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Volume 11 Issue 6

Visit us on the web:      June/July/August 2010

http://www.whitemountain3.org

Happy Birthday

June

Robert D. Armstrong

William Garrard
Robert L. Gillette
Joe A. Henry
Charles K. Luthy


July

Robert C. Conrad

John M. Fix

Stanley M. Gibson

Robert L. Jorgensen

Cleo M. Medlock Jr.

Art Q. Salcido


August

Milton E. Kramer

Howard W. Champion

Jerry H. DuBois

Gary A. Kish

Dell Long

Bruce E. Maxwell

David D. Rabb

Donald K. Shelton


Masonic Birthday

June

Eric Ecklund(5)

James A. Hosteller(60)

Jack W. Martyn(49)

Cleo M Medlock(52)

Merle E. Palmer(45)

William L. Sneyd(27)

July

Paul A. Brooks(43)

Bradley S. Busler(9)

Jerry H. Dubois(23)

Robert L. Jorgensen(44)

Daniel Moss(4)

David Porter(40)

William M. Williamson(54)

August

Ross A. Brown Jr.(26)

Joe A. Henry(61)

Dell Long(5)

Jerry H. Nutall(49)

Albert Sanders(41)

Kenneth W. Stone(53)


Masonic Deaths

Worshipful Brother Robert Gillette

Born: June 7, 1929

Raised: Feb 25, 1957

Passed: May 3, 2010


To all Americans who have given the supreme sacrifice for our Country.

August Schedule

14th

9am – Coffee & Donuts

10am – Lodge Stated Meeting



28th

TBD 9am - 1st Degree

September Schedule

11th

9am – Coffee & Donuts

10am – Lodge Stated Meeting

11:00 Degree (TBD 1st Degree)


Sickness and Distress

Dave Porter

Ben McGowen

Howard Billingsley


White Mountain Lodge Builders

(Those who have contributed to the building fund)


Entered Apprentice

Gary Kish

Harold Benjamin

Paul Brooks

Howard Billingsley

Fellowcraft

Donald Shelton

Bob Gillette

Ed Warner


Master Builder

Tim Humphrey

Bill Greenen

Wes Parmenter

Jerry Dubois

Howard Champion

FROM THE EAST


Brothers,

I would like to congratulate both Brother Josh Beason on receiving his Fellowcraft degree and to out newest Master Mason, Brother Ray Snyder. Thanks to all that participated to make both events very memorable. This was a sad month indeed. We lost, what I considered to be an outstanding Mason and the heart of White Mountain Lodge, Brother Bob Gillette. Since I was first initiated, Bob was the go to guy in the lodge. If any needed to get done, Bob was there. He will sorely missed by all. After lodge in June, we will be doing a grave site service for Bob. I hope every member in the area can attend. Check with Brother Secretary for more information.

Grand Lodge was held in June. Not much change excpet that I was sworn in as Grand Pursivant.

I would like to congratulate Brother Tim Humphrey for being appointed as a Trustee of the lodge. In just a short period of time Brother Tim has stepped up to the plate on numerous occasions to support the lodge. He has some mighty big shoes to fill and I'm confident that he can do it.

I want to thank Brother Ed Warner for presenting bikes at the local schools. I was able to make Copper Rim and Miami Jr High. I need some help in getting an article created along with pictures in the Silverbell.

Thanks to all who attended the highway cleanup. With a lot of help, it didn't take very long and now we have a clean stretch of road in our name. Thanks to Brother Tim for arranging to effort.

I have to apologize for missing the last two trestleboards. I was gone for 8 weeks on business and a little pleasure. I missed the last two meetings which allowed our Junior Warden, Fred and Senior Warder Ed to handle the business. I hear they done real well and read two petitions for degrees last month which we will vote on Saturday. That means we will have some potential degree work in the near future. Stay tuned and I'll try and keep the web site updated.

I hope all is well and if not, give me a call so we can let the brethren know.


