On January 30, 2016, Norfolk Rainbow Girls and the Norfolk DeMolay put together the Norfolk Winter Ball. This was held at the Granby Lodge in Virginia. For admission people either paid $3 or brought three canned food items to help their charity. I thought this was a great idea to have people come to the dance and bring in items to help the Worthy Advisor’s term. They had a great turn out of people ranging from babies and toddlers to adults. It was a great mixture of Rainbow, DeMolay, and Jobs Daughters. Some of Hampton Rainbow and Tidewater DeMolay helped DJ a great selection of music. There was fun dancing, good vibes, and of course, a conga line!!!

Abby
Smithfield Assembly #5

The DeMolay Conclave was a lot of fun!  The Conclave was held on July 25^th, 2015 at Christopher Newport University.  There were 6 girls from Manassas that attended, Gigi, Delanie, Katie, Kate, Selena and me.  On the way down, we stopped at Starbucks.  All were happy about the stop, but Katie was the most excited.  Her drink was as big as she was.  We got there before the dance started, so Grand Worthy Advisor, Rachel Cochrane, gave us a little tour of the campus.

After the tour it was time for the dance.  We had a lot of fun and met a lot of other Masonic youth.  I can’t wait until next year’s Conclave.

In Rainbow Love and Service,
Vanessa

On Friday November 22 some Rainbow Girls from Hampton, Fairfax, and I went to Occoquan Chapter Order of Demolay Installation of Officers. It was the first Demolay Installation I had ever been to and I was very impressed. They held it in the George Washington Masonic Memorial which was gorgeous, the lodge room was huge with two floors. Most of the visiting members sat in the nose bleed section but some of the others girls and I got front row seats! The installing team did a fantastic job with their ritual work. My favorite part of their ritual is that they explain a little bit about what Demolay is before they install the officers. Brother Alex Hite was installed as Master Counselor. It was very cool to see our brother organization in action. I am looking forward to my next visit to a Demolay event.

Grand Worthy Associate Advisor

Richmond #12

Brigitte