This Year's Rainbow Trails Publication Is Dedicated to
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This year’s Rainbow Trails publication is dedicated to .. Gail O’Connor Mark Mancha Loretta Guinan Julie Buckman Boulder Las Vegas Mt. Rose Daylite Assembly #8 Assembly #9 Assembly #13 Assembly #22 Our Nevada Rainbow would like to thank these Grand Deputies for their service to our girls over a cumulative three decades of time. Mrs. Gail O’Connor has served as Grand Deputy of Boulder Assembly #8 since 2007. Mr. Mark Mancha served as Grand Deputy of Daylite Assembly #22 for two years beginning in 2004; he then served Las Vegas Assembly #9 beginning in 2011. Mrs. Loretta Guinan as served as Grand Deputy of Mt. Rose Assembly #13 since 2003. Mrs. Julie Buckman has served as Grand Deputy of Daylite Assembly since 2006. With the obvious exception of Mr. Mancha, each has served her assembly as Mother Advisor and in various other capacities before being appointed Grand Deputy. Mr. Mancha also served as Director of Membership-South and as our State Rainbow Dad in 2010-11. Each has continued to provide guidance to our girls and adults, dedicating countless hours of time, and given selflessly. Each has helped mold the character of many girls, both in their own assemblies and throughout Nevada. Each has traveled across our vast desert many, many times with a car full of girls to the next Official Visit, Rainbow Camp or Grand Assembly. Each has shared their individual talents with us – and for all of this, Nevada Rainbow says – THANK YOU! Enjoy your retirement – visit often – remain part of our family. Rainbow Trails 2014 Official Publication of the Grand Assembly of Nevada International Order of the Rainbow for Girls “Down the Rabbit Hole” Annie Downing and Megan Sakelarios Grand Editors Mrs. Bonnie Bunch Director of Publications 2014 Grand Oficers This Publication acknowledges allegiance to the Supreme Assembly, International Order of the Rainbow for Girls, whose seat of authority is in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA, of which Rev. W. Mark Sexson was the founder, of which Mrs. Mary Adeline Bradford is the Supreme Worthy Advisor, and to the Grand Jurisdiction of Nevada of which Mrs. Joanie Jacka is Supreme Hope and Supreme Inspector and Jessica Wright is the Grand Worthy Advisor. 2 3 2014 Grand Worthy Advisor A Message from Jessica... Lewis Carroll was noted for his aptitude at word play, logic, fantasy, and literary nonsense. He was a very awkward man with a lot of health issues, yet he was still a very charismatic man. His flaws never stopped him from making a lasting impact on the entire world, because he used his strengths and his weaknesses to his advantage. The past few years I have kept a few virtues very close to my heart, and I am not afraid to advocate them to others. I strongly believe that everybody needs to do whatever makes them happy. Life is too short to be living it dissatisfied. Often times people have a notion that they are incapable of getting to where they will be the happiest. Only you can be the change you wish to see in yourself. Just like Mr. Carroll, you have to learn how to use your strengths and your weaknesses to your advantage. This year has been a crazy, and yet fantastic journey as we traveled to Wonderland. That journey would not have been near what it was without every person in Nevada Rainbow. Between the adults and the girls, you each have made a lasting impact on me, and I thank you for it. Without your support, whether you knew you were giving it or not, this year would not have been as enjoyable as it was. It has been such an honor to serve you as your Grand Worthy Advisor this year, and I hope you take all the memories and friendships that have been created throughout the year, and carry them with you for the years to come, just like I will. Rainbow teaches us to be better people by giving our lives to Service, and thus leaving our mark on others’ lives, giving them joy. Being a Rainbow Girl has taught me a lot, but most of all it taught me how to recognize what makes me happy. One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. -Lewis Carroll Welcome to Wonderland! Jessica Wright Grand Worthy Advisor 2013-2014 Jessica Wright 4 5 Supreme Worthy Advisor Supreme Hope And Supreme Inspector Mrs. Mary Adeline Bradford Joanie Jacka WELCOME to our “Down the Rabbit Hole” Grand Assembly Sessions. I am delighted you are here to share in the excitement and wonder of these great sessions! Just like you, our Grand Officers have been working hard all year, attending meetings and events, doing service projects, perfecting their Ritual Work and their reports, and making great life-long friends. Our Grand Choir and our Personal Pages are a wonderful part of Grand