Volume 10 Issue 5

Visit us on the web:      May 2009

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 HAPPY Birthdays  

Howard Billingsley

Gilbert Bradley

David Garnett

James Hostetler

David Johnson

Daniel Moss

Scott Teichrow

Happy Masonic Birthdays

Gilbert Bradley (63)

George Colgate ((50)

Paul Dore (44)

Floyd Harrington (19)

Myron Henderson (39)

Charles Luthy (44)

Oscar Lyon Jr. (58)

David Rabb (64)

Robert Taylor (57)

Mitchell Vuksanovich

 Masonic Deaths

None

May Schedule

11th

9am – Coffee & Donuts

10am – Lodge

12pm – Lunch @ Joe's Grill

Possible Degree work-TBD

June Schedule

9th

9am – Coffee & Donuts

10am – Lodge

12pm –

Possible Degree work-TBD

FROM THE EAST

Another month has quickly passed us by, underscoring the old cliché “time flies when you’re having fun.” We had a wonderful stated meeting last month with visiting brethren from Tucson and Payson. It is always good to have them join with us.

W. Brother Bill Greenen has promised to “enlighten” us all with a bit of Masonic education at this month’s stated meeting. There is so much we can all learn from the lessons offered by our venerable fraternity. It has been my experience that the search for “light” not only leads to a greater understanding of life and more wisdom in general, but that it encourages one to search for even more knowledge. Come and join us to hear what WB Bill has to share with us. I am looking for “volunteers” to provide us with more Masonic education at our future meetings. Just let me know when you would like to sign up!

If you haven’t signed up to attend the annual Grand Communication yet, check your calendars and try to do so. This year’s meeting will be held at the Chaparral Inn Suites in Scottsdale, June 4^th and 5^th. Our Secretary WB Paul Dore can provide you with the registration forms or you can go on-line to the Arizona Grand Lodge’s website ( www.azmasons.org) to download a copy. The meeting is open to all Master Masons, however voting is limited to Past Masters and sitting Pedestal Officers of each lodge. There will be many topics to be discussed and proposed legislative pieces that will affect us all. We read over the synopses of that proposed legislation at our last stated meeting. Even though it may seem boring and overly toilsome, it does pertain to the well being of our fraternity and should be closely followed.

I had the opportunity this past week to attend a meeting at the El Zaribah Shrine which was sponsored by the Past Masters’ Unit of the Shrine and attended by the Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master, as well as Past Grand Masters and many of the Grand Line officers. Each piece of proposed legislation was discussed in detail, with an opportunity for individual brothers to give their own opinions pro and con. We also had the opportunity to hear the Deputy Grand Master, RW Bro. Mike Bishop, present the highlights of his proposed budget for this next year. Although that budget has not yet been finalized, it will be presented and discussed in detail the Thursday (JUN 3^rd) at the Chaparral Inn Suites just before the Grand Lodge Session is opened the next day. We all need to listen and make ourselves familiar to the finer points of this document.

Remember that ours is not an institution that is intended to make bad men good, but rather a fraternity meant to make good men better. It is up to each of us to always strive to do better, to have higher thoughts and greater achievements. Let us all join arm in arm to accomplish this end and to make White Mountain Lodge #3 a better lodge and to work for the betterment of Freemasonry in general.

In faith, love and charity to all,

Bill Garrard

Worshipful Master

FROM THE SOUTH

Brothers,

I hope everyone is doing well, or at least as well as can be expected. This bring to mind something that all members should be aware of. We have embarked on a program to maintain contact with our membership and as you are well aware, our membership is getting up in age. We would like to contact everyone each week to see how you are doing but that is not doable. It is important that you let us know if you are sick because we do care. We miss most of you in lodge but we understand if you are not able to get around or are taking care of a loved one. We would like to keep all of you in our prayers because life is such a short experience and know (on earth) knows the time or place when we will leave to meet our Maker. For those who have done well with your earthly wages, please remember the Lodge in your will. More importantly, make sure that the ones you leave behind know were your apron is located and your desires for a Masonic Service. It gives the Brothers that remain a chance to say goodbye and check up on your widow and make sure she is all right. Enjoy the Spring because it won't be here very long. God Bless.

Bill Greenen, Junior Warden

2009 Officers

Worshipful Master William Garrard, KYCH (602-866-8204)

Senior Warden     Earl Warner (928-425-7715)

Junior Warden      Bill Greenen, KYCH (480-510-4241)

Secretary            Paul Dore' Sr, KYCH (602-920-0456)

Treasurer            Scott Teichrow, PM (928-425-8293)

Senior Deacon    Howard Billingsley, PM (928-472-9354)

Junior Deacon    Art Salcido Jr.(928-402-8242)

Chaplain             Dave Johnson, PM (928-425-7900)

Marshall             Joe Henry, PM(928-425-6686)

Senior Steward   Dell Long 520-297-7656

Junior Steward   Fred Marquardt   602-575-4946)

Tyler                  Hank Johnson(928-425-2295) (602-265-4152)

Trustees:

Howard Billingsley, PM,  2013

Earl Warner                   2012   

Robert Gillette, PM        2011

Harold Benjamin, PM,    2010  

Paul Dore' Sr. PM,         2009  

O.E.S. #8 Luncheon

May 9th

  Joe's Grill

Committees

Public Schools - Ed Warner 

Widows - Ed Warner

Education - W. Howard Billingsley

By-Laws - MW Oscar Lyon Jr.

