42nd Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl – 1st Place for our sponsored team!

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ING OSCAR LODGE No. 855 A.F. & A.M. has participated in the 42nd annual Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl of the Grand Lodge of A.F. & A.M. of Illinois sponsoring Walter Payton College Prep High School from Chicago, IL.

On March 7th, at the regional rounds in Bloomington, IL, they took 1st place in the Class 3A State Championship competition!
Congrats to each and everyone of the students of Walter Payton High School and their coach in this year’s competition!

Here’s our masonic team who enthusiastically cheered them on all the way to victory!

Visit https://www.academicbowl.org/ for more info.

About the King

King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (21 January 1829 – 8 December 1907) was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death in 1907, and King of Norway from 1872 to 1905. Oscar II was King during a time when both Sweden and Norway were undergoing a period of industrialization and rapid technological progress. His reign also saw the gradual decline of the Union of Sweden and Norway, which culminated in its dissolution in 1905. He was subsequently succeeded as King of Norway by his grandnephew Prince Carl of Denmark under the regnal name Haakon VII, and as King of Sweden by his eldest son, Gustaf V. Oscar II became King on 18 September 1872, upon the death of his brother, Charles XV. At his accession, he adopted as his motto Brödrafolkens väl / Broderfolkenes Vel ("The Welfare of the Brother Peoples"). While the King, his family and the Royal Court resided mostly in Sweden, Oscar II made the effort of learning to be fluent in Norwegian and from the very beginning realized the essential difficulties in the maintenance of the union between the two countries.

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