[1] Like the rest of the Order, membership originally operated by racial discrimination and was historically open to only white women; it has since been integrated.
The other three are Academy of Friendship, College of Regents, and Star Recorder, and are based on merit.
On formal occasions members wear Geneva gowns, reminiscent of those worn at college graduations and church choirs.
In 1926, Katherine Smith, the Director of Public Employment in the Department of Labor under James J. Davis, was appointed the first "Grand Chancellor" of the Women of the Moose.
Officials on the state level are given "Grand" designations and on the national level "Supreme" designations, ergo, "Supreme Secretary," "Grand Secretary" etc.