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FROM
THE EAST
It’s HOT, really
HOT! The good news is that we are already half the way through the
summer and still having fun. It was good to see you all again this
last month.
You all remember the
phrase: “What came you here to do?” and the response:
“To learn, to subdue my passions and to improve myself in
Masonry. Please take care to notice the comma between to learn and
to subdue. Although that comma may not appear in our ritual books,
many would argue that it was a mere oversight and that there are
actually 3 parts to that response. Think about it. Doesn’t
this make more sense? Aren’t we all here to learn? Shouldn’t
we as Masons always strive to subdue our passions, just as the
compasses teach us to circumscribe our passions? And shouldn’t
it always be one of our foremost efforts to improve ourselves in
Masonry?
TO LEARN:
We should always make an effort to learn more, about
life, ourselves, professions and the world we live in. Learning
isn’t accomplished simply by reading, but more from
experiencing something new. To this end I challenge each of you to
put this high on your daily list of things you want to do. Set
your goals, set them high and be consistent in your efforts to
achieve them. Strive to learn more, then turn around and use those
lessons in your life and to share, to teach them to your brothers.
TO SUBDUE MY
PASSIONS: Passion can be a good thing,
however, too much of a good thing can also be damaging. Passion
should push you to accomplish your goals, but when you allow your
passions to blind you to the feelings of others then we impede our
chances of any real success of accomplishing our goals. Remember,
we are admonished that, “time, patience and preserverence
will accomplish all things.”
TO IMPROVE MYSELF IN
MASONRY: We are taught that Masonry is an
institution to “make good men better.” We are afforded
all kinds of opportunities to improve ourselves in Masonry:
learning new ritual work and
studying what those lessons and allegories teach us,
active participation in Grand Lodge functions such as the Arizona
Masonic Education Academy and the Leadership Conferences, and I
would say that sharing your own studies in Lodge through a Masonic
Education session would be a very good method of improving oneself
in Masonry.
Some would tell you
that all you ever needed to know about life and leadership is
contained within our ritual. I would say, rather, that we must
first make the effort to learn more about ourselves, the world
around us and how to become a truly better man………a
leader among men and our families. Leaders are those who can
recognize a problem, develop a solution or strategy to overcome
adversity or to achieve more by “exerting those talents
wherewith God has blessed you, as well to his glory as t the
welfare of others.” Strive to live your life by the divine
precepts we are taught in Freemasonry and to make every effort to
fulfill our Masonic obligations to ourselves and those we live
with.
I ask that you keep our
men and women in uniform in your prayers, that God will keep them
safe and return them home soon. I also ask your prayers for all of
our worthy, distressed brothers and their families, that they may
soon be well and back with us. Keep Bro. Gilbert Bradley in your
prayers, he is a good man. And finally, reach out to those good
men who are about you and that you feel would add more to our
fraternity. Share your passion for Freemasonry and the goodness
and fullness that it can bring to their lives. And lastly, I have
discussed with many of you the possibility of having the Grand
Lodge Military Degree team assist us in the conferral of one or
two of our upcoming Fellow Craft degrees. For those of you who
have never seen this, I urge you to be there. For those of you who
have seen them and particularly those of you who are veterans, you
don’t want to miss this. I will keep you all advised. See
you again soon and may God bless you all.
Fraternally,
William A. (Bill)
Garrard
WM, White Mountain #3
FROM THE SOUTH
Brothers,
It is my pleasure this month to
represent White Mountain #3/5 at the a Meeting of the original
Lodges of the Grand Lodge of New Mexico. We received an invite to
attend and to foster our close relationship to Grand Lodge of New
Mexico, I decided to attend. Therefore I will miss our next
meeting because it is being held the same day. I will report on
the meeting in the next Trestleboard. WBro. Howard Billingsley
will accompany me to Las Vegas, New Mexico for the meeting.
Bill Greenen, JW
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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
Ralph Gerhardt
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
Sickness and
Distress
Frank
Sheppard
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 O.E.S.
#8 Luncheon
August
8th
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
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Mehr Licht!
More Light!
Number 232 - July 06,
2009
Dear Masonic Student,
We have another 'Old
Tyler' article and talk from our good Brother, W.B. Harley
Johnson, of Koochiching Lodge #270, in International Falls, MN.
Brother Harley is a great friend and Mason, who is extremely
knowledgeable, low key and humble man. He closed his email to me
saying - "Hope you like this, Harley. Well, Brother Harley we
all like your 'Old Tyler' articles and thanks for sharing them
with us. - Ed
Old Tyler's History
By Harley Johnson,
Past Master
After the last meeting the young Mason was
speaking to the old Tyler about the old fellows past
history.
'Now I just found out that you are a Past Master,
member of the chapter, Knights
Templar, Shrine, and have held office in the Grand
Lodge.
Now why don't you wear any of those pins or show what you
are?"
"Well young man I do. Do you not see my
ring and pin? It shows that I belong to the greatest group I know
of. As for the others, without my Masonic base I could never have
done any of those things. Yes, I am a Past Master of this Lodge
and could sit on the sidelines and bask in whatever there is to
bask in, However, when my term as Master was over it was my duty
to listen and obey the new Master of the Lodge, not give my ideas
unless asked, and do my best to help him as Master and other
Masons grow in knowledge. As for being the Tyler I have privilege
of meeting each member as they enter or leave the Lodge, and to me
that is a great privilege; so, when all is said and done I am a
Mason, therefore I do not need all that other stuff. The Square
and Compass will say it all."
"Thank you now I
see what a Mason is and should be, I will try to follow in your
ideas and be humble as well," the young Man said, and after
many years of Masonic work guess who is now a Tyler.
Hope
you like this Harley
Words to live by: Knowledge, humbles a
great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.
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