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THE MASONIC WORLD
1957
sonic information and education. We shall await with interest results of this seminar. The Grand Lodge is giving two scholarships for graduate study in public education, each scholarship is in the amount of $1,000.00 for a year of postgraduate productive study in a field of leadership in some phase of public school administration. Kentucky has a committee on scholarships and has recently provided an additional scholarship for work in a foreign university. Funeral Service: In reading the various proceedings we discovered a fact which has long been known, and that is the funeral service of the average Grand Lodge is most unsatisfactory. No one seems to have the remedy. Most suggestions for improvement concern substituting words. For example, Virginia would deposit the apron "with the body of our deceased brother" instead of "in the grave of our deceased brother"; they would eliminate the "earth to earth, dust to dust, ashes to ashes"; instead of saying "unto the grave we resign the body," it would now read "unto his Maker we resign the body"; instead of saying "and now surround the grave of our deceased brother," it will become "and now surround the mortal remains." Germany: There may have been a time when the organization of a military lodge in Germany could have been regarded as a necessity, but that day is gone and with the return of organized Freemasonry in Germany there ;ue a sufficient number of German lodges, widely scattered, to accommodate all candidates who desire to receive degrees. Lodges working in an area where is an established grand lodge are a source of potential difficulties, and this problem is now corning to the fore. Sometime ago Connecticut gave a dispensation for Stuttgart American Lodge V.D., which meets at 22 Kriegsbergstr, Stutl:gart, Germany; the date of the dispensation was May II, 1947, and the dispensation was continued for nine years. This lodge was under the leadership of Brother Peter M. Rasmussen, who is actively identified with German Freemasonry. So far the lodge has served a very useful purpose for making Freemasons of those in the armed forces. The report of this lodge shows courtesy degrees conferred for two Missouri lodges-John R. Craig, Galena Lodge No. 515, and Edwin Koplin, Jr., Rushville Lodge No. 238. The proceedings stated: Stuttgart American Grand Lodge will be closed in due and ancient form, and [or the last time, 22 March, 1956, but it will live on in the memory of hundreds of American Masons who have received their degrees in this lodge.
Oregon Military Lodge V.D., which works in Frankfurt, Germany, has given more than $1,000.00 for Masonic charities. The Grand Lodge at its 1956 communication continued the dispensation. Rhode Island was one of the earliest in the German field; it established a lodge in Berlin, April 25, 1947 and chartered it May 17, 1948 as Berlin Lodge No. 46. On April 30, 1956, it has a membership of 344, an increase of 33 for the year. Texas, at its 1956 communication, continued the dispensation of Ort Bavarian Lodge V.D., located at Munich. Hawaii: The Grand Lodge of California first entered the Hawaiian Is!.ands in 1852, when it chartered Hawaii Lodge No. 21; there are now 8 lodg'~s located on the four major islands, all working under the Grand Lodge of California. The brethren in Hawaii feel they deserve to have a grand lodge, believing it would produce greater unity, secure greater uniformity, and save