FREEMASONS NOVEMBER 2013 A Vote for 2014 Wallingford, CT 06492 P.O. Box 250 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

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