Copper Board

Volume 13 Issue 6

Visit us on the web:      September 2012

http://www.whitemountain3.org




Happy Birthday

AUGUST

Howard Champion Jr.

Jerry DuBois

Dell Long

Bruce Maxwell

Donald Shelton





September

Harold Davis

Bill Greenen

Ted Palmer

Wes Parmenter


Masonic Birthday

AUGUST

Joe Henry(63)

Jerry Nutall(51)

Albert Sanders(42)

Kenneth Stone(55)



September

Darryl Dalley(9)

Harold Davis(48)

Ralph Gerhardt(48)

Dell Long(7)

Ted Palmer(47)

Terry Tanner(47)


Masonic Deaths

 

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

Sep Schedule

8th

9am – Pancake Breakfast

10am – Lodge Stated Meeting

1:30pm – Chapter #7 R.A.M

Oct Schedule

13th

9am – Pancake Breakfast

10am – Lodge Stated Meeting

1:30pm – Chapter #7 R.A.M


Sickness and Distress

Howard Billingsley

 Meeting Calendar 2012-2013

Sep 2012

5 – OES #8

8 - WM #3

Oct 2012

3 – OES #8

13 - WM #3

Nov 2012

7– OES #8

10 - WM #3

Dec 2012

5 – OES #8

8 - WM #3

Jan 2013

2 – OES #8

12 - WM #3



2012 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 KYCH

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

September 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

“Search For The Charter” - Fred Marquardt

Highway Cleanup – Tim Humphrey

Trestleboard – Bill Greenen

Secretary's Desk

We are almost through the long hot summer.  Our lodge did not meet last month in August per White Mountain Lodge by-laws.

Let all try to attend our meeting this week and resume our work in Freemasonry in Globe.

Our last stated meeting in July, we had an official visit from our new Junior Grand Deacon, John Engstrom.  He basically talked on this accomplishments and qualifications to be appointed to the Grand Lodge line.

I was very impressed with Worshipful Brother Engstrom and feel he will be an asset to our Grand Lodge line.  At our stated meeting we reviewed the status :

1.  Sponsoring a Little League team in the Globe-Miami area,

2.  Roof repair is completed by our Worshipful Master Brother Marquardt.  2nd coat in the Fall.. planned

3.  Outdoor signs still on hold until Worshipful Brother Greenen gerts back to us on the status

4.  Medical Clinic will officially open in Superior August 1st.

5.  Chair lif middle section repaired, section to the kitchen yet to be done.

We honored Brother SW Jerry DuBois with his 25year anniversary pin.  Congrats to Brother Jerry

Search for the Charter has been re-scheduled from January 5th to January 12th

The fourth annual Templar Ball will be held on October 27th at the Holiday Inn Suites located at 44th St & McDowell Rd in Phoenix

 

Fraternally

Paul J Dore Sr

Secretary

White Mountain Lodge No. 3



FROM THE  HIGH PRIEST  

Globe Chapter No. 7 RAM

We also did not meet in August per our by-laws and I am looking forward to continue learning about; Royal Arch Masonry.

Companion Tim Humphrey is scheduled to give an educational talk on Royal Arch Masonry at our meeting this Saturday September 8th

The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Arizona held their  122nd Grand Communication in Phoenix at the Holiday Inn Suites.

Globe Chapter which was re-chartered this last September receive the Grand Lecturer’s award for outstanding achievements this past year.

We had the highest number of points for this award amongst all the Royal Arch Chapters in the State.  Congrats to Globe Chapter No. 7

We had a number of Globe Chapter Companions in attendance.

Officers -- High Priest Paul J Dore, King Fred Marquardt, Secretary Earl Warner, Tom Thompson, Principal Sojourner.

Members  --  William Garrard, William Greenen, James Rolle, Doug Skowron, & Hamilton Zachary

The York Rite Bodies in the Phoenix Metro area will be conferring the Chapter Degrees on Saturday September 22nd.  If you can be in attendance you will enjoy seeing the degrees again.

The Degrees will start at 9 AM at the Masonic Temple in Phoenix located at 345 W Monroe St.

 

Paul J Dore Sr

High Priest Globe Chapter No. 7

Something to Think About

MASONIC EDUCATION PROGRAM

*Mehr Licht!*
*More Light!*
*Number 275 – April 26, 2010*
*Dear Masonic Student,*
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*The following information comes from the 7 volume set of Mackey's Revised History of Freemasonry - Clegg edition; by Robert Ingham Clegg. There are at least 2 revised editions of Mackey’s History of Freemasonry. I think the Clegg edition gives much more detail that the other editions. However, for the Masonic student the original as well as the Singleton and Clegg edition are all quite useful.*
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*Below are included some segments of text from pages 692 & 693 of volume 3 of the Clegg edition.  If you have access to this set you will enjoy reading the ‘preceding chapter’ Brother Clegg mentions below.*
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*"The use of prayer in the Scottish Lodges of the 17th century is not a supposition. That is proved by actual records. Brother Lyon, in his invaluable work, to which we have been almost wholly indebted for the facts in the present and the preceding chapter, supplies us with two forms of prayers, one 'to be said at the convening,' and the other 'to be said before dismissing.' Both are taken from the minute-books of Mary’s Chapel Incorporation for the year 1699." *
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*"Oh Lord, we most humblie beseech theee to be present with us in merecy, and to bless our meeting and haill (whole) exercise which wee now have in hand. O Lord, enlighten our understanding and direct our hearts and mynds, so with thy good Spirit, that wee may frame all our purposes and conclusions to the glory of thy name and the welfare of our Brethren; and therefore O Lord, let no partiall respect, neither of ffeed (enmity) nor favour, draw us
out of the right way. But grant that we may ever so frame all our purposes and conclusions to the glory of thy name and the welfare of our Brethren. Grant these things, O Lord, unto us, and what else thou sees more necessarie for us, and that only for the love of thy dear son Jesus Christ, our alone Lord and Saviour; To whom with thee, O Father, and the belessed Spirit of Grace, Wee render all praise, honor and glory, for ever and ever. Amen." *
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*"The Second Prayer, or that used at the dismissal of closing of the Lodge is as follows: *
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*"Oh Lord, wee most humbly acknowledge the goodnesse in meeting with us together at this tyme, to confer upon a present condition of this world.  O Lord, make us also study heaven and heavenly myndednesse, that we may get our souls for a prey, and O Lord, be with us and accompany us the rest of this day, now and forever. Amen." *
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*"The importance of this record of prayers at opening and closing in the Scottish Lodges, is that it adds great force to the claim that a similar custom existed in the English Lodges at the same period." **

"Therefore we may fairly conclude that it was the practice of the Scottish Lodges of the 17th century to open and close their meetings with prayer, a ceremony that we have reason to infer was also practiced by the English Lodges of the same period."*
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*Ed’s note: *
*Prior to the formation of the Premiere Grand Lodge in 1717 (The Grand Lodge of England), which phrased what we now know as Anderson’s Constitutions, and which opened up the door for admittance of men other that of the Christian religion, the craft of operative Masons was predominately Christian; The predominately Christian population of the Craft could have been because of the customs of the population in which the operative Masons lived and operated. And it could be that for this same reason it remained as such during the period of transition from purely operative Lodges to accepting non-operatives into their Lodges. The earliest records of accepting non-operatives into the Masonic Lodges of the 16th & 17th centuries come from Scotland, and the earliest is dated in 1598. *
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*Regarding the prayers above: it is thought that the Lodges in England also opened and closed their Lodges with prayers, but the information above is an account of the earliest know record of such, and that record comes from Scotland too. *