December 2001

 

News From the East

As you are reading this newsletter, Thanksgiving will be a memory and Christmas will be around the corner.  I hope everyone had plenty of turkey and will have a most Joyous of Holiday seasons.  As a reminder, the children’s Christmas party is on December 16^th, see the Calendar of Events for more details.

On November 17, 2001, our day started out rather foggy.  RWB Robert S. Odon, WB Kenneth Crouse, WB Edgar L. Harris and myself set off for the Past Masters' Convocation in Mansfield.  The drive down was difficult due to the heavy fog and we needed to be there by 7:30 a.m.  After coffee and donuts, we had the 20^th District meeting followed by the Past Master’s Convocation and then the Officers’ School of Instruction.

As you know, November 17, 2001, was also the date for Installation of Officers for the 183^rd year of Medina Lodge.  I would like to thank everyone who participated in making that day a memory that I will always treasure.  It was very heart warming to see the sidelines so full.  I would like to thank each and everyone of you for your participation.  Brethren, it is all of YOU that make Medina Lodge what it is.  For those of you who couldn’t make it, we also celebrated my (39^th and holding) birthday.  Thank you very much for the birthday wish and cake.

We presented Brother Larry Donovan, P.M., with a Past Master’s watch as a remembrance of his year in the East.  Brother Larry asked if this was to help him get to Lodge on time.

This year will be full of fun and hard work. Our Inspection, which will be here before you know it, will be in the Entered Apprentice Degree.

Keep your eyes on the Trestleboard for further updates.

See you in Lodge,

Lloyd  

News from the Southeast Corner

Medina Blue Lodge & Fellow Craft Club Cosponsor Five $500.00 Scholarships

Because of the excellent credentials displayed by all of the candidates for the one scholarship generally awarded, Blue Lodge and the Fellow Craft Club voted to award a scholarship to each of them. The deserving recipients are Nicholas Karakaian, Rebekah K. Gilbert, Alexandrea M. Licht, Nicole M. Boulton, and Laura C. Nester.

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William B Sturgess raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason

On November 1^st, as Worshipful Master Larry B. Donovan's year was drawing to a close, he deemed it proper and fitting to confer the Master Mason Degree one more time, for the good of Freemasonry and the benefit of a deserving candidate.

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Synopsis of Business at the 192^nd Annual Grand Lodge Communication

Officers Elected

Grand Master: Thomas E. Reynolds

Deputy Grand Master: William P. Mayberry, Sr.

Senior Grand Warden: Steven J. Krekus

Junior Grand Warden: Jim S. Deyo

Grand Treasurer: Thomas H. Galyen, P.G.M.

Grand Secretary: George O. Braatz, P.G.M.

 

Officers Appointed

Grand Chaplain: Tobe N. Riedel

Grand Orator: James  M. Williamson

Grand Marshall: Michael A. Himes

Senior Grand Deacon: Ronald L. Winnett

Junior Grand Deacon: Charles R. Murphy

Grand Tyler: Edward L. Draper

New Legislation Adopted

Proposed Legislation 2001-H: Code Section 7-1:  Authorizes and provides rules for a Grand Master's (or one-day) Class of candidates.

Proposed Legislation 2001 I: By-Laws Chapter 5. Section 5.01(b):  Expands those who may represent a Lodge at Grand Lodge by proxy to include Past Masters. Formerly, only elected Lodge officers could use such proxies.

