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Volume 15 Issue 5 June 2014 Visit us on the web: http://www.whitemountain3.org |
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Happy Birthday June Robert D. Armstrong Bill Garrard Jr. Jim Gibson Joe Henry Charles Luthy Levi Shaffer |
Masonic Birthday June Eric Ecklund (9) David Ellwanger (30) Jack Martyn (53) Cleo Medlock Jr (56) Merle Palmer (49) Bill Sneyd (31) |
None To all Americans who have given the supreme sacrifice for our Country. |
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June Schedule 10th 9am – Pancake Breakfast 10am – Lodge Stated Meeting 1:30pm – Chapter #7 R.A.M (Installation) |
July Schedule 14th 9am – Pancake Breakfast 10am – Lodge Stated Meeting 1:30pm – Chapter #7 R.A.M |
Sickness and Distress Jerry DuBois Jim Gibson |
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Meeting Calendar 2014
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2014 Officers Worshipful Master Timothy Humphrey(928-425-8120) Senior Warden Forrest Hammer(928-425-4516) Junior Warden Bill Greenen, KYCH (480-510-4241) (bg_mason@yahoo.com) Secretary Paul Dore' Sr, KYCH (928-425-2891 ) pauldoresr@cox.net Treasurer Scott Teichrow, PM (928-425-8293) rsteichrow@yahoo.com Senior Deacon Earl Warner PM(928-425-7715) jwew98@yahoo.com Junior Deacon Jim Rasmussen, PM Chaplain Ralph Gerhardt, PM Marshall Bill Sneyd Tyler Fred Marquardt, PM |
Trustees: Rodney Burden, 2018 Forrest Hammer, 2017 Timothy Humphrey, 2016 Harold Benjamin, PM, 2015 Ralph Gerhardt, PM, 2014
Committees Public Schools - Ed Warner Widows - Ed Warner Education – Bill Greenen By-Laws – Paul Dore' Sr. Membership – Paul Dore' Sr Community Events - Art Salcido Highway Cleanup – Tim Humphrey Trestleboard – Bill Greenen |
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Junior Warden's Corner First of all I would like to congratulate Brother Tim Schrowang for being passed to the degree of Fellowcraft on May 27th. We are all looking forward to your 3rd. My brethren, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect a little bit on a relatively recent history. I was raised in White Mountain #3 in 1999. At that time, I would have to classify the Lodge as on life support. A few stubborn Brothers were not going to see Masonry die in the Globe/Miami area and bravely stood their ground in the chairs. I discovered this thing called a Trestleboard from another lodge and asked when the last time they had one and I received an answer of 13 years. I agreed to be the editor and this Copperboard became alive. The next couple of years I learned what Masonry is and isn't from such notables as MWGM Oscar T. Lyon Jr. I accepted Junior Warden that 1st year and in 2002, I became your Master. I fell in love with this area since I grew up in a small town in Indiana and vowed to do what I could to breathe life make into the lodge. I saw the key to that life was community involvement. The City forgot we were here. We started a “Bikes for Books” program which is still going today. With Paul Dore's help, we finally got something in the newspaper. It was at least a start. Since that time, “Bikes for Books” grew in size, Paul Dore' started the Officer Recognition program and the Sweetheart luncheon. Those that followed me took the bull by the horns and we have continued to be more involved with community and started receiving petitions again from local men. Two wonderful examples include our Master Tim Humphrey and our Senior Warden Frosty Hammer. I can now say the White Mountain #3 is alive and doing ok. We have been taken off life support and have come home from the hospital but we have a lot of therapy yet to do. We need everyone's help. We need ideas. We need you to spread the word about the fraternity. I know many of us do not live in the area and we have many “not as young as we used to be” Brothers. You could help by your donations to any one of our charitable activities such as bikes or our newest undertaking, “Cloth a Child” at Christmas time. Any donations you make to our Charity fund is tax deductible. Make sure you specify on your check that it's for our charity fund. Don't forget us in your will as well. We need fundraisers that can help up do the things we would like to do and also to increase our awareness in the community. Most of all, we need you. Your participation in anyway you can provide it. The lodge is us and only we can make it better, a source for good. |
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Secretary's Desk Check out the web site for pictures from the Law Enforcement Luncheon.
FROM THE HIGH PRIEST Globe Chapter No. 7 RAM
Congratulations To Excellent Companion Ed Warner on being installed High Priest of Globe Chapter #7
Want to be a Royal Arch Mason? Contact Paul Dore'.
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Something to Think About
IDEAS FOR YOUR CHAPTER
TITLES
Every once in a while some Companion with a TITLE will show up at your convocation. First, let me say, do not be overly worried about introducing and receiving them. Your distinguished visitor probably isn’t worried about it so neither should you. If he is worried about it, then let him worry and not you. The distinguished visitor who likes titles and who is long on introductions has failed to take to heart some of the teachings of Freemasonry.
Remember that the title is not given to an individual. It is applied to the station which he now holds or he once held. He should not be stuck up about it. After all, it was probably you and your associates in the Chapter who gave him the title.
So, be calm and you won’t find it so hard to apply the right title to the right man.
In the first place, every member is a Companion. That’s simple, isn’t it?
Should the Companion be elevated and become the head of the Chapter (High Priest) he is termed an Excellent Companion. He may be no more excellent than you are, but his job is.
Should this same Companion become proficient, and acquire enough friends who wish to see him elevated further, he may be elected Grand High Priest of the State – and thereby acquire the title of Most Excellent Companion. There is nothing higher in Capitular Freemasonry.
Every though he be advanced to General Grand High Priest of the General Grand Chapter, which is a national organization, the title of Most Excellent Companion will still cling to him.
There you have it! Companion, Excellent Companion, Most Excellent Companion.
Now, there is an exception to be noted. During his passage through the stations of Grand King or Grand Scribe – the title of Right Excellent Companion is correct. This will apply to any elective officer who sits in the Grand East – such as Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary. There it is!
We call a chapter meeting a convocation. Literally, that is a “calling together” for a meeting. The State organizations hold Annual Convocations, but it’s rarely called that. Most Companions simply declare that they are going to Grand Chapter. I might add that Lodges hold Communications; Councils hold Assemblies; and Commanderies hold Conclaves.
And if you fail to remember any of these – just say meeting and forget it!
From: Steven G. Tiner ME Past Grand High Priest Grand Royal Arch Chapter
of Arkansas
Masonic
Deaths
Time
to start practicing for the Most Excellent Master Degree to be
given at the 2014 Four Corner's Festival on Oct 4th
2014