />

Bever, Mike L.<br />

Bird, Karen<br />

Blaser, Sandria<br />

Boehmke, David<br />

Borom, Joe & Vivian<br />

Bowman, Rosalyn B.<br />

Bowman, Thomas & Louisa<br />

Brink, Dan & Dori<br />

Bristol, James<br />

Brown, Dwaine<br />

Brown, Jerry D.<br />

Brown, Leonard & Molly<br />

Bruce, Jerry & Sherry<br />

Bullock, Robert M.<br />

Bumgarner, Charles & Sandra<br />

Bunting, Bolton & Carol<br />

Bush, <strong>June</strong><br />

Canty, Melvin W. & Esther<br />

Carlock, Mark P.<br />

Carlton, Lisa D.<br />

Carmack, Fred & Vicki<br />

Casto, Marilyn J.<br />

Cavanaugh, William & Patty<br />

Chaffee, Elliott & Janet<br />

Cihak, John & Patricia<br />

Clark, Dale & Nancy<br />

Clark, Paul & Jaynie<br />

Coen, Michael & Teresa<br />

Coffey, David A.<br />

Cotnam, Don & Eileen<br />

Crowell, Jeffrey & Lisa<br />

Crowley, Michael J.<br />

Curtis, Paul & Bonnie<br />

Cutter, William & Alisa<br />

Dailey, Gordon & Kathy<br />

Dalton Sr., Byron & Terri<br />

D'Andrea, Rocky<br />

Davis Jr., Brooks<br />

Davis, Arland & Dale<br />

Davis, Ralph & Sharon<br />

DeSotel, Sandra<br />

Dewey, Mike<br />

Dickerson, Brian & Diane<br />

Dietrich Jr., Robert R.<br />

Douglas, Robert<br />

Dover, Jerry<br />

Edwards, Esther<br />

Elston, Robert & Sally<br />

Emerson, Geraldine<br />

Engelke, Gil & Janet<br />

Enix, Birdie<br />

Enkerud, Katy<br />

Farrell, David & Mary Jane<br />

Felcher, Robert & Cherie<br />

Fisher, Warren & Ann<br />

Fleet, Ross<br />

Fleming, James & Karen<br />

Foster, Dickey & Cheryl<br />

Franklin, Lawrence & Linda<br />

Freeman, Terry O.<br />

Funkey, Robert & Catherine<br />

Gard, Fred & Marcella<br />

Gardner, Richard & Cathy<br />

Gatto, Steve & Jean<br />

Gautsch, Harry & Maxine<br />

Gipson, John A. & Judith<br />

Grabiak, Ellenor M.<br />

Graetzer, Kurt & Pam<br />

Gray, Robert & Judianne<br />

Greenaway, David & Claire<br />

Greenfield, William & Faye<br />

Greer, Jim<br />

Gregorich, Debra L.<br />

Grier, William H.<br />

Haas, Bruce F. & Carolynn<br />

Hale, James & Dona<br />

Hamm, Deane & Tammy<br />

Harkey, Perry L.<br />

Harrod, Gary<br />

Hart, Scott & Christie<br />

Harwood, Burhl & Dona<br />

Hauk, Max & Nancy<br />

Hawkins, Jeffrey & Susan<br />

Haynes, Guy Nell<br />

Hedrick, Paul E.<br />

Henn, Charles & Darlene<br />

Hillgen, Robert & Chris<br />

Holmen, Ted & Norena<br />

Holzer, Bill & Deanne<br />

Hopkins, Andrew<br />

Hornberger, Wayne & Carol<br />

Houston, Ronald & Karen<br />

Houts, Debra S.<br />

Hudson, James & Marcia<br />

Hugelen, Danny & Jody<br />

Huggins, Gene<br />

Humphrey, Gene & Jacque<br />

Hvizdo Jr., Joseph J.<br />

Hyland, Susan<br />

Ingram, Rick & Karen<br />

Janisse, Leonard G.<br />

Jansen, Walter<br />

Jewett, Phyllis J.<br />

Johnson, Arthur R.<br />

Johnson, Dennis R.<br />

Johnston, Barbara J.<br />

Johnston, Harry L. & Linda<br />

Jones, John M.<br />

Kapp, Arnie<br />

Keesee, Patricia<br />

Klein, Mark & Ridout, Donna<br />

Klinger, Paul & Carol<br />

Kluzak, Gary & Dale<br />

Knight, Ezra T.<br />

Labrosse, Jacques & Barbara<br />

Latino, Angelo<br />

Lautzenheiser, Jeanenne E.<br />

Layton, Edward & Edith<br />

Lease, William & Lorraine<br />

Lehmann, Edward & Della<br />

Leuer, Michael & Jill<br />

Lock, William & Susan<br />

Loeser, Donald R.<br />

Lofgren, Carolyn<br />

Lowe, David & Beverly<br />

Manning, Nellie L.<br />

Martin, John T. & Rose Mary<br />

Matthew, Wendy C.<br />

May, Earl & Betty<br />

McCullough, George W. & Sue<br />

McDowell, Kenneth<br />

McGinnis, Milton E. & Bettimae<br />

McGuire, Jim & Patsy<br />

McIntee, Shari M.<br />

McKinley, James & Wendy<br />

McManama, Robert & Cletus<br />

Mech, Joseph R. & Barbara<br />

Miller, Herman & Verna<br />

Monroe, Daniel & Betty<br />

Monroe, Jim & Linda<br />

Moran, Michael & Michele<br />

Morris, John & Marinda<br />

Morrison, John & Kay<br />

Morrow, Jack & Kay<br />

Mulligan, William & Linda<br />

Muraski, Robert L.<br />

Nadeau, James & Anita<br />

Nadeau, Patrice & Jeanne<br />

Naramore, Neil & Sharon<br />

Neff, Robert & Tammy<br />

Neideffer, Georgye<br />

Nelson, Russell L.<br />

Neu, John D. & Judy<br />

O'Brien, William & Sally<br />

O'Keefe, Gabriele<br />

Ourant, Kenneth L.<br />

Owens, Jo Ann<br />

Pace, Edward T.<br />

Palochko, Charlie & Darlene<br />

Parks, James & Patricia<br />

Pasch, Allen & Bonn, Judith<br />

Patton, J.C. & Lorie<br />

Pelling, Michael R.<br />

Penzkover, Mark J.<br />

Persing, James & Catherine<br />

Peterson, Martin & Linda<br />

Pier, Robert & Barbara<br />

Pierce, Jack & Pamela<br />

Pierce, Robert E.<br />

Pierson, William & Cecelia<br />

Platt, Anna<br />

Post, Marilyn<br />

Poulsen, Paul A.<br />

Presting, Gary & Patricia<br />

Price, Rick & Debra<br />

Pristave, Albert A.<br />

Rae, Kari<br />

Raslavsky, Edward & Cynthia<br />

Reed, Ricky & Christy<br />

Rehbein, Dean & Rita<br />

Reid, James & Gloria<br />

Reiter, John & Sharlyn<br />

Rich, Freddie & Ann<br />

Richards, Larry & Sandra<br />

Ridder, Lynn & Janet<br />

Riley, Dennis & Barbara<br />

Rinaldi, Mark & Evelyn<br />

Roach, Sherry<br />

Ross, Donald & Mary Lynn<br />

Ruder Jr., Joe & Bearden, Joann<br />

Ruiz, Robert & Jeanette<br />

Ryan, Thomas E.<br />

Saladin, Liguori<br />

Sartor, Donald<br />

Schaffer, Judy<br />

Schaffner, Glenn<br />

Schoepp, Kirk & Patty<br />

Schultz, Kathleen A.<br />

Schultz, Michael J.<br />

Schulz, Dale & Shellie<br />

Schwartz, Barry & Kristin<br />

Scott, Fred & Donna<br />

Shaw, Artie & Sarah<br />

Shaw, Ronald & Janet<br />

Shawver, Michael & Woods, Lillian<br />

Sherman, Frank O.<br />

Shoen, Thomas J.<br />

Short, Mack & Sharon<br />

Sine, Gilbert & Bonnie<br />

Sipes, John & Linda<br />

Sisson, William & Judy<br />

Skelton, William & Phyllis<br />

Slabik, Timothy<br />

Smardon, James & Nan<br />

Smith, Danny & Diane<br />

Smith, Lloyd & Karol<br />

Sowers, Larry & Bormann, Janette<br />

Speaks, Stephen P.<br />

Spooner, Phillip<br />

Springfield, Barbara<br />

Sprinkle, Leonard & Marlene<br />

Stadnick Jr., Michael<br />

Starr, Jean M.<br />

Stee, Harlan & Ann<br />

Stilley, Steven<br />

Stoll, Linda<br />

Strong, Ed "Porkey"<br />

Stutz, Mack & Susan<br />

Sweat, Randy & Bush, Barbara<br />

Sweeney, Robert & Carol<br />

Swinson, James D.<br />

Sylvester, Jeannette H.<br />

Sypnieski, Robert & Frances<br />

Taylor, Marie<br />

Taylor, Russell & Susan<br />

