Great Falls, MT (July 17, 2009) — The Great Falls Fraternal Order of Eagles (F.O.E.) #14 welcomes the International Eagles Grand Worthy President Mike Lagervall, Sr. to the Great Falls Aerie on Saturday, July 25 at 6 p.m. The aerie is located at 1501 9th St. S. in Great Falls.
Public is invited to meet Lagervall and learn more about the Eagles. Food tickets will be sold during the event. A raffle to benefit a local charity will take place. The Montana State President and Great Falls Trustee Larry Emmett will also be present to answer questions about the Eagles.
“Our aerie is excited to welcome the newly instituted Grand Worthy President to our wonderful city of Great Falls,” said Emmett. “We hope the community will come and learn more about the Eagles and the great work we do for the community.”
As Grand Worthy President, Lagervall’s major initiative will be to encourage members to raise funds for his presidential charity, the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center.
The Fraternal Order of Eagle are partnering with The University of Iowa in a five year, $25 million fundraising project that will culminate with The Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center at The University of Iowa. The Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center will be a dedicated center for diabetes research within the Institute for Biomedical Discovery Building at The University of Iowa. Money fundraised by the Fraternal Order of Eagles will go directly to medical research.
While serving his one-year term as Grand Worthy President, Lagervall, with his wife Martha, plans on traveling more than 260 days of the year to aeries and auxiliaries nationwide raising awareness of the organization and promoting the Eagles’ diabetes research center.
The Great Falls Eagles #14 were instituted into the local community in 1907. Today the Great Falls F.O.E. is home to more than 1,200 members of the local community. The Great Falls Eagles aid the local community and exemplify the international organization’s motto of ‘People Helping People,’ by donating approximately $12,000 to local and national organizations such as the McLaughlin Research Institute and the International Eagles Charities.
For more information about the Grand Worthy President’s visit to Great Falls or about becoming a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, please contact Emmett at 406-734-5287.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles, an international non-profit organization, unites fraternally in the spirit of liberty, truth, justice, and equality, to make human life more desirable by lessening its ills, and by promoting peace, prosperity, gladness and hope. Founded in 1898, the Eagles fund research in areas such as heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes and cancer, and raise money for neglected and abused children and the aged, as well as work for social and civic change.