[83] Mooseheart's front entrance is 40 feet wide and 120 feet long. It was built in 1914. It was remodeled with the gate house in 1957 to go along with the design of the Supreme Lodge.
[84] In 1914-1915, the Mooseheart Press and the "Mooseheart Magazine" were located at Anderson, Indiana. In 1916 they moved over 250 tons of machinery and equipment to Mooseheart and installed it in the first Administration building (Paint Shop today). Its circulation during that time was 500,000 per month.
[85] On June 27, 1925 The Mooseheart Administration Offices were moved into Roosevelt Auditoriom Building.
[86] Before 1923, the gymnasium was located in the Roosevelt Auditorium Building; 1919-1923.
[87] In a Meeting of the General Student Council on February 6, 1925 a new ruling was made: A motion was passed that any student found guilty of stealing would be prohibited from obtaining any permits to leave the grounds for one year.
[88] Mooseheart Campanile was dedicated by the President of the United States, Warren G. Harding, at the 1922 Mooseheart Convention.
[89] The Early Bird's View of Mooseheart was painted in 1920 by William Thomas of Waterburg, Ct. Lodge No. 703. He was a student at Mooseheart from 1917 until his graduation in 1923.
[90] The first classroom was in Aid Hall. The teacher was Ms. Madge Grimes, later marrying and becoming Mrs. Spencer. She was the first principle at Mooseheart.
[91] Pennsylvania Hall was built in1957, by the Pennsylvania Moose Association. It is a replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
[92] In November of 1954, McCall's Magazine had an excellent article on the story of Mooseheart.
[93] The former Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, trackage three, through Mooseheart Campus, was origanally laid out by the Ottawa, Oswego, and Fox River Valley Railroad (O.O.&FRV). The line was chartered by the State of Illinois in August of 1852. The portion going through Mooseheart was believed to be constructed about 1870 or 1871.
[94] In June of 1899 the C.B. & Q. took full title of the railroad.
[95] Mooseheart, as a station name, did not appear in the timetables until 1920. It disappeared in the 1950's.
[96] The last train that carried Moose members to the Mooseheart campus was in 1973.
[97] The Mooseheart C.B. & Q. Railway car #13821 Caboose, was built in Aurora car shops during December of 1868. It had traveled countless miles for 50 years.
[98] The Poultry Plant was built in 1915. It was 110 feet long and 10 feet wide. In the 1920's it was used for a boys hall and called P.A.P., located where Ontario Hall and the Health Center stand today.
[99] Mooseheart Fieldhouse was built in 1963, the 50th Birthday of Mooseheart and 75th year of the Loyal Order of Moose.
[100] A cement pavement, 18 feet wide, was built into the public highway on the front grounds of Mooseheart in the summer of 1914. It was the first cement pavement section of the National Lincoln Highway. (Workers received a penny a day.)
[101] The students built their own swimming pool in 1937, where the bike shop is located. It was used by the students until 1966 when the Moose Legions built the indoor Olympic size pool.
[102] The Dairy Barn was built in 1915-16 and was located just south of the present Farm Office. In 1937-38 it was moved to its present location.
[103] The Observatory, south of the Farm Office, shell was installed in 1967 and a member of the Moose was going to donate the telescope, but later changed his mind, therefore, it has never been used as an observatory.
[104] The Reception Hall was instituted in 1916 because a newly arrived family, innocently brought the Scarlet Fever disease with them. No deaths occured from this, however to guard against future possibilities, "Reception" was created.
[105] Virginia Hall was built in 1917.
[106] The Mooseheart House of God has a foundation which is built in the shape of a cross.
[107] In 1964 the Carillon was removed from the House of God. The vibrations of the chimes continually broke the mortar bonds in the tower. In 1968, electronic Carillons were installed. The Alumi Association financed this project as a memorial to the late Monsignor Laffey and Reverend Payne.
[108] All of the concrete lighting standards, adorning the Mooseheart walks and drives, were cast in our own products plant.
[109] Iowa and Oregon Halls were built in 1928-29.
[110] Mooseheart was the first high school with a U.S. Army Reserve Unit, in the Nation, May 24, 1954.
[111] During World War II, summary of Mooseheart Service record: Total of 715, 674 boys, and 39 girls.
[112] Mooseheart casualties in World War II were 21.
[113] The Guest and Member book at the Moose History Museum, was donated by Joe J. Whlem in 1949.
[114] Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Rider, was the first statue made by the Ornamental Concrete class in 1914.
[115] Ex-President, Theodore Roosevelt, was the speaker at the 29th Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose. He addressed a crowd of 30,000 in front of the County Courthouse, July 25, 1917.
[116] Brother Eugene Cernan, one of the first astronauts to orbit the moon, carried his life membership card, from Bellwood, Illinois Lodge #777, to the moon.
[117] Mooseheart's first class to graduate on June 24, 1919: Harold Davis Taylor, Montreal, Quebec Lodge #1111, W. Wayne Wallace, Watertown, South Dakota Lodge #1578, Arthur Lawrence Hower, Oil City, Pennsylvania Lodge #78, William Harry Grant, McKeesport, Pennsylvania Lodge #41, Albert Dewey Patterson, Columbus, Ohio Lodge #11, Catherine E. Sauer, San Francisco, California Lodge #26 passed away November 24, 1918 during an influenza epidemic (only girl in the class). She is buried in the Mooseheart Cemetary.
[118] Ron Long won the State Mile Championship (4:25.5) in 1955.
[119] Frederick N. Schwartz was Mooseheart's Band Director from 1936-1977.
[120] The first trip made by the Mooseheart Band was to the San Diego Convention in 1915.
