Friday, March 6, 2009
Patience is a Virtue
Within each degree there are virtues which the initiate
discovers and which are to serve as guideposts toward building his
Spiritual Temple. The Entered Apprentice finds that Temperance,
Fortitude, Prudence, and Justice are paramount to his advancement as
a man and Mason. He must control his life, apply his efforts with
steady purpose, regulate his life with reason, and respect each man,
regardless of distinction.
Likewise as a Fellowcraft, he is to gain knowledge and apply
that knowledge in advancing himself through work. By using his five
senses and learning the seven liberal arts he is to advance his
understanding of morality, the nature of a good life, and his duties
as a Mason.
At last he progresses to knowledge of Masonry's philosophy
and teachings. As a Master he comes to understand the common bond of
the Fraternity and Craft. Brotherly love and affection work toward
happiness upon the level of time. Such is the nature of becoming a
Master Mason.
It is said that "time, patience, and perseverance will
enable us to accomplish all things, and perhaps at last to find the
True Word." Time and perseverance are clearly expectations of the
Craft; patience sometimes is forgotten or not given its just due. To
be patient is to bear trials or pain calmly and without complant, to
be steadfast despite the challenges, the difficulties, and
adversities. The challenges at each step of the Degrees are to test
the character, the commitment, and desire of men who want to be
Masons and who understand being better than themselves. These are not
easy tasks or lessons.
Each Brother is charged to be patient with his Brothers, to
admonish with candor, assist with care, and guard the integrity of
the Fraternity as whole. The Legend of Hiram illustrates what
impatience can do in search of the True Word, but also how patient
understanding can point the way to a better life through faith. So,
when we are challenged, let us remember the patience the Great
Architect has with us and let us extend that same patience to those
about
us.
No stone begins with perfection. Through work and patient
industry, the rough edges fall away until the beauty within shines
forth. Perfection is a goal and journey, so it is with each of us and
each Mason.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
The Old Master
HE WAS SITTING IN A WHEELCHAIR,
LOOKING DOWN AT THE LAWN,
I THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE ASLEEP,
THEN I SAW THE OLD MAN YAWN.
I TOLD HIM I HAD COME TO VISIT,
A BIG SMILE LIT UP HIS FACE,
HE SAID IT'S NOT VERY OFTEN,
PEOPLE VISIT THIS OLD PLACE.
PARDON MY MANNERS YOUNG MAN,
AS HE OFFERED ME A CHAIR,
WOULD YOU LIKE A GLASS OF TEA,
IT'S ON THE TABLE OVER THERE.
I BEGGED OFF THE OFFER,
BUT I SAID I HAVE A SURPRISE,
I'VE COME TAKE YOU TO LODGE,
YOU SHOULD'VE SEEN HIS EYES.
YOU KNOW, I'M A PAST MASTER,
ABOUT THREE OR FOUR TIMES,
HE SAID AS MATTER OF FACT,
I CAN WORK ANY CHAIR IN LINE.
I FELT PROUD TO PUSH HIS CHAIR,
AS WE HEADED FOR MY CAR,
I HAD ALREADY CHECKED HIM OUT,
AND SIGNED HIS PASS CARD.
WHEN WE DROVE INTO THE LOT,
YOU SHOULD'VE HEARD THE CHEERS,
I HAD A LUMP IN MY THROAT,
DOWN HIS CHEEK ROLLED A TEAR.
THE LODGE WAS FILLED WITH BROTHERS,
WHO HAD COME TO CELEBRATE,
OUR GUEST OF HONOR HAD ARRIVED,
THE EASTERN STAR HAD BAKED A CAKE.
WE MADE A SPECIAL PRESENTATION,
THAT BROUGHT LAUGHTER AND TEARS,
FOR TONIGHT OUR WISE OLD MASTER,
HAD COMPLETED SIXTY-FIVE YEARS.
WITH COUNTLESS YEARS OF SERVICE,
IN THIS LODGE IN HIS HOMETOWN,
HE DID IT ALL WITH A GENTLE HEART,
AND THE STRONGEST GRIP AROUND.
HIS TIRED OLD VOICE CRACKED,
BUT HIS MIND WAS SHARP AND CLEAR,
AS HE TOOK THE MICROPHONE,
SITTING THERE IN HIS WHEELCHAIR.
