A view during the winter of 1914-15, looking north up Lincoln Highway (now Illinois Route 31) from the southeast edge of the campus on Mooseheart Road. The Loyalty Hall boys' dormitory dominates, but the campus is still raw, sparse and largely treeless. | Photo courtesy~Mooseheart
In 1906 James J. Davis turned the struggling Loyal Order of Moose around by related his idea of a membership large enough to support a City of Children. In less than seven years later Davis had grown the fraternal order to more than 400,000 members. | Photo courtesy~Mooseheart
Moosheart's concrete-walled Dairy Barn, pictured here in the late 1020's, has been one of the most recongnizable and significant sructures on the campus since it was completed in 1916. | Photo courtesy~Mooseheart
Underneath the watchful eye of Coach Ben Oswalt, the offense of Mooseheart's first interscholastic football team. Centering the ball is is Wayne Wallace, who was one of the first five members of Mooseheart's first graduating class in 1919. | Photo courtesy~Mooseheart
In 1943 these Mooseheart boys piled onto buses behind the Loyalty building traveling to an appearance to help promote the sales of War Bonds. | Photo courtesy~Mooseheart
Initially completed in 1914 as a dormitory to house about 130 boys, Loyalty Hall spent more than 30 years (from the mid 1920s to 1956) as the Moose fraternity's corporate offices. | Photo courtesy~Mooseheart
The 75th anniversary celebration of the Loyal Order of Moose convention packed the field house. | Photo courtesy~Mooseheart
The Machine Shop and Tool Makeing was part of Mooseheart's vocational program. | Photo courtesy~Mooseheart
The 32 members of the Class of 1926 had its formal portrait taken on the west plaza of the Campanile. | Photo courtesy~Mooseheart
To commemorate the fraternity's centennial in 1988, the Loyal Order of Moose commissioned a larger-than-life bronze sculpture of a bull moose. | Photo courtesy~Mooseheart
During the 1990s the Pennsylvania Moose Associatioin funded the full rehabbing of all four Baby Village residences. | Photo courtesy~Mooseheart
In 2008 Mooseheart eliminated the campus' Central Kitchen and provided a food-shopping budget for all the individual homes. | Photo courtesy~Mooseheart
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Freelance reporter Michele du Vair
Erin Stryker could so easily have gone astray. When the 18-year-old’s parents divorced, the Orlando-based youth lived with her father and three siblings in a bad neighborhood. Her father worked hard, yet struggled financially. She and her three siblings roamed free and fought often. “It … Read More
