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OPENING SESSION, Thursday Afternoon, June 13, 2019, Called to Order. . . . . . . . . . . 1Patriotic Song by Cory Cabana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Introduction of Chairman of Convention Dan Crowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Introduction of City Officials and Other Dignitaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Invocation by State Chaplain Randy Beggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Opening Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Obligation of Members of State Aerie, State Trustee Doug Lind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Introduction of Dignitaries and Grand Aerie Reps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Roll Call of State Officers and Local Aeries, State Secretary John Batchelder. . . . . . 2Committee Appointments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Report of State Treasurer Bruce Meyer, PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Report of Judiciary Committee and Adoption of Rules, Bruce Meyer, PSP. . . . . . . . . . 5Report of Committee on Finance and Budget, State Secretary John Batchelder . . . . . . . 8Report of Memorial Foundation Committee, Jeff Henry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Report of State Trustees, Doug Lind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Special Order of Business, Danny Jones, Grand Inside Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Report of Home on the Range Committee, Gaylen Dvorsak, PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Report of New Aerie Committee, Bob Lee, PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Report of Confidence Learning Center, John Tobie, PSP, Jeff Olson, Ron Malz, GWP-Elect . 13Report of Auditing Committee, Keith Rende. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Report of “No Goose Egg” Committee, Vance Peters, PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Report of State Membership Committee, Terry Lubitz, PSP, Vance Peters, PSP . . . . . . . 18Special Order of Business, Larry Gilge, Dakota State President . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Report of Autism Fund Committee, Randy Beggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Report of By-Laws Committee, Outside Guard Mike Melby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Report of Max Baer Heart Fund Committee, Bob Nogosek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Report of Banquet Committee, Greg Granholm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

STATE AERIE AND AUXILIARY JOINT AWARDS BANQUET held at the Eagles Club, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, on June 13, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

FRIDAY MORNING SESSION, June 14, 2019, Called to Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Patriotic Song by Trustee Mike Hadel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Invocation by State Chaplain Randy Beggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Obligation of Members of State Aerie, Outside Guard Mike Melby . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Roll Call of State Officers and Local Aeries, State Secretary John Batchelder. . . . . . 37Report of Make-A-Wish Committee, Doug Lind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Report of Kidney Fund Committee, Gary Miller, PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Report of Special Awards, John Batchelder, PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Report of Eagle of the Year, Outside Guard Mike Melby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Special Order of Business, Leon Potratz, North Central Regional President. . . . . . . . 41Report of Eagle Village Committee, Bruce Meyer, PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Report of American Liver Fund, Gaylen Dvorsak, PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Report of Diabetes Fund Committee, Leon Potratz, PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Report of Resolutions Committee, Jeff Henry, Trustee Mike Hadel. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Report of Obituary Committee, Jeff Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Report of Camping Club, Keith Rende. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Report of Youth and Local Donations, Randy Beggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Report of Alzheimer’s Fund Committee, Bob Lee, PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Special Order of Business, Larry Gilge, Dakota State President . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Special Order of Business, Grand Justice John Tobie, PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Report of By-Laws Committee, Gaylen Dvorsak, PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Report of Golden Eagle Fund Committee, Leon Potratz, PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Report of Youth Guidance Committee, Trustee Doug Lind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Nominations of Officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Receiving Bids for 2022 Convention City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Report of Election Committee, Ken Kunkel, PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Special Order of Business, Ron Malz, Grand Worthy President-Elect. . . . . . . . . . . . 56

THIRD AND FINAL SESSION, Saturday Morning, June 15, 2019, Called to Order. . . . . . . . 61Patriotic Song by Jim Giesen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Invocation by State Chaplain Randy Beggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Obligation of Members of State Aerie, Gaylen Dvorsak, PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Roll Call of State Officers and Local Aeries, State Secretary John Batchelder. . . . . . 61Report of Resolutions Committee, Marion Henry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Special Order of Business, Dignitaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Report of By-Laws Committee, Vance Peters, PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Report of Our Lady of Peace, John Cedergren. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Report of Credentials Committee, John Batchelder, PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Report of Art Ehrmann Cancer Fund Committee, Jim Backus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Report of Diabetes Research Center, Jim Giesen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Report of Athletic Committee, Gary Miller, PSP, Tim Schmitz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Report of Eagle Watch Committee, Jim Giesen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Report of Lew Reed Spinal Cord Injury Committee, Keith Rende . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Report of Jimmy Durante Fund Committee, Joe Thiner, PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Report of Muscular Dystrophy Fund Committee, Outside Guard Mike Melby. . . . . . . . . . 76Report of Ritualistic Committee, Bob Lee, PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Report of State President Mike Hanson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Report of State President-Elect Larry Silverthorn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Report of Eagle Riders Committee, Jim Giesen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Report of Election Committee, Ken Kunkel, PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Adjournment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

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ONE HUNDRED SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION

MINNESOTA STATE AERIE, FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES

THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSION

June 13, 2019

. . .The One Hundred Sixteenth Annual Convention of the Minnesota State Aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, was called to order by President Mike Hanson at 12:00 p.m. at the Eagles Club in Grand Rapids.

STATE PRESIDENT MIKE HANSON: Call to order, call the session of the 116th Annual Minnesota State Eagles Convention, Grand Rapids, Minnesota. I'll start over. Can you hear me now? Call to order, open the session of the 116th Annual Minnesota State Eagles Aerie Convention, Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Posting of the Colors by American Legion Post #60.

(WHEREUPON, the Colors were posted by American Legion Post #60, and the Pledge of Allegiance was recited by all Delegates.) (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, guys. We'll remain standing. We'll have a patriotic song by Cory Cabana. God Bless America.

BROTHER CORY CABANA: Good morning, my Brothers.

(WHEREUPON, Brother Cory Cabana sang God Bless America and all Delegates joined in song.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll now have the introductions by the Convention Chairman, and he'll introduce our Grand Rapids reps.

BROTHER DAN CROWE: Welcome, my Brothers, and dignitaries and Grand Aerie reps. I'd like to welcome you to Grand Rapids. I think most of you have had a good time so far. And just an update, we have one banquet ticket left.

So at this time, I would like to introduce our speakers, Tom Pagel and Jessie Siiter from, she's from Visit Grand Rapids and he's our city administrator. (Applause.)

TOM PAGEL, GRAND RAPIDS CITY ADMINISTRATOR: I think that's the second time I've ever gotten an applause for showing up and speaking. Usually I'm at a truth in taxation hearing or a special assessment hearing and people are ready to kill me. So thank you, appreciate that.

My name is Tom Pagel. I'm the city administrator. I'm here today on behalf of Mayor Spud Adams, who unfortunately couldn't be here today for family reasons. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for traveling to Grand Rapids. We are so appreciative of you hosting this event today in Grand Rapids, and we're really appreciative of our local Eagles Club and all of the things they do for our youth groups and organizations.

As you spend time here in Grand Rapids, I'm not sure how much time you have available, but Jessie will inform you on how you can find things to do throughout the city. If you find that you didn't have a lot of free time, we'd encourage you to come back, come back with your family, come back with your friends, and further explore the Grand Rapids area. We're a growing community, and we're really excited about that.

I can guarantee you if Mayor Adams was here today, the one thing he would say to you is he would say that businesses and civic organizations, especially the Eagles Club, are the backbones of our community and the people are the heart and soul, and that is so true when you look at what civic organizations do in each of these communities. You know, I think about the DARE, DARE feed that goes on in this very room; I think about the canine fundraisers that go on in this room; I think about the annual banquet coming up in September that raises funds for kids. What an awesome organization, and without that, our community certainly wouldn't be the same. So thank you very much.

With that, I'll pass it over to Jessie. (Applause.)

JESSIE SIITER, VISIT GRAND RAPIDS: Hi. I'm a very loud person, so giving me a microphone is dangerous. But I work with Visit Grand Rapids and we market and promote the Grands Rapids area to folks like you so you come and visit, so obviously I'm doing my job. Thank you.

I just want to share with you some things that you can do, easily do while you're in town here. I don't know how much time you have, how much free time, but definitely encourage you to get outdoors. If you are a fisherman, we have several piers right here in town that you can access. So Forest Lake has a pier, there is a fishing right behind our library, Pokegama Lake also has a fishing pier underneath that big bridge you crossed as you come into town. If you didn't bring your pole, you can check them out at the library or head over to L & M Fleet Supply or Thousand Lakes Sporting Goods and buy one to take home. There is a little plug.

The other thing to do in town, of course, is explore our history. Head out to the Forest History Center. It's a 19th Century interpretation of a logging camp. That's pretty fun. The Itasca County Historic Society is a free spot you can stop in. Their current exhibit is on summer camps throughout the history of Itasca County, and they're just the best folks to talk to you. They will chat your ear off. So if you're somebody who likes to chat, stop in to the Historical Society.

You're here at the Eagles, so, you know, obviously grab a drink here. But if you want to check out our brewery, it's right down the road, Klockow Brewing Company, first brewing company in town here. We're really happy to have them. It's a great space. It's fun to have that here in town.

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And then just to let you know, I hope you come back. We have so many things that we're looking forward to. We have three new restaurants opening this summer; another brewery, Rapids Brewing Company; we will have a wine bar that will feature Minnesota wines; and then we will also have a Boulder Tap House on this side of town.

So there is so much for you to do. If you have questions, you can always come visit me. My office is in Old Central School, which is another great place to stop and check out. I'm up on the second floor. Our visitors center is also the old train depot in downtown, and that's a cute, little spot to stop in as well.

So thank you, guys, for coming. I hope you enjoy Grand Rapids. I hope you have a good time. (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: The Delegates will be in order. Brother Officers, take your places. State Inside Guard, the Minnesota State Aerie is about to open a business session. You will please notify all accredited Delegates to sit with us. Have my instructions been obeyed? State Chaplain.

BROTHER ED CONNELL, Jr.PSP: Wait, he's not back yet.

BROTHER EAGLE: He's out checking.

BROTHER EAGLE: He took you seriously, Mike.

INSIDE GUARD DARRELL SPENCER: Worthy President, your order has been carried out.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: State Chaplain, lead us in prayer.

STATE CHAPLAIN RANDY BEGGS: Our Father, we ask that our deliberations be marked by an earnestness that will exclude every selfish thought, and that as Delegates, we shall, at all times, do that which is best for this Fraternity, so that the sum of our efforts will advance the happiness of mankind everywhere and be wholly acceptable unto Thee. Amen.

(WHEREUPON, the Opening Ceremony of the One Hundred Sixteenth Convention of the Minnesota State Aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, took place.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: I now declare the Minnesota State Aerie ready to consider such matters as should rightly come before it. Doug Lind will give the Obligation to the Delegates.

STATE TRUSTEE DOUG LIND: Good morning.

BROTHER EAGLES: Good morning.

STATE TRUSTEE LIND: Grand Aerie reps, State Officers, my Brothers, Delegates, visitors: Place your right hand over your heart, repeat after me. As Delegates to our Minnesota State Aerie Convention, I promise to abide by the laws, rules and regulations of the Grand Aerie; that I will, to the best of my ability, attend all sessions of this State Convention and promote at all times its benign influence, so help me God. (All Delegates responded by repeating this Oath.) You may now lower your hand. (Repeated by Delegates.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: I now want to introduce our dignitaries from the Grand. Danny Jones, Grand Officer, from Indiana. (Applause.) Of course our very own Ron Malz, Vice President/President-Elect. (Applause.) Leon Potratz, our North Central Regional President. (Applause.) John Tobie, our Grand Justice. (Applause.) And we have our special visitor today, Larry Gilge, President of Dakotas. (Applause.)

At this time, I need to appoint a parliament. For the parliament, I am appointing John Tobie. John.

BROTHER JOHN TOBIE, PSP: That's a rather regal thing, being appointed to the parliament. I accept.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, thank you. Now we'll have Roll Call of the Officers by our State Secretary John Batchelder.

STATE SECRETARY JOHN BATCHELDER: Worthy President.

ROLL CALL OF OFFICERS

. . .The Roll Call of State Officers was read by State Secretary John Batchelder, as follows:

Ed Connell, #3420, Junior Past State PresidentMike Hanson, #3718, Worthy State PresidentLarry Silverthorn, Worthy State Vice PresidentRandy Beggs, #873, Worthy State ChaplainJohn Batchelder, #2469, State SecretaryJake Fee, #873, Assistant State SecretaryBruce Meyer, #873, State TreasurerRoger Hyatt, #287, Worthy State ConductorDarrell Spencer, #269, State Inside GuardMike Melby, #350, State Outside GuardDoug Lind, #2258, State TrusteeJohn Vogt, #287, State TrusteeMike Hadel, #34, State TrusteeVance Peters, #351, Membership Dept. Secretary-Treasurer

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STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: That concludes Roll Call of Officers, Worthy President.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Stay standing, and Roll Call of Aeries.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: When you answer on the Roll Call of Aeries, please give us the number of Delegates you have, Past Worthy Presidents, State Officers or Past State Presidents, and the number of visitors. See if you can remember that.

REPORT OF ROLL CALL OF AERIES

P.S.P. AERIE CITY DELEGATES P.W.P. STATE OFF. VISITORS

33 St. Paul 1 1 34 Minneapolis 3 4 1 SO 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato 7 1 SO 1 1 TYS 287 Brainerd 3 3 1-2 350 East Grand Forks 4 4 1 SO 351 Bemidji 8 8 2-2 3 1 NO 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 2 2 1 PSP 703 Austin 873 Crookston 4 5 1-3 21163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1 1 1 PSP1460 Faribault 2 2 1 PSP 1 GRAND1791 Owatonna 6 2 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 3 3 1 PSP2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 7 6 1 SO2334 Willmar 5 4 2339 Fergus Falls 22342 Detroit Lakes 1 4 1 PSP2368 Thief River Falls 1 1 1 PSP2469 Grand Rapids 6 5 2-1 2617 Hallock 1 13063 Alexandria 5 5 1 PSP3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 2 2 2 PSP3394 Fairmont 1 1 1 PSP3403 Luverne3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 2 2 1 SO3424 Litchfield 1 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 4 3 1 SO 13882 Roseau 1 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing4472 Blaine 4486 Blue Earth

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: That will conclude the Roll Call of State Aeries, Worthy President.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, John. All right, if your phones go off, see my Inside or Outside Guard and drop $5 off to him. It all goes to Make-A-Wish, my charity, so it's going to a good cause.

BROTHER DON WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Worthy President Hanny, Don Wintersteen, Aerie #351. We have a correction on Bemidji #351. There is only one North Central Regional President.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Next item on the list is our committee reports, which is me. Documents are up on the table up there.

MINNESOTA STATE AERIE COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS, 2018-2019

JUDICIARY* AUDIT* CHARITY INVESTIGATIONSJohn Batchelder,Co-Ch.,#2469 Keith Rende,Ch.,#2334 John Tobie,Ch.,#2469 Bruce Meyer,Co-Ch.,#873 Gaylen Dvorsak, #3063 Doug Lind, #2228Terry Lubitz, #2368 Jeff Allen, #3718 Mike Melby, #350Vance Peters, #351 Leon Potratz, #3264 MAX BAER HEART FUND BY-LAWS* Bob Nogosek,Ch.,#2228 LEW REED SPINAL CORD INJURYVance Peters,Ch.,#351 Richard Boyles, #3718 Keith Rende,Ch.,#2334Gaylen Dvorsak, #3063 Charles (Jr) Watje, #3282 Dale Neu, #3424 Mike Melby, #350 Nate Hoffman, #873

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WEBMASTER Mike Hadel, #34ATHLETIC John Batchelder,Ch.,#2469Gary S. Miller,Ch.,#3063 CONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTERTim Schmitz,Sec-Tres,#3718 OUR LADY OF PEACE Don Wintersteen,Co-Ch.,#351Dist #1 Jonathan Wills, #351 John Cedergren,Ch.,#269 John Tobie,Co-Ch.,#2469Dist #2 Terry Lubitz, #2368 John Vogt, #287 Jeff Henry, #269Dist #3 Keith Rende, #2334 Mike Hadel, #34 Jeff Olson, #351Dist #4 Jeff Allen, #3718 Dist #5 Dale Johnston, #2258 EAGLE RIDERS SPECIAL AWARDS ADVISORSDist #6 Ed Connell, #3420 Jim Giesen,Ch.,#1460 John Batchelder,Ch.,#2469 Dale Neu, #3424 John Tobie, #2469JIMMY DURANTE FUND Brian Vickery, #3718 Vance Peters, #351Joe Thiner,Ch.,#3282 Ed Connell, #3420 Merlin (Sonny) Reinke, #3420 “NO GOOSE EGG”Richard Wog, #2334 NEW AERIE Gary S. Miller, Ch.,#3063Larry Silverthorn, #351 Bob Lee,Co-Ch.,#2342 Roger Hyatt, #287Randy Beggs, #873 Ed Connell,Co-Ch.,#3420 Jack Bone, #873 RE-ENROLLMENTEAGLE VILLAGE Bruce Meyer, Advisor, #873Bruce Meyer,Ch.,#873 ALZHEIMER’S All District DirectorsJohn Tobie, #2469 Bob Lee,Ch.,#2342 Tim Schmitz, #3718 Mike Melby, #350 EAGLE OF THE YEAR Duane Comstock, #4195 Mike Melby,Ch.,#350CAMPING CLUB Bruce Meyer, #873 Harley Rosenberg, #3394Keith Rende,Ch.,#2334 All Past RecipientsDale Neu, #3424 BOY SCOUTS Milton Smail, #351 Wally Manderud,Ch.,#2339 SPECIAL AWARDSNeil Rothbarth, #1243 Doug Lind, #2258 John Batchelder,Ch., #2469Kenny Klutz, #3420 Mike Melby, #350 All Past State Presidents Tim Sund, #2368 FINANCE AND BUDGET Richard Boyles, #3718 YOUTH & LOCAL DONATIONSJohn Batchelder,Co-Ch.,#2469 Randy Beggs,Ch.,#873Bruce Meyer,Co-Ch.,#873 HOME ON THE RANGE Larry Silverthorn, #351All Trustees Gary Cunningham,Ch.,#2258 Darrell Spencer, #269 ELECTION BOARDCANCER FUND Gaylen Dvorsak, #3063 Ken Kunkel,Ch.,#622Jim Backus,Ch.,#2228 Bob Lee, #2362 Emil Vanyo, #2368Randy Beggs, #873 Marv Karau, #3420Duane Kuehl, #2342 RITUALISTIC* Duane Kuehl, #2342Jeff Henry, #269 Bob Lee,Ch.,#2342 Don Wintersteen, #351John Cedergren, #269 Leon Potratz, #287 Paul Dahlheimer, #3264 Emil Vanyo, #2368 Bob Parkin, #3063RESOLUTIONS* Mike Melby, #350 Earl Sletten, #1791Weasel Henry,Ch.,#873 Bob Nogosek, #2228Mike Hadel, #34 KIDNEY FOUNDATION Dale Neu, #3424Jeff Henry, #269 Gary Miller,Ch.,#3063 Fred Schrader, #351 MEMBERSHIPEAGLES LIVER FUND Todd Scharfenkamp, #4195 Terry Lubitz, #2368Gaylen Dvorsak,Ch.,#3063 Cory Cabana, #3063 Vance Peters,Sec-Tres,#351Donnie Nisbit, #2228 Gaylen Dvorsak (N), #3063Dale Hanson, #2617 MEMORIAL FOUNDATION Randy Beggs (S), #873 Jeff Henry,Ch.,#269 All District DirectorsMAKE-A-WISH John Batchelder, #2469 Doug Lind,Ch.,#2258 Larry Silverthorn, #351 EAGLE WATCHJake Fee, #873 Jim Giesen,Ch.,#1460Donnie Nisbit, #2228 OBITUARY Richard Wog, #2334Paul Wiese, #351 Jeff Allen,Ch.,#3718 Marv Karau, #3420 Weasel Henry, #873 GOLDEN EAGLE FUND All District Directors DIABETES FUNDLeon Potratz,Ch.,#287 Leon Potratz,Ch.,#287Ervin Scherer, #622 AUTISM Jim Giesen, #1460Keith Rende, #2334 Randy Beggs,Ch.,#873 Jerry Altendorf, #2368Carl Melby, #873 Bob Lee, #2342 Brent Rau, #873 Jerry Rahmann, #2248

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: If you see your name on here and you don't want to be on this, try to get ahold of Larry, because he's going to have his own committees. But most assignments are on here, the Chairman are going to stay on there, but if you see your name on there and you don't want to be on this, see Larry after the meeting.

BROTHER VANCE PETERS, PSP: Are you passing the buck, Hanny?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: It's not mine anymore.

We'll go back to reading of the minutes of the 2018 State Convention by State Secretary John Batchelder.

BROTHER JIM GIESEN: Worthy President, Jim Giesen, Aerie #1460. I make a motion we dispense with the reading of the minutes.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Bob Lee, #2342; motion carried. . .

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STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Report of the Judiciary Committee and Adoption of the Rules of the Convention, Bruce Meyer #873, Chairman.

STATE TREASURER BRUCE MEYER, PSP: Good morning, my Brothers.


STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: Grand Aerie Officers, State Aeries, Delegates, and visitors: Here's my report of the General and Promotional Funds of the Minnesota State Aerie. The General Fund had a starting cash balance of $14,213.94, with receipts of $31,019.60 and disbursements of $29,905.94, with an ending cash balance of $15,327.67 with no outstanding checks. In the Promotional Fund, we started with a cash balance of $21,973.36, with deposits of $2,341.32, with withdrawals of $3,368.06, and we have one check for $2200 still outstanding to the Grand Aerie, leaving us with a cash balance of $20,946.62.

REPORT OF THE STATE TREASURER

MINNESOTA STATE AERIE

FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES

TO THE STATE OFFICERS AND DELEGATES OF THE MINNESOTA STATE AERIE CONVENTION ASSEMBLED:

Your Treasurer, herewith, submits the following report of General and Promotional Funds of the State Aerie, indicating the receipts and the disbursements made during the past fiscal year.

Cash balance on hand General Fund, June 1, 2018 $14,213.94

Receipts Disbursements

June $ 14,239.43 $ 7,680.67July .81 2,551.44August 502.27 319.66September 377.46 7,020.70October 138.84 2,709.28November .37 500.00December 7,059.68 1,075.00January 2019 4,467.50 0.00February .73 0.00March 3,051.29 4,211.59April 1,000.65 3,837.60May 180.64 0.00

Totals $ 31,019.67 $29,905.94

Cash balance General Fund May 31, 2019 $15,327.67Bank balance General Fund May 31, 2019 $15,327.67

Cash balance on hand Promotional Fund June 1, 2019 $21,973.36

June 1, 2018 - May 31, 2019 Receipts Disbursements $ 2,341.32 $ 3,368.06

Book balance May 31, 2019 $20,946.62Bank balance May 31, 2019 $23,146.62Outstanding Check #565 to Grand Aerie 2,200.00

Respectfully submitted,

Bruce Meyer, #873 State Treasurer

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Vance Peters, #351; motion carried. . .

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: I didn't think it was that early, and I didn't have one of these deals, so, but let's get this done.

JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPORTGrand Rapids, Minnesota 116th Annual Convention

TO THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE MINNESOTA STATE AERIE, FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES:

The Judiciary Committee makes the following report and recommends the adoption of the following rules of Order and the Order of Business for the One-Hundred Sixteenth Annual Convention of the Minnesota State Aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, June 13th, 14th, and 15th, 2019.

RULES FOR THE CONVENTION

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(1) Credentials for Admission: Delegates and Past Worthy Presidents shall obtain their credentials from the proper committee upon presentation of their official receipt showing they are in good standing in their local Aerie.

(2) No person shall be admitted to the main floor unless he is a Delegate, or a Past Worthy President, and he must present the credentials to the proper State Aerie Officer. All per capita taxes of the Delegates or PWP Aerie must be paid by June 1st of the convention year or handed to the State Secretary at the time of registration.

(3) Other members of the Order may be admitted to the gallery upon showing their membership receipt fully paid up.

(4) A Delegate desiring to be heard on any matter which is properly brought before the State Aerie, shall rise, give the salutation sign, and address the State President, giving his name and number of his Aerie. When recognized by the State President, he may present his question.

(5) A question indefinitely postponed may not again be considered except by the action of two-thirds vote of those present and voting again to take up such question.

(6) All resolutions, without exception, shall be reduced to writing and filed with the State Secretary before the conclusion of the first convention session, for referral by the Secretary to the proper convention committee. No resolution shall be debatable until the same has been considered by the proper committee, reported by the committee to the convention with the committee recommendations, and a motion has been made and seconded for its adoption or rejection. The committee referred to will, at proper times, report to the convention all resolutions considered by it.

(7) Nomination of State Officers and Convention City shall be held on Friday. Nomination speeches shall be limited to five minutes, and seconding speeches to two minutes. Seconding motions and motions to close nominations are not necessary.

(8) Presentations for Convention City shall be limited to five minutes, and no videos or films will be used.

(9) Election of State Officers and selection of the 2022 Convention City shall be held on Saturday, June 15th, 2019, from 8:00 A.M. to 9:00 A.M. and the start of the meeting. Location for the voting will be announced Friday after nominations. Delegates must check their credentials to see that they have the correct number of votes. If they are not correct, they must go to registration for correction. Delegates then present their credentials to a member of the Election Committee.

(10) The Election Committee shall convene at 7:00 A.M. The counting of the official ballots shall begin promptly at 9:00 A.M., and continue until the completion thereof.

(11) Any point of issue not covered by the rules of the convention or the law of the Order, shall be governed by Roberts Rules of Order revised.

(12) The President may interject into the Regular Order of Business a Special Order of Business at his convenience.

OPENING SESSIONORDER OF BUSINESS THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2019 12:00 NOON

Call to Order by Worthy State President Mike Hanson, New Brighton Aerie #3718.1. Posting of Colors by the American Legion Post #60.2. Patriotic Song, ???3. Introduction of Convention Chairman by State President Mike Hanson, #3718.4. Introduction of Grand Rapids City and County Officials and Other Dignitaries by

Convention Chairman Dan Crowe, Rapids Aerie #2469.5. Opening Ceremony, State Officers.6. Obligation of Delegates by Doug Lind, #2258. 7. Introduction of Dignitaries and Grand Aerie Representatives, Worthy State President

Mike Hanson, New Brighton Aerie #3718.8. Appointment of John Tobie for Parliamentarian, State President Mike Hanson, #3718.9. Roll Call of State Officers by State Secretary John Batchelder, Rapids Aerie #2469.10. Roll Call of Aeries by State Secretary John Batchelder, Rapids Aerie #2469.11. Reading of Minutes of 2018 State Convention, State Secretary John Batchelder, #2469.12. Committee Appointments, Worthy State President Mike Hanson, New Brighton Aerie #3718

(documents are on the table).13. Report of Judiciary Committee and Adoption of Rules of the Convention, Bruce Meyer,

Aerie #873, Co-Chairman.14. Reading of Communications, State Secretary John Batchelder, Rapids Aerie #2469.15. Report of Finance and Budget, State Secretary John Batchelder, Rapids Aerie #2469.16. Report of Memorial Foundation, Jeff Henry, Mankato Aerie #269.17. Report of State Trustees, Doug Lind, Albert Lea Aerie #2258.18. (Special Order of Business) Message from Grand Inside Guard Danny Jones.19. Report of Home on the Range for Boys and Girl, Gary Cunningham, Albert Lea Aerie #2258,

Chairman.20. Report of New Aerie Committee, Bob Lee, Detroit Lakes Aerie #2342, Chairman.

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21. Report of Confidence Learning Center, Don Wintersteen, Bemidji Aerie #351, Co-Chairman.22. Report of “No Goose Egg” Committee, Gary S. Miller, Rhunestone Aerie #3063, Chairman.23. Report of Membership Committee, Terry Lubitz, Thief River Falls #2368, Membership Chairman, and

Vance Peters, Bemidji Aerie #351, Secretary/Treasurer of the Membership.24. Report of Re-Enrollment Committee, Bruce Meyer, Crookston Aerie #873.25. Report of State Treasurer, Bruce Meyer, Crookston Aerie #873.26. Report of Auditing Committee, Keith Rende, Willmar Aerie #2334, Chairman.27. (Special Order of Business) Introduction of Dakota State President Larry Gilge.28. Report of the Autism Fund, Randy Beggs, Crookston Aerie #873, Chairman.29. First Reading of Proposed Changes to the By-Laws, Vance Peters, Bemidji Aerie #351,

Chairman.30. Report of Max Baer Heart Fund, Bob Nogosek, Rochester Aerie #2228, Chairman.31. Report of Resolutions Committee, Weasel Henry, Crookston Aerie #873, Chairman.32. Report on Banquet Committee, Greg Granholm, Rapids Aerie #2469.33. Partial Report of Credentials Committee, John Batchelder, Rapids Aerie #2469.34. Announcements.35. Worthy State Chaplain Randy Beggs, Crookston Aerie #873, closes the Bible.36. Recess to 9:00 A.M. tomorrow.

SECOND SESSIONORDER OF BUSINESS FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2019 9:00 A.M.

Call to Order by Worthy State President Mike Hanson, New Brighton Aerie #3718.1. Patriotic Song, State Trustee Mike Hadel, Aerie #34.2. Invocation by State Chaplain Randy Beggs, Crookston Aerie #873.3. Obligation of Delegates by State Outside Guard Mike Melby, Aerie #350.4. Roll Call of State Officers and Aeries by State Secretary John Batchelder, Rapids Aerie

#2469.5. Report of "Make-A-Wish" Committee, Doug Lind, Albert Lea Aerie #2258, Chairman.6. Report of Kidney Fund, Gary S. Miller, Rhunestone Aerie #3063, Chairman. (Fred Schrader)7. Report of Special Awards Committee, John Batchelder, Rapids Aerie #2469, Chairman.8. Report of Eagle of the Year Committee, Mike Melby East Grand Forks Aerie #350, Chairman.9. (Special Order of Business) Introduction and a few words from the North Central Regional

President Leon Potratz.10. Report of Eagle Village, Bruce Meyer, Crookston Aerie #873, Chairman.11. Report of Liver Fund Committee, Gaylen Dvorsak, Rhunestone Aerie #3063, Chairman.12. Report of Diabetes Committee, Leon Potratz, Elk River Aerie #3264, Chairman.13. Report of Resolutions Committee, Weasel Henry, Crookston Aerie #873, Chairman.14. Report of the Obituary Committee, Jeff Allen, New Brighton Aerie #3718, Chairman.15. Report of Camping Club, Keith Rende, Willmar Aerie #2334, Chairman.16. Report of Youth and Local Donations, Randy Beggs, Crookston Aerie #873, Chairman.17. Report of Alzheimer’s Foundation, Bob Lee, Detroit Lakes Aerie #2342, Chairman.18. (Special Order of Business)19. (Special Order of Business) Grand Aerie Justice John Tobie, Rapids Aerie #2469.20. Second Reading of Proposed Changes to the By-Laws, Vance Peters, Bemidji Aerie #351,

Chairman.21. Report of Golden Eagle Fund Committee, Leon Potratz, Elk River Aerie #3264, Chairman.22. Report of Youth Guidance Committee (Boy Scouts), Wally Manderud, Fergus Falls Aerie #2339,

Chairman.23. Nominations of Officers and Receiving Bids for 2022 State Convention City, Mike Hanson,

New Brighton Aerie #3718.(All Nominations shall be called three times)Introduction of the Incoming Worthy State PresidentNominations for Worthy Vice President/President-ElectNominations for Worthy ChaplainNominations for Brother Secretary: 3 Year Term (N/A)Nominations for Brother Treasurer: 3 Year TermNominations for Worthy ConductorNominations for Worthy Inside GuardNominations for Worthy Outside GuardNominations for State TrusteesNominations for State Membership Secretary/Treasurer: 3 Year Term (N/A)Bid for Convention City 2022

24. Report of Election Committee, Ken Kunkel, St. Cloud Aerie #622, Chairman.25. Partial Report of Credentials Committee, John Batchelder, Rapids Aerie #2469.26. (Special Order of Business) Message from Grand Aerie Vice President/President-Elect Ron Malz,

Aerie #1460.27. (Special Order of Business if any other.)28. Announcements.29. Worthy State Chaplain Randy Beggs, Crookston Aerie #873, closes the Bible.30. Recess to 9:00 A.M. tomorrow.