 

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Medina Lodge No. 58 Elections held Nov. 8^th: Officers Installed Nov. 17^th

Officers Elected

Worshipful Master: Lloyd G. Egbert

Senior Warden: William C Thompson

Junior Warden: Roger A. Thomas

Treasurer: Dennis L. Lawson PDDGM

Secretary: Vaughn H. Cover PM

Senior Deacon: Theodore E. Thomas

Junior Deacon: Freddie H. Justice

Tyier: Bobby J. Askew

Trustee: Larry B. Donovan PM

 

Officers Appointed

Education Officer: Edgar L. Harris PM

Assistant LEO: Robert E. Mackin

Chaplain: Kenneth D. Crouse KYCH

Senior Steward: Robert D. Fenn

Junior Steward: Kevin B. McCray

Marshall: David S. Kurtz PM

PC Team Captain: David S. Kurtz PM

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Awards Night held November 15^th

Awards for Sixty Years of Masonic service were announced for brothers

Sidney P. Davis, Willard A. Stephenson, Charles E. Ziegler, and Richard L. Ziegler.

 

Brethren who earned awards for twenty-five years of Masonic service were

Bobby J. Askew, Robert L. Bell, Jack E. Blank, Wesley S. Deffenbaugh PM, Nathan S. Hess,

Doyal D. Jarvis, John E. Kosto, and William N. Scheidemann.

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Calendar of Events

 

Annual Children's Christmas Party to be held at Masonic Temple December 16^th from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

See the Balloon Artist!               Watch the Magician!    

Meet Santa Claus!

   Eat Hot Dogs!            And Ice Cream!                Free Fruit Baskets!

NOTE: all Children are strongly encouraged to bring their sisters, brothers, cousins, friends, neighbors, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers, classmates & any one else they  know!

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Non-Meetings

Thursday, December 27^th

 

Stated Meetings

Thursday, December 13^th, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, January 10^th, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, January 24^th, 7:30 p.m

 

Special Meetings

Past Masters' Night – Fellow Craft Degree

Thursday, May 16, 2002

Dinner at 6:30 p.m. - PM's open Lodge & confer degree at 7:30 p.m.

 

Ladies’ Night

(An Open Event)

Thursday, June 20^th, 2002

Dinner at 6:30 p.m. - Entertainment at 7:30 p.m.

 

Annual Inspection - Entered Apprentice Degree

Thursday, February 7^th (or 21^st)

Open at 6:00 p.m., Dinner at 6:30 p.m., Degree at 7:30 p.m.

Menu and exact date t.b.a. in a future edition

 

Saturday Morning Breakfasts

Saturday, January 26^th, 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m

Medina Masonic Temple Dining Hall

 

Saint Johns' Day Observance

Sunday, June 23^rd, Time t.b.a. in future edition

First Christian Church, The Rev. Michael Cassady, Pastor

3611 Center Road (SR 303), Brunswick

 

Stars/Blue Lodge Picnic

Unscheduled as of Press Time

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ONE VERSION OF FREEMASONRY

After the Norman conquest, England was invaded by a perfect army of ecclesiastics; and churches, monasteries, cathedrals and abbeys were commenced in every part of the country. Where these buildings were being erected in towns the work could be undertaken by the local guild, but when they were far from the populous places a difficulty was experienced in procuring sufficient skilled labor. To meet this, it is supposed that many experienced members of the guilds were induced to sever their connection with the local body and accept service under the new ecclesiastical authority, thus becoming free from the restrictions and limitations to which they had previously been subject, and henceforth being designated Freemasons.

The church building Freemasons, being a national organization whose members traveled throughout the length and breadth of the land, wherever employment was obtainable, ofttimes found it impracticable to refer to their late employers for their character and qualifications. Hence arose the necessity for sign, token and word, with which our ancient brethren went to and fro. Whence came this sign, token and word? We do not know. We read of an assembly at York, 926 A.D., of which, however, no record remains. But there must have been a meeting held somewhere, at which regulations were adopted, which served to bind the brotherhood together for many generations (John A. Thorp, P.A. Gr. D.E., England).

Freemasonry's Mission Statement

Freemasonry provides opportunities for sincere, honest, forthright men who want to contribute to the improvement of themselves and of their communities. Through our Masonic fraternalism, we reaffirm our dedication and unity to become involved citizens who have a strong desire to preserve the values that have continued, and will continue, to make America great.