The Communicator Nov/Dec 2014

volume 61, No. 06 206-324-3330

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Nov / Dec 2014

J.W. Roundhill receives French Legion of Honor pg 5 First World War Masonic Nurse? pg 12

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Scholarships pg 18

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Scottish Rite Communicator Valley of Seattle

www.seattle-scottishrite.org

SCOTTISH RITE OFFICERS Ill. Ronald A. Seale, 33° Sovereign Grand Commander

Ill. Alvin W. Jorgensen, 33° S:.G:.I:.G:., Orient of Washington Ill. Sat Tashiro, 33° Personal Rep. of S:.G:.I:.G:. stashiro@comcast.net Ill. Greg Goodrich, 33° General Secretary Communicator Editor secretary@seattle-scottishrite.org Ill. Norman Miller, 33° Treasurer Ill. George A. Lofthus, 33° Almoner

PRESIDING OFFICERS Jeff Craig, 32° K:.C:.C:.H:.

Venerable Master, Lodge of Perfection Brian Thomas, 32° K:.C:.C:.H:.

Wise Master, Chapter of Rose Croix Gale Kenney, 32° K:.C:.C:.H:.

Commander, of Kadosh Jack Stewart, 32° Master, Seattle Consistory

Scottish Rite Masonic Center 1207 N 152nd St Seattle, WA 98133-6213 206 324-3330 voice 206 324-3332 fax Brian Lorton Building Manager brian@seattle-scottishrite.org Lorna Schack Administrative Assistant lorna@seattle-scottishrite.org

The Communicator (USPS 485-660) is published by the Seattle Valley of Scottish Rite, 1207 N 152nd St., Seattle, WA 98133-6213, for the benefit of its members, bi-monthly and is mailed as a non-profit publication to all members of the Seattle Valley and to specified other interested parties. $2.00 per member is assessed for the publication of The Communicator. Periodicals postage paid at Seattle, Washington and at additional mailing offices.

The material contained within this publication is intended for the education and enjoyment of the members of the Masonic Fraternity and all material published becomes the property of Seattle Valley of Scottish Rite. Postmaster: Send address changes to — The Communicator at 1207 N 152nd St., Seattle, WA 98133-6213.

“New Member Packet”

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he Supreme Council has created a new “New Member Packet” that will be distributed to all new members of the Scottish Rite going forward.

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t is an impressive package that provides a membership card, welcome booklet, coupon for use in the Scottish Rite online store and a nice lapel pin. It is certainly a nice “Welcome to Scottish Rite” and a first official contact from Scottish Rite.

News from the Personal Representative

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e are in the middle of the fall-winter holiday season. All of us on the staff of the Seattle Valley wish to extend to our members and their families the best of the holiday season. We will have just completed the terminal degrees for the class of 2014 by the time that this edition of the Communicator has reached our membership.

In retrospect, it has been a great year for our Valley. Our class was enthusiastic about the experience of becoming our new black hats and we are hoping to present more degrees and bring more Masonic education and increased fellowship in the coming months and years. My thanks to Brother Dantes LaHens who was the inspirational force behind the SOTAR events this year and the ones to follow. Work is underway planning on events in 2015.

Through the efforts of the General Secretary, we were proud to sponsor the movie, the Freemasons, at the Cinebarre Theater in Mountlake Terrace in early October. The attendance was excellent, with friends and family from all areas of our Masonic community.

As stated in my previous article, communications is important to our ultimate success as a valley. If you have any Masonic friends who may wish to receive the Communicator by e-mail, please contact the office with their names and addresses. Many of our events are open to Masons, non-Masons and guests. Work was completed in the small lodge room in the motif of a Greco/Roman temple. It looks great and you are invited to come by for a tour. In addition the stained glass window above the entrance to our building was installed in mid-September, adding another dimension to our Valley.

Our November meeting will be an important one for the year as we announce the names of the leaders of the four bodies for 2015. The meeting will also provide the valley members a financial summary of our 2014 activities, the budgeted vs. actual expenditures and the 2015 proposed budget. Installation of both the elected and appointed officers will be held at our January 2015 meeting.

We are actively promoting the work of our Valley with Masonic activities outside the Blue Lodges. We need the assistance of our Scottish Rite brethren by filling the Class of 2015 with fellow Master Masons, who are not yet members of our Scottish Rite. Contact your Masonic brethren who may not be members of the Scottish Rite.

Our General Secretary has membership packets, which can be picked up at our office.