WE ALL SAT DOWN AT TABLES,
WITH HOT COFFEE IN OUR CUPS,
HE SAID I'D LIKE TO TAKE YOU BACK,
TO WHEN I WAS JUST A PUP.
YOU SEE, THERE'S BEEN TIMES,
THIS OLD LODGE ALMOST WENT DARK,
WE WERE DOWN TO JUST A FEW,
AND SOME DIDN'T KNOW THEIR PART.
BUT WE KEPT ON WORKING HARD,
AND DOING EVERYTHING WE COULD,
TO GET MORE MEN INTERESTED,
IN THE CRAFT OF BROTHERHOOD.
OH THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS,
THAT'S CHANGED OVER THE YEARS,
BUT YOUNGER MEN NOT COMING IN,
IS ONE OF OUR BIGGEST FEARS.
YOU SEE, IT WAS DIFFERENT THEN,
THAN IT IS THIS DAY AND TIME,
I REMEMBER HOW STRICT IT WAS,
YOU DIDN'T DARE CROSS THE LINE.
ABOUT ASKING A MAN TO JOIN,
WHEN YOU KNEW HE WAS GOOD,
GOD AND FAMILY CAME FIRST, THIS,
THE LODGE UNDERSTOOD.
WE HAD TO WAIT UNTIL HE ASKED,
ABOUT HOW TO BECOME ONE OF US,
THEN WE COULD TELL HIM THE TRUTH,
ABOUT FELLOWSHIP, HONOR AND TRUST.
WE WORKED HARD AND DID OUR BEST,
TO BE GOOD EXAMPLES AMONG MEN,
WE ALL KNOW FROM READING THE BIBLE,
THERE'S NOT A MAN WITHOUT SIN.
SO WE'D TAKE THE BEST MEN,
AND GENTLY SHOW'EM THE LIGHT,
JUST LOOK AT ALL THE BROTHERS,
THAT SHOWED UP HERE TONIGHT.
IF I COULD LIVE MY LIFE ALL OVER,
AND I COULD REWRITE EVERY PAGE,
I'D HIT A FEW BUMPS A LITTLE SOFTER,
BUT THERE'S NOTHING I WOULD CHANGE.
EACH TIME I WAS ASKED TO TEACH,
OH IT MADE ME FEEL SO GOOD,
TO LEAD YOU GENTLY TO THE LIGHT,
UNTIL I KNEW YOU UNDERSTOOD.
I LOVE YOU ALL MY BROTHERS,
I ENJOYED BEING THERE FOR YOU,
AND I'LL TELL EACH ONE TONIGHT,
YOU'VE BEEN THERE FOR ME TOO.
HE TALKED FOR HALF AN HOUR,
AS WE TRAVELED BACK IN TIME,
HE HAD TAKEN US ON A JOURNEY,
AND WE HUNG ON EVERY LINE.
IT WAS LATE WHEN WE GOT BACK,
BUT HE WAS STILL WIDE AWAKE,
AS I PUSHED HIS WHEELCHAIR INSIDE,
HE GAVE THE NURSE A PIECE OF CAKE.
UNTIL THE OLD MASTER IS CALLED,
TO THE GRAND LODGE ON HIGH,
HIS MEMORIES WILL BE FILLED,
WITH THE CELEBRATION TONIGHT.
A FEW YEARS HAVE COME AND GONE,
SINCE WE HONORED HIM THAT NIGHT,
THE OLD MASTER EVEN HELPED ME,
RAISE MY GRANDSON INTO LIGHT.
HIS KIND AND GENTLE MANNER,
STANDS TALL AMONG THE BEST,
TODAY HE MADE THE FINAL JOURNEY,
WE LAID THE OLD MASTER TO REST.
Ben Steen copyright October 25th 2003
LOOKING DOWN AT THE LAWN,
I THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE ASLEEP,
THEN I SAW THE OLD MAN YAWN.
I TOLD HIM I HAD COME TO VISIT,
A BIG SMILE LIT UP HIS FACE,
HE SAID IT'S NOT VERY OFTEN,
PEOPLE VISIT THIS OLD PLACE.
PARDON MY MANNERS YOUNG MAN,
AS HE OFFERED ME A CHAIR,
WOULD YOU LIKE A GLASS OF TEA,
IT'S ON THE TABLE OVER THERE.
I BEGGED OFF THE OFFER,
BUT I SAID I HAVE A SURPRISE,
I'VE COME TAKE YOU TO LODGE,
YOU SHOULD'VE SEEN HIS EYES.
