TRESTLE BOARD

June 2015
Vol. XV

Issue VI

Flag Day June 14

Fathers Day June 21

LEESBURG LODGE No. 58

FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF FLORIDA

200 Richey Road
Leesburg, Florida 34748
Phone: 352-787-5696
Email: leesburglodge58@centurylink.net
Meets the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of Each Month at 7:00pm
Chartered January 15th, 1868

Committees for 2015

Officers for 2015

Worshipful Master
Senior Warden
Junior Warden
Treasurer
Secretary
Senior Deacon
Junior Deacon
Senior Steward
Junior Steward
Tyler
Chaplain
Marshal
Organist
Lodge Instructor
Lodge Historian
Librarian

Bro. Ron Glover..874-9504

Br. Jeff Lamb (Sherri).... .753-0277
Br. Wayne Reynolds.(Linda)407-484-0096
WLarry Duff (Brenda)..874-2164
W Hank DeBerry (Paula)..... 430-0238
Lodge .................... .787-5696
Br. Ed Spencer..324-2134
Br. Pedro Arroyo (Marcia)386-804-2043
Br. James M. Thomas...568-1554
Br. Norman Novis (Alona)...409-7669
WJim Angelos 255-1724
Vacant
W John Haas (Tina).360-9114
Vacant
WHank DeBerry (Paula)...330-7311
Vacant
W Larry Duff (Brenda).874-2164

Trestle Board
WHank DeBerry (Paula).. 330-7311
Trestle Board Printing Leesburg Printing .. 787-3348
Lodge Web Mail
leesburglodge58@centurylink.net

Board of Relief
Chairman WMRon Glover, Jeff Lamb, Wayne Reynolds
Lodge Property
Chairman Jeff Lamb, WDon McIntyre, WJim Angelos,
W John Haas, WMRon Glover
Finance - Investments & Budget
Chairman Jeff Lamb, RW Ken Graves,
WTom Russell, WLarry Duff, WJohn Haas
Vigilance
Chairman WJohn Haas, WBob Browning, Jeff Lamb,
Charity & Scholarships
Chairman WJohn Haas, Sec. WHank DeBerry, Ed Spencer

Living
Past Masters
Charles Porter
1959
RWRay Richardson
1969*
William Ed Davison
1974
Robert H. Smith
1977
RWColin Crews
1980^*
H. C. Connell
1985
RWTheodore Jansen 1986*
Michael Dozier
1988
John H. Meier V
1989
Jay A. Frizzell, Jr.
1992
Raleigh Sorenson
1993/1994
Don Barfield
1996
Tom Russell
1997/1998/2002
Mervyn Harris
1999
RWKenneth Graves
2000*
RH Thomas E. Beach 2001
Robert H. Browning 2003/2004
RWDennis Ricker
2005/2007^*
Roland P. Gibson
2006
Bill Green
2008
Richard Ecott
2009
Donald McIntyre, Sr.
2010
Randall Jesmok
2011
Larry Duff
2012
Jim Angelos
2013
John Haas
2014

Affiliated
Past Masters

Education
Chairman WHank DeBerry, WMRon Glover, Jeff Lamb

MWJoseph Brearley
Henry DeBerry
Jack Delauter
Robert C. Gleckler
Robert Kennedy
Clifford Moore
Frank Peregrin
Glenn A. Reynolds*^
Edwin Robbins
Robert L. Welch
Forest Case*
Wayne Parks
Fred Lint
Raymond D Trudeau
John R. Haas
Gary Towne
^ Past District Instructor
* Past DDGM
# Past Grand Master

Lodge Mentors
Chairman WLarry Duff, WHank DeBerry, all Past Masters
Catechism
Chairman WDon McIntyre, Sr., WBob Browning, Jeff Lamb
Petitions Investigation
Chairman WMRon Glover, WLarry Duff, W Hank DeBerry
Investigations Interviews
WM Ron Glover will appoint as needed
Funeral
Chairman WJim Angelos, WBob Browning, Ed Spencer
Activities & Awards
Chairman WM Ron Glover, WJohn Haas, Jeff Lamb,
Wayne Reynolds
Officers meet at 6:00pm, first stated meeting, Committee Chairman
meet the second meeting of each month for business and planning.