Terry, Linda<br />

Thompson, Ed & Judy<br />

Thompson, Rebecca<br />

Toseki, Brian & Pam<br />

Treffinger, Sandra C.<br />

Trygstad, Ronald & Lois Brandy<br />

Turner, Raymond & Carolynn<br />

Uhlenhake, Michael J.<br />

Varvel, Scott & Marian<br />

Vaughn, Bernice<br />

Volden, Peter & Cheryl<br />

Vonhoff, Eric & Cathy<br />

Walker, Sandra<br />

Wallace, Donald & Carla<br />

Walsh, Bob & Jodi<br />

Warrington, George C.<br />

Wessels, Jerald & Debora<br />

Whitley, George E.<br />

Whitney, George<br />

Williams, Carter<br />

Winters III, Hilton R.<br />

Wise, Douglas & Mary<br />

Yates, Charles & Karen<br />

Zeidler, Robert & Peterson, Sherry<br />

Ziegler, Thomas & Wendy<br />

Zollinger, Joseph & Mary Ann<br />

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AT MOOSEHAVEN<br />

Admissions Info: 904-278-1214; Brandon Place<br />

Info: 904-278-1281 email admissions@moosehaven.org<br />

Special<br />

Needs Hall<br />

Opens Honoring<br />

1st WOTM Head<br />

Residents had already moved in before the ceremonies,<br />

but March 10 was a happy day (and a<br />

long-awaited one) on the <strong>Moose</strong>haven campus,<br />

as the Katherine Smith Special Needs Hall<br />

was dedicated, near the campus’ northwest corner.<br />

The facility, named in honor of the first Grand<br />

Chancellor (1926-64) of the Women of the <strong>Moose</strong>,<br />

had its construction funded completely by the Women<br />

of the <strong>Moose</strong>. It will be home to up to 16 residents<br />

who are challenged with Alzheimer’s disease or other<br />

dementia-related maladies.<br />

Construction, which had been delayed for a year<br />

beyond its original schedule by unexpected zoning issues,<br />

began in April 2012 and proceeded swiftly.<br />

Buckeyes Gather<br />

To Dedicate Assisted<br />

Living Hall in Honor of<br />

Don Eisel PSG<br />

Officials of the Ohio State <strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

pledged more than $5 million back in<br />

2002 to renovate and operate the eastern<br />

half of the original 1968 Schmitz Health<br />

Center as an assisted-living facility. They<br />

also gathered on March 10 to help dedicate<br />

the Don R. Eisel Assisted Living Hall in<br />

honor of the 2004-05 Supreme Governor<br />

from Columbus, who was too ill to attend.<br />

From left are OSMA Vice President Don Perdue,<br />

Supreme Prelate Danny Albert, OSMA<br />

President Mike Humble, Ohio Regional Manager<br />

Dwaine Brown, OSMA Secretary John<br />

Sipes and OSMA Treasurer Tom Mann.<br />

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Clockwise from top left: Director General Scott Hart praised the dedication<br />

of Women of the <strong>Moose</strong> from Katherine Smith’s era to the present,<br />

as Supreme Governor Jim Henderson, Grand Chancellor Barbara<br />

McPherson and <strong>Moose</strong>haven Chairman Ron Sweetman PSG looked<br />

on; the beaming McPherson, the ninth Grand Chancellor of the<br />

WOTM, in front of the doors of the facility honoring Smith, the first;<br />

the nearly completed structure before installation of landscaping.


Erik Estrada, national spokesman for <strong>Moose</strong>-sponsored Safe<br />

Surfin’ Foundation, and star of the iconic television show “CHiPs,”<br />

visited <strong>Moose</strong>haven again on March 18, in conjunction with his<br />

hosting of a planned documentary<br />

film by Jason Campbell on the<br />

coast-to-coast endeavors of the<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> fraternity, carrying the<br />

working title <strong>Moose</strong> Proud! (He also<br />

visited <strong>Moose</strong>heart during the period<br />

leading up to Commencement<br />

Day May 25; coverage coming in<br />

the August/September issue.) At<br />

left, the always-upbeat Estrada<br />

posed with residents Sue Moody,<br />

Gloria Peterson and Mary Embry; at<br />

right, with his real-life law-enforcement<br />

counterparts with the Clay<br />

County Sheriff’s Department.<br />

In Spring, Hearts<br />

at <strong>Moose</strong>haven<br />

Turn to . . . the<br />

South Pacific?<br />

On March 20, the first day of<br />

the season, <strong>Moose</strong>haven<br />

staged its annual “Spring<br />

Fling” party for residents.<br />

The event included a picnic<br />

lunch, as well as a performance<br />

by the visiting “Pearls<br />

of the Pacific” Polynesian<br />

dance troupe. At left, Executive<br />

Director John Capes<br />

took a costumed turn with<br />

the dancers–who later posed<br />

for pictures with resident<br />

John Olle.<br />

As Always, Erik Estrada a Hit as He Visits <strong>Moose</strong>haven<br />

Some of <strong>Moose</strong>haven’s Newest Citizens!<br />

Arthur Thomson<br />

Junior & Mary Orr<br />

Robert H. & Pansy L. Mettler<br />

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IN MEMORIAM<br />

James J. Dore PSG<br />

1930-<strong>2013</strong><br />

The Hon. James J. Dore, a retired King County (WA) Superior<br />

Court Judge who served the <strong>Moose</strong> fraternity as<br />

Supreme Governor during the 1996-97 year, died of a<br />

heart attack May 11 while traveling in Germany with his wife,<br />

Judy. He was 82.<br />

Judge Dore, a lifelong resident of the Seattle, WA area,<br />

joined the former Seattle Lodge 211 in 1959, when he was a<br />

young lawyer in private practice. He served through the officers’<br />

chairs of that Lodge, including as Governor in 1965. He<br />

served the Washington/Northern Idaho <strong>Moose</strong> Association as<br />

Endowment Fund Chairman, and later received a conferral as a<br />

Past President of the Association.<br />

A member since 1962 of Puget Sound <strong>Moose</strong> Legion 91,<br />

and of the 50 Division of the <strong>Moose</strong> 25 Club, Judge Dore received<br />

the Fellowship Degree of Honor in 1965, and the Pilgrim<br />

Degree of Merit in 1985.<br />

That same year, 1985, Director General Paul J. O’Hollaren<br />

appointed Judge Dore to the fraternity’s Supreme Forum; he<br />

was elected to the Supreme Council in 1987. He rose to become<br />

Supreme Prelate in 1994 and Supreme Jr. Governor in<br />

1995. In 1996, at the 108th <strong>International</strong> Convention in<br />

Philadelphia, he was elected Supreme Governor.<br />

As he took office that <strong>July</strong>, Judge Dore noted to the Convention<br />

