Masonry Magazine February 1967 Page. 24
To Complete The Report
Just what made the '67 MCAA Convention so great is hard to define, but perhaps all the ingredients were there to make one of the finest. First, the St. Louis Chapter members, associates members and their wives joined in to make everyone feel the warm hospitality of the Gateway City. Everything got off on schedule and to great start with Mr. & Mrs. Don Bidwell wielding the big MCAA scissors cutting the ribbon to the Educational Trade Show.
The Milwaukee Chapter members were all decked out in their new sports coats which added greatly to the occasion. Add MCAA's new emblem button covers and you really have a mod beau brummel. The St. Louis Hospitality Room was tops. Each of the St. Louis delegation wore attractive key badges which invited guests to their hospitality suite and their River Boat Gay Nineties garters were an item in great demand.
To the Connecticut delegation we tip our hat. Their serenade in the Chase-Park Hotel Lobby of "Hail, Hail the Gangs All Here" was one that should have been recorded by Capitol Records. Those who were fortunate enough to hear and see this presentation will long remember it as the most complete and finest entertainment ever.
The official badge this year had a novel addition. The metal MCAA emblem attached to each of the members ribbons was an attractive button cover which in the very near future will be offered to all members at a nominal cost. Our special thanks again to Pete Baier, Indiana, who pitched in to cover the various affairs and made the smooth functioning of the convention a possibility.
At the Annual Banquet and Dinner Dance the entire St. Louis delegation decked themselves out in Captain's uniforms in keeping with banquet theme of "St. Louis River Boat" and greeted the guests at the entrance "gang plank" to the Khorassan Room of the Chase-Park Plaza Hotel.
The entertainment was superb-that is that of the participants-Pat George, Betty Miller, Herschel Hunt and Harry Strauss. Seventy-six trombones must have been the song but it was the marching that took the prize with the boots, wigs and helmets this group is welcome back anytime.
At the banquet Robert Rawlins of Pittsburgh Corning announced that Rudy Rakoci, Hinsdale, III. had won that firm's TV set, while Pete Salter, Linwood Stone Products, presented TV's to Robert Harrison, Mt. Prospect and George Hempel, Elmhurst, who had won that firm's Treasure Chest contest. Winner of Omark's diamond tie tack was Rivers Young, Memphis, Tenn. Again thanks to Anchor Mfg. Co. for the wonderful Ladies Coffee Hours, and to Omark for the very thoughtful ladies' corsages.
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MASONRY
February, 1967