The Connecticut State Grange Scholarships are presented at the
Pre-Session Banquet each year.

The Scholarship Winners with
Scholarship Committee Member
Nancy Weismuller.

Scholarship Winner Jacqueline Hnath accepts her award, with Melissa Barr and other winners looking on.

The Scholarship Winners with
Scholarship Committee Member
Nancy Weismuller listen to Committee Member John Waterhouse make the presentations.

(left) State Overseer Bob Sendewicz presents the Community Service Awards as part of the Lecturer's Program on Thursday evening.

(above) State Assistant Steward Jody Cameron accepts the Community Service Award for Ekonk Community Grange.

(above) Jodi Ann Cameron makes her final report as State Youth Chairman, as she is no longer holding the office for 2005.

(above) The Honored Guest of the Session, National Lecturer Judy Sherrod helps State Master Phil Prelli and State Steward Ben Barr pull the raffle winners, while the Deputies stand waiting with the prizes for the lucky winners.

The March to the Table

Following the Sixth Degree, the Officers of the State Grange along with the National representative escort the State Flora, Bonnie Deojay, and her Court to the Refreshment Table.

Pictured are (top left) State Master Phil Prelli with Flora Bonnie Deojay; (top right) Ceres Eloise Osuch with Chaplain Marvin Wilbur; (left) Pomona Jane Wendell with Overseer Bob Sendewicz; (lower right) Court Member Pat Palmer with National Representative Judy Sherrod; (lower right) Executive Committe Member Russell Gray with his daughter Deborah, also a Court Member, followed by Executive Commitee Chairman Duane Wetmore escorting Jodi Ann Cameron.

Installation of Officers
Ceremony

As 2004 was an election year, the elected officers of the Connecticut State Grange were beautifully installed by State Historian Edith Schoell and her team. Each officer was escorted to the alter to receive their installation charge by his/her spouse (or close family member).


(left) Edith Schoell begins the ceremony, with team member Stephen LaPutz looking on from behind the podium.

(above) Edith Schoell installs State
Master Phil Prelli, with his wife
Maureen looking on.

(above) Edith Schoell and her team begin the ceremony by having the officers-elect state their name and the office to which they have been elected, followed by the Grange Oath.

(left and above) State Overseer Robert Sendewicz escorted by his wife Marge.

(above and right) State Lecturer Marge Bernhardt is escorted by her husband Carl.

(above and right) State Secretary Marion Beecher and her husband Ellsworth (Bud).

(above) State Treasurer Phil Bergquist with his wife Kathy.

(above and right) State Assistant Steward Jody Cameron with his wife Jodi Ann.

(above) The three graces following the ceremony - from left to right - State Pomona Jane Wendell, State Flora Carol Hnath, and State Ceres Eloise Osuch.

 

(right) State Flora Carol Hnath with her husband Paul, center, with State Ceres Eloise Osuch and her escort John Ray Osuch on the right.

(above) A future Grange member
during the Junior Grange Program
on Saturday.

(right) Lady Assistant Steward
Cindy Finch.

(above) Past Voting Delegates (and the parents of the State Master) Frank and Peggy Prelli are recognized.

(above) State Master Phil Prelli with his wife Maureen during the Session.

(right) National Lecturer Judy Sherrod speaks to the delegates during the Junior Program on Saturday.

(above) State Master Phil Prelli takes the podium to open the Session on Thursday.


(right) The three photos on the right are from a presentation number that guest National Lecturer Judy Sherrod performed to entertain and inform the delegates.