THE MARCH 2014 WISCONS IN Bro. Larry Nines named “Citizen of the Year” Mas onic Journ al See page 10. Wisconsin Masonic Calendar 8 West Bend Lodge No. 138, blood drive for the Blood Center MARCH 2014 Southeastern Wisconsin from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Register at 1-2 Beja Shrine Circus, Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena, www.bcw.edu/westbendmasons or contact Bro. Darren Cooksey, 262- 1901 South Oneida Street, Green Bay. Tickets: $24 Reserved, $18 388-1356 or email [email protected] General Admission, greenbaycircus.com. 9 AARP Driver Safety Review for all drivers. 6:00 p.m. Middleton 2 Masonic Service Association Concert at the King Veterans Home Masonic Center, 7409 Franklin Avenue., Middleton. AARP Members at King, 1:30 p.m. Volunteer to help, any and all help is appreciated! $12, Nonmembers $14. Call 608-831-2373. 6-9 Tripoli Shrine Circus, U.S. Cellular Arena, 400 West Kilbourn 12 Grand Master’s Testimonial Dinner, Crowne Plaza, 4402 E. Wash - Ave., Milwaukee, www.milwaukeecircus.com. ington Ave., Madison. See page 5. 8 79th Annual Steamboat Dinner, H.S. Baird Lodge No. 174, 31 S. 12 Children's Dyslexia Center - Madison, Ladies Tea/Lunch. Madison 3rd Ave, Sturgeon Bay. 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Free magic show at 3:30 Masonic Center, 301 Wisconsin Avenue. Raffle, silent auction, lunch, p.m. Adults $15.00, kids under 14 free. Veterans and active service entertainment. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. Noon Lunch, followed by discounts. See story on page 3. Cashel Dennehy Irish Dancers. $30 per person payable to Children's Dyslexia Center - Madison. Mail to Jeanette Ferguson, 3814 Rolling 12 District 10 Meeting, dinner 6:00 p.m., meeting 7:00 p.m., hosted Hill Drive, Middleton, WI 53562. Payment deadline is April 3, 2014. by Calumet Lodge No. 172, 2019 Washington St., New Holstein. RSVP to Area Administrator Kyle Grahn at [email protected]. 12 Lodi Valley Lodge No. 99, Easter Egg Hunt. 15 Washburn Lodge No. 145, annual corned beef and cabbage din - 12 District 5 Spring Meeting, TeePee in Tomah, 6:00 p.m. dinner - ner. 3:30-6:30 p.m. $10.00 all you can eat. 8102 199th Ave, Bristol. 7:00 p.m. meeting. Contact District 5 Deputy James M. Kent, [email protected]. or 715-456-8814. 19 Grand Master Daniel L. Slavik visit to new Madison DeMolay Chapter, 7:00 p.m., Doric Masonic Center. Stop by and help support 12 Ozaukee Lodge No. 17, open house and dinner. Open house be - this new chapter. ginning at 9:00 a.m., dinner at 5:00 p.m. 22 Valley of Madison Scottish Rite Reunion, Madison Masonic Center. 13 Valley of Madison Scottish Rite Feast of the Paschal Lamb Ob - servance, 2:00 p.m., Madison Masonic Center. 22 Ozaukee Lodge No. 17, Winter Brat Fry, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Port Washington Masonic Center, 504 W. Grand Ave. 16 Baraboo Lodge No. 34 Past Master’s Night. Royce Boyles speaks on Vince Lombardi. Dinner at 6:30 p.m., Program at 7:30 p.m. Baraboo 24 Ozaukee Lodge No. 17, Fish Boil and Table Lodge open to EAs, Masonic Center. RSVP Bro. Skip Blake at [email protected] or FCs and MMs. 6:00 p.m., $15.00, Port Washington Masonic Center. For 608-393-1371. See story on page 11. reservations email [email protected] or call 262-689-2848. 22 Valley of Green Bay, monthly breakfast, 9:30 a.m. at Corner Café 29 Lincoln Lodge No. 183, New Lodge Room Dedication, social hour 113 N. Third Avenue Sturgeon Bay, cash only. 3:00-4:00 p.m., dedication at 4:00 p.m. with dinner to follow. St. Paul’s Church, N98 W16856 Appleton Ave., Menomonee Falls. See story on 22 Job’s Daughters Bethel #60, Pancake & Pajama Friends Day, page 1. 10:00 a.m. 29 Job’s Daughters Bethel #32, Green Bay, Bowling party for HIKE 24 District 7 Spring Meeting, Sun Prairie Masonic Center. Dinner at from 1:00-3:00 p.m., Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley, 2929 Allied St., Green 6:00 p.m. Contact District 7 Deputy Craig J. Froelich at Bay. For Masons, families and friends. HIKE raises money for kids who's [email protected]. families who can't afford to buy hearing aids. If your Lodge has a youth group or not you can still support one and have an enjoyable afternoon. 24 Waucoma Lodge No. 90, Oyster Stew Dinner, starting at 6:00 Register with Olesya Keating at 920-437-2005 or email [email protected]. p.m. Cooksville Masonic Center. 30 OES Spring Fling – North Star Conference Center, DeForest. Gath - 25 Job’s Daughters Behtel #60 Seafood Buffet – PLUS, $20.00, 5:00 ering 11:30 a.m., Luncheon 12:30 p.m. $15 per person. RSVP to Elise p.m.