Grand Master's Message for September 2002 The Board of Trustees for the Knights Templar Eye Foundation met during August and spent many hours discussing the past year and planning for the coming months. A well thought out budget was adopted, and our future looks bright. A new KTEF video is in the works and will help us to explain this great philanthropy to new members and to groups such as Rotary and Lions Clubs. There are many local and national organizations which might work together with us if we can better present what the KTEF does for people in need. We all know that Lions Clubs and their foundation have helped thousands with eye problems. Rotary International has an initiative underway to eliminate preventable blindness by the year 2020. Many other groups are engaged in similar programs. I hope we can all learn to work together and help the future to be good for those whose vision is failing. This month my travels will begin with the meeting of the Supreme Council of the A.A.S.R., Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, in Boston, Massachusetts. From there I will be going to Binghamton, New York, for the Northeastern York Rite Conference. The South Central York Rite Conference will be held September 14 in Wichita, Kansas. The York Rite of Kentucky will assemble for their Annual Conclave in Louisville, Sunday the 15th through Wednesday the 18th. I then travel East again for the Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of St. John's Commandery in Providence, Rhode Island. The following Wednesday, the 25th, the Social Order of the Beauceant will hold their banquet in Addison, Texas. Then it's on to Vinalhaven, Maine, to attend the Annual Inspection of Devalois Commandery No. 16 on Friday, September 27. Don't forget that next month our other two national York Rite organizations will have their Triennial Conclave in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and will be electing new leaders for the next three years. I am sure that they will have plans for the continued revitalization of our Rite!
Dr. William Jackson Jones Grand Master, KCT, GCT
September 2002
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