Lost Symbol? 09/25/2009
 
There is an interesting article in the Washington Post regarding the new Dan Brown book, "The Lost Symbol," and its effect on some lodge members and their wives.  Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=137309021297&h=jcyIu&u=-hb63&ref=nf

The first event of the year for the new Grand Lodge Officers is tonight at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Des Moines, where we will be constituting Specialis Procer Lodge #678.  Film at 11:00.

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What a beautiful, crisp, nearly autumn day in Southwest Iowa.  I've just received word that my Grand Master lapel pins will be shipped out later today and the nostalgic calendars will be in the mail to Iowa Masons later this week. 
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Greetings!!! 09/21/2009
 
Fraternal greetings to one and all and welcome to the Grand Master of Masons in Iowa blog!  Fresh on the heels of the the 165th Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Iowa, your Grand Lodge Officers any myself hit the ground running this week.  On Friday, September 25, we journey to the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Des Moines to constitute Specialis Procer Lodge.  This is a fairly rare event and we are very excited to be conducting this historical event. 

I congratulate Most Worshipful Jack L. Butler, junior PGM, and his officers on a fantastic year.  I would also like to thank them for all the courtesies and hospitality shown to me by including me in his Grand Lodge Family this past year.  MW Jack kept saying all year that Masonry IS a way of life, and he proved that time and time again, leading by example, inspiring Iowa Masons to do the same.  Thanks Jack.

Just prior to the Jewel Exchange (the final part of the installation ceremony whereby authority is transferred from one Grand Master to his successor in office) on Saturday at Grand Lodge, Jack and his Deputy -- RW Robert (Digger) Breckenridge -- presented me with a new top hat and gavel.  This was no ordinary top hat and gavel; not by a long stretch.  The top hat was a beautiful royal blue and had a Chicago Cubs logo prominently displayed on the front.  The handle of the gavel was shaped like a small baseball bat and the head was a baseball with the Cubs logo.  As the saying goes, top hat $x, gavel $x, being able to Close Grand Lodge wearing a Cubs top hat, sounding a Cubs gavel -- PRICELESS!!!
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