SPOTLIGHT - Friday, August 13, 2021 - SUMMER 2021 - The Ohio Eastern Star Home
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SPOTLIGHT
Published by
The Ohio
Eastern Star
Home Campus
SUMMER 2021
Friday, August 13, 2021
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Ron Hardesty, Chairman
erhard@embarqmail.com
Larry Mayer, Vice Chairman
A Time to Celebrate
larry@mayerfarmequipment.com COVID-19. I wish I could say the Pandemic is over
Bob Vanderhorst, Treasurer
for us at The Ohio Eastern Star Home, but we are
rmv1016@aol.com not completely there yet. We are not “open” to
David Merkle, Secretary come and go as we please just yet, but visitation
merckled@gmail.com guidelines and directives have eased somewhat,
Suzanne Griffin meaning families are now able to visit in the elder’s
SBG4862@outlook.com room by appointment only. We are thankful that the
Howard Laudermilk majority of our elders have been fully vaccinated
laudermilk@ameritech.net and we are able to bring the elders together for
Barbara Stuart events. Our incredible life enrichment team has worked above and
barb.stuart@ATT.net beyond to think of new and creative ways to engage our elders and
Becky Thatcher battle the everyday sense of loneliness and isolation so many of them
bkthatcher72@yahoo.com had felt when families were not able to visit.
Joan Wedge I continue to be so incredibly proud of ALL of our staff, the “champions
j.wedge@sbcglobal.net of our campus” and their level of dedication and commitment. To this
day, we still have NOT had any resident’s in the neighborhoods test
Our Mission: The campus of The positive for COVID! What a remarkable accomplishment that not many
Ohio Eastern Star Home is dedicated nursing homes in our nation can boast about! BE PROUD of what has
to leading the way into the future been achieved here – we are!!
while providing the highest quality of So let’s CELEBRATE!! Despite not being fully open, we ARE going to
services and enriching the lives of all we have the Homecoming Celebration we have been talking about AND
serve. Our innovation and adaptability
our 70th Birthday Party on August 13th. Please mark your calendars and
support our environment for growth and
promotes our commitment to being an plan on joining us outside for an afternoon of celebration, fun, food
industry leader. and a special fireworks show at dusk! It will be a grand time and we
Our Vision: To create an atmosphere hope to see many of you in person and not on a virtual screen!
of companionship, empowerment As always, thank you for your support, generosity and thoughtfulness.
and growth. Michele Engelbach, CEO – The Ohio Eastern Star Home
EDITOR
Crystal Snell
Director of Marketing
csnell@oeshome.org
SPOTLIGHT is published by:
It’s an Honor to Serve
The Ohio Eastern Star Home I am pleased to greet you as Chairman of the Board of
1451 Gambier Road Trustees at your Ohio Eastern Star Home! We’ve been
Mount Vernon, OH 43050 busy! First, I would like to thank the other eight Trustees
740-397-1706 Ext 3205 for electing me to this position. What an honor it is to
888-818-2537 (Toll Free)
serve with such an amazing group of dedicated people!
Change in address or membership: Thank you to our members, for the donations of masks,
Email spotlight@oeshome.org masks, and more masks to help our amazing staff keep
or, send back page and new address the residents safe during the pandemic! Donations of
to Crystall Snell at address above. cookies, pizza, games, puzzles, and word games helped
our Life enrichment team keep our residents busy and enjoying their days! And
many thanks to our CEO, Administrator, and Directors for all of their hard work!
Find us on Facebook There is always something happening at the OES Home! Follow them on
For more information visit: Facebook or visit www.oeshome.org for the latest news! Keep watching,
www.oeshome.org there’s more good things to come!
Ron Hardesty,
Chairman OESH Board of Trustees
2 I SUMMER 2021
Welcome
Friends
The members of Ohio Eastern Star have
experienced this past year like none
with heroic strength. They could have just hidden
themselves away and waited for brighter days.
remembered in our Order. There have been Instead, they called Chapter members to see if
lockdowns, the wearing of masks for safety’s anyone needed assistance; they planned virtual
sake, closed Chapters, Chapter rooms with only “parties” online so members could look forward
ten present for meetings, virtual meetings, to seeing and talking with one another in small
and many Chapters which have been and larger groups. These virtual meetings kept
unable to meet at all. members connected and informed, should
Our counties have been anyone need assistance. It also allowed our
identified as Yellow, Orange, Red, members to connect with Eastern Star members
and Purple. Hopefully, someone outside of Ohio and introduce them to friends
reading this information far into and acquaintances some of our members may
the future will stop to wonder not have otherwise met.
