Kindly Remember Division 15 in

your Will

P r e s i d e n t ’ s M e s s a g e M E N ’ S B O A R D

Chaplain: Deacon Frank Flood President: John Nolan V. Pres: Edward McGlade Rec. Sec: William Scharen Treas.: James Wall Fin. Sec.: Joe Campbell Std Comm.: Padraic Nugent Marshal: Matthew Dernaud Sentinel: Jeff Stark Newsletter Editor: Ed McGlade

Ladies’ Board Chaplain: Rev. Daniel O’Brien S.J. President: Joanne Brennan V. Pres: Helen McHale Rec. Sec.: Maureen Scharen Treas.: Anne Roarty Fin. Sec.: Margo Moore Irish Hist.: Helen Buckley Missions: Joanne Kranz Catholic Action: Elaine Galbo Mistress at Arms: Lilly Giannelli Sentinel: Rita Bluett Grievance: Eleanor Ryan Maureen Murphy-Ade 2015 AOH Division 15: Man of the Year: William Quigley Lady of the Year: Mary Beggen

Stars & Shamrocks

June 2015 Vol. 3, Issue 6

Ancient Order Of Hibernians , Michael F. Hogan Division 15 — 85 Hibernian Way (Grand Ave), Massapequa, N.Y.

Table of Contents: Mikes Tidbits: Pg. 2, Green Beret News: Pg. 2, Tara Pipes &

Drums: Pg. 2, Chaplain’s Corner: Pg. 3, Right to Life: Pg. 3, Did You Know: Pg. 4, NC

AOH Conv: Pg 4, Ladies AOH: Pg. 5, NYC AOH/LAOH Conv: Pg. 6, Our Sponsors: Pg.

7 www.aohdiv15.com

May turned out to be a great

month. This was the first time

I attended the NYS AOH meet-

ing in East Durham. Before

the meeting Jim Burke, Ed McGlade

and John Hillin joined me at the annual

Austin Carew golf outing which supports

a scholarship for college bound high

school seniors. These applications are

due in the month of May so be aware of

this opportunity for 2016.

We are beginning our Road to

2016 and the 100 year commemoration

of the Rising of Irish Freedom. Like our

own American Bicentenial in 1976 we

intend to celebrate all year long. The

theme for us is education. A limited num-

ber of commerative coins will be issued

by the NYS AOH and will fund our educa-

tional activities. More to come on that.

What a great day we had for Me-

morial Day! The parade was very well

attended, and I thank all the men and

women who were there. The AOH/Marine

BBQ couldn’t have been better. This was

the first year we had a gas grill and from

the comments I heard, everyone thought

the hamburgers and the franks were pret-

ty good. The Marines stepped up and

did a good bit of the cooking. I think it

was all part of the grand strategy to

help them win the stickball game.

Irish Night our next big event is

coming up on June 27 at Brady Park. We

will need some volunteers to help set

up and man the various tables. Setup

begins at 2 pm at the hall. The evening

will kick off at 6 pm and end at 10

pm. Our entertainment includes The Ed

Ryan Band, InnishFree Irish dancers and

our Tara Pipes and Drums including the

color guard. If you have never attend

"Irish Night", do yourself a favor and

come on out with your family and

friends.

We are saddened at the recent

passing of Bill Laws wife Betty. Please

remember in your prayers all are mem-

bers who are ill.

See you down at the hall. God Bless!

John Nolan

Happy Flag Day

Support Our Troops

Calling all members - we need you to march in the July 4th parade -

it is possible to join the unit at the halfway point - please see Ed

McGlade - we need more than a handful of our 230 members

M i k e ’ s T i d b i t s

T a r a P i p e s a n d D r u m s

P a g e 2

G r e e n B e r e t C l u b N e w s

Green Beret Trustees Chair: Michael Greene Treas. Bob Brennan Rec. Sec. Jack Ryan House/Bar: Ed McGlade Entertainment: Ken Ferguson

To Rent the Hall please call:

516 795-9715 To be notified of wakes please

email Ken Ferguson at

shamrocken47@verizon.net

S t a r s & S h a m r o c k s

A few things for you to keep in mind. The band will be playing at Irish Night in Brady Park on June 27th, please come down and support us. We are starting sum-mer classes - for both pipes and drums so please come down and join us. Just come to the hall any Thursday at 7pm and we will get you started - it is a very easy thing for us to do. The band has selected November 7th as the date it will hold it’s next Piper’s Ball. This will be the kickoff event for the celebration of the band’s 40th anniversary year. The band was formed in 1976, and we are stronger than ever and are looking forward to a great year in 2016. Please come down and celebrate with us. The band returned to the Massapequa—

