The CAMBRIDGESHIRE MASON C Cambridgeshire Masons www.pglcambs.org.uk @CambsMasons A E M IR BRIDGESH Grand Rank Appointments Spring 2017 Issue 14 Three Cambridgeshire Masons have received first Promoted are WBro. Dr James Campbell, INUL No. appointments to Grand Rank in the Craft with four 859 to Junior Grand Deacon, WBro. Dr Andrew more earning promotions and two others being Parmley, Alma Mater, as Past Grand Sword Bearer, reappointed. WBro. Mark Stollery, INUL, as Past Senior Grand Deacon, and WBro. Christopher Freeman, INUL, as First appointments go to WBro. Barry Ian Past Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies. Hoffbrand, of Alma Mater Lodge No. 1492, as Junior Grand Deacon, with WBro. Jonathan Lambert, of Reappointed are RWBro. Jonathan Spence, of Alma Etheldreda Lodge No. 2107 awarded the rank of Mater and INUL, as Deputy Grand Master, and WBro. Assistant Grand Standard Bearer, and WBro. Harry David Staples, Stone Cross Lodge No. 6704, as Rooke (right), of Gray Lodge No. 4334 receiving Deputy Grand Director of Ceremonies. the rank of Past Assistant Grand Standard Bearer. Cliff Brown Provincial Appointments The Provincial Grand Master, RWBro. William Dastur has announced In Provincial Grand Chapter, the new Deputy Grand the appointments to Provincial Grand Lodge and, in his role as Superintendent will be EComp. Tony Just (below, left), of Grand Superintendent, those for Provincial Grand Chapter. The St Etheldreda Chapter No. 2107. Replacing Tony as the 3rd Senior Grand Warden will be WBro. John Surbey (below, left), of The Provincial Grand Principal will be EComp. Brian Elliott (below, Porta Lodge No. 9511 and the Junior Grand Warden will be WBro. right), of Kynaston Chapter No. 5810, who is himself retiring as Jim Haggarty (below, right), of Gild of St Mary Lodge No. 7288. the Craft’s Provincial Grand Director of Ceremonies. The new Provincial Grand Director of Ceremonies will be WBro. The new Provincial Grand Registrar will be EComp. Bharat Jonathan Lambert (below, left), of Etheldreda No. 2107, the Khetani, of Etheldreda Chapter No. 809, with EComp. David current DepGDC, while his place will be filled by WBro. David Sculthorpe, of Chapter of Pythagoras No. 88 becoming Parker (below, right), of Kynaston Lodge No. 5810. Provincial Grand Sword Bearer. Cliff Brown Inside Page 2 Message from the Provincial Grand Master Page 3 Fenland Farmers’ Lodge consecrated Page 4 Carol service aids EACH Page 5 Award for Past Provincial Grand Master Page 6 Help for hospital stroke unit Page 7 Banner dedication at Stewards’ Lodge WBro. Kevin Mader, also Gild of St Mary, will be Provincial Page 8 Kynaston support for OWL Centre Grand Sword Bearer, with WBro. David Cameron, of Nourse Page 9 £2,000 donation from Wisbech Lodge No. 8590 as Provincial Grand Superintendent of Works, Page 10 Recognition for Whittlesey’s angels and WBro. George Brennan, of Grey Lodge No. 4334, as Page 11 Caldwell’s help for Tuesday Club Provincial Grand Almoner. Page 12 Annual visit to Supreme Grand Chapter Message from the Provincial Grand Master/Grand Superintendent We are now in the Tercentenary year of the Craft and I hope However, I want to single out the appointment of a new all of you, like me, are looking forward to an enjoyable and Deputy Grand Superintendent, EComp. Tony Just, and the exciting year. As we celebrate this historic milestone, we impending retirement of EComp. Russell Jackson. should try to ensure that we broadcast the strengths and Russell has served the Royal Arch at a senior level for more values of the Craft to our local communities. This should be than 10 years, and we all owe him a huge debt of gratitude. a celebration with them, our friends and our families. We may There will be many times over the next few months where we also be able to enlarge on and answer any questions that may can render the many accolades and thanks he richly deserves. arise after the broadcasting of the five-part TV programmes Our best wishes should go to Tony as he takes up the reins and on Sky about the Craft, which, I understand, are due to go out helps grow this beautiful order in Cambridgeshire. in April/May. This is going to be a momentous year for us all. I hope you will enjoy this latest edition of The Cambridgeshire Our opening event was the sixth Festival of Carols on 9th Mason with photographs and articles on the diverse and varied December 2016 at Ely Cathedral, which raised £25,000 for the activities that have gone on in the Province over the last few Cathedral and EACH (see page 4). The soprano, Laura Wright, months. What an amazing and inspiring organisation we have was superb in what was again a very special evening - a and how much you all do. It’s such a great Province to lead. great way to start our 300-year birthday celebrations with Ely Cathedral at capacity of 