The installing officers were as follows:
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| Worshipful Master | MWBro. Richard A. Mecartea |
| Worshipful Master | WBro. Ken Lane, Jr. |
| Senior Warden | WBro. Jeff Lane |
| Junior Warden | VWBro. John Houck |
| Treasurer | WBro. James O'Conner |
| Secretary | WBro. David Moffat |
| Chaplain | WBro. David Campbell |
| Marshal | WBro. Douglas MacKenzie |
| Senior Deacon | WBro. William Collison |
| Junior Deacon | WBro. Allan Pinch |
| Senior Steward | WBro. Ken Lane, Sr. |
| Junior Steward | WBro. Hans Wehl |
| Organist | WBro. Orrin Niles |
| Tyler | Bro. Mark Campbell |
| First to be installed was WBro. Storrs L. "Skip" Albertson. Worshipful Brother Albertson was born on January 14, 1958, in Greenport, New York at the easternmost hospital on Long Island. He attended K-12 all in the same building, graduating from Southold High School, as had both his mother and father before him. His interests include music, astronomy, baseball and marine science. He graduated with engineering degrees from RPI and U-Cal Berkeley, as well as a degree in oceanography from the University of Washington. |  |
Brother Albertson works as an oceanographer for the State of Washington and is currently involved with a project to model Puget Sound with computers. He has written news articles on marine science for the Seattle Times and has been published as well in scientific literature.
He recently moved with his wife Beth and their son Ben from northeast Seattle to Olympia, where Beth is employed as a computer network administrator at The Evergreen State College.
He has served as co-chair of the scholarship committee and helped found the St. John's website.
He joined St. John's Lodge No. 9 as an Entered Apprentice Mason on July 8,1996. He was passed to a Fellowcraft on August 10, and raised a Master Mason on Oct. 12, 1996.
 | Brother Terry A. Grove was installed as Senior Warden next. Brother Grove was born August 12, 1950 in Williston, North Dakota, where he grew up and graduated from high school in 1968. Terry worked on his father's newspaper while earning an AA degree in 1972 from the University of North Dakota, concentrating his interests in journalism and law. |
Bro. Grove has worked in the consumer finance and banking industry for the past 29 years within the states of California, Oregon and Washington, and was a reserve deputy sheriff in Snohomish County from 1981 through 1987. He has been with Seattle First National Bank/Bank of America for the past 18 years, where he worked primarily in Bankruptcy and Foreclosure and is presently a consumer fraud specialist.
He enjoys his leisure time with his extensive audio and video library. His hobbies are coin collecting and golf. He is a 33-year member of the International Order of Odd Fellows. He has served on St. John's scholarship and picnic committees and has taken an active role in its degree work. Terry has never married, and shares his home life with his female cat, Mai-Tai.
Bro. Grove was initiated as an Entered Apprentice, October 26, 1996, passed to a Fellowcraft, November 13, 1996, and raised a Master Mason, January 25, 1997.
| Brother Michael S. Rust was then installed as Junior Warden. Bro. Michael S. Rust was born near New York City on July 27, 1957. Following his high school graduation (where Bro. Rust was popular with his classmates, if not with his instructors), he left the New York area and attended Western Washington State University in Bellingham There, he received a degree in geology. |  |
Bro. Rust spent several years in the Seattle area as a teacher at the high school level, paying his dues for those years spent as a student in similar surroundings in New York. During that time he taught shop and science. For the past two years, he has traded in his "teacher clothes" for those of an electrician.
Michael is married to Alexandra (Alex) Rust, and together they are raising two boys, Orion and Damian. Alex is currently taking a leading role in bringing our Lodge history into the 21st century.
Bro. Rust was initiated as an Entered Apprentice, October 11, 1997, passed to a Fellowcraft, November 1, 1997, and raised a Master Mason, December 6, 1997.
The Secretary, Treasurer, and the appointed officers were then installed and after the Worshipful Master received gifts and congratulations the Lodge retired to the refreshment rooms for an excellent cornish game hen lunch.
A complete look at the installation is contained in our pictorial slideshow of the entire installation which is in the archive section of this website. St. John's Lodge No. 9 gives grateful thanks and appreciation to Darrel Womack, Public Relations Photographer of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Washington for these pictures.
The one hundred forty-second installation of officers was then adjourned.
