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| "RINGLING 5" CONCERT To be held Saturday, July 31, 2010, at the Shrine Gym in Billings, MT starting at 7:00 PM and is also open to the public. This is a WGM/WGP Special Project for the Shrine Transportation Fund. Funds received from this concert after expenses, will go to the Shrine Transportation Fund. It is hoped this will also serve as a Public Relations and Chapter Restoration Project as well as a Masonic Family Activity. Please join for this fun evening of entertainment. Ticket price and other information will be posted on the Montana Stars and through other advertisements. CAR MAGNETS WGM/WGP Special Project - Magnets. We will be selling O.E.S. Car Magnets to go towards the Masonic Home Program, ESTARL Scholarship Fund, and Electa's Cup Fund. Magnets will sell for $5.00 each. Each chapter will be given 10 and more are available from the Unit Chairmen. Since there is no state designation they can be sold or given as gifts to counterparts or friends out of state. YOUTH - LAMB PIN WGM/WGP Special Project - Youth. These Lamb pins with "Ewe Are Special" will be sold for $4.00 each and will be divided between the youth groups. There is no Star designation on them, so they may be given to anyone. Each chapter will be given 10 pins to start and more may be ordered from the Chairmen. APPEALS LETTER WGM/WGP Special Project - "Phantom Tea" - Appeals Letter will be sent to all members to derive funds for our various charities. Members will have an option to direct their donations to the charity of their choice. CGG RAFFLE WGM/WGP Special Project will also be divided among our charities. the Cash, Gas, Groceries Raffle will be drawn at the Saturday afternoon session of Grand Chapter. Tickets will be $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. Prize values will be determined on funds derived. Tickets will be mailed to members as well as being able to be sold to the public. BASKET RAFFLE WGM/WGP Special Project also for Youth. This "Third times a charm" raffle is to raise a few extra dollars for our Youth. Chapters are again asked to bring a basket or more to Grand Chapter with drawings to be held throughout the session. CIRCLE OF FRIENDS WGM/WGP Special Project to promote visiting other chapters. At least 3 members, one of whom is an officer, will travel to a chapter to steal a trophy. If there is more than one chapter visiting, the winner will be the chapter with the most members. If membership is tied it will go to the chapter that traveled the furthest. The object is for the trophy to travel to all the chapters in the unit. The chapter stealing the trophy the most times will be awarded the trophy at Grand Chapter in 2011. Chapters stealing the trophy will notify Montana Stars and the Unit chairman of the whereabouts of the trophy. The chapter in possession of the trophy at the end of the year will bring the trophy to Grand Chapter. STEPPIN' OUT WITH THE STARS WGM/WGP Special Project to encourage members to actively visit other chapters, attend and support their own chapters, and to encourage working together in the Masonic Family as well as Public Relations by obtaining points. The first level will be a ribbon and succeeding points will earn pins for each level. Points and miles can be recorded on a special form for this purpose. If you attended the Installation of Officers for 2010-2011 you are entitled to 25 points. You are entitled to 10 points for each chapter installation that you attend. You are entitled to 5 points for each 100 miles traveled during the 2010-2011 Star Year. Forms for recording your points earned for various meetings and miles traveled are available on the Montana Grand Chapter web site. The forms are available in both Word and PDF (Acrobat Reader) format. PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE This is the MWGM and MWGP Special Project. This committee will help each chapter to speak about all of our Fraternal Order and their strength as they serve each other and humanity. This will promote the membership, the necessity to pay attention to the membership loss and work toward improving our efforts to stop our decline. The Committee will be promoting the Rob Morris Membership Jewel. Please have chapter Secretaries keep track and send in the papers so those getting new members may be rewarded. Our good deeds and good things can also be sent for publication in the Eastern Star Journal. ESTARL is a program already supported by our jurisdiction in a fine manner and efforts toward that should be continued. CHAPTER RESTORATION COMMITTEE This is a MWGM and MWGP Special Project directing efforts toward concern for the survival of our chapters. A booklet titled "Cultivating Grass Roots For Growth" has been sent to each chapter in hopes there will be ideas to help spark interest in membership and re-vitalize chapter. One suggestion is to plan activities that all can attend and afford. Try reading a tip or more at each meeting or try suggested activities. SERVICE DOG PROJECT MWGM and MWGP Special Project. This project is to provide awareness and raise funds to purchase dogs to those who need them for survival - seeing eye, assistance, hearing, therapy, Search and Rescue and other jobs trained dogs may do. A cruise is also being planned to support this project. GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER PINS There is only one pin being sold by General Grand Chapter by our General Grand Committee Members. Pins are $10.00 each and $8.00 remains in Montana for the selected charities. See the General Grand Committee Members to get your pin. General Grand Chapter Committee Members are: Dorothy Brook, Betty Lockey, Susan Lane, and LeRoy J. Hagen. MASONIC HOME COMMITTEE: This committee consists of 1) Masonic Home Program Committee 2) Masonic Home Fund Committee 3) Grounds Beautification Committee and 4) Representative to the Masonic Home Board of Trustees.
