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Englewood Masonic Lodge No. 360 F&Am Englewood Masonic Lodge # 360 Non Profit PO Box 117 U.S. Postage Paid Englewood, FL 34295-0117 Manasota, FL 941-475-9211 Permit No. 1056 ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED ENGLEWOOD MASONIC LODGE NO. 360 F&AM Meetings: 1st & 3rd Tuesday @ 7:30pm 265 Pine St, Englewood, FL 34223 2017 TRESTLEBOARD SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Lodge Stated Eastern Star Meeting 1:30 7:30 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Chicken BBQ Called Lodge Practice AMARANTH 11:30 – 1:30 Communication 6:00 1:30 EA Degree 7:00 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 OES Steak Dinner Lodge Stated Eastern Star Master Masons Scottish Rite Club 11:00- 1:30 Meeting 1:30 @ 5:30 7:30 Englewood 360 DDGM Visits 6:45 26 27 28 Pulled Pork Lodge Practice Dinner 6:00 11:30-1:30 2017 OFFICERS OF THE LODGE Worshipful Master Dan Van Alstine Lady: Nancy 941.716.7167 [email protected] Senior Warden W\ Denis Doome Lady: Debbie 941.830.1249 [email protected] Junior Warden Cody Daniels Lady: Tiffany 863.273.2608 [email protected] Secretary R\W\ Gene Jeffers 941.525.7212 [email protected] Treasurer W\ Bill Reed Lady: Ellie 603.767.5558 [email protected] Senior Deacon Paul Davis 304.610.2910 [email protected] Junior Deacon Darrell LaCourse Lady: Tracy 941.441.5177 [email protected] Marshal W\ Charles Rock Lady: Michele 941.650.1823 [email protected] Chaplain W\ Harry Shaffer Jr Lady: Susan 941.473.4615 [email protected] Senior Steward Jack Gray 941.662.5470 [email protected] Junior Steward Mickey Mullins 941.650.8715 [email protected] Tyler Russell Powers Lady: Janice 570.916.1244 [email protected] Organist R\W\DDGM R\W\ Al Dahlberg Lady: Janice 941.371.7924 [email protected] LIVING PAST MASTERS OF ENGLEWOOD lodge #360 1987/1988 – R\W\Gary Schroeder 1997 – W\ James Thompson 2005 – W\ Jason Rose 2016 - W\Stoney Stonecipher 1990 – W\ Antonio Sinopoli 1998/2001 – W\ Bobby Jones 2006 – R\W\ Gene Jeffers 1991 – W\ Charles Rock 2000 – W\ Gerry Roberts 2008 /2011– W\ Bob Holland 1994 – W\ Peter McIvers 2002 – W\ Russell DeFrahn 2012 – W\ Scott Budwitz 1995 – W\ Dana Morgan 2003 – W\ Frank Moffett 2013/2014 - W\ Jerry Wadel 1996 – W\ Roberto Grolemund 2004 – W\ Scott Johnson 2015 - W\ Denis Doome 27th MASONIC District DDGM: R\W\ Al Dahlberg 941.371.7924 District Instructor: R\W\ Ron Baber 941.748.7938 District website: http://www.trowel.com/flamason/dist27.htm Officer Spotlight Wanted: Trestleboard Editor R\W\ Gene Jeffers If you are handy with the computer Masonic History: and would like to exercise your artistic Initiated 4/30/1987, abilities in creating our lodge @ Mt. Moriah #77, Anderson IN. trestleboard each month, here’s your Passed 5/14/87 chance! Raised 6/11/87 W.M. 1997; Board of Directors Indiana Masonic We are looking for someone to take Home 1997; over the editing of the Monthly W.M. Englewood #360 2006; Trestleboard. If you would be willing DDGM 2009; to help out the lodge in this area, Secretary @ Englewood 2010 to ? contact the Worshipful Master 27th district deputy committeeman LYPMGC 2007 Committeeman Child I.D. Program 2008, 2010, Zone 8 Chairman Grand Lodge of Florida Child I.D. Program 2010 - ?. Mason of the year 2004, 2008, 2016. Personal Grad. H.S. 1960, Air Force 1960 - 1964. Worked for General Motors 1964 - 1994. Retired and moved to Florida full-time 2000. 2017 Officers Raced Stock Cars for 13 years on 3 local short tracks. My wife Sheila and I raised 4 children. 3 of mine and one of hers. I have 6 Grandchildren and 5 Great Grandchildren. I like to Golf, Bowl, Kayak and Fish. I like to watch almost all sports. I ran the Indianapolis 500 Mini-Marathon 6 times. I enjoy cooking and organizing events for the lodge. FROM THE EAST A heartfelt thanks to all that attended the installation of officers . We ended up serving 85 for dinner and it was the first time that I had seen a time when we had to bring extra chairs into the lodge room to seat everyone. We will have finally presented the all-terrain chair to a disabled veteran. The family of Brother Phil Fessenden , who was W\ Denis Doome’s father-in-law has set up a special account, that will be administered by the Lodge, to collect and hold funds for any future chairs we might want to award. Our 50th anniversary of the Lodge is coming up and we are deeply into the planning stages for the celebration that will be held on the 29th of April. On that date, the Grand Master of Masons of Florida will be here to do a re-consecration