- Nugget meets at the Anchorage Masonic Center. They are sponsored by Denali Chapter #16 Order of
the Eastern Star.
- Assembly Tradition. Every time you say the G-Word (guys) instead of "girls", you have to do Ali-Babas. Those
are when you get on your knees, strech your arms over your head and and bow to the floor, touching your hands to the
floor saying "Oh Ali-Baba" three times. You do this to the highest ranking officer in attendance. It's usually our
Grand Deputy.
- The Worthy Advisor picks Mascot, Colors, Flower, Symbol, Theme, Motto, Song and Bible Verse for her term.
- Installations are usually on weekends. Practice and Installation all on a Saturday, but sometimes
practice is on Saturday and Installation is on Sunday. It's the incoming Worthy Advisor's choice. They're
usually held in the afternoon.
- The incoming Worthy Advisor makes her own carry-ins, which the girls get to keep. Also the WA gives her
Installing Officers presents. She also is supposed to make pedestal decorations, which the officers get to
keep at the end of the term.
- Special events at Installation. There's a Special Installing officer who just installs the Worthy Advisor, this is usually someone who is special to the incoming Worthy Advisor. Master of Ceremonies is usually the outgoing Worthy Advisor who will open the Installation and do the flag and gavel portion of Installation. We have had DeMolay escorts, father's escorts and Mason escorts. The Eastern Star Chapters give the Assembly a monetary donation at every Installation.
- Passed down items. Traveling Worthy Advisor's jewel and traveling Mother Advisor's jewel.
- Nugget has a Rainbow Dad, who is choosen by the Worthy Advisor each term.
- On the first meeting of the new term, the Jr. Past Worthy Advisor recieves a quilt of her colors
from the Advisory Board and a gold nugget from the Assembly.
- Installation. The Assembly does a skit for the new Worthy Advisor, and the Worthy Associate Advisor
gives the Worthy Advisor her mascot. At the end of regular meetings we sometimes sing a song called
"We are the Rainbow Girls", which goes like this: (to the tune of tarara boom dea)
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We are the Rainbow Girls
we wear our hair in curls
we always aim to please
with skirts above our knees.
And when we kiss the boys
we make a lot of noise
we are the Rainbow Girls
and we love you
muuuaaaaahhhhh - Area Assemblies are:
Fairbanks #1 - Fairbanks, Alaska District #1
Forget-me-not #14 - North Pole, Alaska District #1 (dark)
Nugget #13 - Anchorage, Alaska District #2
Friendship #16 - Eagle River, Alaska District #2
Anchorage #5 - Anchorage, Alaska District #3
Palmer #7 - Palmer, Alaska District #3
Juneau #3 - Juneau, Alaska District #4
- Fairbanks Area, Anchorage Area and Juneau Area people get together in their own areas for Grand Cross
Mystic Banquet.
- First Grand Assembly of Alaska was held in 1963. (Before that, Alaska was part of the same Grand Jurisdiction
as Washington/Idaho.)
- Famous former Rainbow Girls. The current Chairman of the Municipality of Anchorage Assembly, Mrs. Fay Von
Gemmingen & Former Alaska first Lady Mrs. Ermiline Hickel. ("They may not be famous outside of Alaska but in
Alaska they are famous!")
- Proficiency test in Alaska is given in three parts.
Proficiency 1
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1. How to enter and leave the Assembly room while Assembly is in session - the passwords and signs.
2. How to give the sign of the Rainbow, Grand Honors, Supreme Honors and when and when not to give them.
3. Attitude of Prayer - How to stand, position of hands and how to kneel.
4. Response after prayer.
5. How to respond to gavel raps.
6. Why open the bible to the 9th chapter of Genisis.
7. Time and dates of Assembly Dates.
8. Responsiblities of an officer.
9. How to request a petition - proceedure, visitation, and balloting.
10. Conduct in the Assembly
11. How to address the Worthy Advisor
12. Names of officers and their positions in the Assembly
13. Never cross between the East and the altar when the bible is open. Only Faith and Drill Leader are allowed to do this during Initiation
14. Point system and merit bars
15. Memorize the test oath in the ritual
16. Questions and answers from the secret work
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1. Memorize the obligation
2. Name the contents of the pot of gold
3. Name the seven colors and give their meanings
4. Where is the bible opened to on the altar?
5. What does Rainbow teach?
6. When and Where was Rainbow founded?
7. By whom was the ritual written?
8. Name the two important dates in Rainbow to remember
9. Grand Cross - what is it and how is it recieved
10. Majority - what is it and how is it recieved
11. Should know knowledge of Initiation and Balloting and be able to demonstreate and explain floor work
12. How is Rainbow governed?
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1. Learn all the bow lectures starting with Love and ending with Service. Must be done word-perfect and with
feeling, also good poise and audibility.
2. Learn Charity's lecture on the pot of gold. This must also be word-perfect, with good poise and audibility.
3. Learn the entire secret work (WA part during Initiation) Done word-perfect with good poise and audibility.
- The merit bar pin and first service bar will be awarded together for 600 points earned. The girls receive
points for: meeting attendance, opening bible at home, setting up and putting away Assembly room, bring snacks to
meetings, attending another Assembly's meetings, going to Grand Assembly, pro-teming another station, doing service
work outside Rainbow, serving as chairperson on a committee.
