{"id":730,"date":"2017-11-11T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/?page_id=730"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:35:34","slug":"local-dignetaries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/?page_id=730","title":{"rendered":"Local Dignitaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During its 114+ year existence, The Santa Cruz Lodge has provided five CHEA Vice Presidents*, nine District Deputy Grand Exalted Rulers (DDGER) to the West Central District and one Grand Exalted Ruler!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Benjamin K. Knight was DDGER for 1916-17<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James R. Williamson was DDGER for 1928-29<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lloyd Foster was DDGER in 1933-34<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Raymond A. Macaulay was DDGER for 1938-39<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Louie F. Moro was Vice President in 1975-76 and DDGER for 1979-80.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>D. R. &#8220;Irish&#8221; Ferrigan was Vice President in 1983-84 and DDGER for 1987-88<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joseph P. Licursi was Vice President in 1988-89 and DDGER for 1994-95.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tom Brazier was DDGER for 2002-03.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leslie A. Yeffa was Vice President in 2006-07 and DDGER for 2008-09.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For Elks year 2012-2013, the Santa Cruz Lodge produced a Grand Exalted Ruler Tom Brazier and assistant Leslie A. Yeffa.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pat Kleinert was Vice President in 2014-15<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kyle York was Vice President in 2021-22 and DDGER in 2023-2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Georgiann Scally will be Vice President  2026-2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: The California-Hawaii Elks Association was established in 1950. There were no VPs prior to that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During its 114+ year existence, The Santa Cruz Lodge has provided five CHEA Vice Presidents*, nine District Deputy Grand Exalted Rulers (DDGER) to the West Central District and one Grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":81,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6785,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730\/revisions\/6785"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}