About the Order of the Eastern Star
|
What Charities do The Order of the Eastern Star support? | |
| Ohio Eastern Star Homes | ||
| How can you join? | ||
What It Is: The Order of the Eastern Star is the largest fraternal organization in the world to which both men and women may belong. Worldwide, there are approximately 1 million members under the General Grand Chapter.
Eastern Star is a social order comprised of persons with spiritual values but it is not a religion. Its appeal rests in the true beauty of the refreshing and character-building lessons that are so sincerely portrayed in its ritualistic work. A deep fraternal bond exists between its members. It is the wholesome relationship of sisterly and brotherly love brought about through high principles exemplified in our lives which makes us near and dear to each other.
While this is an Order composed of people of deep spiritual convictions, it is open to all faiths, except no faith. The personal welfare of our members is vital to all of those in the Eastern Star and it is considered a privilege to help another member whenever we can. For membership information, click here.
Purposes. The stated purposes of the organization are: Charitable, Educational, Fraternal and Scientific; but there is much more to it than that. Dr. Rob Morris, the Poet Laureate of Masonry, founded the Order using beautiful and inspiring biblical examples of heroic conduct and moral values. These portray the noble principles which should adorn the personal lives of Eastern Star members. Eastern Star strives to take good people and through uplifting and elevating associations of love and service, and through precept and example, build an Order which is truly dedicated to charity, truth and loving kindness.
Homes: Concrete evidence of the charitable nature of the organization as it affects others is the millions of dollars which have been raised within the membership to support national, jurisdictional, and local charities. Many Grand Jurisdictions have homes for their senior members.
The Ohio Eastern Star Home at Mount VernonThis facility has several levels of care: independent apartments, assisted living, and nursing care for both intermediate and skilled needs, and a dementia unit.
The independent apartments are both one and two bedrooms, with kitchen, dining area, living room, bathroom and porch. A Founders Fee is required as well as a monthly maintenance fee. All utilities, except phone, are covered with the maintenance fee. The criteria for admission to these apartments is that you must be able to attend to all daily personal and financial needs. There is no nursing help available. There are emergency pull cords, at which time a nurse will respond and either call 911 or a family member. There is also an option of having meals in the main dining room for lunch and dinner, at an additional cost per meal.
The assisted living area is a one room efficiency-type unit that is charged by the day. Food, laundry, nursing care and hair care are all covered under the daily rate. The only additional cost would be for medications. These are all private rooms.
The nursing unit's intermediate/critical care/dementia/skilled areas are both private and semi-private rooms. We are a certified Medicare-Medicaid facility. This assists those who are financially unable to meet the daily rates.
For further information call the Director of Admissions and Social Services at 1.740.397.1706 or visit their web page at: www.oeshome.orgThe Eastern Star Home of Cuyahoga County
At the Eastern Star Home, dignity and quality of life
are important to us. We offer Private Rooms to those who cherish their privacy. Residents
are encouraged to decorate to their own tastes, and maintain as much freedom in their
lives as possible while also receiving the highest quality of nursing care available.
The 83 bed Intermediate Care Facility was built in 1962. It is a non-profit organization. Medicad Certified since 1979, applications are accepted without regard to race, religion or national origin.
Three home cooked meals are offered per day as well as snacks between meals. A living room features a Baby Grand Piano, organ, stereo system and large screen television. An outdoor patio is the perfect setting for residents to socialize or entertain friends and family. The Banquet hall is ideal for large gatherings. Monthly Birthday Parties with entertainment featuring local bands and musicians are celebrated in this spacious Hall. A full time activity staff is committed to providing a broad range of activities aimed at encouraging residents to remain active and maintain the highest quality of life possible. There is an air conditioned bus for use to clinic visits and field trips.
For more information please contact the Admissions Coordinator at (216) 761-0170.
Masonic
Eastern Star Community
formerly
Hamilton County Eastern Star Home
1630 North Bend Road
Cincinnati, OH 45224
(513) 542-6464
1(888) 243-2664 (Springfield campus)
The Ohio Masonic and Hamilton County Eastern Star Homes have merged. Go to the Hamilton
County Eastern Star web page to find out about their facilities as the services will
remain the same.
easternstar.com
Who may join: Only men who are
Masons are eligible and only women with specific Masonic affiliation may be members.
These affiliations include:
| Affiliated Master Masons in good standing, the wives daughters legally adopted daughters mothers widows sisters half sisters granddaughters stepmothers |
stepdaughters stepsisters daughters-in-law grandmothers great granddaughters nieces great nieces mothers-in-law sisters-in-law |
and daughters of sisters or brothers of affiliated Master Masons in good standing, or if deceased were in good standing at the time of their death; as well as members - either active for three(3) years or majority - of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls or of the International Order of Job's daughters, each of whom having attained to at least the age of eighteen (18) years, are eligible to membership in the Order of the Eastern Star.
How to join: To inquire about membership, talk to a current member, or contact a local chapter. To find chapters in your area, contact the Grand Secretary of that state or province. Petitions are carefully read, eligibility investigated and election to membership must be by unanimous vote. The Order strives to select persons of mental, moral and spiritual quality who will work together in harmony to perform its objectives.
Charities: Eastern Star Chapters donate funds to a wide variety of worthy charities. Some examples are: Cancer Research Project, Arthritis Fund, Heart Fund, Knights Templar, Eye Foundation, Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children, orphanages and many other charities within each Grand Jurisdiction. In the United States alone, Masonic organizations give $1.5 million a day to charity.
Youth Projects. Eastern Star gives support to young people who are members of Rainbow for Girls, Job's Daughters, and the Order of DeMolay. These fine young people who are training themselves to be leaders are likely prospects to become valued Eastern Stars or Masons. The Order of the Eastern Star and the Masonic fraternity are highly rewarded by their support of and interest in these youth organizations. ESTARL. (ESTARL (Eastern Star Training Awards for Religious Leadership), is a scholarship fund for those who are going to school for the purpose of religious training. Each state administers their own ESTARL program. Those wishing to apply for an ESTARL Scholarship should contact the Grand Secretary of the state or province in which they reside.
Rob Morris: Dr. Rob Morris, Master Builder of the Order of the Eastern Star, was born August 31, 1818 near Boston, Massachusetts. His childhood and young manhood were spent in New York where he received many educational advantages, including a splendid college training which qualified him as a successful lawyer, lecturer, educator and instructor in Masonry. He devoted many years in research and creative writing.
Dr. Morris became a Master Mason in Oxford, Mississippi, March 5, 1849. At this time he was President of Mt. Sylvan Academy. He soon became interested in an idea that the female relatives of Master Masons should share, in a measure, the benefits from knowledge of this great fraternal Order. Embued with the desire, his fertile mind set forth to evolve an Order which would benefit both men and women.
"Welcome
Song" [tune of Beautiful Ohio] (from public domain) is playing in the
background.
If you don't want the music to play you
may click on the stop button.