First to be installed was WBro. Terry A. Grove. 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 Rust was installed as Senior Warden next. 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.
| Brother Joseph Lund was then installed as Junior Warden. Brother Joseph Lund was born March 23, 1967 in Compton, California. At 6 he moved to Iowa City, Iowa; then to Waldport, Oregon at age 11, where he graduated from high school with honors. After 3 years of study at the University Of Oregon, he transferred to Seattle University where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts in 1989. | |  |
Following college, Bro. Lund went to work at A Contemporary Theatre (ACT), joined the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 15 and has been a journeyman for 7 years. He has worked a wide range of productions from Pacific Northwest Ballet's "Nutcracker" to set construction for Seattle Opera's new Ring Cycle. His latest endeavor has been sub-contracting as a Head Builder for Walter Dorwin Teague Assoc., an Industrial Design firm that does all of the Commercial Aircraft mock up programs for Boeing, building full scale interiors of new plane concepts.
Bro. Lund was initiated, passed, and raised on March 28, 1997 at the first Grand Lodge One Day Degree Conferral session, along with Bro. Douglas Lidz, after which both brothers advised the lodge to discontinue candidate participation in this program. Bro. Lund proved up in open lodge the following Wednesday, April 1st.
He is currently a single father with a 5-year old son, Tristan Tyler and a 3-year old daughter, Brittany Sapphire, whom he loves dearly. He enjoys hiking, canoeing, and plans to get white water raft guide training this spring so he can be a rafting guide.
The Secretary and the appointed officers were then installed and after the Worshipful Master thanked everyone for attending the Lodge retired to the refreshment rooms for an excellent soup and sandwich 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, and member of St. John's Lodge No. 9 for these pictures.
The one hundred forty-third installation of officers was then adjourned. |
