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THE MASONIC WORLD
1960
dug himself a foxhole outside the window near which he would be sitting. When the air raid alarm sounded, he jumped through the window into his personal foxhole, only to find it occupied by the president of the group. A calendar of events shows that the Masonic Temple is occupied practically every night of the month. Freemasonry on the island now consists of the following bodies: Okinawa Lodge No. llB, F.& A.M. (Philippines) Coral Lodge No. 142, F.& A.M. (Philippines) Okinawa Chapter No. 14, R.A.M. (Philippines) Okinawa Council No.3, R.& S.M. (Philippines) Okinawa Commandery No. I, K.T. (Grand Encampment) Okinawa Conclave, U.D., R.C.C. (U. S. A.) Scottish Rite Bodies (Southern Jurisdiction) Okinawa Shrine Club (Aloha Temple, Hawaii) Shuri Chapter, O.E.S. Ernie Pyle Chapter, DeMolay Order of Rainbow for Girls Okinawa Chapter No. 264, National Sojourners Ryukyus Camp, Heroes of '76 Hawaii Court No. 60, Ladies Shrine Club LODGE GROWS
The charter was presented to Okinawa Lodge No. llB August 2, 194B. From its modest beginning it has rapidly become one of the largest lodges in the Far East with 500 members spread throughout the Orient, India, Germany, Arabia, South America, Alaska, England, and the United States. In 1954 it became apparent that a second lodge was necessary because of the great number of men who wished to join the fraternity. At an organizational meeting, November 30, 1954, 13 local Freemasons signified their intention to form a second lodge. At that meeting, the name "Coral" was chosen, and officers selected. The mother lodge gave its consent to the formation on December 14, 1954. The first officers were: William P. Schwager, master; Roy C. Cunningham, senior warden, and James R. Sage, junior warden.
A STORY OF SIR ALFRED ROBBINS Many Freemasons in this country will recall the visit made by Sir Alfred Robbins, noted journalist, to this country in 1924; at the time he was president of the United Grand Lodge of England's Board of General Purposes; his friends took him to see President Coolidge. Coolidge lived up to his reputation as "Silent Cal," according to this story. The Bascombe Slemp, mentioned in the story, was a Freemason; Coolidge was not: Bearing a letter of introduction from Mr. Kellogg, the American Ambassador to England, I (with my wife) waited by special appointment on President Coolidge at the White House at 10 this morning (April 2). We were ushered in by Mr. Bascombe Slemp, the principal private secretary; and the President, a quiet reserved figure, standing at his desk, opened the conversation by asking how long we had been in the country; when we came to Washington, and how long we intended to remain. Having expressed regret at the nature of the weather in Washington yesterday (and it was a sudden snow blizzard of astonishing intensity), he wished to know something of the special object with which I had come to the United States. I told him that it was as a representative of the Grand Lodge of English Freemasons, desirous of promoting, by personal intercourse and fuller knowledge of