Event starts on Friday, 2 June 2023 and happening at The Gold. If for any reason your application is rejected, you cannot make application for membership for six months from the date of rejection. NJ State Elks Convention - Point Pleasant Lodge Hosted By Point Pleasant Elks Lodge 1698. You will also be told during the program the date you will be initiated.Īfter initiation as an Elk, you can take part in all meetings and social functions of the Lodge. During indoctrination, you will learn more about the Order’s programs and charities. When the vote is concluded, you will be notified and asked to present yourself and your spouse for indoctrination. The members will be given a notice not less than 10 days nor more than two months before the vote will be taken. It will then be forwarded to the Investigating Committee, who will call you and set up a time for you and your sponsor to meet with the committee so that they can interview you.Īfter the interview is concluded, the committee will report to the Lodge concerning your membership. Your application will be read at a regular Lodge meeting. The completed application, along with a check for $100.00 (application fee) is to be returned to your Proposer who then must return it to the Lodge Secretary or Membership Chairperson at a regular scheduled meeting Complete the application, following the instructions and answering all questions. The Elk who proposes you for membership must obtain a Membership Application from the Lodge Secretary or Membership Chairperson at a regular meeting.Īfter your proposer fills in the required portion, you will be given the Application for Membership. You also need two other Elks who will be your co-sponsors. You must be sponsored by a member of the Elks Lodge and reside in the jurisdiction of the Lodge you wish to join. In 2004 the original Elks Home is the site of a strip of small shops, while the Cooper Street Elks Home still houses the LEAP Academy charter school.To be eligible for membership in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, you must be a citizen of the United States over the age of 21 who believes in God. In the late 1990s the former Elks Lodge became the home of the LEAP Academy Charter School. The hall was also made available to other organizations such as Camden Post 980, Veterans of Foreign Wars. The Elks remained at that location into the 1960s, when falling membership brought on by changes in American society and in part by conditions in Camden saw the organization leave the city. A new Elks home was completed on Cooper Street, above Broadway, in May of 1926. Please refer to our calendar for information on dinner specials, bingo, karaoke, social events and more Bingo is held in the Lodge Hall each Thursday at 7:00pm. A series of stores were built about 1926, one of which was occupied by Horn & Hardart for many, many years, on the site. Our Lodge is located at 1815 E Broad Street, Millville, NJ. On ApGround was broken on by the Camden Lodge of Elks for its new home at 807 Cooper Streets. The Elk who proposes you for membership must obtain a Membership Application from the Lodge Secretary or Membership Chairperson at a regular meeting. I have only included an excerpt while the lodge was housed in this building. You must be sponsored by a member of the Elks Lodge and reside in the jurisdiction of the Lodge you wish to join. The entire listing includes al history of this lodge. It is the most comprehensive site I have ever seen for Camden and for Camden County. I found a narrative on this building created by Phil Cohen on a fabulous website created by him which has secured and protected the history of late 18th, 19th and 20th century Camden. The best relief work can be found at the top of the two Corinthian columns flanking the entrance. Originally, this building housed the Camden Elks so perhaps there is some kind of symbolic connection. Over the front entrance is amazing relief work, what looks like a baskets overflowing with fruit at the top of the entrance. The building has a stone bottom which gives rise to a brick building. I could not tell if it was a separate granite block or simply part of the entire granite facade and merely made to look like a separate block. The cornerstone at the front right corner, low to the ground, marks the construction date as 1925. Curiously, this one is not protected and was never placed on the NRHP. There are twenty plus buildings just like this one, built the same time as this one on the NRHP. There is an extensive history of the Lodge located HERE, however, this waymark will concern itself with their history while residing in this building.
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