I indicated in the previous Communicator that we are planning a new initiative, which we will be pursuing in 2015, meeting with our Scottish Rite members in the outlying reaches of South King County and Eastside. We understand how difficult it is to join us on a busy Tuesday afternoon at our meetings because of our heavy traffic.

Further details will be forthcoming as they become available.

Fraternally, Sat Tashiro, 33째 Personal Representative of the S:.G:.I:.G:.

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rethren, as the end of the year approaches, we still have several activities for you to enjoy. On November 15 we have our next installment of the School of the Ancient Rite (SOTAR). Dantes has done an excellent job finding new speakers of quality that are well known and distinguished in their fields. With each SOTAR we see an increase in attendance and it is evident that we truly are becoming the center for Masonic and esoteric education in the Puget Sound area. At our stated meeting on November 18th we will be honoring our 50 year members and we also have a special presentation from members of the Squaxin Tribe who will give a presentation on tribal traditions.

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n December 11th we will continue with our annual Holiday party and we have secured another great act to help us celebrate the season. This year we have George Santino, a well know Frank Sinatra style crooner who will provide the entertainment along with our usual visit from Santa for the kids.

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n page 16 you will see a few details of the new Valley Membership Achievement Program (VMAP) that was recently launched by the Supreme Council. Take a moment to look over this and go to the link provided to see if there is anything that you would like to participate in. Our Valley is involved with quite a bit of the activities presented, however, as with any organization, it is up to the members to determine the level of success we obtain.

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astly, I am working on speakers for our stated meetings next year. One of the most difficult jobs I have as Secretary is finding speakers of high quality that our members will be interested in seeing and hearing. They need to be educated in their field and recognized throughout the world/US as such. If you have any suggestions for a speaker that would fit this criteria, please contact me so we can chat about them.

Fraternally, Greg Goodrich, 33째 General Secretary

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Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur

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any of you have probably never heard of it. Those who have know that it is the highest honor the French Government can bestow upon any citizen or foreign person. On a brisk Saturday morning in September, our very own Joseph Warren Roundhill, 32° K.C.C.H. (he has gone by J.W. all his life) received this very special award from the French Government. Most of us have known J.W. for many years, few of us really knew of his illustrious history. In order to rectify this, I sat down with him at his home over a cup of tea and biscuits to find out the history of France’s newest Chevalier.

J.W. was born in Seattle on the 29th of August 1923 to English parents. In 1933 the family returned to England and by 1939, at the age of 16, J.W. had already started working at a factory producing training aircraft for His Majesty’s Royal Air Force. In February of 1942 he was embodied into the R.A.F. Volunteer service with a plan to later become a member of the Eagle Squadron, composed of volunteer U.S. citizens flying for the R.A.F. prior to America’s entry into WWII. In May of 1943 J.W. joined the U.S. Air Force and became a member of the 8th A.F. He was assigned to the G-2 intelligence section and later obtained a position in the 379th Bomb Group, consisting of four squadrons of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers.

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n February 20, 1944 J.W. started his tour that eventually led to his completion of 32 missions operating in various positions from right waist gunner attacking the Junkers aircraft facility in Bernburg, Germany, to his last ten missions as an enlisted bombadier, a toggleer, in the nose of a B-17 bomber. J.W.’s final mission was in August 1944 with a target close to Paris. After which “I returned home, kissing the ground upon landing”.

After the War, J.W. left active service and started working for the Boeing Company as an engineer.

This is also where he met his wife Betty in 1948. He worked on several aerospace projects including B-52’s, Ground-to-Air missile program, and the AWACS program. J.W. and Betty had three sons, one of which passed away in 1974 after a tragic accident. He finally retired from Boeing in 1981 after a thirty-two year career. He later went on to volunteer as a docent at the Museum of Flight where he also donated his bomber jacket, which is now on display as part of their WWII collection. Today he is grandfather to five grandchildren and great grandfather to - continued on next page

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eleven. His wife Betty passed away in 2010.

J.W. was initiated into Freemasonry in August 1971 and shortly thereafter joined the Scottish Rite in November 1975. He was very active in the Temple Guard and also joined the Kadosh line. After many years of service, J.W. was elected a Knight Commander Court of Honour and invested as such in October 2003.

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or his actions in WWII and his participation in the liberation of France, on the twenty-second of May 2014, French President J.W. and Jack Cowan after the presentation of the Medal Francois Hollande, signed a decree nominating Joseph Warren Roundhill to receive the rank and designation of a Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national de le Légion d’honneur. The highest decoration awarded by the French government.

The Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur or The Legion of Honor for those non French speakers, is a French Order established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802. Membership, both men and women, French citizens and foreigners, civilians and military personnel, irrespective of rank, birth, or religion, can be admitted to the Order, although it is rarely awarded.

J.W.’s Bomber jacket on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle

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The list of medals J.W. has been awarded is very impressive. To name a few, he has received The Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded to those whose support of operations by “heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight�. In addition he has been awarded the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters for meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight, the Good Conduct medal, WWII medal, and Medal of Liberte, awarded to him by the people of Normandy (for his participation on D-day).

On Saturday the twentieth of September a presentation ceremony took place at the Boeing Museum of Flight under the nose and wings of a B-17 similar to the aircraft J.W. flew on his several missions during the war. Mr. Jack A. Cowan, Honorary Consul of France, presented J.W. Chevalier, J.W. speaking after the presentation of the with the award while some 80+ Legion of Honor underneath the wings of a B-17. friends, family, and brothers assembled to witness this historic moment. After the ceremony we gathered in the historic Red Barn (the first Boeing factory) attached to the Museum for fellowship and refreshments.

J.W. is a humble man; he does not like to think that his actions in WWII were anything special.

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Nose and bomb bay of a B-17 Flying Fortress

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However, as we all know, the courage and bravery of men like J.W. are a perfect example of men that volunteered to put their lives in danger to protect and defend the world against tyrannical leaders, not only for our country, but for the good of humanity.

J.W. is very active in Masonry. At 91 years young, he attends the meetings of Seattle Scottish Rite on a regular basis. You will no doubt see him at our next stated meeting and when you do, take a moment to say hello. I guarantee that his warm and welcome smile will cause you to walk away with a smile of your own. There is no doubt in my mind that we can truly call J.W. and all the other men that served in this war a hero, even if he doesn’t think so...

- Greg Goodrich

J.W. speaking about his Bomber jacket he donated to the Museum of Flight.

B-17 Bomber

Stained Glass Update

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THANK YOU! The stained glass window is finally completed and the Valley would like to thank the members that have contributed funds towards it’s completion. A plaque will be created in the coming months to honor those individuals and will be displayed in the lobby of the Temple.

William C. Harker, Sr., 32° KCCH Brian C. Thomas, 32° KCCH Sat Tashiro, 33° Gregory J. Goodrich, 33° Loyd C. Evens, 32° Dantes LaHens, 32° Scott S. Wilme, 32° Thurston H. Dickason, 33° Melvin R. Lindquist, 32° Gale H. Kenney, 32° KCCH Harold A. Rice, 32° William F. Exley, 33° Verle M. Bleese, 32° Gene F. Ulrich, 32° KCCH Carl L. Alexander, 33° James G. McCurdy, 32° KCCH

In Memoriam Horace W. McCurdy, 33° G:.C:.

Robert E. Adams, 33° Charles R. Olmstead, 33° Joseph M. Wilderman, 33° Andrew C. Warner, 32° Elden D. Strong, 33° John G. Lien, 33° William D. Mueller, 33° Genaro Garcia, 32° Glen R. Huff, 32° Richard A. Mecartea, 32° KCCH Robert T. Wilson, 33° Frank N. Webster, 32° KCCH Richard J. Brzustowicz, 32° Robert C. Dearborn, 32° KCCH In Memoriam George B. Hunt, 32°

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New Lapel Pin Available

e have a limited supply of our new “Valley of Seattle” lapel pins available for members.

n order to get one you have to follow two steps very carefully. First, come to the next stated meeting.

Second, see the Secretary and ask for one. That’s it!

Show your pride in Seattle Scottish Rite.

2015 dues stickers are coming in the mail..

2015 Scottish Rite dues notices will be in the mail soon. As you know, the Scottish Rite issued permanent dues cards beginning last year. When you pay your dues this year, you will receive a card with a “2015” sticker that you will need to peel off and apply to your card over top the “2014” date. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call the office for more details.

So where do my dues go?

Like many of us, you probably want to know what the Valley actually does with your dues. Although this is a very simple breakdown and does not list the majority of what your membership in the Scottish Rite supports, below is a simple breakdown of where your dues go and what they support: Valley of Seattle: $75.00 Supports the Seattle RiteCare clinic, Administrative costs, Speakers, Education, Temple maintenance, Property taxes, Etc. Orient of Washington per capita: $5.00 RiteCare of Washington, Various programs, Etc. Supreme Council per capita: $20.00 Supports the Scottish Rite Journal, Administrative costs, Various SR programs, Etc.

