Posted March 12, 2008

Grand Canyon Chapter #4, Flagstaff

Kathy Lindstrom, PM, Reporter

Recently while reading a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the “Little House” books, I discovered that she was an active member and Past Matron of Eastern Star. Her mother, Carolyn, and sister, Carrie, were also active in the Order, with Carrie being a member for more that 50 years. Other well-known names you might recognize that were members of our Order include Clara Barton, nurse and founder of the American Red Cross; former first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt; and Dale Evans, entertainer and wife of Roy Rogers. You might be able to add other famous names to this list, and I would welcome hearing these from you.

If you are in our area, please join us for any of our meetings, beginning at 7:30 pm.

April 8 – Stated meeting
April 22 – Stated meeting, honor our AM and AP
May 13 – Stated meeting, elections
May 27 – Stated meeting
May 31 – (Saturday) Installation of Officers, 10 am with luncheon to follow
June 29 – Annual Steak Fry at the Davis’ home in Munds Park

Posted March 3, 2008

Recently Don cleaned out the Treasurer’s desk in the Lodge room and found some old histories of our Chapter. Some items caught my attention that I had read before in reading over old minutes, but might be of interest to our new members and to members of the Lodge.

The cornerstone of the Flagstaff Masonic Tem-ple was laid on October 7, 1917. Over the next 10-12 years the Eastern Star Chapter purchased $1,200 of bonds on the building and destroyed the same. $1,200 may not sound like a lot to us, but in the teens and twenties, it was a sizable amount. In June 1933, the Chapter started donating to the Lodge $10 a month to help pay for the building, and continued to do so until June 1940, when the Masons told us the Temple was fully paid for, and we should not donate any more. And, as we worked in the kitchen on the last luncheon I was reminded that the sterling silver, which is still in the cabinet despite the Rainbow Girls trying to give it away several years back, was purchased by the Chapter in 1910, and in 1932 we purchased enough white dishes to serve 175. Many of these plates are still in regular use, so I guess we more than got our $131 worth. Many items like these show our long history and close ties with our Masonic members.

Upcoming events:
Mar. 11 – Stated Meeting, honor our sideliners & protems, 7:30
Mar. 25 – Stated Meeting, honor our Star Points, Warder & Sentinel 7:30
Apr. 8 – Stated Meeting 7:30
Apr. 22 – Stated Meeting, honor Assoc. Matron and Patron 7:30

Posted February 15, 2008

Sister Lois Davis is very ill. She was unable to come to the meeting Tuesday night. She has bronchitis and difficulty with lungs. As all of you know when she can't attend a meeting she is very sick. I'm sure she would like to get cards and calls. She needs cheering up.

Sister Leona Watson, Worthy Matron
Grand Canyon Chapter # 4 Flagstaff, Arizona

Cards can be sent to Sister Lois:
PO Box 18225
Munds Park, Arizona 86017
ljdpm1@msn.com

Posted January 14, 2008

Grand Canyon Chapter #4, Flagstaff

Kathy Lindstrom, PM, Reporter

Think back 70 years to the Grand Chapter session of April 1938, the presiding Worthy Grand Matron was Ann Kelly, a member of Grand Canyon Chapter #4. From all accounts I have read she was an exemplary Eastern Star member, serving her Chapter and Grand Chapter as an officer, protem, and committee member. To say Ann was an active member in her Chapter would be an understatement. Even after she and her husband were transferred to Phoenix she was a regular at the Flagstaff meetings and with her correspondence.

The interesting thing I discovered while reading the minutes of our Chapter was that Ann Kelly wanted in the worst way to be a member of our Order and persevered through 7 years of petitioning and being rejected before she was elected to receive the degrees of our Order. I can only assume this was a personal vendetta on some member(s) part, as no moral reason has been found in my research.

It just goes to show us all not to judge others; we never know who will turn out to one of our most outstanding members.

If you are in our area, please join us for any of our meetings, beginning at 7:30 pm.

February 12– Stated meeting
February 26 – Stated meeting, honor our PMs and PPs
March 11 – Stated meeting, honor sideliners and protems
March 25 – Stated meeting, honor star points

Posted January 10, 2008

A new year, maybe now is the time to get involved. If this is something you've been telling yourself you'll do one day, maybe you should try it now. The Chapter has adopted an new community service project of helping The Hope Cottage with their needs. Arizona Grand Chapter has designated the state service project to be crisis centers and houses around the state. We have provided necessary supplies and gloves, slippers, etc. for Christmas, and will be doing an ongoing project of supplying the house with intake bags which will consist of necessary toiletries to get the ladies and their children started out, such as shampoo, lotion, toothbrush and toothpaste, soap, washcloth, baby powder, etc.

We would like to start out with 50 of these bags in January, and more as needed. If you would like to help with this project, please call Lois Davis at 286-1983, or any of the officers. I'm sure there will be other things they will need on an ongoing basis, so come help if you can.

We will have an initiation of January 22nd and that same evening will be an honor night for our very special organist, Georgia Moore, so please come be a sideliner to welcome our new member and to honor Georgia, who has so faithfully and beautifully served as the Chapter?s organist for somewhere around 35 years

Upcoming events:

Jan. 8 – Stated Meeting, honor our PGM, Mary O’Hara, & PGP, Howard Davis
Jan. 22 – Initiation, honor our Organist, Geor-gia Moore
Feb. 12 – Stated Meeting, Valentine’s Day
Feb. 26 – Stated Meeting, honor past Matrons and Patrons

Kathy Lindstrom Secretary

Posted December 11, 2007

Grand Canyon Chapter #4 December 11, 2007 meeting is canceled.