The former Cinderella Shop changed its name to prevent confusion. This project takes your donated formals and sells them to someone else. The new slogan "Bibbidee-Bobbidee-Boo: Old to Us and New to You" has given lots of fun to this project. Funds derived from the sale of formals goes to support the "Cinderella Beauty Shop" at the Masonic Home. Bring those clean formals, Tux's, suits, beaded tops, skirts, jewelry, shoes and handbags and help put smiles on our Masonic Home Residents' faces with new do's. AMERICANISM As we face the involvement in Iran, Iraq and other places in the world we need to support and demonstrate appreciation for the freedom we enjoy and recognize and pay tribute to those serving and having served in the military to help keep our freedoms. Chapters are encouraged to have Americanism Programs and invite the community to also participate. Include youth groups, I.e. Boy and Girl Scouts, 4-H, Rainbow Girls, Jobs Daughters and DeMolay. CANCER This has been an ongoing project of Grand Chapter for many years. Money raised for this goes to Cancer Research or the Cancer Society. Each chapter is asked to have a fundraising project with the proceeds going to this fund. CANCELLED STAMPS Proceeds from the sale of cancelled stamps that are collected also go into the Cancer fund (Cancer Research). Please cut the stamps from the envelopes and send them to Mizpah Chapter #13, Carma Sinerius, Secretary, P.O. Box 57, Virginia City, MT 59755, or Arma Leonard, P.O. Box 502, Sheridan, MT 59749. ESTARL SCHOLARSHIP This committee awards the ESTARL Scholarship. It does NOT collect money. ESTARL FUND This fund raises money for ESTARL. Donations and memorials from chapters, plus fund raisers provide money for the scholarships. Electa's Cup Endowment This committee reviews applications for aid and determines how much money the applicants will receive. It does NOT collect funds. ELECTA'S CUP FUND This is the fund raising committee. Money from magnets, raffle, and appeals as well as donations supports this fund. HEART FUND The funds donated to this project go to Heart Research. Each chapter should have a program and fund raiser to educate members on Heart Disease and its prevention. VOLUNTARY PREPAID LIFE MEMBERSHIP (VPLM) This program of Grand Chapter is explained in the Statutes, Article XXXV on pages 87-89 of the Blue book. (Word or PDF) Encourage members to purchase a VPLM to help support their chapter financially long after they move to that "city not made with hands". PRESS This committee is responsible for sending the pictures of the WGM and WGP to the subordinate chapters along with a general press release. The chapters are encouraged to publish the press release and pictures in the local paper preceding the Official Visitation. Also publish your chapter events, activities and service projects in the local paper. This is one way of letting people know that OES exists and is active in the community. ADDRESS UPDATES The goal of the committee of one is to keep an updated record of the members and their addresses. It is very important that Secretaries send up-to-date records of membership lists, deaths, new members, name changes, demits and address changes to this committee frequently or as soon as possible. Wrong mailings cost Grand Chapter money. We all need to keep the chapter Secretaries informed of changes to keep their records of membership up to date. CENTRAL SERVICE This committee of one keeps track of the movement of our members from town to town, and jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Chapter Secretaries are asked to notify the Chairman when a member relocates to another community with an Eastern Star chapter in the community or nearby. The Chairman will then inform the Chapter of the member who has relocated to the area. The chapter should contact the member with a phone call or visit and encourage and invite them to attend chapter meetings. Let's keep our members in the loop and in the Family. TELLERS This committee has a Chairman and Co-Chairman. It functions on Saturday morning of the Grand Chapter session for balloting and election of officers. Members will receive instructions from the Chairman and Co-Chairman and then proceed to collect and count all ballots cast. The ballot results are reported to the delegation by the Chairman. VENDORS The vendors committee arranges for vendors to bring their wares to Grand Chapter. The General Fund is the recipient of a percentage of the vendor's sales. Supporting the vendors helps our Grand Chapter funds. GRAND HISTORIAN Our Grand Historian summarizes the Grand Chapter Session for updating our history book. GRAND LIBRARIAN The Librarian is a great resource for the Chapters. The Library accepts programs, materials and other information that can be used by chapters and members. Pep up your meetings with some new program ideas. Members and Chapters are encouraged to send programs for others to use. COURTESY The Courtesy Committee has a two-fold job. They extend thanks and appreciation for the courtesies provided at Grand Chapter and also the courtesies extended to visitors to our chapters, to members in nursing homes or shut-in and other acts and deeds of kindness in the community. GUARDIAN ANGELS/INSTRUCTORS Sometimes questions come up or some help is needed. The Guardian Angels/Instructors Committee is to be there if you have questions or need some help in instruction of ritualistic work. I have added two Masons who I feel are qualified to answer or direct to the right person any Masonic inquiries that may need to be addressed. The Guardian Angels are helpers for me if I am not able to be in your area to answer questions. Their experience, knowledge, and information helps greatly. REQUESTS I would like to encourage chapters that do not have our Masonic Family youth groups in their community to support the 4-H, Boy and Girl Scouts and other youth programs. Assist the Masons in their Bikes for Reading, Shoes for Kids and other programs used to encourage our youth to get better grades, have better school attendance and general reading programs. Donation of a book or books to School and Public Libraries is suggested also puts our good works into the public view. Have some fun with each other. Get together for a 50's dance either as a Masonic Family social time or as a fundraiser for both organizations and open it to the public. Get a disc jockey or such or perhaps there is a talented member or group that could play. Let the community see we also have fun. I would encourage each chapter and Masonic Lodge to have a fun activity together where no ritualistic work is done. This could be a way to get new members. Have a float in the 4th of July Parade, or a Christmas time light parade. Put your chapter's activities in the newspaper. we do not brag ourselves up enough. In lieu of corsages, Rich and I would like you to use those funds towards the local food bank, Shrine Transportation Fund, or Alzheimer's and Mental Health Research. If I do not spend the night, I would also like the money that would go towards a room to go to one of these projects. On a final note: WGP Rich is very allergic to onions and mushrooms. Please do not serve dishes with those items in them. I also would like to request that coffee hours after the meeting have some non-sweet items for those who have diabetes or other food restrictions. |
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