THIRD AND FINAL SESSIONORDER OF BUSINESS SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2019 9:00 A.M.

Call to Order by Worthy State President Mike Hanson, New Brighton Aerie #3718.1. Patriotic Song, Jim Giesen, Aerie #1460.2. Invocation by Worthy State Chaplain Randy Beggs, Crookston Aerie #873.3. Obligation of Delegates by PSP Gaylen Dvorsak, Aerie #3063.

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4. Roll Call of State Officers and Aeries by State Secretary John Batchelder,Rapids Aerie #2469.

5. Final Report of Resolutions Committee, Weasel Henry, Crookston Aerie #873, Chairman.6. (Special Order of Business) Dignitary closing comments.7. Final Report of Proposed Changes to the By-Laws, Vance Peters, Bemidji Aerie #351,

Chairman.8. Report of Our Lady of Peace, John Cedergren, Mankato Aerie #269, Chairman.9. Final report of Credentials Committee, John Batchelder, Rapids Aerie #2469.10. Report of Cancer Fund, Rick Krueger, Rochester Aerie #2228, Chairman. 11. Report of Athletic Committee, Gary S. Miller, Alexandria Aerie #3063, Chairman.12. Report of Eagle Watch Committee, Jim Giesen, Faribault Aerie #1460, Chairman13. Report of Lew Reed Spinal Cord Injury Committee, Keith Rende, Willmar Aerie #2334,

Chairman.14. Report of Jimmy Durante Children’s Fund Committee, Joe Thiner, Worthington Aerie #3282,

Chairman.15. Report of Ritualistic Committee, Bob Lee, Detroit Lakes Aerie #2342, Chairman.16. Reading of Communications, State Secretary John Batchelder, Rapids Aerie #2469.17. Report of the Worthy State President Mike Hanson, New Brighton Aerie #3718.18. Address of Worthy State President-Elect Larry Silverthorn, Paul Bunyan Aerie #351.19. Report of Eagle Riders Club, Jim Giesen, Faribault Aerie #1460, Chairman.20. Report of Election Committee, Ken Kunkel, St. Cloud Aerie #622, Chairman.21. Unfinished Business.22. Good of the Order.Closing Ceremony.

Respectfully Submitted, John Batchelder, Co-Ch, #2469 Bruce Meyer, Co-Ch, #873 Terry Lubitz, #2368 Vance Peters, #351

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: I make a motion that we approve the Judicial Report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Don Wintersteen, #351; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Reading of communications, State Secretary John Batchelder.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Worthy President, I had only two communications. They were both resolutions for Grand Aerie office, and those have been turned over to the Resolutions Committee.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Might as well keep standing there, John. Report on Finance and Budget.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: On the table on a legal-sized paper was the Finance and Budget for the last year--June 1, 2018, through May 31, 2019. Bottom line is is that we basically broke even. The report shows that we have a net income of $992.83, and there are probably a couple of vouchers that were held over until we write checks on Friday, so it's going to be really close to even. But we are in the plus, and that's always nice to see, we're still in the black; and that's due to a lot of discipline on the State Aerie Officers, Executive Board. Just basically--don't even know how to word it--just a good job. That's it.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FINANCE & BUDGET

MINNESOTA STATE AERIE PROFIT & LOSS

June 2018 through May 2019

June ’18-May ‘19

Income 40000 Income Charity Receipts 155.00 Hospitality Room 1,917.86 Income Past Presidents 600.00 Interest 931.77 National Conv. Advertising 1,250.00 National Conv. M/M Banquet 3,045.00 Per Capita 24,728.20 State Convention Registration 1,275.00 40000 Income-Other 363.80 Total 40000 Income 34,266.63

Total Income 34,266.63

Gross Profit 34,266.63

Expense

60300 - Convention Expense National Convention Expense

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Advertising 2,000.00 Banquet Tickets 2,700.00 Beverages and snacks 97.73 Hospitality Room 2,200.00 Registration 45.00 Ritual Competition 500.00

Total National Convention Expense 7,542.73

Spring Planning Meeting 1,801.24

State Convention Banquet Ticket 40.00 Convention Room Split 122.06 Ritual Expenses 501.04 State Asst. Secretary 300.00 State Treasurer 300.00 State Convention – Other 6,175.24

Total State Convention 7,438.34

Zone Conference 3,596.12

Total 60300 Convention Expense 20,378.43

60350 Insurance Expense 641.72

60420 Mileage Past Presidents Mileage 209.28 State President’s Mileage Allowance 1,008.50 State Officer Meetings 1,093.76

Total 60420 Mileage 2,311.54

60500 Office Expense Office Equipment 229.00 Office Supplies 381.02 Postage 369.36 Rent 600.00

Total 60500 Office Expense 1,579.38

60570 Past State Pres Pin Past State President’s Pin 527.00 Past State President’s Pin – Other 527.00

Total 60570 Past State Pres Pin 1,054.00

60700 Per Diem Motels State President 88.09 State Officers Per Diem 490.00 State Presidents Per Diem 105.00

Total 60700 Per Diem 683.09

60750 Professional Fees 6,075.00 60850 Miscellaneous 480.51 69999 Uncategorized Expenses 70.33

Total Expense 33,274.00

Net Income 992.63


John Batchelder, #2469, Chairman Bruce Meyer, #873 All Trustees

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Oh, and I guess I'll move for the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Ken Kunkel, #622; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll now have the report of Memorial Foundation by Jeff Henry, Mankato #269.

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: Good morning, Brothers.


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BROTHER JEFF HENRY: First off, my Committee members (Committee read.) Yes, I'll read off the clubs that gave money.

REPORT OF MEMORIAL FOUNDATION COMMITTEE

AERIE NO. CITY AMOUNT

33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis $ 12,000.00 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato 500.00 287 Brainerd 25.00 350 East Grand Forks 25.00 351 Bemidji 351.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 703 Austin 873 Crookston 50.001163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 100.001791 Owatonna 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 25.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 250.002342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 2617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 300.003208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 50.003394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 3882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 13,961.00


Jeff Henry, #269, Chairman John Batchelder, #2469 Larry Silverthorn, #351

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: For a total of $13,661. Ask for the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Terry Lubitz, #2368. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We've got a motion and a second for the report on the Memorial Foundation. Is there any discussion?

BROTHER EAGLE: Worthy President, I do believe there is an accounting error, because on the financial report here, it says $13,961, and so there is a $300 discrepancy between the Chair's report and the financial report here.

BROTHER GARY MILLER, PSP: 300 could be from Alexandria.

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: It's not on this report. So possibly it was added onto that and not put on this one. So the new total would be $13,961. From Alexandria.

. . .Motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Report of State Trustees, Doug Lind, Albert Lea #2258.

STATE TRUSTEE LIND: Inventory.

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REPORT OF STATE TRUSTEES

1 – Five Drawer Office Desk (donated)1 – Uniden Desktop Telephone1 – Office Adjustable Roller Chair (donated)1 – Five Drawer Wide Front Filing Cabinet (donated)1 – Two Drawer Filing Cabinet1 – HP Pavilion Laptop Computer with Wireless Mouse1 – Kodak Office Hero 6.1 Printer, Copier, Fax1 – Brother Business Smart Pro Series printer, copier, fax1 – HP Printer (DeskJet 1000)1 – HP Printer (OfficeJet H470)1 – Casio HR-150TM Desktop Calculator1 – Antique Letter Scale1 – Antique MN & SD North Central Regional District Aerie Official Seal1 – Minnesota State Official Seal

1 – Wooden Case Containing Eagle Flag

1 - Wooden Case Containing State Aerie Paraphernalia as Follows:

1 - Gavel 1 – Eagle Emblem 1 - Bible52 - Aerie Placards and Stands

Officers' Regalia (2 sets): Jr. PWP W. Pres. W. V.Pres. W. Chap. W. Cond. I.G. O.G. Sec. Treas. 3 - Trustees 79 – Red Meal Vouchers80 – Blue Meal Vouchers40 – White Meal Vouchers1 - Presidents Traveling C.C.C.C. Trophy2 - Wooden Eagle Scales of Justice Emblem1 - Bronze Eagle Scales of Justice Emblem4 - Bibles2 – Officer Policy Books1 - Set Station Ritual Placards* - Numerous Gavels, Regalia Sets, Voting Boxes, etc.


Doug Lind, 2258 John Vogt, #287 Michael Hadel, #34

STATE TRUSTEE LIND: Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Fred Schrader, #351. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We have a motion and a second to accept the report of the State Trustees. Any discussion?

BROTHER KEN AYERS: Worthy President, under discussion, we have a violation at the altar here. The American Flag should be displayed higher than any other flag. I suggest the Trustees change masts for those flags to get the American Flag above.

BROTHER CONNELL, Jr.PSP: The American Flag is always supposed to be higher than any flag around it. So I think he said to have it changed sometime maybe before the next meeting. Is that okay? No? We've got to change poles.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Maybe just remove that from the room. Worthy Conductor, do you want to remove that from the room, please?

(WHEREUPON, the Minnesota State Flag was removed from the Convention room.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Kenny, for observing that. Back to the motion, all in favor?


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Doug. Now we have a Special Order of Business, message from our Grand Inside Guard Danny Jones.

BROTHER DAN JONES, GRAND INSIDE GUARD: Grand Worthy President-Elect Ron, Grand Justice John, State President Mike, other Grand officials, State Officers, Delegates, and visitors: I bring you greetings from the Grand Aerie.

We have had this last year something that hasn't happened since 1993. The Aerie for the Grand Aerie had a net gain of 2,228 members for the first time in 26 years. I think you guys ought to give yourselves a hand for the great jobs you did. (Applause.)

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And while the Grand Auxiliary fell short by 1234 members, the total for both Aerie and Auxiliary was a plus 994 for the year. And I think building on what Carl did this year and what Ron's going to do going forward, we hope at the Grand Aerie that we'll be at net gain and plus for the years to come.

I do have some things I want to go through real quickly about the Convention upcoming and some things like that. The Grand Aerie Convention main hotel is filled up. We do have an overflow hotel, the Courtyard by Marriott. It's $159 a night. Although I would suggest you call the Galt House in Louisville. Sometimes they get cancellations or maybe some rooms come up available, so it doesn't hurt to check if you're still planning to go down there.

Also, at the Grand Aerie Convention on Sunday night when we have the opening, we're going to come back and do our auctions that we used to do in the past, where we'll have items that are donated from the states that we'll auction off. That's something I think we hadn't done for the last couple years. So we look forward to having our auction. I think Charlie Daniels is going to be our keynote entertainer on Sunday night, so we ought to have a real good time.

Our membership going forward, I've got our Grand Worthy President-Elect Ron here, so I'm going to have him tell you about all of his projects and things tomorrow, but I want to show you his membership awards for this year. For five members, Ron has chosen a nice golf-style shirt with the Eagles logo on it. It's a real nice shirt, real comfortable, lightweight. It's a beautiful shirt. That's for five members. For 20 members, you get this computer bag, which I've been pulling through airports. It's very durable, it's got a lot of room in it. It weighs about 20 pounds because I've got a bunch of junk already in it and I'm not real sure what all's in there. But it's a really nice, really nice thing to have. And that's for 20 members.

In closing, I wanted to talk to you just a minute about the Aeries and running your Aerie as a business. I was in business for 37 years in the transportation industry in sales and management, and the one thing I can tell you is each Aerie is a very, very large business, and you need to run it like a business; and the only way you can increase your sales, really, is by going out investing in new members and taking care of those new members and get them involved so that they will drive revenue in each local Aerie. Make sure when you choose your Officers, your Trustees, your Secretary, your Treasurer, that they are people that are going to take care of your money and going to treat your each Aerie as a business, because you'll be successful if you treat it as a business.

And always be mindful that your Auxiliary is an important part of your Aerie. I don't know any Aerie that's really successful that doesn't have a good Auxiliary helping them do things to be successful.

And with that, I'll close for now. I want to thank you guys for supporting me for the Grand Aerie. I've had a wonderful year, I hope to go forward, have more years in the Grand Aerie and try to help each Aerie and the Grand Aerie be successful. Thank you. (Applause and standing ovation.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you very much, Don Jones. I need to apologize. I forgot to have our Delegates give the Honor, so.

(WHEREUPON, the Grand Honor was given.)

GRAND AERIE REPRESENTATIVES: Thank you, Brothers.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Now we have the report of Home on the Range for Boys and Girls, Gaylen Dvorsak.

BROTHER GAYLEN DVORSAK, PSP: Can you hear me now? Good morning, my Brothers.


BROTHER DVORSAK, PSP: Thank you, Worthy President. Grand Aerie Officers, Aerie Officers, Delegates: The report on the Home on the Range.

REPORT OF HOME ON THE RANGE COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 350 East Grand Forks 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 200.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 1163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna 200.002212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 500.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 250.00

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2342 Detroit Lakes 50.002368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 50.003394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 50.003882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 2,235.00


Gary Cunningham, #2258, Chairman Darrell Spencer, #269 Gaylen Dvorsak, #3063 Bob Lee, #2362

BROTHER DVORSAK, PSP: For a total of 2,235. I make a motion we accept this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Fred Schrader, #351; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Gaylen. Next we have the report of the New Aerie Committee, Bob Lee, Detroit Lakes #2342, Chair.

BROTHER BOB LEE, PSP: Thank you. Worthy President, Grand Aerie reps, my Brothers:

REPORT OF NEW AERIE COMMITTEE

This is going to be a short report. The New Aerie Committee is (Committee read). And as usual, for the last two or three or four years, we have no new Aerie.


Bob Lee, #2362, Co-Chairman Ed Connell, #3420, Co-Chairman Jack Bone, #873

BROTHER LEE, PSP: Worthy President, I move the adoption of this non-report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Marion Henry, #873; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Now we'll have the report of the Confidence Learning Center by Don Wintersteen, Aerie #351.

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Worthy President Hanny, I turn it over to the best man in the room, John Tobie.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: John.

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Hello. Grand Officers, State Officers, and Brothers: I'm going to be different. Good afternoon.

BROTHER EAGLES: Good afternoon.

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: I'm John Tobie from Aerie #2469 with your June 1, 2018, through May 31, 2019, Confidence Learning report. Before I start, I want to share with you a warning I got over my telephone a few minutes ago. All of you that are on Facebook, if you get a friend request from Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota, just ignore it, it could be Spam. (Laughter.) Wait, if you think that's bad, wait until tonight's banquet.

Your Confidence Learning Center Committee (Committee read.)

It was really an exciting year, and it's only going to get better. This is the 50th anniversary of Confidence Learning Center, and the Minnesota Eagles have been supporting Camp for all of those 50 years. In 1969, Camp founder, Dick Endres, came to a Minnesota Convention wearing his green sport coat, which he wore for many, many years coming to our Conventions, seeking support for his idea, an outdoor camp for people with disabilities, and the Minnesota Eagles adopted Camp as one of our State charities. I applaud you Minnesota Eagles for what we do best--having fun, raising money, and we're People Helping People.

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This year was an absolute banner year for the Eagles generating funds through donations, extravaganzas, and special events. At this time I'd like to read those numbers to you. I've got an updated sheet, so the numbers that I'm going to read off are not going to match the sheets that are out there, because a lot of money goes directly to Camp and doesn't go through the State Secretary, so I go through the Camp and get the updated numbers to give to you.

REPORT OF CONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 1,180.00 287 Brainerd 350 East Grand Forks 75.00 351 Bemidji 95,314.07 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 200.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 14,500.001163 Cloquet 3,800.001243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna 100.002212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 150.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 150.002368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 7,440.552617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 3394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 1,619.003882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 124,813.62

Ed Motorcycle 29,030.91 Mesa Golf 10,800.00 Deb’s Raffle 4,770.00 Fergus Falls Auxiliary 75.00 Alex Auxiliary 75.00 New Brighton Auxiliary 675.00

TOTAL $ 255,418.46

State & Regional GA Grants 17,500.00

GRAND TOTAL $ 272,918.46


Don Wintersteen, #351, Co-Chairman John Tobie, #2469, Co-Chairman Jeff Henry, #269 Jeff Olson, #351

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: For a subtotal of $209,992.55. Now, last year, Ed Connell ran a motorcycle raffle his year as President, and that didn't close out until last June, and I'm happy to report that

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Confidence Learning Center netted $29,030.91 on Ed's raffle for Confidence Learning Center. Good job. (Applause.)

We had a golf tournament. I'm a snowbird and Donny Wintersteen is a snowbird, and we had a golf tournament down in Mesa, Arizona, and we had a lot of donations that should have been on this sheet from individuals, Aeries, and Auxiliaries, but they decided to donate through the golf tournament and then went to Confidence Learning Center, but I think these ought to be read. Ron Malz donated $50, District #1 Eagles $100, Sunnyslope Eagles from Phoenix $50, Jackson and Jackson Insurance from California, Richard Harder who is a California State Officer donated $50, Bemidji Aerie $351, John and Ali Tobie $50, District #1 Auxiliary $50, St. James Aerie $100, St. James Eagle Riders $50, L and M Supply who is a member of our club $50, Ed and Linda Connell $50, Grand Rapids Aerie $50, Creighton Thurman $50, Sunshine Aerie #2421 from Vermillion, South Dakota, $100, Mike "Hanny" Hanson as State President, and his sign finally did say State President, $50, Tim Schmitz and Becky K. $50, District #2 Eagles $50, Brainerd Eagles $50, Bemidji Auxiliary $50, Jeff and Deb Henry $100, Cliff Deverell Dakota State Secretary $50, Kuschel Insurance Company, and Kuschel is our local Aerie Secretary $50, Wintersteen family $50, Jeff Olson family $50, Cloquet Eagles $50, Osborn Eagles from Glendale, Arizona, $50, St. James Auxiliary $50, Tom and Kris Suess from Fairmont $50, Sixth District Eagles $50, Two Fishermen and a Cook from Albert Lea, Doug Lind and Company, $50, Floors by Beckers, John Beckers is a member New Brighton, $200, Todd Wojack, a member of New Brighton $50, District #4 Aerie $50, District #4 Auxiliary $50, Willmar Auxiliary $50, District #2 Eagles $50, North Central Eagles $186 and change, Mike and Ann Hadel $50, and the Brainerd Eagles Auxiliary $50.

And from those donations and everything we made in the golf tournament, we made another $10,800 for Confidence Learning Center.

Also, so far, Deb Henry has been raising money for Confidence Learning Center, her raffle, and she's got $4,770 turned in so far. We also had donations from Fergus Falls Auxiliary for $75, Alex Auxiliary $75, and New Brighton Auxiliary for $675. For another subtotal up to $255,418.46.

And Confidence Learning Center received grants on a state level and regional level last year for $17,500.

So the total monies generated by Eagles for Confidence Learning Center last year was $272,918.46. Give yourselves a big hand, folks. (Applause.)

Well, that's an awesome lot of money, but there is a lot of people that go through Camp, and Camp serves people from all around Minnesota and outside the State, and we're getting a little more well-known now.

You need to remember, Confidence Learning Center does not get any state money, they don't get any federal money, they don't get any, they're not a parent organization of anybody else, so they have to go out and earn money by these asking for donations, asking for grants, and special projects.

I want to thank Debra Henry for naming Confidence Learning Center as her charity this last year; and I want to thank you, Larry Silverthorn, for choosing Confidence Learning Center for your charity in this upcoming year. And I want to thank my Committee for all the hard work they do during the course of the year too.

Now, we're going to get to the huge dudes. Incoming Grand Worthy President Ron Malz has chosen Confidence Learning Center to be his international charity. How about a big round of applause for Ron. (Applause and standing ovation.)

At this time, I'd like to invite current Executive Director Jeff Olson for a few words and Ron Malz to the podium to talk about this upcoming year and your charity.

BROTHER JEFF OLSON: Wow. Can you hear me?

BROTHER EAGLE: Oh, yeah.

BROTHER JEFF OLSON: Brothers, you know, we sit through these meetings of Judicial and By-Laws, and I hear a report like that. I've got to rip -- what I was going to say, I can't even read here today.

Fifty years ago, you mentioned Vern Porter, and I got to acknowledge him for starting this fantastic journey. Thirty-four years ago, I looked up, that I had to sit out, and I shared this last year, I came to the Convention, haven't missed one since, I had to sit outside this room, because I wasn't allowed in. I didn't know what the Eagles were. But I learned really quickly that it's an amazing group of men and women and I was inducted into, Larry McGirr from Brainerd folks, Larry McGirr sponsored me into the Brainerd Aerie, and since that time, I think I've visited all but three Aeries.

In 50 years of history, there have been amazing people that have helped Camp, but there is no one more amazing than what this group in this room, led my John as Chairman of the Committee, history of, and I can't name everybody, from Don Wintersteen back to Vern Porter, but the Committee this year, all the ways you helped. When I read that first list of donations, I go, well, what about, what about, what about, because as John said, so many of you supported in so many different ways.

There is no group that had the results as the people in this room, and I looked at the notes, in 1986, our goal was 3,000 camper days. For the last 25 years, we sponsored, you have sponsored, we have succeeded in serving at Camp, over 10,000 camper days a year. There is no way that that would happen year-round, and we've served from every county in the State, if it wasn't for you Brothers.

So most importantly, on behalf of the campers that you've been able to help sponsor, to help provide the services for, I want to thank you.

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And I'm speechless, I had to rip that -- I had a whole different bunch of stuff. But President Ron Malz, Grand Worthy President, Hanny, John, and I'm not going to shake everybody's hand in this room, but I would, because I got chills from that report. Maybe you'll see these notes another year.

Thank you, Brothers, on behalf of the campers at Confidence Learning Center. (Applause.)

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Thank you, Jeff. My Brothers, we always have to come up with the Grand Worthy President's project, which is a charity, and it took me quite awhile to figure out just what I was going to do, and we've, Maureen, my wife, had gone up to Camp, she was the school secretary and they had a lot of the kids that were mentally-challenged and stuff go up there, and our daughter was picked to escort one of them, and then Maureen, being the daughter was going, she went with the group, and she spent a few days up there and she had quite a good time, so she was familiar with it.

Over the years, I've gone up there once or twice, took a tour of the Camp. If you have a chance to get up that way, stop at the Camp, and they'll escort you around and give you a tour of the Camp. It's quite an experience.

It's going to be my Grand Worthy President's project. What it means is as we're traveling, in fact, I've been going around to a number of State Conventions already talking up the Camp, and people always, they have kind of questions on it, and being that it's a Minnesota camp.

Now, I did talk to Jeff. They've had campers from every state in the union and seven foreign countries already, so it's not just a Minnesota camp, so to speak.

And what we're really pushing for is this camp is very unique. There is no age limit on it at all, and they've gone anywhere from one month to 101 years old. Anyplace in other states I've gone into, I've talked to a lot of people that come up and talk about it, they've got family members that are challenged, and friends, and they enjoy going to camp, but all these other camps around the country, once you turn 18, you're done, you cannot attend that camp anymore.

So what I've been doing is going around, yes, we're talking about Camp Confidence, we get some support there, but I'm trying to get people around the country in the different states and different regions to start talking about it and trying to get some of these camps in the local areas around the country, open it up to year-round, or no age limit on campers. You enjoy camping. A lot of the kids when they turn 18, they can't go camping anymore. But yet their, maybe their mental facilities are, you know, as ten, 11, 12 year olds. But they enjoy the camping, you enjoy camping; why cut them out on it. And so we're really pushing that to get the word out to around the jurisdiction to increase the camps that these people can go to.

In fact, I was just talking to Sarah in marketing at Camp there, let's see, Monday I think I called her, and I was down in Arkansas and we were talking to Southwest Regional President down there, and he was really enthused on this, and he took my flash drive. They've got a small five-minute deal on that, it's an overview of the Camp. But he's going to work on that and do some stuff on that. He had called Sarah already with a bunch of questions and what they could do and down south.

So it's getting around the country already, and we're going to get the word out on this Camp Confidence quite a bit this next year. And next year in Spokane, I told Jeff he has to be there, because hopefully we'll have a nice check for him to present to him for the Camp.

My Brothers, think about the Camp, raise some funds for it, keep talking it up, and you'll hear me a little bit more tomorrow, but at least I got the Camp out of the way. Thank you, Brothers. (Applause.)

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Does anybody have any questions about Camp? They are on the website, they have a website, you can go Google it, ConfidenceLearningCenter.com, and learn a lot more. There is some interesting videos on there. And as we raised money this weekend, they're raising money down in Brainerd this weekend with a golf tournament and fishing tournament this weekend, and it just takes a lot of people to make this camp go.

At this time, I'd move for the adoption of the Confidence Learning Center report.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Well, I'm going to skip 22, because Mr. Vance Peters forgot all the stuff in his room, so he went to get it. So we'll give him a little crap when he gets back, right?

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Worthy President, he understood it was tomorrow and that's why he didn't have it with him.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Grand rep Danny wants me to mention that there are a lot of materials over here on the membership and Eagledom and everything, so grab what you want, take them back to your clubs; and actually, you know, take them out and read them at the meetings.

BROTHER JONES, GRAND INSIDE GUARD: A lot of news and information.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Yup. So we'll skip 23. Twenty-four.

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Worthy President Hanny, Don Wintersteen, #351. Being an honorary Dakota President, we have a couple of dual members from the Dakotas up here that I think should be mentioned also, and North Central Regional President, Dakota President, what have you. I got Paul Haney here from Rugby, and we have Tom Dooley from Vermillion. (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Brother Don. Glad to have you.

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STATE TRUSTEE LIND: Worthy President, Doug Lind, Albert Lea #2258. So we're going to move past the membership, "No Goose Egg", and re-enrollment at this time until Vance gets back, and 25 is already done. So we're --

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. We're on to 26, item 26, Report of Auditing Committee, Keith Rende, Willmar #2342, Chair.

BROTHER KEITH RENDE: Good morning, my Brothers. Grand Aerie Officers, State Officers, and my Brothers: This will be your 2019 report of the Auditing Committee. The forms are on the table in the back, if you want to follow along with me.

REPORT OF AUDITING COMMITTEEMINNESOTA STATE AERIE F.O.E.

TO THE OFFICERS AND DELEGATES OF THE MINNESOTA STATE AERIE IN CONVENTION ASSEMBLED:

STATE SECRETARY AND TREASURER ACCOUNTS:

GENERAL FUND:

Cash balance, June 1, 2018.......................................$14,213.94 Receipts, June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019......................... 31,012.00 Interest....................................................... 7.67 SUBTOTAL........................$45,233.61

Disbursements, June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019......................$29,905.94 Cash balance, State Secretary’s Books.......................... 15,327.67 Checks outstanding, May 31, 2019...............................______0.00 BANK BALANCE, MAY 31, 2019.......................$15,327.67

EDWARD JONES ACCOUNT:

Business Money Market #146880002788. June 1, 2018................$58,858.71 Interest......................................................... 905.64 Deposits......................................................... 0.00 SUBTOTAL........................$59,764.35 Disbursements, June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019...................... 0.00 EDWARD JONES ACCOUNT TOTAL.......................$59,764.35

MINNESOTA STATE AERIE PROMOTION FUND:

Business Money Market #146880002788. June 1, 2018................$21,973.36 Receipts, June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019........................... 2,322.86 Interest Received................................................ 18.46 SUBTOTAL........................$24,314.68

Expenses, June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019........................... 3,368.06 Cash Balance, May 31, 2019....................................... 20,946.62 Checks Outstanding, May 31, 2019................................. 2,200.00 BANK BALANCE, MAY 31, 2019.......................$23,146.62

MINNESOTA STATE AERIE ATHLETIC FUND:

Checking Account Balance, June 1, 2018...........................$ 3,869.52 Receipts, June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019........................... 309.50 SUBTOTAL........................$ 4,179.02

Disbursements, June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019...................... 401.28 Cash Book Balance................................................ 3,777.74 Checks Outstanding, May 31, 2019................................. 0.00 BANK BALANCE, MAY 31, 2019.......................$ 3,777.74

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE, MINNESOTA STATE AERIE:

Cash Balance, June 1, 2018.......................................$ 2,629.79 Receipts, June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019........................... 7,868.00 SUBTOTAL........................$10,497.79

Less Disbursements, June 1, 2018, to May 31, 2019................ 4,927.81 Cash Book Balance................................................ 5,569.98 Adjusted Unrecognized Debt 0.00

Checks Outstanding, May 31, 2019................................. 250.00 BANK BALANCE, MAY 31, 2019.......................$ 5,819.98

RECAP OF ALL FUNDS:

General Fund........................................ $15,327.67 Edward Jones........................................ 59,764.35 Promotion Fund...................................... 23,146.62 Athletic Fund....................................... 3,777.74

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Membership Fund..................................... 5,819.98 TOTAL.......................................... $107,836.36


Keith Rende, #2334, Chairman Jeff Allen, #3718 Gaylen Dvorsak, #3063

BROTHER RENDE: So to recap it, we have our General Fund $15,327.67, Edward Jones $59,764.35, Promotional Fund of $23,146.62, Athletic Fund is $3,777.74, and Membership Fund is $5,819.98, for a total of $107,836.36. Move for the adoption of this report.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We've got a motion and a second to accept the report of the Auditing Committee. Is there any discussion?

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: Yeah, I've got one. Keith, on that, are these supposed to be the cash money?

BROTHER RENDE: Which ones?

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: The ones on the bottom, cash available?

BROTHER RENDE: That is the bank balances.

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: Okay, because I was going to say, because we don't have that in cash.

BROTHER RENDE: No. This is bank balances. And Worthy President, I've got a question. Every other year, I think for about 30 years, every other time, somebody got up in front and right away said I'll make a motion we dispense with this. Why this year we had to go and have me read it all.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Why not?


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Vance is back. We'll go back to 22, report of the "Goose Egg" and report of the Membership Committee too. Vance, ready?

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: I'll speak on the "No Goose Egg", even though I'm not listed on there.

“NO GOOSE EGG” COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT

The "No Goose Egg" is not officially watched, I guess. I do it in the newsletter. So you see the percentages in the newsletter because there is people that like it, but as far as the "No Goose Egg" report, there is none.


Gary S. Miller, #3063, Chairman Roger Hyatt, #287

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: So I'd move for the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Ken Kunkel, #622; motion carried. . .

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Okay. I've got a bunch of envelopes here.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: I just want to say a couple things. First thing, Hanny, thank you, it's been great to work for you.

