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Connecticut FREEMASONS NOVEMBER 2013 A Vote for 2014 Wallingford, CT 06492 CT Wallingford, Box 250 P.O. 69 Masonic Avenue Grand Lodge of Connecticut, AF & AM page 5 page 9 page 26 RW Morton Katz Address of the Martin and Max: Receives Pierpont Deputy Grand About Fulfilling Edwards Medal Master Your Obligation TABLE OF CONTENTS Connecticut FREEMASONS Grand Chaplain’s Pulpit ...............................................4 Grand Lodge Semi-Annual .........................................16 Morton N. Katz Receives Pierpont Edwards Medal ....5 Jeffry Stover Awarded MSA ..........................................18 Volume 9 - Number 6 Grand Historian’s Corner .............................................6 Being Educated Alive ...................................................18 Publisher Masonicare Experience .................................................7 Chapel Renovation ......................................................19 The Grand LodGe Info for Medicare Beneficiaries .....................................7 Masonicare Goes Smoke Free November 21 .............19 of ConnectiCuT AF & aM Letter from Stephen B. McPherson...............................8 A Cosmopolitan Lodge Tradition ..............................20 Acceptance Address of the Deputy Grand Master .......9 My 25 Year Celebration ............................................... 21 Editor-in-Chief What is Mentoring or Mentorship? ............................10 Masonicare Reports to Grand Lodge ..........................22 Simon R. LaPLace What’s Next - English Bulldogs? .................................10 Letter to the Editor .......................................................23 Associate Editor Getting a Flu Shot - What You Need to Know? ......... 11 Masons for Harmony - A Rebuttal .............................24 FRanciS G. Way Masonicare Child Center Celebrates 25 Years ........... 11 Amaranth Visits Pennsylvania ....................................25 Correspondent Our Departed Brothers ................................................12 Martin and Max ...........................................................26 michaeL L. caStRoLL Recognition Degree Honors the Ziervogels ...............12 Congratulations ...........................................................26 Welcome ......................................................................12 Masonic Awareness Report .........................................26 Design News from the Valley of Hartford ..............................13 York Rite Opportunities ..............................................27 chaRLene D. RoWe GWen m. Rochette News from the Valley of New Haven .........................14 Craft at Labor ...............................................................28 Renovation and Rededication in Monroe..................14 Rainbow Grand Officers Night ...................................28 Contributors Ten Year Anniversary of Pedi-Pal Program ................14 Craft at Refreshment ....................................................29 BRuce R. BeLLmoRe Hildie Sager New Executive Director at MAV ............15 Boosters ........................................................................30 DaviD R. BLythe, SR. MHC’s Holiday Fair .....................................................15 The Last Word ............................................................. 31 WiLLiam BReeD maRje chick RichaRD F. Denno RoBeRt G. FitzGeRaLD Grand Lodge of Connecticut, AF & AM john FoRLenza-BaiLey 69 Masonic Avenue • P.O. Box 250 • Wallingford, Connecticut 06492 chaRLeS B. FoWLeR, jR. Office hours: 8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 1:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Monday through Friday Pat kaLinauSkaS First Saturday of the month: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon GaRy a. LittLeFieLD 203-679-5903 • 800-529-4161 (in-state only) • Fax: 203-679-5996 chRiS maRtineLLi e-mail: [email protected] • www.ctfreemasons.net thomaS m. maxWeLL, ii StePhen B. mcPheRSon Roy neaLon GE OF CON Penny o’neiLL OD N L EC D T aDam RaiDeR N IC A U R T GRAND MASTER’S kathy Raveneau G • • aRoLD iSken S h S 3 I 1 M 0 chaRLeS tiRReLL O 2 N TRESTLE BOARD R R E . T L S Connecticut Freemasons is the official A A PL M publication of the Grand Lodge of AC ND E • GRA Simon R. LaPlace - November 2013 Connecticut AF & AM. All original DATE EVENT ATTIRE PUBLIC DINNER articles are subject to editing. All checks for payments and donations Saturday, November 2, 9:00 a.m. Wardens Seminar, Hartog auditorium, Wallingford C N N should be made out to Grand Lodge Sunday, November 3, 9:00 a.m. Wardens Seminar, Hartog auditorium, Wallingford C N N Publications and mailed to the Monday, November 4, 12:30 p.m. Medical Ethicist,Hartog auditorium, Wallingford C N N Grand Lodge office at PO Box 250, Wednesday, November 6, 6:00 p.m. Garibaldi Club, Stratford C N Y Wallingford, CT 06492. Thursday, November 7, 3:30 p.m. Masonicare Board of Trustees S N Y Masonicare Health Center, Wallingford Connecticut Freemasons (USPS 025-514) Friday, November 8, 7:00 p.m. Autumn Gathering S Y N Volume 9 Number 6 November 2013 is Masonicare Health Center, Wallingford published monthly except August by Saturday, November 9, 8:00 a.m. Secretaries Seminar, Hartog auditorium, Wallingford C N N The Grand Lodge AF & AM of Connecticut, 69 Masonic Avenue, P.O. 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While every effort is made to Saturday, November 23, 5:00 p.m. Unity Lodge No. 148, New Britain, Table Lodge F N Y ensure the accuracy of all advertisements, Monday, November 25, 6:30 p.m. Federal Lodge No. 17, Watertown, rededication F Y Y Connecticut Freemasons will only be liable Wednesday, November 27, 4:31 p.m. Hanukkah to reprint, at no charge, any correction due to typographical error. Page 2 Connecticut Freemasons November 2013 2013 Grand Lodge Semi-Annual Session by Frank Way spaced throughout the with these two The more than 400 Master Masons session, instead of in a jurisdictions are in very who congregated at the Hartog Center for single block. The first good hands. the Grand Lodge Semi-Annual Session on election was for the Another emotional a glorious October morning might have office of Grand Master. highlight of the session had an inkling the session would run long. The craft elected RW was the chartering of For weeks there had been an undercurrent Thomas M. Maxwell II a new lodge. Old Well and murmurings of tension and potential to serve as Grand Master Lodge No. 108 and St. discontent. Men of lesser character might for the year 2014. John’s Lodge No. 6 had have resorted to shouting at each other After the craft chose previously surrendered across the aisle, screaming passionate pleas, the successor to MW their charters, and were and utilizing brinksmanship to achieve their LaPlace, the mood granted dispensation aims. However, Masons are not men of lesser turned somber as the to become Old Well St. character, each remembered his obligations, Grand Master made John’s UD. At the session, and in the end, most, but not all, of the labor some heartfelt remarks the craft approved their was completed. And yes, the session ran long. about a dear departed consolidation with the The morning began on time as Most brother, RW Carl Ek. lodge becoming Old Worshipful Grand Master Simon R. LaPlace Brother Carl had a Well-St. John’s No. 6. opened the Grand Lodge promptly and profound effect on It was an extremely MW Simon R.LaPlace presides over the welcomed the Past Grand Masters. Soon after, Connecticut Masonry, moving moment as MW 2013 semi-annual communication of the the session was declared at refreshment for the and touched the lives LaPlace presented the Grand Lodge. purposes of the Masonicare annual meeting. of many individual charter to the Worshipful Brother Howard Orr, chairman of the Masons, within our Master Jimmy Peters. board of trustees ran the meeting, and in jurisdiction and in other jurisdictions as well, WB Peters’ father, Chris, a Past Master, was short order trustees were elected: Bros. J. and he is still deeply missed nearly