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From the East
St. John's held its installation of officers on December 7, 2002. What that means is that my term as your Worshipful Master is now half over. It has been quite an exciting six months! Time has per-mitted me to make numerous visitations to our District 5 lodges, represent the lodge at most of our civic and Masonic charity events, and support our many concordant bodies.
We have initiated, passed and raised three Master Masons. Our attendance at dinner and stated communications has increased significantly. Participation at our degrees, although sufficient, could be improved. Our membership roles have increased and benefited due to plural memberships by several active brethren.
We still have several fun events planned for our casual (no tux-edo) meetings for the summer months of June and July.
June stated will be Baseball shirt/jersey night (put on your fa-vorite major league, minor league or college team
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Grand Lodge will be held in Tacoma on June 12th, 13th, and 14th this year.
On Wednesday night June 18th, we anticipate initiating a new Entered Apprentice Mason. When was the last time you attended or participated in a new brother's step into Masonic Light?
On the weekend of June 21st and 22nd, we will once again join in fraternalism with Doric No. 92 and Daylight No. 232 at the Free-mont Fair/Summer Solstice Festival.
July Stated will be our annual Herb's Night (Rusty Masons) where we will come in our casual Hawaiian attire. Special festivities are still being planned.
On July 13th, a number of us will be playing golf at the Nile to support Lafayette No. 241 in their fund raising efforts.
Our Scholarship Committee is busy interviewing high school students who have been recommended as potential recipients of our scholastic funding towards their continued education.
Your lodge officers look forward to your fellowship at any of these planned events. As the vacation season is now upon us, we're hopeful that you will be able to join us in lodge. I'm looking for-ward to see how diverse and creative we can get with our baseball theme for the June Stated. Come in and surprise us!
Terry Grove, Master
JUNE STATED FIRST OF TWO SUMMER CASUAL DRESS MEETINGS
Two more petitions for membership into St. John's and a fifth candidate for Junior Grand Warden will likely be among the principal agenda items at this coming month's June 4th Stated Communication. Also, we will be finalizing our partici-pation with Daylight Lodge to staff a Masonic information booth at the Fremont Solstice Fair. The Scholarship committee, which has been working long and diligently at interviewing well deserving candidates for our annual scholarship awards, will present their recommendations for our approval. This year, we have $25,000 to distribute. Principal members of the committee are Skip Albertson (chairman), Bill Collison, Ken Lane, Jr., Ken Lane, Sr., Joseph Lund and Allan Pinch.
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We had the pleasure at our May meeting to welcome four of the five candidates for Junior Grand Warden, who presented their cases for consideration to this Grand elected office. RWBro. John Keliher (Tacoma) and VWBros. Charles Davis, (Richland), Charles McQuery (Bothell), and John Sleeth (Mount Vernon) all made excellent cases to advance through the Grand Chairs. A last minute scheduling conflict prevented VWBro. Michael Sanders (Vancouver) from attending, but he hopes to join us at our June meeting.
ANNUAL COMMUNICATION OF GRAND LODGE JUNE 12-14
The 146th Annual Communication of Grand Lodge, F&AM. of Washington will open Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 8:15 a.m. in the Sheraton Hotel, 1320 Broad-way Plaza, Tacoma.
A Fellowship Dinner will be Thursday evening. Fel-lowship hour opens at 6 p.m., with dinner served at 7. St. John's has two tables reserved and filled.
Registration will open on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., and will continue through Friday noon. The registration fee of $10 per delegate will be collected at registra-tion.
A morning and afternoon activity for the ladies is planned for Thursday, including lunch. This activity includes a tour of the Chihuly Glass Museum and shop-ping at the Proctor Shopping Center.
An All Masonic Dance (dress "nice casual") will be held at the Sheraton Ballroom, Wednesday evening, beginning at 8:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be of-fered, with a no-host bar.
Masters, Wardens and Past Masters are eligible voting delegates.
ENTERED APPRENTICE DEGREE JUNE 18
Come on out Wednesday, June 18th, for an evening of fellowship when we initiate Mr. Justin Dale, a student at Seattle University, into our Lodge. We will open at 7pm. Cookies and ice cream will be served immediately following.
WATCH FOR THESE COMING EVENTS!
In July, we will have a fun-filled evening when our Stated Communication of July 9 will be focused on welcoming our "snow birds" and other members who have not been to Lodge for quite a while. Billed as "Herb's Night," we will be wearing Hawaiian shirts or other summer casual wear and enjoying a relaxed evening of business and entertainment. Bring the la-dies!
| Recognition and honor to our student scholarship winners will precede our August meeting. Meet the students and parents at dinner and find out a little about their plans for next year. | |  |
Set aside Saturday, August 17, for our annual family picnic at the Nile. The Lodge will furnish the steaks and hot dogs. Bring your side dishes and appetites. Games for all ages will again occupy the greater part of the afternoon.
ST. JOHN'S DAY JUNE 24
We honor "two eminent patrons of Masonry," St. John the Baptist on June 24 and St. John the Evangelist on December 27. St. John the Baptist was the son of Zacharias and Elizabeth. In some jurisdictions it is considered the duty of Masons to assem-ble on these days, and by a solemn invocation of the past, renew the ties and strengthen the fraternal bonds that bind the present to the brotherhood of the olden times.
CORNERSTONE PLAYERS PRESENT:
1765 Table Lodge And Initiation
This dramatic presentation is an enactment of a lodge meet-ing and Initiation ceremony, which took place in Union Lodge at the Union Hotel, 1765. This was the first permanent lodge in Jersey and its warrant was issued in April, 1765. The lodge was duly registered in the Grand Lodge of England as Lodge No. 349. The players strive to show what might have been seen if you were visiting a lodge in England or its colonies in 1765.
The setting for the performance is a meeting room above the Union Hotel, Royal Square, St. Heller, in colonial North Amer-ica
It is the evening of February 15, A.D. 1765, A.L. 5765 - six years after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, eleven years before the American colonies were lost in the War of Independ-ence.
The brethren are asked to participate in the performance. When lodge is called up, the audience stands. When asked to sing, they join in. (The words are in the program.) They can "vote." They can toast. They will also have fun!!
The program will be at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center, Saturday, May 31. Reception for the Grand Master will start at 5pm, with supper at 6pm and the performance at 8pm.
Tickets ($20) are available by calling WBro. Thomas Kings-bury at 425 922-2839.
FREMONT FAIR
St. John's Lodge No. 9 will be part of the Masonic Information Booth at the Fremont Fair again this year and has contributed to is cost. Daylight Lodge No. 232 will be emceeing the Evanston Street Band Stand and will be the official stage managers. The booth and band stand will be in the same location as last year, just west of Fremont N. Working with Daylight last year was fun and is sure to be again this year.
The work is easy, the questions are varied but it does take three or four people. Volunteers will be needed to take shifts between 10am and 6pm, Saturday and Sunday, June 21 ands 22. Set up and take down takes about thirty minutes.
Plan to work the booth for a few hours. The Fremont Fair director Al Parisi has said he and his staff are very pleased the Masons are part of the event.
The Fremont Fair is a celebratory community event, which features crafts, food, music and entertainment. Over 100,000 fairgoers will join together and enjoy Se-attle's Best Street Event.
Contact Us Here
Worshipful Master: Terry Grove 425 337-7134
terryagrove@seattlemasons.org
Secretary Jim Russell: 206 623-0261 stjohns9@msn.com
Webmaster Charlie Tupper: 206 459-8236 webmaster@seattlemasons.org
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