The one thing that impressed me throughout the year is the single-person signers. We had 365 people that signed up one new member this year, and that's what we need to keep promoting, is helping these people that maybe never sign up a member, help them learn how to take that blank out of their pocket and help them fill it out. Don't worry about taking all the members for yourself. Help your new Brothers or who never signed a member Brothers, get out there and bring them in, because no doubt each one of us brings in one member out of our organization, we've got over 15,000 of us in the State. So we just need to promote that single as much as promoting the large group.

We, as far as net gain, we were at 1.6 under this year in Minnesota. We are down 244 members for the year. Yes, we lose some, but we don't loose that many departed Brothers, so.

That was the little things that we didn't make, but all in all, I want to thank everybody that signed members. Anybody that carried that blank with them and pulled it out of their pocket and tried to sign a member, thank you.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Overall, Terry.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Okay.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: The total Grand Aerie. And, yes, Minnesota did not make net gain, but the Grand Aerie as a whole did, and it's roughly 2,000 --

BROTHER JONES, GRAND INSIDE GUARD: 2,228.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: 2,228?

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BROTHER JONES, GRAND INSIDE GUARD: Yes.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: So I echo what Terry was saying, and keep going, and the single members are very important.

Money. Well, at least envelopes. I don't know, I didn't know I was up today, so I had this in my room, so I heard they went back there and stuffed the envelopes. So if there is money in there, great. If there is not, oh, well.

And in no particular order: What it is is the Top Producer, the Top, yeah, the Top Producer from each District, Secretary and non-Secretary, gets maybe 50 bucks. I'll keep that one.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: I'll check that one. Okay.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: District #1, I'm going to start with No. 1, right, because I'm from District #1. District #1 non-Secretary, Jonathan Wills, Bemidji, 27 members.

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: He's not here. We'll just spend it.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: District #2 non-Secretary, Kimberly Hemmes, Hallock, 25 members.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Dale will come up and get that for her?

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: District #2 Secretary, Jake Fee, Crookston, 18 members. (Applause.)

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: I've just seen an application blank for somebody who wasn't carrying one. Worthy President, he didn't have a blank on him.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: He's got one.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: I was kind of wondering, I was going to, as I was walking back here, how much money I should hand over to you prepayment for fines. Well, no, for me.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Whatever you want to give me, I'll take. Did you get an envelope? I'll just take that.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: No, I didn't get an envelope. District #3 Secretary, Doug Boser, St. Cloud, 31 members. I believe he's here. I thought he was here.

BROTHER KUNKEL, PSP: Supposed to be.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: District #3 non-Secretary, Tyler Arndt, Morris, 17 members. District #4 Secretary, Michael Jones, Hastings, 19 members. District #4 non-Secretary Joe Tucker, New Brighton, 33 members. Of which I might be one. I signed up as a dual down there, Joe signed me up. I don't know if that counted or not. District #5 Secretary, Ron Ankrum, Owatonna, 26 members. (Applause.) District #5 non-Secretary, Kevin Hanson, Rochester.

BROTHER EAGLE: How many members?

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Oh, I didn't read that. How many members was it?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Twenty-eight.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Twenty-eight members. District #6 Secretary, Terry Ruesch, Luverne, four members. I don't know if I spelled Ruesch wrong.

BROTHER CONNELL, Jr.PSP: Ruesch. Oh, come on, say it.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Good job, Linda.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: District #6 non-Secretary, Edward F. Connell. (Applause.) Oh, how many was it?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thirteen.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: And the top, the top dog for the State, from Grand Rapids #2469, and I forgot the plaque, I'll remember to bring it back to him, is Robert Kuschel with 96. (Applause.)

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: He's out front.

REPORT OF STATE MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE - 2019

- - - - - - - - - - DISTRICT NO GOOSE EGG % - - - - - - - - - - (MEMBERSHIP CONTEST ) District #1 75% (AERIE VS. AUXILIARY)( ) District #2 86% ( )( June 1, 2019 ) District #3 86% ( June 1, 2019 )( ) District #4 56% ( )(MINNESOTA 14926) District #5 70% (AERIE )(Net Gain -340) District #6 50% (Net Gain -340)(DAKOTAS 6510) (AUXILIARY )(Net Gain -468) STATE AVERAGE 70.5% (Net Gain -??) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

TOP MEMBER PRODUCERS FOR YEAR - JUNE 2018 THRU MAY 2019 DISTRICT #1 DISTRICT #4Bob Kuschel 93 Joe Tucker 33Larry Silverthorn 30 Michael Jones 13

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Jonathan Wills 27 Jack Kuhn 12John Ahrens 16 John Lureen 10Shawn Nelson 15 Mike Hadel 8 DISTRICT #2 DISTRICT #5Jacob Fee 18 Ron Ankrum 26Kimberly Hemmes 17 Kevin Hanson 24Dale Hanson 9 Doug Lind 23Willow Berre-Kuklin 9 Carmel Taylor 18Dean Knutson 8 Grace Thilmany 14 DISTRICT #3 DISTRICT #6Doug Boser 31 Ed Connell 13Jonathan Amundson 17 Steven Meyer 10Richard Iverson 17 Ronald Briggs 8Scott Larson 11 Buzz Froderman 7Wes Skocjenski 11 Andy Johnson 4

FINAL MEMBERSHIP REPORT 2018-19

MEMBERS NEW/RE-EN MEMBERS NETAERIE NO. & NAME NEW RE-ENROLL TOTAL TOTAL GAIN

District #1 - 4 Aeries 351 Bemidji 52 53 105 778 -661163 Cloquet 35 1 36 130 272469 Grand Rapids 82 55 137 977 -14456 Hibbing 3 1 4 42 1 Total 172 110 282 1927 -39

District #2 - 8 Aeries 350 E. Grand Forks 22 9 31 405 -53 873 Crookston 21 9 30 404 -282342 Detroit Lakes 5 6 11 203 -322368 Thief River Falls 20 8 28 448 -122617 Hallock 32 15 47 454 -23486 Karlstad 7 12 19 73 -13882 Roseau 2 2 4 32 14195 Warroad 9 5 14 135 -8 Total 118 66 184 2154 -135

District #3 - 7 Aeries 287 Brainerd 27 17 44 350 -7 602 Morris 13 19 32 235 8 622 St. Cloud 74 43 117 1770 -762334 Willmar 33 23 56 582 -112339 Fergus Falls 15 5 20 417 -113063 Alexandria 53 19 72 411 53424 Litchfield 7 8 15 204 -11 Total 222 134 356 3969 -103

District #4 - 9 Aeries 33 St. Paul 20 2 22 85 -17 34 Minneapolis 56 11 67 325 20 94 Stillwater 31 4 35 202 -62212 Hastings 12 4 16 105 -113208 Bloomington 51 13 64 364 173264 Elk River 15 6 21 133 -133718 New Brighton 58 22 80 386 244120 Shakopee 8 9 17 130 -84472 Blaine 2 0 2 32 1 Total 253 71 234 1762 7

District #5 - 10 Aeries 269 Mankato 34 6 40 329 0 703 Austin 14 11 25 508 -101243 Winona 35 16 51 322 181460 Faribault 7 8 15 237 -201791 Owatonna 57 33 90 774 202228 Rochester 64 15 79 1300 -232242 Northfield 7 5 12 106 42258 Albert Lea 19 52 71 853 -624031 Farmington 1 0 1 49 -14486 Blue Earth 7 6 13 44 6 Total 245 152 397 4522 -68

District #6 - 6 Aeries3282 Worthington 12 4 16 104 53394 Fairmont 0 0 0 56 -5

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3403 Luverne 13 6 9 113 -103405 Marshall 0 0 0 45 -33420 St. James 15 5 20 181 -23918 Tracy 16 0 16 93 13 Total 56 15 71 592 -2

State Total 1066 548 1614 14926 -340

*Designates Quota


Terry Lubitz, #2368, Chairman Vance Peters, #351, Secy-Treas. Gaylen Dvorsak (N), #3063 Randy Beggs (S), #873 All District Directors

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Thank you, guys. You gauged how long I was going to talk and you came back.

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Right, timing is everything.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: And at this time, with your permission, Worthy President, I'd like to call up next year's President and Membership Chair so they can go over what they have planned.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Mr. Henry and Vice President/President-Elect Larry.

STATE VICE PRESIDENT SILVERTHORN: Okay. Next year, we're shooting for more on the re-enrollment. I'm hoping that you get back, get your Secretaries, talk to them. They can pull up a list years back on the MMS on who has been dropped. Get ahold of these people, talk to them, ask them why they did not come back, why they didn't pay up their dues, and see if there is a reason, if there is something you can correct or help them out. We just want to shoot on the re-enrollment as much as we can, because there are a lot of good members that dropped. They should be still on the books.

What I'm going to do for my program, we're going to go with, you know, two members, you receive the pin, six will be a hat, and 12 will be the shirt. Now --

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Model them.

STATE VICE PRESIDENT SILVERTHORN: The one thing on, the one thing on the shirt, I am not buying any of these extra. When someone does sign up 12 members, I need to know the size that they would wear, because these, I have a very nice gentleman in Bemidji that owns Bemidji Woolen Mills, he's giving me a very nice deal on these shirts, but I need to know the size, because they're not cheap. We'll put it that way, they're not cheap.

We are going to go with drawings. We're going to do a drawing for $50 and $25, first and second place. That's going to be on signing up now one new or re-enrolled member and your name will go into these drawings. That will be each District will have a $50 winner and a $25 winner. Top Producer, of course, will get the Thomas O'Keefe Trophy, plus $75 cash, and the Top Producer in each District will also receive $75 cash. Non-Secretary, that's the ones that work the hardest, I feel, because the Secretaries have an advantage. But the non-Secretaries will receive $75 for Top Producer in each District. That's going to be my program. Jeff, you got anything else?

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: No, you pretty much covered it. We are putting together a little booklet that we'll be handing out, and we'll be going to as many clubs as we can to visit, talk with everybody. Hopefully we can get that done in the next three or four months before it gets too late.

STATE VICE PRESIDENT SILVERTHORN: You never know when we're going to show up.

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: Oh, we're going to surprise them?

STATE VICE PRESIDENT SILVERTHORN: Yeah, that's the only way to do it, you never know when we'll show up.

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: Road trips. Thank you.

STATE VICE PRESIDENT SILVERTHORN: Like I said, you never know when we're going to show up. We might not hit all the Aeries, but we're going to try to get as many as we can. So you never know what's going to happen at the meeting, so make sure your meetings are legal. Other than that, I'll let it back to you, Mike.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you. (Applause.) I'll entertain a motion now for the Report of the Membership.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: I would make a motion on that, to accept.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. Fred?


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We have a motion and a second to accept the Report of the Membership Committee. Any discussion?

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BROTHER BOTTIN: Worthy President, Dave Bottin, Mankato #269. One of the biggest complaints about from membership and all that, and it goes back to getting new members and maintaining them, is when the awards come out from the State, say like, okay, a guy that gets a hat or a pin that comes out, they go back to these new members and they don't receive them, they say, well, yeah, I didn't get my hat or I don't get my pin, it don't come down to the Districts and we can't get them to the Aeries. Well, that word gets back to these new members, that, well, yeah, they screwed me over again. Well, that bad news gets them out the door too. So the State needs to get this stuff down to the Aeries a lot more efficiently.

STATE VICE PRESIDENT SILVERTHORN: Worthy President, to answer you on that question. We had a District Directors meeting down in Litchfield, and each one of the District Directors have received pins and hats to pass out to those that have signed up members. It is their responsibility to get them out. So make sure your Directors are doing their job, whoever you have in place for that Director.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Worthy President, Vance Peters, #351. I didn't catch the entire conversation, but last year was the first year it got started that District Directors got to spread out the hats, pins, you know, the membership prizes; and yes, it's a guess, and if the guess is wrong, then so be it, but it's the District Director that has possession of them, and if a District Director runs short, then contact myself or the President or Membership Chair, and we'll work on getting it straightened out.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Yeah, I kind of apologize. Sometimes they run out and sometimes we can't get down there in time. We had to order new hats, takes awhile sometimes to get. But everybody that got a gift, they will get it, we've already got it taken care of. So every Director that's here will get a bag to take home, and it's all covered. So any other discussion?


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Another Special Order of Business, I would like to introduce again Dakota State President Larry Gilge for a few words. (Applause.)

BROTHER LARRY GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: Well, I'm going to keep this on the lighter side. You guys don't want to listen to me talk, but.

Membership form: On my travels this summer, or last summer, I should say, we left Harvey one night on our way home. About 11:30, we're 45 miles from home. I went tooling through Carrington, North Dakota, in a 25-mile-an-hour zone at 37, and the local cop didn't see any humor in that, so he proceeded to pull me over. Well, my wife is sitting alongside me, and I'm like, oh, crap, this is all I need. I'm tired, I just want to go home. I don't need this right now. And he walks up and he's a young cop. He's only been in the force up there for nine months. So being I just came off of a meeting at the Eagles, I happened to look over to my wife and I said do you have an application? And I have them in my folder, I just didn't have one in my coat at the time. And we pulled one out, and when he came up, I explained where I had been and that we were on our way home, and I asked him if he was an Eagle member, and he had no clue who we were, none.

So there is failure on our part as Eagles, not informing our police, sheriff, highway patrol, fire department, first responders, that they are eligible for a free year. So I explained all of it to him. I explained what we do and the money that we raise. Needless to say, I didn't get a ticket. He did take the application, but I never did hear from him again. So I was hoping he'd send it to me and I could get him signed up as a member.

But just keep that in mind, that there is always opportunities to put one of these in someone's face and say hey, I think you'd be a great member, and just remember, every one of us were asked. The only way that you're going to get somebody new is to ask. So thank you. (Applause).

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thanks.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Worthy President, I know I'm talking too much now.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Yes, Vince.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Larry.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: Yes.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: In North Dakota, is it okay law-wise that law enforcement can get a membership free?


BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Because in Minnesota, officially, they can't.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: Well, you just tell them they paid for their first year and their second year is free. There is ways around it.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Correct.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. Our next item is report of Autism Fund, Randy Beggs, Crookston Aerie #873.

STATE CHAPLAIN BEGGS: Good afternoon, my Brothers, Grand Aerie reps, State Officers. I have the Minnesota Autism Report. The Committee consists of (Committee read.) I'll read the Aeries that sent in money.

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REPORT OF AUTISM FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato 287 Brainerd $ 25.00 350 East Grand Forks 25.00 351 Bemidji 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 703 Austin 873 Crookston 1163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna 200.002212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 350.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 150.002368 Thief River Falls 2469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 3394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 25.003882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 1,060.00


Randy Beggs, #873, Chairman Bob Lee, #2362 Jerry Rahman, #2242

STATE CHAPLAIN BEGGS: For a total of $710. Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded from Brother Terry Lubitz, #2368; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll now have the first reading of the proposed changes to the By-Laws. Looks like Mike Melby is going to do that.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: Vance has spoken enough already, so. Just another comment on membership. This past weekend in East Grand Forks, our firefighters had a bike run that started and ended in our Club. Bring out those application blanks, bring out the Memorial pamphlet, Memorial Foundation pamphlet, when you have things such as this going on at your Club. I was only able to sign up four new firefighters that morning, because the fifth one does not turn 21 for another eight months, but I told him we will be the first stop on his 21st birthday. So keep those membership applications handy. Know what's going on in your Aerie, and make sure you're getting these people in the front door and keeping them from going out the back.

The proposed By-Law change actually has to do with membership, the way we pay our per capita on the state level. The By-Laws currently reads:

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REPORT OF THE BY-LAWS COMMITTEE

Present By-Law

Section 5.1 Each local Member Aerie shall pay to this Minnesota State Aerie an annual per capita tax in the sum of One dollar and seventy cents ($1.70) for each member whose name appears on the membership roll of the Local Aerie on the date upon which the Per Capita Tax is due, the same to be paid semi-annually. With regard to dual members, said per capita tax shall be paid by the home Aerie of said dual member and shall not be paid by any other Aerie in which said person is a member.

Proposed By-Law

Section 5.1 Each local Member Aerie shall pay to this Minnesota State Aerie an annual per capita tax in the sum of One dollar and seventy cents ($1.70) for each member whose name appears on the membership roll of the Local Aerie on the date upon which the Grand Aerie Per Capita Tax is due. With regard to dual members, said per capita tax shall be paid by the home Aerie of said dual member and shall not be paid by any other Aerie in which said person is a member.


Vance Peters, #351, Chairman Gaylen Dvorsak, #3063 Mike Melby, #350

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: The reason for the proposed change is so that the Minnesota State Aerie will then match the Grand Aerie when it comes to the payment of per capita tax. Worthy President, this is a partial report, this is the first reading. We will vote on the proposed By-Law change on Saturday.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Mike. Have the report of the Max Baer Heart Fund, Bob Nogosek from Rochester #2228.

BROTHER BOB NOGOSEK: Grand Aerie reps, State Officers, and my Brothers: This is the report of the Max Baer Heart Fund.

REPORT OF MAX BAER HEART FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 25.00 350 East Grand Forks 25.00 351 Bemidji 351.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 200.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 50.001163 Cloquet 100.001243 Winona 1460 Faribault 100.001791 Owatonna 1,250.002212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 400.002334 Willmar 100.002339 Fergus Falls 250.002342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 100.003063 Alexandria 300.003208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 50.003394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 50.003882 Roseau 38.823918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.00

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4472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 4,224.82


Bob Nogosek, #2228, Chairman Richard Boyles, #3718 Charles (Jr) Watje, #3282

BROTHER NOGOSEK: And it goes to the grand total of $4,224.82. My Committee is (Committee read). Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We have a motion and a second to accept the report of the Max Baer Heart Fund. Is there any discussion?

BROTHER TERRY LUBITZ, PSP: Worthy President, I don't know if it showed up there, or if it's the hearing of people screaming at me over the years, but I think Thief River Falls has $75, and I understood that it came in.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Add that in there, Bob.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Okay, thank you.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Weasel, do you have a report?

BROTHER MARION HENRY: Worthy President, I don't have a resolutions report at this time.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. Report of the Banquet Committee, Chairman -- is Greg Granholm here?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Yup, he's right there.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Greg.

BROTHER GREG GRANHOLM: At our banquet last night, we sold 84 of 90 tickets. That was a success. Food is very good tonight. We had, as of the time I came into the meeting tonight, we had one ticket left out of 200. So we'll see if that's still there when we get out. That's it.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: What are we having?

BROTHER GRANHOLM: Tonight we have prime rib, eight-ounce prime rib with the trimmings and everything for 20 bucks.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Greg. A partial report of the Credentials Committee, John Batchelder, Rapids #2469.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: About a half hour before the convening this meeting, we had on number of Aeries represented 33, Delegates at 97, Past Presidents at 80, Ten Year Secretaries 3, State Officers 14, Past State Presidents 20, and visitors 5, but the total votes, if my adding is right, is 214. That's a partial report of the credentials or registration report.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thanks, John. Have any announcements?

(WHEREUPON, several announcements were made to the Delegates.)

BROTHER ROBERT CALLIER, SR., PSP: Worthy President, Robert F. Callier, Sr., Zumbro Aerie #2228, Rochester, Past State President, Past Regional President. I don't have an announcement, but I don't see anything on the Good of the Order on this program, but I have something to say. We had a new Secretary this last year. He needed help and he needed information. He emailed the State Secretary, no answer. He called the State Secretary, no answer. After being at our District Convention in Rochester in April, find out there wasn't the only Aerie that doesn't get an answer out of John Batchelder. Now, I wonder what the hell is going on. If we've got people elected to jobs that aren't going to do them, they aren't going to help the local people, then what are they in there for? I'm not only done there. I go on.

At our District Convention, Bob Fisher, who was the District Director, told a lot about taking the shirts and the caps and the hats for people who had been on there in December. Should have got their things. They haven't got their things. Well, ask where the hell are you at. They take and do these things, they want this job, play the game.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. Any other announcements?

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Worthy President, to continue to try to do my job as the Membership Director, I would like anybody that has seen a check and the envelope did not go out, pick it up and bring it back to your own Districts. I have worked with Bob some, am still working with Bob and the rest of them, getting shirts, getting inventory back and moving hats back out. I want every Membership Director that's in attendance, come see me. I know Bob's situation. He's not here. He's told me two people to get together. I'd like to see them for a couple quick minutes here, because I have to be at another meeting. But I want to just coordinate so I can get things in and out of my room and prizes to who's got them coming. Thank you.

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BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Worthy President, Vance Peters, #351. To my defense, Bob, or not my defense, but Terry said it very well; that he's been working with Bob Fisher for the District Directors, and last year was the first year that they were distributed to the District Directors, and it was best guess and after that, there was --

BROTHER ROBERT CALLIER, SR., PSP: District Directors gave out pins before last year.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Right, but they were sent by my office. This year, they were given to them and supplied with the report, and then they, if they still had the pins and whatever the prize might be --

BROTHER ROBERT CALLIER, SR., PSP: He didn't have anything.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Well, maybe it's a failure here then. That's all I have, sir.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you.

SISTER DIANE McINTOSH: Diane McIntosh, Minneapolis #34, District #4. When we have a District meeting, it's the opposite. I don't think it should be up to the District Director to have to go to every Eagles in your District who do not show up at the meeting. If they want it mailed to them, then they should pay for the postage, glad to do it. But why as adults should we be liable or the State be liable for people who don't show up for meetings.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Very good point, very good point. We have to work on that. Any other announcements? If not, Worthy State Chaplain Randy, close the Bible. We'll recess till 9:00 o’clock p.m. tomorrow morning. Thanks. 9:00 o’clock a.m.

(WHEREUPON, the Opening Session of the One Hundred Sixteenth Annual Convention of the Minnesota State Aerie F.O.E. was concluded at 1:50 p.m.)

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STATE AERIE AND AUXILIARY JOINT AWARDS BANQUET

Eagles Club June 13, 2019 7:00 p.m.

Grand Rapids

(WHEREUPON, Emcee Grand Justice John Tobie asks for some introductions before dinner.)

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT DEB HENRY: My husband, Jeff Henry, he is my rock, and he is my best friend, and I love him very much. Then next to Jeff, we have Becky Wilson. She is our Grand Madam Trustee. A little bit farther. It's taped. There we go. It's okay. So we have Becky Wilson, who is our Grand Madam Trustee. (Applause.) And next to her, we have Gerri Dooley, who is our North Central Regional President and her husband Tom. Raise your hand. Where did he go? There he is. Tom is her husband. (Applause.) He was quite happy to move down to that seat. And then next we have Gwen Stallkamp, who is our very own Past Grand Madam President, and her friend Kenny. And then again we have one of our Mankato own, Judy Spencer, who is a Grand Madam Outside Guard, Judy Spencer and her husband Darrell. (Applause.)

All right, and so now we'll start with the State Officers. And I did what everybody does, forget their list, so I quick wrote it. Sherry Peters is our Past President, and her husband Vance. (Applause.) Sue Neu and her husband Dale, Vice President. (Applause.) Only for a little bit. Marlene Hanson, and Dale, is our Chaplain. (Applause.) Carol Eveslage is the Conductor. (Applause.) Nancy Wadsworth is our Inside Guard. (Applause.) Roxanne Skalicky is our Outside Guard. (Applause.) Denise Hemenway, our Secretary. (Applause.) Kathy Plank, Treasurer. (Applause.) Diane Hinkelmeyer is a Trustee. (Applause.) Linda Connell is a Trustee. Oh, and Ed. (Applause.) Tina Haugen, Trustee. (Applause.) Tina Giesen, Trustee, and Jim. (Applause.) And I'm also going to announce Joan Lubitz, her husband Terry. Joan was our Membership Chair this year. (Applause.)

I now announce our State Family. Our Mother is Sue Lewis. (Applause.) Grandmother is Rhonda Schultz and her friend Gary Zecka. (Applause.) Partner, live-in friend. Godparents are Judy and Darrell Spencer again. (Applause.) And then we have some State Diamonds. We have Gayle and John Batchelder. (Applause.) Ed and Linda Connell. (Applause.) Very special friends. And then we have some Gems. And we have Diane Haas. (Applause.) Sherry Peters. (Applause.) Bina Silverthorn. (Applause.) And Ali Tobie was not able to attend today. And I got all those.

And I'd also like to introduce Jeff Olson from the Confidence Learning Center. (Applause.) And I'll also introduce our Dakota friends. We have Angel Opdahl who is the Past State President. (Applause.) Holly Niemi and her husband Paul. Holly Niemi is our Grand Trustee. (Applause.) And we have -- I was going to say Cindy first. She's an Auxiliary, you know. So Cindy and her husband Larry, but I know that they're the same, so. I know, that's why I wasn't going to do it.

STATE PRESIDENT MIKE HANSON: I stepped on her last time.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Okay, that's okay. And who else do we have from the Dakotas here? Gene and Margie Muth. They were our judges today. (Applause.) Now, if I forgot anybody out there -- John Tobie is coming. Just -- okay. He's on my list. If I forgot anybody, stand up. So that is the introductions.

And then we also have a very good friend, John Tobie; and I want to tell you, if it wasn't really for John Tobie, well, there is a couple others, but John Tobie, the very first time I met him was in Louisville.

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: Louisville.

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STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Louisville, yeah, Louisville. And first Convention, didn't really know anybody, and I know this story was told a little bit, I'm not going to do the whole story, but this gentleman was my date at the Mr. and Mrs. Banquet. And I thought, oh, okay. And then he asked me to go for a cocktail. "Have you ever had kahlua?" And I'm like no. "Well, you're gonna tonight." So now we have kahlua all the time; and they're no longer called kahlua. It is a John Tobie.

That night, though, when we were sitting there, he asked me a very important question. I wanted to run for State way back then. I knew it the minute -- I just knew it, it was in my heart right away. And he asked me why. I didn't have an answer. Because I wanna. So he really made me think why do you want to be a part of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Everybody in here is why I wanted to be a part of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. It's the checks that we're going to hand out tonight. It's the charities that we're raising money for this weekend. It's all the comradery, and it's all the family. And I appreciate every single one of you. So John Tobie, thank you for being my friend. (Applause.)

Oh, I should have probably said my other husband, because he is, Hanny Hanson.

GRAND JUSTICE JOHN TOBIE, PSP: We'll get to Hanny after dinner, but I've got one more cue card here that I want to do before dinner. My ten of hearts, my wife, Ali, before I forget her and get fined. Enjoy your dinner, and then we'll continue on with the program and introductions and everything else after.

(WHEREUPON, dinner was had.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Broken pencil.

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: Broken pencil who?

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Oh, forget it, that joke is pointless.

Anyway, I know a lot of you haven't finished eating yet, but we've got a long program to get through. I've got to go back to my cue cards and see who's up next. Oh, that's right. I couldn't decide if he's the king of clubs or the king of hearts, but we're going to call up our State President Hanny Hanson to introduce the head table on his side and the State Officers. Hanny? (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: I don't know, that was one great meal. Round of applause for the chef and the football team for serving us. (Applause.)

I get the great honor to introduce this side of the table. Right next to me, we have our Grand Rep, from Indiana, Danny Jones. (Applause.) Our Grand Vice President/President-Elect, our very own, from Faribault, Minnesota, Ron Malz and Maureen. (Applause.) Our North Central Regional President Leon "Snookims" Potratz. (Applause.) And Verna. And our great guests from the Dakotas, Dakota State President, Larry Gilge and Cindy. (Applause.)

Now to my State Officers, which I'm very proud of this year. Well, you're not the first one. Our Junior Past President Ed Connell. (Applause.) And Linda.

BROTHER DAVE BOTTIN: Thank God he's done.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We voted for him, though. I don't know why he thinks he's still here. Our Worthy Vice President/President-Elect Larry Silverthorn and Bina. (Applause.) Worthy Chaplain Randy Beggs. Randy. (Applause.) Our Worthy State Secretary John Batchelder and Gayle. (Applause.) Our Worthy State Treasurer Bruce Meyer and Cindy. (Applause.) Stand up, Bruce. Worthy Conductor Roger Hyatt and Carolyn. (Applause.) They're way in back. Inside Guard Darrell Spencer, he went to the bathroom, Judy, and Judy. Judy can stand, though. (Applause.) Judy is past everything. She's the only one that counts anyway. Our Outside Guard Mike Melby and Beth. (Applause.) Our Trustees Doug Lind and Leota. (Applause.) Leota go to the bathroom too? John Vogt and Renee. (Applause.) And Mike Hadel and Ann. (Applause.) I have a few more I want to introduce. Our Assistant State Secretary Jake Fee. Jake. (Applause.) Last year, he said I called him Jack Finn. I don't remember that. My Membership Chairman Terry Lubitz and his other wife Joan. They worked very hard together on membership. Thank you very much. (Applause.) My membership Secretary-Treasurer Vance Peters and Sherry. (Applause.) And lastly, but most importantly, my Executive Secretary this year, Kathy Plank. (Applause.) I love you, Kathy. Hey, and Linda, I got you. Thank you very much.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: All right. At this time, we've got a Special Order of Business. We have a special membership award by Terry and Joan Lubitz. And while they're coming up here, knock knock.

BROTHER EAGLES: Who's there?

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Colonel.

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: Colonel who?

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Oh, colonel go pee-pee. You've only got one more before the end of the evening, so hang in there, hang in there.

SISTER JOAN LUBITZ: We have an award that everybody's been working toward all year. A coveted award, to be shown in a locked glass case and bragged about for years to come. It is Bob the Builder. (Applause.)

BROTHER TERRY LUBITZ, PSP: Our directive that we took from Hanny and Debra was to work together as Aeries and Auxiliaries. We talked about this, we talked about this, and then we went down to Omaha, I think it was where we were at, to the Grand Aerie; and you know a month after we decided on it, the Grand caught up, they says, hey, we should work together. Their whole program was done joint down there. Oh, but Minnesota once again was way ahead of the Grand.

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Anyway, we picked Bob, and he's an award for the highest percentage over net gain Aerie and Auxiliary and combined, and it was put forth that we also do have the situation where there are some Aeries out there without Auxiliaries. It's still the total. If there is no Auxiliary, they're at zero and the Aerie is at such.

Anyway, Bob, we picked Bob because Bob's main motto is "Can we do it? Yes, we can", and that's what we kind of ran on. So anyway, without any further ado, we did have a non-Auxiliary Aerie did win it, but at over 27 percent over net gain. We'd like someone from Cloquet to come up and get that. (Applause.) I understand there is one somewhere, maybe not in the room. Oh, there we go. Is that our Cloquet guy? No, okay. He'll be at the meeting tomorrow, we'll give it to him then, but we wanted to do it here jointly.

I mean, there are some, on the Aeries alone, we had two other ones that were over ten percent over net gain, and I'm sure the Auxiliary had some too. So we do thank you for all working hard on it and we've appreciated it.

SISTER LUBITZ: It's been fun.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Thank you. We kind of had a ditty along the way that we've done, and we weren't really counting on this, but Debra would like us to try it.

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: (Singing.) Anything you can do, we can do better. We can do anything better as one.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Thank you. We'll try it again once more together.

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: (Singing.) Anything you can do, we can do better. We can do anything better as one. (Applause.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Now we're going to start getting into the meat of the presentation tonight. At this time, let me see here, queen of diamonds, you're up, and you're presenting a grant to Confidence Learning Center, so we invite Jeff Olson up here. (Applause.)