YOU KNOW, I'M A PAST MASTER,
ABOUT THREE OR FOUR TIMES,
HE SAID AS MATTER OF FACT,
I CAN WORK ANY CHAIR IN LINE.
I FELT PROUD TO PUSH HIS CHAIR,
AS WE HEADED FOR MY CAR,
I HAD ALREADY CHECKED HIM OUT,
AND SIGNED HIS PASS CARD.
WHEN WE DROVE INTO THE LOT,
YOU SHOULD'VE HEARD THE CHEERS,
I HAD A LUMP IN MY THROAT,
DOWN HIS CHEEK ROLLED A TEAR.
THE LODGE WAS FILLED WITH BROTHERS,
WHO HAD COME TO CELEBRATE,
OUR GUEST OF HONOR HAD ARRIVED,
THE EASTERN STAR HAD BAKED A CAKE.
WE MADE A SPECIAL PRESENTATION,
THAT BROUGHT LAUGHTER AND TEARS,
FOR TONIGHT OUR WISE OLD MASTER,
HAD COMPLETED SIXTY-FIVE YEARS.
WITH COUNTLESS YEARS OF SERVICE,
IN THIS LODGE IN HIS HOMETOWN,
HE DID IT ALL WITH A GENTLE HEART,
AND THE STRONGEST GRIP AROUND.
HIS TIRED OLD VOICE CRACKED,
BUT HIS MIND WAS SHARP AND CLEAR,
AS HE TOOK THE MICROPHONE,
SITTING THERE IN HIS WHEELCHAIR.
WE ALL SAT DOWN AT TABLES,
WITH HOT COFFEE IN OUR CUPS,
HE SAID I'D LIKE TO TAKE YOU BACK,
TO WHEN I WAS JUST A PUP.
YOU SEE, THERE'S BEEN TIMES,
THIS OLD LODGE ALMOST WENT DARK,
WE WERE DOWN TO JUST A FEW,
AND SOME DIDN'T KNOW THEIR PART.
BUT WE KEPT ON WORKING HARD,
AND DOING EVERYTHING WE COULD,
TO GET MORE MEN INTERESTED,
IN THE CRAFT OF BROTHERHOOD.
OH THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS,
THAT'S CHANGED OVER THE YEARS,
BUT YOUNGER MEN NOT COMING IN,
IS ONE OF OUR BIGGEST FEARS.
YOU SEE, IT WAS DIFFERENT THEN,
THAN IT IS THIS DAY AND TIME,
I REMEMBER HOW STRICT IT WAS,
YOU DIDN'T DARE CROSS THE LINE.
ABOUT ASKING A MAN TO JOIN,
WHEN YOU KNEW HE WAS GOOD,
GOD AND FAMILY CAME FIRST, THIS,
THE LODGE UNDERSTOOD.
WE HAD TO WAIT UNTIL HE ASKED,
ABOUT HOW TO BECOME ONE OF US,
THEN WE COULD TELL HIM THE TRUTH,
ABOUT FELLOWSHIP, HONOR AND TRUST.
WE WORKED HARD AND DID OUR BEST,
TO BE GOOD EXAMPLES AMONG MEN,
WE ALL KNOW FROM READING THE BIBLE,
THERE'S NOT A MAN WITHOUT SIN.
SO WE'D TAKE THE BEST MEN,
AND GENTLY SHOW'EM THE LIGHT,
JUST LOOK AT ALL THE BROTHERS,
THAT SHOWED UP HERE TONIGHT.
IF I COULD LIVE MY LIFE ALL OVER,
AND I COULD REWRITE EVERY PAGE,
I'D HIT A FEW BUMPS A LITTLE SOFTER,
BUT THERE'S NOTHING I WOULD CHANGE.
EACH TIME I WAS ASKED TO TEACH,
OH IT MADE ME FEEL SO GOOD,
TO LEAD YOU GENTLY TO THE LIGHT,
UNTIL I KNEW YOU UNDERSTOOD.
I LOVE YOU ALL MY BROTHERS,
I ENJOYED BEING THERE FOR YOU,
AND I'LL TELL EACH ONE TONIGHT,
YOU'VE BEEN THERE FOR ME TOO.
