June - July 2013 Issue - Moose International
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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 />
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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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<strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong> MOOSE 1
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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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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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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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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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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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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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 />
26 MOOSE <strong>June</strong>/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong> (continued on page 28)
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
See pp. 20-28 for clues!<br />
DOWN<br />
1 Supreme Dictator from New Jersey who escorted Vice President Marshall to <strong>Moose</strong>heart in 1913: Ralph ______.<br />
2 Brandon was __ years old when he took charge of the new campus.<br />
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5 Before 1940, each year’s <strong>Moose</strong> chief presiding officer was known as Supreme Dictator. Today, the title is _____.<br />
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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