that “my father died when I was two years old, and my<br />

mother was left to raise four children in the midst of the Great<br />

Depression.” Which is why, he said, “it’s a wonderful feeling<br />

to be a part of an organization that cares so much for children;<br />

feeding them, sheltering them, educating them. I wish my father<br />

had been a member of the <strong>Moose</strong>.”<br />

Young Jim Dore received a bachelor’s degree in accounting<br />

from Seattle University in 1952, then earned his law degree<br />

from the University of Washington School of Law in 1955.<br />

After serving two years in the U.S. Army, then six years in<br />

private law practice (during which he married his wife Judy in<br />

1959), he was elected a Seattle District Court Judge in 1963,<br />

and in 1969 to the Superior Court of King County, in which the<br />

city of Seattle is situated. He retired from the bench in 1991,<br />

and in 1992 resumed private practice, this time with his only<br />

son, James Jr., in the firm of Dore and Dore. The Dores were<br />

also the parents of four daughters; they had four grandchildren.<br />

Judge Dore continued as a member of the Pilgrim Consistory<br />

into the 21st century; he served as Pilgrim Governor in<br />

2005.<br />

At deadline there was, unfortunately, no information as to<br />

services; with Judge Dore’s passing having occurred in Germany,<br />

Mrs. Dore advised that there would be a delay of at least<br />

two weeks in returning his body to the U.S.<br />

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Judge Dore with his wife of nearly 54 years, Judy; here they<br />

welcomed attendees at a reception in his honor after he<br />

was elected Supreme Governor, in Philadelphia in 1996.


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COMMUNITY SERVICE<br />

Shawn Baile, Director, Activities SBaile@mooseintl.org<br />

Chicora, PA Lodge 962/Chapter 313 raised $2,600 for the Wounded Warrior<br />

Project. From left are Administrator Ronald Huff, Barb Blauser, Vickie Maley,<br />

Ronald Maley, Robert Ripper, James Fleeger, Governor Jason Huff and Senior<br />

Regent Mary Lou Wyman.<br />

In 2012, Winchester, VA Lodge<br />

1283 donated food baskets to<br />

those in need in their local community<br />

for the 30th consecutive year!<br />

The Lodge’s members provided<br />

more than $10,000 to supply food<br />

for the baskets last December.<br />

Above, the baskets were organized<br />

into rows before they were<br />

delivered. Each basket contained a<br />

12-15-pound turkey and enough<br />

items to provide several meals for<br />

a family of four.<br />

Concord, NH Lodge 1374<br />

and Chapter 279 had 15<br />

members raise money<br />

and walk in their community<br />

breast cancer<br />

awareness walk last<br />

October. This group also<br />

raised more money for<br />

the American Cancer<br />

Society by offering hair<br />

color treatments, raffling<br />

pink pumpkins and other<br />

activities during the<br />

month of October, which<br />

is Breast Cancer<br />

Awareness Month.<br />

Alpena, MI Lodge 571/Chapter<br />

1994 each donated $500 to the<br />

Alpena Cancer Center in January.<br />

From left in front are Administrator<br />

Randall Wright Adam (holding<br />

check), Ann Diamond from the<br />

Alpena Regional Medical Center,<br />

Bernice Suszek and Verna Mace;<br />

in back are Shannon and Rob<br />

Gross, Mick Kaiser, Mike Mishley<br />

and Lodge Governor Leonard Demeniuk.<br />

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Largo, FL Lodge 2205 in February presented a case of Tommy<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> dolls to the Largo Police Department. From left are<br />

Largo Police Chief John Carroll, Lodge Governor Kenny<br />

Rogers, Sgt. Andy Hill, and Deputy Chief Jeff Undestad.<br />

Check out my website!<br />

WWW.TOMMYMOOSE.ORG<br />

Saranac Lake, NY Lodge 477 and Chapter 1909 presented Tommy<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> dolls to the Saranac Lake Police Department and Volunteer<br />

Ambulance Service last October. From left are Senior Regent<br />

Theresa Trudell, Saranac Police Officer Jason Swain, Julie Harjung<br />

from Saranac Lake Volunteer Ambulance Service, and Governor<br />

Greg Parker.<br />

Alpena, MI Lodge 571 donated two dozen Tommy<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> dolls to the Fire and Police Deparmtents<br />

in their community. Governor Leonard Demeniuk<br />

(center) poses with Fire Chief Bill Forbush (left)<br />

and Police Chief Joel Jett.<br />

Verde Valley, AZ Lodge 1449/Chapter 1854<br />

presented Tommy <strong>Moose</strong> dolls to the Cottonwood,<br />

AZ Fire Department, Guardian Life Air from<br />

Cottonwood, and the Verde Valley Fire<br />

Department Jan. 29 at the Cottonwood Fairgrounds.<br />

The members helping included Jr. Graduate<br />

Regent Cheri Marx, Senior Regent Pam Van<br />

Winkle, Chaplain Cathy Yorba Liggett, Trustee<br />

Mike Liggett and Governor Loren Elredge.<br />

<strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong> MOOSE 47


COMMUNITY SERVICE<br />

Shawn Baile, Director, Activities SBaile@mooseintl.org<br />

Clarence, PA Lodge 1565 held a benefit dance on Jan. 26 for member Marty “Bucco” Padisak, a Clarence-area<br />

resident battling bile-duct cancer who underwent surgery in Pittsburgh in December. Marty was previously a Lodge<br />

officer and continues to be a key Lodge volunteer. The event raised $15,000. Additionally, as pictured above, a<br />

group of 26 members got together to deliver 13 truckloads of firewood to the Padisak home.<br />

Buena Park, CA Lodge 1945 presented a<br />

check of $2,500 to Hope School last September.<br />

Hope School receives funds annually<br />

from the Buena Park Coach Thibideux Annual<br />

Caddyshack Open Golf Tournament. From left<br />

are member Mark Doherty, two teachers from<br />

Hope School and Lodge Administrator Dennis<br />

Kuhns.<br />

Mt. Holly, NJ Lodge 737 responded to an urgent call for supplies<br />

and food by the Associated Humane Society of New Jersey and<br />

the Popcorn Park Zoo of Forked River, NJ for the hundreds of pets<br />

rescued or dropped off at one of their facilities as a result of<br />

Hurricane Sandy. The supplies and food were delivered to the zoo<br />

on Dec. 8 to a grateful staff amazed at what was accomplished in<br />

a short time. Pictured are some of the supplies collected prior to<br />

delivery to the zoo.<br />

48 MOOSE <strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong>


LODGE/CHAPTER NEWS<br />

Ninety-five shooters<br />

from <strong>Moose</strong> Lodges in<br />

Ohio participated in<br />

the 24th Ohio State<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Association<br />

Trap Shooting Tournament<br />

at Fostoria, OH<br />

Lodge 1567. Proceeds<br />

from the event purchased<br />

a much-needed<br />

recumbent training bicycle<br />

for a special<br />

needs young man named Ryan from a local family (seated), and provided donations<br />

the <strong>Moose</strong>haven “bait fund” and the Ohio <strong>Moose</strong> Sports Complex at<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart. Standing from left are Ohio <strong>Moose</strong> Trapshooting Chairman Jesse<br />

Johnson, Barbara Hossler, Chris Hossler, and Fostoria <strong>Moose</strong> Trapshooting<br />

Chairman Rick Bame.<br />

Ellen Labadie of Chatham, ON Chapter<br />

304 received a 60-year membership<br />

pin. She is a <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

alumna, and is posing with her original<br />

membership card from 1951.<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Legionnaires of<br />