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Come on, Jeff. You know, we've been working hard all year to raise money for the Confidence Learning Center, and as we said earlier, this wasn't just the Auxiliary that raised this money. We may have had the ideas, but you men and all the communities bought all the tickets and sold, and also Hanny did some fundraisers and contributed, and we also did some fundraisers together. So I want to thank everybody out there for what we are about to present to the Confidence Learning Center.

Drum roll, please. On behalf of the Fraternal Order of Eagles to the Confidence Learning Center, we have a check for $16,501.57. So we did it, we exceeded our goal. (Applause and standing ovation.) I have the actual checks too, but that is a combination of the $5,000 grant we received from the Grand that we applied for, it's a combination also of some monies from your fundraisers that you did. So we all worked together for that.

So the best part about all of this is you are getting that pink six-seater golf cart, and it's probably going to have purple lettering on it, and instead of the Aerie logo and Auxiliary logo, we were thinking we would just put Better Together along with the Fraternal Order of Eagles logo. (Applause.)

BROTHER JEFF OLSON: President Hanny, Deb. I whispered to Deb, she caught me completely off guard. I knew there might be $5,000, but no way did I think of this.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: And there is more to come.

BROTHER JEFF OLSON: As you were giving your talk about what the Eagles meant to you, I was listening to it. I'm guessing, like a lot of people in this room, and I was selfish, I was thinking that's right, that's right, that's right, it meant those things to me too. But I'm not supposed to be here for me. I'm here for the campers at Confidence Learning Center, the people who have no choice. They were born with their cognitive disability. But as you were giving your talk, I thought this is the best I've heard. And then, and I think Linda Connell caught me, because I had a tear go down, because I saw something. If you'll hold this for just a second. I saw something right in front of my nose, and I bet it's kind of like what Deb did for us, we all listen to you and we go that's the truth.

I mean, amazing things happened 50 years ago when -- this year is Camp's 50th year. If you haven't seen it, it's been all over, but it's the 50th year, and 50 years ago the Eagles made Camp one of their charities. That's amazing. But then as I listen to you and I'm getting selfish thinking how great it's been the last 30-some years I've been coming to Conventions. The humble side of it that I experienced at the men's meeting. No, Don, I can't look at you. And then right in front of our face, just as Deb presented what this meant to all of us, I read the last thing--I don't know if I can do this--of the Eagles mission statement. Look at it in front of you, because we see it every week and I doubt we take the time to read it. The last part of it says to make human life more desirable by lessening its ills and promoting peace, prosperity, gladness, and hope.

So on behalf of our campers at Confidence Learning Center, we can never thank you for what you've done this year, the biggest ever, and for the past 50 years. Thank you very much. (Applause and standing ovation.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: It's real.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: And just so you know, that does not include the silent auction that we're having out there. So make sure you guys bid them up, and we'll be pulling them at 8:00 o'clock.

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Oh, and we also still have some of the state raffle tickets left, and that is not included in there either. So if we can sell all those tickets this weekend for the Tea for Two, that would be wonderful also. Thank you. (Applause.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Thank you, Debra. Well, I'm sure some people will be able to read the lines on this, but it says SOB, Vance Peters. Oh, Special Order of Business, Vance Peters.

BROTHER VANCE PETERS, PSP: I knew you wouldn't disappoint. Hi, I'm Vance.

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: Hi, Vance.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: I just want to make two comments. They're both on the same vein. That what Debra and Jeff said just minutes ago, and what Debra said last night, it came from here, not a card. So thank you. To the business at hand. That doesn't help me.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Isn't the thing imaging everybody naked?

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: That is correct. You pick somebody out in the crowd and they've got no clothes on, and hopefully it's not a lady. Yeah, yeah, you bet ya.

STATE SECRETARY JOHN BATCHELDER: Or Bruce.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: But anyway, I mention it, I brought it up today at the meeting, but part of my job is the membership. And the Top Producer in the State for the previous year, 2018-19, is Robert Earl Kuschel from Grand Rapids. (Applause.) Come up and get your plaque, please. Come on, Bob. Or should I call you Earl. 96, 98. He was just short of 100. Bob, you're everybody's hero. Well, not everybody's.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Bob. 90 something. The Tom O'Keefe Memorial Award for Top Producer. Bob, thank you very much for getting 90 more people for me. Unbelievable. The plaque says Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Tom O'Keefe Memorial Award, the High Producer of 2018-2019, presented to Robert Kuschel, Grand Rapids Aerie #2469. Good job. (Applause.) I'm sure the Grand is going to be looking for you too.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Thank you, Vance; and thank you, Bob, for all the great work that you do for our Eagles and for membership.

All right, I've got to get back to my cue cards. King of clubs, king of hearts. At this time, we're going to have State President Hanny present a grant to the Make-A-Wish Foundation to Kay Libby. Is Kay here?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Doug, do you want to escort Kay up here? I don't have a big check like you've got either. Got it? Atta boy. Kay, it was my honor to have Make-A-Wish as my charity this year, and Doug is my Membership Chairman. On behalf of Fraternal Order of Eagles, I would like to present this check for $5,000 to Make-A-Wish Minnesota. (Applause.)

KAY LIBBY, MAKE-A-WISH: Wow, thank you so much. It is quite a privilege to be a part of this group of generous, caring, compassionate folks that you are. It's really uplifting to be with you tonight.

As a wish granter for Make-A-Wish over ten years, I've had a privilege to get to see the impact that this makes. So not only does it purchase what the wish is, whether it's a trip or a gift or a meeting somebody, but it gives these kids hope and strength, and thank you so much. (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Kay.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Also, on behalf of the Auxiliary, we would like to donate to the Make-A-Wish on behalf of Hanny also is $1,535. (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Deb. Thank you, Joanie. They're together, that's right. Thanks, Kay. You know what?

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: What?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: When I was introducing all my people here, I forgot to mention one person.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Who was that?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: The emcee.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Who?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: The emcee of this thing, our Grand Justice John Tobie. (Applause.) I guess I owe $5 to Make-A-Wish again, so another $5 to Make-A-Wish there. Thanks, John.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: (Raps the gavel.)

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: Knock knock.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Frank.

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: Frank who?

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Frank you for putting up with all my jokes tonight.

I have to go back to my cue cards here. Let me see here. All right. We have got the two of diamonds, and that represents our second year Auxiliary President Carin, and she's going to present a grant to the Grand Itasca Cancer & Infusion Center, and collecting that will be Kelly Kirwin. Kelly and

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Carin, come on up. And any of you old timers that have been Eagles for like 100 years, Carin's mother was the first Past State Auxiliary President, Lauretta Kosola. (Applause.)

SISTER CARIN CIMINO: Thank you all for being here. I would like to present this check to Kelly for the Grand Itasca Infusion Center from the Grand Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: How much?

SISTER CIMINO: 2500. (Applause.)

KELLY KIRWIN, GRAND ITASCA HOSPITAL: Thank you. This is a tough act to follow. I'm pretty nervous in this room. I'm having such a good time, and I go straight from laughing to the point where I almost have tears in my eyes, to the sentimental where I have tears in my eyes. Now I'm afraid here.

I'm honored to be here tonight on behalf of Grand Itasca Clinic & Hospital and our new Cancer Clinic & Infusion Center. Really, this is everything you guys stand for and everything you talk about tonight. This is about people.

Our campaign, our project is called Close to Home, and what this infusion center, it's a 12-bay infusion center and six, clinics-based six rooms in our cancer clinic, and it's to care for people closer to home. So we are honored to receive this.

Obviously it takes money to care for people and to build this space. Your money specifically is going to what our patients are requesting right now, which is an outdoor patio and healing garden.

So thank you so much for the impact that you're making here on our community. (Applause.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Wow, this gets more and more exciting, doesn't it? All right. We're at that part of the program I'd like to call the Kenny Kunkel part of the program, where Jan can type in "Whereupon, a joke was said" and take a break from her machine.

(WHEREUPON, a joke was told.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: All right, moving on. Now we're going to get into the awards ceremony of the program tonight. Let me see, I've got to get into my cue cards.

BROTHER EAGLE: What about Stan?

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: What about who?

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: Stan.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Oh, I forgot about Stan. I'm sorry. I've got a note about that too. Stan couldn't be here tonight, but a $2500 grant is going to be presented to the Kylar Glen Hospice House in Grand Rapids, we got the check, and that will be presented shortly, and that's the Aerie check for hosting the Convention.

All right. Now we can work into the awards ceremony. We've got another queen, and this queen is Nancy Wadsworth, and she's going to present the Sister Eagle of the Year Award. So if Nancy would like to come up front, wherever she is.

SISTER EAGLE: She's coming.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: She's coming.

MADAM INSIDE GUARD NANCY WADSWORTH: Good evening, Brothers and Sisters.

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: Hello, Nancy. Good evening.

MADAM INSIDE GUARD WADSWORTH: My name is Nancy Wadsworth, and I'm from New Brighton #3718. First of all, I'd like to introduce my Committee that helped with the Sister Eagle of the Year this year. Pam Heiten from Roseau, Carol Eveslage from Rochester, Kim Wilson from Bemidji, Donna Molhollen from Brainerd, Pam Thiner from Worthington, and Kathy Plank from New Brighton. (Applause.) Yes, please.

As Deb said earlier, we got five letters, and I'm sorry we didn't get yours.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: That's okay. She knows she's special.

MADAM INSIDE GUARD WADSWORTH: Sister Eagle of the Year 2019. It gives our Auxiliary great pride and honor to nominate one of our Eagle Sister members for Sister Eagle of the Year. This Sister Eagle continually goes the extra mile above and beyond the call of duty on every committee and event she participates in. She has brought many new ideas to the table, helping to implement every one of them, as well as serving as a local Officer. Our Eagle Club had some struggles. This amazing Eagle Sister has stepped up to the plate in every possible way to assist with helping the Eagles Club survive. She is an individual the Eagles can always count on. Here's an example: Bingo, meat boards, pull tabs were brought back this year, and she volunteers nearly every Tuesday to be the bingo cashier. This Eagle Sister serves as bar manager with little to no pay. She organizes events, arranged for club workers, gets volunteers to assist on every event as needed, doing a majority of the cooking, as well as making sure there are volunteers to help at every event. This past year, she served as the Eagles project event coordinator for the following: Karaoke nights, band nights, pin night, chili cookoff. I think it's Pinocchio nights?

SISTER EAGLE: Pinochle.

MADAM INSIDE GUARD WADSWORTH: Oh, pinochle. (Applause.) It doesn't look like a pinochle to me, let me tell you. Okay, girls, girls. Pool nights, dart nights, birthday parties, member growths, Eagle picnics, blood drive, first responder appreciation, Lupus Ride, We Fest Bloody Mary bar, charity auction, stag and doe, Rummage Sale and Street Fair at the Lakes. This individual does the Eagles newsletter for

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our Club. She solicits many of the ads for the year, gets bimonthly articles, sets up the calendars for the Club's events, and sends all the information to the layout person. Then when the letter, newsletter is printed, she gets volunteers to help stuff envelopes and send out the newsletters. This gal even trains many of the Club's employees and volunteers. And yes, she did participate in each one of these events in one way or another. This Auxiliary Sister attends a majority of local, District, and State meetings, not just this year, but many prior years as well. She is like the Energizer Bunny; she keeps going, not missing a beat.

We truly feel that this Sister Eagle is a dedicated Eagle Sister and deserves to be recognized by her Sister Eagle members for all she has done for the Eagles, not only this year, but past years as well. This person would do anything to keep our Eagles Club afloat. This Eagle Sister truly lives by People Helping People.

Please join us in recognizing this very special Eagle Sister and honor her with the Eagle Sister of the Year for 2019. Mary Lee. (Applause and standing ovation.) Come on down, Mary. Come on down, Mary, with all of your sparkle. Good girl. Come on. (Applause.)

Congratulations. Minnesota State Sister Eagle of the Year 2019, Mary Lee, Detroit Lakes Auxiliary #2342. (Applause.)

SISTER MARY LEE: This is just the greatest honor probably ever. My Eagle Sisters help me so much, I mean, I have to prod them along sometimes, because they don't listen to me. Yeah, neither does Bob. But I'm known as Mama Mary in our Eagles Club, and anything they want to do, well, go call Mama Mary, she'll take care of it, go call Mama Mary.

So I appreciate this so, so, so much and thank my Eagle Sisters for nominating me. (Applause.)

MADAM INSIDE GUARD WADSWORTH: And I don't remember if I said this in the beginning, but Debra, thank you for asking me to chair this Committee. It was great, I appreciate it.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: One more thing before you leave, Nancy. Pinocchio or pinochle, that's the difference.

All right, at this time, let me see here. Oh, I've got to get my cue card here. It's another queen. No, we're not done.

OUTSIDE GUARD MIKE MELBY: Oh, my God, no.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: According to my program, it is the joker, Mike Melby. (Applause.)

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: I was thinking something completely different. I'm sorry.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Yup, there he is, the joker. As you probably can tell by now, I am not playing with a full deck tonight. Come on up, Mike.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: Okay. I know that John said that there was only going to be one more knock-knock joke, but in his spirit: (Outside Guard Melby raps the gavel.)

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: Who's there?

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: Impatient cow.

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: Impatient cow --

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: Moo.

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: -- who? Boo, boo, boo.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: I've been booed for a hell of a lot better. And less.

My Brothers and Sisters, today was actually a really special and extraordinary day when it came to the Eagle of the Year. We had five letters that in any given year would have won Eagle of the Year. We had to conduct three ballots to determine a final winner. (Applause.) There were no losers, but there can only be one winner, and it is with that that I will read this letter.

The person I would like to nominate is a member who hit the ground running as a member since January of 2016. He is responsible for bringing Dance for Your Health to our Club. This is a free therapy type of dance exercise for people suffering from Parkinson's and other mobility challenges. He persuaded the Aerie to donate use of the hall for this event, which in turn is staffed by volunteers. Many of these people are reluctant to go out in public, and now thanks to the dance group, show up weekly and even gather as a group on weekends for different events. Shortly after becoming a member, he also agreed to become an interim Trustee and now serves as the Trustee Chairman. There were a lot of loose ends and things not written down, such as passwords, access codes to the various systems within the Club and lots of unlabeled keys. Thanks to his persistence, we now have all the passwords and access codes in place where all the Trustees can find them, fully labeled keys, and proper file folders. He made sure that the Trustees have all the keys needed within the Club and that those same keys are properly labeled and stored in the common area within the Trustees’ office. He persistently hunted down missing reports, contracts, and yearly inventories, and all the Trustees also know where to find them. This is a long letter.

Many things needed to be replaced and fixed, and he and the Trustees have done an excellent job these past several years in bringing the building up to code and leaving it in much better shape than they first found it. Electrical wiring and electrical panels have been updated and replaced; new convection ovens for the kitchen, a new microwave for the kitchen, a new dishwasher for the kitchen, new deep fryers for the kitchen, and repairs for the coolers as the need arose. Outdated and weak security doors were also replaced. Additional HD video cameras throughout the Club have been added with Trustee

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hands-on labor. Sound-reducing doors in two of the rooms were to allow those sitting at the bar to not be overwhelmed with the music from the live entertainment. Many hours were spent behind the scenes to procure the proper detailed bids from the related vendors. Next is replacing the current class of lights with new energy-efficient LED lights. He installed a 50-inch digital screen information monitor in the bar area at no cost to the Club and updates it weekly. Many people have commented on the content, the professional look, and the knowledge that they have gained about the Eagles on the many slides. Two more screens are also being planned for the front and back doors. Even while on vacation out of state, he emailed the Aerie Secretary the necessary file to convert and upload the monitor.

He has also taken his business skills and made significant changes to the Trustees' turnover report and related Aloha point-of-sales system reports. He has been working closely with the Aerie Secretary to improve the reports breakdown, the related sales tax obligations on an item-by-item basis, and is close to a finished report. They suspected overpayment errors and were correct in their research. His next step will be to go back over the last several years and find out how much we overpaid due to faulty sales reports and then recover the payments. The Aerie Secretary has been an invited guest to the weekly Trustees' meeting since last fall and has helped to get answers, and help if needed on a speedy basis. Most weeks there are at least 54 items on his agenda and always new items being added as others are being completed and removed. As our sales grow, so does the Trustees' responsibilities and, for a period of time, we are down to two Trustees, and under the leadership, things were still accomplished and completed. He is not an "I" person, but believes in the Trustees working together as one, and each one's feelings, opinions, and votes counts. Each Trustee has their area to maintain, but all the Trustees report back to each other weekly and hold each other accountable.

I would therefore like to place into nomination for Eagle of the Year. Mr. Hadel, please come up here. For Eagle of the Year, Minneapolis Aerie #34's own Len Mathe as submitted by Mike Hadel and Secretary. (Applause.)

I know that Len could not be here, but Mike did write the letter, so therefore, we are going to present the plaque and the pin to him on his behalf.

STATE TRUSTEE MIKE HADEL: The first thing I would like to say is Len is not an "I" person and, to quote Len, this letter belongs to the Board of Trustees. I wish I could have written up a letter submitting our entire Board of Trustees. We're only allowed to select one person. I know Len will be thrilled to see this. Len Mathe is our Chairman of the Board of Trustees. That is where this honor is going.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: And the plaque does state 2019 Minnesota State Eagle of the Year, presented to Len Mathe in recognition and appreciation of your outstanding dedication to the Fraternal Order of Eagles. (Applause.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Thank you, joker. All right. My cue card says queen of hearts. So next up is Sue Neu, and she's going to be presenting the Auxiliary Secretary of the Year. Sue. And she is the queen of hearts, she's going to make a great State Auxiliary President starting on Saturday. (Applause.)

SISTER EAGLE: It's her birthday.

(WHEREUPON, the Delegation sings happy birthday to Sue Neu.)

MADAM VICE PRESIDENT SUE NEU: You didn't have to. I feel like I'm one again with all these birthday wishes. Okay, I'm not even going to try to compete with Mike's bad joke, so.

My first order of business is thank you, Debra, for asking me to be on this Committee. So while I read this letter, I'd like to have my Committee go out and try to find this gal. Karen, Gwen, Carolyn, Denise. So I'm not going to tell her name until the girls find her, but I'll read the rest of the letter.

I nominate blank, Secretary of blank, for Secretary of the Year. She has been our Secretary of 23 years out of her 46 years of membership. She's kept our Auxiliary going with taking care of Grand and State requirements. She reads and explains to us Grand and State Auxiliary mail. She takes the time to explain communication when we don't understand. She makes sure our bank account always has enough funds to pay our bills, Grand and State bills, and donate to charities. She is on our charity committee. She makes suggestions on how much we can donate and who we donate to. As part of the communication, she has watched for and advised us on donations that are doubled or tripled. She has helped us with new ideas on charity fundraising and helped in the fundraising. She came up with the idea to have donated items collected and available for donations for fundraisers. These items don't cost the Auxiliary anything but time. She makes sure checks are sent out correctly. She set up an Auxiliary email account to improve communication of Officers and members. She is in regular communication with the Aerie and includes the Auxiliary Officers on emails with the Aerie and within the Auxiliary members. She saves the Auxiliary money by using email for sending newsletters, invitations, and upcoming events at the Eagles. She gives rides to members who need a ride to the meetings and our fundraisers and events. She even delivered my phone to me at home when I forgot it at the Eagles. It's always important to have that phone.

Communication is important for a Secretary. She is co-editor of our Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary newsletter as part of our communication. She writes all the Auxiliary articles. She writes up what is happening at our Eagles so Aerie and Auxiliary members know what is going on. She works with the Eagles website providing Auxiliary information. She passes out the newsletter to nonmembers, promoting our Auxiliary and if a man promotes the Aerie. She says we are the Eagles. She asks Aerie members to help the Auxiliary charity fundraisers and our Auxiliary monthly breakfasts. This goes beyond being a Secretary and Auxiliary member. She is on the Membership Committee that the Aerie started. She is promoting membership and membership ideas. All with a cheerful and helpful attitude.

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This member is nominated from Minneapolis #34. Ann Hadel. (Applause and standing ovation.) This letter was nominated by Ruth Ogren.

So on behalf of the Minnesota State Auxiliary, the Doris Anderson Memorial Award for Madam Secretary of the Year, Ann Hadel. Congratulations. (Applause.)

SISTER ANN HADEL: I can't be in front of the podium, they're giving me a hard time about my tie, and I didn't wear heels. Okay. This can only be achieved when you've got great Auxiliary members all the way from our President on down, you've got the Aerie, the Trustees are working with us, the Officers are working with us. We have the greatest right now. Our Auxiliary #34 and our Aerie #34 has come together after many years of turbulence. That's why it came together. Thank you. (Applause.)

MADAM VICE PRESIDENT NEU: And not to take anything away from Ann's award, because she sincerely deserves it, but we only received one letter this year, and it did meet all the requirements, so we --

SISTER HADEL: So it's good.

MADAM VICE PRESIDENT NEU: But Ann, deservedly so. We did talk about it at our Committee meeting last night, and just wanted to point out to the Auxiliary that if you are not aware of one of the rules in the requirements for this award, you do not have to be the current Secretary. You just have to do three full years as Secretary; not currently, you know, three years in a row, it just has to be three years. So if you have any other gals in your Auxiliaries that are deserving of this that have been past Secretaries, please submit letters for them.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Sue, want this letter? (Applause.)

Next up to the podium is the four of diamonds with the Aerie Secretary of the Year, and that's going to be John Batchelder. Why is it the four of diamonds? Because all the work he does for us, and also that's the most common word he yells at the golf course. And that was echoing across the hills and the meadows of Pokegama Golf Course on Tuesday.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: I do use other words. My mom would not be happy, or my son.

I also will thank Hanny for putting me Chairman of this prestigious award. Secretary of the Year is a very important, a very honored award to give. So that being said, I'll just move right on. And the way the men do it, we don't wait till the last second to tell you who it is. We do it right out of the get-go. That way, they've got time to get up here, especially if they're slow-moving. We'll find out how slow-moving they are.

Because Aerie #2342 would like you to consider our Secretary, Robert L. Lee, for the Secretary of the Year Award. (Applause and standing ovation.)

Robert has been a Secretary since 2014. He worked with the IRS to get us reinstated as a nonprofit, make sure all 990 forms are filed on time. He makes sure that the agendas for the meetings are ready and pays the bills in a timely manner. He reads the minutes from the previous Aerie and Trustee meetings at every meeting. Pays all the per capita taxes--thank you--to the Grand and State Aerie on time. He also makes sure that all the bonding and liquor license are in order and up to date. He applies for any special licenses when we need them and makes sure they are ready to go. He tries to keep our expenses at a minimum by ordering only what the Club needs and shopping for bargains. I can imagine that. Robert has not taken any compensation for his duties. Instead he has donated over $3,000 to keep our Aerie running. He also uses the MMS system for memberships and has signed up more members than our whole Aerie combined.

Aerie #2342 thinks Secretary Robert L. Lee--we like to call him Robert E. Lee--is deserving of being named State Secretary of the Year. (Applause.)

The Floyd Svenby Memorial Award, 2019, Minnesota State Secretary of the Year presented to Robert L. Lee. And while you do your speech, I'll grab the traveling trophy.

BROTHER ROBERT LEE, PSP: I don't have much of a speech. But Floyd Svenby was also from Detroit Lakes. This has been a pretty good night for #2342--Madam Eagle of the Year and Secretary for the Aerie. Thank you for allowing me to be the Secretary. (Applause.)

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: The letter, you might want that.

BROTHER LEE, PSP: I only have two hands.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Moving the program along, we're going to have the Auxiliary Hall of Fame. My cue card says ace of hearts, Marge Reinke. She's been No. 1 in my heart for many, many years. Marge and I have been a member of the Eagles so long ...

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: How long?

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: We both remember when the Mississippi was single. I can hardly wait to listen. I can hear you thinking out there.

SISTER MARGE REINKE, PSP: You were my date at the National Convention one year too.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: I know that.

SISTER REINKE, PSP: I am sorry to say that we do not have a Hall of Fame for our Auxiliary this year. One letter did not get in before our meeting. Another letter did not follow the guidelines. The guidelines are sent out to every Auxiliary, and they need to be followed.

Please submit your letters again next year. I'm sure you were all deserving. It was just that it didn't work out this year. So please, follow the guidelines and submit your letters again. Thank you. (Applause.)

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GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Thank you, Marge. Well, next on the agenda is the Aerie Hall of Fame, the four of diamonds, but the four of diamonds is going to turn things over to the joker.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Joker is right. Back to the Aerie Secretary, Mike Melby mentioned, the other joker, mentioned how difficult the Eagle of the Year was for that, the three times that we had to vote and finally came up with one and, I mean, they are all great letters. I cannot tell you enough about, and I apologize I missed it, four super letters came in for State Secretary of the Year. And I encourage the Aeries that sent in the letters that Robert ended up winning, resubmit them. They were so excellent, we were beating our heads against the wall too. So this has been a tough year for the Special Awards Committee and the Eagle of the Year Committee. But that also means that everyone out there is doing a super job at being Eagles. Keep submitting these letters. Thank you. (Applause.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Thank you, John. Well, we've got two Hall of Fame winners here, and it's a dubious honor to read these letters, once you find out who these characters are.

It is an honor to submit this Brother for your consideration for the Minnesota State Aerie Hall of Fame. Lubitz, you're up on this one. Our Brother has been a member of his local Aerie for 25 years, and in that time he has attained the title of Past President at the local, District, and State level. Our Brother's dedication to our Order runs deep. In his local Aerie, you will find him helping with bingo suppers, spearheading projects, volunteering for gaming, and generally offering help to wherever it's needed. On the District level, he is almost always in attendance, offering advice and counsel. On the State level, I don't recall a time that he has not been at a State Convention, and he's always on the phone, he's only a phone call away for anyone with a question, and has gone into several Aeries to aid them with difficulties that they have encountered. Serves on numerous State committees. Is always willing to open his home to those attending events. Regionally, again, his participation in their conferences is almost guaranteed. On the Grand level, this Brother has also attended several Grand Aerie Conventions.

It is now time to paint a clearer picture of this Brother. Our Brother has been married to his wonderful, kind, patient, in capital letters, wife for 32 years. They have seven children, 18 grandchildren, one grandchild. (Applause.) Well, no further ado, Bruce Meyer. (Applause and standing ovation.)

BROTHER EAGLE: Everybody needs to sit down, I can't see him.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: I will have to say, there was one negative thing in this letter. The fact that he's an avid Green Bay Packer fan.

(WHEREUPON, there were boos and yays.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Bruce, on behalf of the Minnesota State Hall of Fame Committee, made up of all the Past State Presidents, it's an honor for me to give you the plaque for Hall of Fame, Bruce Meyer, 2019.

STATE TREASURER BRUCE MEYER: Thank you very much.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: And I'd also like to present you with your Hall of Fame pin. Wear it proudly. (Applause.)

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: Thank you, whoever wrote that letter. And I'm not the only Packer Backer in here. I may be the shortest one, but I am not the only one.

SISTER EAGLE: No, you're not the shortest one.

SISTER EAGLE: You don't know me, but I'm here too.

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: Last week, I had the privilege of being at the Dakotas, and the gentleman that got Hall of Fame was the guy that served President with me, Greg Anderson, and I may start crying for him, because he’s not here. Thank you, everybody. (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: One thing, I told him he's got to wear my purple shirt at least once, because he's got one.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Well, we've got one more dubious person that made it into the State Hall of Fame.

(WHEREUPON, a cellphone rang.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Not my phone, I paid $10.

SISTER EAGLE: It's me.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: No problem. It's going to a worthy cause. This is going to be pretty easy to figure out who this is. But Rapids #2469 is pleased to nominate John Leslie Batchelder for the position of Minnesota State Hall of Fame. (Applause and standing ovation.) Did I give it away without reading the rest of the letter?

John joined the Grand Rapids Aerie in December of 1993. Through his 26 years of continued membership, John has shown outstanding leadership and dedication to the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He was local Aerie President three times, in 1998-99, 2000-2001, which was also the State Convention year, and 2003-2004. He has served as Aerie Conductor in '07, '08, and 2014; Aerie Trustee in 2010, 2011, 2012; Vice President in 2015; Outside Guard in 2016; and Aerie Treasurer from 2017 till present. On the District level, he has been Secretary-Treasurer since 2012. John started his journey through the State Chairs in 2001, serving as State President in 2008-2009. As State President, his charity was Confidence Learning Center and raised over $20,000 during his year as State President. John was also elected to the position of State Secretary in 2011, and still holds that office. Well, till next election, anyway.

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John started as the State Webmaster in 2002, and he's still the State Webmaster. He received two webmaster awards from the Grand Aerie in 2003-2004. He has helped the local Aerie by chairing the State golf and bowling tournaments, as well as participating in them. He's attended 18 State Conventions, 18 Regional Conventions, and 14 Grand Conventions. Other accomplishments are State Eagle of the Year in 2010-2011, recognized and received an award from the Grand Aerie for helping to get Hibbing started, he was State Membership in 2009-2010, and according to our Aerie Secretary, John has signed up 270 members since he joined the Eagles. (Applause.) He has shown leadership by also chairing Eagles food booth at our local car swap and at the fairgrounds for ten years. He co-chaired the taco margarita night for five years, co-chaired the spring and fall extravaganza from their inception until 2017. He was Co-Chair of the 2011 Convention, Registration Chairman for the 2001, 2011, and 2019 Conventions held in Grand Rapids. State Convention book chair in 2011 and housing chairman in 2019.

John Batchelder has certainly demonstrated his dedication and leadership to the Fraternal Order of Eagles on a local, District, and State, Regional, and Grand levels and is well-deserving to be considered for the Minnesota State Hall of Fame Award. John, will you come up and receive your award. (Applause.)

It gives me great honor on behalf of all the Past State Presidents of Minnesota who voted on your membership to the Hall of Fame. (Applause.) Also, I'd like to present you with a slightly dented Hall of Fame pin. Wear it proudly. You get to put the date on it. Would you like to say a few words?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: A few words. This is -- you're welcome. This is really humbling. I don't know what to say. And actually, I know that I had the Secretary help, Tobie, so I had two people at least, or three with Kuschel, so a lot of people put in apparently a lot of work to write this letter, and it was, again, very humbling. And it rose my eyebrows quite a few times with, I don't know, some of the history that John just mentioned in the letter. But thank you all very much. This means so much. Thank you. (Applause.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Well, we're almost done, but we have a Special Order of Business. Debra Henry has got another presentation of some sort, so I'm not sure what this is about, but I'm sure that she will let us know.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: I just like to talk now, I guess. Okay, first of all, the silent auction has closed.

SISTER EAGLE: Oh, no, wait.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: It's after 8:00 o'clock.

SISTER EAGLE: It is?

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Yeah, it's way past 8:00. So I have the bid sheets. All I'm going to do is just say Marlene Hanson, will you come up, because you ended up with three--the princess wagon, the beer stein, and the picnic basket. Paul Niemi, the planter bucket. Doug Lind, the sleepover couch. Beth Melby, the bakers, enjoy that. Rhonda Schultz, the written crate. Cory Cabana, right? I know Cabana Boy is not right. But you got the fishing items. You know who you are. The pink Yedi cooler is Vance Peters. And the watch is Mary Hurdly, Hendra. Okay. And the pink Michael Kors purse went to Cherry Benjamin.

