Copper Board

Volume 16 Issue 1      Jan 2015

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Happy Birthday

Dec

Brad Busler

Darrly Dalley

Ralph Gerhardt

James Mills

James Webb

Jan

Floyd Harrington

Kenneth Hood

Tim Humphrey

John Thayer

Masonic Birthday

Dec

Stan Gibson(64)

Bruce Maxwell(47)




Jan

Jim Gibson(30)

Tim Humphrey(5)

Fred Marquardt(6)

George Maslovar



Masonic Deaths



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

Jan Schedule

10th

9amPancake Breakfast

10amLodge Stated Meeting

12pm – Lunch

1:30pm – Chapter #7 R.A.M

Feb Schedule

14th

9amPancake Breakfast

10amLodge Stated Meeting

12pm – Lunch (Sweetheart)

1:30pm – Chapter #7 R.A.M

Sickness and Distress

Jerry DuBois






 Meeting Calendar 2015

Jan 2015

1 – OES #8

10 - WM #3

Feb 2015

5 – OES #8

14 - WM #3

Mar 2015

5 – OES #8

14 - WM #3

Apr 2015

2 – OES #8

11 - WM #3

May 2015

7 – OES #8

9 - WM #3





2015 Officers

Worshipful Master Forrest Hammer(928-425-4516)

Senior Warden Bill Greenen, KYCH (480-510-4241)(bg_mason@yahoo.com)

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

jwew98@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 Jim Rasmussen, PM

Junior Deacon   Ed Fox

Chaplain             Ralph Gerhardt, PM

Marshall             Bill Sneyd

Senior Steward   Rodney Burden

Junior Steward   Tim Schrowang

Tyler                    Timothy Humphrey, 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

Senior Warden's Corner

Brethren,

I would first like to congratulate Frosty on becoming White Mountains's 135th Master. He worked extremely hard to obtain that honor. I'm confident that he will do an outstanding job and continue the excellent job that Tim did for the last two years. It's a great tradition of the fraternity to pass the torch to new leadership, especially to one who didn't have the title of PM after his name. The Lodge has come a long way back in the last 15 years that I have been doing this trestleboard. It is with great pride that know a had a little bit to do with it. We have a long way to go to make White Mountain the lodge it is capable of becoming and with Frosty's leadership we will continue to improve and grow. We are looking for those men who will benefit from our fraternity and the fraternity will benefit from their membership. Have someone in mind? Then invite them to breakfast with us and we can answer their questions.

Bill Greenen, SW

Secretary's Desk


Dues are past due

please check to see if you have a current 2015 dues card.

Paul J Dore Sr.

Secretary

White Mountain Lodge No. 3

pauldoresr@cox.net

928-425-2891

602-920-0456


FROM THE  HIGH PRIEST  

Globe Chapter No. 7 RAM

Companions!

The holidays are over and we should start looking forward to Royal Arch activities

Globe Royal Arch Chapter meets on the second Saturday each month at 1:30 PM except August.

Please mark your calendar:

  1. Chapter Degrees will be conferred in Phoenix on Saturday March 7th starting at 9 AM

  2. Grand Chapter annual communication will be held at Reid Park – Hilton on August 21st in Tucson

      3.Four Corner RAM Festival will be held on October 3rd at Holbrook

We need to have one of our companions prepare and give an education talk at our next convocation

Our next convocation will be Saturday January 10th

Want to be a Royal Arch Mason? Contact Paul Dore'.




Something to Think About

I'm Ready For My Last Degree
An old man lay sick in the Masonic Home,
His face was as ashen as the white sea foam,
His eyes were dim, his hair was gray,
His back was bent with the trials of the way,
He falteringly spoke, but I heard him say,
I'm ready for my last degree.
I've come to the end of the level of time

That leads us to that Grand Lodge sublime,
From whose borne none ever return,
More light in Masonry there I shall learn
By an altar where light shall evermore shine,
I'm ready for my last degree.
With the Apprentice's gauge, I've divided my time
Into equal parts since life's early prime.
And this I have found amidst life's great turmoil,
My wages are due me, in corn, wine and oil,
I'm ready for my last degree.
Each day from life's quarries, I've hewn a stone,
With the gavel I've shaped them, each one alone,
And shipped them along beyond that bright stand,
To build me a house in that fair land,
A spiritual house not made with hands,
I'm ready for my last degree.
I've squared each stone by the virtue square,
And plumbed them all true, as I shipped them there,
With the compass I've measured the Master's designs
And kept within due bounds, with his points and his signs,
My blueprints are folded, I've answered his signs,
I'm ready for my last degree.
The mortar I've made from friendship and love,
To be spread with the Master's trowel up above,
My apron is worn, but it's surface is white,
My working tools will now be cold and quiet
My trestle board's bare, and I'm going tonight,
I'm ready for my last degree.
A few moments later the old man was dead,
And I fancy that I could see his soul as it fled,
Upward and onward, to the great door,
Where he gave an alarm, and a voice did implore,
The old man gave his answer with words once more,
I'm ready for my last degree.
That night in a Lodge, free from all strife and storm,
He took that degree, his last in due form,
So may I live like he did, to build day by day,
A spiritual house, in that land far away,
So, when I meet my Grand Master I can say,
I'm ready for my last degree.
-- Author Unknown