SEVENTY-FOURTH SESSION - PITTSBURGH - JUNE 1968

500 CHAPTERS

MEMBERSHIP - 117,656

LARGEST CHAPTER - YORK #169 - 667 MEMBERS

MOST INITIATIONS - KITTANNING #277 - 28 MEMBERS

PEACE GARDEN - THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE GARDEN WAS SITUATED HALFWAY BETWEEN

THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS AND ON THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN

U.S. AND OUR GOOD NEIGHBOR, CANADA. 

PURPOSE: "TO GOD IN HIS GLORY, WE TWO NATIONS DEDICATE THIS GARDEN AND PLEDGE

OURSELVES THAT AS LONG AS MEN SHALL LIVE, WE SHALL NOT TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST ONE ANOTHER."

EXPLORED THE FEASIBILITY OF DEMOLISHING THE OLD STRUCTURE AND THE ERECTION, IN ITS PLACE, OF AN INFIRMARY AND OTHER SUCH FACILITIES AS MAY BE

 REQUIRED.