HE TALKED FOR HALF AN HOUR,
AS WE TRAVELED BACK IN TIME,
HE HAD TAKEN US ON A JOURNEY,
AND WE HUNG ON EVERY LINE.
IT WAS LATE WHEN WE GOT BACK,
BUT HE WAS STILL WIDE AWAKE,
AS I PUSHED HIS WHEELCHAIR INSIDE,
HE GAVE THE NURSE A PIECE OF CAKE.
UNTIL THE OLD MASTER IS CALLED,
TO THE GRAND LODGE ON HIGH,
HIS MEMORIES WILL BE FILLED,
WITH THE CELEBRATION TONIGHT.
A FEW YEARS HAVE COME AND GONE,
SINCE WE HONORED HIM THAT NIGHT,
THE OLD MASTER EVEN HELPED ME,
RAISE MY GRANDSON INTO LIGHT.
HIS KIND AND GENTLE MANNER,
STANDS TALL AMONG THE BEST,
TODAY HE MADE THE FINAL JOURNEY,
WE LAID THE OLD MASTER TO REST.
Ben Steen copyright October 25th 2003
Friday, February 13, 2009
February 2009 Lodge #45 Newsletter
The Trestle Board
February 17, 2009 – Lecture Practice Session – 6:00 pm Lodge 45
February 24, 2009 – Fellow Craft Degree – Dinner 6pm; Degree 7pm – Lodge 45
February 12, 2009 – Brownsville Lodge – 2 Entered Apprentice Degrees
February 16, 2009 – School of Instruction at St. John Lodge #322
March 2, 2009 – Master Mason Degree – Lodge #322
March 21, 2009 – Master Mason Degree performed by York Rite team – Lodge #322
March 10, 2009 – Jackson Lodge #45 Stated Meeting – Dinner 6pm; Meeting 7pm.
Deceased Brethren
The last three months have seen four of our brothers admitted to the Celestial Lodge above. Please lend your prayers for their families in remembrance of our departed Brethren.
They will be missed.
James T. Williford
Deceased 12/21/2008
Raised 8/16/1952 Lodge #399
Henry Melford Lester
Deceased 1/09/2009
Raised 09/20/1949 Lodge #45
Michael Luther Hopper, Tiler
Deceased 1/25/2009
Raised 1/20/1979 in Unity Lodge #95
Carl Fincher
Deceased 2/1/2009
Raised – 11/25/1958 Lodge #399
From The East:
Brethren,
I hope you are all having a great start to your new year. This is shaping up to be a wonderful year for our lodge. There are a lot of exciting things happening and I would like to take a few minutes and share them with you.
We are going to be having our first Community Service Project for the year at the end of this month. The lodge is working with the Regional Interfaith Association (RIFA) here in Jackson to provide some needed work for their building and the community. This is an organization that wears many hats. They provide food for the hungry through a soup kitchen, they run an education program to help the homeless to find jobs and housing, and have many other great programs.
As speculative masons we are builders of men but I am excited to see our brethren work in operative masonry as well. We will be building shelving, wheelchair ramps, and several other projects with RIFA throughout the year. As the year moves along we will keep you updated as to what is going on so that you may be a part of this project.
The lodge is beginning a series of “Lecture Evenings” where the brethren will be teaching and giving lectures on particular aspects of freemasonry in which they are passionate and well-versed. This will occur one Tuesday a month. This month we will be having two of our Past Masters teaching a class on learning and teaching the ritual. The Worshipful Master will also be giving a class on the prayers of Freemasonry. If you have a subject you would like to present or would like to learn about please give me a call or email me. My email is jmclemore@alumni.lsu.edu .
One of the brothers in the lodge is putting together an order for some nice polo shirts with the Masonic logo and our lodges name. The price is uncertain at this point but we will be taking orders at the March stated meeting so if you would like to place an order please come out to the lodge on March 10th.
I am excited about serving you and serving our lodge. If you ever need a ride to lodge just give me a call a day or two in advance and I will do my best to find you one. I hope and pray that you will have a blessed month and I look forward to seeing you at the lodge.
Fraternally Yours,
Jeff McLemore
February 17, 2009 – Lecture Practice Session – 6:00 pm Lodge 45
February 24, 2009 – Fellow Craft Degree – Dinner 6pm; Degree 7pm – Lodge 45
February 12, 2009 – Brownsville Lodge – 2 Entered Apprentice Degrees
February 16, 2009 – School of Instruction at St. John Lodge #322
March 2, 2009 – Master Mason Degree – Lodge #322
March 21, 2009 – Master Mason Degree performed by York Rite team – Lodge #322
March 10, 2009 – Jackson Lodge #45 Stated Meeting – Dinner 6pm; Meeting 7pm.
