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Greetings,
At the
Stated Meeting our Inspector Roy Pool informed us that we are changing
our Masonic District (again). We will now be part of a new Masonic
District, and our new Inspector is Worshipful Bob Udoff. Worshipful
Roy Pool did a lot this year to help the Lodge, and we will miss his
positive guidance. Thanks Roy. We know that Worshipful Bob will help
us as much as Worshipful Roy did.
Speaking
of great things, we recently raised 5 new Master Masons in September.
Please join me in welcoming our newly raised Brother James Wong,
Brother Andrew Macias, Brother Paul Pantages, Brother Earl Douglas,
and Brother Brian Wittig to our Lodge. A lot of good members stepped
up to help put on the degrees. Thanks all of you who helped out and
those that attended the degrees.
We also
Inititated 4 new Entered Apprentice Masons in September – Brother Matt
Malouf, Brother Joe Liang, Brother Paulo Amaral, and Brother Joaquim
de Almeida. I want to thank those that helped put on the degrees,
especially those Past Masters (Worshipful’s Steve Zastoupil, Mike
Winford, Frank Beckman, Warren Gustafson, Gayle Richmond, Bill
Sizemore, and Frank Gillespie and Brothers Andrew Macias, Paul
Pantages, Cliff Zastoupi) who stepped in to fill holes in the degree
team.
My
thanks to Frank and Mary Jo Gillespie, Gil and Peggie Buck, Bill and
Bonnie Booth, Gayle Richmond, Dave and Fran Swanston, and many others
for helping to put on a great Masonic Family Picnic. We had guests
from the DeMolay, Job’s Daughters, Rainbow Girls, Emerald Star Chapter
of the Eastern Star, and members of the Montebello-Whittier Lodge.
The food was great, the turnout was great, and everyone had a
spectacular time.
When you
get this the Annual Barbeque will be over. I want to thank Worshipful
Gil Buck for spearheading this great effort. It is nice to have the
Barbeque back, and my thanks to all those that helped out. The money
raised by the Barbeque goes into the Scholarship fund. Speaking of
which, the Scholarship Committee just finished preparing the
guidelines for the Joe Gonzales Memorial Scholarship. The information
is being sent out to the area High Schools and is available on the
lodge website (www.GTNmasoniclodge.com).
We plan on giving out three scholarships from your Lodge to youth in
our community this year
My
thanks to Worshipful Bill Sizemore for putting on such a wonderful
Constitutional Observance Event on September 24, 2009. The meal was
delicious and the George Washington reenactor was inspiring. I hope
you didn’t miss this, it was really great.
Gary Iverson -
Master
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