Brethren:
June was a great month for us, with the Lodge being involved in a number of fine activities. We explored the secrets of King Solomon's Temple at the Stated Correspondence....Your WM, SW, JW and Chaplain opened the Grand Lodge Installation Ceremonies in which our Ill: Brother Joe Harker, 33 degree, PM became Wisconsin's Grand Master; Brother Bob Strader, PM, our District Deputy; and The Ill: Frank Mayer, 33 degree, our Grand Tyler. We'll be honoring all three at a major banquet, orchestrated by Brother Bill DeLind, on September 29. We presented Martina Dameron-Donald with a scholarship check for $1,000 to attend Brookfield Academy. She's an Honor Role student there, hard working and comes all the way from the inner city.... with plans to be the first in her family to attend college. Lastly, we initiated four new EAs into the Lodge toward the end of the month. They are: Brothers Hunter Rodziczak, Martin Lemay, David Wysocky and Damon Sanchez. Welcome, brothers!
July will be oriented toward raising Master Masons, with two separate days devoted to the degree work. Immediately after our Stated Correspondence on 7 July, we'll be raising one candidate, Brother Michael Becker. Then, later in the month on the 28th, we hope to raise more. There will be no "Mysteries of the Lodge" presentation in July, due to the MM degree work. We'll be needing lots of help from the brethren to do the degree, so join us if you can. Also, please join us at our Lodge picnic at the Zoo on July 11, starting at 10:30 A.M. (tickets available at the Humphrey Center). Freemasons Lodge will have several tables there for the annual Zoofari...and it would be great to see you! Bring the whole family! It's a truly fun time together!
Editor Brother Tommy Baas is putting together the second issue of our electronic masonic magazine, The Apple-Tree. Poetry, art, articles, aphorisms, etc. are all welcome and I encourage you to consider making a contribution to it.
As ever fraternally,
Tom Curtis, WM