Deceased Brethren
The last three months have seen four of our brothers admitted to the Celestial Lodge above. Please lend your prayers for their families in remembrance of our departed Brethren.
They will be missed.
James T. Williford
Deceased 12/21/2008
Raised 8/16/1952 Lodge #399
Henry Melford Lester
Deceased 1/09/2009
Raised 09/20/1949 Lodge #45
Michael Luther Hopper, Tiler
Deceased 1/25/2009
Raised 1/20/1979 in Unity Lodge #95
Carl Fincher
Deceased 2/1/2009
Raised – 11/25/1958 Lodge #399
From The East:
Brethren,
I hope you are all having a great start to your new year. This is shaping up to be a wonderful year for our lodge. There are a lot of exciting things happening and I would like to take a few minutes and share them with you.
We are going to be having our first Community Service Project for the year at the end of this month. The lodge is working with the Regional Interfaith Association (RIFA) here in Jackson to provide some needed work for their building and the community. This is an organization that wears many hats. They provide food for the hungry through a soup kitchen, they run an education program to help the homeless to find jobs and housing, and have many other great programs.
As speculative masons we are builders of men but I am excited to see our brethren work in operative masonry as well. We will be building shelving, wheelchair ramps, and several other projects with RIFA throughout the year. As the year moves along we will keep you updated as to what is going on so that you may be a part of this project.
The lodge is beginning a series of “Lecture Evenings” where the brethren will be teaching and giving lectures on particular aspects of freemasonry in which they are passionate and well-versed. This will occur one Tuesday a month. This month we will be having two of our Past Masters teaching a class on learning and teaching the ritual. The Worshipful Master will also be giving a class on the prayers of Freemasonry. If you have a subject you would like to present or would like to learn about please give me a call or email me. My email is jmclemore@alumni.lsu.edu .
One of the brothers in the lodge is putting together an order for some nice polo shirts with the Masonic logo and our lodges name. The price is uncertain at this point but we will be taking orders at the March stated meeting so if you would like to place an order please come out to the lodge on March 10th.
I am excited about serving you and serving our lodge. If you ever need a ride to lodge just give me a call a day or two in advance and I will do my best to find you one. I hope and pray that you will have a blessed month and I look forward to seeing you at the lodge.
Fraternally Yours,
Jeff McLemore
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
N.C. white, black Masonic groups reconcile
After years ignoring each other, 'we're brothers again'
By Richard Stradling
richard.stradling@newsobserver.com
richard.stradling@newsobserver.com
Posted: Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008
JASON ARTHERS – (RALEIGH) NEWS & OBSERVER PHOTO
Jason Arthurs
RALEIGH Members of the state's two Masonic organizations ended 138 years of official disregard Friday by signing a resolution recognizing each other as brother Masons.
The resolution, signed near the end of a two-hour ceremony full of formality and speeches, ended a vestige of the segregation era, during which the two groups – one white, the other black – spent decades following the ancient tenets and teachings of freemasonry while each pretended the other didn't exist.
“Today's a historic day, because we're here to say we're brothers again,” said David Cash, a Methodist minister from Kannapolis and grand master of the white group, the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina.
Cash and his counterpart, Milton “Toby” Fitch Jr. of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina and Its Jurisdictions, signed the document in the old House chambers of the State Capitol. They sat at a table where North Carolina's resolution to secede from the Union was signed 148 years ago.
Both Prince Hall and AF&AM Masonic groups carry on the traditions of a fraternity founded by building craftsmen in medieval Europe. The state's AF&AM organization was founded in 1787, though some of the individual lodges date back earlier. The state's Prince Hall group was founded in 1870.
Despite shared roots and goals, their members did not officially recognize each other as Masons until Friday.
“We are of the same family,” said Dan Blue, a Prince Hall Mason and state legislator from Raleigh. “This is an opportunity to complete a circle.”
The ceremony, which had the feel of a peace treaty signing, was years in the making.
