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TUCSON LODGE #4, F. & A. M. 3590 N Country Club Road Tucson, Arizona 85716
LODGE PHONE: 323-2821 EMAIL: [email protected] http://TucsonLodge4.homestead.com
Meets every Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. * Stated Meeting, First Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
JON SCHMIDT
Senior Warden
465-5485
CHRIS JORDAN
Junior Warden
825-6157
LEIGH CREIGHTON
Worshipful Master
360-9798
Lodge Secretary ——- CRAIG GROSS, P.M., 795-3932
Website Editor —- JOHN PROKOP 529-2807 [email protected]
Newsletter Editor —- JIM WADLEY, PGM 575-2753 [email protected]
VOLUME 134 MAY 2015 NUMBER 5
May 2015 Calendar
May 2nd Fellowship Breakfast 7am to 10am
May 6th Stated Meeting Dinner 6pm Stated Meeting 7pm
May 13th Degree or Practice 7:00pm
May 20th Degree or Practice 7:00pm
May 21st Officers Meeting 7:00pm
May 27th Degree or Practice 7:00pm
May 30th Deadwood 11:30am Laverna’s Coffee Shop
The preparation group Bob and Rich are leading will meet every Wednesday at 7:00pm.
Degrees are subject to candidate availability and proficiency.
NOTE: Please do not forget to make reservations for all dinners.
FROM THE EAST The Senior and Junior Wardens along with our Secretary, aka Junior Grand Deacon, and I attended the Grand Lodge Retreat at the end of last month in Casa Grande. The retreat was enjoyable and informative as we had some excellent fellowship and some excellent instruction. I’m sure that we all gained something from the time spent with our brothers from other lodges around the state. One of the things I enjoy about Masonry is learning how other lodges face the same challenges as we do, and how other lodges conduct themselves in the routine business of brotherly love, relief, and truth. The different flavors of Masonry are abundantly in evidence at occasions such as the retreat. Some lodges require their officers to wear tuxedoes at all meetings and some at Stated Meetings only. Some lodge uniforms are business suits, or are like our uniform of a blazer and slacks with a common tie, some are polo shirts and jeans. Some lodges serve a meal at every meeting and some at Stated Meetings only, and some only on special occasions. Some lodges do not exemplify the degrees in accordance with the approved ritual, and of course, some know the ritual very well. Some lodges adhere to a strict compliance with the Grand Lodge proficiency requirement regarding degree advancement, some lodges go beyond the minimum and some go far beyond the minimum. Some lodges open with a period of quiet reflection and dim the lodge room lights to create an atmosphere of solemnity. Personally, I prefer what we at Tucson #4 do with all this. We have excellent degree work, we dress appropriately, and we have great fellowship at dinners and social events. All in all, I think we have a great lodge with brothers who epitomize what it means to be a good man and Mason. Probably by the time you read this we will have reached the end of April which will have seen us honoring the Masonic widows with an outing to the Gaslight Theater, hosting a potluck dinner, new Mason night and games night, and conducting Bikes for Books presentations at Sierra 2-8 School and Holaway Elementary School.
We may have even conducted the May fellowship breakfast. We will have also done some of our usual excellent degree work in April with brothers proceeding on their Masonic journey. The month of May will see us doing more degrees, one in Silver City New Mexico at Silver City Lodge #8. I hope you all remember to honor your mothers on Mother’s Day, May10 and honor our fallen military on Memorial Day May 25. Fraternally
Leigh Creighton Worshipful Master
FROM THE WEST
Brethren,
The month of April has been eventful. I would like to
thank the brothers who have facilitated the widows’
event, Bikes for Books, and the Masonic education
events we have had. The widows’ event took place at
the Gas Light Theatre with many Tucson Lodge #4
members participating along with the widows of our
brothers. There were 25 bikes acquired this last month
for the Bikes for Books program which will be
distributed to several schools this month. In April, we
had a Masonic Education regarding the history of the
Silver City Lodge to provide an education on the place
we will be conducting a Third Degree at the end of this
month. If you would like to attend the degree at Silver
City and are in need of transportation, please contact
me.
The officers have been practicing their proficiencies for
moving up next year. We have also been getting
great participation from a few Past Masters and
younger members in the last few degrees. If you are
interested in volunteering in an upcoming degree,
please let me know. We are expecting to have a few
third degrees in May so your participation would be
welcomed.
