Belmont Chapter #555

Order of the Eastern Star

2251 S. Smithville Road

Kettering, Ohio  45420

2nd and 4th Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.

 


"Let Love Light the Way"


Motto:  Let your light shine so that all the world may see.

Emblems:  Lighthouses and Anchors

Flower:  Red Rose

Color:  Deep Blue Sea

Honored Station:  Electa
Song:  Great is Thy Faithfulness
Click on the following web site for words and music to above
http://www.biblestudycharts.com/SH_Great_Is_Thy_Faithfulness.html  
 
Service Project:  Food 2 Go (Community outreach to school children who would otherwise not have enough food at hone on the weekends.
 
Scripture:  Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.  John 8:12

Installation 2009

Installing Officers

     2009 - 2010 Officers

Belmont’s 2010 Officers

 

Worthy Matron

Willa Dingus, PM

lighthouse411@woh.rr.com 
Worthy Patron Robert Gilley,  PP enana3@aol.com 
Associate Matron Debra Gilmore,  PM  
Associate Patron Gary Nicholson  
Secretary Shirley Sturtz skitten0910@yahoo.com
Treasurer Patricia Seigla, PM  
Conductress Sandra Johnson, PM  
Associate Conductress Nancy O’Shaughnessy, PM  
Chaplain Dale Evans, PP  
Marshal  Connie Dishon  
Organist Martha Pruitt, PM  
Adah Vickie Laudermilk, PM  
Ruth Claudia Reidel, PM  
Esther Karen Papanek, PM  
Martha Shirley Nicholson  
Electa Ann Coleman, PM  
Warder Ellen Gilley,  
Sentinel Joe Papanek, PP  
     
Pages & Aides
Jean Berry Hazel Marker Phyliss Mathews, PM
Ann Wurtzbacher  Vel Spangler  
Maxine Yike, PM Jeanne Zeek  
     
Escorts
Ronald Seigla, PGP, PP Joe Zeek  

                               George Marker, PP

     
Trustees
Ron Seigla Maureen Flaute  
John Hawkins    
     

Committees

     
Ways & Means

Claudia Reidel, PM  Joe Zeek Ann Wurtzbacher

Audit Committee

Vickie Laudermilk, PM      Sandy Johnson, PM     Vel Spangler

Good Cheer

Phyllis Mathews, PM       Martha Sue Pruitt, PM

Membership (“Bringing in the Sheaves”)

Joe and Karen Papanek

Dale Evans         Gary Nicholson

Examining Committee

John Hawkins          Joe Zeek     Claudia Reidel, PM

By-Laws

Shirley Sturtz       Florence Hawkins, PM

Helen M. Bartley, PGM, PM     

Communications

Maureen Flaute, PM

 

Honored Members of Belmont Chapter

Helen M. Bartley, Past Grand Matron

Ronald E. Seigla, Past Grand Patron

Nancy O’Shaughnessey, Grand Representative of Oklahoma

Willa Dingus, Grand Page to the Chairman of Arrangements, 2010

Here are important additional remarks

To further explain our theme and emblems, we have chosen lighthouses and anchors to show that one must be anchored in their faith and beliefs and that it is essential to let your light shine so that all the world may see Him in everything we do. 

In keeping with the Worthy Grand Matron’s vision of giving back to the community, our service project this year will be to support Food-2-Go.   This program is an outreach to school children in our own neighborhoods who would otherwise want for food on the weekends when they are not in school to receive hot meals during the day.  We will provide a tote at each meeting to receive your contributions of individual serving sizes of ready-to-eat items that can be carried home in a small sack for small hands.  Please bring your donated food items as you come to our meetings to help support this cause. 

Our color this year is teal, but I’m calling it “deep blue sea” in keeping with our theme of lighthouses and anchors.  Who doesn't love the ocean and the calm of the sea?  Come share our meetings as we visit lighthouses and places in our imagination in exotic places around the world.

This year we will honor Electa’s station to mirror our theme “Let Love Light the Way”.  I think of the elect lady’s willingness to suffer persecution to defend her faith when I see the deep and tender beauty of a red rose. It is because we love one another that we care so much about our Sisters and Brothers and our Beautiful Order of the Eastern Star.  

Sisters and Brothers, it is a great honor to serve Belmont Chapter and we hope that you will join us often.  Remember that even the smallest light can be seen in the darkness.  Let your light so shine. 

In Star Love,

Willa Dingus, Worthy Matron

Robert Gilley,Worthy Patron

“May you always find a safe harbor.  He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.”  Psalms 107:29 

Click here for video "The Old Lighthouse"

 

2010 Belmont #555 OES Scheduled Meetings

June 10 Elections / Reports & Mini Dinner
June 24 Patriotic Meeting / Honor Past Matrons & Patrons / Honor Veterans /25, 50, 60+ Year Pins & Wear     Red/White/Blue
July & August No Meetings
September 9 Honor Electa Night with Grand Electa, Sally Wiley, and Grand Page Honor Night -- because we “Love One Another” & Mini Dinner / Wear Red
September 23  Grand Chapter – No Meeting
October 14  Honor Job’s Daughters, Rainbow & DeMolay & Mini Dinner
October 24 Reception for Grand Representative to Oklahoma, Nancy O’Shaughnessy
October 28

School of Instruction in Dayton

November 11   Farewell & Mini Dinner
November 25 Thanksgiving – No Meeting
December 10 Christmas Meeting & Mini Dinner
December 24 Christmas Eve – No Meeting

   

                    

Service Project – Food 2 Go

Please remember to bring a non-perishable food item to each meeting to support our mission to relieve hunger for school children in our local communities.  

Food to Go Project (Love in a Bag)

Acceptable items for donation (individual serving sizes please):

Pop top can of microwaveable Chef Boyardee product

Pop top can of fruit – individual size

Non-refrigerated ready to eat pudding

Pop top can of vegetables – individual serving

Pop top can of tuna, Vienna sausage, chicken, Beanie Weenies – individual size

Snack pack of goldfish or animal crackers

Cereal pack – individual size

Cereal, fruit & granola bars

Fruit juice – individual size

Cheesy Mac

Peanut Butter (16 – 20 oz. size)

Thank you for supporting Food 2 Go – You Make a Difference!

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

 2 Timothy 1:12          

 
 

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Up Dated 07/08/2010