Lassoing the Stars Get Tickets

OES Western Gala

Benefiting Scottish Rite for Children
Orthotics & Prosthetics

Saturday, May 15, 2027 Dinner · Dancing · Western Finery

Buy Tickets Become a Sponsor

Round up your Chapter and reserve a table — every seat helps a child get moving again.

Why we ride

A child outgrows a leg every year.

That is the plain arithmetic of childhood. A growing child needs three to four adjustments to a prosthesis each year, and a whole new one roughly every twelve to fifteen months. Braces are replaced about as often. The child keeps growing — so the need keeps coming back.

That is what this gala is for. Every ticket, every table, and every sponsorship goes to the Orthotics & Prosthetics team at Scottish Rite for Children, who design, build, and refit these devices in their own labs. Our job for one night in May is to make sure the next fitting is never the thing that stands in a family's way.

No child is turned away

Scottish Rite for Children treats families regardless of their ability to pay. Through their charity care program, families at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines receive a 100% discount on charges remaining after insurance, and families above that line have their obligation capped at 1% of their annual income.

Gifts like ours are part of what keeps that promise affordable to keep.

Who your dollars reach

The team that builds childhood back, one limb at a time

Scottish Rite for Children has been caring for North Texas children since 1921 — founded when Scottish Rite Masons in the Orient of Texas set out to help children stricken with polio. Their motto has not changed since: giving children back their childhood.

Built on site

The Orthotics & Prosthetics team fabricates in its own labs in Dallas and Frisco, using CAD/CAM design, 3D printing, and a seven-axis robot carver. Orthoses are molded at the first visit and delivered in about two weeks.

Every kind of device

Prosthetic arms and hands. Lower limbs at every amputation level, including microprocessor knees. Clubfoot and scoliosis bracing. And activity-specific limbs built for running, cycling, dancing, skiing, and swimming.

Made for going fast

Running blades come out of these same labs. One Scottish Rite patient was named a 2024 U.S. Paralympics Track & Field High School Athlete of the Year, with her sights set on the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.

In the year leading up to the hospital's 2021 centennial, the O&P department provided more than 7,500 orthoses and prostheses. And since 1981, the hospital has taken fourteen teenage amputee patients to the mountains of Colorado every year to ski — because learning you can still do the thing is its own kind of medicine.

Order of the Eastern Star, Texas

Five points, five reasons

The stars we're lassoing

The five stars in our emblem are the five heroines of the Order, in their own colors and their own order. Each one carries a lesson — and each one has something to say about why we are doing this.

Adah

Fidelity

Keeping a promise after the applause has died down. A child's need for a new fitting returns every year, and so do we.

Ruth

Constancy

Ruth gleaned the field a handful at a time. Small gifts, gathered steadily by many hands, are how this work gets funded.

Esther

Loyalty

Esther used her place at the table on someone else's behalf. Every seat sold at this gala is a seat used for a child.

Martha

Faith

The belief a family holds onto in the hardest week of their lives — that their child will walk, run, and be a kid again.

Electa

Love

Charity and hospitality — the whole reason for the evening. Love, in this case, looks a great deal like a brand new leg.

Saturday, May 15, 2027

Come make it a bronco-bustin' success

Dress in your western finery, bring your Chapter, and join us for an evening of good food, good music, and the best kind of company — the kind that shows up for children. Good times for a good cause.

Elegant BBQ

A seated dinner with your Sisters and Brothers — barbecue done handsomely, in the most elegant room in Dallas. Tables of eight, so round up your Chapter and sit together.

Live Music by Keith McCoy

Texas Country Music Association Hall of Fame and its Male Vocalist of the Year for 2013. Bring your dancing boots — nobody here is grading your two-step.

Western Formal

Hats, boots, and bling. This is a ballroom evening with a western heart, so dress up and have fun with it.

Hosting the evening

Kathy Paschal, Worthy Grand Matron

Kathy Paschal

Worthy Grand Matron

Gerald Skipper, Worthy Grand Patron

Gerald Skipper

Worthy Grand Patron

We hope you'll join us for a night of fellowship and fundraising.

Venue & schedule

See the stunning Crystal Ballroom at Scottish Rite Cathedral in Dallas transformed into a rustic formal setting.

The Crystal Ballroom at the Scottish Rite Library & Museum is perhaps the most elegant space in Dallas. Designed in 1907 by the renowned architectural firm Hubbell and Green, this Neo-Classical Revival structure is listed as a National Historic Landmark.

Social hour
5:30 pm
Dinner served
6:30 pm
Address
500 South Harwood Street, Dallas
Parking
Secure parking off Young Street behind the building

Questions?

Talk to a committee member

For more information, contact the Scottish Rite Hospital Committee members in your District — or reach either of our chairs directly.

Chair

Nancy Morris

214-538-7522

Co-Chair

Stephen Apple

817-845-3281

Send us a message

Fill out the form below and your message will be delivered directly to the committee.

Your message is sent to [email protected]. We aim to reply within a few days.