Bill Greenen, Master

Secretary's Desk

Always Full

2010 Officers

Worshipful Master Bill Greenen, KYCH (480-510-4241)

Senior Warden     Earl Warner (928-425-7715)

Junior Warden      Fred Marquardt   (602-575-4946)

Secretary            Paul Dore' Sr, KYCH (928-425-2891 )

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

Senior Deacon    Jerry Dubois (928-595-2386)

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

Chaplain           Ralph Gerhardt, PM

Marshall            Harold Benjamin, PM

Senior Steward   Dell Long 520-297-7656

Junior Steward   Timothy Humphrey

Tyler                  Doug Skowron, KYCH

Trustees:

Ralph Gerhardt, PM, 2014

Howard Billingsley, KYCH,  2013

Earl Warner                   2012   

Timothy Humphrey 2011

Harold Benjamin, PM,    2010  

 O.E.S. #8 Luncheon

September 11th





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

“Search For The Charter” - Ed Warner

Highway Cleanup – Tim Humphrey

Meeting Calendar 2010-2011

Sep

8 - OES #8

11 - WM #3

Oct

6 - OES #8

9 - WM #3

Nov

3 – OES #*

13 - WM #3

Dec

1 - OES #8

11 - WM #3

Jan

5 - OES #8

8 - WM #3

Feb

2 – OES #*

12 - WM #3


Something to Think About



*Mehr Licht!*
*More Light!*
Number 280 – May 31, 2010
Dear Masonic Student, Below is something you might enjoy from the 1984
Intender Handbook of the Grand Lodge of Michigan.

*What is meant by ‘Travel In Foreign Countries?’*

Our ancient operative Brethren desired to become Masters so, when they travelled in foreign countries, they could still practice their craft.
Speculative Freemasons still desire to "travel in foreign countries" and study their Craft that they may receive such instruction as will
enable them to do so, and when so travelling, to receive a Master's Wages.
But the "foreign countries" do not mean to us the various geographical and political divisions of the Old World, nor do we use the Word we learn as a means of identification to enable us to build material temples and receive coin of the realm for our labor. "Foreign countries" is to us a symbol.
Like all the rest of the symbols, it has more than one interpretation, but unlike many, none of these is very difficult to trace or understand.
Freemasonry itself is the first "foreign country" in which the initiate will travel; a world as different from the familiar workaday world as France is different from England, or Belgium from Greece. ... Surely such a land is a "foreign country" to the stranger within its borders; and the visitor must study it, learn its language
and its customs, if he is to enjoy it and profit thereby. ...
Freemasonry has many "foreign countries" within it, and he is the wise and happy Freemason who works patiently at the pleasant task of visiting and studying them. There are the Masonic "foreign countries" of philosophy, of jurisprudence, of history. No Freemason is really worthy of the name who does not understand something of how his new domain is governed, of what it stands for, and why. And, too, there is the "foreign" country of Symbolism, of which so much has already been said.
As a Master Mason, a man has the right to travel in all the "foreign countries" of Freemasonry. If he will but learn the work and keep himself in good standing, he may visit where he will. But it is not within the doors of other Lodges than his own that he will find the guide posts of those truly Masonic "foreign countries" to which he has been given the passport by his Brethren. He will find the gateways to those lands in the library, in the study club, in books and magazines, and, most and best of all, in the quiet hour alone, when what he has read and learned comes back to him to be pondered over and thought through.
The "foreign country" of Masonic symbolism has engaged the thoughtful and serious consideration of hundreds of able Masonic students, as has that of the history of our Order.  Not to visit them both; aye, not to make oneself a citizen of them both, is to refuse the privileges one has sought and labored to obtain. One asks for a petition, requests one's friend to take it to his Lodge, knocks on the door, takes obligations, works to learn, and finally receives the Master's Degree.  One receives it, works for it...why?
That one may travel in far lands and receive the reward there awaiting. ...
Then why hesitate? Why wait? Why put off? Why allow others to pass on and gain, while one stands, the gate open, the new land beckoning, and all the Masonic world to see?
That is the symbolism of the "foreign countries" ... that is the meaning of the phrase which once meant, to Operative Masons, exactly what it says.  To the Freemason today who reads it aright it is a clarion call to action, to study, to an earnest pressing forward on the new highway. ...
And at the end of the journey, when the last "foreign country" of Freemasonry has been travelled and learned and loved, you shall come to a new gate, above which there is a new name written ... and when you have read it you will know the True Word of a Master Mason.

- Excerpts from "Foreign Countries" by Carl H. Claudy
*Words to live by:*  “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” Leslie P. Hartley