Monday, June 28, 2010
Moose Bestows Highest Honor on Local Member
Official Press Release from Moose International
Kenneth Johnson, a member of T or C Moose Lodge 2050, was summoned to receive the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a member of the fraternity, the Pilgrim Degree of Merit. The ceremony was held in the House of God at Mooseheart, IL on Saturday, May 22, 2010.
The degree, currently held by less than one-half of one percent of the approximately 800,000 men of the Loyal Order of Moose throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Bermuda, is the fraternity's ultimate reward for exceptional devotion to the principles and ideals of caring for children and seniors, and is generally earned only by members who have given years of 'above-the-call-of-duty' service to the Loyal Order of Moose and its principle philanthropic endeavors of Mooseheart, a city for children in need, located forty miles west of Chicago, and Moosehaven, a retirement community for senior members, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in Orange Park, Florida.
The Pilgrim Degree ceremony, traditionally held on the same day as the Commencement Exercises for Mooseheart high school, is conferred only inside Mooseheart's House of God, the magnificent multi-dimensional cathedral built in 1950.
Founded in 1918, the Pilgrim degree of Merit is the highest degree of the Loyal Order of Moose. Members receiving this degree are entitled to wear a much-coveted gold blazer, which will be presented to the honoree during a special ceremony attended by other Pilgrims, members of the higher degrees of both the Loyal Order of Moose and Women of the Moose, family, friends, community leaders and other members of the order. Kenneth Johnson will receive his blazer at T or C Moose Family Center 2050 on Saturday, July 31 at 4:00 p.m. Also present will be leaders of the Arizona/New Mexico Association to offer their congratulations to Brother Johnson.
From the ldoge newsdesk --
Ken Johnson's blazer presentation will take place at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 31. A dinner will also be served that evening. All LOOM and WOTM members are invited to attend and offer their congratulations to him for receiving the highest degree of our order. We are honored and proud of brother Ken for achieving this prestigious degree.
Congratulations Brother!!
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