NORTH DAKOTA MASON Celebrating 130 years of Freemasonry in North Dakota. November 2018 — Volume 107, No. 2 — www.ndmasons.com Grand Master’s Message: Share Masonry Brothers, We also need to reach out to our Masonic • Support, start, or restart a Rainbow North Dakota’s brothers to more deeply share Masonry with Assembly for young women 11-20 years native son Eric them. We need to reach out to our brothers who of age. Sevareid—one of the are no longer able to get to our meetings. We • Hold a banquet to award scholarships premier journalists need to help our brothers in need. I am asking and recognize achievement. of the Twentieth every lodge to have a program of outreach to • Promote the North Dakota Spelling Bee. Century—once wrote our Masonic brothers. And I am asking every North Dakota Masons are the primary that “North Dakota brother to help. financial sponsor of the event that starts exists as a large In our ceremonies we talk about widows at the local level and leads to the state rectangular blank and orphans. The operative Masons who competition with the winner going to spot in the nation’s built the great cathedrals were engaged in the national competition. mind.” But he also Grand Master Dale V. dangerous work, and there were many widows • Promote the Know Your State Sandstrom wrote of the and orphans. Although modern Masonry is not competition. North Dakota Masons brotherhood that grew from the equality and physically dangerous, it is a fact of life that are the primary sponsor of this event. interdependence of life on the sometimes most Masons are survived by their wives. We County winners compete at the state harsh North Dakota prairie. And he entitled must be concerned about the widows of our competition in Bismarck to win his autobiography Not So Wild a Dream, taken deceased brothers. We need to reach out to valuable scholarships. from the words of Norman Corwin, “Post them with caring hearts. Many lodges maintain • Community grants and hometown proofs that brotherhood is not so wild a dream lists of their widows. Others can compile the grants through our North Dakota as those who profit by postponing it pretend.” names by looking in their records and asking Masonic Foundation are there to When we go back to the basics of Masonry, longtime members. I am asking every lodge to help. these are the basics to which we return: have some widow’s night in this Masonic year. Remember that Masonry is all of us. And all enduring principles that belong to no age or Masons have always cared about youth. of us can make a difference! time, a commitment to helping good men I am asking every lodge to have one or more become better, and the not so wild a dream of youth programs in the coming year. Fraternally yours, brotherhood. • Support, start, or restart a DeMolay Dale V. Sandstrom, Grand Master We need to share Masonry with more good Chapter for young men 12-21 years of men. age. 2018-2019 Grand Lodge Officers L-R Row 1: JGD Jon Richards, GTr Doug Melby, JGW Danny Haugen, DGM Lowell Domier, GM Dale Sandstrom, SGW Bob Wedberg, GSec Lon Kvasager, DDGN Chad Kainz, GLib George Vettel, DDGM Darrin Galde Row 2: GCh Robert Post Johnson, GTy Tyler Hall, DDGM Aaron Restad, SGD Kirk Akerson, GMar Paul Levchak, JGS Dennis Evans, SGS Merle Halvorson, DDGM Carl Edgerly, GHist Jim Savaloja Row 3: GOr Michael Bakken, GLec Ronald Penfold, GLec Fred Kitko www.ndmasons.com Grand Master Dale V. Sandstrom Dale V. Dale served on the North A Mason for 47 years, he is Past Wayne Lee Lauwers Shiloh Lodge 1 8/26/2018 Sandstrom is Dakota Supreme Court from first Master of Lewis and Clark Lodge David C Blair Acacia Lodge 4 6/9/2018 the 130th Grand being elected in 1992 until his No. 132. He is a member of the Fred G Stewart Acacia Lodge 4 5/8/2018 Norbert C Kinnischtzke Bismarck Lodge 5 8/29/2018 Master of the retirement at the end of 2016. He El Zagal Shrine Dusters, a 33rd Grand Lodge of chaired the North Dakota Judicial degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a Frank J Bavendick Bismarck Lodge 5 3/8/2018 Upcoming North Dakota. Conference, the North Dakota member of York Rite and Eastern Michael R Kennedy Bismarck Lodge 5 6/1/2018 A fifth- Judges Association, the Joint Star. He is a Past Rainbow State Wesley D Norton Bismarck Lodge 5 7/8/2018 Events generation Procedure Committee, and the Dad. Donald C Hanson Mandan Lodge 8 9/17/2018 North Dakotan, Court Technology Committee. He He served on the national Jackson H Brown Tongue River Lodge 22 9/1/2018 Jason L Laxdal Tongue River Lodge 22 