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JOINT GRAND OPENING Friday July 1, 2011 6:45 PM Music Provided by Convention Organist Kyle Hankins) 6:50 PM William B. Airey: While this joint opening session of the 2011 International Moose Convention does not begin for another ten minutes, I want to take this opportunity to recognize forty men and women who have been nominated to receive the 2011 Shining Star Award. These members of our Lodges and Chapters have just finished having dinner with members of the Supreme Council and Grand Council, together with Moose International Staff and award presenters. While only eight of them will leave with the award, all forty are certainly worthy of recognition. Please join me in welcoming them into the convention hall and onto this stage. (Shining Star Nominees March into the Convention Hall and Onto the Stage to special PPT and recorded music) 7:00 PM William B. Airey: Brothers and Co‐workers, welcome to Anaheim, California and this magnificent Anaheim Convention Center, for the Joint Opening Session of our 2011 International Moose Convention. To those of you who are attending an International Moose Convention for the first time we welcome you warmly and we wish you a most enjoyable experience, and hope that this will be the first of many to come. Would you please rise so that we may acknowledge your presence? Before we begin this opening event I want to introduce to you the gentleman providing the music throughout the next five days, our Convention Organist – Kyle Hankins, a member of Mooseheart Lodge 2655. Kyle did such a wonderful job providing music for us throughout the Nashville Convention that we’ve invited him out here to Anaheim to do the same for us this year. It is now my pleasure to introduce to you a Past International Moose Legion President – from Tallahassee, Florida Lodge 1075, Brother Levis Hughes. 7:02 PM Levis Hughes: Brother Director General, I have the honor of introducing those Brothers who currently serve this fraternity as members of the Moose Legion Council. Let me begin with the individual who provides guidance and wisdom to this council, and administers the business of the Moose Legion, the Director of Ritual and Higher Degrees ‐ from Lockport, IL Lodge 1557, Brother Robert Neff. From Berkeley Springs, WV Lodge 1483, Moose Legion Councilman Daniel Williams Sr; from Woodward, OK Lodge 452, Moose Legion Councilman Bruce Snider; from Oxnard, CA Lodge 561 Moose Legion Councilman Mark Klein; from West Bend, WI Lodge 1398, Moose Legion Councilman Edward Lehmann; from Rock Hill, SC Lodge 1720, Moose Legion Councilman Michael Mock; from Camas, WA Lodge 1042, International Moose Legion Vice‐President Paul Curtis, and from Sellersville, PA Lodge 1539, our International Moose Legion President Bruce Berger. Page 1 of 21 Downloaded from www.MooseIntl.org1 Posted on site:07/05/2011 7:07 PM William B. Airey: Thank you Brother Hughes. Now, for our next introductions it is my pleasure to introduce to you, from Fayetteville, NC Chapter 1292, Past Grand Regent Wilma Chestnut. 7:07 PM Wilma Chestnut: I am honored to introduce to you this distinguished group of Co‐Workers who proudly serve as members of the Grand Council of the Women of the Moose. I would like to begin with the Grand Chancellor of the Women of the Moose, from Woodstock, IL Chapter 364, Barbara McPherson; from Kennewick, WA Chapter 1204, Grand Council Member Margaret Stilwell; from Lewistown, MT Chapter 909 is unable to attend this Convention, and is excused, Grand Council Member Sharon McNees; from Newport, NH Chapter 662, Grand Council Member Prudence Derby Joyce; from Nainaimo, BC Chapter 197, Grand Council Member Wendy McKinley; from Jersey City, NJ Chapter 1291, Grand Council Member Mary Lou Szelazek; from Fredericksburg, VA Chapter 1592, Grand Council Member Harriet Mohr; from East Point, GA Chapter 1239, Grand Council Member Joyce Harris; from Ravenna, OH Chapter 540, Grand Council Member Marilyn Casto, and serving as Grand Regent for the Women of the Moose, from Aberdeen, MD Chapter 1209, Olivia “Libby” Schmidt. 7:12 PM William B. Airey: Thank you Past Grand Regent Wilma. And now, to introduce the highest elected body of Moose International, it is my pleasure to bring to the podium our Jr. Past Supreme Governor, from North Hillsboro, FL Lodge 1741, Liguori Saladin. 