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SCOTTISH RITE HOLIDAY PARTY

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old on to the sleigh, we are going on another yuletide adventure. December 11th, here at the Temple, 6:30 P.M. get ready to experience the full cheer and joyousness of the holiday season. A great Christmas dinner coupled with tremendous musical talent awaits you. Have you heard of George Santino the crooner, singer, entertainer? Well he and Erich Benedict, a remarkable pianist in his own right, will be helping us make this a very special night. And disguised as Mac Macdonald in his downtime, Santa Claus will again take you to new heights making you elicit swoops of fancy, fantasy, and utter joy. With singing and Santa’s trip, this is not to be missed. Please call to get reservations now as we expect this to be a capacity party once again. Open to all Masons and especially their families. Reserve your space now! - No cost!

Special guest:

George A. Santino Dazzling fans from coast to coast George A. Santino is focused, driven and passionate about his love of music and always has been!

He brings us back that “Rat Pack” nostalgia that so many long for! That magical music that takes you back to a better time.

Please call in your reservations to the Valley of Seattle office: 206324-3330 or e-mail the Secretary: secretary@seattle-scottishrite.org

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Lessons of the First World War

By Mac Alexander Macdonald, 32°

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he “war to end all wars” began in the summer of 1914, when the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated in Sarajevo, the capital of a contested province in the Balkans. The region, remote then to most Americans, remains so today.

Responsibility? The world’s policeman? The sole remaining superpower? A declining nation among more than 200 sovereign entities, some like China with such unharnessed capacity, or Brazil with such untapped resources? Maybe all of the above.

Maybe more. Maybe less. One hundred years ago, things were a good deal different. In 1914, all of Europe was remote, and the rest of the world much more so. By 1919 however, the world impinged on all our American lives in new and disturbing ways.

In 1917 we didn’t choose the war; it chose us. The sinking of American ships in the Atlantic and the plight of many an ancestral homeland finally made our involvement inevitable and necessary to the American people. We mobilized 4 million men, sent a large number to France, and had well over 100,000 killed in battle. (Not to mention the maimed and scarred. For example almost a million soldiers in WW2 came out of that conflict with mental disorders conflated by Post Traumatic Stress Injury.)

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visited the battlefields of Passchendaele, those around and including Verdun, Ypres, (a place the British conveniently called Wipers), and the ground in the Wallonian Belgium and French Lorraine regions that had been traversed by various armies, (mostly French and German), in countless wars, whether Celtic versus Roman, Roman Catholic versus Protestant, Spanish versus everybody, and French Napoleonic against everyone else. So when I mention later that things are now so much better than they once were in Europe you get the picture. The mindless unceasing horror, terror, pain and misery of WWI can only be imagined by going there. However, the only way to really get it would be to spend three months sitting despairingly covered in thick mud, and frostbite or trench foot, while constantly being shelled.

But in WWl we were involved for the first time in the “management of the world.” We tried, intentionally and unintentionally, to cope with the frightening chaos and conflict in which most of the world lived,

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most of the time, and we tried to withdraw from the burdens and realities of world leadership, until once again, we were forced into the next major round of the 20th century’s greatest reality….the Grand Argument, grown into deadly global conflict….about how the entire globe, in all its parts and in its totality, was to be governed and managed in a system of peace. Americans had been able to avoid international entanglements pretty much since the nation’s birth in 1787.

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o be sure, we “meshed” with the European system—economically and socially—as it spread around the world, yet we were able to steer clear of its political and power ways until the new 20th century finally and forevermore made our political isolation impossible. By 1919 we had “made the world safe for democracy” as President Wilson put it—persuasively, it turned out, if fleetingly—for a large number of Europeans and others in more distant lands. But we didn’t know how, once the fighting was over, to reorganize the world. A “League of Nations” was initiated but even if President Wilson had insisted on the League as the chief pillar of a new world concept, the U.S. Senate disagreed. The result, in 1939, was the Second World War. This time however the end of the War brought a new kind of Peace, which reached out to rebuild the world, physically but also with new institutions.

Never before in history had the victors reached out to the vanquished and try to build, together, a new “global system” which could eventually encompass all humankind. From this effort arose the United Nations, its Security Council, world banking and development institutions, a Universal Declaration of Human Rights - the fledgling beginnings of a Rainbow-colored world, a series of economic and social bodies to deal with special problems. Special attention was given to the perennial cockpits of conflict—Europe in particular—to create confederal institutions, such as the European Union, to consolidate their common political and economic interests.