Membership - WB. Doug Skowron

Community Events - Art Salcido.

Meeting Calendar 2009

May Jun Jul Aug Sep

7 - OES#8 4 – OES#8 2 – OES #8 6 – OES #8 3 – OES #8

9 – WM#3 13 – WM#3 11 – WM #3 8 – WM #3 12 – WM #3

50 Years Ago

White Mountain Lodge May 1959

Brothers Albert Carter, Herbert Caldwell and Carley Moore were raised to the sublime degree of master mason.

Doric Lodge May 1959

Brothers Frank Robertson was re-elected Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge and PM Thomas Henderson was appointed Chairman of the Necrology Committee.

Brothers George Colgate and John Lubich were raised to the sublime degree of master mason.

Something to Think About

T.F.S.
Three, five, and seven
3 5 7
Number 145 – April 20, 2009

“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the
oath.” Aeschylus Quote

This publication, while it is printed with the permission of the Most
Worshipful Grand Lodge of A.F. & A. M. of Minnesota, contains the
writings and opinions of Ed Halpaus and is not in any way the opinion
of the Grand Lodge of Minnesota.

“Eggs and oaths are easily broken.” Danish Proverb

“Sibboleth[i]”
The allegories of Freemasonry, just as the stories and parables in
the Great Light of Masonry, contain so much to study; the deeper the
Masonic Student goes in study the more one finds to learn.
I would suspect that every Freemason remembers the story as it is
told in the 2°, and in the book of Judges, about how Jephthah and his
army defeated the Ammonites, and then how it came to be that he found
it necessary to do battle with the Ephraimites, and defeated them
too. This story is also significant to members of the Order of the
Eastern Star.
The story of Jephthah (pronounced Jef-thuh) can be found in the Great
Light of Masonry in Judges 11 & 12: It is an interesting story, with
some important lessons to be learned from the story: Verse 11:1 says
that Jephthah was a ‘mighty warrior,’ but the commentary from the NJPS
translation tells us that Jephthah is remembered, because of his vow,
in a negative light. The giving of an oath referring to one coming
out of his house suggests a human rather than an animal sacrifice.
Vows, even hastily and ill thought out vows, were taken very
seriously in biblical times; Jephthah and his daughter understood
this, and that is why it is understood that Jephthah could not
retract what he said. However, some Bible Scholars maintain that
Jephthah’s daughter was not actually killed.
The battle with the Ephraimites was a battle Jephthah waged against
his own people and the difference between the pronunciations between
sibboleth instead of shibboleth reflected a difference of dialect
within the same language spoken by both sides in the battle.
The number ‘forty and two thousand and its meaning is widely
discussed.
Freemasons will talk of that number meaning either 42,000 or 2,040,
but the translations newer than the Authorized Version [KJ] says
42,000 instead of forty and two thousand. In talking with some clergy
I got some interesting information; they all tended to agree that the
number isn’t all that important for the following reasons: In wars it
isn’t always that easy to determine the actual number of warriors
killed, and this was even more the case in Old Testament times: The
number forty they agreed had a metaphysical meaning of completeness,
and one of them offered that 42,000 involves multiples of 4 and also
of 7; Seven has a metaphysical meaning of fullness, so his
interpretation of the 42,000 is that the Masonic or Bible Student
wouldn’t need to think of that number as literal, but as meaning that
it represents a fully complete victory, with nothing more to do.
In modern times the word ‘shibboleth’ is used to indicate a password
or other safety devise; it’s used as part of the English language as
such.
Sometimes a Mason will hear it used and wonder if the speaker is a
Masonic or Bible student, but using the word in a speech only means
that the word has become a part of the English language. Author
Jonathan Kirsh, in one of his books, recounts a story about World War
II in which Dutch Resistance Fighters were able to cull out Nazi
infiltrators who couldn’t pronounce a particular Dutch Name. The
Dutch may have used two names to detect Nazi infiltrators; one name
is spelled “Scheveningen,” the other is spelled “ ‘S-Gravenhage,”
which is the Dutch name and pronunciation of a town in the
Netherlands, which is known as “The Hague.” In any event the Dutch
had one Pronunciation and the Germans another, so this word [s] was
used as a ‘shibboleth’ to detect the enemy in modern warfare. This,
it seems to me, is a good example of how two different peoples
inherently pronounced a word differently so as to divulge their
identity.

Words to live by: Skin would just be skin if we were color blind

“Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American
businessman is fact, and his uterine half-brother, statistics.”
Edward Dahlberg

From the Great Light of Masonry: “On seeing her, he rent his clothes
and said, ‘Alas my daughter! You have brought me low; you have become
my troubler! For I have uttered a vow to the Lord and I cannot
retract.” Judges 1`:35 NJPS