Massapequa Park Memorial Day parade, we turned down a number of other offers so that we could once again march for the division. We had a great time marching thru town and seeing all the folks lined up. We hope we can once again do it again next year. Thanks it for now - have a lot of new music to learn and a golf outing to prepare for… The golf out will be $150 per person and held on June 22. The course is WindWatch and lunch/dinner afterwards will be at the hall. If you are interested in just attending the dinner, which starts at 2pm, the cost is $50 - please let John Hillin, Kevin O’Rourke or myself know. Ed McGlade, BandMaster

Mens Dues

Please send 2015 annual

dues: $45

($40 if paid by March 1st)

Joe Campbell

85 Grand Ave

Massapequa, NY 11758

Memorial Day has come and

gone I guess we are now officially in the

summer season .Break out the white

shoes and straw hats. This year Memori-

al Day is something special because the

Band and Color guard is losing its senior

member. After 35 years, Frank (The

Deek) Flood is retiring. It won’t be the

same without him. As Frank was always

good for a few laughs, he was always

forgetting some part of his uniform.

Would you believe one time he even for-

got his kilt. Frank, the Color Guard and

Band is going to miss you.

The Division participated in the

Massapequa Parade on Memorial Day.

Thanks to all those that found the time to

march. We had about 18 men marching

for the Division. Where were the other

220? I wonder why people join an organ-

ization if they are not going to support it.

So much for that I had my say.

For the 25th year we shared a

day with the Marines at their Annual

Barbeque. The weather was great , food

was plentiful and a good time was had by

all. Sad to say we did not fare to well in

our annual stickball game as the future

Marines (14 years and younger) beat us

9 to 2 . A good time was had by all.

That’s about it for now see you at

our next meeting, Wednesday, June

10th.

The Club is opened every Friday

at 8 pm, come down and met your few

brothers and sister Hibernians. Last

month we bet on the Kentucky Derby and

also the Preakness. This month it will be

the Belmont stakes come and get your bet

in at the hall.

Last month’s winner of the

Maintenance Fund was Maureen Caffrey ,

she walked home with $90.00. For those

that don’t know what the fund is about, I

will explain it. We have a jar in the hall. If

you want to participate in it, you sign your

name to a $5.00 bill and put it in the jar,

on the last Friday of the month we pick

one of the bills out and whose name is on

it gets ½ of the pot. The other half goes

towards the maintenance of the building.

Now, we have $890.00,after I paid a

$1300 plumbing bill.

At our next meeting on Wednes-

day, June10 we will be having an election

for Green Beret Trustees. Anyone inter-

ested in running contact Ed Mc Glade.

That’s it for this month. Hope to see you at

the meeting.

C h a p l a i n ’ s C o r n e r

P a g e 3 S t a r s & S h a m r o c k s “In God We Trust”

“ORDINARY T IME “- The name given to the part of the Liturgical Year that does not fall within one of the major seasons (Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter). If one re-flects on the past five months we can recall that most of us have been looking forward to some warm weather as we have experienced a long-bitter Winter and a below average temperature Spring. In terms of weather, we have experienced something “out of the ordinary”! From a liturgical viewpoint, our experiences are quite different – Christmas, followed by Lent , Easter and just recently we celebrated the birthday of the Church with the great feast of Pentecost. And now we continue with “ORDINARY TIME” – the time between Pentecost and Advent and what is so ordinary about this period.

From a secular viewpoint, “ordinary time” is really the best part of the year where we can experience the extra-

ordinary things of life such as: Backyard barbeques; ball-games; the beach; gardening; vacation time, etc..

From a ‘religious’ viewpoint “ordinary time” can be consid-ered as a little weekly Easter just as Easter is a great annual Sunday. Sunday is thus the day on which we cele-brate the victory of Jesus through His Cross. With great joy and faith we can celebrate the deed of the Resurrec-tion, and at the same time Jesus gathers us around Him, present among His own, who have come together to listen to His Word and celebrate His Eucharist. Each Sunday, during “ordinary time” is thus a “feast” , a period of growth in the Faith for all who follow the Liturgy. It is He who makes of our seemingly ordinary lives an eternal offering to the glory of God!

