From the South – January 2020

Here is hoping everyone had a good holiday season, be it Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa or one of the other 14 holidays celebrated in December!

If you were at our last Stated meeting, during dinner it was announced that LeeAnn will no longer be able to prepare our dinners for us. But fear not, we have reached out to Alicia Moss, of Alicia Moss Catering, and she has agreed to step in and provide our wonderful dinners. Alicia is well known in the Masonic Family. If you ever have attended a “Grand” reception or dinner, chances are Alicia is catering the event.

On the menu for January is Cordon Bleu with all the trimmings.

If there is anything I can do for you to make your night with us more enjoyable, just let me know. My phone number is below. IF you need a ride to the meeting, please call and we can arrange something. I am always open to suggestions for a dinner, so if you have an idea, let me know.

A young man of 20 years old joined his local Masonic lodge and was initiated as an Entered Apprentice. After that evening, he disappeared and was not heard again for a very long time.

Sixty-five years later, he contacted the brothers of that same lodge, and explained that he had been made an EA 65 years prior, and he would like to return his proficiency work and receive the Fellowcraft degree. After the Secretary verified his claim of initiation (as no living brothers of that lodge could remember him), the Worshipful Master turned to the elder Entered Apprentice and asked, “Brother, why did you wait 65 long years to return to us?” The man thought for a moment, then looked the Master in the eye and said, “I needed some time to subdue my passions!”

WB James Van Anda