by Tom Loughlin Jr. UTICA PHOENIX

Utica NY Oct 5 2024 The Utica -based chapter of the youth fraternity which helped shape the lives of Walt Disney, John Wayne, President Bill Clinton ,Walter Cronkite, astronaut Frank Borman and other luminaries marked its centennial year with a banquet and awards presentation Saturday at Harts’ Hill Inn.

The Mohawk Valley Chapter of the Order of DeMolay was chartered May 24,1924, five years after the establishment of the national organization in Kansas City.

The event featured addresses by national and New York State Masonic and DeMolay officers and officials of sponsoring groups, foremost, the Yahnundasis Bodies of the Scottish Rite Valley of Utica, the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of NY and local lodges. 

For complete article go to the link below...