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The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE; also often known as the Elks Lodge or simply The Elks) is an American fraternal order founded in 1868, originally as a social club in New York City. It has more than 750,000+ members at 1,928 lodges. The fraternity currently focuses on Community, Friendship, and Charity.
Membership is open to everyone, men and women, age 16 years and older. In earlier years, membership was limited to the wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, stepdaughters and widows of members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1979 there were 40,000 members, the same as a decade previously. [2] There were 41,000 members in 1989. [1]
Summit NJ Elks Lodge No. 1246 Host of Mad Money on CNBC: Walter Cronkite: Broadcast journalist and anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years Andy Devine: San Fernando CA Elks Lodge No. 1539 Actor Jack Elam: Ashland OR Lodge No. 944 Actor Rich Hall: Livingston MT Lodge No. 246 Comedian, writer, documentary maker, and musician Bill Hughes
After the membership declined during World War II, the Grand Lodge deleted all reference to the Antlers in its Constitution and Statutes. [4] [5] Benevolent and Protective Order of the Does – unofficial female Auxiliary operating at the local level. [6] [7] Lady Elks – unofficial female Auxiliary operating at the local level. [6]
The food boxes are given to 200 veterans and 40 families in the Erie region.
A fraternity or fraternal organization is an organized society of men associated together in an environment of companionship and brotherhood; dedicated to the intellectual, physical, and social development of its members.
Quaker City Elks Lodge No. 720, IBPOEW, Philadelphia, was founded in 1926. In 1945 it was the reportedly the second-largest African-American Elks lodge in the country. In 1930, the Lodge erected a home at 1943 Christian Street, in the area now known as the Christian Street Historic District. [12] Christopher Perry Lodge, No. 965, of Philadelphia
The Daughters organized as a national organization or "Grand Temple," with temples from Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, for the National Elks convention on September 9, 1903. [ 5 ] The Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World did not officially accept the Daughters but Kelley was elected to put together a ritual ...