1,100 plus. I look forward to seeing a number of you at Our next events are the Variety Concert at West Road on 4th April our annual Provincial and the Family and Friends Garden Party at Gordon Easton’s meetings on 21st June, as Engine Farm at Coates on 24th June - the actual Tercentenary well as at various lodge Day. I ask, and would encourage, everyone to support both. and chapter meetings in The draw for tickets to the Grand Lodge celebrations on 31st the next few months and October at the Royal Albert Hall and Evolution at Battersea will I urge you all to have fun have taken place by the time you read this. While there will no celebrating our 300 years. doubt be some disappointed brethren, I shall do my utmost Bill Dastur to see if we can get more tickets but the demand is immense. I should like to urge you all to continue to support the Building Promotions for INUL Past Masters Fund appeal to raise a significant endowment for the future of all our masonic buildings in the Province. You have been Two Cambridgeshire Masons have been awarded senior extremely generous, for which I thank you, but we need to keep appointments in Metropolitan Grand Lodge and took up the momentum going. There will be a fund-raising walk on 15th office on 2nd March 2017. WBro. Mark Stollery PAGSwdB July (see page 5) and I hope many of you will join me on that day. and WBro. Alistair Townsend PDepGDC, who are Past You will have read on the front page of the new Grand Masters of Isaac Newton University Lodge No. 859 and Lodge appointments, the new Wardens and also the next members of lodges in London, have been appointed to Third Grand Principal, as well as the appointments and the rank of Metropolitan Grand Inspectors. Mark was promotions in Provincial Grand Lodge. To all of them I offer Worshipful Master of INUL in 1991 and Alistair was in the my congratulations on their well-earned rewards. They are all chair in 2000. deserved but, of course, even more is now expected of them. Cliff Brown Alma Mater at Mansion House Nourse funds toys for school Members of Alma Mater Lodge No. 1492 attended The Guildhall Pupils at Icknield Primary School will get new playground toys Lodge No. 3116 dinner in The Mansion House, London, on 1st thanks to a donation from Nourse Lodge No. 8590. A cheque March to celebrate the installation as Worshipful Master of The for £320 was presented to pupil representatives by lodge Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor WBro. Alderman Dr Andrew Parmley almoner, WBro. David Smith. PJGD. Andrew Parmley was Worshipful Master of Alma Mater Roger Outram Lodge in 1995. Peter Sutton New Farmers’ Lodge ploughs a successful furrow There was a full house for the consecration of Fenland Farmers’ An oration on the meaning of the Fenland Farmers’ Lodge and Lodge No. 9933 on 24th November. A turnout of 221 brethren farming in general was given by the Provincial Grand Chaplain, from Cambridgeshire and many other Masonic Provinces WBro. Nigel Pett, PAGChap. witnessed the event held at Wisbech St Mary Community Centre. WBro. Gordon Easton PPJGW (Northants & Hunts), a farmer, had the honour of being installed as the Lodge’s first Worshipful Master, with WBro. Bharat Khetani, PProvSGW, as Senior Warden and WBro. David Coupland PProvJGW as Junior Warden. Lodge Secretary and driving force behind the new lodge is WBro. Danny Ellis PProvGSwdB. The new lodge has attracted founders and members from the farming community in Cambridgeshire and neighbouring counties. There are also initiates and joiners too and the lodge’s first initiation took place on 16th December at its first regular meeting at Whittlesey. The first initiate was WBro. Easton’s son Roger, while the second was Jake Ellis, grandson of lodge secretary WBro. Danny Ellis, and son of member, Bro. Matthew Ellis, making three generations in the lodge. Already becoming a popular lodge with visitors and producing large attendances, its regular meetings will be held on the This was the second consecration in the Province during 2016, second Friday in January, February, November and December, following that of the Cambridgeshire Lodge of Provincial and third Friday in May. For contact details about the new Grand Stewards No. 9927, and once again the Consecrating lodge, see page 91 of the Cambridgeshire Masonic Yearbook. Officer was the Provincial Grand Master, RWBro. William Cliff Brown Dastur. He was supported by the Deputy ProvGM, VWBro. Photographs by Ian McClachan John Sheriff, as Installing Master. Dinner aids Arthur Rank Hospice Kynaston Lodge No. 5810 Christmas Festival Dinner, held at Bateman Street, Cambridge, on 16th December was not only an evening of fun and celebration for the brethren, their ladies and widows of Lodge members, but also an occasion to raise some much-needed funds for the Arthur Rank Hospice.