-8:00 p.m. Port Washington Masonic Center, 504 W. Grand Ave. Lindeman (608) 935-9426 by March 15th. 25 Columbus Lodge No. 75, Charities Benefit, Rachelle and the Red 31 11th annual Combined Table Lodge between the Grand Lodge Hot Rattlers performing at Kestrel Ridge, 7:00 p.m., tickets $20. Free & Accepted Masons of Wisconsin and The Most Worshipful 26 Valley of Green Bay, monthly breakfast: 9:30 a.m., Machine Prince Hall Grand Lodge Free & Accepted Masons of Wisconsin, Inc. Shed, 220 North Fox River Drive, Grand Chute. See story on page 1. 29 District 2 Spring Meeting, Baldwin American Legion. Appreciation 31 Hiram Lodge No. 50, Table Lodge, 6:00 p.m., Madison Masonic Dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m., short meeting to follow. Open to Center. APRIL 2014 Continued on page 11 5 Valley of Madison Scottish Rite Reunion, Madison Masonic Cen - ter. 5 Wisconsin – Michigan Order of the Eastern Star Exchange, 4:30 p.m. social, 5:30 p.m. dinner. $20 per person. RSVP to Johnda John - son, 123 E. Monroe St, Port Washington, WI 53074. 6 Four Lakes Daylight Lodge No. 362, stated communication to be Grand Lodge F. & A.M. of WI @WI_Freemasons held at Attic Angel Place, 10:00 a.m., 8301 Old Sauk Rd, Middleton. THE M WasonIS CONSIN ic Journal VOL UME XLVII, NUM BER 3 The Official Pub licat ion of the Grand L odge, Free and Acce pted Ma sons of Wiscons in MARCH 2014 New Glarus Lodge No. 310 holds Stated The Grand Master’s Message: Communication at Local Retirement Home By Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons in Wisconsin Brother Daniel L. Slavik March is upon us and we hope with it is Spring. Possible Lodge pro - grams for this month include a Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner with our families. In Lodge, find speakers to talk about appendant bodies, such as our Youth Groups, Scottish Rite, York Rite, Shrine, and OES. Suggested programs for April are to have an Easter Egg hunt, either for family members or the entire community, or hold a dinner to welcome back the Snowbirds. There is much to cover this month, so let me begin with a status update on items from the 2013 Annual Communication: • Suspension for Non-Payment of Dues – Form 81. Use of Form 81 this year has greatly reduced the number of suspensions. In a typ - ical year, 200 to 300 brothers are suspended. Grand Master The numbers for this past year are less than Daniel L. Slavik half, 95 suspended in all. 55 were suspended before implementation of Form 81 and the remaining 40 were approved per the new pro - cedure voted upon at the Annual Communication. • Petitions and background checks. Petitions are now being sent to the Grand Lodge office for entry into MORI. Additionally, the Bro. Michael Mudrey, Master, opens the stated meeting of New Glarus Lodge on The New Grand Lodge office is performing a background check on all peti - Glarus Home Retirement Campus. Clockwise from lower left: Art Marty, LaVerne Gillespie, tions consisting of the use of several free, public databases. As part District 9 Lecturer Brian Duoss, Michael Mudrey and Don Rupnow, Secretary. of implementing this new procedure, the petition form was re - designed to provide the lodge with more information about the can - Photo by Rich Rygh didate. By Rich Rygh held a stated communication of tion came from Bro. LaVerne • Lodge Spruce Up funds. A plan has been put together and you Bro. Michael Mudrey, Master of the Lodge on The New Glarus Gillespie a resident of the retire - can find details of the procedures in a separate article on page three New Glarus Lodge No. 310, re - Home Retirement Campus on ment center. This allowed mem - of this month’s Masonic Journal. ceived special dispensation from Feb. 20. bers from the center who are not Grand Master Daniel L. Slavik and The idea for the change in loca - able to attend lodge because of The other item I would like to talk about is Masonry and its ability to ambulatory problems an opportu - change society. I, along with several other line Officers, just returned nity to attend a meeting. from the Conference of Grand Masters of North America. At the Degree Competition Bro. Mudrey opened the lodge conference, we had an opportunity to converse with other Grand in due form on an evening of Officers about issues concerning us all. During the conference, there threatening weather. There was a was a presentation by Dr. Margaret Jacob, professor at UCLA, about Entry Forms are Due good attendance however, includ - Civility and the effects of Masonry on society.