why OES Chapters would Hopefully, the Pandemic is over. In June Ohio
care about the “color” of Eastern Star members enjoyed the annual Joint
counties, and why entire Reception held at the Crowne Plaza North in
counties of Chapters would Columbus. We had a nice group of over 200
be closed. We want this people attend, and a wonderful musician who
year of Covid-19 illnesses, had the audience on their feet by the end of the
lockdowns, and loss of life to show. My prayers, as well as those of the Worthy
be long gone by the time our Grand Patron, and our Families, are with each of
future members might come you for good Health and Happiness as we move
across Chapter minutes Forward in Faith.
describing this past year. Carol Gramm Wise, WGM
Our Eastern Star
William Murphy, WGP
Members in Ohio have
braved this year of Covid-19
A parade of memorabilia from the past 70 years at
The Ohio Eastern Star Home will be on display soon.
This visual exhibit will be displayed
in the hallway near
Moreland Hughes.
When we are once
again open to all, be
sure to visit and see
how our campus has
changed and grown
through the years!
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Spring
Coming out of COVID
Midweek fun with chicks,
ducks and other furry
animals brought smiles
to our Elders on a sunny
spring day!
Partially hidden among the savannah grasses
on the Campus of The Ohio Eastern Star Home,
Elders and Care Partners recently enjoyed the
beauty and unique wonders of a safari.
A heartfelt thank you
to our friends at
Kenyon College, for
providing our first live
entertainment since
March of last year!
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SPOTLIGHT
Patricia Carpenter Groveport Chapter #440
Pleiades Chapter #298 Guernsey Chapter #211
Prosser Chapter #367 Harrisonville Chapter #255
Racine Chapter #134 Heber Chapter #62
Ravenna Chapter #46 Heber Lodge Chapter #62
Rawson Chapter #550 Hillsboro Chapter #441
Reber Chapter #161 Howard Laudermilk
on Our Donors Robert & Donna Stowe
Ronald & Martha Shafer
Ida Chapter #416
Jacob Eby Chapter #571
Gifts noted below were given to various funds including Russellville Chapter #461 Jefferson Chapter #300
Sandi Hawk Joyce Yant
Operations, Memorials, Endowment, Campus Dog Park, Shreve Chapter #496 Judith Selby
and WGM/WGP Project September 2020 – April 2021. Sterling Chapter #74 Kay Seigla
District 3 Association OES Kingston Chapter #411
Thornville Chapter #156 Larry Mayer
Tiffin Chapter #189 Lebanon Chapter #343
Living Legacy Carrie Varian Tippecanoe Chapter #307 Level Chapter #109
Rick Hoskinson Celestine Chapter #185 Triangle Chapter #592 Linda Cline
Celina Chapter #91 Troy Chapter #256 London Chapter #386
Grand Benefactor Cornelia Chapter #93 Victoria L. Smith Lucasville Chapter #495
($25,000+) Crescent Chapter #7 W. Dale & Kay Wortman Lyndon Chapter #361
David & Donna Miller Wahneta Chapter #235 Marci Thomas
Clarice Krehbill Trust
Dennis & Celia Lawson Washington Chapter #195 Margaret McCord
Cornerstone Club Diane Jones West Union Chapter #246 Mark Grazden
($10,000 – $24,999) District 16 Association Weyer Chapter #515 Mary McMillin
District 18 Association Woodsfield Chapter #268 Mary Reed
Bill Hertler Douglas & Patricia Brenneman Mason Chapter #494
Friends of Distinction East Palestine Chapter #381 Good Stewards Miami Chapter #107
($5,000 – $9,999) Elizabeth Wilson (Under $100) Morning Light Chapter #80
Englewood Chapter #563 Albany Chapter #558 Morris Chapter #265
Ralph J. Gooding Local Charity Fund Evelyn & Ron Hardesty Mt. Moriah Chapter #506
Albert & Jean Watters
Salem Chapter #334 Farmersville Chapter #155 Mt. Orab Chapter #514
Alliance Data Systems
