OHIO STATE GRANGE PRESENT POLICY: GRANGE ACTIVITIES 1999-2014 1999 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Added any age opening and closing ritual team to the ritual contests. 2. Requested National Grange to drop the intent to enter postcard and simply judge the reports that are submitted at the end of the year. 3. Requested National Grange to amend the rules to the photography contest period to be from July 1 of the prior year to June 30 of the contest year. 4. Will now only send letters to the county Deputies of the Granges who have Golden sheaf members. 5. Inducted Jim Ross into the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame. 2000 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Inducted Helen and Bernard Shoemaker into the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame. 2. Requested National Grange to change the Deaf Activities Program to Hearing and Deaf Education and Awareness Department and the advisory committee name to the National Grange Advisory Committee on Hearing and Deaf Education and Awareness. 3. To allow the Ohio State Grange golf tournament to allow one non-member participant per member participating in the golf tournament. 4. Requested National Grange consider adding a digital photography contest for the state and subordinate Granges. 5. Allows for a change in Grange Hall of Fame when a State Master and First Lady are both nominees on one resolution and both are worthy of the award, the delegates vote to accept both names to be placed on the plaque. 6. Requested National Grange expand photography categories by adding landscape, family vacation and an open class and add age groups of 14 to 20, 21 to 40 and 41 and over. 2001 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Inducted C. William and Dorothy Franks into the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame.
2. Support continuing the Deaf Activities Program under the direction of the Ohio State Grange Deaf Activities Director and Committee with the approval of the State Master. 3. Changes current Grange policy to include: When two persons fulfilling the same responsibility, are nominees to the Hall of Fame are on one nomination and are both worthy of the award that the delegates vote to accept both names to be placed on the plaque. 2002 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Allows the Young Married/Young Adults meet four times a year fall, summer, winter and spring winter meeting the Saturday of youth winter camp, the summer meeting being the Saturday of summer youth camp and two other times of their choice. Overnight accommodations will be available for any who may wish to use them. 2. Supports contests that involve work done on computers, including digital photos, banners, cards, graphics, posters, and web pages, as examples. Suggests these contests being divided into age groups and recommends the committee heading up contests work with adding some of the above categories or rotate present contest systems. 3. Suggest Subordinate Granges creating, if they wish, a program for Welcome Wagons in their community. 4. Recommended changing committee titles beginning in 2003 to: Agriculture, Citizenship and Public Affairs, Conservation and Natural Resources, Education and Health, Labor and Judiciary, Taxation and Fiscal Policy, Transportation, Grange Law, Grange Activities, Budget and Credentials. These titles will match those committee titles of National Grange. 5. Inducted Don and Iola Elliott to the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame. 6. Suggests that the Ohio State Grange ask the State Secretary to inform other grange secretaries that they can request a Thank You card not be sent to the for monetary donations. Donations generally get sent with a cover letter that can easily include this request. 7. Recommends to National Grange to place as a high priority exemplifying the degree of Ceres each and every year at National Grange Convention. 2003 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Recommends listing the winners of any and all contests sponsored by the Grange in the Ohio Granger magazine, and if possible and space permits photos or copies of the winning entry should also be included. 2. Recommends employing a summer lifeguard to work all camps with each camp paying to cover the lifeguard salary. 3. Inducted Frances White into the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame.
2004 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Recommends to the National Grange to consider creating a program on RFD TV to be considered a membership tool and consider requesting that various corporations assist with the cost of the program. 2. Suggest only counting those members who have attended the entire duration of the 41 and over camp be considered for the 41 and Over Camp Award. 3. Inducted Wib and June Justi into the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame. 4. Recommends to the Ohio State Grange By-Laws committee consider condensing the format of the Ohio State Grange Session to either a three or four day convention within the same business week. 2005 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Recommends changing the Ohio State Grange Youth Camp to set dates for camp at Friendly Hills for summer Youth Camp that includes a weekend, to assist with an increase in attendance. 2. Supports competition between video clips, of about one (1) minute duration which promotes, supports and advertises the Grange, or any other categories at the discretion of the department head. 3. Inducted Frank Piper, Saybrook Grange #1739 into the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame. 2006 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Supports requesting National Grange to allow the Ohio State Grange to digitize or use the most recent technology to preserve records to be kept by the Ohio State Grange as a back-up. 2. Supports allowing the State Ambassador representatives at National Grange Convention are allowed for ages 14-21 years of age. 3. Suggests that at future state grange conventions at the initial entry the Word be taken, and an appropriate sticker/symbol be placed on the person s name tag which is easily recognized and indicates the Degree for their eligibility to attend that meeting and all other meetings during the conventions. 4. Inducted Harold and Dorothy Eckert into the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame. 2007 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Renames the Women s Activities Committee of the Ohio State Grange to Family Activities Committee (FAC) to be used at the State and Local Grange levels. 2. Suggests that the Ohio State Grange Master, with the approval of the Executive Board, choose which coalitions and other organizations to join according to the Ohio State Grange Financial situation. 3. Inducted Ladimir, Jr. and Mary Jo Kubichek to the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame.