3/21/2018 Oct. 29 Dale Sandstrom was born in is the 7th longest-serving Justice Church Council of the 4.1 Kenneth J Bartron Tongue River Lodge 22 9/27/2018 District 5 Meeting and Grand Forks and is a graduate of since statehood. He served in million member Evangelical David P Symington Tongue River Lodge 22 8/30/2018 Instruction - Fargo the Fargo public schools, North elected statewide office for more Lutheran Church in America for Marvin D Hoffman Star in the West Lodge 33 7/26/2018 6:30 dinner Dakota State University, the than 33 years, making him North 8½ years, chairing its Legal and University of North Dakota School Dakota’s 7th longest-serving Constitutional Review Committee, Gary R Rockefeller Star in the West Lodge 33 7/31/2018 Robert M Glessing Star in the West Lodge 33 8/9/2018 Nov. 6 of Law, and the National Judicial elected statewide official. He was and serving on its 11-member Marvin Otto Hoel Lebanon Lodge 34 4/8/2018 District 2 Meeting and College. He did postgraduate study the first recipient of the Gerald W. Executive Committee. He is Jim Crooks Fairmount Tri-State Lodge 37 3/29/2018 Instruction - Rolla at Harvard Law School and the VandeWalle Medal in recognition active in Rotary, having served David F Knecht Fairmount Tri-State Lodge 37 9/11/2018 6:00 dinner Graduate School of Business at of his “significant dedication and as club president and as assistant Michigan State University. contributions to the administration district governor. An Eagle Scout George D Thompson Welcome Lodge 54 5/2/2018 Richard W Christ Wimbledon Lodge 71 8/23/2018 Nov. 29 He worked for the United State of justice and the improvement of in his youth, in 1997, he was the Max Hurdelbrink Tyrian Lodge 113 8/10/2018 District 6 Meeting and Senate under Senator Milton R. the judicial system.” seventh North Dakotan named a James C Cook Roosevelt Memorial Lodge 129 5/28/2018 Instruction - Grand Forks Young, and served on the staff Dale was active in the Distinguished Eagle Scout by the Donald C Wold Sunrise Lodge 130 5/20/2018 7:30 pm of the North Dakota Criminal Order of DeMolay in his youth, national Boy Scouts of America. Justice Commission. He served including serving as State Master He was served Scouting at every H George Poulson Pgm Sunrise Lodge 130 7/11/2018 Raymond H Severson Sunrise Lodge 130 10/8/2018 Dec. 1 as Assistant Attorney General for Councilor. In 1979, he became the level from Scoutmaster to member Bobby G Noblin Malta Lodge 131 1/21/2018 District 9 Meeting and six years, heading the Attorney youngest state Executive Officer in of the National Council. Stanley H Whicker Malta Lodge 131 8/20/2018 Instruction - Tioga General’s Consumer Fraud and DeMolay history. In 1994, he was He is married Clarence L Esser Lewis & Clark Lodge 132 10/6/2018 10 am Antitrust Division. After serving installed as Grand Master of the to District Judge as in the Governor’s cabinet as International Supreme Council of Gail Hagerty, and Lowell F Johnson Fargo Daylight Lodge 135 1/8/2018 Dec. 8 State Securities Commissioner, he the Order of DeMolay during its they have three Grand Lodge served nearly a decade on the state 75th Anniversary Session. children. Quarterly Meetings Public Service Commission. Bismarck - Noon Award recipients from 129th Annual Communication of Grand Lodge A.F. Dec. 18 & A.M. of ND District 6 Meeting and Jeff Nelson heads Grand Encampment of Knights Instruction- Mandan By Mark Williamson, P.G.M. 6:00 dinner Templar The greatest Fraternity you, their success is directly related to the Masons of North Dakota would not have been in the World can only exist involvement and contributions of the members as successful as it was without them. Every Brother Dakota. He is retired legal counsel chairing the Grand Lodge bylaws Feb. 2 because of its members. of that organization. I would like to take this mason in North Dakota has a special place in Jeffrey N. and Assistant Code Revisor for committee and trial commission. District 1 Meeting and The stronger the individual opportunity to once again thank some very my heart and I would love to recognize every Nelson, the N.D. Legislative Council. Jeff has headed all three North Instruction - Cavalier becomes in Masonry, the special Brothers and to congratulate them on one of them, however, given space constraints Bismarck, He heads his family’s mineral, Dakota Grand York Rite bodies. 10 am stronger the group becomes a tremendous year of growth and support of and practicality here is the list of Brothers has been farming, and ranching operations.