Community Service

Moose Lodge Makes Donation to Crisfield Police Department's National Night Out Program

On June 26, 2009, Governor John Guido of the Lower Eastern Shore Moose Lodge #2431, Westover, MD, presented Sergeant James P. Parkinson, Crisfield Police Department, with a check for $500.00 to assist with their National Night Out Program scheduled for August 4th. The National Night Out Program is a Neighborhood Watch Program conducted yearly, nationwide, to promote community awareness towards crime and drug prevention.

Moose Lodge Donates $1,300 to Charlotte Hall Veterans Home

(Standing left to right) Michael Far, Deputy Director for Charlotte Hall Veterans Home; Robert Hall, Governor Patuxent Moose Lodge Hollywood; Timothy O'Connor; Ron Payne and Kermit Zerby. Receiving the donation is resident Francis Kellum (seated).

CHARLOTTE HALL, Md. (July 20, 2009) -- Patuxent Moose Lodge Governor Robert Hall recently presented a $1,300 donation to the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home. The check was received by resident Francis Kellum and Michael Far, deputy director for the home.

The facility provides assisted living and skilled nursing long-term care for Maryland veterans and eligible spouses who are unable to take care of themselves due to age or disability.

The funds were raised through an auction held in April by the Patuxent Family Moose Lodge #2393, based in Hollywood. One hundred percent of the proceeds were donated to the veterans home, according to Hall.

Mr. Kermit Zerby was the auctioneer.

Allison Fetick Becomes Sixth To Donate Hair to ‘Locks of Love’ This Year

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Tommy Moose presentation with Chief of Police Bernadette A. DiPino in O.C. on Monday May 18th.

Pictured with Chief DiPino from Right to Left (front row): Warren Hall, John J. Cihak, Carl Schmidt, James Bolling, Michael Boris, Tim McElwain (back row) Gary Johnson, Randall Porter, Mark Letterman, Earl Sellars, Olivia Schmidt, Bill Highberger.

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Thanks to all who attended!

Mark L. Letterman
President
MD-DE-DC Moose Association

MD-DE-DC Moose Association teams up with the Washington Area Wheelchair Society & DC SHARES

First 2 months Community Service Project totals $15,508.75

May 15, 2009 Outstanding effort on first collection!

Special thanks to coordinator Capitol Region Moose Service Center #2680 and the donating Moose Family Centers, College Park #453, Edgemere #537, Laurel #1504 & Silver Spring #658.

If you, your friends or any Moose Family Center would like to learn more or make a donation to help others in need; please call Paul Holland 301-495-0277 with the Washington Area Wheelchair Society or Frank Courtney 301-495-9180 Secretary of Capital Region Moose Service Center #2680.

For info via email contact webmaster@mdmoose.org

Flight 93 Memorial Never Forget

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Tommy Moose gets a new look!

Tommy Moose Color Flyer Available Here in Adobe PDF

By SHAWN BAILE, Director/Fraternal Programs

Tommy has gotten quite a makeover! With his updated appearance, we hope he’ll be even more welcome in police cars, fire trucks and ambulances than ever.

In February 2007, the Supreme Council began to seriously consider redesigning Tommy Moose. The opportunity existed to take a very successful community service program to the next level; to continue the initial concept of providing a plush Moose in emergency vehicles while expanding Tommy’s recognition into additional areas to create a more identifiable image.

Doing so enables the Moose the chance to trademark the Tommy Moose character to restrict use of the likeness only to programs approved by the Order.

A new design created by Chris Ecker of Moose International Communications & Public Affairs was submitted to a vendor and a prototype was composed. The design was approved, and production of the “new and improved” Tommy Moose has begun!

While it was extremely important to continue the success that Tommy Moose has spread throughout the fraternity, it was equally important to assure that the new design was flexible enough to be utilized in other arenas. Fraternal units will continue to be encouraged to purchase plush Tommy Moose through Catalog Sales and present the items to emergency services personnel in their respective communities. Units that have made an initial presentation should stay in contact with these personnel and replenish their stock when necessary.

The newly designed Tommy Moose will be available beginning in January 2008 and will be used to fill all orders placed from this point forward. The price remains at $75/dozen; the catalog item number is 130. To order, call 630-966-2250; fax 630-859-3505; or e-mail order details to catalogsales@mooseintl.org.

R. Robert Dale Scholarship Program
Applications for Students from
High School Class of 2008

Class of 2008 R. Robert Dale Scholarship Program
Benefiting the Children of Moose Members

There is no better way to help the youth of our Fraternity than to offer them the opportunity to further their education and that is exactly what the R. Robert Dale Scholarship is all about.

The following requirements must be met in order to be eligible to receive an R. Robert Dale Scholarship, the applicant must:

be member of the High School Class of 2008
have a father or mother who is a paid-up member of the Moose
-or- live in the household, and be under the legal guardianship of a paid-up member
must have a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 (C+) or higher on a 4.0 scale

The application can be found below.

Applications must be returned to Moose International no later than June 30, 2007.

All qualified applicants will be placed in a random drawing to be held in the fall of 2007 at their Moose Association Annual Convention or at Moose International.

Winners will be notified by mail. Their scholarship check for $1000.00 will be mailed directly to the college of their choice.

Questions on the R. Robert Dale scholarship Program can be addressed to Ron Kozuszek at rkozuszek@mooseintl.org or by calling (630) 966-2219

For a printable application click the link- Robert Dale Scholarship Program

-For the History click the photo on right -

TIP's Program-Our order is a large supporter of the TIP's program for training your social quarters servers. Moose Intl. has agreed to give your lodge a rebate on it's risk pool insurance assessment if the entire wait staff is trained. The state currently has several trainers that will train your staff. You may contact several new trainers in the State office. You may also contact the TIPS program to get more information on trainers. You may also invite the local merchants to attend at a nominal cost and list this as community service.

Moose International has taken on the challenge and concern of insuring that each lodge home have staff that is properly trained to handle the concerns that come with serving alcohol. To this end, they are requiring that all servers of alcohol be TIPs certified. Due to this initiative, the State Trainers have purchased the required supplies at a discount and are willing to train you and your volunteers for $35.00 per participant. If you are ready to schedule a 5-6 hour class, please call James Bolling (410) 388-1225 and he will contact the nearest trainer to you.

The Moose Community Service program of today and for the next century challenges people to become volunteers through membership in the Moose. It calls for capable and inspired leadership and for a generous giving of thought, effort and time according to the Moose Six-Point Community Service Program. Counting hours worked, miles driven and dollars donated, the Moose contribute $70 - $80 million worth of service every year to communities throughout the U.S., Canada and Great Britain.

Six Point Program for the Moose Lodges and Chapter Community Service has been an ever-growing portion of the overall Moose fraternal program ever since its inception under the name "Civic Affairs" by then-Director General Malcolm Giles in the late 1940s. The kaleidoscope of all that is Moose Community Service was organized into a "Five-Point Program" in the early 1990s, then expanded in mid-decade to the "Six-Point Program" with its familiar logo at left

Youth Awareness Program Can teenagers persuade younger children to make the right choices in life? "Yes!" say the teens and the adults who work together in the Moose Youth Awareness Program. For more than a decade, the Moose has organized high-school-age leaders into a highly effective "speaker's bureau" to persuade preschool and elementary-age youngsters against drug use. The program, founded in 1986, has now expanded to bring awareness to 4-to-9-year olds on other subjects such as child abuse, gangs and other elements that have an adverse effect on the youth of today.

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Last update 07/08/2010