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Quarterly Communication 14 September 2016 An address by Diane Clements and Stephen Greenberg: ‘From Concept to Reality: Creating an Exhibition about…
For those WMs and Wardens who haven’t replied yet, I would like to invite you to attend the 2016 WM and Wardens Conference, which is to be held at: The Uxbridge Masonic Centre, Western House, 4a Hercies Road, Hillingdon, Middlesex UB10 9NA on Saturday 17th September 2016, commencing at 10.00AM. Coffee and registration will be from 9.30AM.
We will hear a unique and engaging talk from the Revd John Fieldsend about his haunting childhood experiences as a Jew being brought up in Germany under the Nazis, the parting from his parents (who both died in Auschwitz gas chambers) and his patriation to England.
NLI Dart is being supported by a Masonic Lodge in Worcestershire.
David Bell, Worshipful Master of the St Kenelm Lodge in Stourbridge, chose the RNLI Dart lifeboat to be one of the charities to support during his year in office.
MEMBERS of Burnham Freemasons hosted a Tea @ 3 fundraising event for the tenth year running in aid of St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice.
This year’s event raised a magnificent £701.40 for the hospice and in attendance were the Mayor of Burnham, Cllr Michael Clarke, and his wife Maria.
Douglas MacArthur lived his entire life, from cradle to grave, in the United States Army. He spent his early years in remote sections of New Mexico, where his father, Arthur MacArthur Jr., commanded an infantry company. As a teenager, Arthur had served with distinction in the Union Army, eventually earning the Congressional Medal of Honor for leading a courageous assault up Missionary Ridge in Tennessee. But he soon discovered that life in the post-Civil War U.S. Army held little of the glamour he knew during the war.
Belper Masonic Benevolent Association charity evening On the evening of Saturday July 9th, Belper Freemasons in Derbyshire represented by the…
As Masons, we are all introduced during our ritual lectures to the Masonic symbol of the Point Within a Circle, and instructed in its’ allusion. The most interesting thing to me during my own such introduction was that the figure representing this symbol contained not only a point within a circle, but also two straight vertical lines touching the sides of the circle. It was explained during the ensuing lecture that these lines represented the two Holy Saints John, namely John the Baptist, and John the Evangelist. This struck me as peculiar to say the least, and I have been trying to figure out this peculiarity ever since.
The need for this further essay was first made apparent to me when—in my capacity as Secretary of the Lodge and Editor of the Transactions—I began to receive inquiries from Brethren as far away as Vancouver and Singapore, asking for materials and information which might help them to complete their own papers on Kipling, and I found, to my surprise, that while our library contains a great deal of relevant material, there has never been a paper on Kipling in our Transactions.
EFG Lodge, at their meeting on Wednesday 27th July, at Rainbow Hill, Worcester, is to be a talk from the Provincial Lecture Competition