SISTER EAGLE: Damn it.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: So you need to see, you need to see Tina out there by the items. She will collect your money. To let you know, we raised $1,025 for Confidence Learning Center. (Applause.) You guys all have some sparklers. It's the year of sparkling. So take them outside, don't do them in the building, and we can sparkle this evening. I gave them to you in a red basket. Okay.

I promised my husband there was nothing coming home from this Convention. So all the centerpieces are going to you guys. So I'm just going to draw. There should be two on a table and a couple on the head table. So if I call your number, just grab one. Do we know how many exactly there were?

(WHEREUPON, numbers were called off for the centerpieces.)

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: You don't get it yet, I've got one more check to give. I need Ron Malz, please. If you could come up to the podium, please. Ron Malz. Cometh, please. I have a check here for Ron. The Auxiliary today during our meeting -- you're going in this year, you're going to be our President.

BROTHER RON MALZ, PSP: That's what they keep telling me.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: We know how expensive it is, it's a big chore. Okay. I'm losing my train of thought. Can you tell? Anyways, on behalf of the Auxiliary, we'd like to help you with those expenses, so we have a check here for $5,000 for you. (Applause.) The Auxiliary very much appreciates Ron. He's from Faribault, he's from the Fifth District, and it's all about helping each other and working together, and you're going to have a great year.

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Well, thank you. (Applause.) I appreciate the Auxiliary very much. No, I'm kind of speechless on this one, so. But thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope I can see all of you down in Louisville. We'll have a great time. (Applause.) Thank you.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: We're almost done, but there is just a couple quick items, so please stay with us. We have a special presentation by a couple ladies who want to come up here. You all look like queens to me.

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SISTER EAGLE: We have a little gift for Debra. I have been her Auxiliary Grandma this year, Sue Lewis has been the Grandma, the Mother, and Diane has been the Gem, and so we just have a little gift for you.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Thank you.

SISTER EAGLE: Thank you. We're very honored to be with you this year.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Do I open it and show? Am I going to have to hide it? Okay. I like presents.

SISTER EAGLE: Sorry, Jeff, you've got to take it home.

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: We drove separate anyway.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Look at that. (Applause.) I love my wine.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: I think they forgot the H.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Thank you very much. (Applause.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: A couple quick announcements. It's going to be about a half hour before they turn the room over and get it ready for the District hospitality rooms, and I have a note on that that the State Aerie Trustees and the State Auxiliary Trustees will be bartending. Whether you know it or not, that's going to be your duties tonight for the hospitality. So anyway, it's just about the end of the program.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: I forgot. I like gifts, I like presents. Come here.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Oh, yes, anyway, hang on folks, I forgot one. Go ahead.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: This is for you, for being my husband this year. It's been very much appreciated and we had a lot of fun, and I love it because he says, "Whatever you want."

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: It's easier that way.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Yeah, he does. And don't forget, we've got the necklaces too during the hospitality room.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Little magnetic, Hole in One for the FOE.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: All right. One Special Order of Business, and I apologize, it was on my list and I completely forgot about it, but we have to have Ron Malz come up here, and we have a special presentation by the Second District. Dale.

BROTHER DALE HANSON: I'm Dale Hanson. I'm Secretary-Treasurer of District #2. My son-in-law put together these here cutouts, and the first one was, and then I realized that it might be a protected logo; and so I contacted John Tobie, and we got it through the Grand that working with it. And each one of these plaques, there is money that goes back to the Grand, and I have information, if anybody else would like one. I asked him to get cards so we can contact him and we'll try to get them to you. This is for you from District #2. (Applause.)

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: No, I wasn't expecting none of this stuff tonight here. Second District, that's great. I appreciate it. I'm speechless. It's just a beautiful thing. You can see it right here. Yeah, I have to drive it home, so no problem here. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Love you all. (Applause.)

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Just to wrap up things tonight, I want to thank Debra and Hanny for asking me to emcee tonight, and I'd like to thank everybody for showing up. I hope you all had a good time. (Grand Justice Tobie raps the gavel.) Frank.

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: Frank who?

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Frank you one more time for putting up with me tonight. Have a good evening. (Applause.)

Benediction. I'm sorry, we have a benediction by Marlene. So as long as you're standing up, stand up, hold hands, and we're going to have the benediction.

MADAM CHAPLAIN MARLENE HANSON: Father, we give you thanks that you have allowed us to work together and serve you during this conference. We ask your blessing upon our endeavors and upon all present today. May your love and grace continue to guide us in everything we do today and in the future, and we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

BROTHER AND SISTER EAGLES: Amen.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Marlene said it the best. Amen. Let's have a good evening.

(WHEREUPON, the Awards Banquet was concluded at 8:35 p.m.)

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FRIDAY MORNING SESSION

June 14, 2019

. . .The Second Session of the One Hundred Sixteenth Annual Minnesota State Aerie Convention was called to order by President Mike Hanson at 9:00 a.m. on June 14, 2019.

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STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll call to order the Second Session of the 116th Annual Minnesota State Eagles Aerie Convention, Grand Rapids, Minnesota. We'll start out with patriotic song by State Trustee Mike Hadel.

TRUSTEE HADEL: My Brothers, please join us in singing America the Beautiful.

(WHEREUPON, Brother Mike Hadel sang America the Beautiful and all Delegates joined in song.)

(Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Mike. Now we'll have the invocation by State Chaplain Randy Beggs, and we'll open the Bible, please.

STATE CHAPLAIN BEGGS: Our Father, we ask that our deliberations be marked by an earnestness that will exclude every selfish thought; and that as Delegates, we shall, at all times, do that which is best for this Fraternity, so that the sum of our efforts will advance the happiness of mankind everywhere and be wholly acceptable unto Thee. Amen.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: You'll remain standing. We'll have the Obligation of Delegates by State Outside Guard Mike Melby.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: Good morning, my Brothers.


OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: And it is morning today. Please place your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. As Delegates to our Minnesota State Aerie Convention, I promise to abide by the laws, rules and regulations of the Grand Aerie; that I will, to the best of my ability, attend all sessions of this State Convention and promote at all times its benign influence, so help me God. (All Delegates responded by repeating this Oath.) Amen.

BROTHER EAGLES: Amen.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. Now we'll have Roll Call of State Officers by State Secretary John Batchelder.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Worthy President.


. . .The Roll Call of State Officers was read by State Secretary John Batchelder,as follows:

Ed Connell, #3420, Junior Past State PresidentMike Hanson, #3718, Worthy State PresidentLarry Silverthorn, Worthy State Vice PresidentRandy Beggs, #873, Worthy State ChaplainJohn Batchelder, #2469, State SecretaryJake Fee, #873, Assistant State SecretaryBruce Meyer, #873, State TreasurerRoger Hyatt, #287, Worthy State ConductorDarrell Spencer, #269, State Inside GuardMike Melby, #350, State Outside GuardDoug Lind, #2258, State TrusteeJohn Vogt, #287, State TrusteeMike Hadel, #34, State TrusteeVance Peters, #351, Membership Dept. Secretary-Treasurer (Absent)

STATE CONDUCTOR HYATT: Present. He was, anyway. Mark him absent.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Should we? He's not here for Roll Call, right? He will be, though, I know that.

That concludes Roll Call of State Executive Board Officers, whatever we are.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. The first one on report of --

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Roll Call of Aeries?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: You want to do that?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: I think that same line.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Oh, okay. Now we'll have the Secretary do the report of the Aeries.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Okay. Here we go. Again, as I call off your Aerie number, please give me the number of Delegates, Past Worthy Presidents, and then Past State Presidents, State Officers, so on and so forth, and/or visitors. Here we go.



33 St. Paul 1 2 1 34 Minneapolis 3 4 1 SO

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94 Stillwater 269 Mankato 3 7 1 SO 1 1 TYS 287 Brainerd 3 3 1-2 350 East Grand Forks 4 4 1 SO 351 Bemidji 8 8 2-1 4 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 3 2 703 Austin 873 Crookston 4 5 1-3 11163 Cloquet 1 1243 Winona 1 1 1 PSP1460 Faribault 2 2 1 PSP 1 GRAND1791 Owatonna 6 2 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2 4 1 PSP2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 6 6 12334 Willmar 5 4 2339 Fergus Falls 22342 Detroit Lakes 1 4 1 PSP2368 Thief River Falls 2 2 1 PSP2469 Grand Rapids 6 5 2-1 2617 Hallock 1 13063 Alexandria 5 5 3 PSP3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 2 2 2 PSP3394 Fairmont 1 1 1 PSP3403 Luverne3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 2 2 1 SO3424 Litchfield 1 1 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 4 3 1 SO 13882 Roseau 1 1 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing4472 Blaine 4486 Blue Earth

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Worthy President, that concludes Roll Call of State Officers and State Aeries.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, John. Before I go on to the first report on Make-A-Wish, which is my charity, a little warning, if your phone goes off today, it's going to cost you ten bucks. Make sure they're off. Also, I've got a couple, John, from last night turned in to me some fines. One was a lady we heard from at the banquet, her phone went off, and she gave me 50 bucks.

So with the report of Make-A-Wish, by my Committee Chairman, Doug Lind.

STATE TRUSTEE LIND: Good morning.


STATE TRUSTEE LIND: Grand Aerie reps, State Officers, Delegates, my Brothers: Hanny has done a wonderful job directing this great group into raising money for Make-A-Wish this year. We had an awesome banquet last night and Make-A-Wish people were here, and we have a super report, which is fantastic. The Make-A-Wish Committee is (Committee read.) This might be not a complete report. Mike might have some other things going on.

REPORT OF MAKE-A-WISH FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 1,000.00 287 Brainerd 25.00 350 East Grand Forks 350.00 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 200.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 1163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna 300.00

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2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 2,750.002334 Willmar 500.002339 Fergus Falls 250.002342 Detroit Lakes 150.002368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 50.003394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 11,981.003882 Roseau 100.003918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 18,091.00


Doug Lind, #2258, Chairman Jake Fee, #873 Donnie Nisbit, #2228 Paul Wiese, #351

STATE TRUSTEE LIND: And Hanny's own Aerie, New Brighton #3718, $11,981. (Applause.) That is pretty darn awesome. So that total is $18,091. And then last night, a grant was presented for $5,000, which makes the total $23,091. Worthy President, I move the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Randy Beggs, #873; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Next one on the list will be report of the Kidney Fund by Gary S. Miller, Runestone Aerie #3063.

BROTHER GARY MILLER, PSP: Good morning, everyone. Grand Aerie Officers, State Officers, Brothers: My Committee, of course I am the Chair and I are Gary "Sweet" Miller from #3063 in Alexandria. (Committee read.)

REPORT OF KIDNEY FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 25.00 350 East Grand Forks 25.00 351 Bemidji 351.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 200.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 50.001163 Cloquet 100.001243 Winona 1460 Faribault 100.001791 Owatonna 100.002212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 25.002334 Willmar 100.002339 Fergus Falls 250.002342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 100.00

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3063 Alexandria 1,000.003208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 50.003394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 50.003882 Roseau 38.823918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 3,399.82


Gary S. Miller, #3063, Chairman Fred Schrader, #351 Todd Scharfenkamp, #4195 Cory Cabana, #3063

BROTHER MILLER, PSP: For a total of $3,399.82. Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Vance Peters, #351; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Got something else there, Vance? Fine for being late.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Worthy President, I apologize for my tardiness, and I will leave this with your guards.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: It's $10 today, though, sir.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Ten bucks?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Second time is 15. We'll get that Make-A-Wish thing up. Now I have the report of the Special Awards Committee by John Batchelder, Rapids #2469.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Boy, am I glad I got done with Bruce.

REPORT OF SPECIAL AWARDS

Good morning, Grand Aerie representatives, Delegates, State Officers. Last night was a fun night for everyone I think at the banquet.

Special Awards, being that I think most everyone was there, so I don't have any letters, because we give them to the recipients.

But for Secretary of the Year, it went to some general out of the south. Mr. Robert E. Lee, or Robert L. Lee. So there is your Secretary of the Year. (Applause.)

And it gets worse now, because we had two Hall of Fame recipients, and these two inductees happen to actually join the Aerie the same year, became State Officers the same year, and now became Hall of Fame inductees the same year, and that would be myself and Bruce Meyer, wherever he disappeared to. (Applause.) Oh, over there, there he is. So I can speak for Bruce, it was a huge honor, and for Bob Lee, just a great honor. We thank you all for that.


John Batchelder, #2469, Chairman All Past State Presidents

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: And unless anyone has questions, that will conclude, or I move for the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Robert E. Lee, #2342; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Now we'll have report of the Eagle of the Year Committee by Mike Melby.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: Good morning again, my Brothers. The first thing I'd like to do is thank John Tobie. He brought the bad knock-knock joke to a whole new level last night, so thank you for that.

REPORT OF EAGLE OF THE YEAR COMMITTEE

Yesterday, for those that were not at the banquet, was a unique situation for the Eagle of the Year Committee in that we had five truly, truly outstanding letters. Every single one of these letters deserve that Eagle of the Year nod. But we can only pick one. Three ballots later, we ultimately came to a decision. I mean, to go through three ballots is just something that never happens.

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And that being said, Len Mathe out of Minneapolis took home Eagle of the Year last night, and congratulations to him. Worthy President, my Committee consists of (Committee read.)


Mike Melby, #350, Chairman Harley Rosenberg, #3394 All Past Recipients

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: And I move the adoption of this report.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Mike, for chairing that.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: I'm back next year, right?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: It's yours for awhile, I think.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Wow, he got out of that one.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We have a Special Order of Business now. We have an introduction and a few words from our North Central Regional President Leon "Snookims" Potratz. (Applause).

BROTHER LEON POTRATZ, NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL PRESIDENT: Well, thank you, thank you, Mike. You guys are all looking pretty chipper out there for the second day of Convention.

BROTHER CONNELL, Jr.PSP: You need new glasses.

BROTHER POTRATZ, NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL PRESIDENT: First of all, I'd like to start out by saying that it was a pleasure working with Gerri Dooley, and I want to thank all of you guys for your support this year and for giving me this honor, and it was a great honor.

And Gerri and I kind of got off to a rough start. We got along really good, but she had some medical problems and I had some medical problems, and we had a really hard time communicating back and forth. Everything was done by email and phone and that stuff, and finally we got everything all together and we had a meeting and worked everything out, and I think everything come out really good.

When we started out, we got a $5,000 grant, and she had her charity that she wanted to give it to and I'm sitting there at home one night and I'm thinking now where am I going to put my $2500. So I decided that I would give it to Home on the Range, and I called Jeff and talked to him about it, told him I needed the paperwork for the grant, and of course he was willing to do that, and so he was really glad to get the money.

My incoming was in Omaha, Nebraska, and the facility there were just really beautiful, the motel and everything was really great, and I thought the Grand Aerie done a really fine job of letting everybody know what was expected of them, and it included not only the Regional Presidents, but the incoming State Presidents, so Hanny was there as well and Jeff was there also.

I didn't have a chance to travel around a lot, because we were down in Arizona all winter, but last weekend, we were over in Vermillion, went to their, or Valley City, and went to their State Convention, and it's really fun to see the difference between their Convention and our Convention, and I'm sure that there is some of you that's been over to the Dakota State Convention. Them as well as us raised a lot of money for charity and, what was it, $15,000, you said total, for Home on the Range?

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: About 15,500.

BROTHER POTRATZ, PSP: Yeah, about 15,500. And they had an awesome auction. I don't know where the hell all these Dakota people get all their money, but they sure do spend it.

So coming to a close, I've got just a few more months and when we get to National Convention, it will be all over, and it's been a great year, a lot of fun. Again, I thank all you guys for your support. It's been great. Thank you very much. (Applause and standing ovation.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Leon. Now we'll have the report of Eagle Village by Bruce Meyer, Crookston.

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: Good morning, my Brothers. Most of you know where Eagle Village is at, so I won't go into that, but there is not a lot of our clubs that are donating to Eagle Village, and it would be nice if every club could come up with $25 or, you know, some of the smaller clubs, even $5, because, you know, there is only like four or five clubs that donated to Eagle Village, and this report should be longer. So try next year. If nothing else, take 50 cents out of your burger for a month or whatever to donate to Eagle Village, because it's a worthy cause. So I'll read them out. Like I said, it is a small report.

REPORT OF EAGLE VILLAGE FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 350 East Grand Forks 351 Bemidji 100.00

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620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 703 Austin 873 Crookston 1163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 25.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 2617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 50.003394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 3882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 4472 Blaine 4486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 750.00


Bruce Meyer, #873, Chairman John Tobie, #2469 Tim Schmitz, #3718

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: And that's a total of $715. Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We've got a motion and a second to accept the report on Eagle Village. Is there any discussion?

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Worthy President Mike, I'd just like to add a few words to that report. Brothers, some day you may want to go to a retirement village like the Eagles have down there, and it is very reasonable and it is a very nice place. They just got done building a new recreation center, whatever, down there. Ron could probably say a little more on this. But please think about it next year for sure, because that's a very poor report for our Eagle Village. Thank you.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Don.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Next on the list would be report of Liver Fund Committee, Gaylen Dvorsak, Runestone Aerie #3063.

BROTHER DVORSAK, PSP: Good morning.


BROTHER DVORSAK, PSP: Worthy President Mike, Worthy Grand reps, my Brothers: This is for the Eagles Liver Fund. One thing I have to point out again on the Liver Fund, we are no longer the Minnesota Liver Fund, Minnesota Eagles Liver Fund. All checks should be made out to the American Liver Fund. So if you can take that back to your Secretary when he makes out these checks, it would be make it easier when they send them in.

REPORT OF EAGLE LIVER FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis

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94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 25.00 350 East Grand Forks 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 703 Austin 873 Crookston 50.001163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna 200.002212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 2334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 50.002368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 3394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 25.003882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 4472 Blaine 100.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 1,175.00


Gaylen Dvorsak, #3063, Chairman Donnie Nisbit, #2228 Dale Hanson, #2617

BROTHER DVORSAK, PSP: For a total of $1,175. This is presented by (Committee read.) I move for the approval of this report.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We've got Leon Potratz back up for report of Diabetes Committee. Is he here?

BROTHER POTRATZ, NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL PRESIDENT: Worthy President Mike and Grand Aerie reps, Delegates, and my Brothers: On the Diabetes Fund, I've said this every year, go in, get them checkups and make sure that your blood levels are in the right range, because this stuff can really sneak up on you; and there really is no cure, you just have to put up with it, and I know there is several of you out there that's got it, but go in, get that blood checked, and make sure you're in the range.

REPORT OF DIABETES FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 25.00 350 East Grand Forks 25.00 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 200.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 50.001163 Cloquet 100.00

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1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 100.001791 Owatonna 100.002212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 100.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 100.003063 Alexandria 300.003208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 50.003394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 50.003882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 2,135.00


Leon Potratz, #287, Chairman Jim Giesen, #1460 Jerry Altendorf, #2368 Brent Rau, #873

BROTHER POTRATZ, PSP: For a total of $2,135. My Committee is (Committee read.) And I move the adoption of this report.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Next up we have the report of Resolutions Committee. Looks like Jeff Henry and Mike, you're going to take care of that?

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: Good morning, Brothers.


BROTHER JEFF HENRY: Can everybody hear me today? Resolution for supporting Danny Jones for Grand Aerie office.

REPORT OF RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE

RESOLUTION NO. 1

WHEREAS, Danny Jones joined the Fraternal Order of Eagles on May 26, 1992, as a member of Shoals, Indiana, Aerie #2442; and

WHEREAS, Danny Jones advanced through the Chairs, serving as Worthy President from 1994 through 1996, and again for the term 1998 through 1999; and

WHEREAS, Danny Jones served as Indiana District, Zone, and State offices becoming Indiana State Outside Guard in 2009; and

WHEREAS, Danny Jones served as Indiana State President from 2014 to 2015, traveling through the State of Indiana promoting membership and charitable donations; and

WHEREAS, Danny Jones currently serves as Indiana State Treasurer; and

WHEREAS, Danny Jones has served the Grand Aerie and Indiana State Aerie assisting troubled Aeries with internal problems and financial difficulties; and

WHEREAS, Danny Jones was selected as the first International Director of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Center for the 2016-2017 Fraternal year; and

WHEREAS, Danny Jones served as Central Regional President for the 2017-2018 Fraternal year; and

WHEREAS, Danny Jones was elected Grand Outside Guard at the Grand Convention in Dallas, Texas, for the 2018-2019 Fraternal year and was appointed Grand Inside Guard in October 2018; and

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WHEREAS, Danny Jones possesses 35 years of business and sales management experience to assist the Grand Aerie with membership expansion and financial stability; and finally

NOW THEN, LET IT BE RESOLVED, that the Delegates to this 116th Annual Convention of the Minnesota State Aerie, here assembled, give our support to Brother Danny on this 14th day of June 2019.


Weasel Henry, #873, Chairman Mike Hadel, #34 Jeff Henry, #269

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: Should we do both resolutions at the same time?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Sure.

STATE TRUSTEE HADEL: My Brothers, resolution.

RESOLUTION NO. 2

WHEREAS, Brother Ronald Malz has been a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles since 1982; and

WHEREAS, Brother Malz has served as an Officer of Faribault Aerie #1460, serving as President in 1988 to 1989; and

WHEREAS, Brother Malz served all local and State Chairs, serving as Minnesota State President in 1999 to 2000; and

WHEREAS, Brother Malz was appointed and served as the North Central Regional President for the year 2006 to 2007; and

WHEREAS, Brother Malz was elected and served as Grand Aerie Outside Guard, Grand Aerie Conductor, Grand Aerie Chaplain, and as Grand Aerie Trustee for four years; and

WHEREAS, Brother Malz has devoted his time and talents to furthering the ideals of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Delegates of the 116th Annual Convention of the Minnesota State Aerie, here assembled, give our support to Brother Ron Malz for re-election to Grand Aerie Officer in 2019-2020 on this 14th day of June 2019.



STATE TRUSTEE HADEL: Worthy President, I make a motion that these resolutions be adopted.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother John Barrus, #873; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll now have report of the Obituary Committee by Jeff Allen, New Brighton #3718.

BROTHER JEFF ALLEN: Good morning, my Brothers. Grand reps, State Officers, my Brothers: Here's your Obituary Report.

2019 STATE OBITUARY COMMITTEE REPORT

AERIE NO. CITY NO. OF DECEASED PAST WORTHY PRESIDENTS

33 St. Paul 1 34 Minneapolis 6 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato 11 James Steinbauer 287 Brainerd 5 Glen Vogt 350 East Grand Forks 11 Francis Babinski 351 Bemidji 11 Dean Schnell (Charter) 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 32 Wilfred Schauer 703 Austin 873 Crookston 8 Dave Hume1163 Cloquet 0 Jim Putnam1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 71791 Owatonna 10 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 19 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 20 Gary Cunningham-John King-Charles Harty-Ron Hagen2334 Willmar 11 2339 Fergus Falls 2 2342 Detroit Lakes 7 Gary Wicker, Jim Clemens2368 Thief River Falls 11 Ronald Hamre2469 Grand Rapids 12

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2617 Hallock 7 3063 Alexandria 0 3208 Bloomington 4 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 6 Bill Rowe3394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 6 Lowell Bloomquist, Robert Larson3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 5 Keith Lackey, Jr.3882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 0 4472 Blaine 0 4486 Blue Earth

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Respectfully submitted, Jeff Allen, #3718, Chairman Weasel Henry, #873 All District Directors

BROTHER ALLEN: For a total of 212 deceased Brothers. I move for the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Mike Melby, #350. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Before we approve that report --

STATE CHAPLAIN BEGGS: Worthy President, I would request that we stand for a moment of silence.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: That's what I was getting at. All stand for a moment of silent prayer for our Brothers.

(WHEREUPON, all Delegates rise for a moment of silent prayer.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Now for the approval of the Obituary. There was a first and second. Any discussion? Anybody have anything to add that was missed on it?


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Jeff. Report of the Camping Club, Keith Rende, Willmar #2334.

REPORT OF CAMPING CLUB COMMITTEE

Good morning, my Brothers, again. Grand Aerie reps, Worthy President, State Officers, dignitaries, and my fellow Eagles: This is your 2019 Camping Committee report. The Committee members are (Committee read).

Camping is a time to renew old friends and to establish new friends. It is a place that you will meet Eagle members that you may not normally get a chance. There are campers who don't frequent the Aerie home, that they don't attend other meetings and other Conventions.

This year, the Tenth Annual District #5 Campout was held from August 3rd to August 5th at Camp Faribault in Faribault. They had a registration and usual meet-and-greet on Friday afternoon, followed by a hotdog roast. On Saturday, there was a breakfast by Peter and Jill, and the ever-popular Bloody Marys by Tina were served Saturday and Sunday mornings. They did a live auction followed by a ladder golf tournament with snacks being served. That evening a potluck was served and karaoke was set up by Jim. Sunday was a breakfast by Peter and Jill, followed by Bloody Marys by Tina, and socializing. The flyer for the 12th Annual, or 11th Annual District #5 Campout is on the table in the back, if you want to grab one. The dates for it, again, are Friday, August 2nd, through Sunday, August 4th.

District #6 had their 47th Annual Campout in Adrian Campgrounds in Adrian, Minnesota. It was held the 20th through the 22nd of July. Friday was set up for registration, socializing time, and hotdogs. There was approximately $4,000 raised in their raffle this year, so I appreciate that. I think it's going to the Jimmy Durante Children's Fund. Saturday morning started with socializing. Late morning there was a white elephant auction followed by a bean bag tournament. Saturday evening meal was a potluck supper, and Saturday morning a drawing was held and all the proceeds went to the Jimmy Durante Children's Fund. The flyers are again out for the 48th Annual Campout, and I think, Joel, do you have extra copies of it or where can we get them? Well, they're out, anyway. Blue ones. And this year's campout is from July 26th through the 28th, and again will be held at Adrian Campgrounds in Adrian, Minnesota.

I know that both campouts would truly love to see each other, to see each and every one of us in attendance. Those of you that don't camp, obviously go to a motel close to the area and come to just the camp area to enjoy the festivities.

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And lastly, I would encourage more Districts and Aeries to get involved with campouts. Please let me know if you have anything going on so I can inform other Eagles of your endeavors, because once you get started on something like this, it will become an annual event.

Worthy President, I had one check come to me from Blaine Aerie for $100.


Keith Rende, #2334, Chairman Dale Neu, #3424 Milton Smail, #351 Neil Rothbarth, #1243 Kenny Klutz, #3420

BROTHER RENDE: And at this time, I'd like to move for adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Neil Rothbarth, #1243. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We had a motion and a second to approve the report of the Camping. Any discussion?

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Worthy President, I do have one just small discussion point. 100 bucks is great for Blaine, but how is that, where is it going to go?

BROTHER RENDE: This year it's District #6's turn to get any checks. So this will go to the Jimmy Durante Children's Fund.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: All right. Thank you.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Any other discussion?


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll have report of the Youth and Local Donations by Randy Beggs, Crookston Aerie #873.

STATE CHAPLAIN BEGGS: Good morning, my Brothers. Grand Aerie reps, State Officers: This is the other Minnesota Local and Youth Donations report. I will read the Aeries that submitted reports.

REPORT OF YOUTH AND LOCAL DONATIONS


33 St. Paul $ 7,130.00 34 Minneapolis 45,092.00 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato 222,271.00 287 Brainerd 22,150.00 350 East Grand Forks 15,555.38 351 Bemidji 30,998.27 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 6,294.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 20,370.001163 Cloquet 20,845.001243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna 22,343.282212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 34,375.002242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 7,500.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 1,100.002368 Thief River Falls 56,451.272469 Grand Rapids 40,650.602617 Hallock 8,200.003063 Alexandria 7,299.653208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 670.003394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 28,000.003882 Roseau 300.003918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad

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4456 Hibbing 4472 Blaine 1,200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 598,795.45


Randy Beggs, #873, Chairman Larry Silverthorn, #351

STATE CHAPLAIN BEGGS: Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.

BROTHER EAGLES: Total.

STATE CHAPLAIN BEGGS: Total, I'm sorry, $598,795.45. (Applause.)

. . .Motion seconded by Brother John Barrus, #873; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We've got the report of the Alzheimer's Foundation by Bob Lee, Detroit Lakes Aerie #2342.

BROTHER LEE, PSP: Thank you, Worthy President. My Brothers, Grand Aerie reps: This is the report of the Alzheimer's Committee, and I better read the Committee members before I forget to. (Committee read.)

REPORT OF ALZHEIMER’S FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 350 East Grand Forks 25.00 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 200.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 1163 Cloquet 100.001243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 500.002242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 25.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 100.003063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 3394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 50.003882 Roseau 38.823918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 1,973.82


Bob Lee, #2362, Chairman Mike Melby, #350

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Duane Comstock, #4195 Bruce Meyer, #873

BROTHER LEE, PSP: For a grand total of $1,973.82. Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Jeff Henry, #269; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Next line of order was supposed to be the introduction of our Past Grand Worthy President George Ziebol. He couldn't make it here today. We wish him all the best.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: Worthy President, that being the case, could we take like a 20-minute break?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: No. But I would like to bring up Larry Gilge, Dakota State President. He has something for us.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: One of the things I neglected to do yesterday, and I just want to thank you guys, you've done a great job on the hospitality and just the togetherness that you show, been a great Conference so far, and I hope the ice is good tonight.

Question for you: How many of are you golfers, raise your hand. Okay. How many of you are good golfers, raise your hand. If you have been out to Bully Pulpit in Medora golfing, have you raise your hand. We have one person. Okay. If you haven't golfed Bully Pulpit and you are a golfer, you're missing out, and here's an opportunity for you to do that.

The Home on the Range is going to have The Dakota Scramble on the Home on the Range on June 30th. So we're only two weeks away from this. Registration and the driving range opens at 8:00 o'clock. 10:00 o'clock is the shotgun start. There is going to be prizes on every hole. Dinner will be provided after The Scramble. There will be prizes for first, middle, and last place. So even us losers have a chance to win, so. There is four people to a team, $400 to the team. That money goes to Home on the Range for their spiritual program that they've got going on. And if you're interested, I've got the paperwork here, looking to get some copies made. To Don Wintersteen, thank you, you had these for me. But it's really a neat, neat golf course. I don't remember which hole it is, but one of the holes you start off at the tee box 200 feet above your actual hole. So you're teeing off and it's like shhooo. It's like when you get married, that cliff you dive off, you know. Sorry, ladies. It's really an opportunity. Take the opportunity to go out there and golf Bully Pulpit, you won't regret it. Right, Paul?

BROTHER PAUL NIEMI: Yeah, see the show, see the town. It's a tourist destination.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: Yup. The musical is absolutely amazing. My wife and I have gone every year for about the last ten years to Medora just to go to the musical. Drive to the park. Theodore Roosevelt Park is about a 28-mile loop through the Park. You will see everything from prairie dogs to elk, lots of wild horses, buffalo. If you're really lucky, you might get to see a mountain lion on some of the hiking trails out there. But it's really neat. The last time we were out there, we actually had a bull buffalo that was as close as the flag is to me to the car, and he walked across the road and we sat there, and you're not going to move him and you don't honk the horn, so you just wait for them to move; and it was just so neat because you could hear them breathe and, I mean, just the majestic part of seeing one that close is just awesome.

So take that opportunity, go out there, and make sure you stop at The Taffy Shop at Medora too. Creighton Thurman's cousins own The Taffy Shop, and they have some fireball taffy around the Sturgis time. If you like fireball, that taffy is amazing.