Marysville, OH Lodge<br />

1651 overhauled the<br />

Lodge’s miniputt golf<br />

course for members and<br />

their families. Volunteers<br />

including Larry<br />

Hay, Dick Colden, Bill<br />

“Hoot” Gibson, Charlie<br />

McNeal, Dwight Parks,<br />

Ernest Jones, Stacy<br />

Craig, Bill Eppich, Greg<br />

Clark and Bob Shook<br />

spent many hours to revamp<br />

the course for the<br />

rededication last <strong>June</strong>.<br />

Above, Bedford, VA Chapter<br />

1005 celebrated its 50th anniversary<br />

in <strong>July</strong> 2012. There<br />

are still two members from<br />

the original charter! Four<br />

members total received 50-<br />

year membership awards.<br />

Want to see<br />

YOUR stories?<br />

Please email YOUR photos<br />

& detailed stories to<br />

DMellema@mooseintl.org.<br />

Visit us online at<br />

www.mooseintl.org/portal/<br />

and click on the tab marked<br />

communications for more<br />

information!<br />

At left, Delores “Dee” Anderson poses with a<br />

cake in April 2012 signifying her 65 years as<br />

a Co-worker at Knox, IN Chapter 633. Dee<br />

has three generations of her family who are<br />

Women of the <strong>Moose</strong>.<br />

<strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong> MOOSE 49


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<strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong> MOOSE 51


In Milwaukee during our annual <strong>Moose</strong> Legion conference<br />

in conjunction with the Supreme Lodge convention,<br />

we kicked off our <strong>Moose</strong> Legion Centennial<br />

Year of Celebration!<br />

Just think:<br />

100 years of giving to the fraternity.<br />

100 years of gathering as<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Legionnaires to have fun<br />

while providing greater service to the<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> fraternity.<br />

100 years of doing some<br />

good thing for some, each day.<br />

That’s pretty awesome really, when<br />

you think about it. And the celebration<br />

will continue all during the year ahead,<br />

as we build, plan programs and lead up<br />

to our annual <strong>Moose</strong> Legion Conference<br />

in Las Vegas next <strong>June</strong>. How grand it will<br />

be to announce and celebrate a gain in membership<br />

during the Centennial year!<br />

And what have we been doing for the past century? I can<br />

tell you it was pretty interesting for the committee to research<br />

and narrate some of that detail. The result of that effort is a<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Legion Centennial Booklet, 24 pages of stories and<br />

pictures from the early beginnings to the current time. It is an<br />

easy-to-read “snapshot” of some of the accomplishments of<br />

the Degree of Service during its first century.<br />

All <strong>Moose</strong> Legionnaires and other members of the Order<br />

will certainly want to get a copy. They are available through<br />

Catalog Sales, for a limited time, while supplies last. Be sure<br />

to get your copy right away. Getting your copy is a win-win<br />

proposition, as the information will serve as a sales and retention<br />

tool when talking to members and proceeds from the sales<br />

will go towards the <strong>Moose</strong>heart School renovation project.<br />

Fraternal units can order a supply to distribute locally or<br />

you can order individual copies directly through Catalog Sales<br />

at <strong>Moose</strong> <strong>International</strong>. Be sure to get a copy while they are<br />

available!<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> — Go the Distance<br />

This is the year that we fully expect the <strong>Moose</strong> Legion<br />

to Go The Distance. What does that mean?<br />

Well, it means many different things. Mainly it<br />

means our goal this year is to Go the Distance in taking<br />

care of our fraternal obligations.<br />

That in itself means a variety of things, including;<br />

service to, and care of, our members, fulfilling financial obligations<br />

for fraternal projects, including raising & submitting<br />

52 MOOSE <strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />

RITUAL & HIGHER DEGREES<br />

Robert A. Neff, Director RNeff@mooseintl.org<br />

The <strong>Moose</strong> Legion Centennial<br />

Endowment Funds. It also includes helping to build the<br />

strength of our Lodges – both financially and numerically.<br />

And of course, closer yet is to work in building our<br />

own <strong>Moose</strong> Legion membership strength.<br />

What is <strong>Moose</strong> <strong>International</strong> doing to help you<br />

with that last item? Well, a great number of<br />

things, really. We’ve already revised eligibility<br />

requirements to make it simpler to find Lodge<br />

members who we can invite into the Degree<br />

of Service. Any Lodge member with six<br />

months of membership or having sponsored<br />

at least one member is eligible to be invited.<br />

That is pretty simple.<br />

Of course we will have some Membership<br />

Drive Campaign awards to offer as were announced<br />

May 1 that include a lapel pin for your<br />

first application, then free dues for two apps reported<br />

as enrolled, followed by helping build a<br />

classroom with our donation for five applications reported.<br />

Then for those who sponsor 25 <strong>Moose</strong> Legion applications<br />

and earn a spot in the <strong>Moose</strong> Legionnaire of<br />

Distinction program a Centennial Brick at the new <strong>Moose</strong>heart<br />

School will honor your efforts.<br />

But<br />

Stop There!<br />

Does Not<br />

We have a real deal for our sponsors and potential new<br />

members this year! Any good standing Lodge member of six<br />

or more months or who has sponsored at least one Lodge<br />

member can submit a <strong>Moose</strong> Legion application and just a<br />

$10 fee – anywhere across the fraternity – anywhere in<br />

North America!<br />

Yep – ten bucks and a signed <strong>Moose</strong> membership<br />

application is all that is required to start<br />

your membership in the <strong>Moose</strong> Legion from<br />

<strong>June</strong> 1, <strong>2013</strong> to <strong>June</strong> 30, 2014 – our Centennial<br />

Year Celebration. Once approved, the Secretary<br />

will notify candidates when and where the<br />

required conferrals will be taking place,<br />

which all new applicants must attend to<br />

complete the membership requirements.<br />

Just not sure how we could make it much<br />

easier than that? Conferral staffs ought to get a lot of practice<br />

this year as we perform conferrals and enroll candidates into<br />

the Degree of Service! Special applications will be available<br />

<strong>2013</strong>-2014 Campaign pin<br />

given to Legionnaires<br />

who sign 1 member.


Celebration has started…<br />

– but any standard <strong>Moose</strong> Legion application will be accepted<br />

with this special reduced $10 fee during this 13-month period.<br />

Are you a Lodge member who has thought about giving<br />

the <strong>Moose</strong> Legion a try, but just haven’t gotten around to it?<br />

Or no one has invited you? Don’t wait any longer – please ask<br />

a <strong>Moose</strong> Legionnaire to sponsor your application today. Now<br />

is truly the time to step up, check us out and give it a try!<br />

There will only be one<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Legion Centennial<br />

Year and only one time that<br />

such a special incentive to<br />

join and sponsor others is<br />

likely to exist. Now is the<br />

time to Go the Distance in<br />

inviting members to advance<br />

their membership to include<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Legion. Now is the<br />

time to build membership<br />

like we have never built it before.<br />

Now is the time to join!<br />

Yes the <strong>Moose</strong> Legion –<br />

Go the Distance Campaign is<br />

now underway. This special<br />

Centennial deal of joining for<br />

just $10 runs only from <strong>June</strong><br />

2012-<strong>2013</strong> <strong>International</strong><br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Legion President<br />

Mark Klein<br />

<strong>2013</strong>-2014 <strong>International</strong><br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Legion President<br />