However, just as WW II ended, a new Cold War began and this ideological/ power-political struggle threatened to consume the world with the new nuclear weapons. By 1990, this conflict had been contained due to the effective pressure of the newly instituted regional security body, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO.

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n summary: despite the huge detritus—psychological as well as physical—left by the century of conflict that, one could say, began first with the World Wars, then the Cold War, and continued with the vestiges of tribal and religious conflict inflicted on a world struggling to modernize, the world system, such as it has been constructed out of the ruins of wars, is vastly better than what the world had inherited

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in 1914, or 1919, or 1945. The Lessons of World War I, while not entirely learned (there are still macho bullies both within the US and out, who for limited but powerful ultra-national, religious, or powergrabbing reasons, still want to pull a trigger versus a voting lever), have been taken greatly to heart by the nations of the world, with America in the leadership position but in partnership with the core-democratic countries.

Per my earlier article on WWII and this, three points about the state of the world seem evident: 1. There remains an overpowering need for a much less lethal yet effective framework for resolving world power-political questions. There is a definite need for enabling the globalized economy to function more seamlessly. And there is an overriding need for making universal the promise of justice and human rights.

2. No matter how the American people and their successive governments vacillate between periods of assumed responsibility for leadership in the international system and ineluctably impossible attempts to shirk that responsibility, there is no escaping the role that history has thrust upon us; and therefore…

3. The American nation must persevere, jointly with its core democratic Allies, in completing the halffinished world system it has begun. But because our Congress, at the present time, is incapable of preparing the electorate adequately for this historic task, civil society then (and Masons collectively to show the world we stand for something as we once did) must take the lead. This, the Centennial of The Great War of 1914 – 1919, affords us an obvious great opportunity to undertake this educational task.

Lastly: For us to remain a democracy and deserve the name, for all the wars we have been involved in to make sense, for Freemasons to uphold the values of our Masonic Founding Fathers who formed the U.S. as a bulwark against Church, Potentate or Plutocrat, we must see the mortal danger to the American political system of the way vast sums of money can skew the outcomes of electoral races. These forces, currently and insidiously working at every level, are set on dismantling the very ability of government to produce needed answers to modern public needs. To make a country ungovernable so that an autocratic regime can be installed, to govern an electorate yearning for “law and order” at any price, was a goal of Hitler’s.

Mac Alexander Macdonald is a member of the Valley of Seattle and author of the best-selling book, “Lighting Your Own Fuse – A Glossary of Mission, Vision, Passion”

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All masons & their guests are welcome : 10:00 am Registration Required Robert Hand is the Author of best sellers Planets in Transit, Horoscope Symbols, Planets in Composite as well as Night & Day, Whole Sign Houses, Essays on Astrology and others. He lectures in Webinars, conferences, seminars, and workshops worldwide.

In 1997 he co-founded Arhat Media, a research archive and publishing company to procure, protect and publish historical astrological and related manuscripts. Robert Hand offers professional astrological media and services to other astrologers and to the general public, using tropical, heliocentric, sidereal, Uranian, cosmobiological, Astrological Mapping and in mundo techniques with ancient, medieval and modern methods.

To register or for more information, contact Dantes LaHens, 32째 at dlahens@outlook.com

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Valley Membership Achievement Project (VMAP)

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ember activities of the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite represent the heart, soul, and product of our great International body of Freemasonry. Therefore, every brother has a right to expect that the purpose of the Scottish Rite is carried out to the fullest extent possible by each Valley, and with the quality expected of an enlightened Masonic Fraternity.

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he intent of VMAP is to help each Valley carry out its service to the Scottish Rite by providing the very best experience for its members. VMAP requirements are broken into the following 10 specific subject Areas which cover the full scope of the Scottish Rite experience:

• Membership Recruitment • New Member Engagement • Degree Conferral Proficiency • Reunion Experience • Scottish Rite Education for Candidates • Scottish Rite Education for Members • Officer Responsibilities & Engagement • Philanthropy & Public Image • Membership Retention • Valley Organizations

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alleys that choose to participate in VMAP will receive a Certificate of Participation. Participating Valleys that reach specific thresholds in each of the above areas will receive a VMAP Achievement Award plaque along with VMAP Achievement lapel pins for their members. It is important to note that VMAP is not a competition between Valleys and it runs for 12 months at a time, aligned with the calendar year. For more information, please download the PDF of the VMAP Workbook. = http://scottishrite.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/VMAPWorkbook.pdf

Why is Queen Elizabeth’s Nurse Wearing a Masonic Belt?

