On behalf of the members of LaFayette Lodge No. 652, Carnegie, a check for $2,600 was presented to the Lauren Phillips Trust Fund by Dugan W. Muzzey, W.M. (Second from right) and Robert A. Lange, P.M. (Left). The check was received by M. Jeanne Bundy, representing PNC Bank and the Lauren Phillips Trust Fund and witnessed by Bro. Lawrence Phillips (right).

Lauren Marie, the daughter of Lawrence, was brutally murdered in front of her nine-month old twins in the Fall of 2000. Their grandfather cared for the children until his son and daughter-in-law, who live in another state, could adopt them. When lodge members learned of the trust fund, they resolved to help and collected the money necessary for the grant to help the two small children.