Michael Mock<br />

1, <strong>2013</strong> to <strong>June</strong> 30, 2014.<br />

This should pique many<br />

members’ interest. What a<br />

year we can have and what a<br />

celebration next year in Las<br />

Vegas when we report the results<br />

we might have with all<br />

our jurisdictions going the<br />

distance this year to invite<br />

and enroll new members.<br />

New Officers<br />

Mark Klein of Oxnard<br />

Lodge No. 561 and Channel<br />

Islands (CA) <strong>Moose</strong> Legion<br />

No. 175 served this past year<br />

as <strong>International</strong> President.<br />

He and and his wife Donna<br />

traveled across North America<br />

visiting <strong>Moose</strong> Legions<br />

and promoting our program.<br />

Mark became a Past <strong>International</strong><br />

President in Milwaukee;<br />

he’ll serve during<br />

<strong>2013</strong>-14 as Jr. Past President.<br />

We installed a new <strong>International</strong> <strong>Moose</strong> Legion President<br />

at our Convention. We welcome Michael D. Mock from<br />

Rock Hill, SC Lodge 1720 and Palmetto (SC) <strong>Moose</strong> Legion<br />

86 to the presiding post and look forward to his leadership<br />

in the coming year. Mike and his wife Peggy reside in<br />

Rock Hill, SC.<br />

We also welcome a new Vice President moving up. That<br />

would be Ed Lehmann of West Bend, WI Lodge 1398 &<br />

Wisconsin <strong>Moose</strong> Legion 31. Our newest <strong>Moose</strong> Legion<br />

Councilman is Ronald Maley of Chicora, PA Lodge No. 962<br />

and Western Pennsylvania <strong>Moose</strong> Legion 1. We look forward<br />

to working with each of these <strong>Moose</strong> Legion Councilmen<br />

over the next year.<br />

We were also very pleased to confer the honor of Past <strong>International</strong><br />

Presidents on two exemplary <strong>Moose</strong> Legionnaires<br />

during our conference. Hats off to these most deserving fraternal<br />

leaders: Hugh Shipley of Tennessee and Supreme<br />

Councilman Terry Walls of Oklahoma!<br />

Ritual Competition<br />

& Higher Degree Members<br />

We offer our thanks and congratulations to all the Ritual<br />

staffs competing in Women of the <strong>Moose</strong> and <strong>Moose</strong> Legion<br />

Ritual Competition in Milwaukee. Watch our website and the<br />

next issue of <strong>Moose</strong> Magazine for a report on those results.<br />

We also extend our congratulations to all the new Higher<br />

Degree members receiving their degrees at <strong>International</strong> Convention<br />

and Conference last month. That includes newly elevated<br />

Co-Workers in Milwaukee to the Academy of<br />

Friendship and Star Recorders. May 25 at <strong>Moose</strong>heart was<br />

also very special for many new members attaining the College<br />

of Regents Degree in the Women of the <strong>Moose</strong>. No doubt<br />

each of the recipients is very proud of their accomplishments.<br />

In the Loyal Order of <strong>Moose</strong> we have added many <strong>Moose</strong><br />

Legionnaires throughout the past year. At Convention we also<br />

elevated many <strong>Moose</strong> Legionnaires to the Fellowship Degree<br />

of Honor. Of course on May 25 at <strong>Moose</strong>heart a class of Fellows<br />

entered the House of God to receive the Pilgrim Degree<br />

of Merit. These were proud moments for all involved indeed<br />

and we congratulate them on reaching these levels of achievement.<br />

All of us welcome those that have gone above and beyond<br />

in promoting and building this fraternity to get us where we<br />

are today. Now, we look forward to the year ahead as we<br />

stand together, and as MOOSE – Go the Distance! <br />

<strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong> MOOSE 53


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56 MOOSE <strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />

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JUNE/JULY <strong>2013</strong><br />

Leader<br />

Need-to-know information for officers & chairmen of Lodges/Chapters/<strong>Moose</strong> Legions<br />

MOOSE<br />

Vol. 81, No. 3<br />

By KURT T. WIEBE/Director of Membership & Chief Marketing Officer<br />

This is truly an historic year for our fraternity. In <strong>2013</strong>-14, the Loyal Order<br />

of <strong>Moose</strong> celebrate its 125th Anniversary; the Women of the <strong>Moose</strong> honor<br />

their 100th year; the <strong>Moose</strong> Legion will have delivered “100 Years of Service”;<br />

and <strong>Moose</strong>heart Child City and School, will have provided a “Century of<br />

Caring” for more than 12,000 children in need. We are blessed to be part of<br />

this Year of Celebration, which will happen only once in our lifetimes!<br />

Already, travels to <strong>Moose</strong> Association meetings have demonstrated renewed<br />

enthusiasm for the <strong>Moose</strong> at every Lodge and Chapter I have visited, and within<br />

each officer and volunteer with whom I have had the pleasure to meet. Not<br />

only are you excited about the historical implications surrounding this year,<br />

but you are universally optimistic about the future direction of the organization<br />

under the leadership of our new Director General, Scott Hart.<br />

To kick off this new era, and to honor our four anniversaries, the Supreme<br />

Council has taken the unprecedented step of authorizing General Governor<br />

Steve Greene to issue a blanket dispensation<br />

(May 1, <strong>2013</strong> – April 30, 2014) for the<br />

Loyal Order of <strong>Moose</strong>, Women of the <strong>Moose</strong> and the <strong>Moose</strong> Legion!<br />

As I noted last issue, this means there is no longer any financial obstacle—<br />

or excuse!—to ask your qualified friends, relatives or associates to join our<br />

Order. We’ve made it simple to ask friends and relatives to be part of our fraternity.<br />

As long as prospective members are enrolled by 10 p.m. Central Time on<br />

April 30, 2014, there will be no application fee charged.<br />

With this new program in place, we should encourage qualified individuals<br />

to join in on our Celebration starting right now–and not wait to try to “catch<br />

up” in the fourth quarter of the year! Further, to encourage even more sponsor<br />

participation, we have extended the “sign two, your next year’s dues are<br />

free!” program for this current campaign. It actually pays to strengthen our<br />

Fraternity!<br />

For all <strong>Moose</strong> <strong>International</strong> 5 Club members in <strong>2013</strong>-14, we have done away<br />

with the typical “logo” items usually awarded; we’ll instead honor <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s<br />

Centennial by donating $5 in honor of every man, woman or <strong>Moose</strong><br />

Legionnaire who qualifies, to the <strong>Moose</strong>heart School Renovation Project. Our<br />

5 Club members will be the driving force behind the renovation of the school’s<br />

Foreign Languages Classroom—and you will always be proud to know that<br />

you have contributed to the continuing education of our children at <strong>Moose</strong>heart.<br />

These funds are being provided courtesy of your state or provincial<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> Association, the Women of the <strong>Moose</strong> and the <strong>Moose</strong> Legion, and we are<br />

asking that any additional funds that would typically be provided in previous<br />

years, be used locally to promote membership in each respective unit of the<br />

Order.<br />

For our super sponsors—those who sponsor 25 or more during the fiscal<br />

year—we are dedicating a Centennial Brick in his/her name that will be used<br />

during the School Renovation Project. This will be a lasting tribute to those<br />

who give back to the fraternity and our school by driving membership production;<br />

growing the <strong>Moose</strong>, so that we can continue to fund projects such as this.<br />

And finally, any new or existing member who simply pays his or her dues in<br />

<strong>2013</strong>-14 will receive a special <strong>Moose</strong>heart Centennial commemorative membership<br />

card, in lieu of the traditional green design. Note that both cards will<br />

still be valid as long as the “paid to” date has not passed—so please pass this<br />

information along to those checking IDs at the Lodge and during your events.<br />

The cards are gold in color and feature the <strong>Moose</strong>heart Centennial logo in the<br />

lower left-hand corner. All other information on the front of the card is identical<br />

to those in previous years. On the back, however, you will notice that we<br />

have added a QR code that can be scanned by any smartphone that has downloaded<br />

the QR application. This will take you directly to the<br />

www.mooseintl.org, where you can learn more about your fraternity.<br />

Please join me in thanking all of those individuals who have worked so hard<br />

during the history of our fraternity to get us where we are today. Let’s also<br />

thank those members today and in the future who will take us where we want<br />

to be and ensure that this great Order will be around for another century of celebration!<br />