2008 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Creates an agricultural based contest for juniors and all subordinate members within the State of Ohio. 2. Inducted Howard and Ann Zimmerman into the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame. 3. Recommends the Ohio State Grange Master and Executive Board look into alternate forms, monthly newsletter or newspaper, for printing the Ohio Granger to reduce costs and ensure timely and relevant information. 2009 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Inducted Harry A. Caton into the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame. 2. The Ohio State Grange officially become completely separate from the Friendly Hills Grange Camp Advisory Board. 3. Supports an increased use of the term local chapter within and outside the fraternity. 2010 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Supports changing the young married couple of the year contest to be open to all couples who have not reached their 40th birthday of the state contest year and urge that National Grange to change the age limit on the young married couple of the year not to exceed 40 years of age per each state s contest. 2. Promote local community partnership activities of FFA and the Grange. 3. That both the Ohio State Grange and Ohio State Grange Legislative Director stress to the Granges that submit resolutions also include adequate background data. 4. The Ohio State Grange Convention Task Force adjust the convention schedule so that only two department workshops are held at the same time. 5. Inducted Doran and Charlotte Widder into the 2010 Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame. 2011 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Recommends to the Friendly Hills Camp Board that non-emergency repairs not be performed in camp buildings being occupied, or utilized by any individuals. 2. Inducted Thurman and Norma Jean Rausch into the 2011 Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame. 3. All sizes and number of items set as criteria for judging be followed to the letter in all contests. 4. Ohio State Grange request or explore other buildings that could be closed or quiet during performances at the Ohio State Fair grounds which would be more conducive for a talent show/contest. 2012 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Encourages the combining of struggling Community Granges, and encourage our National Grange to do the same. 2. Recommends that a section or a line be added to the Grange County Deputies inspection report stating Completed necessary IRS forms. 3. Recommends that judging criteria for all State Fair contests be listed in the Ohio Granger. 4. Inducted Dale and Elaine Altstaetter into the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame. 5. Recommends that all end-of-year Grange report forms have the same firm deadline to be determined by the Program Directors, beginning with the 2014 year.
6. Request that the National Grange send out the Grange Month promotional packet no later than March 1 so Grangers have adequate time to review the information and plan their activities for the celebration of Grange Month. 7. Recommends clearer directions for quilt square assembly, be provided in a timely manner from National Grange to the State Granges and made available to members. 2013 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Recommend that all the departments of the Ohio State Grange will work together to simplify and make more uniform the labeling of items for the State Grange contests. 2. Recommend that the Ohio State Grange continue to publish the Ohio Granger in present form. 3. Inducted Gary and Linda Brumbaugh into the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame. 2014 RESOLUTIONS: 1. Inducted Viola Wayne into the Ohio State Grange Hall of Fame for 2014. 2. Young Adults wishing to attend camp (Winter and Summer) receive 50% off camp fees if their registration and payment is received before the deadline for the event. 3. All Granges facing the prospect of closing be urged to merge or consolidate with another Grange, thereby strengthening the combined Grange and saving our membership numbers in Ohio and that any Grange facing the prospect of closing demit any Golden Sheaf member to another Grange. 4. Recommends updating the Legislative Policy tab of their website on or before August 1 st of each year to include Resolutions adopted at the previous year s convention. 5. Recommends that a Find A Grange search by zip code, similar to the National Grange website, will be added to the Ohio State Grange website that shows where local Ohio Grange meeting sites are located, or lists the phone number of someone to contact about attending. 6. Recommends that the Ohio State Grange Executive Committee will create a Social Media Code of Conduct Policy outlining the acceptable behavior and /or penalties for defaming or causing harm to the reputation of the Ohio State Grange organization. 7. Recommends that a mailing needs to be sent to these Grange legislative chairmen who do not have e-mail. If expense of this needs to be addressed, a request may be sent to all Granges for monetary support for the cost.
8. Recommends that all Ohio State Grange current and/or recent past State Directors compile a detailed job description for their Department. Descriptions will be kept on file with OSG and given to subsequent Directors. Descriptions are to be approved by the Ohio State Grange Executive Committee.