Golf with a Sports Legend This Summer Legends” represent fabulous
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stories. They are respected and remembered fondly, despite the passage of time. Their spirit and accomplishments touch people’s hearts and are passed from generation to generation. Now, you can meet a sports legend and even share a meal and play golf with one! You have three shots at joining a sports legend for a day of golf, food and fellowship while helping a great cause with the 2008 Jim Perry
Several former athletes playing in the Legends event are also part of the Masonic fraternity such as Brother Galen Cisco, about to tee off here.
Legends Golf Classic. The first will be Monday, July 28, in Medina near Cleveland. The others will be Monday, Sept. 15, and Tuesday, Sept. 16, in Fairborn near Dayton. Now in its sixth year with The Ohio Masonic Home and presented by the Benevolent Endowment Foundation, organizers are excited to offer the event in Northeast Ohio for the first time, where Jim Perry started his professional career with the Cleveland Indians, going on to win 215 games, including the 1970 Cy Young Award. Proceeds from the Medina event will go to support Alzheimer’s/ dementia care at Medina’s Western Reserve Masonic Community and those from the Fairborn event will go to Alzheimer’s/dementia care on the Springfield Masonic Community campus. Twenty-five Legends from baseball, football and basketball will participate. In addition to Jim Perry, Cleveland heroes coming to the Medina event will include Browns Hall of Fame end Dante Lavelli and Pro Bowl quarterback Milt Plum. Other Legends will include former NCAA Final Four college basketball coach Johnny Orr, NBA center George Wilson and a host of baseball rookies of the year and Cy Young Award winners.
In addition, you’ll play one of the best golf courses around. Medina’s Blue Herron Golf Club was recently named one of the best new public courses in America by Golf Digest. The day also includes a golf clinic, a boxed lunch on the course and a dinner and auction in which you’ll mix with the Legends, enjoy a tasty meal and have the chance to bid on a variety of valuable and collectible items including sports memorabilia. Even those who don’t golf can get involved. Sponsorship opportunities allow you to help this great cause. Tickets are available separately for dinner, which includes the opportunity to meet the Legends and participate in the auction. The September Legends Classic will be at Fairborn’s Greene Country Club for the third consecutive year. Returning Legends include legendary Ohio State football coaches Earle Bruce and John Cooper, NCAA Final Four basketball referee Ed Hightower as well as several members of the 1960 world champion Pittsburgh Pirates team. For more information on the Medina event, call Glenn Beaver at 440-257-2027. For more information on the Fairborn event, Call Ron Molen of the Foundation at 888/248-2664.
Ice Sculpture Promotes Ohio Freemasonry This ice sculpture, displayed at the annual Icefest in Hamilton in early 2008, was sponsored by the three local Lodges in the community. The event and display resulted in a successful promotion of Freemasonry to the public and was supported by Hugh L. Bates Lodge #686, Washington Lodge #17, and Benjamin Franklin Lodge #719.
May/June 2008
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