60 MOOSE <strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />

By DARRELL O’BRIEN/Director, Lodge Operations<br />

OMG! Is this an exclamation of excitement as you anxiously await your<br />

opportunity to lead your <strong>Moose</strong> Lodge to a year of growth and prosperity?<br />

Perhaps it’s more a statement of trepidation, or even fear, that you’ve<br />

taken on a task that you might not be able to handle. More than likely, the answer<br />

lies somewhere between these two extremes.<br />

The title of Governor is accompanied by a myriad of responsibilities. The<br />

Governor is now, legally, the President of a small to mid-sized corporation. The<br />

position carries with it responsibilities to many different constituencies. A Governor<br />

is responsible, and in some cases liable, for ensuring that laws and regulations<br />

are adhered to. The corporate President (Governor), in most cases, is<br />

ultimately responsible to ensure that license applications and required forms<br />

are filed, and that tax payments are made by established deadlines.<br />

The Governor should be the Lodge’s spokesman in the community. Most<br />

Lodges have a history of supporting worthy projects in their own community.<br />

The community will likely be counting on you as well, to continue this support<br />

and in many instances ask you, and your <strong>Moose</strong> Lodge, to do even more. Many<br />

residents in your community may be counting on you more than you possibly<br />

realized.<br />

Possibly most importantly of all, the members of your Lodge have entrusted<br />

you, by virtue of their vote in the election, with the safekeeping, growth and


prosperity of the Lodge. They expect the Governor will always act with the best<br />

interest of the Lodge in mind and heart. They also expect, and rightfully so,<br />

that the entire Board of Officers will be receptive, and responsive, to the desires<br />

of the entire membership.<br />

This may sound like too big of a job for just one man. It is. “Many hands<br />

make light work” and “a burden heavy to one is borne lightly by many”<br />

may seem to be clichés. They are truly words to live by. This is especially so in<br />

the next 12 months of a Governor’s life.<br />

For this very reason, the Governor is afforded many opportunities to build a<br />

team to assist him. The other elected officers are already selected. The Governor<br />

may appoint at least three additional officers who will primarily assist him<br />

in maintaining decorum during Lodge meetings. Eleven standing committees<br />

are required to each have a chairman and each committee will likely have at<br />

least one to five additional members. The Governor can create additional committees,<br />

as he sees fit, to assist in carrying out other special functions throughout<br />

the Governor’s term. In fact, the Governor’s “team” is limited only by the<br />

number of Lodge members and the Governor’s ability to motivate each member<br />

to take on some role, no matter how small, in improving the Lodge’s appearance,<br />

activities, membership size, financial strength or any other creative<br />

measure that can be used to build participation and member support.<br />

This all sounds like a lot. Well, there’s no better time than now to get started.<br />

Obtain a copy of the fraternity’s Constitution and General Laws.<br />

with particular attention paid to Chapter 35 - Governor. You will<br />

note, that nowhere in the General Laws does it state that the Governor shall set<br />

prices or policies for, or otherwise control, the Social Quarters. These responsibilities<br />

are reserved collectively for the House Committee and are determined by<br />

majority vote of that committee. While by virtue of the office the Governor is a<br />

member of most committees – a few exceptions do apply. Since there are numerous<br />

committees and only the House Committee is primarily a business-oriented<br />

committee, the Governor should spend the majority of his time as the<br />

Lodge’s fraternal leader. In this capacity his focus will be on building membership,<br />

improving the Lodge’s perception in the community through increased<br />

community service, and ensuring that members have the opportunity<br />

to share their ideas to improve any and all aspects of the Lodge’s operations and<br />

that those suggestions receive careful consideration from the full board of officers<br />

for possible implementation. The General Laws may be found online at<br />

http://www.mooseintl.org/portal/pdf/GGov/8-1-10GeneralLaws.pdf.<br />

for any elected officers who are not currently certified in this course. Officers<br />

who have not attended a Lodge Leadership/House Committee class more recently<br />

than May 1, 2011, or who have never attended a Lodge<br />

Leadership/House Committee training session, must attend this class prior to,<br />

or within 60 days after, their installation as a Lodge Officer for the 2012-<strong>2013</strong><br />

year. This training must be accomplished by <strong>June</strong> 30. Each officer will receive<br />

a copy of the General Laws at this training session. Every officer should have<br />

his own copy. Printed copies of the General Laws are available from the Catalog<br />

sales Department at <strong>Moose</strong> <strong>International</strong>. They can be reached at 630-<br />

966-2250 or e-mailed at catalogsales@mooseintl.org.<br />

(Inner Guard, Outer Guard and Sergeant-at-Arms). These could be the current<br />

committee chairmen, or any other members who you believe will enhance the<br />

respective committee's effectiveness. One trait of outstanding leaders is that they<br />

surround themselves with qualified people to aid them in the achievement of<br />

organizational goals. While it may seem “nice” to put your closest friends in<br />

these positions, consideration of the appointees’ ability to successfully perform<br />

the functions of the committee chairman or appointed officer must be your primary<br />

concern.<br />

(the Prelate—who shall<br />

not be the committee chairman—your two appointments, a chairman and<br />

one other committee member, neither of whom can be a current elected officer)<br />

,<br />

which is available at:<br />

http://www.mooseintl.org/portal/pdf/FratEd/AuditCommitteeGuidelinesforFraternalUnits.pdf.<br />

Additional training for your Auditing Committee can be obtained by contacting<br />

the Senior Operations Analyst or Regional Manager for your Lodge.<br />

At the 1st meeting in May, you should have<br />

as<br />

Committee Chairmen and Inner Guard, Outer Guard and Sergeant-At-Arms.<br />

No later than the second meeting in May, all committees should have been<br />

filled and functioning. (If that didn’t happen, please do it now in <strong>June</strong>.)<br />

All of this surely seems like a lot to accomplish in a short period of time.<br />

However, doing so will likely set your Lodge on an early path to success and<br />

prosperity during the coming year!<br />

By SUSAN HAWKINS/Director, Education & Training<br />

We all know that our Fraternal Units generate income and incur expenses<br />

on a monthly basis. But, do we all know how that money gets<br />

recorded in QuickBooks? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Is it important that all<br />

Lodge and Chapter officers – and rank-and-file members, for that matter –<br />

understand the <strong>Moose</strong> QuickBooks accounting system?<br />

We in Education & Training believe that basic knowledge of <strong>Moose</strong> Accounting<br />

can benefit any <strong>Moose</strong> member. Having said this, we are extremely excited<br />

to launch a new financial training tool at the <strong>2013</strong> <strong>International</strong> Convention<br />

in Milwaukee.<br />

Our “Financial Reports Path of Knowledge” training tool was designed to<br />

enable <strong>Moose</strong> members to learn—together, at the Lodge, in a self-directed capacity,<br />

and on an as-needed basis - how to properly record financial entries in<br />

QuickBooks and then recognize how those financial entries impact the Balance<br />

Sheet and Profit & Loss Statement totals. The ‘Financial Reports Path of<br />

Knowledge” is not instructor-facilitated; it’s team facilitated. Lodge members<br />

are the team!<br />

The tool, itself, is simple but powerful. It consists of a tabletop laminated financial<br />

map and a set of instructions. After the instructions have been completed<br />

in full, it is our hope that one or more of the following will occur: 1) you<br />

will learn a thing or two about proper QuickBooks entries, 2) you will have a<br />

better understanding on how to read a financial report, and/or 3) you will have<br />

a little fun learning alongside your fellow <strong>Moose</strong> members! The “Financial<br />

Reports Path of Knowledge” was piloted first with <strong>Moose</strong> <strong>International</strong> staff and<br />

again with Regional Managers and Senior Operations Analysts in Las Vegas.<br />

Feedback has been very positive – so much so that some wanted to sneak out<br />

with the materials!<br />

Education & Training is the process of finalizing the rollout-plan for the ‘Financial<br />