Enjoy this coming Summer and “ORDINARY TIME”!

Deacon Frank

Right to Life NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATION

ABORTION EXPANSION BILL PASSES IN ASSEMBLY:

On March 25 the NYS Assembly passed bill, A06221, expanding abortion in the third trimester.

There are twenty-two Assembly members representing Nassau and Suffolk. A Yes vote is in favor of expanding abor-

tion rights.

Those voting yes were: Thiele, Englebright, Ramos, Jean-Pierre, Lavine, Schimel, Hooper, Kaminsky, and Solages.

The No votes were: Palumbo, Murray, Graf, Garbarino, Fitzpatrick, Saladino, Lupinacci, Raia, McDonough, Mon-

tesano, McKevitt, Ra, Curran.

Funding of abortion in NYS: NYS is continuing to make taxpayers fund abortions in the state health care system. The

Butler Amendment, which would have stopped this, failed to pass in the 2015 Assembly budget bill.

PRAY THE ROSARY TO END ABORTION

Respectfully Submitted: Ed McKee

THERE IS HELP:

If you or someone you know is in need of help with a pregnancy call:

Life Center:

1-516-798-9100 (Massapequa) L.I. Birthright (Hot Line) -1-800-550-4900

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1-631-243-2373 (Deer Park)

If you or someone you know is in need of healing from the effects of an abortion, recent or many years past call Rachel’s

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P a g e 4 S t a r s & S h a m r o c k s

Did You Know An bhfuil fhios agat:

Set in the heart of Connemara, Co. Galway, Kylemore Abbey shares its wood-lands, lakes and rivers with a large variety of birds and animals. A trip to the West of Ireland is not complete without experiencing the scenic lands and cultures of the Catholic faith, beauty and tranquility of Kylemore Abbey and Gardens.

Kylemore Abbey, has been home to the Irish Benedictine nuns since 1920. The Benedictine nuns bought the house in 1920, having fled their convent in war-torn Belgium in 1914, where they ran a boarding school for girls for over 300 years. They re-established the school here and it is still very much alive today.

The Abbey was originally built in 1868 by Mitchell Henry, in memory of his late wife Margaret. Its architecture is best described as neo-gothic and the house still dis-plays all the characteristics of that period. Kylemore Abbey's most famous feature is its miniature cathedral, known locally as the Gothic church. It was built by Mitch-ell Henry in 1870. Its marble columns add to the design's richness. The castle was designed by James Franklin Fuller. Construction first began in 1867, and took one hundred men four years to complete. The castle covered approximately 40,000 square feet and had over seventy rooms with a principal wall that was two to three feet thick. The facade measures 142 feet in width and is made of granite brought from Dalkey, Co. Dublin by sea to Letterfrack and from limestone brought from Ballinasloe. There were 33 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4 sitting rooms, a ballroom, billiard room, library, study, school room, smoking room, gun room and various offices and domestic staff residences for the butler, cook, housekeeper and other

servants. Other buildings include a Gothic cathedral and family mausoleum containing the bodies of Margaret Henry, Mitchell Henry and a great grand-nephew.

The Abbey remained in Henry's estate after he returned to England. The castle was then sold to the Duke and Duch-ess of Manchester in 1909, who resided there for some years before being forced to sell the house and grounds be-cause of their gambling debts.

In 1920 the Irish Benedictine Nuns purchased the Abbey castle and lands after they were forced to flee Ypres, Bel-gium during World War I. The nuns, who had been based in Ypres for several hundred years, had been bombed out of their Abbey during World War I. The nuns continued to offer education to Catholic girls, opening an international boarding school and establishing a day school for local girls. They were forced to close the school in June 2010.

Since the 1970s the walled Victorian Gardens have been open for public tours and 'nature' walks. The Benedictine community has restored the Abbey's gardens and Cathedral with donations and local artisans in order to be a self-sustaining estate. Mise Eire.

AOH MEMBER CAR RENTAL DISCOUNTS: On average, the discounts will run between 10 to 20 percent, and will

vary with location and season. For Avis use code # AWD = X265800 and for Budget use code # BCD = A766200.

