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Volume 13 Issue 2

Visit us on the web:      March 2012

http://www.whitemountain3.org

Happy Birthday

February

Myron Henderson

Kenneth Stone

March

Harold Benjamin

George Colgate

Eric Ecklund

Allen Kennedy

Jack Martyn

George Maslovar

Kenneth Ramsey

Albert Sanders

Masonic Birthday

February

Harold Benjamin(51)

Howard Billingsley(46)

Robert Conrad(34)

Walter Gay(29)

Henry Johnson(23)

Martin Kornhass(53)

Kimble Shows(41)

Douglas Skowron(38)

Tim Humphrey(2)

March

David Garnett(35)

Bill Greenen(13)

Allen Kennedy(19)

Milton Kramer(35)

James Malott(66)

Ed Warner(7)

James Webb(34)

Masonic Deaths

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

March Schedule

10th

9am – Pancake Breakfast

10am – Lodge Stated Meeting -

1:30pm – Chapter #7 R.A.M

April Schedule

14th

9am – Pancake Breakfast

10am – Lodge Stated Meeting

1:30pm – Chapter #7 R.A.M

Sickness and Distress

Howard Billingsley

Art Salcido

Meeting Calendar 2012

Mar 2012 7 – OES #8 10 - WM #3

Apr 2012 4 – OES #8 14 - WM #3

May 2012 2 – OES #8 12 - WM #3

Jun 2012 6 – OES #8 9 - WM #3

Jul 2012 4 – OES #8 14 - WM #3

2011 Officers

Worshipful Master Fred Marquardt   (602-575-4946)

tfmarquardt@aol.com

Senior Warden     Jerry Dubois, PM (928-595-2386)

jjdubois85532@gmail.com

Junior Warden      Timothy Humphrey

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

pauldoresr@cox.net

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

rsteichrow@yahoo.com

Senior Deacon     Forrest Hammer

Junior Deacon     Earl Warner PM(928-425-7715)

jwew98@yahoo.com

Chaplain            Ralph Gerhardt, PM

Marshall             Harold Benjamin, PM

Senior Steward   Jim Rasmussen

Junior Steward   Howard Billingsley

Tyler         Doug Skowron, KYCH

Trustees:

Harold Benjamin, PM,    2015  

Ralph Gerhardt, PM, 2014

Howard Billingsley, KYCH,  2013

Earl Warner                   2012   

Timothy Humphrey 2016

O.E.S. #8 Luncheon

^{Next Luncheon}

^{March 10th}

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” - Fred Marquardt

Highway Cleanup – Tim Humphrey

Trestleboard – Bill Greenen

Secretary's Desk

Public Schools – Ed will order 8 bicycles for our Bikes for books program

Lodge pin due 2/28/2012

Budget for 2012 was approved

New Ritual books now available – See Secretary

GL Legislation review meeting to be held on April 30th at El Zaribah Shrine in Phoenix

Kingman outdoor degree on May 19th

Re-dedication at Green Valley March 31st

Memorization meeting 1st & 3rd Tuesdays at 4:30 PM

Highway Cleanup will be scheduled in April

Cornerstone dedication in Superior still on hold, probably in the Fall

We want to look into a Friend to Friend program, Open House, all to possibly be together.

October 17, 2013 will be our 100th anniversary of holding our first meeting in our present building.  The cost of the lot was $13,000.00 and the cost of the building projected to be $9,000.00

FROM THE  HIGH PRIEST

Globe Chapter No. 7 RAM

At our February convocation held on February 11th the final pages of the York Rite Encyclopedia was distributed.  This book contains all the letters in the alphabet with definitions of various words and phrases used in the York Rite degrees.

If you missed any of the letters in the alphabet, and wish to receive them, they will be available at our next convocation on March 10th

 We continue to have educational reports given at our convocations and would like to have one of our companions agree to look up something in Royal Arch Masonry and give a short talk on the subject.

Globe Chapter No. 7, is working on qualifying for the Grand Lecturer’s award to be presented at our Grand Sessions in August.

Mark your calendars; The various York Rite Bodies in the Phoenix metro area are conferring the Chapter degrees on Saturday March 24th at the Masonic Temple in Phoenix to start at 10 AM

We expect to have candidates from many of the Royal Arch chapters in the state including our own Chapter. Have heard to expect candidates from Phoenix, Scottsdale, Chandler, Mesa, Peoria, Sierra Vista, Tucson, Kingman, and Prescott to name a few.

We would enjoy having as many of our members attending to witness the Chapter Degrees again.

We will also confer the Council Degrees on March 31st, if you desire to continue to receive more light in Masonry this would be a great time to receive these degrees.

If you know of any potential candidates for the York Rite, I will have some booklets to give to you to present to candidates.

Paul J Dore Sr.

High Priest

Globe Chapter No. 7

Something to Think About

MASONIC EDUCATION PROGRAM

The historical claim has been that the Royal Arch Degree, the fourth of the Capitular Degrees, is the ”perfection and consummation” of the Third Degree of the Symbolic Lodge. Until you receive the Royal Arch Degree the third degree you have received in the Symbolic Lodge is not complete. You were given a substitute for the Master’s word until future generations discover the right. You will receive the lost word in the Royal Arch Degree. Formerly, this degree was conferred in symbolic lodges until control was passed to a Chapter Organization – in California, and most of the United States, to the Grand Chapter. In America, this fourth degree is preceded by three degrees, although in Great Britain a candidate may pass directly from the Third Degree of the Symbolic Lodge to the Royal Arch Degree. This means that the American Capitular experience is richer in content.

The first of the Capitular Degrees is the Mark Master. The second is the Past Master and confers “virtual” Past Master status on the candidate, in order to make him fully eligible for the Royal Arch. The third is the Most Excellent Master and celebrates the completion of the Temple – which “completion” represents the final preparation for the “august” instructions of the Royal Arch.

The Mark Master Degree

The opening passages of this degree explicitly inform the initiate that the work he is doing involves the building of his own temple, the temple of his present life, “…in which every stone is a good act or constructive deed, each bearing the mark of (his) own good name.” The initiate also learns how to receive his wages.

The Past Master Degree

This Degree says that, a Master, the initiate is to take care to maintain the dignity and decorum of “the brotherhood over which you preside.” The change in terminology from “Lodge over which you are called to preside” to “brotherhood over which you preside” helps reveal the personal and internal nature of the work the Master is to perform. In other words, he is to become Master over himself (represented by the word brotherhood, inasmuch as the word “Lodge” would connote a collection of individuals), not just leader of a group of likeminded individuals who call or elect him to govern them. This degree further defines the York Rite initiate as a “virtual Past Master,” who is not entitled to all the honors and peculiar privileges of an “actual Past Master.”

The Most Excellent Master Degree

This degree is based on the interior work necessary to complete the Temple, and hence informs the initiate of the importance of that internal work on oneself that is foreshadowed in all preceding degrees.

The Royal Arch Degree

And so we come to the crowning glory of the Capitular experience.

In summary, then, the benefit to a man in experiencing the Craft and Capitular Rituals is that it gives him understanding of himself, as an integrated entity of emotion, intellect, body and spirit; teaches him to plumb the depths of his psychic; and gives him a venue for spiritual growth and service.

In the closing of the Third Degree lecture he is invested with an emblem that reminds him of his immortal soul.

In the Capitular Degrees, he is taught to search within (a recapitulation of the First Degree lecture, wherein he is told that it is the internal and not the external qualifications that are important) for the lost treasure of his soul. He is taught to characterize that treasure, and to understand its relationship to the Great Architect. Learning the Lost Word represents the coming into awareness of himself as a member of “that house not made with hands.