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Proceedings of the
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Wor. James Dufresne: M.W. Grand Master; Grand Master Elect and Grand Lodge Officers, I am presenting a commissioned product that our Grand Master Elect had me put together. It is this standard. He came to the realization that the Grand Standard Bearer had no Standard to bear. So he assigned a project to me. Now, let me give you a little history. He had me do one project for him and I completed that project. Then he gave me three more projects to do and I completed all three of those. Now, if you do your math right, I’m waiting for nine more projects. But I’ll tell you that in doing this project; this standard, it was a lot of fun, however, I was driving the Grand Lodge Office crazy because I happen to be a little bit of a perfectionist. Some of you may know that already. I’m not completely satisfied with this but that’s O.K. Now if you know the story of the Persian rug, when they make a Persian rug, they always leave one flaw, because it shows the humanity and that only God is perfect. So, until I can walk on water, I can’t do any product that is perfect. But this will now be for the Grand Standard Bearer to bear in front or preceding the Grand Lodge on all occasions from this day forward. And I thank you for the honor to do it Most Worshipful Grand Master. M.W. George P. Pulkkinen: R.W. Pete Forrest, you will retire the 2009 officers.