157 Lodge History
Lodge 157 Timeline
April 2015
Grand Exalted Ruler Ron Hicks Visit
Grand Exalted Ruler Ron Hick with Kenton Exalted Ruler John Hines during Kenton 125th celebration.July 2006
Ritual Contest National Winner
Elks Ritual Contest National Winner 2006 Back Left; Robert Buroker PER, Julie Crowe, Sue Fox Buroker PER, D Jack Buroker PER. Seated Middle; Reggie Slack, Jerry Haudenschield PER, John Wilcox. Front Seated: Dave Beasley,March 1965
Lodge Intiation Plans Discussed
Lodge’s initiation plans are discussed by, left to right, Est. Lead. Knight Carl J. Weisenberger, E.R. R. L. Kinsey, P.E.R. Edgar Candler, Secy. Parker Obenour and P.D.D. Russell Pfeiffer.February 1962
NorthWest Ohio District Ritualistic Contest
Kenton Elks 157 Ritualistic Team Placed 3rd with a team score of 90.106 and these are the officers who participated. Front Row Left to Right: Inner Guard Richard Zellers, Esteemed Loyal Knight Burke Smith, Esquire Carl F. Weisenberger, and Chaplain Carl Sheldon. Second Row Left to Right: Esteemed Leading Knight Lauren R. Hiller, Exalted Ruler Harry G. Bailey, and Esteemed Lecturing Knight Richard KinseyMarch 1958
Sports Night Banquet 1958
Talking over old times in America’s favorite sport during Kenton, Ohio, Lodge’s annual Sports Night Banquet are, left to right, Findlay Elk Del Drake, outfielder for Detroit in 1911 and for St. Louis in 1913; General Program Chairman Mike Clabaugh; Billy Southworth, former Mgr. of the Cardinals and of the Boston Braves, and Hoge Workman, Alt-American on Ohio State’s 1921 Rose Bowl Team and a member of Huntington, W. Va., Lodge. Clabaugh and Southworth Ore both Honorary Life Members of the host lodge.June 1957
Grand Exalted Ruler Visits 157
During the closing weeks of his term as Grand Exalted Ruler, Fred L. Bohn made several visits to lodges of his own State. Ohio State Pres. James Plummer, Secy. Parker J. Obenour and D.D. Elmo Richard, left’to right, standing, join E.R. William H. Conner, seated left, and Fred L. Bohn in looking over a report on the increase in membership of Kenton, Ohio, Lodge. Mr. Bohn’s visit there was the first the lodge had received from a Grand Exalted Ruler.July 1955
July 1955 Elks Youth Day
A truly outstanding Salute to Youth was Kenton, Ohio. Lodge’s sponsorship of a multiple program handled by George Zoldak and his committee who were rewarded with second-place honors in this group. Elected as Youth Week city officials, upstanding Kenton teen-agers were introduced at an outdoor mass meeting. This ceremony was followed by a parade to Robinson Field for an exciting track meet, when the handsome First Annual Elks Youth Day Trophy and other valuable awards were presented. That evening over 325 students were guests of the lodge at a dance. As if all this wasn’t enough, the Kenton Elks offered another event in evidence of their appreciation of our youth and their acliievements; during Youth Week they staged the first in a series of weekly athletic programs for all boys of the community who are receiving supervised instruction in boxing, basketball and calisthenics.August 1953
Soap Box Derby
Committee Chairman N. M. Simpson with Russell Hiatt, Kenton, Ohio Lodge’s entrant in the Hardin County Scrap Box Derby.May 1950
Sixtieth Anniversary Dinner
E.R. Parker Obenour and P.DiO. Ivan R. Hesson, with the forty-year members of Kenton, Ohio, Lodge at its Sixtieth Anniversary Dinner.February 1949
Honoring Manager of Boston Braves
Over 400 honored “Billy” Southworth, manager of the Boston Braves, at Kenton, Ohio, Lodge. They included Mike Clabaugh, Marty New, Pat Donahue who discovered Bob Feller, baseball scout Marty Platen, “Billy” Southworth, M.C. Prank Schindewoif, “Vic” Dorris and Robert Buffing, coaches of the local high school football team. Jess Rabies, Nick Gallop, Milwaukee team manager, Cy Young, one of baseball’s greatest pitchers, John Quinn, general manager of the Braves, Lott Perini, owner of the Braves, Ad Thatcher, fight promoter, and Hank Oowdy, Braves catcher in 1914.August 1943
Blood Drive to Help War Effort
Participants in the Hardin County Blood Donor program which was held in the home of Kenton, Ohio, Lodge 157.January 1890