18th Masonic District

DDGM

RW Alan Heist

407-718-5841

District Instructor

RH Ed Mayfield PDDGM

352-751-3532
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LIGHT FROM THE EAST

WM Ron Glover

I hope this year is still finding you well. 2015 continues to speed by as we prepare for our trip to
Grand Lodge in Orlando on Memorial Day and as always I would like to thank everybody for their continued
support, especially the Past Masters. Your help and advice is welcome and appreciated.
I would like to take a moment to talk about a few of the upcoming events at our Lodge. June is going to
a busy month for us. We will be having our usual 1st Saturday breakfast and 2nd Sunday dinners on the 6th and
12th, respectively. The breakfast will have, as usual, eggs cooked to order, bacon, sausage links and patties,
home fries, grits, pankcakes, waffles, biscuits & gravy, donuts, sweet rolls, and all the coffee or juice you can
drink for just $6. Our dinner in June will be our annual Celebratory Indoor Cookout with real beef hamburgers
and hotdogs with all the fixings and plenty of sides. We need your support with these dinners Brothers. It's not
only your support that we need, but we would like to some some of the old friendly faces back in the dining
hall and the lodge. Come on back down.
I would also like to announce that after the dinner on June 14th, the Leesburg Chapter of The Order of
The Eastern Star will be celebrating their 100th Anniversary at 3pm in Leesburg Lodge. It is an open event and
everybody is welcome. People will be coming from all across the state to attend. Lets turn out and show them
how we can support them. Please RSVP to 352-430-0238 if you plan to attend, so they can plan for the food.
In addition to our normal stated communications on the first and third Tuesdays, we will be putting on
a Master Mason Degree in Leesburg Lodge for the first time in several years. It is a very special event and we
are honored to be able to host the proceedings. We are in the planning stages right now but it appears as if it
will be on Thursday, June 25th. We will be raising five Fellowcrafts to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason,
three Brothers from our Lodge, one from The Villages, and one from Mt. Dora. Due to the number of Brothers
we are raising we are going to be starting this degree a little earlier in the day, either 1 or 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Leesburg will be putting on the first part of the degree and our Senior Warden Jeff Lamb will be presiding in the East. We will then be taking a break for some refreshments before we begin the second part of the
Degree, which will be put on by The Villages. It is always a memorable event for our Brothers to be raised and
it means so much more when they see the Brethren there to welcome them. Please come and help us in the
raising of these new Master Masons. We have some good men coming through and they need your support.
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Chaplains Corner
My Brothers, Where do I begin. We have suffered several losses over the last couple of months that
have just set us back on our heels. We have lost Brothers and friends and our Fraternity is saddened
by their loss. Our Brother Jim Campbell who served as our Junior Warden last year was taken suddenly after a brief illness. Our Brother R.W. Joe Price was also taken to that Celestial Lodge suddenly and before any of us could imagine. Their loss was a blow to our Lodge and the Craft and they will be greatly
missed. Please keep their families in your thoughts and prayers. Also keep in you prayers RW Ted Jansen and
Bro George Shoemaker who are both in rehab right now. May the Great Architect watch over all our Brothers
and keep them safe.
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Continued from page 3 On Tuesday, June 16th, we will be having our official visit from our newly appointed District Deputy
Grand Master, Right Worshipful Alan E. Heist and our new District Instructor, Right Worshipful Ed Mayfield.
RW Heist will be spreading the message of our new Grand Master, Most Worshipful Steven P. Boring. Please
come and find out what our new Grand Master has in store for us this year. It's also a good time to ask questions.
I would also like to announce that we will be having another guest speaker during the month of July.
For those that remember the great lecture that Right Honorable Aubrey Cross gave in our Lodge last year concerning General Douglas MacArthur, I am please to announce that during our first meeting, Tuesday July 7th,
Right Honorable Aubrey Cross will be returning to give a 30 to 40 minute speech about the signers of the Declaration of Independence, both the Masons and non-Masons, and about their sacrifices and the consequences of
their bold actions that help shaped this country that we know and love. Everybody is invited; Masons, nonMasons, wives and children. The speech will begin at 7pm, and we will start our meeting afterward. Please
help spread the word and invite somebody you know. I believe this is a subject that everybody should know
more about.
Like I said Brothers, June is looking to be a busy month and it appears to be spreading over into July.
Come down to the Lodge and visit. Stay safe out there Brothers.
Fraternally,
Ron J Glover