But thank you again, folks, for your hospitality. Thanks for the opportunity to come and be part of this.

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Worthy President, Don Wintersteen, Aerie #351. Larry, before you sit down, I know we have a bunch of dual members. I'm a dual out of Vermillion #2821. But we have a lot of Minnesota people, Delegates here, that the Dakotas is hosting MINK this year, and when I was in the Dakotas, they were saying they needed help. So do you want to bring that up maybe? How many dual members we got here in Minnesota for South Dakota? (Show of hands.) See, there is a lot of them.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: I love you guys. My wife and I are going to be the host couple for our MINK Convention. If you're not familiar with MINK, MINK is Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and the Dakotas. We have a giant conference first weekend in April. It is a lot of fun. I walked away -- they write ten checks to all the Presidents and the Auxiliary. This year I walked away with almost 1300 bucks as a check from MINK. So that was a really nice opportunity.

But we are hosting it, and we want to show Missouri and Kansas and all these other guys that the Dakotas know how to have fun and know how to put on a party. So we're looking for people that are interested in coming. And actually, in Jamestown last week, we had some challenges that went out from one Aerie to another, and it sounds like they are putting together a 50-passenger bus that's going to be leaving from Valley City, I should say, not Jamestown, and they're going to pick people up along the way; and so if you want to come down to Fargo, we'll pick people up in Fargo. But we're going to get some more information on the bus.

And if you've ever been on a bus ride with us, there is lots of apple pie, and it's not the pie, it's, it's the good stuff. The last bus trip between Fargo and Vermillion was three bottles, and there was only 30 people on that bus, so you can imagine how we felt when we hit Vermillion. So we know how to have fun.

Omaha, Nebraska, is where the MINK Conference is. It's at the--I can't even think of the name--Embassy Suites. And so if you've been there for Past Presidents school, Omaha is just a beautiful place

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to go, right across from old town, which is a great time to walk around and visit, and so it's a lot of fun. Starts Friday night, 40 bucks, all you can eat and drink all the way through Sunday morning. So it's pretty cheap and we have a great time. We know how to have fun, so. And I'm not positive on the theme yet. We'll let you know.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Excuse me, Larry.


BROTHER PETERS, PSP: I've got a smart-ass question.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: Yeah, I wouldn't expect anything else.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: So yes, I understand the MINK Convention, but it's Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas. Where does the D come in?

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: We're working on that, we're working on that. So we're hoping that they are going to bring us into the name here in the future. We've been a member I believe now for it's either nine or ten years with the MINK. They've been around 21 years. So we've been around about half as long as they've been, and I think people are understanding the positive input that the Dakotas have brought to the MINK, and I think it's been a great thing for the MINK and I think the -- there is just a few of them we've got to convince that it's important that we're part of that, so. Yeah, and Missouri is the one, but they'll come around to us. We're just that good of people that they love us.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Larry.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: Yes?

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Problem solved. You put a little Scandinavian twist on it, it's DMINK.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: We, we thought DMINK, or if Missouri leaves, then it's KIND. So just a lot of fun things that we do down there, folks. We have constant contests, and social hour is a lot of fun, lots of karaoke and food. And just take that opportunity, if you can. It would be a great time and you won't regret it.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Larry. (Applause.) Took about the same time a speech that George would do. It sounded a little winded there. Okay. Now as Special Order, we'll call up Grand Justice John Tobie.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Fortunately, I did not go to the George Ziebol school of speaking, so.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: You taught him.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Be careful. Grand Officers, State Officers, my Brothers: Good morning.


GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: I am so impressed to see so many young and new faces at this Convention, and I hope that you're having fun. I hope that you're finding this Convention educational and informational. Hope you get to take things back to your own Aeries when you're done.

Yes, I'm a Grand Tribunal Justice. So what is a Justice and what does he do? Well, I'm on a panel of five Justices, and we're appointed by the incoming Grand Worthy President on staggered terms. There is five of us, and I guess you could equate us to the Supreme Court of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. We don't make law. This is the law of the Eagles (indicating). Delegates at the International Convention make the law. The Grand Tribunal interprets the law.

We offer official opinions, when asked through proper channels, and if you ever page through the Constitution, there are not all the opinions in there, but you'll see quite a few opinions where, you know, the law was made by the Delegates and it's kind of a gray area, so somebody will ask an official opinion, and it will be annotated in the Constitution if it's needed to.

Another function is to handle appeals from trials. Trials happen. I want to thank the Dakotas and Minnesota. In the past years, your trials are at a bare, bare minimum as far as appeals to the Grand Aerie that we see. But some states and some Aeries, they don't communicate with each other, they communicate through trials.

We've got one Aerie where right now where they're just slinging stuff back at each other. There are currently nine trials set to take place in one Aerie, and I am probably sure that of those nine trials, we probably have nine appeals, because nobody is happy with the outcome of a trial. So you have the right of appeal through the Constitution, and that's the function of the Grand Tribunal. And trials are expensive, time-consuming. They divide your Aerie up. No offense, but a stenographer like Jan comes in and does the official transcript. We've seen transcript costs anywhere from $500 to $3,000, and these costs are borne by the local Aerie.

So another function of what we do, and what we've done the last couple years, we've developed a training program. We put together a Powerpoint presentation that's available on FOE.com, and when asked, we go out in the field. We've been to, most of the Justices have been to State Conventions, Regional Conferences, State Conferences, and we'll put on the Powerpoint presentation on mediation, conciliation, trial process, and answer any questions. Our goal is to educate the members that although some trials are necessary, most of them can be settled through conciliation and mediation and not have to go to trial; and if you understand the process, you can see where you can avoid a trial and avoid this cost and hard feelings in your local Aerie.

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So again, I really, I have not seen a trial appeal come through our office in the three years that I've been there from Minnesota and Dakotas. So apparently you're handling things in-house or you guys are going out the back door to settle things, but at least we don't see a trial.

I've enjoyed my tenure as a Grand Tribunal Justice, and I look forward to the next three years serving the Eagles and protecting the rights of all members, Aerie and Auxiliary, by their rights in the Constitution.

Should you ever have any questions, and I know several of you in this room have called me up, and like I tell you, this is an unofficial opinion, I'll point you in the right direction, but if you want to get the absolute law, we don't like to answer questions on the phone, but we'll point you in the right direction, because somewhere out there they'll say, well, Justice John Tobie said this or Justice Sobestro said this. So we encourage everybody to call the Grand Aerie office. We have a Secretary from the Grand Tribunal office, and she's normally there five days a week, Jolie Stauffer, and she's the one that will answer all your questions; and if they get off subject and it's really related to the Grand Secretary's office or membership or whatever, she'll point you in that right direction.

I have seen so many weird appeals that I've rolled my eyes where I've seen the back of my head. We've had three appeals this year where people have been found guilty of fraud for taking an application blank that somebody turned in and crossing off the first proposer's name and putting their own down. And it's so stupid. But there are some Secretaries or whatever, and under the new definition of fraud, by taking that first proposer's name off, you've deprived him of a chance of winning a prize. And like I say, it's really minimal. But three times in the past year, this has happened? It should never happen.

So my Brothers, I hope you continue enjoying this Convention, and welcome to Grand Rapids, my home Aerie; and again, if you have any questions in the future, feel free to contact me or the Grand Aerie office. Thank you. (Applause and standing ovation.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, John. John, I'd also like to thank you for last night for emceeing for me again.

GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Thank you. Knock knock.


GRAND JUSTICE TOBIE, PSP: Frank you too.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Worthy President Hanny.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Vinny.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: If anybody needs John's contact information, it's in the ladies' room.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: That's where he was. Okay. We'll have the second reading of the proposed changes to the By-Laws. It looks like my buddy Gaylen Dvorsak is going to take care of that for Vance.

BROTHER DVORSAK, PSP: Yes, thank you, Vance.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: You're welcome.

BROTHER DVORSAK, PSP: Hello again, Brothers. This is a general housekeeping change and tying us in directly with the Grand Aerie on due dates of payment of our per capita.

Our By-Law, Section 5.1, which we are looking to change. As it reads now:

REPORT OF THE BY-LAWS COMMITTEE

Present By-Law

Section 5.1 Each local Member Aerie shall pay to this Minnesota State Aerie an annual per capita tax in the sum of One dollar and seventy cents ($1.70) for each member whose name appears on the membership roll of the Local Aerie on the date upon which the Per Capita Tax is due, the same to be paid semi-annually. With regard to dual members, said per capita tax shall be paid by the home Aerie of said dual member and shall not be paid by any other Aerie in which said person is a member.

Now the proposed By-Law change to Section 5.1:

Proposed By-Law




STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Gaylen. We'll now have Leon up here, again, for the report of the Golden Eagle Committee.

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BROTHER POTRATZ, NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL PRESIDENT: I'm going to announce my Committee (Committee read). The Golden Eagle Fund, that's a committee that was put into operation I believe in 1971 at the Grand Aerie Convention, and it's aging years and different things that they might need, books and stuff like that to read.

REPORT OF GOLDEN EAGLE FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 350 East Grand Forks 25.00 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 200.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 50.001163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 100.001791 Owatonna 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 25.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 100.003063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 50.003394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 50.003882 Roseau 38.823918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 100.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 1,473.82


Leon Potratz, #287, Chairman Ervin Scherer, #622 Keith Rende, #2334 Carl Melby, #873

BROTHER POTRATZ, NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL PRESIDENT: With a total of $1,473.82. Is there anybody out there that was on this list that didn't get read or anything? Worthy President, I move the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Fred Schrader, #351.. .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We've got a motion and a Schrader for the report of the Golden Eagle. Is there any discussion?


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. We've got the report of the Youth Guidance slash Boy Scouts Committee by Doug Lind.

STATE TRUSTEE LIND: I have the report, the Boy Scout donation Youth Activity Report. Before I give the report, I just want to say that as being a past Scoutmaster for 16 years and being involved in Scouts, the donations you make to the Boy Scouts, make them to your local troops and packs. They're the ones that really need the money. The councils, the money doesn't, if you send the money to the council,

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it doesn't always get back down to the troops and the packs. So if you have troops and packs in your town, donate directly to them.

REPORT OF YOUTH GUIDANCE (BOY SCOUTS) COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 11,060.00 287 Brainerd 350 East Grand Forks 351 Bemidji 1,553.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 2,480.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 1163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna 100.002212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 2334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 3394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 25.003882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 4472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 15,543.00


Wally Manderud, #2339, Chairman Doug Lind, #2258 Mike Melby, #350 Tim Sund, #2368 Richard Boyles, #3718

STATE TRUSTEE LIND: For a total of $15,543. The Committee is (Committee read.) Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: I guess at this time we're going to have nominations of any bids.

ASSISTANT STATE SECRETARY FEE: We'll do Officers first.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: You want Officers first, okay. Officers, nominations of Officers. Well, first one, granted, you're pretty much there, introduction of our --

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Worthy President, Don Wintersteen, Aerie #351. This particular Brother, I've nominated up through the Chairs, and it's probably too late, but I sort of changed my mind. But he has done a very good job coming up through the Chairs. Larry Silverthorn, congratulations. (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Larry, I'm sure you accept this?

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STATE VICE PRESIDENT SILVERTHORN: Oh, I think so. At least Donny does the job. A lot of times I have to worry about Vance; he just falls asleep.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Well, good luck next year. We'll bring up the nominations for Worthy Vice President/President-Elect.

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: I'm not going to walk around. Good afternoon again. I got lazy, I didn't want to walk all the way around the room, so. I was asked by a gentleman here probably 12 months ago if I would nominate him this year, and I told him I would, but I'm not going to nominate him for an office again. So at this point in time, I'd like to put into nomination for Vice President/President-Elect Randy Beggs from Crookston #873.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Randy, do you accept?

STATE CHAPLAIN BEGGS: Worthy President, I humbly accept that nomination.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Is there any other nominations for Worthy President/President-Elect? Any other nominations for the Vice President, for Worthy Vice President/President-Elect? Any other nominations for Worthy Vice President/President-Elect? Hearing none, congratulations, Randy. Next we'll have nominations for Worthy Chaplain.

BROTHER SCOTT KNEPPER: Worthy President, Scott Knepper, Dacotah Aerie #350. Good morning, Brothers. I would like to nominate a good friend, good Brother, Roger Hyatt, for Worthy Chaplain.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Roger, do you accept?

STATE CONDUCTOR HYATT: Worthy President, I accept.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Are there any other nominations for Worthy Chaplain? Any other nominations for Worthy Chaplain? Any other nominations for Worthy Chaplain? Hearing none, congratulations, Roger. Next one on the line is nominations for Brother Treasurer for a three-year term.

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: John Tobie, #2469. I'm going to keep this nomination short. No pun intended. I continue to believe that anybody that can control Cindy's spending can certainly control ours. I nominate Minnesota State Hall of Fame recipient Bruce Meyer for another term as State Treasurer.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Bruce, do you accept a three-year term for --

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: I do. But I want to make one thing clear. I cannot control Cindy's spending. I am standing.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. Are there any other nominations for Brother Treasurer for a three-year term? Any other nominations for State Treasurer for a three-year term? Any other nominations for Treasurer for a three-year term? Hearing none, congratulations, Bruce. Now we'll have nominations for Worthy Conductor.

BROTHER JOHN CEDERGREN: Worthy State President Hanny, Delegates, Grand Worthy Reps: John Cedergren, Mankato Aerie #269, proudly nominates our friend Darrell Spencer for the office of State Conductor.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Papa, do you accept?

STATE INSIDE GUARD SPENCER: I accept, of course.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Are there any other nominations for Worthy Conductor? Any other nominations for Worthy Conductor? Any other nominations for Worthy Conductor? Hearing none, that's closed. Congratulations, Papa. Now we'll have nominations for Worthy Inside Guard.

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: John Tobie, Aerie #2469. I'm going to keep this simple. I'd like to place the name of Mike Melby to a position of Inside Guard. Mike has served his terms as Trustee and this year as Outside Guard, and I guess it's time to let the kid inside the door. Mike promised me after last night, he's done drinking for good. He's only going to drink for evil from now on. And with that, knock knock.


BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Mike.

BROTHER EAGLES: Mike who?

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Mike Melby for Inside Guard, that's who.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Brother Mike, do you accept?

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: Worthy President, I do accept.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. Are there any other nominations for Worthy Inside Guard? Any other nominations for Worthy Inside Guard? Any other nominations for Worthy Inside Guard? Hearing none, congratulations. Now we'll have nominations for Worthy Outside Guard.

BROTHER KEN AYERS: Worthy President, Ken Ayers, Albert Lea #2258. I'd like to place in nomination Outside Guard our Aerie Secretary, he's a Past President, President on the Ritual team, he does shotgun on the Grand Aerie Ritual, he's a past Boy Scout Leader and Scoutmaster. Place in nomination Brother Doug Lind.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Doug, do you accept?

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STATE TRUSTEE LIND: I accept the nomination.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Are there any other nominations for Worthy Outside Guard? Any other nominations for Worthy Outside Guard? Any other nominations for Worthy Outside Guard? Hearing none, congratulations, Doug. Now we have the nominations for State Trustees. If you're going to nominate anybody, come on up here, so get in line.

BROTHER MILLER, PSP: Worthy President, I would like to nominate John Vogt from Brainerd, 41-year member of the Eagles, and he has served as President, and he is now this year our District #3 President. So John Vogt, please.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: John, do you accept?

TRUSTEE JOHN VOGT: I do accept.

BROTHER DVORSAK, PSP: Worthy President, Brothers: I have the honor of nominating Richard Peterson out of Willmar #2334. He's a 21-year member, two-time Aerie President, Past District President for District #3, he is an All State Ritual man, and very humbled to nominate Richard Peterson.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Richard, do you accept?

BROTHER RICHARD PETERSON: Worthy President, I accept.

BROTHER LEE, PSP: Worthy President, Bob Lee, #2342. It's once again my privilege to nominate the following gentleman for State Trustee. He's a 36-year member of East Grand Forks Aerie #350. He's been married for 29 years with Barbara, and he has a 27-year-old daughter, Rachel. He is a two-time Dacotah Aerie #350 Past Worthy President, 2017 District #2 Eagle of the Year, Past President and a Director of District #2, and member of the State Ritual Committee, and I am proud to say a friend of mine. Scott Knepper.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Scott, do you accept?

BROTHER KNEPPER: Worthy President, yes, I do.

BROTHER ALLEN: I'd like to nominate Mike Hadel for State Trustee. He's a 12-year Secretary, a current Trustee, Past State Secretary of the Year, Minnesota State Hall of Fame member. Never runs away from a challenge, and he'll always listen to you and care. So I'd like to nominate Mike Hadel.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Mike, do you accept?

STATE TRUSTEE HADEL: Worthy President, I accept. Thank you.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Worthy President, for nomination to State Trustee, I did not grab his shit sheet from out on the walls, but, that's just what I call it, but anyways, Fred Schrader from California and Bemidji Aerie #351. He's gone through all the Chairs in California, I believe, and currently President of Aerie #351. So I submit for nomination to State Trustees Fred Schrader.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Fred, do you accept?

BROTHER SCHRADER: I do.

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Worthy President, Don Wintersteen, Aerie #351. You all know Fred, I'm sure of that, Second Fred. But he is a Past President from California, he has been President, he came up through the Chairs, been the Trustee of everything of #351; and he is a good man, although he does like to second motions, but that's good, we need to keep Convention moving, and that's what I wanted to say to all you Brothers. Don't be scared to stand up and second this, anything, so we can keep things moving, and I'll shut up so we can keep moving.

BROTHER CONNELL, Jr.PSP: I'll second that.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: John, do you want to take over my position here?

(WHEREUPON, State President Hanson leaves his station for a moment.)

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Are there any other nominations for Trustee?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: The Brother that I want to nominate for Trustee should be standing right there where I am this year, because he was ahead of me in the Chairs, work made him I guess bow out, so this would be Jim Giesen's spot here this year. So I think he would make a great Trustee and he's got the time now and work availability, and I nominate Jim Giesen for State Trustee.

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Jim Giesen, do you accept?

BROTHER GIESEN: Worthy President, I do accept.

(WHEREUPON, State President Hanson returns to his station.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. Are there any other nominations for State Trustee? Any other nominations for State Trustee? Any other nominations for State Trustee? What do we have?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Six.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Six. We'll do this bid and we'll let Kenny talk about his Election Committee on the voting and that tomorrow. Do we have any bids for Convention City in 2020, or is that --

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: 2022.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: 2020?

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STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: 2022.

ASSISTANT STATE SECRETARY FEE: Yeah, that was wrong, typo.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Get up earlier. Okay, 2022.

BROTHER RON ANKRUM: #1791 would like to put a bid in for Convention.

BROTHER EAGLE: Little louder, please.

BROTHER ANKRUM: Owatonna, Owatonna wants to put in a bid for 2022.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Are there any other bids? Any other bids for 2022? Any other bids for 2022? Owatonna in 2022. (Applause.)

BROTHER SCHRADER: Worthy President, I'd like to cast a white ballot for all unopposed Officers.

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Have the Secretary.

BROTHER SCHRADER: Have the Secretary.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Secretary, would you like to pose that white vote?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Worthy President, I hereby cast a white ballot for all unopposed offices of the Minnesota State Aerie.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. Now we'll hear from our Election Committee, Ken Kunkel, St. Cloud #622.

REPORT OF ELECTION COMMITTEE

BROTHER KUNKEL, PSP: Thank you. Thank you, Worthy President. Grand Aerie representatives, State Officers, and my Brothers: This is a partial report of the Election Committee, and I shall start with naming the Election Committee, which is Larry Swiers #2342, Marv Karau #3420, Duane Kuehl #2342, Don Wintersteen #351, Bob Parkin #3063, Earl Sletten #1791, Bob Nogosek 2228, Dale Neu #3424, and Steve Schromm Aerie #33, and Kenneth J. Kunkel, Chairman. Election Committee.

Well, I think as the world has gone before and the Conventions have gone before, I should probably tell a little story to loosen things up, and Jan, I think maybe you should not take these notes. Okay?


BROTHER KUNKEL, PSP: Anyway, we will be voting tomorrow morning at 8:00 o'clock, and we'll be voting in the game room, which is you go out this door and take a quick left and kind of go through a storage area. As a matter of fact, it's right behind that curtain there.

The voting will start at 8:00 o'clock. We have a heck of a nice bunch of guys running this year. That shows that we have a healthy Aerie in the State of Minnesota.

But anyway, you can vote for three. You can vote for one, you can vote for two, or you can vote for three. But damn it, you can't vote for four. All right? Because if you do, we're going to have to throw the ballot out, and I hate doing that. It messes up my count something fierce.

So anyhow, my Brothers, we'll see you tomorrow morning at 8:00 o'clock. I would like the Committee to meet at 7:30 so we can get things set up, so we can run them through here like a production line. All right? Thank you, Worthy President. We'll be finishing this report tomorrow.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Kenny. We'll have a partial report of the Credentials Committee, John Batchelder, Rapids.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Thank you, Worthy President. Partial report, day 2, registration report 2019 State Convention: Number of Aeries represented 33, Delegates 88, Past Presidents 85, Ten Year Secretaries 3, State Officers 14, Past State President 20, for a total votes of 214, and visitors are at 6. This is a partial report of the Credentials Committee.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, John. Now under Special Order of Business, I'd like to bring up here our Grand Aerie Vice President/President-Elect, our very own Ron Malz. (Applause).

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Thank you, Hanny. State President Mike, Grand Aerie reps, State Officers, my Brothers: Good morning.


BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Just want to start, I want to congratulate all your Officers moving up into new positions, and it's quite a deal to go around, travel around the country, and there is not that much interest in State Offices, but you got six people running for Trustee, and that is fantastic. So we're doing something right in Minnesota. We've got a lot of good people here.

I asked the Trustees to help me out here. They're handing out some little candy bars and stuff. If anybody has been at the National Convention for about the last eight years, you know, I've put them out on the tables, and it's just a little thank you for your support over the years moving up through the Chairs. So unless you have diabetes, otherwise enjoy them.

My program this year, theme is Twist and Shout, Get the Word Out. Looking at this bunch, I think you all remember the twist-and-shout part. I don't know if you can do it anymore. But we're going to try and do it over the years as stuff comes up, celebrations and stuff, and we're going to have some fun.

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We've been real serious for about the last five, six, seven years. We've paid off the DRC loan, building a new rec center at Eagle Village, getting that taken care of, and so it's about time we sit back and enjoy and start signing up members and have fun doing it.

This year we did make net gain across the jurisdiction. Minnesota came out a little bit short. So people keep asking me what my program is going to be or what my goals are, and I was going to say, well, let's go net gain and two percent. Because we made it, so let's add that extra two percent on. It's just multiplying more and more. You've got more people in here now, so you've got more people asking and people enjoying. So take advantage of that.

But membership, I've been traveling and, you know, I ran into, a couple weeks ago I was in Oklahoma for the State Convention, and they made net gain four percent. Well, the Auxiliary down there made net gain 12 percent. So I'm sitting there figuring out, you know, maybe I should go about net gain and we'll try for 16 or 18 percent. That would really help.

Over the years, at Grand Aerie Convention, you've got our chief cook and bottle washer, our CFO, Larry Rush, and he gets up there and gives the financial reports of the Grand Aerie, and he's not one to mince words. He's been saying for the last few years unless things change, we're going to have to go out and get a per capita tax increase, we just don't have any other way of going about it. Well, I kept telling people on my travels, you know, you can fight that, and the simplest matter would be to go out and ask people to join the Fraternal Order of Eagles, because the more membership we've got, the more per capita tax coming in and the more better off financially the Grand Aerie is.

This year, Larry Rush, you're going to have quite a report on the floor for him, because he's happier than heck. We made net gain, membership is coming in fast and heavy yet, and so there is a lot of per capita tax coming in. So my Brothers, you've kept the per capita tax the same, you're doing a great job of it, and keep signing up those members.

You sign up, you ask somebody to join, what's the worst thing that can happen. They're just going to say no. Well, give them a couple weeks and go back and hit them up again. Wear them down and get them in. But, you know, hopefully Minnesota next year will make net gain. Larry's going to get off to a running start here, so really talk it up.

My project, you heard last night, is Camp Confidence, and Dan showed my membership promotions yesterday. The black shirt and the travel bag.

The one thing, we did make net gain, yes, in the jurisdiction, but right now, we are set to lose 111,000 members as of last week, because we've got a drop time coming up. That will be 7/11, that's the day I'm going to be installed as your Grand Worthy President, but that's going to be the drop date for all these members.

So go back to your Aeries, check with your Secretaries, find out who hasn't paid their dues yet, who hasn't re-enrolled, or just paid their dues. But keep them on the rolls.

I was talking to Scott Houghtaling, Grand Worthy President's office. He was telling me the other day that yes, we're getting there, it was a lot more than that, it was over 120,000 that we were going to lose, but it was down to 111,000 last week and it's going down every day. So just make sure you contact your people. Make sure that they get their dues paid, so come July 11th, that they don't get dropped.

I've got to congratulate you guys. I mean, it's something. The local donations, almost $600,000. And I think if we would have had every Aerie send a report in, we would have been probably close to a million. And that's something that we've got to let people know what's going on, that's where we get the word out.

We've got to let people know who we are, what we are, and how much money we actually do for donations throughout our jurisdiction. Any items that you have, any events that are coming up, get them advertised. If you are not sure how to do it, get ahold of our marketing department at the Grand Aerie. That's what they're for, they're your employees. And Zack and his crew will put out a marketing proposal for you, either for the radio or newspaper. It will be all set, ready to go, because they know how to do it and how to format it and stuff. So take advantage of them and get your events publicized.

But once again, my Brothers, it's great to be here. I want to thank you for all your support over the years, it's been fantastic, and I really appreciate it, and I hope you can all make it down to Louisville in July and attend the installation. Thank you, my Brothers. God bless, and I'll see you where Eagles fly. (Applause and standing ovation.)

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Worthy President, Don Wintersteen, Aerie #351. Under a little challenge, you might say, Aerie #351 has a very high quota to make each year. I would like to challenge all the other Aeries, we can make it for Minnesota, please help Ron.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Yes, let's do that. Seeing another Special of Order Business, John, do you have one?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Announcements.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Yeah, we'll go to announcements. Announcements?

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: Worthy President, we have some people without the door that would like to gain entrance.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Of the female persuasion?

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: Of the female persuasion, yes, sir.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Worthy Chaplain, do you want to close the Bible? Worthy Outside Guard, bring them in.

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STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Check credentials.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT DEB HENRY: You get your husband, I'll get my husband. Not my Eagle, my Eagle hubby.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: This is a surprise.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Yeah, it was for me too. I thought you were coming over to see me, and then I was just going to come over here, but it looks like we were supposed to organize this together and we didn't.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: Worthy President, in my opinion, this is a nice surprise.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Why, thank you. It's my opinion that it is too. Do you want to go in front of your podium?

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: Mike, just agree with everything she says.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: He's President, ask him.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: I'll set it on here. I don't want to set it on your -- we are here because it is tradition, tradition for membership. Joanie and Terry. Actually, Joanie, if you want to talk about the membership just a little bit with them before we get the numbers and all that kind of stuff.

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Can the Brothers in the back hear you?

BROTHER EAGLE: No.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Okay. Joanie is going to talk just a couple minutes about the numbers for membership and how well we did, just to thank everybody.

SISTER JOAN LUBITZ: As a whole, the membership for the ladies went really, really well. We were within 101 of two percent net gain. We were so close.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Yeah, even though we didn't have a competition, we kind of did. I really did want to beat you.

SISTER LUBITZ: Yeah, yeah. But overall, I think it went really well. After everything was cleaned up last year, after dropped members, we really know who and how much we have to work with, and we went forward from there. And of course our theme this year was that we decided also at the Grand was Better Together, because -- you're still hung over, honey. (Laughter.)

But our theme this year was Better Together, because when an Aerie and Auxiliary work well together, they do very well together and they're very strong, and it makes for a strong Minnesota. So that is what we are after.

And of course Deb's theme was Sparkle with Me for the FOE. Well, because we're better together, we all need a little sparkle.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Ta-dah. So my colors are pink, and everybody knows that I love pink. So really.

(WHEREUPON, tutus were put on Worthy President Hanson and Brother Terry Lubitz.)

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Now your other foot. Right there.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: This is what she had to do for me this morning too, is dress me.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Well, we might have a problem.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Do I get Terry's?

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: She went over the top.

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: Joanie went over the top.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Oh, okay.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Yeah, we've got to stop her.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: I'm bigger on the top than on the bottom.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: I was going to say, he ain't going to make the middle.

SISTER LUBITZ: You look good in that thing.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Unhand me.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Arm through here.

BROTHER EAGLE: Is that how you do Jeff too?

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: I was just going to comment, I don't even do this for Jeff. You're going to be a little ballerina up here then. Let me get it fixed, though, now. Come on. These are mine. Oh, I just did.

SISTER LUBITZ: Do you not dress Jeff in the morning? Come on.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: He's just going to put it on his neck, because it's not fitting.

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SISTER LUBITZ: Oh, that would be cute on his neck. Be like a little pom-pom.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: If I wasn't hot before, I am now.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: They didn't come in men's sizes.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Yeah, they don't come in man sizes.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Oh, sorry, Terry.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Some of us control ourselves.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: All right. How does that feel?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: It feels great.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Does it feel good?

SISTER LUBITZ: This is a man's size.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Well, I don't know.

SISTER LUBITZ: Sort of.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: It fits on my head. Let's see if it fits on his.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Not very helpful.

SISTER LUBITZ: How's that?

(Whistles.)

BROTHER CONNELL, Jr.PSP: Hey, Hanny, what are you doing later on tonight?

BROTHER EAGLE: Mike, are you doing the dollar dance?

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Don't move.

BROTHER EAGLE: Tobie, did you need a date this weekend? We got a new one for you.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Here, this one will fit better on that.

BROTHER EAGLE: On that?

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: On the wig.

SISTER LUBITZ: Yeah, but he doesn't have hair, honey.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Where did that go? Let me grab that.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: You're supposed to stand still.

SISTER LUBITZ: And a little glitter. (Sprays glitter.)

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Can you imagine these two walking down the beach?

SISTER LUBITZ: I know, just awesome.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Now they're ready for the red carpet.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Here. Let me pick that up.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Do you have their compacts?

SISTER LUBITZ: Oh, I have it, so they can look.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: See how beautiful you are.

SISTER LUBITZ: See, here you go. You need to see.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Oh, you don't get your white shirt, because you can't put it over that.

SISTER LUBITZ: Yup. So you just have to see how awesome you are.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: See that, guys, awesome.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Put it in your wallet. It's right here. Did you sparkle him?

SISTER LUBITZ: I did. And then because he can't get his crown on, we're going to sparkle.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Sparkle, sparkle, sparkle, sparkle, sparkle, sparkle, sparkle.

SISTER LUBITZ: This is just --

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: You get fined if you turn your cameras on.

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: We'll have to bring that up to the membership.

SISTER LUBITZ: You're so damn cute.

BROTHER CONNELL, Jr.PSP: This is Snapchat too. She is going to love it.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: We want to thank you guys for doing -- we, I know, yeah, you are in on this, right, because it's whatever I want?

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SISTER LUBITZ: That's right.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: It's been that way all year. I didn't even have to call about nothing--whatever you want, honey, yup, whatever you want.