7:12 PM Liguori Saladin: In addition to Director General William B. Airey, a member of Whitehall, OH Lodge 1245, I am pleased to introduce Supreme Councilman Willard Kitchens from Prattville, AL Lodge 1864; from Fairbanks, AK Lodge 1392, Supreme Councilman Warren Cummings; from Tulsa, OK Lodge 862, Supreme Councilman Terry Walls; from Dansville, NY Lodge 1130, Supreme Councilman Franz Griswold; from Greeley‐Evans, CO Lodge 909, Supreme Councilman Harry Johnston; from Danville, PA Lodge 1133, Supreme Councilman Joseph Koons; from Grants Pass/Merlin, OR Lodge 2454, Supreme Councilman Warren Black; from Mansfield, OH Lodge 341, Supreme Councilman Danny Albert; from East Mesa, AZ Lodge 2082, Supreme Prelate James Henderson, Sr.; from Bedford, VA Lodge 1897, Supreme Jr. Governor Wesley Crowder, and finally, from Charlotte, NC Lodge 1113, the Supreme Governor of the Loyal Order of Moose, George W. McCullough III. 7:17 PM William B. Airey: The invocation this evening will be delivered by our Supreme Prelate, James Henderson, Sr. Page 2 of 21 Downloaded from www.MooseIntl.org2 Posted on site:07/05/2011 7:17 PM James Henderson: Brothers and Co‐Workers, please fold your arms and bow your heads. Heavenly Father, we ask Thy blessings upon the members of the Loyal Order of Moose and Women of the Moose gathered here for this 2011 International Moose Convention. We ask that you give us the guidance, understanding and an open mind to the ideas, challenges and opportunities set before us. Give us your support, and the wisdom and fortitude to make the proper decisions to keep us, as individuals, and the Fraternity, moving forward. Inspire us to continue our support of Mooseheart, Moosehaven and our communities. Help us to continue our love and devotion for this fraternity. For we ask this in Thy name. Amen. 7:19 PM William B. Airey: I now call to the podium Supreme Jr. Governor Wesley Crowder. 7:19 PM Wesley Crowder: Brothers and Co‐Workers, to present the colors I call upon the Color Guard from the United States Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity, headquartered at Camp Pendleton, California. (Color guard marches to front and turns to present colors) Brothers and Co‐Workers, please join Director of Communications & Public Affairs Kurt Wehrmeister in singing the national anthems of the United States of America, Canada and Great Britain. (After anthems the color guard will post colors on stage and exit) 7:32 PM William B. Airey: Thank you Kurt. How about a hand for the Marine Color Guard from Camp Pendleton? This great lady has been traveling throughout North America, representing the Women of the Moose, ever since leaving Country City USA last July, following our Nashville Convention. Please welcome to this podium, a member of Aberdeen, MD Chapter 1209, the Grand Regent of the Women of the Moose Olivia ‘Libby’ Schmidt. 7:32 PM Olivia Schmidt: WOW – how time flies! It just seems like yesterday when I was installed as your Grand Regent. The very first highlight of my year was instituting Capitol Region Chapter 2406 of Washington, DC. I have never seen a more enthusiastic group of Co‐workers and I know they will make a difference in the Moose Fraternity. Many thanks to College Park, MD Chapter and Lodge for hosting this event. My very first travel assignment, as Grand Regent, was my second trip back to the State of Ohio. I was so enthused to return because I had such a great time when I was there in February 2008, Page 3 of 21 Downloaded from www.MooseIntl.org3 Posted on site:07/05/2011 and I knew this time would have been no different. The Co‐workers and Brothers were wonderful, as usual, and made me feel welcome. As before, I was treated like royalty, and of course I was just me – Libby! Everything went well until Sunday morning. After breakfast, we were on the way to our meeting room when I lost my balance in the lobby, and ended up lying on the floor; bruised and sore, no broken bones, but with an embarrassed ego and a black, blue & purple body. The highlight of this trip was the opportunity to meet Movie Star, Producer, Martial Arts World Champion, handsome Hunk‐ and a new voice of the Safe Surfin’ USA Foundation, Tony Schiena. I love you Ohio and I have to say I love Tony too. The following weekend I was off to our very own MD‐DE‐DC Annual Conference. That was a scary thought – your own conference – how would the Co‐workers take to you? They always look for someone out of state. Well ‐‐ what a weekend that was! I got run into by a scooter – almost ended up on the floor – again –and had the privilege of wearing those colors of black, blue and purple. I was beginning to feel like I was followed by the purple people eater and wondered what would happen next! Well, the rest of the conference was fantastic. I guess maybe because of all the stories talking about TONY! I think the Co‐workers of MD‐DE‐DC saw a different side of me ‐ a side I didn’t know I had either. To the love of my life, hubby Carl, I love you but OH–Tony, you bring out the tiger in me! After a couple weeks at home, it was off to Wisconsin, for their conference.