Members of the Prince Hall Masons unanimously passed a resolution recognizing their white counterparts as true Masons at their annual meeting in 2004. But a similar resolution failed several years in a row at AF&AM meetings, despite impassioned pleas from the group's leaders. This year, in September, it passed 642-328, leading to Friday's gathering, which filled not only the old House chamber but also the old Senate, where the overflow watched on a big-screen TV.
Membership in the larger, white lodge has fallen from 73,000 at its peak in 1981 to less than 50,000, even as the state's population has soared. But Friday's ceremony was a reminder of the devotion of many Masons to the organization and the influential people it attracts.
U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge led the pledge of allegiance, and former state Supreme Court justices Henry Frye and James Exum Jr. also spoke.
The resolution signed Friday does not merge the groups in any way.
But it should lead to cooperation between the two Masonic organizations.
Cash, the AF&AM grand master, said representatives of the two groups are meeting to work out visitation issues and protocol. For example, he noted, Prince Hall Masons have a dress code, while the AF&AM does not.
“They are a little bit more formal,” he said.
That formality was on display Friday, as Prince Hall members in particular wore colorful aprons around their waists and medallions around their necks. A color guard of Prince Hall Masons with epaulets on their shoulders, two rows of buttons down their chests and hats covered with white feathers lined the aisle of the old House chamber with raised swords as officers from the two organizations filed in.
Earlier this fall, Fitch and the Prince Hall Masons made Cash an honorary member. Friday, Cash returned the gesture, reading a framed resolution with a preacher's shout before the two men embraced before a shower of flashbulbs and a standing ovation
Sunday, November 2, 2008
George Washington’s 256th Masonic Anniversary
George Washington’s 256th Masonic Anniversary
On November 4th, 1752, George Washington was initiated into the mysteries of masonry in Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4, Virginia.
According to the lodge records, on March 3rd, 1753, “Geo.
On August 4th, 1753, he was “rais’d Master Mason”
(Interesting note: George Washington was the Worshipful Master of his lodge, Alexandria Lodge No. 22, the same year he was elected and inaugurated President of the
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Lodge #45 Honors 'Andrew Jackson'
On Thursday October 30, 2008, General Andrew Jackson, PMWGM of Tennessee visited Jackson, Tennessee to open an historical exhibit and attend a book signing about his years in the White House. Newsweek editor and author Jon Meacham could have chosen any historical figure to write about. He chose Andrew Jackson because of what he calls "the perfect embodiment of competing influences" in the country's seventh president.
Meacham was in Jackson on Thursday to present a lecture on his book "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House." The lecture helped kick off the Three Stars of Tennessee exhibition, which opens at The Carnegie on Saturday. This historic Exhibit includes a display of of the replica Grand Master's Apron worn by MWGM Jackson and the original Charter of Jackson Lodge #45 from 1823.
A preview celebration was held Thursday night and included a re-enactment of the evening of Sept. 18, 1825, when Jackson and his wife were wined and dined by the city's residents. The exhibition is a salute to honor the hero of the Battle of New Orleans.
Part of the celebration was the recreation of the Masonic escort that greeted General Jackson when he and his wife Rachael visited Jackson for the first time in 1825. Members of Jackson Lodge #45 provided the honor guard then and now. Jackson Lodge #45 was chartered Oct. 6th, 1823 during the administration of Andrew Jackson as Most Worshipful Grand Master of the State of Tennessee. As it turned out, the actor who portrayed General Jackson is also a Mason from Old Hickory Lodge in Old Hickory, Tennessee and was delighted to don an Apron for the ceremony. As result, the peculiar badge of the Mason was seen by all and will be on CBS Sunday Morning. A great "unintended consequence" of our activities of that evening. Throughout the evening, due to the high profile of Masonry during the opening ceremonies, many questions about Masons and Masonry were asked and answers given by members of Lodge #45 to members of the large crowd in attendance.
Many thanks to all who participated that evening and helped present Masonry and Lodge #45 in a great light. A special thanks to Life Member Brother Tom Lewis by getting this projected started with an email to the event organizer, Libby Murphy and to Brother Jimmy Owen for photographing this historic event for the Lodge.
Lodge #45 members in attendance:
Honor Guard: Bobby Henderson, PMWGM; Marty Amick, PM; Alan Turner, PM; Tera Spencer, PM; Robert Warmath, PM; Derek White, PM; Jeffery McClemore, SW; G. Michael Winslow, Sec; Mike Stanton, JW; and Terry Blackburn.
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