So Terry and Joanie, we thank you so much for being our Membership Chairs. Joanie, she did awesome, and you guys traveled together and you guys did the Bob thing and the --

SISTER LUBITZ: Put ourselves out there.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Put yourself out there, exactly.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Omahs.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Yeah, omah. But we got you this little token of appreciation, and wear it proudly on your charm bracelets or on your zipper pull on your jacket.

SISTER LUBITZ: Whatever.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Wherever you would like. Okay?

SISTER LUBITZ: You guys are awesome.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Okay, that's our presentation. Thank you, guys. (Applause.)

BROTHER EAGLE: How about a little dance?

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Pam, don't go away. We've got the Bob thing.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Gonna do the Bob thing.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Turn around so we can see you, Hanny.

ASSISTANT STATE SECRETARY FEE: Never looked better.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: One of the other things under the Better Together, everybody was at the banquet, other than a few people that because of a great sellout you people had down here, a few people couldn't be here. And we had the coveted extra award which you guys all seen. This was the Bob the Builder thing, because we can get it done. And it was put forth as a joint venture, but it did end up going to the top percentage over net gain of over 27 percent, which was an Aerie only, they do not have an Auxiliary anymore. So I'd like a Cloquet representative to come up here, because you get the coveted Bob Award. (Applause.)

I didn't even touch on it last night. But this was a golf ball, but of course the Sparkle Girl, they sparkled up the golf ball and everything. So you go and you push his arm and it tells you all the things to do.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY AND SISTER LUBITZ: We can do it yes, yes we can, we can do it. Thank you. (Applause.)

BROTHER CONNELL, Jr.PSP: Look this way.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Nobody can look that way.

BROTHER KUNKEL, PSP: I got one request. Try to stay off of the flagpole.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Kenny. We're going to undress you now.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: This is a respectable convention.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: And do we have permission to steal these two for about 15 minutes over at our meeting?

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Say, we're almost done, right?

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: Are you? Do you want to just come over when you're finished?

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: We could do that.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll be done in 15 minutes.

STATE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT HENRY: See you guys, thanks. (Applause.)

(WHEREUPON, the Bible was opened.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Randy. Ten bucks, Melby, for letting them in.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: You're going to give me $10 for letting them in?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. Since we've got a few more announcements and then we'll take a -- Larry, do you want to take over for me? The girls want us over there.

BROTHER CONNELL, JR.PSP: Hang on. I got a little announcement before you do leave. Last night at our Night Cappers, we had a good time. We brought in, I think it was 11 more people, including Danny Jones there, on our Night Cappers, and we are raising money for our Presidents with the Night Cappers. So Hanny, here I have $150 that will go to your charity, that we raised for Make-A-Wish.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank, you.

BROTHER CONNELL, Jr.PSP: You're very welcome.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: The Night Cappers. (Applause.)

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(WHEREUPON, State President Hanson leaves to go to the Auxiliary meeting.)

STATE VICE PRESIDENT SILVERTHORN: Do we have any other announcements?

(WHEREUPON, several announcements were made to the Delegates.)

STATE VICE PRESIDENT SILVERTHORN: Are there any other announcements? Hearing none, Worthy Chaplain Randy, will you close the Bible. We're in recess until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow.

(WHEREUPON, the Second Session of the One Hundred Sixteenth Annual Convention of the Minnesota State Aerie F.O.E. was concluded at 11:07 a.m.)

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SATURDAY MORNING SESSION

June 15, 2019

. . .The Third Session of the One Hundred Sixteenth Minnesota State Aerie Convention was called to order by President Mike Hanson at 9:00 a.m. on June 15, 2019.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: All right, we'll call to order the third and final session of the 116th Annual Minnesota State Eagles Convention held here in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. We'll have a patriotic song by Jim Giesen.

BROTHER GIESEN: Good morning, Grand reps, State Officers, State President Mike Hanson, Delegates, my Brothers. Please join me in singing My Country Tis of Thee.

(WHEREUPON, Brother Jim Giesen sang My Country Tis of Thee and all Delegates joined in song.)

(Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll have invocation by our Worthy State Chaplain Randy Beggs. Do you want to open the Bible, Randy?

(WHEREUPON, the Bible was opened.)

WORTHY STATE CHAPLAIN BEGGS: Our Father, we ask that each of us may feel that he has conscientiously done his duty, and that only good may come to our Order from what we have done here. Amen.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll now have the Obligation of Delegates by our Past State President Gaylen Dvorsak.

BROTHER DVORSAK, PSP: Good morning, Brothers.


BROTHER DVORSAK, PSP: Place your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. As Delegates to our Minnesota State Aerie Convention, I promise to abide by the laws, rules and regulations of the Grand Aerie; that I will, to the best of my ability, attend all sessions of this State Convention and promote at all times its benign influence, so help me God. (All Delegates responded by repeating this Oath.)

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Way to go, Gaylen.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll now have the Roll Call of State Officers by State Secretary John Batchelder.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Worthy President, Roll Call of State Officers for the third and final session of the State Convention 2019.


. . .The Roll Call of State Officers was read by State Secretary John Batchelder,as follows:

Ed Connell, #3420, Junior Past State PresidentMike Hanson, #3718, Worthy State PresidentLarry Silverthorn, Worthy State Vice PresidentRandy Beggs, #873, Worthy State ChaplainJohn Batchelder, #2469, State SecretaryJake Fee, #873, Assistant State SecretaryBruce Meyer, #873, State TreasurerRoger Hyatt, #287, Worthy State ConductorDarrell Spencer, #269, State Inside GuardMike Melby, #350, State Outside GuardDoug Lind, #2258, State TrusteeJohn Vogt, #287, State TrusteeMike Hadel, #34, State TrusteeVance Peters, #351, Membership Dept. Secretary-Treasurer

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Worthy President, that concludes Roll Call of State Officers.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Now let's go to the Aeries.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Ready?

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ASSISTANT STATE SECRETARY FEE: Ready.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: When your Aerie is called, please repeat, or give the report of the Delegates, Past Worthy Presidents, Past State Presidents, State Officers, and/or visitors.



33 St. Paul 1 2 1 34 Minneapolis 3 4 1 SO 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato 3 7 1 SO 1 TYS 287 Brainerd 3 3 1-2 350 East Grand Forks 4 4 1 SO 351 Bemidji 8 8 2-1 3 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 3 3 1 PSP 703 Austin 873 Crookston 4 5 1-3 21163 Cloquet 1 1243 Winona 1 1 1 PSP1460 Faribault 2 2 1 PSP 1 GRAND1791 Owatonna 6 2 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 3 3 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 6 5 1 SO 2334 Willmar 5 4 2339 Fergus Falls 22342 Detroit Lakes 1 4 1 PSP2368 Thief River Falls 2 2 1 PSP2469 Grand Rapids 5 5 2-1 2617 Hallock 1 13063 Alexandria 5 5 3 PSP3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 2 2 2 PSP3394 Fairmont 1 1 1 PSP3403 Luverne3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 2 2 1 SO3424 Litchfield 1 1 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 4 3 1 SO 13882 Roseau 1 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing4472 Blaine 4486 Blue Earth

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: That completes the Roll Call of State Aerie Officers and State Aeries.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, John. We'll now have the final report of Resolutions Committee, Weasel Henry, Crookston Aerie #873.

BROTHER MARION HENRY: Good morning, Brothers.


BROTHER MARION HENRY: State Officers and Grand reps: We'll start with resolutions here, thanking the City of Grand Rapids.

REPORT OF RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE

RESOLUTION NO. 3

WHEREAS, the City of Grands Rapids, Minnesota, and Convention Chairman Dan Crowe for extending its welcome and gracious hospitality to the Minnesota State Aerie and its Delegates attending the 2019 Convention; and

WHEREAS, the City of Grand Rapids area America Legion Post 60 for presenting the Flag at our opening ceremony; and

WHEREAS, the City of Grand Rapids represented by Tom, I'm going to get that wrong, Pagel and Jesse Siiter for extending their wishes for a successful Minnesota State Convention; and

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WHEREAS, the Minnesota State representatives are honored by the presence at this Convention by Grand Aerie Worthy President-Elect Ron Malz, Grand Aerie Inside Guard Danny Jones, North Central Regional President Leon Potratz, and Grand Aerie Justice John Tobie; and

WHEREAS, the Delegates of the 116th Minnesota State Convention also support the current standing Officers of the Grand Aerie; and

WHEREAS, the City of Grand Rapids for hosting the Delegates, and all other Committeemen have done an outstanding job of planning this Convention and according to, no, and accommodating all Delegates and visitors of the Convention; and

WHEREAS, State President Mike "Hanny" Hanson, State Vice President/President-Elect Larry Silverthorn, and State Secretary John Batchelder have done an outstanding job performing and conducting the business of this Convention; and

NOW, THEREFORE, LET IT BE RESOLVED, that the Delegates of the 116th Annual Convention of the Minnesota State Aerie, here assembled, do hereby extend our thanks and sincere appreciation to the Chairman and Committeemen and all members of the Grand Rapids Aerie #2469, through whose efforts of this Convention have been a great success.



BROTHER MARION HENRY: Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Fred.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We have a motion and a second to approve the final report of the Resolutions Committee. Is there any discussion?

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Worthy President, I have got just one comment to your resolution that you just read.

BROTHER MARION HENRY: Don't tell me you didn't understand me.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: And it was the John Batchelder part, did a great job. John Batchelder did a great job?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: I had Jake, two-minute Jake.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: John, you didn't give him his check yet, did you?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Not yet.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Worthy President Mike, make a note, he said one comment. He's done for the day.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll hold him to that. Okay. Any other discussion?

BROTHER SCHRADER: I'll second that.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Fred seconds it, Vance.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: All right. Get comfortable, because Special Order of Business. Now we're going to hear our final comments from our dignitaries, and we might as well start off our Grand Rep Danny Jones. (Applause.)

BROTHER JONES, GRAND INSIDE GUARD: Grand Aerie Officers, State Officers, State President, soon to be Past State President Mike, and Delegates: It's been an honor to attend your Minnesota State Convention. I've had a wonderful time. I think Aerie #2469 here in Grand Rapids has done an outstanding job. Let's give them a big hand. (Applause.) I want to thank the State of Minnesota for my accommodations, and it's been wonderful. That's a beautiful hotel over there.

I just want everybody to remember, if you're all going to Louisville, and I hope a bunch of you are, Thursday evening we're going to see Ron Malz twist and shout as our new Grand Aerie President. Congratulations, Ron. (Applause.)

Other than that, I hope everybody learned something this week. I've had a great time, and thank you again for the hospitality, and hopefully I'll see you all down the road. Thank you. (Applause and standing ovation.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Danny. Now we'll call up our Grand Aerie Vice President/ President-Elect from Faribault, Minnesota, Ron Malz.

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Thank you, Worthy President Mike. State Officers, my Brothers: Grand Rapids, yes, I've got to concur with Danny here, you guys did a fantastic job this weekend. Everything has worked well, and commend yourself for the fine job you did.

Just out of curiosity, how many first-time people do we have at a state convention this year, get a few hands? (Hands raised.) That's great, fantastic. Hopefully you'll go back to your Aeries and maybe ask one other person to come with next year, and start increasing our membership at the

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Conventions. But I'm glad to see the number of hands that went up. That means that we're increasing interest in our State.

I want to, again, thank you all from the bottom of my heart for all the support you've given me over the years. It's a very humbling experience, and all I can say is wow, thank you.

I hope to, again, I'd love to see you all down in Louisville, but I know you can't all make it, but as many as you can, that would be great.

Once again, good to see you, Brothers, and we'll see you where Eagles fly. Thank you. (Applause and standing ovation.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Ron. Grand Justice John Tobie.

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Worthy President, Grand Officers, my Brothers: What a great morning. First of all, I want to congratulation you, Hanny, on just a wonderful year as State President. In your travels I know you represented us well. You did the best job you could on membership. Almost made it. You did a great, great job on your charities this year.


BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Larry, you've got some big shoes to fill. You've been coming up through the Chairs for many years, and we're looking for great things to happen in the future.

All the Delegates, thank you for coming to this Convention. Without your presence, we wouldn't have much of a convention. Like Ron said, bring somebody with you next year and we'll just flood the gates in Crookston.

Thanks, everybody, for coming to this Convention, and have a great, safe journey home. Thank you. (Applause and standing ovation.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Snookims, do you have something to say? North Central Regional President.

BROTHER POTRATZ, PSP: A little bit.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Leon Potratz.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Snookims.

BROTHER POTRATZ, PSP: Thank you. You know, everybody always says everything, and then you get up here and what are you going to talk about. But I'd like to congratulate Hanny. I've known Hanny for, I don't know, many years.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thirty years maybe.

BROTHER POTRATZ, PSP: Yeah. When I was Secretary of the Fourth District and Hanny come into the Fourth District. I'd just like to congratulate you for the awesome job that you've done this year. You've really held up for a good job.


BROTHER POTRATZ, PSP: I'd like to thank Grand Rapids. They've done an awesome job. Everything went really good, I think.

I don't really have too much else to say. I'm glad to see a lot of new people here. I remember conventions years ago where it was the same old bunch of guys, and that's the only way that we can keep our Eagle families growing, is to get new people. And as I look around the room and I see these State Officers, and I remember when I was President and they were running for Trustee and I'm thinking, hmm, what the hell does that mean, you know?

So you guys all have a safe journey home, and we'll see you in Louisville, if you can make it there. If not, next year at State Convention. Thank you all much. (Applause and standing ovation.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Leon. Larry, do you have comments? Larry Gilge, our Dakota State President. You're past, right?

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: Yup, I'm past.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: As of today.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: I'm a has-been as of last Saturday. It's been a week.

Congratulations. It's been great having you as a counterpart in Minnesota, you did good things; and Larry, you're going to get good things. He's going to because he's got my name, so of course he's going to do good, right?

Thank you, again. You guys did a great job, and appreciate it, and we'll see you at North Central Regional and Louisville.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Larry.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause and standing ovation.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. Now we'll have the final report of the proposed changes to the By-Laws, Vance Peters, Bemidji.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: I'm here.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: I thought we weren't going to let him talk anymore.

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BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Sorry, Lubitz, you've got to listen to me a little bit more. I would like to start with mentioning the By-Laws team. Vance Peters, myself, #351, Chair; Gaylen Dvorsak #3063; and Mike Melby #350. And those two gentlemen read off a hell of a lot better than I'm going today, I'm sure. So just bear with me. And after this reading, after this reading, I will ask the President for a vote on the proposed By-Law change.

REPORT OF BY-LAWS COMMITTEE

As it stands currently:

Proposed By-Law


The proposed change is:

Proposed By-Law




BROTHER PETERS, PSP: I'll let it go for a vote first, then I'll explain.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Motion?

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Yeah, I make a motion to accept.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Marion Henry, #873. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We've got a motion and second for the proposed changes of the By-Laws just read by Vince. Is there any discussion?

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Yes, I do, just for explanation. That this is, the only change is it went from semiannual to annual. The number is the same, the same amount of money. And that's due to what happened last year at the National Convention, that the Board, the floor, voted on switching it to an annual basis, rather than semiannual.


STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Over here.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Are you going to do the Promotion Fund now too?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: No, I'm doing this. Still in discussion.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Also, the word Grand Aerie, because on the MMS system, when you log in on, the middle right-hand side is the box that shows the Grand Aerie per capita tax, and then a link to the Minnesota State invoice. So the reason we added the word Grand Aerie is so that you know where to look for it.

Also, the Grand Aerie will not be updating semiannually the Minnesota State per capita tax. So the reason for this change to align with the Grand Aerie is so that only one statement, one invoice, comes out per year.

And number two, if this passes, and it better, or I quit.

BROTHER EAGLE: Oh, it's going to fail now.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: You had your chance now. I don't know who's going to take it. But anyways, Vance, if it does pass, I have the official form for Chuck Cunningham, the signatures required.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Okay.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: And also the new set of By-Laws with signature required in the very back. So I'll give that to you if this passes.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: All right.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: For signatures. Thank you.



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STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: I guess you've got to stay, John.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Thanks, Mike.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. We've got an add-on. We've got a reading of the promotion, by John Batchelder.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: That would be me, yeah. The Promotional Fund is the money that we raise promoting our Grand Aerie and Grand Auxiliary Officers. It's not really a huge charity that the Aeries give to. We rely a lot on promotional sales of items like tickets. I think Roger Hyatt has some tickets he's going to show, right? The blue tickets, the $20 tickets for a chance to win up to 3,000. There you go. John Tobie has some up here. So the Promotional Fund is exactly that. It is to promote our Grand Aerie, Grand Auxiliary Officers; in this case, Ron Malz. However, we did have a few Aeries that did donate, and thank you to all three of them. Detroit Lakes $150, thank you; Hibbing $10, and Blaine for $100, for a total of $260. And I guess at that, I'll just motion to accept this report.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We have a motion and a second to approve the Promotion Fund. Do we have discussion?

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Worthy President, I do have a question. Do we need to get a pre-approval of the Promotional Fund for Louisville or are we going to do that, can you do that in the Officers meeting?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: I think the Officers meeting. I would think the Officers meeting. Do you think it's here? You're the parliamentarian.

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: This motion is in order, Worthy President.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you. We'll now have report of Our Lady of Peace by John Cedergren, Mankato.

BROTHER CEDERGREN: Worthy President Hanny, dignitaries, Brothers: John Cedergren, Aerie #269. I have the privilege of chairing the Committee for the donations for Our Lady of Peace out of St. Paul. My Committee members (Committee read). Donations this year are:

REPORT OF OUR LADY OF PEACE FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis $ 50.00 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato 500.00 287 Brainerd 350 East Grand Forks 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 703 Austin 873 Crookston 1163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna 100.002212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 50.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 50.003394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 75.003882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad

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4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 1,210.00

Fifth District 175.00

GRAND TOTAL $ 1,435.00


John Cedergren, #269, Chairman John Vogt, #287 Mike Hadel, #34

BROTHER CEDERGREN: We also had a donation from the Fifth District of the Fraternal Order of Eagles of Minnesota for $175. For a grand total this year of $1,435. Worthy President Hanny, I move for the adoption of this report.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, John.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Roger Hyatt, #287. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We've got a motion and a second to approve the Report of Our Lady of Peace. Any discussion?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Just real quickly under discussion. Did you notice I finally changed the name?

BROTHER CEDERGREN: Yes, I did.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Okay, great.

BROTHER CEDERGREN: Thank you, John.


STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: Good morning, gentlemen. We did some talking after John was talking, and kind of feel that to give Ron money out of that Promotional Fund, we should get the approval of the Delegation out here to allow the Board of Trustees that are meeting this afternoon to put a certain amount. I don't know the certain amount on it, because we haven't even discussed that. But right now, we have like 21,000 in that account, and we'd like permission from the Board, or from the Delegates, to allow the Board to allow us to give Ron money for his doings in Louisville.

So I make a motion now that we allow us to take money out of that account for Ron's promotion.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Dale Hanson, #2617. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We've got a motion and a second for taking money out of our Promotional account for Ron's promotionals. Any other discussion?

BROTHER DAVE BOTTIN: Dave Bottin, Mankato #269. John, how much are you talking about? You did not set an amount on that motion.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: And Bruce did not. He said we don't know the number yet, because the expenses, of course, are not finalized at Grand Aerie. Ron might be able to talk more about that. We're guesstimating in the neighborhood of 17,000 for the whole expenses. That's a guesstimate. Ron, did you want to at all talk -- he's gone. There he is. Ron, did you want to talk on that a little bit?

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: All right, Brothers. We've got a Convention coordinator, Steve Tolman. He's been negotiating this thing for about the last five, six months. Galt House in Louisville are on their fourth management team in the last five months. So he's kind of pulling his hair out. I talked to him on Thursday morning, and they're running somewhere between 15 to 17 dollars a person, which would come out to, with the drinks and everything -- last year Carl's in Texas was, his part of the bill was 15,000. So we're possibly 15 to 17 thousand. But like you heard the other night, I did receive five grand from the Auxiliary. So that would take it down, you know, so you're looking at around 13, at the most. I'm hoping.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Worthy President.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Vance.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Just a point to make, historical point. That we gave to Gwen Stallkamp, when she was President, and she gladly accepted it, used what she needed, and brought back the rest. I don't know if Ron's that honest, but.

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Hey, we're party hardy, so. So that's where it sits, I mean. We're hoping with the Auxiliary, that on the Promotion Fund, I would say not to exceed 13.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: There you go.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Jeff.

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: Jeff Henry, Mankato #269. Can we set the amount at the original 17 we were talking about; then with that five, we've got plenty of money to do whatever we need? At least we have a number to put down.

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STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: We never have the money.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: I don't like spending money.

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: We never had any. I didn't put it out there, because we hadn't talked to this. But now I guess I will amend the motion then, being as Ron's already got 5,000 from the ladies, that we put that as not to exceed $13,000 then, which would make it 18,000. We should still be in the ballpark.

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Yeah, it would be in the ballpark.

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: If we have to come back, we'll just have to come back next year and reappropriate the money. So I'll amend it to now 13,000.

. . .Amendment to motion seconded by Brother Dale Hanson, #2617. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Motion seconded and amended to up to 13,000. Is there any discussion?

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Just so we all -- Ron, will you need that money in hand when you go down to Louisville?

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Well, we've got our State Secretary going there.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: I'll bring the checkbook.

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: But a typical hotel, convention center, they're going to have that bill set up by Friday morning and they're going to be looking for their money, so.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Okay.

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Okay, so I'll let our Worthy Secretary takes care of that, or the Treasurer. I don't care.

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: I think all three of us will be there.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: I know we will, so we're good.


BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Thank you, Brothers.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Now we'll have the final report of the Credentials Committee, John Batchelder.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: What am I doing?

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Worthy President Hanny, before we go into that, I think I should ask the parliamentarian, was that properly voted on?

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Well, they didn't ask for people against, but I think the vast majority.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: But there was an amendment to the motion and then a motion.

BROTHER CONNELL, Jr.PSP: Yeah, you've got to vote twice.

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: That takes two votes.

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: You're right. Worthy President, we should vote on the amendment first and then vote.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. We voted on the amendment already, so now we need, I guess we need another.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: On the original motion.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Okay. On the original, the motion. Any other discussion on that?



STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: There is always someone, huh? No, and that was a good call, it was. It was a good call.

The final report of the Credentials Committee, of which Greg Granholm basically ran it. I'm supposed to be Chairman, but Greg Granholm from Grand Rapids, he was all over it, and Pfeifer and Dan Crowe. I guess before I go into this, I'm going to ask the Delegation to give them all three another big hand of applause, because they worked their butts off. Mike Pfeifer, Dan Crowe, and Greg Granholm, thank you so much. Made Rapids look good.

REPORT OF CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE

34 . . . . . . . . Total Aeries Represented 95 . . . . . . . . Total Delegates 86 . . . . . . . . Total Past Worthy Presidents

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14 . . . . . . . . Total State Officers 20 . . . . . . . . Total Past State Presidents 3 . . . . . . . . Ten Year Secretaries 218 . . . . . . . . Total Votes 8 . . . . . . . . Total Visitors


John Batchelder, #2469, Chairman

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: This is the final report, and I move for the adoption.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Now we'll have the report of the Cancer Fund by Jim Backus, Rochester Aerie #2228.

BROTHER JIM BACKUS: Good morning.


BROTHER BACKUS: Other members of the cancer Committee (Committee read.)

REPORT OF ART EHRMANN CANCER FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 25.00 350 East Grand Forks 25.00 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 200.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 50.001163 Cloquet 100.001243 Winona 1460 Faribault 100.001791 Owatonna 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 2334 Willmar 100.002339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 100.003063 Alexandria 300.003208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 50.003394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 50.003882 Roseau 38.823918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 2,073.82


Jim Backus, #2228, Chairman Randy Beggs, #873 Duane Kuehl, #2342 Jeff Henry, #269 John Cedergren, #269

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BROTHER BACKUS: For a total of $2,073.82. Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.


BROTHER BACKUS: All right. I also have the Telethon report, and this year we raised over a million dollars again, so very successful. So for the telethon, we have:

REPORT OF EAGLES CANCER TELETHON


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato 287 Brainerd 350 East Grand Forks 351 Bemidji 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 703 Austin 873 Crookston 1163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna $ 41,000.002212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 42,000.002242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 28,450.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 3394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 3882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 4472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 111,775.00

BROTHER BACKUS: For a total of 111,775. Worthy President, I move for the adoption of the telethon report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Doug Lind, #2268. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We have a motion and a second to approve the final Cancer Fund reading. Any other discussion?

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Worthy President, I'd like to say it's wonderful what goes on at the Cancer Telethon. I went to Arizona, and you can, if you don't know it, it's streamed live on the computer, you can watch it. So for hours and hours, I watched what was going on at the Telethon, and it was just amazing all the people that donate their time and talents and all the money that comes in. I know you hear about it here, but it is on the website. So next January, if you see something coming up with the Cancer Telethon, get on your computer and watch a little bit of it. You'll be absolutely amazed. (Applause.)


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Jim. We have an add-on. Jim Giesen on the DRC report.

BROTHER GIESEN: Good morning, again, my Brothers. I'm going to read the monies given to the DRC from the Aeries.

REPORT OF DIABETES RESEARCH CENTER

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33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 25.00 350 East Grand Forks 50.00 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 703 Austin 873 Crookston 1163 Cloquet 100.001243 Winona 1460 Faribault 100.001791 Owatonna 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 100.002334 Willmar 100.002339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 150.002617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 3394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 50.003882 Roseau 38.823918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 4486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 1,398.82

BROTHER GIESEN: For a grand total for this year $1,398.82. Worthy President, I make a motion we approve this report.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you. We'll now have report of the Athletic Committee by Gary S. Miller, Alexandria Aerie #3063.

BROTHER MILLER, PSP: Good morning, everyone. My Committee consists of (Committee read.)

REPORT OF ATHLETIC COMMITTEE

This was really amazing this year. As you know, we had our meeting after the first session, in the bar, of course, but. We had one bid come in for sports, and that was for pool in 2020. That will go to Mankato. Right now, we have of course 2019 golf is here in Grand Rapids August 24th and 25th. 2019 cricket is in Detroit Lakes. We don't have dates on that yet, but it's usually in the fall, so we're still okay there. For 2020, the pool is in Mankato and 2020 golf is in Brainerd. The pool is early, but golf of course is late August.

We still need for 2020 301 darts, bowling--those are early--and cricket in the fall. We also still want to try to get beanbag going, if anybody is interested in that.

But please let Tim Schmitz or any one of us know if you think you would be interested in hosting something. We do need a letter, you know, of course, but we can at least pencil you in. Tim, was there anything else? I don't think there is.

BROTHER TIM SCHMITZ: No.

BROTHER MILLER, PSP: That was pretty much it. Very disappointing. Usually we have three or four letters and stuff. So come on, guys, let's get our crap together here.


Gary S. Miller, #3063, Chairman

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Tim Schmitz, #3718, Secy-Treas District #1 Jonathan Wills, #351 District #2 Terry Lubitz, #2368 District #3 Keith Rende, #2334 District #4 Jeff Allen, #3718 District #5 Dale Johnston, #2258 District #6 Ed Connell, #3420

BROTHER MILLER, PSP: Worthy President, I make a motion we approve this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Ed Connell, #3420. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We've got a motion and a second to approve the Athletic Committee report. Is there any discussion?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: A little bit here. Tim, could I have you email the minutes of the --

BROTHER SCHMITZ: Yup.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Okay, thank you.



STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll now have the report of the Eagle Watch, Jim Giesen.

BROTHER GIESEN: Feels like I was just up. Hello again. All right. I'll read off the Committee for Eagle Watch (Committee read.) I'll read off the donations by Aerie.

REPORT OF EAGLE WATCH FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 25.00 350 East Grand Forks 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 703 Austin 873 Crookston 1163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2,000.002242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 100.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 50.002368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 3394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 3882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 100.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 3,010.00


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Jim Giesen, #1460, Chairman Richard Wog, #2334 Marv Karau, #3420

BROTHER GIESEN: Before I ask for approval, I just want to make a little note. I do apologize. I know that people have come up to me and said their checks weren't being cashed last year. I never received them, and I figured out why this year when Mankato gave me a third envelope with their check. It had an old address of mine. So I went up and talked to John Batchelder, and I was not aware that he didn't get the addresses for the Committeemen off MMS. So I did not know that just updating my address through MMS, he wouldn't get the correct one. So I've remedied that now. But just for future reference for anybody else that's Chairman, if you do move, make sure you get ahold of the State Secretary to update your physical address, so that way your checks do get to you, so you can get them to where they need to go so we don't have this issue. Thank you.

So Worthy President, I make a motion we approve this report. Oh, sorry, total. Total is $3,010. So I make a motion we approve this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Richard Wog, #2334. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We've got a motion and a second to approve the report of the Eagle Watch. Any other discussion?

BROTHER LUBITZ, PSP: Worthy President, not to put Jim on the spot here, but we just noticed that we have how many brand-new people in the room, and I wonder how many other people don't know what some of these charities are. Just a quick little something when you're giving the report of what the charity is, and ask people to see you afterwards, but give them just a quick little rundown of what it is.

BROTHER GIESEN: Well, just a quick little snippet of what Eagle Watch is, is it's a center that takes care of and informs people about the eagles they have and so you can watch the nesting eagles, they have much information. They have some that are injured that can never be released back out in the wild, so you can get actually up close and personal when you look at them, and then all about the eagles and the other animals, the falcon and stuff like that there. So down in Winona. So if you get a chance to come down there, take a look.



STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Jim. Then we'll have the report of the Lew Reed Spinal Cord Injury, Keith Rende, Willmar Aerie #2334.

BROTHER RENDE: Grand Aerie reps, Worthy President, State Officers, and my Brothers: This report looks great, but it's all because of Minneapolis. My Committee is (Committee read). Starts right off with Minneapolis.

REPORT OF LEW REED SPINAL CORD COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis $ 12,000.00 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato 500.00 287 Brainerd 350 East Grand Forks 25.00 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 200.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 50.001163 Cloquet 100.001243 Winona 1460 Faribault 1791 Owatonna 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 300.002334 Willmar 1,500.002339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 300.003208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 3394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James

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3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 50.003882 Roseau 38.823918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 15,498.82


Keith Rende, #2334, Chairman Dale Neu, #3424 Nate Hoffman, #873 Mike Hadel, #34

BROTHER RENDE: For a total of $15,498.82. I move for the adoption of this resolution, of this.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Bruce Meyer, #873; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Keith. We'll now have the report of the Jimmy Durante Children's Fund, Joe Thiner, Aerie #3891.

BROTHER THINER, PSP: Good morning, Brothers. This is the Jimmy Durante Children's Abuse Prevention.

REPORT OF JIMMY DURANTE CHILDREN’S FUND COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul 34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 350 East Grand Forks 25.00 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 200.00 703 Austin 873 Crookston 50.001163 Cloquet 100.001243 Winona 1460 Faribault 200.001791 Owatonna 100.002212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 400.002334 Willmar 100.002339 Fergus Falls 250.002342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 300.003208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 950.003394 Fairmont 800.003403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 800.003420 St. James 800.003424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 3882 Roseau 38.823918 Tracy 800.004031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 10.004472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 6,848.82

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Joe Thiner, #3891, Chairman Merlin Reinke, #3420 Richard Wog, #2334 Larry Silverthorn, #351 Randy Beggs, #873

BROTHER THINER, PSP: For a grand total of $6,848.82. The Committee is (Committee read). Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother John Barrus, #873. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We have a motion and a second to approve the Jimmy Durante Children's Fund. Is there any discussion?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Little bit over here. Joe, it's my understanding that the Grand Aerie has disbanded two of the three Jimmy Durante funds and now just call it a single fund, they called it Jimmy Durante Children's Fund. Is that correct?

