Grand Master's Days will end at about 3:30 p.m. when the (Continued from Page 4) buses having to travel the greatest distances guest rooms open for inspection including Homes' complex with a minimum of will want to begin the trip home. the names of the guest hosts. effort. Lodges are reminded the Grand Master A map of the Homes' grounds wi ll Any number of service people, members has authorized the use of lodge funds to also identify first aid stations as well as of the various committees formed to defray transportation costs. indoor and outdoor toilet facilities. provide for spec ific needs, will also be No rain dates have been established The information will enable participants able to provide information and assistance. since all events can be handled indoo rs, to move freely throughout the Masonic The afternoon phase of the program if necessary. Masonic Temple Plates Become Collector's Items AN OFFICIAl PUBliCATION OF THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUl GRAND lODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF PENNSYlVANIA A pewter plate of limited edition that bears the image of the Masonic VOLUME XXX MAY • 1983 NUMBER 2 Temple in Philadelphia is now available for sale. Grand Master Declares Moratorium on Physical Requirements Just 250 nine-inch plates were created from dies the manufacturer, Wende ll The R.W. Grand Master, Bro. Samuel August Forge of Grove City, Pennsylvania, C. Williamson, chose the Masonic Congress claims required more man-hours to at Elizabethtown as the forum in which develop than any other project in the to announce on April 16 an immediate firm's history. moratorium on physical requirements for The plates, to be so ld at $100 each, membership in the fraternity. are marked with sequential numbers and Speak ing at the Masonic Homes to bear the seal of the Grand Master of more than 100 leaders of the appendant Masons in Pennsylvania. bodies in the state, the Grand Master A great deal of skill and obvious said he would present an amendment to craftmanship was put into the design of the Ahlman Rezon at the June Quarterly the plate so that it might accurately Communication to omit the words reflect the Masonic Temple's status "sound in all his members" from Article as one of the most significant maso nic 21.01 . buildings in the world. Masonic law requires the amendment Orders can be placed by use of the to lay over until the December Quarterly coupon accompanying this article. Communication when the members of THE MASONIC FAMILY - WORKING TOGETHER was the theme of a Masonic The plate is on display in the museum the Grand Lodge will be asked to ratify Congress held at the Homes in Elizabethtown on Saturday, April 16. Leaders of. the of the Masonic Temple in Philadelphia the Grand Master's action. various bodies in the state, the York Rite, Scottish Rite, Shrine, Tall Cedars and Grotto, along with a special bronze rendition The moratorium is the means to among others, came together as the first step in a program to identify problems common created by Wendell August Forge as a immediately implement the Grand Master's to the fraternity and to seek united means to face and solve them. gift to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania wish sin ce masonic law also provides masonic objection exists, the only masonic was de livered by Bro. Roger A. Zinszer, in recognizing the design as the most that the Grand Master is the final authority objections are unfitness of character and a New York Mason expert in communi­ difficu lt and detailed the firm has ever in deciding physical questions. habits." cative ski lls who has developed many produced. To that end, the amendment will By his actions, the Grand Master has valuable training programs for youth THE PENNSYLVAN IA FREEMASON Second Class result in the elimination of certain effectively healed all previous rejections groups, particularly DeMolay. Distribution Office POSTAGE decisions in the Digest of Decisions by attributed to physical defect. Principal speakers included Bro. Stanley Send to- MASONIC TEMP LE PA ID AT insertion of the following: Those persons who stand rejected are F. Maxwell, Sovereign Grand Commander, One North Broad Street Philadelphia Office of R. W. Grand Master "By amendment to the Ahlman Rezon, now eligible to petition for memoership the Supreme Council, Ancient Accepted Masonic Temple Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 Pennsy lvania Postmaster: Send address changes to above a man who is not sound in all his members under the single condition that any Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Juris­ One North Broad Street I may be, by affirmative vote of the lodge, infirmity be made known to the members diction; Bro. Ned E. Dull, Most Eminent Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 app roved for initiation and membership of the lodge prior to their voting on the Grand Master, Grand Encampment of Enclosed is my check for$ ___ provided his infirmity is made known to petition. Kn ights Templar, U.S.A.; Bro. Daniel for_Masonic Temple Plate(s). Check the members of the lodge prior to their Handicapped persons who have not E. Bowers, M.D., Imperial Potentate, should be made payable to the Grand voting on his petition. previously petitioned for membership in Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Secretary. Present decisions appearing on pages the fraternity are now welcome to do so. Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for 122 to 125 of the Digest of Decisions The changes in instruction and ritual North America, and Bro. Ronald Seltzer, under Article 81, sections one through necessary to the conferring of the degrees Executive Secretary of the International NA ME -------------------- 18 are hereby annulled." on handicapped persons will be explained Supreme Council, Order of DeMol ay. ADDRESS ----- ----------- Further, Article 49, section two on page to the lodges through the Schools of Remarks were delivered at the morning 64 of the Digest of Decisions shall be Instruction. session by the Deputy Grand Master, Bro. CITY --------- STATE _ _ _ amended to read: "Upon an inquiry A distingu ished group of national William A. Carpenter, who called the ZIP _ _ _ made to the nearest lodge to the residence leaders addressed the congress in the congress to order and introduced the POSTMASTER: Please include complete imprint of address on your postal return clipping. of the petitioner as to whether any morning session. The keynote address (Continued on Page 11) 12 THE PENNSYLVANIA FREEMASON Publication No. 426-140 Bro. T. K. Warner, Jr. Receives Pennsylvania Franklin Medal Issued Quarterly February, May, August and November at Deputy Grand Master for District J on a Grand Master to chair the Committee Masonic Temple, Philadelphia, Pennsyl· Concerning vania, by The Right Worshipful Grand December 27, 1962 and served until on Masonic Homes when he accepted Lodge of The Most Ancient and Honorable the end of the masonic year in 1970. that responsibility during 1976 and 1977. Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons the centerfold • • • Bro. Warner was a member of the 1976 He was again elected chairman for 1982 in Pennsylvania and Masonic Jurisdiction Bicentennial Committee which he chaired and is currently serving a fourth term in Thereunto Belonging. The montage of photographs on pages The programs are to be planned and from mid-1968 through 1970. that office. Grand Lodge Officers six and seven of this issue concern the managed by the Pennsylvania Youth He was an administrator of the Grand His other masonic memberships include Samuel C. Williamson, R.W. Grand Master renovations being accomplished at the Foundation and are provided without Lodge Pension Plan from 1971 to 1974 Keystone Royal Arch Chapter No. 3, William A. Carpenter, and accepted various ad hoc assignments, Philadelphia; Excelsior Mark Lodge No. R.W. Deputy Grand Master former Patton School, now the Masonic cost to the various youth organizations. Carl W. Stenberg, Jr., Conference Center: Patton Campus. The budget for the summer programs including the chairmanship of a sub­ 216, Philadelphia, which he served as R.W. Senior Grand Warden The renovation program is ahead of is provided in part through the Grand committee on audit for 1977-78. The Worshipful Master in 1980 and is currently Arthur J. Kurtz, R.W. Junior Grand Warden schedule and will be ready to receive Lodge as administered through the Grand Master appointed him to the Treasurer and the Valley of Arthur R. Diamond, R.W. Grand Treasurer Grand Lodge Committee on Finance for Philadelphia, A.A.S.R. He was coroneted Thomas W. Jackson, R.W. Grand Secretary the first youth group, a membership Committee on Youth Activities. training program for Rainbow for Giris The young men of DeMolay and the 1982 and 1983. an· honorary 33° mason in 1971. Distribution Office- Mailing Address scheduled in four sessions from June 9 Job's Daughters will make use of the Bro. Warner's tenure as a member of Bro. Warner is married to the former MASONIC TEMPLE through June 25. facilities during the month of July and the Grand Lodge Committee on Masonic Dorothy Wark Hoehler. They are the One North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Bro. Theodore K. Warner, Jr. Homes began on July 1, 1970 and his parents of two children: Betsy Ann 19107 More than 14-hundred young people all three youth organizations will assist are already scheduled to participate in election to the committee has been (Mrs. Peter C. Jenkins) and Peter Joyce. Postmaster: Send address changes to above the Grand Lodge during the Grand The prestigious Pennsylvania Franklin summer activities at the center. They Master's Days scheduled on consecutive continuous. The Warners reside at 39 Old Covered Second Class Postage Paid at Medal, symbol of the highest honor the include representatives of Rain bow for Saturdays from July 16 through August He became the first person other than Bridge Road in Newtown Square, PA 19073.