AOH Pennsylvania State Board

The Isle of Erin Major Degree Team is pleased to announce that it will be exemplifying the Major Degrees of the Order Ceremony as follows in the next few months:

Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 12 Noon

At the AOH Clubhouse Bucks County Division 1
614 Corson Street
Bristol, PA

Hosted by Michael Dougherty, Bucks County Division 1
www.aohbristol.com

Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 12 Noon

At the AOH Montgomery County Division 1 Clubhouse
342 Jefferson Street
Swedesburg, PA

Hosted by Notre Dame Montgomery County Division 1
www.aohnd1.com

Brothers,

I have received from National Secretary Tom McNabb an end of
year printout of all
Pennsylvania AOH divisions. The following numbers are
derived from this printout.
* Total Membership = 7835 , up slightly from last
year.
*  76 Divisions  with the addition of Butler Div. 1 in November.
Another division in
Lancaster , Lancaster Co. is about  to start
in January.
*  12 County Boards, Lancaster Co. will be the 13th.
*  30
Counties out of 67 in Pennsylvania.
*  297 Priests and Religious are
members.
*   70 Members are in armed forces.
*   21 National Life
Members.
*   We are working on organizing new divisions in Pike, Allegheny
(2), Wayne, and
Westmoreland Counties.
*   All divisions should be
recruiting new members, retaining members, and
recovering lost
members.
*  We have plenty of room for more growth .

Dear Brothers,

Beginning on January 14^th, Fr. Frank Pavone’s “Priests for Life” has organized a worldwide
novena to end abortion.

Please visit: http://www.priestsforlife.org/novenas/prayer-of-reparation.htm
to register for this great opportunity to join the effort!

In Our Motto!

Larry Squires

PA AOH Respect Life

Brothers,

Election of division officers for 2012 should be completed by
now. Please send in your division’s Certificate of Elections, aka Form 9. We
need this information ASAP.
If you are starting the second year of a two year
term and there are NO changes just let me know and I will copy last years form
for 2012. If there are changes send me an updated form. You are required by our
National Constitution and PA State Bylaws to submit a Form 9 annually to the
National, State, and County Secretaries.
Also the following County Boards
still must submit their Form 9 for 2011to 2013:
Berks, Bucks,
Delaware, Northampton, Northumberland, and Schuylkill.

Mail to : Gerry
Ennis, PA State Secretary, P. O. Box 2232, Bristol, PA 19007-8232
or e-mail
to  g.ennis@comcast.net . I will
fax a copy to the National Secretary.

Brothers,

If any one has calendar stubs and money or any unsold calendars
please return them to
Eugene Daly      3161 Belgrade St.      Philadelphia, Pa. 19134

Brothers, this Friday, January 6th, the installation of the Barry Gate will take
place starting at 10:30am. It is the first step of the Barry Project. I will let
you all know when we have a dedication for the Gate itself. I am hoping that we
can do it the same weekend as the March for Life.

Please take notice of the following :

First, The Pa. State Board will meet next Saturday, December 3rd, at the VFW Hall,  440 Sterling Rd. (RT196) in Tobyhanna, Monroe Co. beginning promptly at 1:00 PM. All Officers and Chairmen giving reports must have typed copy for the State Secretary.

Second, when your division elections are complete please forward copy of the Certificate of Elections / Form 9 to the State
Secretary. A copy will be faxed to the National Secretary.

Third, So far about 20 divisions have updated their information for the Pa. Division Directory to be posted on our State Website. Go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqkKjwZrsJ9cdHNISURLOFpidGFxcGZ0a0VQN1NCT3c  to do so online.

Finally, The Pa. State Board Calendars are still available, Please contact Eugene Daly at   Eugh39@aol.com   or
call him at   215-606-7580. You can also pick them up at Div. 39 on Tulip St. The sale of the calendars enables
the Pa. State Board to keep its State Assessments at $2 per member,  the lowest in the AOH !

Brothers,

Here are all the totals for the AOH Div. 4 part of the CPRAIL Holiday Train.

This started 6 weeks ago with a meeting between the Nicholson Business Association, represented by Mr. Kurt Stevens, Ms. Lucilia Lopes from Keystone College and myself, representing Div. 4 and CPRAIL.  Keystone came on board with the food collection by having a contest between 7 groups of students. The group that collected the most food was given a pizza party.   And this ended Monday Nov. 28 when all the food was delivered to the food bank.

We had a total of 75 hours involved by our members from start to finish. A total of just around 1,000 pounds of food was collected by Keystone and at the Pump & Pantry, the night of the CP Holiday Train’s stop on the Nicholson Bridge. We also sold a few of the Holiday Train Pins that we left over from past years and we turned over $23.00 cash to the food bank.

I would like to thank all Div. 4 members involved including John Maher & wife and their grand daughter and my wife & son. Pat Gilroy & wife, Todd Frick and Dave Baker from JFK Division 1, these people gave up their Saturday night, brought food with them
and helped collect more food at Nicholson.

Also, a special thank you must go out to Schiff’s food service for their help and donation that brother Gilroy brought to the food drive and friends of ours who’s son ran around and sold the pins.  And we must thank the Pump & Pantry for letting us set up
our collection barrel in their parking lot and by telling their customers that we were out there collecting food.  Thank you all.

We are all hoping that this will keep getting bigger and bigger so that we need to have John Connor bring his truck up, as he has in the past, and we can fill the truck to the top.

This report will also be sent to CPRAIL so the totals will be added to the amount collected along the route of the Holiday Train.

Respectfully submitted,

Joe Walsh–Div. 4 V.P.
CPRAIL Engineer
& Safety Committee member

The Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed in the aftermath of the truce that ended the War of Independence and led to the establishment of the 26-county Irish Free State, has just been made available to the public for the first time.  While a far cry from the totally independent Republic of Ireland that exists in the 26 counties (so far), the document is an interesting read and obviously of tremendous historical significance.

The new site, hosted by the National Archives of Ireland, was formally launched by Irish Prime Minister Kenny and Minister for
Arts and Heritage Deenihan today.

The decision to publicly unveil the document was taken in recognition of the 90th anniversary of the negotiations which led to the signing of the Treaty in the early hours of Tuesday December 6th, 1921.
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See the attached Report from the October meeting…
Director 2, Oct 8, Philadelphia