-07/12/2007 New Service. Get your Aeries' Newsletter posted on the New York Sate Aerie Website.
If your would like to have your Aeries' Newsletter posted to this site; email it to: webmaster@nyaerie.org

-07/06/2007 2007 George Armstrong State Golf Tournament
Presented by Fraternal Order of Eagles, Utica Aerie #97
To Benefit the Utica Aerie Golf Course Operation and Development.
Tournament Chairman: Phil Sbiroli 315.797.1496 10513 Cosby Manor Road, Utica, New York 13502 Saturday August 11, 2007 10 AM Shotgun Start – Best Ball
$40.00 includes 18 Holes of Best Ball Golf, Golf Carts, Food and Beverages
Make out checks to:
Fraternal Order of Eagles Utica Aerie #97, 
10513 Cosby Manor Road, Utica, New York 13502
9 A.M. to 10 A.M. Coffee and Donuts, ½ Keg, Soda, Hamburgers and Hot Dogs for Lunch on the turn. Dinner includes a cook your own Steak on the patio grill
Limited to the First 60, August 4, 2007 Deadline. Golf Registration, Sponsorship Form and Lodging Information (PDF)

-06/27/2007 Fraternal Order of Eagles Fall Conference. September 14th, 15th and 16th at Johnson City Aerie 2644
24 Willow Street, Johnson City, 13790. (607) 797 0121
Download or view more information here (PDF)

-06/03/2007 Address Change - Please Note:
As of June 16, 2007 the New York State Aerie mailing address will change to the new State Aerie Secretary's address (whoever that'll be). Any and ALL mail sent to P.O. Box 7187, Capital Station, Albany, NY 12224 will be forwarded to the new State Aerie Secretary. The P.O. Box will be closed on August 1, 2007.
The State Aerie e-mail address: nysaerie@aol.com will be closed on July 1, 2007. All e-mail for Bob Yager should be sent to robertyagergt@aol.com.

-06/03/2007 The 2007 New York State Aerie & Auxiliary Convention Opening Ceremony will be held at the
Saratoga American Legion Post #70, 1 P.M., Thursday June 14, 2007, 34 West Avenue, Saratoga, New York 12866 518.587.0236

-05/25/2007 60th Annual NYS Eagles Tournament Final

-05/15/2007 2007 Eastern Regional Conference October 13 & 14, 2007 and the 100th Anniversary Celebration
For Details Contact
Nick Polinski, Aerie Secretary
Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie #2692
Depew-Lancaster Aerie
4569 Broadway
Depew, New York 14043-3804
Phone: 716.681.3132
The New York State Aerie will be celebrating it's 100th Anniversary on Sunday October 14, 2007
Information and Pre-Registration Form Here

Hosting Aerie: Johnstown #1575
Phone (518) 762- 8813
Total for 5-man all events: $175.00
Total per man for all events: $35.00
Mail Entries to:
Jim Hill
3760 State Hwy. 10
St. Johnsville, NY 13452
All members of teams must be F.O.E. members in good standing and must show a paid up dues receipt before bowling. 2007 Bowling Forms and Rules Available Here

01/07/2007
THE EAGLES' PLEDGE TO AMERICA
Pages 27 and 28 of the 1940 New York State Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles Official Proceedings

   The following Pledge and Resolution, from the pen of Past Grand Worthy President Frank E. Hering, was introduced by Past State President John P. Saxer under the joint sponsorship of State President Mostyn, and Past State Presidents Maraldo and Saxer.
   Injustice and hatred have achieved their end. Over there, the fertile fields where grain should be growing are gashed with shell holes and wet with human blood. The soft clouds of midsummer are pierced with the bullet like speed of death dealing planes. And the quiet night shudders with the death cries of women and children.
   Six of the seven primary powers of the world are at war. More men are under arms today than ever before in the history of the world. To build swift instruments of death, the blessings of science have been prostituted. The bones of boys and men who fell a quarter of a century ago have not dissolved into dust; yet over them, this very day, new bodies, distorted and mangled, rot by the roadside or lie twisted and misshapen upon the battlefield.
   Ours is a country dedicated to the belief that men have certain inalienable rights. Among these are "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." To bring this Republic into existence, men and women suffered and died. Today, as never before, America is threatened by forces from beyond the seas and by forces from within.
   To foreign armies that would desecrate our shores and to their leaders, we say: "America was built by men and women who crossed the seas to escape political and religious persecution. From the forests and rivers, from fertile valleys and plains, they built a nation dedicated to God and to the finest ideals alive in the soul of man. These ideals we hold more precious than life. Deprived of them, we count life not worth living. To our children, to the next veneration, we have promised to hand down this heritage of freedom. No matter what the sacrifice, no matter what the suffering, we WILL keep the faith. No foreign army shall invade our continent so long as there are men and women in this country who find inspiration in American history and who deserve the privilege of living under the Stars and Stripes."
   To those within our midst who would betray our country, who would seek to surrender the keys of America to those that hate our form of government, covet our wealth, and envy us the happiness that, through the grace of God, has found here its abiding place-to these traitors we say: "Take the first ship to the country whose government you serve. Take your crafty minds and Judas hearts to the dictators whose slimy gold supports you. Leave forever a country whose blessed soil is too decent to hold your faithless bodies."
   For any of this treacherous groups who are caught in acts of crimes harmful to our government, we demand immediate and condign punishment. We have witnessed the successful invasion of peaceful countries that had been betrayed and weakened beyond hope of adequate defense by the creatures that, in paragraphs bitter with contempt, future historians will characterize as the "Fifth Column." And having witnessed the deeds of these traitors, we pledge our individual and group strength to the work of exposing their acts both of omission and of commission, wherever opportunities present themselves to us.
   Resolved, to the Governor of our State and to the President of the United States, we pledge, individually, and as a fraternal group that numbers almost three quarters of a million men and women, our loyalty to the Constitutions of State and Nation. We pledge ourselves to the service of America. And, with the full understanding of what this vow entails, we pledge our willingness to give the priceless gift that men call life so that our children may inherit the blessings of freedom.
   We dedicate, in this hour, ourselves and the Fraternal Order of Eagles to the preservation of America and for what it stands among peace-loving peoples of the world. May God and our fellow citizens help us keep this vow!
   The above Pledge and Resolution was unanimously adopted by a standing vote, released to the press and the delegates to the 1940 Grand Aerie session urged to support its adoption in that body, as our expression of Eagledom, on motion by Past State President Saxer, seconded by the State Secretary.
   Brother Kelly of Aerie 053 requested that a supply of this document be furnished for use of subordinate Aeries throughout the State and he was assured by State President Mostyn that this would be done.