November/December/January 2007-2008


Feature Articles:


Homecoming 2007
a Summery Success


From the pep rally on Friday Oct.5 Homecoming weekend (above) to the lawn display at Illinois Home (right), Mooseheart’s students embraced their 2007 Home-coming theme to “Ransack the Raiders.”

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Ramblers cap bright, warm day with 19-0
football win


The Ramblers achieved that goal Oct.6 defeating North Shore Country Day 19-0, thanks, in part, to the superb running of Floyd Mays (center left, 22.)


Gaven Sallie was crowned the Homecoming Queen (escorted by King Donald Niersbach.)










At halftime of the football game, Executive Director Scott Hart kissed a goat.





Through the football contest, another large crowd of visiting Moose and Mooseheart alumni combined to cheer the Ramblers to their eventual victory on a sun-kissed, 85-degree afternoon.





Festivities, Generosity at Homecoming ’07


The Mooseheart campus was well-prepared for the visit of Moose members from across North America for the 2007 Homecoming weekend, Oct. 5-6. School windows were decorated and so were many campus buildings, such as the windows at the rear of Pennsylvania Home.


Residents of North Carolina Home proudly posed in front of the 15-passenger van presented by the North Carolina Moose.



Mooseheart Superintendent of Education Gary Urwiler showed off the school’s vintage fire truck.



At Iowa Home, Iowa/E. Nebraska Moose Association President Joe Weinschenk (at microphone) spoke before a $1,000 check was presented to provide for patio furniture at the home.


At Pennsylvania Home, Regional Manager Stan Adams presented a $4,500 check so the campus can purchase swans, and a $23,300 check to complete a three-year campaign to replace windows and to install a new HVAC system at Penn Home--which completes a $325,000 project.




Pipe Organ Rehab Effort
Nears $20K

> For the third straight year, 1977 Mooseheart grad Diana York (second from right) performed a benefit concert to aid the renovation and repair of the House of God pipe organ. This year, York and Mooseheart Alumni Association president Bill Harvey ’65 presented representatives of Higher Degree Council from Florida-Bermuda with a plate for their $2,000 contribution to the campaign. Nearly $20,000 of the needed $51,000 has been raised so far, and the project’s second phase is nearly complete.



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