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VWB Greg Stewart Deputy of the Grand Master in District 4 of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Washington for 2003-2005 Mailto: underthetable@earthlink.net 13316 3rd NE |
Help Wanted (January 2005)
District Four is currently in need of Brothers capable and willing to take on several positions. Some job openings are immediate and some in the near future. The District Four Scholarship Committee is the best run committee we have on the district level. This year we will issue seven $1000.00 scholarships and one four-year scholarship for $1000.00 per year. We will determine who gets the four-year scholarship at the Award Ceremony with a draw from a hat. That will be fun. The committee needs your help. Anyone can apply, no experience needed. On February 6, 2005 there will be an envelope stuffing at VWB Cleo Hathaway's place at 1:00 p.m. On April 14 we will grade the applications at Green Lake Lodge at 7:00 p.m. You may contact me for more information or apply in person. The pay is light refreshments and the warm feeling you get from knowing you made a difference in a young person's life. This is why the Masons started public schools when we founded this country.
The next position available requires technical skills possessed by few and at present the pay is equal to zero to the tenth power (not very much at all). We have a need for a District Four web master. WB Brian Hardy has done an excellent job over the years and personal reasons make it difficult to continue. Most of the framework is set up and needs someone with web page design skills to keep everything up-to-date. I would like the web master for each lodge to be in touch with the District Four site with the proper links. We may need three web masters to keep up the District Four site, one for the Masonic Monitor articles pertaining to the District; one to keep the individual lodge calendars current; and one to create the degree position data base and contact information. That is a lot of work and I think the Grand Lodge I.T. Committee already has their hands full. Doric Lodge's current successes have much to do with maintaining a current web page. Applicants may contact Brian or me.
March 25, 2005 District Four is having a special reception for our Grand Master, MWB Satoru Tashiro at Greenwood Lodge. At present, the slate is clean and I need help selecting awards to be presented. If there is to be a Grand Master's Achievement Award, I need a recommendation. I know what fine examples of Masonry some Brothers have emulated and I want to know what the individual members of District Four are thinking. I want each Lodge to tell me what they have done that is noteworthy and make a presence known to receive any award issued. Greenwood Lodge offended MW John McNab by failing to send a single officer to the reception and I was glad I could count on WB Gene Ross to accept their Pillar of Progress Award, as he was the only member present.
This June, District Four will get a new Deputy and I will be requested to make recommendations. Right now I can think of three Brothers and unless I get more feedback they will be the choices I suggest. This job pays a small monetary reimbursement from Grand Lodge. You get a really neat name badge that confuses you for a Volkswagen mechanic, a fancy brass collar that polishes up real pretty, and the apron with case. The duties vary and include those stated in the Code. There is a Deputy handbook and work-shop presented by the incoming Grand Master so you will be told what to do and given license to fill in the gaps.
Doric Lodge experienced a most unfortunate loss when I was Junior Warden with the loss of our secretary VWB John Abrahamson. We floundered a couple of years doing the best we could until VWB Coe Tug Morgan stepped up to the plate. With Coe, our business works like a well-oiled machine and he has cleaned up (literally) years of waste. When he was installed it was made clear this would be a temporary fix and we would need to find a successor. This will be his last year as Secretary so we need to be proactive and find a replacement now. If you are interested, show up to any stated meeting at Doric Lodge No. 92, 649 N. 36th Street, Seattle. We have an early bird dinner at 6;30 p.m. with the meeting to follow. When you see Coe in action you will think the job is easy. That is why he helped put on the Secretary's workshop for Grand Lodge. The pay is $250.00 per month with flexible hours and benefits. Apply in person.
Thanks to both the Deputy of the Grand Master in District 4, and the Masonic Monitor which publishes his articles for allowing us to reprint them. The Masonic Monitor is published monthly (except August) under approval of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Washington. The Masonic Monitor can be contacted at: 6619 132nd Avenue NE, PMB 237, Kirkland, WA, 98033-8627, USA. Phone: (425) 822-4605 - FAX: (425) 822-2535 - Email: masonicmonitor@earthlink.net.