BROTHER THINER, PSP: I don't know. I haven't gotten any notice on it or anything.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Well, they have.

BROTHER THINER, PSP: Ed had got a notice for the North Central Region for Jimmy Durante this coming year.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: I didn't hear you, sorry, the mic.

BROTHER THINER, PSP: Yeah, Ed got a notice on that from the Grand Aerie, because he's North Central representative for the Jimmy Durante Fund. So he has this information.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: For the Delegation, and I assume it can be corrected by any Grand Aerie Officers, I was informed that two of the funds, the child abuse, and what was the other fund? There were three funds. Aid awareness, okay. Were, as of May 31st, were disbanded or consolidated all into just the Jimmy Durante's Children's Fund, correct?

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Correct.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Thank you. So in the future, the reports will read Jimmy Durante Children's Fund. Okay? And I will make the changes on the State level also.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: Worthy President, if you go on the FOE's web page and look at charities, it shows the consolidation and what the charity names are now.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Thank you.

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: What they want to see checks as.


BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Worthy President, one other thing on that. All the charities had people's names on them--Jimmy Durante, Max Baer, Blackie Floyd. The Trustees have been looking at that. The Board the last few years, our Chief Financial Officer said we got people from around the jurisdiction that actually are not Eagle members are donating to these funds, and they don't know who all these people were, they don't have a clue. So we decided to officially drop the names of the funds. Now it's just going to be the Children's Fund, Cancer Fund, Diabetes Fund, etc. But we can still, if you're familiar with those names and you want to keep using them, you can put it on the checks that way, Jimmy Durante Children's Fund or whatever. But officially, you don't have to do that anymore.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Oh, that's good to know.


BROTHER THINER, PSP: I'm sure the Grand Aerie will accept the money no matter what you call it.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: I'm pretty sure.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We have an add-on, Mike, the Report of Muscular Dystrophy. Mike's going to do that, Mike Melby.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: I'm trying to get through back there. It's kind of like driving through Sioux City, Iowa. Good morning, my Brothers. This is the report of the Muscular Dystrophy Committee. This is a new committee, so I don't even have a list of who serves on it.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: There are none.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: I'm just watching Batch shake his head.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: There are none.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: Okay, you're it. So I am going to read off the donations for the year.

REPORT OF MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY COMMITTEE


33 St. Paul

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34 Minneapolis 94 Stillwater 269 Mankato $ 500.00 287 Brainerd 350 East Grand Forks 25.00 351 Bemidji 100.00 620 Morris 622 St. Cloud 703 Austin 873 Crookston 50.001163 Cloquet 1243 Winona 1460 Faribault 100.001791 Owatonna 2212 Hastings 2228 Rochester 2242 Northfield 2258 Albert Lea 25.002334 Willmar 2339 Fergus Falls 2342 Detroit Lakes 2368 Thief River Falls 75.002469 Grand Rapids 50.002617 Hallock 3063 Alexandria 3208 Bloomington 3264 Elk River 3282 Worthington 3394 Fairmont 3403 Luverne 3405 Marshall 3420 St. James 3424 Litchfield 3486 Karlstad 3718 New Brighton 50.003882 Roseau 3918 Tracy 4031 Farmington 4120 Shakopee 4195 Warroad 4456 Hibbing 4472 Blaine 200.004486 Blue Earth

TOTAL $ 1,175.00

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: For a grand total of $1175. And worthy adoption, I move -- Worthy President, I move the adoption of this report. How's that?


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We have a motion and second to approve the Report of the Muscular Dystrophy.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: I'm up again. Under discussion. Oh, okay, maybe you're going to do it. Larry, I'm going to hand you the last year's, or Mike's committee list, and I'm going to pencil in Muscular Dystrophy. You got that?

STATE VICE PRESIDENT SILVERTHORN: I'm doing the same thing.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: All right, I'm out of here.

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Yeah, what Mike was saying, Muscular Dystrophy is a brand new one. There is no members on there yet. The committee lists were set out on the table over there. Please take them back to your Aerie. Go through those lists. I know we've got some people that have actually passed away, they're still on there yet, some people who don't come to the Conventions anymore. Go through the list and see if these people still want to continue on, or ask some people in your Aeries if they want to be on like the MD or any of these other committees. So let's keep these committees filled up.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Ron.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Our next one, I know Ed's just waiting to see the results of this one. Report of the Ritualistic Committee, Bob Lee.

BROTHER LEE, PSP: Worthy President, Grand Aerie Officers, State Officers, and my Brothers: Last night I announced the scores of the Ritualistic competition, but there has been one change. It doesn't affect the results as far as who came in where. However, the Grand Rapids team, which last night I think I said had a 99.96. They came and complained about their score. So we went over it again, and their final score is actually 9.8 (sic). Thank you, Doug, for mentioning that. Albert Lea, I'm sorry, Albert Lea.

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But my Committee is (Committee read). First of all, I want to thank the second most important people in Ritual, the judges. The most important people are the contestants. Jeff Henry from Mankato, Scott Knepper from East Grand Forks, and Bob Nogosek from Rochester.

I'm here today to give you the All State Team. If they will come forward. Worthy President, the score of 99.9, Doug Lind. (Applause.) I think that's the first time I've ever said 99.9 for him.

STATE TRUSTEE LIND: I'll take it.

BROTHER LEE, PSP: Worthy Vice President with a score of 100, John Tobie. (Applause.) Oh, by the way, this trophy goes to Albert Lea. With a score of 100, Past Worthy President, Ken Ayers. (Applause.) And Randy Beggs. (Applause.) I taught him everything he knows. Worthy Chaplain with a score of 100, Jim Giesen. (Applause.) And Doug Johnston. Dale Johnston, I'm sorry. And Worthy Conductor with a score of 100, Steve Lowman. (Applause.) And our own Worthy President Mike "Hanny" Hanson. (Applause.)

REPORT OF RITUAL COMPETITION

RITUAL TEAM SCORES

TEAM AERIE NO. SCORE

1. Albert Lea 2258 98.92. The Old Guys 96.03. Minnesota State Officers 91.0

Signed by Judges:

Jeff Henry Scott Knepper Bob Nogosek

ALL STATE TEAM

POSITION NAME SCORE

Junior Past Worthy President Kenny Ayers 100.0Junior Past Worthy President Randy Beggs 100.0Worthy President Doug Lind 99.9Worthy Vice President John Tobie 100.0Worthy Vice President Ed Connell 100.0Worthy Chaplain Jim Giesen 100.0Worthy Chaplain Dale Johnston 100.0Worthy Conductor Steve Lohman 100.0Worthy Conductor Mike Hanson 100.0


Bob Lee, #2362, Chairman Jeff Henry, #269 Scott Knepper, #350 Bob Nogosek, #2228

BROTHER LEE, PSP: I want to thank everybody for competing in Ritual, and I would hope we can get some more teams. Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Fred Schrader, #351, motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: We'll have the reading of communications by State Secretary John Batchelder.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Worthy President, I have no further communications. (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Good. I'll remove this, take a drink of water for this.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Did you want Kathy in here?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Brothers, first thing, I want to thank everyone for all the support you gave me this year. My year as President went really, really fast. Back in November, John Tobie texted me and he wanted to know how my year was going so far, now that I was halfway through my year. I really had to count the months to make sure. Yeah, six months already gone. It was also the first of deer hunting, and he wanted to know if I got a deer. Nope. Saw one doe, though. The next six months went even faster.

This year my travels consisted of 16 invites and I visited 22 clubs. I really need to apologize to Blue Earth, Morris, Bemidji, and Roseau for missing your invitations. I also need to apologize to Larry Gilge in the Dakotas for not being able to make and attend Convention. But we sent the best over there for you. He wasn't much trouble, was he?

BROTHER GILGE, DAKOTA STATE PRESIDENT: That's your best?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: He paid me. So I want to thank you, Bruce, for representing Minnesota over there and behaving a little bit.

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STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: Better than the Dakota people.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: So thanks again, Bruce. My visits this year consisted of everything from campouts, pin nights, anniversaries, membership drives, extravaganza, a bike ride for lupus, and of course the Cancer Telethon in Rochester.

The extravaganza in Grand Rapids was unbelievable. What a great fundraiser for CLC. It was my first time at the extravaganza. I can hardly wait for the next invite, John and John. Thank you. What a great fundraiser it was for CLC. Like I said, it was my first time, and I did happen to win a rifle, though.

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: No bullets.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: No bullets. The next day I went to get it registered. I was there for about two hours, and they couldn't get it done. So they said you had to come back when you get the information. Well, I'm down in the Cities, you know, it's hard for me to come back here, but I did. And three weeks later, they called me and said it was ready to come get.

So road trip back to Grand Rapids. Got my rifle and stopped at the Club and had a couple of adult beverages with John and Gayle. Then headed home. Got home, opened the box, didn't see a clip in it. So I wasn't going to go back, but when I took it out to come here to, you know, get the number on there or whatever I do, the clip was in there. It's a little black thing like this and it pops up in there. And I don't even know how many bullets it holds, but I'm going to shoot it one of these days.

Again, thank you, Grand Rapids for that extravaganza, it was great.

Where was I. Okay. Next was the Cancer Telethon in Rochester. Deb and I got a tour of the Mayo Foundation House and the Biobank Building. It was really interesting. I'm sure -- have you been to that, Larry?

STATE VICE PRESIDENT SILVERTHORN: I've been to it.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: You'll be going again this year. The next day was the telethon. They had Deb and I up on the stage, preparing us for presenting the check for The Mayo Clinic from the FOE. It was just under a million dollars for cancer research. We were holding the big check up there, Deb and I, her on one end, me on the other end, and the three doctors were in the middle from The Mayo. The lights came on. It was my big moment in the spotlight. The host came over to me first to introduce me. She came over and introduced me as Minnesota State Eagle President Mike Henry. I looked down and realized Deb, she didn't even crack a smile. She kept looking straight into the camera. So I guess I'm either Deb's husband or Jeff's big brother.

Anyway, I had a great time. Thank you, Rochester and the Fifth District, it was such a great time.

Next trip was to Crookston, where I had the great honor of presenting two 75-year pins to two of the members, 75 years. And they were both there. One was 94 and the other one was like 92, I think. 94 and 92, they were there. What a proud moment to be able to do that. I had such a great time there, I spent an extra day. Well, I think Old Man Winter had a little bit to do about that. Woke up the next morning to a blizzard. Tried to get out of town, but I couldn't even see the road. I hit a snowbank that was in the middle of the road. So I backed out, went back to the hotel; and they didn't even clean my room yet, so I got to go right back to my same room. But sitting in the room, I started to get hungry and thirsty. Nothing in the hotel was open, the Eagles Club was closed. So the desk clerk told me that the Walmart across the street was open. So there I went. It was like, have you seen that scene in Little House on the Prairie when Charles is trying to get home for Christmas in a blinding snowstorm. Yup, that was what it was like. Well, I made it back to my hotel looking like a snowman with a bag of goodies. Spent the day watching golf and watching the Wild that night. Not a bad way to spend the time.

Got up the next day and made it home, just in time to fly out to Arizona the next day for the CLC golf tournament in Mesa. Blizzard one day, 80 and sunny the next. Really thank John Tobie, Don Wintersteen, and all the volunteers for such a great time, and what a great fundraiser again for Confidence Learning Center. One day of the tournament, I think what, John, that 10,000, was it a little over 10,000?

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: 10,800.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: 10,800 for that one-day tournament. Awesome, $10,000 for a one-day tournament is pretty good.

Last little story, though. This was my third year attending the golf tournament and sponsoring a hole. First year, you know, you're doing the golf course and you wait to get up to that hole where your name is on there. I came up there, there it was. Looked at it. You're feeling pretty good, proud of yourself. There it was, Mike "Hanny" Hanson, State Chaplain. That was for sure, that was right. Next year, same thing, sponsored a hole. Golfing, can't wait to get to that hole, I was feeling pretty good. Got up to the hole, and it's Mike "Hanny" Hanson, Minnesota State Chaplain again. So I thought, well, maybe something happened, you know. So I gave John a little bit of grief for it, but on we went. This last year now, walking to the hole, probably halfway through it, haven't seen my sign yet. Finally get up to the first hole. Walking up to the hole. Tim's already up there and he's laughing. I go, "Why the hell are you laughing, Tim?" He goes, "Nothing, nothing, nothing." He's still laughing. When I get up to the top of the hole, I look over. You've got to being fricking kidding me. Mike "Hanny" Hanson, State Chaplain. That wasn't John's fault, though. Tim and Becky, I don't know how they got it there, because this sign was back in New Brighton. They got the sign and brought it all the way to Arizona in their luggage, and I don't know how they did it. I was with them the whole time. They taped it on my sign. Thanks, Tim and Becky. So that was kind of funny, I thought, but.

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Boy, I really can't wait till this year till the golf tournament again. If you're interested in golfing or sponsoring a hole, I believe the tournament is February 16th?

BROTHER TOBIE, PSP: Sunday.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: On a Sunday. See Don or John for that. It's a great time, believe me. It's well worth the trip, and it's warm in the wintertime.

That's the end of my story. So I really need to thank Terry Lubitz, Terry, my Membership Chairman, and Joanie, for traveling around Minnesota to all the Districts and Clubs promoting my membership. We had a great year. So, so very close to getting net gain for the State.

My theme this year was Hole in One for the FOE. EMOAMA, EMOAMA. Does anyone know what that means? Every Member Owes a Member Annually. Every Member Owes a Member Annually. Remember that. If every member signed up one new member or signed back that re-enrollee, we'd have no problem getting net gain. So let's do that for Larry. All right?

Just for fun, everybody stand up. And be honest here, if you did sign one person up this year, you can sit down. Who's standing?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: If you did or didn't?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: If you signed one person up, you can sit down, at least one. Like I said, the ones, you guys still standing, you owe me one, and plus one for Larry.

I hope you do give, Larry, though, all the support you gave me. I know Larry will do a great job. Lots of luck, Larry.

I want to thank everyone who donated to my charity, Make-A-Wish of Minnesota. My goal was to make $20,000 this year. I surpassed that, well over that. Thank you.

And lastly, I need to thank New Brighton for all the support and all the heart and hard work you gave me this year. This year, New Brighton hosted the men's state golf tournament, both the men's and women's bowling tournaments, the spring officers meeting and District Convention, and many fundraisers at our Club, raising money for my charity and Deb's, and many more charities. It takes a lot of volunteers to make these events successful. Just doing one, I know John can attest to that, hosting one of these is a lot of work, it takes a lot of volunteers to make it happen. So again, New Brighton, thank you so very much for a great job.

Larry, you can count on New Brighton for the use of our Club or anything else you need from us. Our door is always going to be open to you, the spring officer meeting. I wish you the best of luck, Larry.

Again, thank you all for the support you gave me, your friendship, your hospitality, and of course the confidence you had in me serving as your State President. Thank you. (Applause and standing ovation.) Thank you.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Worthy President.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: I'm without my paper napkin.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: I dug this out of the briefcase about all the fines and everything you've done for last year. It's over 150 bucks. But that apparently goes to your charity, and instead of writing the check, I'll just give you the cash.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thanks a lot, everybody.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: It's about 215 bucks.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: I think most of this, I think at least 100, that's all Vinnie's. Thank you.

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: You should not give him cash, because that's just going to go in the pocket.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: At least I'll get a drink out of it.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Now we'll have address from our Worthy State President-Elect Larry Silverthorn.

STATE VICE PRESIDENT SILVERTHORN: Thank you, Mike. You had a great year, congratulations.

I'm hoping this year goes good. I want you all to go back home, talk to your Secretaries, get that drop list, look at. I know you know people that are on there that haven't reupped their membership. Look at them. You have family, I'm sure, that are not members. Sign them up. Come on. There is no problem in that. It's easy. You have to have an application. Get them into the club, that'll make a lot of difference. We're shooting for, now Jeff and I are going to try and make all the different clubs. We'd like to attend regular meetings. That way you know what's going on and to see our face. And I just hope we have a good year.

Last night's little silent auction, it went pretty good. That's a start for my charity for Confidence Learning Center, and also for Sue's charity, which is Autism. We ended up with $627.50 each from last night. I thank you all very much. (Applause.)

And for that, after the installation of Officers, we're having a little party here. I have a good friend out in the parking lot that's cooking up some pork, and we're going to have a little party later on this evening. So you're all welcome to attend. Okay? Thank you.

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STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Larry. (Applause and standing ovation.) Like Vance said, it was money in my pocket, but as soon as I see my Executive Secretary, all my money gets turned in to Kathy. So she will be getting this. I wish Kathy was here so I could thank her too, though.

The report of the Eagle Riders, Jim Giesen, Faribault. Jim, you might as well just stay up there.

BROTHER GIESEN: I think I'm almost done here now. All right, welcome again, Brothers. Good morning. I'll read off the Committee members of the Eagle Riders. (Committee read.)

REPORT OF EAGLE RIDERS COMMITTEE

For people that do not know, some of you new timers, and even some of the more experienced State Delegates that do not know, Eagle Riders is a riders club that raises money for different donations, like a subgroup inside the Eagles organization, and they put on motorcycle rides and stuff like that, raising monies for different charities around the area and throughout the State. I will read a report submitted by Mr. Ed.

The report for the Eagles Riders #3420 for 2018-2019. We are continuing with membership of 27 paid-up members. We have a checkbook balance of $2,454.93.

The donations they made over the last year were Relay for Life Cancer Society. They donated gas cards to local community members to help them so they can get to their medical appointments. They sponsored a hole at the golf tournament in Arizona for the Confidence Learning Center, donated to ABATE, donated to Beyond the Yellow Ribbon for the Wounded Warriors, helped sponsor the youth basketball and baseball teams and donated to other local school activities and awarded our annual scholarship for a local graduating senior.

The other activities that they did throughout the year. They had a Super Bowl fundraiser. They cleaned road ditches for Adopt a Highway. They had a June fun run, October Halloween ride, and members helped deliver Meals on Wheels.

They are continuing to promote the Eagle Riders and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and they're looking forward to another fun year.

Submitted by Ed Connell, Past President of the Eagle Riders #3420.


Jim Giesen, #1460, Chairman Dale Neu, #3424 Brian Vickery, #3718 Ed Connell, #3420

BROTHER GIESEN: Worthy President, I'll make a motion we accept this report.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Jim. This is the moment I think everybody is waiting for. Some of us, at least. Report of Elections Committee by Ken Kunkel, St. Cloud Aerie #622.

BROTHER KUNKEL, PSP: Thank you, Worthy President. Grand Aerie representatives, State Officers, and my Brothers: We had a good election this morning. 214 people showed up to vote. That's pretty good. I mean, you know, we're representing 345 votes. That's a bunch of votes.

I had a big problem this year, and it's going to be resolved, because it's not going to happen again next year. The people that are doing credentials on people that are coming in later to register that aren't preregistered, they're handwriting these things. Now, how the hell am I supposed to know if that's true or not, is he a Delegate, is he not a Delegate. Past President, I can check, you can just ask him for his card. But from now on, I will not accept a regalia that's handwritten. It's got to be on a printed card like this, and it could be Xed, yes, but not a blank piece of paper that's got Xs on it. That's out. There was only about three of them. But next year, like I said, we'll definitely not accept them, they'll be rejected. They will not be able to vote. Probably going to get pissed. But bring it back to your Aeries, especially the people that are hosting the Convention, because they're the ones that are writing out the credentials when people come in like on Friday or Saturday. So amen to that.

Now the results. Now I think we better have a little story first.


BROTHER KUNKEL, PSP: Anyway, the results. Anyhow, here we go. I'll read them off as they were on the ballot in alphabetical order.

REPORT OF ELECTION COMMITTEE

TRUSTEES

NAME TOTAL VOTES Jim Giesen 114 Mike Hadel 132 Scott Knepper 98 Richard Peterson 31

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Fred Schrader 23 John Vogt 156


Kenneth J. Kunkel, #622, Chairman Larry Swiers, #2342 Marvin Karau, #3420 Duane Kuehl, #2342 Don Wintersteen, #351 Bob Parkin, #3063 Earl Sletten, #1791 Bob Nogosek, #2228 Dale Neu, #3424 Steve Schromm, #33

BROTHER KUNKEL, PSP: (After stating 56, instead of 156, for John Vogt.) So your Trustees are John, Mike, and Giesen for 2019, 2020.

BROTHER EAGLE: Say what?

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Kenny, you missed the one. 156, I believe.

BROTHER KUNKEL, PSP: 156, John Vogt, 156. Wow, John, you almost got poofed. Anybody got the paddles. Sorry, John.

TRUSTEE VOGT: Yeah, thank you.

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: I did have it on there right.

BROTHER KUNKEL, PSP: No, I wrote it right too. I just didn't -- and these aren't bifocals, these are just cheaters.

BROTHER EAGLE: They were cheating.

BROTHER KUNKEL, PSP: They were cheating, all right. Anyhow, I want to thank the Committee. I named them yesterday, so we don't have to do that now. And I will turn these ballots over to the Worthy Secretary, and he keeps them for the allotted time. Whatever that is, I'm not sure. But at this time, Worthy President, I move for the adoption of this report.


STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Kenny. Congratulations, John, Mike, and Jimmy.

BROTHER GIESEN: Worthy President, Jim Giesen, Aerie #1460. I want to thank everybody that voted for me, but I especially want to thank everybody who voted, because without everybody voting, and it looks like we had most of the Delegation voting, we cannot be a good unit as a State Aerie. So I thank everybody again for voting, and I hope I live up to everybody's expectation as State Officer. Thank you. (Applause.)


STATE TRUSTEE VOGT: I'd like to thank everybody who voted, even though I had a heart attack. But thank you, and I'll continue to do good work for you guys. (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Mike.

STATE TRUSTEE HADEL: My Brothers, thank you. It was a toss-and-turning night, because there were six running, and we're all good friends, you know. So thank you all for your support. I'll do my best to serve you.

BROTHER PETERSON: Worthy President, thanks, everybody, for your support and I'll try her again next year. Thank you. (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Scott.

BROTHER KNEPPER: Worthy President, Scott Knepper, East Grand Forks #350. I want to thank everybody who voted for me again this year. Next year, hopefully District #2 will adopt me and I'll do it again. Thank you, Brothers. (Applause.)

BROTHER SCHRADER: Worthy President, Fred Schrader. Thanks everybody who voted for me. I'll be back next year. (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thanks. We had six people, we had six people running for Trustee. I hope we have that and even more next year. It's great to see that many people interested.

Is there any unfinished business?

BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Worthy President, I would like to make one comment on the election. I may have confused some of yous. There was 39 ballots that did not vote for three people. You didn't have to, but most of these non-vote count was number two. You got an orange slip of paper and I told you you had two votes. They voted for two and not three. I did say you can vote for three, one, two, or three, not over. So some of yous, I'll take the blame for, but maybe you didn't want to vote for three people. But remember that next year. We could have had some more votes. I don't think it would have changed the election at all, but you can vote for three people. Right, Ken?

BROTHER KUNKEL, PSP: Indubitably.

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BROTHER WINTERSTEEN, PSP: Thank you.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Unfinished.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Yeah, unfinished business?

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Unfinished business, and then I'll save the other stuff for Good of the Order. Unfinished: Thursday night we had a banquet. State Officers and Past State Presidents had a banquet Wednesday night. Wednesday night we passed a bucket around, or a basket, collected tips. Thursday night we neglected that, and that was brought to my attention by the Worthy State Auxiliary. Worthy State Auxiliary? No, State Auxiliary Secretary. And they motioned and approved a $100 donation of a tip to cover the Thursday night banquet back to the people here. I think it was our football team, was it? Okay, and so I'm bringing it to the Delegation to see if we would like to follow suit. As a matter of fact, I'll make that a motion, that this --

. . .Motion seconded by Brother Mike Melby, #350; motion carried. . .

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Any unfinished business? Ron.

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: I'll let Mike go.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Mike.

OUTSIDE GUARD MELBY: This also might be Good of the Order.

(WHEREUPON, the results of the raffle were read.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you, Mike. Ron?

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Yeah, Worthy President. May I approach your station?

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: It's yours.

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: No, it's yours yet. Well, Mike, being as Past Grand Worthy President George is not here, I get to do this this year. So I have your Past State President's certificate.

Fraternal Order of Eagles, from the Grand Aerie. This is to certify that Michael J. Hanson of Aerie #3718 occupied the office of the State President of Minnesota State Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles during the year ending May 31, 2019, and that he guided the affairs of the State Aerie with loyalty and success in accordance with its laws and the laws of the Grand Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles. Therefore, the Grand Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles now officially vests him with the title of Past State President and bestows upon him the honor with the complete authority and rights of this position. He shall continue to hold the title of the Past State President as long as he is a member in good standing of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and fulfills all requirements of membership and in its Order. In witness of the title and honor bestowed upon this member by the Grand Aerie, we hereunto set our hands and seal this 31st day of May 2019. Grand Worthy President H. Carl Burnett and Grand Worthy Secretary Chuck Cunningham. Mike, congratulations. Great year. (Applause and standing ovation.)

Also, it would not be complete without your gold card. Solid gold.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Yes, another ice scraper.

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: Right, and it basically says the same thing that's on the certificate. It's signed by H. Carl Burnett and Chuck Cunningham. Also congratulations on that.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thanks, Ron.

BROTHER MALZ, PSP: And we do have your Past State President's pin. I'll maybe let somebody else pin it on you or you can do it yourself. I don't want to get blood all over your jacket, so. But here you go, Mike.

You had a great year and I hope you have a lot of memories of it, and you did a great job.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Thank you. Thank you, all. (Applause.) And eight years, but Bob's still looking for his, so if anybody --

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Mike, you gotta remember, if you don't have it, it costs ya.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: How much does it cost you, another ten?

BROTHER PETERS, PSP: Depends on who's the Chairman at the time.

BROTHER LEE, PSP: Worthy State President, I have some unfinished business that I have to correct. Apparently I overlooked it because my eyes weren't working too well. But it's been pointed out to me that we have one more All State Ritual performer. From the State Officers, the Vice President Ed Connell at 100 percent. Sorry, Ed, I'll take the blame for it, because I'm in charge of the Committee. Thank you.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: How come we had three 100 percenters and the 99.9, how could he take first?

BROTHER LEE, PSP: 99 was the President.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Yeah, I know.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Are you under GOD, good of order, or GOO, GOD. I'll wait till you do.

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STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Any unfinished business? Okay. Let's go in Good of the Order first. But I want to introduce Richard Wog for a moment. There he is. He's got something to say about his club for their convention.

BROTHER WOG: Thank you, Worthy President. Grand Aerie reps, State Officers, and my Eagle Brothers: Last year in Mankato, we bid for the 2021 Convention to be held in Willmar. We've been working on it. Just a quick synopsis. Let me tell you that everything is going to be held under one roof. It's going to be at the Willmar Conference Center. The Auxiliary and the Aeries will meet there. We'll see after the Committee comes down and does their investigation and we get their approval and everything else that we want to do. But it will be held on June 10th through the 12th in 2021. We're working very hard on it, and we're looking forward to it.

It's been a long time since Willmar has had a Convention, and we're in the center of Minnesota, so we're looking forward, and thank you very much for giving me this time to give this report. Thank you. (Applause.)


STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Thank you. I may as well take that. Thank you, Worthy President. I have just a few different items. Number one, I would like to ask the Grand Rapids, Dan Crowe, Chair, to the State Officers meeting that comes at 3:00 o'clock. Is that the time you have? Okay. About 3:00 o'clock. Can we meet over there? Pictures should be done, so can we meet in the games room? Okay, thanks. Appreciate that. It was our oversight on the state level. I thought it would work meeting in one room, both Aerie and Auxiliary. It didn't work. So my oversight.

And another oversight, to Kenny Kunkel, while you didn't oversight it, I did. As registration Chairman, I printed off a few blank badges, thinking that we wouldn't have any more than six that walked in after preregistration. Obviously, we did. Sorry, Grand Rapids, my fault, I should have printed more. I should have had like maybe two pages done. I just didn't want to waste a whole lot of paper.

But that brings up an interesting situation that we're in, and that is we preregister up to about June 1st, but then we allow walk-ins all the time. The Auxiliary preregistered, and after that, if you don't make a certain date, the State Auxiliary, if you don't preregister by a certain date, I don't know what date it is, they add ten bucks to your registration. I just learned that this year. And I'm wondering, to the Delegation, I'm not going to motion, I'm wondering to the Delegation if that's something we may consider, to ensure that Kenny doesn't have this problem again and we get everyone registered well before the Convention, say like a week or two. People can still walk in, obviously, but it's going to cost them more. So the incentive to preregister would be there for all the Aeries. Again, I would like us to think about it for a year, unless someone else thinks that we should move on it a little bit quicker.

(WHEREUPON, an announcement was made to the Delegates.)

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: Thanks, Worthy President.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Anybody else have anything for Good of the Order?

(Whereupon, several announcements were made to the Delegates.)

BROTHER EAGLE: Randy, by chance do you guys have any dates? Because you've got the information for the hotels, but you don't have no dates. For Crookston's Convention.

ASSISTANT STATE SECRETARY FEE: It's the third week of June, I think it's the 17th, 18th, 19th.

STATE CHAPLAIN BEGGS: Seventeenth, 18th, and 19th, I think that's correct.

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: It's the week after the Dakotas.

STATE CHAPLAIN BEGGS: We'll make sure we get that information posted out there for you.

BROTHER JEFF HENRY: Jeff Henry, Mankato #269. Bruce, remember, Cindy needs the truck at noon.

STATE TREASURER MEYER, PSP: Yup, I did remember.

BROTHER HANSON: Worthy President, anybody that was interested in those steel signs that the Grand Worthy President got, I can deliver them to Brainerd. If you want one, come see me afterwards, so I know a count to bring to Brainerd.

BROTHER EAGLE: How much are they?

BROTHER HANSON: I ain't going to tell you that in front of him. Come see me afterwards.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: Anyone else? Cory.

BROTHER CORY CABANA: I would like to get everybody's support for next year for State Trustee.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: All right. Again, I have to thank Grand Rapids for the hospitality and the great job you guys did on the Convention this year. I came in as a baby Trustee here, and I'm going out as your President here, so I always like coming up here.

A great honor, our dignitaries, thank you guys for coming to our meeting. It was a great honor. Dan, Larry. Of course Jan, great job she does.

STATE SECRETARY BATCHELDER: And don't retire. (Applause.)

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: My Brothers, as we have finished the business of this session, we will close with prayer.

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STATE CHAPLAIN BEGGS: Our Father, we ask you to favor our country, to guard our homes, to strengthen our friendships, and to help us live lives worthy of the principles of our Order. Amen.

STATE PRESIDENT HANSON: I now declare this session of the Minnesota State Aerie closed.

(WHEREUPON, the One Hundred Sixteenth Convention in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, was officially concluded at 10:50 a.m. on June 15, 2019.)

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