PROJECTS: We will continue to support General Grand Chapter Projects by selling the angel and postage stamp pins. Nebraska’s special projects of the Worthy Grand Matron and Worthy Grand Patron include:

Hearing Impaired Kids Endowment (HIKE) - which is the official fund raising project of Job’s Daughters. Monetary support is given to assist families in the purchase of hearing devices for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

ESTARL - Continued financial support for the Eastern Star Training Awards for Religious Leadership. Nebraska has been a leader in the ESTARL effort for more than 50 years.

Masonic-Eastern Star Home for Children - Provide funding for study carrels to be placed in the new Learning Center for residents at the Home.

Masonic Home in Plattsmouth - Help to purchase new lawn furniture for the residents’ enjoyment.

Our own Youth Groups: Job’s, Rainbow and DeMolay - We will provide financial support in addition to a focus on attending their meetings and functions.

CHAPTER HISTORY: Each chapter will be asked to write a brief chapter history from its beginning until now. If there are active members from consolidated chapters, we invite a history from each of those chapters also. We hope to collect these histories at the visitation meetings. They will be compiled into a booklet that we hope will be available for purchase at the 2005 session.

We also want to collect information from Past Grand Matrons and Past Grand Patrons who served our Grand Chapter since the centennial book, “Harvest of Memories” was published in 1974-1975. We plan to follow the same format from “Harvest of Memories” asking those Past Grand Matrons and Patrons to briefly describe the highlights of their particular year.

PROFICIENCY CHALLENGE: In order to recognize those who portray our ritualistic work so well in their individual chapters, a “proficiency program” will be established so that any member may voluntarily take a short open-book quiz based on the Ritual, Law, and/or the Red Book of Instruction. Those members also recite a lecture of the individual’s choice to their own Worthy Patron. Designated Past Grand Matrons will keep the records so that an appropriate pin may be awarded to each member who successfully completes the program.

Grand Chapter Officers