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Listed below are details about the Grand Assembly of Colorado.

Colorado

compiled on 07-14-01

Grand (State) Level:

• To earn her Service bars, a girl must learn the lecture for that bow office before she gets that color bar. To earn her Wreath and Pot of Gold, she must write a 500 word essay and deliver it by memory to her Assembly on what Rainbow means to her. To earn her Proficiency, she must learn the Test Oath, Obligation, and the Secret Work.

• In order to be an officer in your local Assembly, you have to have your Proficiency.

• Colorado Worthy Advisors pick colors, theme, motto, scripture, symbols, fun symbols (usually something mascot-y), honor stations, songs, sometimes a poem, and their mascot.

• Terms in Colorado are six months in duration.

• Installation. The officers do NOT come into the Assembly room until the part in the ritual where their names are called. No formation or special song to the new Worthy Advisor. They are outside all through Introductions and Escort. No flag tributes, and Presentations are done with the Bible open.

• Every Assembly has a different Opening and Closing march, so when they proxy for each other, no one knows where they are going. They march out of the Assembly room for closing.

• Escort. All adults, even if they are taking escort for honors they received as a girl, are escorted to the South side of the East. North side of the East is strictly for active Rainbow Girls.

• Assemblies don't do Rainbow Prayer or Dreams, but after Escort, they escort the Rainbow Banner and sing a song called "Rainbow Mine". [tune? lyrics?]

• Dress code. Hoopskirts are allowed, but they weren't until the last several years, so they're not very common. Pantaloons are unheard of.

• There are no masots. Don't know if they are allowed or not, but most people don't have them. [would appreciate input from CO girls.]

• The state newspaper is "The Covenant".

• The Grand Worthy Advisor wears a crown. Assembly Worthy Advisors wear crowns if they want to, but not at Grand Assembly.

• The Grand Worthy Advisor picks colors, theme, motto, scripture, symbols, fun symbols (usually something mascot-y), honor stations, songs, sometimes a poem, and the service project.

• The members of the Grand Assembly (Charities, Worthy Associate Advisors, Worthy Advisors and active PWAs) vote on the candidates for Grand WAA (who must be a PWA and have been a Grand Officer or on the Grand Cross Team, though if they don't have enough nominees they will make exceptions for strong candidates). The GWAA then advances the next year to GWA. The girls who don't win the GWAA election are appointed to the Grand Executive Board.

• The GWAA election in CO. The candidates come into the Grand Assembly room individually, wearing a white robe, and they are asked two questions out of either the ritual, the Supreme statutes, and the gold book. Then, they are asked a more general question about what they would do, or what they think needs to be addressed in CO Rainbow, etc. Each one is asked the same questions, and afterwards it's announced what the answers were. All the GA members (Charity, WAA, WA, and active PWAs) vote. You aren't supposed to campaign for GWAA. If word gets out that you are running, you will be disqualified.

• Grand Officers must be either PWAs, WAs or installed the July after Grand Assembly as WA. Boards nominate girls and the girls go to Grand Assembly and try out for the office they want by giving the ritual work.

• There is no limit on the number of years you can serve as a Grand Officer. You have to be a PWA to be a Grand floor Officer, but not to be a Grand Representative.

• Grand Cross Team also try out at Grand Assembly for the team, but they are nominated before Grand Assembly by their District Deputies.

• Grand Cross Team and Grand Officers are on the same level.

• Grand Representatives and Grand Choir are nominated by their Boards and are appointed at Grand Assembly along with the Grand Officers and Grand Cross Team.

• Grand Pages are appointed during the year, I think they are announced at District Meetings, but it might be later than that.

• Since the GWAA advances to GWA, she has a whole year to plan the Grand Installation, her theme and colors. The GWAA makes the GWA's memory quilt.

• Grand Officer dresses are not a "big surprise" as everyone knows what the colors will be. All of the Grand Family wear dresses of the same pattern (Grand Choir, Cross of Color Team, etc.), but in different colors that match the GWA's colors.

• For Grand Assembly, the girls make "swaps". The Assembly or each girl (depending on what they decide) makes a small thing, like key chains, bookmarks, friendship bracelets and poems. They trade these swaps with other girls. There is a contest for the best swap.

• At Grand Assembly, during Initiation, the Grand Officers wear white robes.

• At Grand Assembly, they have an Assembly Banner contest, where the Assembly makes a banner that exemplifies them and the GWA's theme. The best banner wins an award. They also give a Grand Master's Trophy to the best overall assembly for the previous year.

• Grand Assembly in Colorado is on the smaller side (about 300 people attending). They "take over" one hotel. The girls can't leave this hotel. They wear ID wristlets.

• During Grand Appointments, there is no clapping, jumping up and down and yelling. They are allowed to wave their "silent applauders". These are things the girls make, and it is something they can wave in place of yelling and clapping.

• At official visits, they do Initiation, and the WA uses the GWA's gavel.

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