International Order of the Rainbow for Girls

Assemblies in Germany before 1999

Hi, my name is Dusty Young-Capps. I am a Past Grand Worthy Advisor from Germany, 1984-1985. If you were a Rainbow Girl in Germany or an adult who worked with Rainbow in Germany please contact me. We are planning a reunion in Colorado Springs, Colorado in the summer of 2004.

Rainbow Girls in Germany went dark in 1999 because of the greatly reduced size of the American armed forces stationed in Germany, but we are again active. We are just now beginning to see new movement and a new interest. We have initiated 7 new girls since the end of 2000 and we are hopeful that we will soon have a complete Assembly again in the Frankfurt area. For information, contact Betty Leininger Schultz, the Supreme Deputy in Germany, and see the official Web site of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls in Germany. Theirs is the Web site for IORG in Germany now. This page here is for Rainbow Girls who were in Germany before the Assemblies went dark in 1999.

Pauline Stonehocker was Supreme Deputy and became Supreme Inspector in 1978. She was instrumental in starting our Grand Assembly in Germany - (she says, with lots of help from others). We were proud when she was elected to Supreme Faith in 1996 in Seattle, to Supreme Hope in 1998 in St. Louis, and this last summer in Buffalo, NY, she was elected Supreme Charity. We are planning a reunion of our Germany Rainbow Family in 2004 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. If you are interested in meeting all of your old Rainbow Pals, contact me, Dusty, and I will get you the correct information. We are compiling a list (e-mail and snail mail); so tell my your name and how you were connected with Rainbow in Germany.

Mom Stonehocker, as we all knew her, is now living in South Carolina. Mom Merlee Kile, who took over after Mom Stonehocker left, is now in Kentucky. She was elected as Supreme Treasurer in 1998 and that makes up doubly proud of our Germany Connection - "Rainbow Connection"!! Whichever of these wonderful leaders you remember, we will all meet together and reminisce. Please let us hear from you even if you won't be able to attend the reunion. We have a good e-mail set up and I will update you on all those I have already received information from. If you have addresses of your friends from Germany, do let me have those so I can contact them and get them on our list.

Mom Stonehocker's birthday is May 15 and Mom Kile's is October 13 - when is yours? We will get a birthday list going - contact me - Dusty Young Capps!

Rainbow Girls in Germany were daughters of the American Armed Forces personnel stationed in Germany, though we had a few German girls, including one who was our Grand Worthy Advisor. We started our own Grand Assembly in 1970 with full support from the American Canadian Grand Lodge of Germany (ACGL), with the Eastern Star Chapters in Germany. The last American Rainbow Girl left Germany in the summer of 1999. There is now considerable interest in reactivating some Assemblies of Rainbow Girls in Germany, with we hope both Americans and Germans participating, and an initiation is planned at Offenbach Lodge in Frankfurt late in September 2001.

We had assemblies in the following German cities:

Heidelberg #1
Kaiserslautern, or Pauline #2
Wiesbaden #3
Stuttgart #4
Munich #5
Berlin #6
Baumholder, or Nahe #7
Bitburg, or Martha #8
Frankfurt, or Samuel S. Sumner #9
Zweibrücken, or Rose #10
Mannheim, or Hope #11
Augsburg, or Edelweiss #12
Hanau, or Liberty #13

Kaiserslautern, Berlin and Frankfurt always had the most girls.

We are also looking for any memorabilia that have survived the moves over the years.

By October 2000 more than half of the Grand Worthy Advisors from Pauline Stonehocker's time in Germany had been located.

The International Order of the Rainbow for Girls is an organization affiliated with American Freemasonry. Members are women and girls between the ages of 11 and 20. You do not have to have a relative who is a Mason in order to belong to Rainbow Girls. Rainbow Girls has no counterpart in German Masonry.

This web page acknowledges allegiance to the Supreme Assembly, International Order of the Rainbow for Girls, whose seat of authority is in McAlester, Oklahoma, of which Reverend W. Mark Sexson was the founder and Mrs. Marjorie Wilson of Sweet Home OR USA, is Supreme Worthy Advisor; and to and to the Grand Jurisdiction of Germany in which Mrs. Betty Schultz is Supreme Deputy. (September 2001). (This is the required statement of allegiance for Web sites linked to IORG.)

E-mail 1983 Rainbow Girl Dusty Young-Capps.

Catheryne Houston is the list moderator of a Yahoo e-group that provides a bulletin board for Rainbow Girls in Germany, and you may contact her for information about joining the group.

Bob Richmond, M.M., K.T., 32^o is the Webmaster. He is a 1955 graduate of Kaiserslautern American High School in Germany. The Webmaster remains a little shaky on Rainbow Girls protocol - hey, his daughters were Jobies! Thanks for the links from the IORG Web site and from GoMasonry.

Did you attend an American high school in Germany, or anywhere else overseas? Contact Overseas Brats to help find your long lost friends! (Links for the alumni organizations of most of the high schools in Germany are here.)

first posted to the Web 10-21-99

updated September 17th, 2001