I would also like to thank all who provided input at the
April Officers’ meeting in preparing the upcoming
Table Lodge on June 19. Be sure to contact either the
Secretary or myself to make a reservation.
We are in need of coaches for our new brethren. Currently there are brothers who are carrying more than their weight by coaching two or more of our youngest members. We have a brother or two that need a coach so please contact me or the Master if you are interested in helping us out.
Fraternally
Jon Schmidt Senior Warden
SHOES IN CHURCH—Words to Ponder by Leanne Freiberg I showered and shaved, I adjusted my tie, I got there and sat in a pew just in time. Bowing my head in prayer, as I closed my eyes I saw the shoe of the man next to me Touching my own I sighed. With plenty of room on wither side I thought, ‘Why must our soles touch?’ It bothered me, his shoe touching mine, but it didn’t bother him much. A prayer began; ‘Our Father’, I thought, ‘This man with the shoes, has no pride, they’re dusty, worn and scratched. Even worse there are holes in the side!’ ‘Thank You for blessing,’ the prayer went on. The shoe man said a quiet ‘Amen.’ I tried to focus on the prayer but my thoughts were on his shoes again. Aren’t we supposed to look our best when walking through that door? Well, this certainly isn’t it,’ I thought, glancing toward the floor. Then the prayer was ended and the songs of praise began. The shoe man was certainly loud Soundina proud as he sang His voice lifted the rafters, his hands were raised high. The Lord could surely hear the shoe man’s voice from the sky It was time for the offering and what I threw in was steep. I watched as the shoe man reached into his pockets so deep. I saw what he pulled out, what the shoe man put in. Then I heard a soft ‘clink’ as when silver hits tin. The sermon really bored me to tears, and that’s no lie. It was the same for the shoe man for tears fell from his eyes. At the end of the service, as is the custom here, We must greet new visitors and shoe them all good cheer. But I felt moved somehow and wanted to meet the shoe man So after the closing prayer, I reached over and shook his hand. He was old, his skin was dark and his hair was truly a mess. But I thanked him for coming, for being our guest. He said, ‘My name is Charlie, I’m glad to meet you my friend.’ There were tears in his eyes but he had a large, wide grin. ‘ Let me explain, ‘ he said wiping tears from his eyes. ‘I’ ve been coming here for months and you’re the first to say Hi,’ ‘I know that my appearance is not like all the rest’ ‘but I really do try to always look my best.’ ‘I always clean and polish my shoes before my very long walk.’ ‘but by the time I get here, they’re dirty and dusty, like chalk.’ My heart filled with pain and I swallowed to hide my tears. As he continued to apologize for daring to sit so near. He said, ‘When I get here, I know I must look a sight.’ ‘but I thought if I could touch you then maybe our souls might unite.’ I was silent for a moment knowing whatever was said Would pale in comparison. I spoke from my heart, not my head. ‘Oh, you’ve touched me,’ I said ‘and taught me in part’ ‘that the best of any man is what id found in his heart.’ The rest, I thought, this shoe man will never know, Like just how thankful I really am that his dirty old shoe touched my soul.
MASONIC COMMUNITY HEALTH SCREENING MAY 9th AT SOUTH TUCSON LODGES
On Saturday, May 9, 2015, there will be a Masonic Community Health Screening hosted by Anahauc Lodge, No
81 and Nelson C. Bledsoe Lodge, No. 74. The Community Health Screening will be staffed and funded by Desert
Dialysis Centers. Participants will be screened for high blood pressure and for kidney disease risks. Everyone in the
Tucson community is welcome to attend. W.B. Ron Allen, W.B. Martin Jones, W.B. Wes Stokes, W.B. Craig Gross
and Will Wilkinson worked with our Brothers in the two host lodges to organize this community service event. We
hope to see you there!