Assembly. And, all of this comes together with the supportive and committed help and guidance from our Adult Leadership Team. Take a moment during the next four days to thank each of these great girls and adults! Our Grand Assembly is packed with fun and information, lots of time to make new friends, many of opportunity to share in the accomplishments we, as a jurisdiction, have made. I Dear Nevada Rainbow: hope each of you go home with new excitement about Rainbow, that you check with your On behalf of the Supreme Assembly, I would like to bring greetings for your “Down The friends who are not yet in Rainbow and that INVITE them to your next Assembly fun event Rabbit Hole” Grand Assembly Session. I certainly wish your Grand Worthy Advisor, Jessica and to become a member of your assembly. Just think how great our world would be if Wright, and her Grand Officers a fantastic Grand Assembly. every girl in your school belonged to Rainbow – if every young woman could reflect on her time as a Rainbow Girl as she sets off on a career and family of her own – and then brings I am pleased to hear you are continuing your charity work with the Alzheimer’s her daughters to Rainbow and returns as an adult worker! (That’s just how it would be in Association. This dreadful disease affects not only the patient but the entire family. I my “perfect” world!) also applaud your other service projects including the Food Bank of Northern Nevada, the Backpacks for Kids, Holiday Mail for Heroes and your “Feed the Goat” program. It is Visiting other Grand Jurisdictions is a great experience. I hope each of our Nevada Rainbow evident that the true meaning of service to others is alive and well in Nevada Rainbow! Girls and adults takes advantage of these opportunities. And, having visitors is such an honor – please greet our visitors warmly and make them part of our group. Help them feel I am looking forward to welcoming everyone to the 45th Biennial “Rainbow Lights The welcome and comfortable so they want to come back next year. Way” Supreme Session in Baltimore in July. I hope many of you will be able to attend. It seems hard to believe that it has been twenty years since Maryland Rainbow had the Many of us will be traveling to Baltimore, Maryland, this summer for Supreme Assembly honor of hosting the 35th Biennial “Soaring To New Heights In Rainbow” Session when 2014. It will be a great trip. We have the honor of hosting the Girls’ Luncheon at this your own Mrs. Margaret Kofoed served as Supreme Worthy Advisor. Words will never convention; I hope you are there with us! express my sincere gratitude and honor that Nevada Rainbow will be hosting our Girls For us to succeed, everyone must take an active role in making Nevada Rainbow a great Luncheon in Baltimore. Thank you so much and I know it will be awesome. place to be – a place where our girls become tomorrow’s leaders! In Rainbow friendship and service, Thank you for being at Grand Assembly – and thank YOU for being part of Nevada Rainbow Mary Adeline Bradford Girls. Supreme Worthy Advisor With all my Rainbow Love, Mrs. J 6 7 Worthy Grand Matron Timelessly Talented T-Rex’s And 2013 - 2014 Worthy Grand Patron Grand Officers And Grand Representatives George B. Lang and Elizabeth E. Sidford Brother George Lang and I look forward to attending your ‘Down the Grand Worthy Advisor Grand Worthy Grand Charity and Jr. Member of GEC Associate Advisor and Jr. Member of GEC Rabbit Hole’ session. Nevada Eastern Star wishes all your members a and Jr. Member of GEC Jessica Wright Nina Tolentino memorable and successful Grand Assembly Session. Mt. Rose Assembly #13 Kayla Snow Sparks Assembly #3 On August 24th, Nevada Eastern Star is hosting a Masonic Family Fun Carson Assembly #7 Day in Tonopah. We look forward to seeing you for a day of fun, sun and laughter. Elizabeth E. Sidford George B. Lang Worthy Grand Matron Worthy Grand Patron Grand Hope Grand Faith Grand Recorder, and Jr. Member of GEC and Jr. Member of GEC Grand Representative of International Jurisdictions, Cajen Taylor-Fillman Sarah Gillespie and Grand Lecturer Winnemucca Assembly #10 Tonopah Assembly #15 Alexes Milisits Las Vegas Assembly #9 8 9 Grand Treasurer, Grand Chaplain, Grand Drill Leader, Acting Grand Immortality Grand Fidelity Grand Patriotism Grand Honorary Drill Grand Representative Grand Representative of and Grand Representative and Grand Representative and Grand Representative Leader, of Connecticut, and Oklahoma, and of Michigan and Wisconsin of Florida of Georgia Grand Representative of Co-Historian Co-Editor Katie Ryan Lesley Lechuga Gomez Karli Corrales Oregon and Brooke Tuerke Megan Sakelarios Ben Franklin Assembly #21 Ben Franklin Assembly #21 Daylite Assembly #22 Co-Editor Daylite Assembly #22 Carson Assembly #7 Annie Downing Mt.