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April is looking like a very busy month for our lodge. The stated meeting on April 2nd is our Inspectors official visit. We will be voting on an applicant for the degrees of Masonry.
The following Monday, April 9th we will open at 7:00 PM on the second degree to hear Brother Tom Ellison’s Second Degree Proficiency. Please note the time, 7:00 PM.
At 7:30PM we will open on the first degree to confer the Entered Apprentice Degree on Mr. William Arron Von Roo. Some of you met him at the crab feed, he was the guest of Worshipful Luis Orozco.
April 16 and 23 are must attend practices for all officers and as many sideliners as would like to come and help. We need quite a few people to do the second section. We will hold two practices at the same time. The officers will practice in the lodge room and the second section will practice in the dining room, after we will have light refreshments.
On April 24 the OAM meeting will be in Palo Alto at the Palo Alto Masonic Lodge. Dinner is at 6:30PM and the program is the third degree. The top five officers are required to attend and the others are always welcome. Remember the lodge pays for the dinner.
April 30th will see our second Third Degree of the year. Brother Tom Ellison will be raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason.
I hope to see a large turn out for both degrees.
Shaken not stirred in 2007,
Bill Malmstrom, P.M.
Master
OMG (Oh my gosh) it’s April already and the year is just zipping along. Where does time get to. From the West there is nothing but bright days. We have candidates in the mill and more applicants seeking admission. What could be better? Our meetings are more fun than a barrel of monkeys (no relation to us when we don our tux’s) so if you aren’t a regular attendee at our meetings, you should make every effort to come and share it all with us.
As I had mentioned too many times in the past few months, Nan and I are planning our retirement in or around Lancaster, Pennsylvania where my family first immigrated to in 1832. I have been busy the past few years collecting genealogy information and I am going to publish a book of the Gable history. To that end, I have contacted the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania to research my Masonic roots as well. Their response was no less than astounding.
By contacting them through their web site, they promised a response time of 6-8 weeks. I was amazed when within 3 days I had verification that my request was received and a full family history within a week-from two separate sources. I extend my deepest thanks to Glenys Waldman and Olga Mecznik of the Grand Lodge Of Pennsylvania for their super quick responses. With that information in hand I can now state that I am a third generation Mason. My Grandfather was raised in Jerusalem Lodge #506 in Philadelphia on October 16, 1913. My Dad was raised in Crescent Lodge #576 in Pittsburgh on March 11, 1947. Wow, now I know why I was raised to understand the meaning of words like “superfluous”. Doesn’t everyone?
Well that will wrap it up for this month. I hope that all is well with each of you and remember to attend lodge as often as you can.
Jim Gable
Senior Warden
My message for this month contains both good news and bad news. The good news is that “National Treasures” was very entertaining and the bad news is that there is no hidden treasure (or is there?).
My wife Sandy has, since the movie was first released, encouraged me to see it. I did this month. And even though you may have heard me publicly speak about the “good news and bad news”, I watched it from beginning to end this month. It was very enjoyable and we intend to add it to our DVD movie collection.
Borrowing from the Masonic Information Center Bulletin this month, I would like to steal one paragraph for your own “Masonic Interest”.
“Freemasonry, as we know it today, is very much a product of the Age of Enlightenment, which has, over the centuries, developed into a fraternity emphasizing personal study, self-improvement, and social betterment. Worldwide, there are 3.5 million members of the fraternity of Freemasonry who continue to help men and women face the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century by building bridges of brotherhood, performing good works in our communities and upholding the ideals for a better tomorrow.”
Where do we (Los Altos Lodge No. 712) score against the bar of “personal study, self-improvement, and social betterment” of our community?
Food for thought from the South.
Robert Rowan, PM
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