of the Lodge, which will be followed by an off- site dinner. More details will follow as we firm them up. We will be having an EA Degree on Feb 13th and right now it looks like we should have two candidates for the Degree. Please come to the degree and help make their first impression a good one. Each One - Reach One Many of you know a Brother that doesn’t come to Lodge anymore, a neighbor that hasn’t been to our Lodge, or someone that maybe has expressed an interest in becoming a mason. Reach out! Bring them to Lodge. Let’s all focus on Fellowship and Brotherly Love , for they are the cement that binds us and makes us who we are. Alone we are a single drop, together we can be a tidal wave Fraternally Yours, Worshipful Master, Dan Van Alstine From the West My brothers as January closed we presented our track chair to a veteran. Was an emotional event for all. We still have several brothers receiving the 3 degrees, lets give them all the support we can. The 50 year anniversary is rapidly approaching still some items around the lodge to be accomplished, please pitch in and help. Remember it takes a village. Fraternally W\ Denis Doome, Senior Warden FROM THE SOUTH Brethren: One month and two meetings of well fed brothers have passed. Please join us in the diner and fill your bellies before lodge! First meeting: pulled pork Second meeting: lazy lasagna Fraternally Cody Daniels, Junior Warden BIRTHDAY February 14 February 26 MASONIC Don’t forget our LYPMG Fred Ardrey, Jr. William Laprade ANNIVERSARIES Jug on the Tyler’s Desk. CELEBRATIONS Robert Bounds, III One hundred percent of February 27 (Reported in 5 year the funds raised or February 16 Gary Rushford increments) collected for this program Donald Baldwin 5 Years go to the Masonic Home Lyle Wallace Endowment Fund. They February 18 25 Years are not discretionary, and Francis Black, Jr. Russell Morton cannot be used for other Roberto Grolemund 65 Years Lodge expenditures. Francis Campbell Chaplain’s Corner From the words of the Masonic Holy Book of Faith and The Answered Prayers of the Supreme Architect of the Universe we know that as Freemasons our words and deeds in our daily lives are a reflection of the kind of man and Mason we are. We are guided by God’s love in how we live. We know that God is the author of all life. In Rev. James Anderson’s “The Book of Constitution” a Freemason is an adult man of good morals and reputation. Our system of rituals, symbols and teaching is based on morality of mankind. Prayers and the Holy Book of Faith are the guides to a better life. W\ Harry Shaffer Jr., 33° Chaplain Masonic Education I am in the process of reading “American Freemasons” for the second time. It was written by Mark Tabbert, one of my previous bosses at the George Washington Masonic Memorial. Mark was also a speaker at the Memorial and other local lodges in Virginia. He also shared a lot of Masonic information during lunches and special tours that he directed at the Memorial. His book, and others, always give new information and thoughts on the history and facts of our symbols and allegories. Many Masons have had important roles in our history and several helped create Freemasonry as we know it today. One of the founding fathers during the early 1700’s was Rev. James Anderson from Scotland, who wrote “The Book of Constitution”. This gave us Masonic regulations and rules. Another founding father was William Preston from England, who gave us Masonic ritual. W\ Harry Shaffer Jr., 33° Lodge Mentor / Education Officer MYAKKA SCOTTISH RITE CLUB A sincere thanks to everyone who attended the last meeting!! Our friends from Fort Myer Valley also attended. We had an open discussion on the future of the club and will continue this at the next meeting on Friday, February 24th. The dinner will begin at 5:30pm followed by a brief meeting at 6:15pm. The requested donation is $5.00 per person along with a covered side dish. All Freemasons, Scottish Rite members and guests are welcome. Please join us and support our club. W\ Harry Shaffer Jr., 33° President Order of the Eastern Star Well January has passed and we are heading into our elections for the chapter officers this month. If you wish to be considered for an elected position please communicate with our secretary Adrienne Skoog. If you would be willing to sit in any of the other non-elected officer chairs please contact Nancy Carstens. The elections will be held at our second meeting, which is the 22nd of February, so please attend and make your vote count.
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