Leadership Circle Findlay Chapter #23 Amelia Chapter #338 Nathaniel Massie Chapter #548
Fostoria Chapter #94 Ann Benson Nelda Lasure
($1,000 – $4,999) Freeport Chapter #319 Ashland Chapter #92 New Vienna Chapter #327
David & Gwendolyn Bennett Ft. Black Chapter #336 Aurelius Chapter #60 Olive Branch Chapter #251
Virginia Seomin Glenwood Chapter #303 Barbara Stuart Opal Chapter #181
Grace Cone Trust Greenwood Chapter #159 Barnesville Chapter #206 Oriental Chapter #106
Grand Chapter of OES Harvest Chapter #564 Benjamin Pertuset Orion Chapter #12
Icedore Chapter #299 Hoffner Chapter #286 Beverly K. Troha Palestine Chapter #51
1986 OES Grand Family Ivan & Deanna Tribe Bob Vanderhorst Past Grands Association
Jane A. Smith Jack Allen Brecksville Chapter #537 Rick & Tammy Herb
Landers Foundation Grant Jean Baliga Brenda Feasel Rita Dropsey
Lowell Graham Jean Chapman Brownsville Chapter #486 Ruth Chapter #17
Michael Bowers Joan Wedge Cantina Chapter #489 Sandra Lawson
Park National Bank John & Bonnie Youngblood Caroline Chapter #39 Sereno Chapter #128
William & Ruth Gilmore John & Mary Kay Purmort Carroll Chapter #315 Shirley Miller
Kenneth & Rebecca Thatcher Cary Chapter #221 South Point Chapter #404
Radiance Club Kenneth Thomas Jr. Charlotte Ballard Stokes Chapter #543
($500 – $999) Knox Chapter #236 Chillicothe Chapter #419 Stone City Chapter #325
Eastern Star Chapter #502 Legacy Chapter #596 Christopher Belvins Sunrise Chapter #458
George Lewis Behrens Chapter #504 Lotus Chapter #477 Circleville Chapter #90 Susan Flora
Jay Dorsey & Beth Waller Lovelinks Of Ohio Clara Gumble Susan Hart
Joan Hamilton Madeleine Chapter #204 Clermont Chapter #135 Susan McCabe
Lorraine Chapter #1 Maeanna Lindamood Connie Kent Teresa Chapter #257
Muskingum Chapter #485 Marguerite Joyce Convert Chapter #547 Tina Kern
Worthington Chapter #287 Marietta Chapter #59 Covered Bridge Chapter #591 Toronto Chapter #215
Wroena Chapter #597 Marilyn & Roland Elikofer Crystal Chapter #18 Triune Chapter #344
Marvin Chapter #376 Dan Haughey Unionport Chapter #360
Guild of Hope Mary Chapter #9 David Merkle Urania Chapter #284
($100 – $499) Mary Pierce Dawn Day Venus Chapter #76
Althea Chapter #438 Masterton Chapter #584 Day Chapter #479 Vera Chapter #64
Ann Rutledge Chapter #453 Matamoras Chapter #261 Delphos Chapter #26 Vicki Parks
Athens Chapter #175 Medina Chapter #266 Deshler Chapter #68 Vinson Chapter #375
Barbara & Jeffrey Neeper Millersport Chapter #301 Diane L. Henwood Walpole Chapter #366
Barbara Grazden Miriam Chapter #278 Dorothy Johnson Waterloo Chapter #447
Bellefontaine Chapter #459 Mt. Healthy Chapter #365 Ellbrook Chapter #408 Waverly Chapter #99
Belpre Chapter #541 Nancy Bell Evelyn Chapter #146 Weldon & Mary Miller
Betty Snider New Hope Chapter #590 Falls Chapter #245 West Park Chapter #427
Billow Chapter #483 Norma Smoot Fort Hamilton Chapter #568 Western Reserve Chapter #71
Bolivar Chapter #368 Norman Huffman Fulton Chapter #67 Wilkesville Chapter #207
Bruce Hansford Owensville Chapter #370 Gallipolis Chapter #283 Windermere Chapter #388
Bryan Chapter #248 Oxford Chapter #225 Garfield Chapter #324 Woodbine Chapter #61
Carnation Chapter #167 Palmy Chapter #114 Golden Rule Chapter #442 Yondota Chapter #317
Carolyn & Walter Ross Parthenia Chapter #124 Goshen Chapter #382
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The Ohio Eastern Star Home
1451 Gambier Road
Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050
www.oeshome.org
Celebrate
A Time to...
70 Years & Homecoming
Thank you
to the champions
of our campus...
for the role they played
in keeping our elder’s
COVID-FREE!
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