Reports Path of Knowledge’ in the field, we CAN tell you this now –<br />

there will be no charge to the Lodge for these new training materials.<br />

Education & Training is incurring the materials cost for these new training<br />

materials as we believe it is a part of the cost of doing business.<br />

If you were unable to join us in Milwaukee at the <strong>2013</strong> Annual <strong>International</strong><br />

Convention to experience the “Financial Reports Path of Knowledge” training<br />

in a hands-on environment, please contact your Administrator to find out more<br />

about this new training tool! Your personal training history will be credited for<br />

participating in this training.<br />

I hope you will take advantage of this training opportunity in the near future,<br />

at your local Lodge!<br />

<strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong> MOOSE 61


By JANET FREGULIA/Executive Director, <strong>Moose</strong> Charities<br />

<strong>Moose</strong> members have literally built scores of monuments to fraternal<br />

generosity over the 100 years of <strong>Moose</strong>heart and the 90-plus years of<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>haven. But a few have really stood out—such as the sprawling<br />

LifeCare Center at <strong>Moose</strong>haven a dozen years ago; or at <strong>Moose</strong>heart, the magnificent<br />

House of God nearly 65 years ago.<br />

What we are undertaking now at our Child City rates behind only those two<br />

fraternal icons in scope, sacrifice, or importance: It is the $10 million plan to<br />

fully renovate <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s school building, for which we hope to break<br />

ground during this Centennial year.<br />

This is a plea to all <strong>Moose</strong> members: We urgently need your help to raise the<br />

funds needed to catapult <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s academic setting from its tired original<br />

1954 state into a <strong>2013</strong> state-of-the-art educational facility.<br />

This is the largest <strong>Moose</strong>heart Child City & School financial project since the<br />

House of God was built in 1948-50. Its $1.2 million price tag then, equates to<br />

roughly $11.5 million in today’s dollars.<br />

The 77,000-sq.-ft. school has not had any major updating since it was built<br />

in 1953-54—nearly 60 years ago. It’s time—because every child deserves a<br />

solid education in a learning environment in which they can take pride; a facility<br />

that is fully prepared to receive and educate future children in need.<br />

Be proud to help finance the school renovation. Be proud that, since its<br />

founding in 1913, <strong>Moose</strong>heart has operated a complete, accredited kindergarten-through-high-school<br />

academic program, plus art, music, vocational<br />

training and interscholastic sports. Be proud to know that <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s chapter<br />

of the National Honor Society was the very first chartered in Illinois and just<br />

the fifth nationwide when it was formed in 1921.<br />

Indeed, <strong>Moose</strong>heart School has consistently taught its students to live by the<br />

four pillars of the National Honor Society—Character, Scholarship, Leadership<br />

and Service. During the <strong>2013</strong> National Honor Society induction of three<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart students, guest speaker Jeff Fusek, a <strong>Moose</strong>heart graduate from the<br />

Class of 1986, said: “No matter what profession you decide to choose, a solid education<br />

is necessary to achieve your objectives in life.”<br />

And, now, it is time for us all to step up and donate what we can, to the extent<br />

we can, to renovating the school that has given so very much to thousands<br />

of students who may not have had any education at all—had it not been for<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart Child City & School.<br />

Please—donate now. You will be proud you did. Visit<br />

www.moosecharities.org or call us at 630-966-2200 to learn details of how you<br />

can most appropriately leave your positive mark on the lives of these children.<br />

God Bless <strong>Moose</strong>heart!<br />

By STEVEN F. GREENE, PSG/General Governor<br />

You are now part of a team that should be making every effort to ensure<br />

that your Lodge will be successful. Each officer should be anticipating<br />

making your Lodge the “Friendliest Place in Town.” Here are some ways<br />

to ensure that this becomes a reality.<br />

Make sure, Brother Governor, that you have all required Committee Chairmen<br />

appointed, and that each person knows the requirements for his position.<br />

Plan your Lodge activities—including plenty of events for the whole family—for<br />

at least three months in advance, and appoint who will chair each<br />

event to make it successful. Start making plans for fundraising events for your<br />

Lodge. Every Lodge may hold two similar fundraising events annually. (Different<br />

events can be held throughout the year.) Make sure your lodge members<br />

are informed about all Lodge events well in advance. If your Lodge has a<br />

Women of the <strong>Moose</strong> Chapter (and if it doesn’t—why not?), start making joint<br />

plans now so both Lodge and Chapter will have a successful year together.<br />

Find ways to get involved in your community! Highway clean up; supporting<br />

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Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts; youth-league baseball; Veterans’ hospitals; Special<br />

Olympics and many more. Invite community leaders to speak at your Lodge<br />

Meetings.<br />

Make plans for Board members to attend leadership training classes in your<br />

Association. Start early with fundraisers to ensure that funds will be available<br />

for your Lodge representatives to attend Association and <strong>International</strong> conventions.<br />

Recognize all officers and member volunteers for the work they do for<br />

your Lodge and Chapter. Set a standard for future officers to follow! Be mentors<br />

to your younger members!<br />

This year can be a rewarding time for each new Lodge officer. Everyone can<br />

make a difference in the future of not only our Lodges, but our fraternity overall.<br />

Let me encourage you to strive to be the best of the best! Learn the Constitution<br />

and General Laws of the Order—especially those that are required by the<br />

office you hold. Make carefully considered decisions, remembering that you<br />

represent the members of your Lodge, not just yourself. Be fair in your decisions<br />

that will be required of you as a member of the House Committee.<br />

Plan your course well—then stay that course for success.<br />

ATTENTION SOCIAL QUARTERS SERVERS & ADMINISTRATORS:<br />

You’ve been seeing our special<br />

2 13 Year of Celebration<br />

membership card since early Mayi<br />

IT’S VALIDi Please honor iti<br />

(Along with those of customary aqua-marbled finish.)


By BARBARA McPHERSON/Grand Chancellor, Women of the <strong>Moose</strong><br />

Congratulations to <strong>2013</strong>-14 Chapter officers, appointees and committee<br />

chairmen. Each of you have made a commitment to your Chapter and<br />

have taken a leadership role that can’t be taken lightly. Each of you will<br />

ultimately be the cause of the failure or success of this year for your Chapter.<br />

Can you go the distance?<br />

As a Chapter leader, you have a responsibility to gain the necessary knowledge<br />

to make sure your Chapter is operating within Women of the <strong>Moose</strong><br />

guidelines, and on track to earning the Award of Achievement.<br />

Now is the time for the Board of Officers to meet, prepare a plan toward the<br />

Chapter’s success, and follow that plan throughout the year. The plan may<br />

need adjustment if necessary, but it is the responsibility of the entire Board to<br />

keep the Chapter on track.<br />

Make sure you read the Officers’ Handbook as well as the Recorder’s Handbook<br />

to become aware of responsibilities, reporting periods, deadlines and suggestions<br />

for the Chapter’s successful operation. Far too often, officers’ say “they<br />

said”. Make sure that what “they” are saying is correct, as you are the one responsible.<br />

The Women of the <strong>Moose</strong> General Laws book is one of the most valuable<br />

resources you as officers have to confirm proper procedures are being followed.<br />

The General Laws are in place for a reason. Make sure you use them.<br />

The Senior Regent should immediately meet with all incoming committee<br />

chairmen, explain their responsibilities to the Chapter, and assist them with<br />

guidelines to successful fundraising projects; and to make certain each person<br />

attempting it can qualify for the Academy of Friendship degree. These are typically<br />

the fairly new members of the Chapter who are just beginning a hopefully<br />

long-term career in the Women of the <strong>Moose</strong>.<br />

Make sure each officer, appointee and chairman plans to attend Women of<br />

the <strong>Moose</strong> Training Sessions to gain additional knowledge of Chapter operations.<br />