- Length of term for WA in Alaska is 6 months. Installations are in January and July.
- You can wear a crown as Worthy Advisor. (Nugget #13 does not.)
- The official state publication for Alaska is a newsletter which is published 4 times a year, called "The
Aurora." This newsletter started in 1961.
- Opening and Closing Marches. Officers walk normally. We usually don't do a Closing March except at
Installation or Friendship night. Then the WA walks around the room once alone and then the officers join in
and we walk straight out of the Assembly room.
- Songs sung at Initiation. Love - Love Divine; Religion - Have thy own way Lord; Nature - In the Garden;
Immortality - Abide with me; Fidelity - God will take care of you; Patriotism - America the Beautiful; Service -
Somebody did a Golden Deed.
- Alaska's dress code. NO BLACK! Mostly Pastels, colors of the rainbow and white. Regular business
meetings - short dress. Installation, Initiation, Special meetings and Grand Assembly - Formals. Only Grand
Officers are allowed to wear hoopskirts.
- Grandies in Alaska. We have the usual Grand Floor Officers, plus Lecturer, Historian, Grand Exec. Board & Grand Pages, Grand Mother Advisor (selected by the newly elected GWA). The Grand Line officers, Recorder, and Treasurer are elected by the Past Worthy Advisors, Current Worthy Advisors, Current WAA's, and Current Charitys in attendance at Grand Assembly. The rest are selected by the Supreme Deputy, Grand Deputies, and Adult Grand Exec. Board at the Friday night meeting after elections at Grand Assembly.
- Grand Representatives are called Fraternal Correspondents. These girls can be any member of an Assembly
(including Grandies) who wish to be a correspondent. They are choosen by the Director of Fraternal Correspondents.
- In Alaska to be considered for a Grand Office you must be a PWA or Current WA and have your 2nd Proficiency.
To be elegible to be elected GWA you must have Grand Cross. You can be appointed to Grand Choir Director, Musician,
Soloist, and Grand Exec. Board if you are not a WA or PWA. You can hold as many Grand Offices as you wish, up until
you are 21.
- Grand Officer duties are as follows:
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1. Make one official visit to you own assembly each term.
2. Make as many official visits with the GWA as possible
3. Make an effort to visit other assemblies in your area
4. Always wear a long formal on any official visit or when being introduced in your own assembly.
5. Be as active as possible in your assembly, but do not be a nuisance tot he Worthy Advisor.
6. You must write a letter at least once a (grand) year to the Aurora (state newsletter) your first letter should include a picture of yourself.
7. Try and make a scrapbook for viewing at Grand Assembly.
- There is no official Grand Cross of Color Team. The director of the Grand Cross askes Grand Officers to
take part in the ceremony.
- Grand Choir. All non-grandie Rainbow girls in attendance are expected to be in the Grand Choir.
- Grand Pages. There can be up to 8 Grand Pages. These girls are usually JPWA and Current WA's. But just
because you are a JPWA or WA you shouldn't expect to be appointed as a Grand Page. The Pages are:
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Page to the GWA
Page to the GWAA
Page to Grand Charity
Page to Grand Hope
Page to Grand Recorder
Page to Supreme Officers
Page to the Grand Deputies & Grand Exec. Board
Page to the Out of state visitors
- Whichever Assembly is hosting Grand Assembly is responsible for providing the Tilers/Sentinels. Their job
is to make sure no one except those who are permitted to attend closed meetings of Rainbow enter and to keep at
a minimum the entrance and exit of persons.
- Dress code for Grand Assembly. Some Assemblies choose to wear "look-alike" dresses. At all Grand Assembly
Sessions you are expected to wear formals.
- Each Grand Worthy Advisor chooses a pattern and material for her Grand Officers to wear. (Example: this year
the GWA's colors were Green, Blue and White: the Grand Line Officers wore Green, Pages wore Blue and the rest of
the Grand Officers wore White.)
- The Supreme Deputy/Inspector chooses the following adult appointments:
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Editor of the Aurora
Sound systems
Proceedings
Director of the Fraternal Correspondents
Musician
Choir Director
Keeper of the Jewels
- Other Grand Assembly Traditions. We have a Baby dedication & Majority Service.
- Announcement of Grand Cross designates. Each Grand Deputy will announce the designates for the Grand
Cross of Color in March or April each year. Our Grand Deputy has a ceremony that she does with Masters of the
Grand Cross filling the stations of WA, WAA, Charity, Hope, Faith, Chaplain and Drill Leader. This ceremony
explains what Grand Cross is and how the designates are chosen. At the end of the ceremony the WAA announces the
names of the new designates from our Assembly. Very moving and beautiful ceremony. The designates are then
expected to attend Grand Assembly to go through the Grand Cross Ceremony.
- At the Grand Worthy Advisor's offical visit each Assembly gives the GWA a charm that represents the Assembly,
i.e. Nugget #13 - gold nugget; Anchorage #5 - Anchor; Friendship #16 - clasped hands; Fairbanks #1 - Heart
(Fairbanks is the golden heart city in AK); Juneau #3 - A figurine of a girl's head.
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Alaska
compiled on 07-18-01
Local (Assembly) Level:
Nugget Assembly No. 13, Anchorage: (Instituted March 25, 1961)
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