LADIES’ PROGRAM FOR MAY
NIGHT OUT WITH THE DIAMONBACKS
Brethren,
The Lodge will be going to enjoy a fun filled night of
baseball with the Arizona Diamondbacks as they take
on the Milwaukee Brewers. This event is on Saturday,
July 25th. For the low price of $40 per person we will
be picked up at the Foothills Mall transported by bus
to the gate at Chase Field, sit in a great seat on the
lower level of the stadium .Then after the game we will
be picked up at the gate and returned to our cars here
in Tucson. Each person is also promised the giveaway
that night of a “Randy Johnson Bobblehead”. So invite
your friends and family and take them out to the ball-
game.
For more information and registration forms, contact
Jim Wadley at (520) 575-2753.
Please sign up as soon as you can to assure your place
on the4 bus.
Figure 3: Six-Dimensions Figure 4: 2-D Hexagon Freemasonry modernly continues using the ancient tradition of the worker bee symbolic paradigm using Geometry as a way to communicate complex information between its members like the honey bee. More than ever we recognize this same value of linking to Geometry how we live our lives. To the study of Geometry, therefore, your attention is especially directed.
William Wilkinson, Esq , Junior Deacon
TO THE STUDY OF GEOMETRY Bees, Masons and Geometry
Bees and beehives have long been quintessential symbols of Freemasonry. (See Figure 1) What modern Masons call a lodge early Brothers called a Hive of Free-Masons. When dissention existed within a Hive of Masons resulting in a new group the process was referred to as Swarming. Bees model a society of hard working members that function well with order, harmony, precision and excellent communication in order to achieve uniform, respected, useful tasks that benefit themselves and other men and women. Honeycombs consist of three connected 6-sided hexagons to store their honey. The bee is a symbol of the virtue of being industrious, working together in harmony, maintaining an ordered society and reaching an agreed upon goal. Bees communicate with each other with a very complicated buzzing and movement pattern called a “waggle dance” about specific locations they find to gather pollen. This dance was first described and documented 8 decades ago by Karl Von Frisch. One bee tells another the direction of a food source by waggling an angle exactly matching an angle formed using an imaginary line between the hive the bees are inside and the spot on earth’s horizon directly under the sun at the moment of the communication. So, the honey bee is triangulating the location with Geometry. Von Frish’s complex descriptive work was unable to decipher how this vital, important, purpose-filled information was passed from one bee to another using their complex waggle dance though. More recently University of Arizona mathematician Barbara Shipman, Ph.D., developed a Geometrical formula that perfectly modeled and predicted honey bees’ communication dances using a six-dimensional Geometric flag manifold model denoted by a variable Dr. Shipman called alpha. In mathematics a manifold simply refers to a class of topological shapes. We can’t see six dimensions directly but we can see their projection. If you draw a circle (See Figure 2) on a sheet of paper you create a 2-dimensional projection of a 3-dimensional sphere. Similarly, a 2-dimensional projection of a 6-dimensional flag manifold is a hexagon. (See Figures 3 & 4)
Figure 1: Masonic Bee Figure 2: 2-D Sphere
MAY MASONIC BIRTHDAYS
NAME DATE YEAR YEARS
Ronald Charles Ochs 3 1994 21
Chester William Bockstedt III 6 1981 34
Lyle Stanley Wilcox 7 1980 35
Jacob Dean Grossman 8 2013 2
Arif Emre Erkoca 10 2004 11
Ismat Ayman Abdulhamid 15 2013 2
Fredrick Harold Erdman 15 1985 30
Larry Joe McClain 15 1995 20
Benjamin Anthony McIntyre 15 2000 15
Mike Ray Suba 16 2001 14
Steve Kosteck, Jr. 17 1967 48
Luis Ignacio Aguirre, Jr. 18 2011 4
Fred Hurshul Fultz 18 1959 59
Jerry Lee Beck 20 1964 51
Desmond Lewis Hooey 20 1963 52
George Pavey 20 1977 38
John Edward Thompson 22 1985 30
Peter Golden Williamson 23 1956 59
Donald Allan Kolbe 27 1965 50
Don Lee Redman 27 1964 51
James John George 28 1951 64
Randy Paul Printz 29 1991 24
Please congratulate these Brothers when you see them.
If you don’t see them, yet know them, give them a call and
invite them to go to lodge with you.
Bring your Birthday Card and get your dinner compliments
of the Lodge.
SAHUARO HIGH TWELVE #523 Meets every Thursday 8:00AM
Village Inn at 6251 N. Oracle Rd.
