Masonic Service Bureau to host Masonic Children and Family Services at Irving Lodge

Brethren & Ladies,

The Dallas Area Masonic Service Bureau will hold its regular quarterly meeting this Monday, August 23, 2010, at Irving Lodge No. 1218, located at:

132 E. Second St.

Irving 75060 map

The Lodge phone number is: 972-253-5600.

The evening will begin at 6:30 for a meal, provided by the Stewards of Irving Lodge, and the meeting will begin at 7:15 pm. After the program presentation, which will include a very heart-warming video presentation, there will be ample opportunity to ask questions of the staff.

The program will be led by Sharon Fulcher-Tatom, the Executive Director of the Texas Masonic Children and family Services, which encompasses the former Masonic Home and School, along with a wide range of additional services not previously offered. She will be accompanied and ably assisted in the program by two of the other staff members.

I have had the pleasure of attending a presentation from these wonderful people, and I am very excited to be able to invite them to speak to the Dallas Area Masonic Service Bureau.

Kindest Fraternal Regards,

Harold Collum

President

Dallas Area Masonic Service Bureau

WORK SCHEDULE FOR AUGUST/SEPTEMBER, 2010

Friday Aug. 13
7:00 P.M.
Confer Master Masons’ Degree

Monday Aug. 16
7:00 P.M.
Confer Fellow Craft Degree

Wednesday Aug. 18
7:00 P.M.
Candidate Orientation

Friday Aug. 20
7:00 P.M.
Confer 2 Entered Apprentice Degrees

Monday Aug. 23
6:30 P.M.
Meal and Dallas Masonic Services Presentation

Friday Aug. 27
7:00 P.M.
Confer 2 Entered Apprentice Degrees

Monday Aug. 30
7:00 P.M.
Confer 1 Entered Apprentice Degree

Monday Sept. 06
DARK
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

Saturday Sept. 11
Noon to 5 PM
Gift of Life Blood Drive at Irving Mall

Monday Sept. 13
7:00 P.M.
Examinations and bulletin mailing

Tuesday Sept. 14
6:30 P.M.
Light Meal

7:30 P.M.
STATED MEETING

IN MEMORIAM

Paul Wilson Willis was born April 22, 1918. He was made a Master Mason in Irving Lodge #1218 on March 15, 1943. He was recognized as a 50 Year Member by Grand Lodge in March, 1993. After 67 plus years as a Master Mason, Brother Willis answered the call of the Death Angel on July 2, 2010.

E. H. “Ed” Waldrum, Jr. was born June 2, 1927. He was Raised a Master Mason on January 30, 1953 in Faith Lodge #1158 in Wichita Falls, Texas. He affiliated with Irving Lodge #1218 on June 11, 1957. Brother Waldrum was presented the 50 Year Masonic Service Award in Irving Lodge on October 16, 2002. He joined his Savior in Heaven on July 22, 2010.

“All the pain and grief is over, Every restless tossing passed; I am now at peace forever, Safely home in heaven at last.”
(excerpt from poem “Safely Home”, author unknown)

We dedicate this bulletin to the memory of Paul W. Willis and Ed H. Waldrum. Their souls have gone to heaven but their memory remains in our hearts.

JUST LIKE OLD TIMES

Here we are with a work schedule that will be remembered by some of the old folks. We are scheduled to have one Master Masons Degree, one Fellow Craft Degree, and five Entered Apprentice Degrees. If you have been wanting to work in a degree; watch a degree; or learn to work in a degree, now is your chance. We always need workers. We always like to have watchers, and we always appreciate those who will learn to work in the degrees. Due to the heavy work load we are forced to go back to the old Monday/Friday night format for the degrees. On two Friday nights we will confer two degrees on each night. Come to one or come to all the degrees, but please come and enjoy the degrees and the fellowship.

DALLAS MASONIC SERVICE BUREAU

Do you ask the question, “What is the Dallas Masonic Service Bureau and what does it do ?” Now your questions will be answered, plus a nice meal will be served. On Monday evening, August 23rd, at 6:30 P.M. the Stewards will serve a meal to be followed with a program by a representative of the Dallas Masonic Services Bureau. Free to bring your wife and friends.

AN ORIENTATION FOR CANDIDATES

An orientation for the newly elected candidates for the degrees and their ladies is scheduled for Wednesday evening at 7:00 P.M. on August 18, 2010. This orientation is required for the candidate before the degree is conferred and it is recommended that we invite the ladies. The degree will be conferred at a later date but on the degree date the ladies cannot attend the meeting. Certainly, we want the ladies to get to know what Masonry is and what it’s about. Any member and his lady is invited to attend the orientation if they so desire.

KIDS ARE THE BEST FOR LAUGHS

(A 1ST grade teacher provided each of her 26 students with the first half of a well-known proverb and ask that they fill in the rest. We selected these answers as the best of 26.)

1. Strike while the
1. Bug is close

2. Never underestimate the power of
2. Termites

3. Don’t bite the hand that
3. Looks dirty

4. A miss is as good as a
4. Mr.

5. If you lie down with dogs, you’ll
5. Stink in the morning

6. Love all, trust
6. Me

7. The pen is mightier than the
7. Pigs

8. A penny saved is
8. Not much

9. Children should be seen and not
9. Spanked or grounded

10. If at first you don’t succeed
10. Get new batteries

11. A bird in the hand
11. Is going to poop on you.

12. When the blind leads the blind
12. Get out of the way.

13 Don’t change horses
13. Until they stop running

14. No news is
14. Impossible

15. Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and
15. You have to blow your nose.

Junior Warden Mike Jones Elected Treasurer of Masters Wardens Secretary's Association

Brothers:.

Thank you to everyone who came out to the MWSA elections and everyone in Irving lodge for your support in my running for MWSA treasurer. I look forward to serving district 14 and I also look forward to representing Irving Lodge in MWSA leadership.

Brother:. Mike Jones

Masters Wardens Secretaries Association - Meetings Schedule

2010 – 2011 MWSA Meetings Schedule
Programs are open to all. Dinner at 6:30 PM with
The program to follow unless otherwise noted. (Please check the MWSA Website for last minute changes)

August 25, 2010
Kiest/Zavala Lodge
Gift of Life

September 29, 2010
Trinity Valley Lodge
Texas Navy

October 27, 2010
Texas Masonic Retirement Center, Arlington
The 14th Masonic District will host a joint meeting with the 64th District.
Speaker: R: W: James Manley

November 12, 2010
Scottish Rite Hospital
A review of the Proposed Resolutions and Grand Master’s Recommendations to be voted on at Grand Lodge will be presented. (No meal, meeting at 7pm)

December 2010 (Dark)

January 26, 2011
James Ladd Burgess Lodge
Introduction of the newly installed 2011 District Deputy Grand Masters for the 14th Masonic District.

February 23, 2011
Carrollton Lodge
Speaker: Louis Hopkins

March 30, 2011
Scottish Rite Cathedral
Lamar Awards Dinner

April 27, 2011
Hella Shrine
The Official Visit of Grand Master to the 14th Masonic Districts.
Dinner will be at 7PM. Program will follow. Tickets to be made available through the 14th Masonic District Lodges.

May 25, 2011
Roy Stanley Lodge
Speaker: Richard E. Schlaudroff

June 29, 2011
Oak Cliff Lodge
Masonic Children & Family Services of Texas

July 27, 2011
Edwin J. Kiest Lodge
Election and installation of new officers.