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Well, it really is quite simple. Back in 1911 members of Malmesbury Lodge No. 3156 of the United Grand Lodge of England decided to create a Masonic hospital. A few years later funding came about and it opened up as the Freemasons’ War Hospital in 1916 to help all the men returning home from World War I. Later on after the war it was reopened in 1933 by His Majesty King George V (also Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England). With the approval of the King (and Grand Master since they were one and the same), the Hospital’s name was changed to the Royal Masonic Hospital where it remained as such until 1992 when it was sold to a hospital trust due to the lack of funding. So why is the nurse wearing a Masonic belt buckle? Essentially, it is a mark of distinction. In 1948 A Nursing School was established at the Royal Masonic Hospital and it gained a great reputation for producing highly skilled nurses, whose distinctive silver belt buckles became a coveted honor amongst the nursing profession.

- Greg Goodrich

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Scottish Rite Scholarships

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he Scottish Rite Scholarship Foundation of Washington will once again take scholarship applications beginning November 1, 2014. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2015. Each Valley has a Director to help students submit an application which includes a personal interview. For students attending school outside the greater Seattle area, the Director from the Valley closest to their school can assist with a courtesy interview.

Presently, the amount of an undergraduate scholarship is $2,500 per year with renewals of the same amount, but amounts are subject to change.

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pplicants must be attending full time an accredited 4-year college or university within the State of Washington, have a GPA of 3.0 or better, and be a US citizen residing in the State of Washington. Students can first apply in their sophomore year. The scholarships are awarded for their Junior or Senior year (fifth year considered if required to complete undergraduate degree).

You can find out more about the Foundation and the program by going to our website at www.srsfwa.org or visit our Facebook page.

Robert T. Wilson, 33째 Dantes LaHens, 32째 Director - Seattle Valley Asst. Director and (425) 821-4252 H VP of Public Relations (206) 940-4559 C (206) 446-0339 C Rtwilson2@msn.com dlahens@outlook.com

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Messages Happy Birthday!

Congratulations from all your Scottish Rite brethren to our members who have reached a very important birthday!

November

December

Arthur R Shipe

11/6/1919

Walter H Somers

11/3/1920

Wilbur E Otwell

11/4/1921

Earl A Conom

11/21/1921

Joe C Gruber

11/24/1921

Edward R Billodue 11/15/1923 Richard D Speidel

11/27/1923

Clyde D Filer

11/1/1924

W W Christoffersen 11/16/1924 William T Maloney 11/16/1924

Frank T Piskur 12/28/1916 Paul E Russom 12/2/1918 Joseph Haleva 12/19/1919 Eugene D Pettler 12/21/1920 Edward W Kenny 12/25/1920 Jackson D Davis 12/9/1921 John J Majnarich 12/18/1921 Bert Butterworth 12/31/1922 Albert L Levinski 12/6/1923 Wesley B Leedy 12/13/1923 Charles N King 12/14/1923 Robert C Payne 12/27/1923 Walter C Russell 12/31/1923 Harold R McAllister 12/5/1924 Manuel I Ventoza 12/25/1924 Joseph E Ostby 12/27/1924

Lodge of Sorrow Our brethren lie before us, overtaken by that relentless fate which, sooner or later, is to overtake us all..

Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit

Martin Burton 9/07/2014

Norman Figgins 9/13/2014

Edwin Hardman 9/07/2014 David Lee 2/15/2014 Walter Somers 8/10/2014

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Schedule of Events

November 2014

Saturday November 12th

Saturday November 15th

www.seattlescottishrite.org 9:00 am

Executive Council (library)

10:00 am

SOTAR - Robert Hand

Tuesday November 18th

6:30 am

Stated meeting - RW&B Dinner / Native America presentation from members of the Squaxin Island Tribe.

December 2014 December 6th

9:00 am

Executive Council (library)

December 11th

6:30 pm

Holiday Party (Please bring the family)

No stated meeting in December

Scottish Rite Members Lounge (Great friends. Great Chats. Great Drinks.)

After all stated meetings stop in the membership lounge for further fellowship. Have a glass of wine or a pint of fresh poured draught.

Come in and see what’s on tap!

This is a great place to catch up with members after meetings, discuss ritual and enjoy the fellowship and all that the Seattle Scottish Rite has to offer.