Lots of snow in Flagstaff. Schools are closed. Just too dangerous for people to be on roads.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

In Star Love,

Sister Leona Watson, Worthy Matron
Grand Canyon Chapter # 4, Flagstaff Arizona

Posted November 26, 2007

Grand Canyon Chapter #4, Flagstaff
Kathy Lindstrom, PM, Reporter

At this printing we should have two more new members for everyone to get acquainted with. With everyone getting busy for the holidays, we would like to take this opportunity to extend our wishes for a very merry Christmas with family and friends, and for only good things to come to you and yours in the new year ahead.

If you are in our area, please join us for any of our meetings, beginning at 7:30 pm.
December 11 – Stated meeting, Christmas Party, bring crisis center gifts
January 8 – Stated meeting, honor our PGM and PGP
January 22 – Stated meeting, honor our Organist, Georgia Moore

To my Sisters and Brothers, Thank you so very much for your cards and good wishes following my recent back surgery. Your thoughtfulness is much appreciated, and I am thankful to have so many friends.

Star Love,
Mary O'Hara, PGM

Posted October 20, 2007

Sister Mary O'Hara, PGM, Grand Canyon Chapter #4, came through her surgery just fine, and the surgeon was very pleased, he did a lamenectomy on 4 vertebrae, which is removing the bone on the top of the vertebrae to let the compressed nerve inside expand. Her leg pain is almost completely gone right now, her back pain will remain, there is not really anything they can do about that. She is still on a pain medication pump, but it looks hopeful that she will feel much better even after that is taken off. She is looking at about 6 weeks recovery time. Sister Mary came home from the hospital today.

Cards can be sent to Sister Mary at her home:
135 West Juniper Avenue
Flagstaff, Arizona 86004

Sister Mary and her family thank all for your calls and concerns.

Sister Leona Watson, Worthy Matron
Grand Canyon #4

Posted October 13, 2007

GRAND CANYON #4 FLAGSTAFF INVITES YOU TO ATTEND THEIR FRIENDSHIP NIGHT & INITIATION

NOVEMBER 13, 2007
7:30 P.M.
107 EAST BIRCH AVENUE
Flagstaff

Sister Leona Watson, Worthy Matron
Brother Lloyd Smith, Worthy Patron
Sister Kathy Lindstrom, Secretary

Posted September 26, 2007

GRAND CANYON #4 - FLAGSTAFF

CINDERELLA, CINDERELLA - WHO LEFT BEHIND THEIR GOLDEN SLIPPERS AT THE OFFICIAL VISIT ON SEPTEMBER 15TH? THERE IS NO PRINCE CHARMING COMING TO VISIT, BUT THERE JUST COULD BE THOSE WICKED STEP "SISTERS" WHO CLAIM THOSE GOLDEN SLIPPERS! IF THE GOLDEN SLIPPERS BELONG TO YOU - PLEASE CONTACT SISTER LOIS DAVIS - (928) 285-1983 OR ljdpm1@msn.com.

Posted September 17, 2007

Grand Canyon Chapter #4, Flagstaff

Kathy Lindstrom, PM, Reporter

Thanks to everyone for coming up for our Official Visit. It was so good to see you all, and we thoroughly enjoyed the day! We will be trying out a “Stars Night Out” once a month for our members, and hope it will allow everyone to get better acquainted outside the Lodge room.

If you are in our area, please join us for any of our meetings on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, beginning at 7:30 pm.

October 9th – Stated meeting, honor our Chaplain and Marshal

October 23rd – Friendship night and Halloween

November 13th – Stated meeting, honor our Veterans

November 27th – Stated meeting, honor the Conductresses

Posted July 13, 2007

Grand Canyon Chapter #4, Flagstaff
Kathy Lindstrom, PM, Reporter

Grand Canyon Chapter is so happy to have 3 new members, so welcome to Katherine Meyer, Barene Conley, and Mary Kay Myers, all three former Rainbow Girls, and it looks like we could have 2 more petitions when we start up in September. We would like to invite everyone to come join us on Saturday, September 15th for our official visit. Flagstaff will be nice and cool, so come on up and enjoy the weather and join us for some fun!

August 12th – Annual OES/F&AM picnic, O’Hara/Lindstrom house, 1:00 pm
September 11th – Honor Grand appointments and Chapter’s 108th birthday
September 15th – SATURDAY OFFICIAL VISIT
September 25th– Stated meeting, honor our Secretary and Treasurer

Posted May 15, 2007

Grand Canyon Chapter #4, Flagstaff

Kathy Lindstrom, PM, Reporter

Grand Canyon Chapter would like to invite you all to come to Flagstaff and enjoy the cool, fresh mountain air. We will have our annual Steak Fry at the home of Lois and Howard Davis, 17130 S. Pine Trail Dr, Munds Park, on July 15th. Call the Davis’ at 928-286-1983 if you need directions. We hope to initiate three new members on our June 12th meeting, and we welcome Amy White as a new dual member. Come see us, we love having visitors and sideliners!

June 12th – Initiation
June 26th – stated meeting
July 15th – STEAK FRY, Davis’ home in Munds Park
July & August – Dark, No meetings, but we’ll see you all at Grand Chapter
August 1st-4th – Grand Chapter, Tempe Mission Palms

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