Business Meeting

To hear the reports and transact any such business as shall come before the Club.   

This month's meeting will be held at Blue Hill Lodge in Canton

prior to our Degree work.

 

 

 

Upcoming Events:

From the Degree Team Manager 

INSTALLATIONS 

Sat, Sept 6, Eliot-Hyde Park, Cronie Gordon MacKay,

Sat, Sept 6, Orient, Norwood, Evening,

Cronies,
   Here are the lineups for both Eliot-Hyde Park
and Orient Lodges next Sat, Sept 6
Eliot-Hyde Park on the floor at 2:30
   arrive by 1:15 latest to have a run through
Orient on the floor at 5:00 dinner following

Because Ross & myself cannot make either if these outings
Dick Ogilvie has graciously volunteered to double up &
be the Master for both. Please give Dick your best effort.
Attendance is a bit slim so we will go without a JD & IS.
In movement about the Lodge the Stewards should go
directly behind the Marshal with the SD & Officer following.
I am still working on getting a Piper. If we get one Matt Bruce
will drum. If Cecil attends he can hand out jewels, rods etc.
Good luck lads & enjoy yourselves.
                                          Aye,
                                             JIm

Eliot Hyde Park
Installing
Master, Sw Jw  Dick Ogilvie
Tres, Sec Eliot Gillard
Organist Dick Ogilvie
Chap, Marshal  Ed Shockley
Deacons & Stewards  Frank Porter
IS, Tyler, Elec  Dick Ogilvie

On the floor
Chaplain Ken Shaw
Marshal Dick Dempsey
SD/Conductor Arthur McIntyre
SS Murray Romans
JS Tom McClintock

Orient
Eliot Hyde Park
Installing
Master, Sw Jw  Dick Ogilvie
Tres, Sec Eliot Gillard
Organist Dick Ogilvie
Chap, Marshal  Wil Cote
Deacons & Stewards  Frank Porter
IS, Tyler, Elec  Dick Ogilvie

On the floor
Chaplain Ken Shaw
Marshal Dick Dempsey
SD/Conductor Arthur McIntyre
SS Murray Romans
JS Gordon MacKay

 

Sat, Sept 20, John T Heard, Ipswich, Cronie Paul Lees

Tues, Sept 23, Macedonian, Quincy, Cronie Ned Bean

Sat Sept 27, Baalis Sanford, Brockton

Sat, Oct 4, Weymouth United, Cronie John Knox

Sat. Oct. 11, Club Installation, Stoughton, Cronie Ed Shockley

Sat. Oct. 11, Gate of the Temple, Stoughton

 

   3RD DEGREE

Friday, Nov. 7, Manchester Lodge #12, Coventry, RI

 

 

    With 7 outings in September including a double on September 6th, we probably cannot accept any more dates in that month except for Cronies who are going into the East.  Already, five of our members are being installed this fall.

    We have accepted an invitation to appear at the 6th District's Lodge of Instruction (Norwood) on the 4th Friday in April or May of 2009.  We shall develop a program consisting of an expanded version of the Club and Mother lodge histories as well as backgrounds on the Pipes, Kilts and Clans.  We will march in to seats on the sidelines, present our program and introduce and retire in the usual Club manner.  Anyone interested in giving one of the presentations please contact me.

 

                                  Aye,

Jim Logan

 

From your Secretary

 

The following Cronies attended the June Meeting

    Ed Shockley, Peter MacDonald, Gordon MacKay, Don Weir, M. M. Romans, John Knox, Arthur McIntyre, Tom Rorrie and Al Nicoll.

 

 

Another dues season is upon us. Please try to make the secretary’s job easy by paying your dues A.S.A.P.

PLEASE send in your dues for 2008-2009 and, if you owe past years dues, please remit that amount, too. Dues are $10.

    There are quite a number of Cronies that owe a year or more of dues. If you do not wish to remain a member, please let the secretary know so that he may remove your name from the mailing or e-mail list. Those of you who are past due have been notified several times and action will be taken soon to take you off the list.  Check your dues card.

 

 

 From the President

Greetings Cronies,

     I hope you all had a very enjoyable and restful summer. As we begin the new Masonic year much is happening with our Club. We have several outings this fall as well as our own Club Installation. Out of 8 Installations scheduled 5 incoming Masters are fellow Cronies so it will be very important for all of us to come out and support them. Also Cronie Ed Shockley will be installed as our next president on Sat, Oct 11 at 3:30 PM at the Masonic building in Stoughton. Please come out in your Kilts to support the Club and the Degree team.

    If you haven’t been out to a Club meeting in awhile (2^nd Tuesdays) please attend soon. Meetings usually only last an hour after which we have a collation and much socializing. We could use your input and ideas for Club functions and outings.

 

 

 

 A wee bit of Scottish Masonic History

 From Robert L. D. Cooper, Curator, the Grand Lodge of Scotland Museum and Library

 

     The Grand Lodge of Scotland (GLOS) Museum and Library contains a most unusual archive with records from 1598. The names of Freemasons from that date are recorded from that time although not in a comprehensive way until 1736 when membership records for all of Scotland's Lodges exist from then to the present day. The first Freemason in America was a guy from Aberdeen in 1680. Paul Revere was a member (in fact Secretary and Master) of a Scottish Lodge in Boston Mass. John Paul Jones was a Mason in a Lodge in Kirkcudbright, George Washington brought stonemasons (who were members of Masonic Lodge) to the USA to build the White House. At least two Scottish Freemasons married native Americans and became head of their adopted tribe (the clan - tribe similarities together with the oral tradition on which Scottish Freemasonry is based has not been explored). One of them negotiated a treaty directly with George Washington because they were both Freemasons! The list of such stuff is pretty lengthy.   

 

Yours Aye,

Jim Logan

 

 

 

Would someone like to volunteer to provide collation for the September Meeting?

If so, give Jim a call so we don’t have too much, not that that’s bad.