Through the expertise of the session leader and experience of other chapters<br />

in attendance, each person in attendance will certainly gain valuable<br />

information.<br />

The Recorder and entire Audit Committee should plan to attend a 2-HOTT<br />

Training Session to understand proper use of LCL.Net and QuickBooks and to<br />

understand how to audit Chapter books. The information provided in this<br />

training session is invaluable.<br />

Above all, make sure you’re holding interesting, informative and fun<br />

meetings! Plan activities and social time before and after your meetings so that<br />

co-workers have a reason to attend! Invite your new members to attend the<br />

Welcome Reception held in their honor prior to your meeting. If you don’t invite<br />

people, how will they know to attend?<br />

Please remember, each of you are a member of the Women of the <strong>Moose</strong><br />

Chapter Team. By working together in harmony you will gain many new<br />

friends, learn new ideas and most importantly, help to ensure the success of<br />

your Chapter.<br />

When the going gets tough, the true, brave leaders stand up and say, “Let’s<br />

do this!” I know you’re up to the challenge. . . the challenge to provide for our<br />

precious children and beloved seniors for the next 100 years, by “going the distance.”<br />

If we can be of any assistance to you on your journey of success, please<br />

don’t hesitate to contact our office.<br />

By ROBERT NEFF/Director, Ritual & Higher Degrees<br />

Why do we <strong>Moose</strong>, by habit, seem to wait until the “eleventh hour” to get<br />

things done? It seems at the end of each fiscal year, at the end of April,<br />

we scramble to try to “make our year” by signing members and working<br />

on those in arrears to try to retain them.<br />

There is no doubt that working to save the expired and dropped members on<br />

our rolls is a good and vitally important function for each of our fraternal<br />

units. But, we ought to be working on such a program all year long, methodically—month<br />

by month by month. In doing so, we have an opportunity to<br />

get caught up as we go, and perhaps stay on top. That means less urgency at<br />

the end to try to “pull that rabbit out of the hat.”<br />

Being even a little ahead throughout the year tends to even build more excitement<br />

and enthusiasm in getting even more members to join and to retain<br />

their precious membership. Being ahead in a positive way can be infectious. It<br />

can spread and multiply as most everyone wants to be part of something positive<br />

and growing!<br />

Every fraternal unit—Chapter, <strong>Moose</strong> Legion and Lodge alike—needs to<br />

develop plans early in the fiscal year to raise awareness and implement retention<br />

programs. In short, our leaders must lead this effort. It starts with having<br />

vibrant programs in which members want to participate! It continues with appointing<br />

working chairmen, who in turn appoint committee members to work<br />

with them.<br />

The Retention Committee is truly one of our most important. Unfortunately<br />

it is too often one of the most overlooked or neglected committees. However, we<br />

Leader<br />

MOOSE<br />

have the mechanisms to assist in this area and each group should be taking<br />

advantage of the help that is available.<br />

I refer, of course, to the Councils of Higher Degrees (CHD). We have them<br />

throughout the fraternity. These groups are made up of experienced leaders<br />

who have earned Higher Degrees. The primary purpose for the CHD’s existence<br />

is retention of members. There should be helpful ideas distributed at<br />

every CHD meeting on this subject.<br />

Every fraternal unit should have appointed chairpersons who take the task of<br />

retention seriously. They should be working with the CHD in their area for assistance<br />

as needed, to facilitate mailings and/or <strong>Moose</strong>-a-Thons to contact<br />

members by phone. The CHD is a resource for information and should often<br />

be able to provide persons to work with a fraternal unit to help them make calls<br />

that encourage renewals.<br />

DON’T WAIT until the end of the year to begin retaining members! Remember—contacting<br />

those about to expire, in a friendly and thankful way, can<br />

often make a difference in retaining someone who is on the fence deciding<br />

whether to renew or not. Contacting them individually and personally can<br />

make a difference—and pay great dividends in our ability to grow each year.<br />

Like all other aspects of the <strong>Moose</strong> Program: Retention efforts work – IF they<br />

are worked! Please, contact your CHD for help and guidance. It is why they<br />

exist. Let’s lay the groundwork now and work the program all year. The results<br />

can be extremely rewarding when we look back and see the good accomplished!<br />

Formerly<br />

Copyright 1932, 1989, 2001, <strong>2013</strong> <strong>Moose</strong> <strong>International</strong><br />

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Departed Pilgrims<br />

Notifications Received March 1 - April 30, <strong>2013</strong><br />

Warren E. Adler Class of ’97, Ponca City, OK 1031; died 3/11/13<br />

Glenn E. Beck ’94, Sedalia, MO 1494; 3/5/13<br />

James P. Blackman ’99, Westchester, CA 1780; 3/15/13<br />

Johnnie J. Chadwick ’87, Jacksonville, NC 1438; 1/25/11<br />

Olen C. Chambers ’00, Albuquerque, NM 1517; 4/11/13<br />

George Copeman Sr. ’97, Medicine Hat, AB 1073; 3/25/13<br />

Harold G. Deshong ’77, Bucks, PA 1169; 4/4/13<br />

William E. Edwards ’93, Bloomington, IN 1081; 4/2/13<br />

Richard Glick ’97, Glendale, CA 641; 3/3/13<br />

James W. Grandy ’01, Galion, OH 303; 3/31/13<br />

James F. Haines ’90, Portland, IN 417; 3/1/13<br />

William T. Hawver ’93, Lincoln Park, MI 1665; 4/22/13<br />

E. Ray Hodge Sr. ’82, Sandston, VA 1937; 3/11/13<br />

Earnest E. Hoover ’81, Thomasville, NC 1868; 4/24/13<br />

MOOSE CROSSWORD<br />

Davis, Brandon and<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart’s First Five Years<br />

ACROSS<br />

2 Rodney Brandon had to build a small town from scratch out of<br />

_________________.<br />

3 In 1918, Vice President Marshall returned to <strong>Moose</strong>heart and declared:<br />

“. . . the age of ___________has not passed!<br />

6 Brandon brought with him this 69-year-old minister to be in charge of<br />

<strong>Moose</strong>heart academics, went by the initials J.A.<br />

7 Instead of textbooks, during the 1913-14 school<br />

year the _______ from Chicago were instruction materials.<br />

9 U.S. Vice President who spoke on campus in<br />

both 1913 and 1918.<br />

11 In summer 1914, volunteer <strong>Moose</strong> labor made<br />

this road in front of campus Illinois’ first paved rural<br />

road outside of Chicago.<br />

12 Before and after he served as <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s first<br />

Superintendent, Rodney Brandon served as______.<br />

Stanley R. Horton ’06, Forest Park, GA 1875; 3/14/13<br />

Robert S. Johnson ’97, Montgomery County, VA 1470; 4/3/13<br />

Harlan C. Johnson ’00, Maplewood, MN 963; 4/16/13<br />

Joseph L. Lambert ’95, Attleboro, MA 463; 3/6/13<br />

Robert F. Mitchell ’85, New Martinsville, WV 931; 3/15/13<br />

William Ray Moody ’87, Paducah, KY 285; 3/2/13<br />

Howard A. Morgan ’10, Otsego, MI 345; 4/23/13<br />

Samuel L. Murray ’98, Richmond, CA 550; 4/2/13<br />

Ronald C. Neuman ’10, Yuma, AZ 1627; 3/5/13<br />

Bruce E.Wagner ’88, Columbia Valley, PA 623; 4/15/13<br />

Cyril J. Walz ’99, Vancouver, WA 1774; 4/27/13<br />

John O. Wentworth ’89, Revere, MA 1272; 3/23/13<br />

Robert F. Willin ’80, Cape Coral, FL 2199; 3/5/13<br />

Arthur E. Yocum ’05, Painesville, OH 490; 4/19/13<br />

<strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />

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8 Vice President Marshall hesitated to speak at <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s dedication because he detested__________.<br />

10 Professional engineer Robert from Detroit whom Brandon put in charge of <strong>Moose</strong>heart’s public works construction.<br />

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