OLD PUEBLO HIGH TWELVE #773 Meets every 2ND & 4TH Friday 8:00AM
Hungry Fox at 4637 E. Broadway
Of our Brethren who have passed on this Masonic year
Name Birth Raised Death
Minor Grover “Dusty” . 05-31-21 05-08-63 01-09-15
Rhodes, Jr.
HELP WANTED:
One trestleboard editor. Hours long, pay low, must be highly skilled in Publisher, rewards few and far between. Harassment guaranteed, must be able to meet last minute deadlines with no help and late input from reporters. This opportunity won’t last - Contact the Wor-shipful Master or Secretary for details and in-terview schedule.
DEADWOOD LUNCH—Past Masters and Friends gather on the last Saturday of every month for fellowship at:
LAVERNA’S COFFEE SHOP, STARTING TIME 11:30 A.M.
Deadwood has become a social gathering and tool for the Brothers of our Lodge. The knowledge you pass onto
some of our less informed Brethren is priceless. You are the link from the past to the future. The success of our
lodge, and Masonry, is in your hands.
2015 LODGE OFFICERS
Worshipful Master .................. Leigh Creighton (Nancy)...................................... (520) 360-9798 [email protected] Senior Warden ........................ Jon Schmidt (Shari) .............................................. (520) 465-5485 [email protected] Junior Warden ..........................Chris Jordan ((Ashley) ......................................... (512) 825-6157 ............................. [email protected] Treasurer ................................... Jerry Fortson, PM (Ginny) .................................. (520) 861-6342 [email protected] Secretary ..................................Craig Gross, PM (Lynda) ................................... (520) 795-3932 ....................................... [email protected] Secretary Emeritus ..................Bob Conrad, PGM (Jackie) ................................ (520) 748-8627 ......................................... [email protected] Senior Deacon ..........................Nick Andress (Stacey) ......................................... (520) 400-9739 [email protected] Junior Deacon ...........................Will Wilkinson (Laurie) ....................................... (520) 981-1200 ..................................... [email protected] Senior Steward ........................ Joaquin Munoz ..................................................... (520) 906-2444 ........................... [email protected] Junior Steward .........................Richard Vaughn (Ute)........................................... (520) 572-6724..................... [email protected] Marshal ......................................George Parker (Torrey) ...................................... (816) [email protected] Chaplain ....................................Aaron French (Veronica)...................................... (520) 909-1352 [email protected] Tyler ...........................................Marty Jones (Leanne) .......................................... (520) 360-7740 .................................. [email protected] Ritual Advisor ...........................Ronald Allen, PM (Lucy) ...................................... (520) 881-2399 [email protected] Trustee 2015 ............................Gene Wickey (Gloria)......................................... (714) 313-7000.................................... [email protected] Trustee 2015 ............................ Jim Wadley, PGM (Laurel)................................. (520) 575-2753 ................................... [email protected] Trustee 2015 ............................Hannes Meyer, PM (Joyce) ................................ (520) 271-8084 [email protected] Trustee 2016 ............................Vince Santos, PM (Doreen) ................................ (520) 370-3519 [email protected] Trustee 2017 ............................Marty Jones (Leanne) .......................................... (520) 360-7740 .................................. [email protected] Website Editor ......................... John Prokop (Sharlot) ......................................... (520) 529-2807 ................................ [email protected] Widow’s Assistance ................Paul Simpson, PM (Cathy) ................................... (520) 572-7152 [email protected] Newsletter Editor ..................... Jim Wadley, PGM (Laurel)................................. (520) 575-2753 ................................... [email protected]
TUCSON LODGE MASONIC FAMILY SCHEDULES Arizona Chapter #2, OES, First & Third Tuesdays .........................................................................................................................................7:30PM
Saguaro Chapter #48 OES, Second & Fourth Mondays ..............................................................................................................................7:30PM
Olana Temple #131, Daughters of the Nile, Third Mondays ......................................................................................................................7:00PM
Oasis Court #75, Ladies Oriental Shrine, First Mondays...............................................................................................................................7:00PM
Bethel #25, Job’s Daughters, First & Third Saturdays ................................................................................................................................10:00AM
Assembly #2, Rainbow Girls, Second & Fourth Tuesdays ............................................................................................................................7:00PM
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