State Master Councilor
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State Senior Councilor
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State Junior Councilor
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State Chaplain
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State Marshall
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Executive Officer
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Mid-America Leaders Training
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Posted by Shane Harshbarger
Mid-America Leaders Training will be held October 17-19 in Davenport, Iowa. This event is the leadership event for Junior and Senior Councilors in your chapter. This event will have everything you need to be a great Master Councilor and Iowa DeMolay wants all Senior and Junior Councilors to attend. This event will involve DeMolays from a variety of states in the Midwest area to expand your knowledge of DeMolay and have fun participating in all kinds of activities.
The event will begin at the Davenport Holiday Inn, the same hotel as All-Star, on October 17 at 8 pm. All participants will receive a Mid America DeMolay Leaders T-Shirt a very special DeMolay Leaders Handbook and tons of other cool stuff. Now that you know you are going call your Chapter Advisor and tell him or her that you need to get registered.
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Chapter Of Excellence
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Posted by Kyle Martin
For those of you who don't know, Iowa DeMolay has developed a comprehensive
chapter award program known as the Chapter of Excellence. This award has been
in place since All Star 2003 and will help your chapter improve as long as
you, the members, work for it. It consists of seven basic requirements
including State Event Attendance; Iowa DeMolay University, Midwest DeMolay
Leadership Conference, or Mid-American Leadership Training(OCT 17-19)
attendance; PMCMSAs; Term Planning; Ritual Competition Participation; Advisory
Council development; and Membership. You can check out the technicalities on
the website.
Despite the tough requirements, many chapters are still in the running. There
are only a few requirements left in the year including MALT attendance,
Membership, PMCMSA, and Advisory Board Development and many chapters have
already taken care of these requirements. If your chapter is still charging on
towards that Excellence Trophy, DON"T STOP NOW!!! And if your chapter happens
to have missed a few requirements, hop back on the horse and GO GET IT!!!
Kyle Martin
(DON"T FORGET THE RECORD---133)
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Roadtrip to Washington D.C. (well planetrip actually)
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Posted by Matt Risberg
Champlin Chapter recently travelled to Washington DC for the Mid-Atlantic
ritual tournament. For their first time being there they actually did pretty
good. They got second in Inititagory Degree, Chapter Proficeny, and
Preceptor Corps. But they did win in the championship division 9 o'clock
interpalation with a 995 out of 1000.
Mike Gilbert, Master Councilor from Southgate, and Tom Bowersox, State Senior Councilor, joined Champlin on
their journy and they competed in some individuals and I believe they both
got recognition for scoring above 950. Besides the ritual tournament the
chapter went on tours and did some site seeing. They visited the Scottish
Rite's House of the Temple, the Nation's Capitol Building, and on Friday
night they went to Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. Then saturday they had the
ritual tournament and then went to ESPN Zone for dinner and then took a tour
of the mall by the advisor of one of the Delaware Chapters who had a 15
passenger van and the tour guide was a Washingon DC chapter advisor.
The chapter saw: Washington Monument, Licoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, the
White House, Iwo Jima Memorial, Arlington Cemetry, and Vietnam Memorial. All
in all the chapter had fun and it was a great experience. So the next time
you see a member congratulate them when you see them because even if they
didn't attend the DC trip the whole chapter participated as a whole in the
several different fundraisers.
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Click here for Entertainment
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Posted by Kyle Martin
The Iowa DeMolay webpage has several features for your exclusive use that
could be highly beneficial in making your chapter activities better:
The Online Calendar is a useful tool to help inform people about your events.
In addition to a Calling Committee, the online calendar can be used to inform
your chapter members about meetings, fun nights, fundraisers and more. It can
also be used to advertise your bigger events like dances, lock ins, you name
it to other chapters and even rainbow assemblies around the state. There are
plenty of uses for the Online Calendar. It's easy to use and everybody uses it.
Want to see pictures of you and your friends from summerfest? You can see them
at the Iowa DeMolay webpage's Image Zone. Pete Grandgeorge, our website
coordinator, does an excellent job of having those pics on the web and at your
disposal before you even fully recover from the event.
Need a chapter dad's or state officers contact info? go to the state officers'
page or chapters page and see how to get ahold of the people you need to get
ahold of quickly.
Tools in General. The website holds other important information and materials
you would want to complete the Representative DeMolay Award, the Chapter Of
Excellence Award, a petition for a new friend, or even clip art to put
together a slammin' flyer for your next dance! Want to show a friend what you
do in DeMolay? GO TO THE WEB PAGE!!!
The Iowa DeMolay Webpage is easy to use and should be taken advantage of by
every DeMolay with a computer. So visit the website: www.iowademolay.org
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Brandon's View
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Posted by Brandon Stone
After Tailgate thier is no major state event until All-Star in
Feburary. In this big gap of time alot of things can be done on the
chapter level to benefit everyone. The biggest thing of course is
membership, we have an oppurtunity to break the record for initiates in
a year that was set by Shane Harshbarger and Company. Membership is key
for the chapters, but you have to be willing to schedule fun events to
get young guys interested. Playing hockey, having a dance, going to the
go-cart track. Remember that it isn't all just for the initiates, you
guys have fun at these types of events too!
Another huge thing to do is to make chapter visits with your advisors. Advisors are pretty nice
people and would probably be more thna glad to help you schdule a trip
to another chapter that is within driving distance for a school night.
It gives you whole new perspective on how you all run your own chapters
and you will probably pick up quite a few good habbits too. Just
remember that chapter visits are not boring and think about how nice it
is when other chapters visit yours.
No matter what you decide to do just remember that this is your organization and that you are capable of
doing anything that you feel would benefit the chapter.
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Who's Initiating?
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Chapter
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Initiates(YTD)
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| Hawkeye |
26 |
| Cedar Rapids |
23 |
| Allen |
10 |
| Altoona |
9 |
| Southgate |
9 |
| Champlin |
8 |
| Michael H. Barnes |
4 |
| James A. Guest |
4 |
| Cyclone |
3 |
| Blackhawk |
2 |
| North Iowa |
0 |
| TOTAL | 98 | |
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