AOH/LAOH NYS Convention - Call for volunteers

Presidents John Nolan and Joanne Brennan are asking their respective members to come out and assist in the run-

ning of this convention. The convention will be held from about 5pm on July 8th to 11pm on July 11th. There is a need

for volunteers who can work for 2-4 hour shifts during the day on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. We have volun-

teers for all of the evening events however, we can always use a few more. Please let one of the following convention

committee members know if you are able to help out: James Burke, Maureen Caffrey, Joanne Brennan, Ken Ferguson,

and Ed McGlade.

P a g e 5 L a d i e s P a g e

Stars & Shamrocks

LAOH June 2015

Presidents Message

A Special Note from Past-President Penny Steigler

Dear Sister & Brother Hibernians,

Thank you so much for all the cards, phone calls and many prayers during my surgery. It is the love and support you have given me that has made my recovery so successful. You are all the best! Fondly, Penny Steigler

The Dues are now $30.00. Please make checks payable to

LAOH Inc. Div. 15. You can send your check to Margo

Moore. Her address is 309 park Boulevard Massapequa

Park, NY 11762. You can also pay at any meeting.

DATES TO REMEMBER: 6/2—NYS Convention Meeting 6/14—Flag Day 6/15—LAOH Meeting 6/21—Father’s Day 6/22—Tara P&D Golf Outing 6/27—Irish Night at Brady Park 7/8-7/12—2015 AOH/LAOH NYS Convention

Please remember in your prayers Ann Ryan, Dolores Fo-

ley, Joh Michael Ley, Anne Davis, Linda Brower, Charlotte

Torcia, Jeanette Kruczka, Nora McMahon, Walter Geis,

Margarette Purro, June Brady, Betty Law, Joseph Bishop,

Sean Doherty, James Thompson, Joe Dillon, Chris Geyer,

Sheila Martin and Mary Karal.

|Please send any information for this section to Maureen

Fursa 516-541-2626 Yours in Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity, Joanne Brennan

Annual Dues 2015

CONGRATULATIONS, CONDOLENCES & PRAYERS

Summer is finally upon us and the warm weather events will

ensue. We had a wonderful time yesterday celebrating Memori-

al Day with a parade, followed by a beautiful ceremony and of

course a BBQ with our friends at the Marine Hall. And as much

fun was had by all, it is important to remember the reason we

are able to celebrate with family and friends. We honor the men

and woman who have made the ultimate sacrifice and their

family members who will forever miss them. We also honor

those who survived and whose lives were forever changed. Our

veterans need us now more than ever.

Yours in Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity,

Joanne

Meetings

The next meeting will be on June 15, 2015 and will begin

promptly at 8:00pm. Please make every effort to attend as we

will be discussing the final details for the NYS Convention in

July. There are no meetings in July or August.

Roast Beef Dinner/Night at the Races

As usual the Roast Beef Dinner was delicious and a suc-

cess! Thank you to Chairlady Mary Beggan and her trusty

sidekick Pat Brennan for all of their work in making it a suc-

cessful fundraiser.

2015 AOH/LAOH NYS Convention

Nassau County is hosting the NYS Convention this year

(details below) and volunteers are needed. There are many

positions and time slots that need to be filled and all help is

very much appreciated. Please let me know as soon as

possible if you would like to volunteer.

The events are as follows:

· Wednesday AM - Golf outing @ Lido Golf Club

· Wednesday PM - Ice Breaker/ Welcome Reception*

· Thursday - Sunset Party Cruise, Capt. Lou, Freeport

· Friday - Irish Night Awards Dinner*

· Saturday - Installation Dinner Dance with entertainment

by The McLean Ave Band*

*Package rate available. Please see website for more in-

formation - http://www.nyaoh2015.com/

Annual Baby Shower

Thank you to all of the ladies who brought in gifts for our

annual baby shower at the May meeting. There were so

many items there that will be of great use. I would like to

thank Elaine Galbo for organizing the event.

LAOH Scholarship

The 2015 LAOH Scholarship Drawing will be held at our Sep-

tember 21st meeting. The award is $250.00. If you are a paid

member, please submit the name of a child or grandchild attend-

ing a Catholic school or college to Eileen O’Connell @ 5 McKin-

ley St. Copiague, NY 11726 by September 7th. Please include

the name and location of the school.

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EVENTS

June 10 - Men’s Meeting

June 14 - Flag Day

June 15 - Ladies Meeting

June 22 - Tara Golf Outing

June 27 - Irish Night Brady Park

July 4 - Mass Pk Parade

July 8 - NYS Convention

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