From the West

From the Secretary

Bro. Jeff Lamb

WHank DeBerry

My fellow Masons I would like to send out a

invitation this month to our Brothers who have not
been in lodge lately. Our membership is somewhere in
the neighborhood of two hundred and fifty, yet our attendance at lodge each meeting is only about ten percent of that number.
Leesburg lodge seems to be on an upswing as we
are bringing in new members and trying new things to
increase participation. If you've not been to a meeting
in some time, I'm sure the thought of showing up one
Tuesday night may seem a bit uncomfortable. There
will be a lot of faces you don't recognize, old friends
are going to ask where you've been, and your not really
sure if you remember all of the due guards. (don't
worry about that one, they put me in as Senior Warden
and I mess up the Fellow craft one almost every time.)
Remember we are Brothers, and you will be welcomed as such. This fraternity is only as strong as it's
members make it, we want you back no matter how
long it's been since you have crossed the threshold of
the Lodge.
I'm sure many of you were active at one time in the
Lodge, maybe even moved through the chairs and sat in
the East at one time. Or just enjoyed the fellowship of
being in the presence of men who think alike, and have
the same values as you. One of the great things about
Freemasonry is you can take as little or as much as you
like. Either way your Brothers would be more then
happy to see you sitting in Lodge again. Don't underestimate the power of your memory either, after three or
four times, I'm sure most of the ritual and procedures
will come back to you.
Join us again, make new friends, reacquaint yourself with old ones, and by all means come by and allow
me to introduce myself to you (I'm easy to find, I'm the
good looking guy in the West) You may be surprised
and find Freemasonry take hold of you again like it did
when you first made those three distinct knocks at the
inner door.
We may not have met, but I'll be looking for you,
along with the rest of your Brothers on the first and
third Tuesday of the month at seven o'clock.
See you soon my Brothers
Senior Warden
Jeff

Brothers, I apologize for the brevity of the

Trestle Board this month. I find myself in a quandary about it. I know that the thing has to be written
and sent out every month without fail yet I look at
the blank page on the screen and ask myself each
month is anyone going to really read this or am I
the only one who gives a poop? Well, that is why it
is so dang short this time and even less last month. I
kept asking myself the same questions over and over
and I finally realized what I had to do and why. I
volunteered for this job and got elected to this office
and agreed to do it to the best I know how and I
havent been living up to part of that deal. So here I
am writing furiously nine days before it has to be in
the hands of the Lodge Brothers, and hoping that it
will be enough.
Brothers, we need to congratulate our Brothers, Jose Castro, Anthony Sierra and Jerry Hall on
successfully returning their proficiency in the Fellow
Craft degree. They were ably coached by Brother
Jeff Lamb and he is to be commended also. When
you see them in Lodge or out, be sure to let them
know you have been pleased with their progress.
We have a new Brother among us now.
Brother Jayson Wood was Initiated on April 30th
and the event was attended by his Grandfather W.
Jay Frizzell
We have one more Grand Lodge behind us
now and I want to let our newest Junior Grand Warden know that we are very happy for his election and
offer him our sincere congratulations! RW John
Karroum, we will be looking forward to your visit to
the 18th district in 2019! I am sure the Craft will
welcome you with open arms.
I would also like to congratulate our new
District Deputy Grand Master, RWAlan Heist. I
look forward to his visits to our Lodge and around
the district. Also we should thank RW Ed Mayfield
for his service as DDGM and the very good job he
did in that office. I am certain that he will also be a
fine District Instructor. Dont forget to attend the
Schools of Instruction for the district and learn the
proper way to do the degrees in the Lodge. Also the
Open Books are the place to learn the correct words
to all the degrees, so come out and get a Masonic
education,
As always, I am in the Lodge office on Tuesdays and Fridays so stop by and see me if you need
anything or just to say hello!

From the South

UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES

February 2015

Bro. Wayne Reynolds

Exploration of the West

On the 14th of May, 1804, the year following the purchase of
the Louisiana Territory, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain
William Clark began their expedition of exploration of the new
territory.
On a morning that was cold and windy, their journey records
that they "proceded under a Jentle brease up the Messowrie,"
with a small group of soldiers, frontiersmen from Kentucky and
"three French voyageurs" on assignment by President Thomas
Jefferson to cross the continent, find a pass through the Stony
(Rocky) Mountains, search for the headwaters of the Columbia
River and to proceed downstream to the Pacific.
It was an unexplored land and the journals are filled with accounts of discovery of rivers, mountains, animals and substances
(such as "alkali poison") completely unknown. They described
the tribes of Indians they encountered. They found and apparently named the first "grizzly" bear ever seen by anyone except
Indians.
Brother William Clark. the expedition's co-leader, was a
member of St Louis Lodge No 111, under Pennsylvania charter,
and is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St Louis. His grave is
marked with a large monument bearing the square and compasses.
Brother Meriwether Lewis, based on Masonic records, was a
member of Door to Virtue Lodge No 44, Albermarle County,
Virginia in 1797. When the Lodge passed out of existence in
1801, he affiliated with Widow's Son Lodge No 60, Milton, and
still later became, on its chartering, first Master of St Louis
Lodge No 111. Lewis was made Governor of Louisiana Territory in 1808.
Both Masons were commended by President Jefferson for
their three years of perilous and invaluable exploits as
"surveyors of a continent".
Brothers, last Sunday's dinner went okay but still a small
turnout. Please let your friend, neighbors and family know
about these wonderful meals that are available for just
$9.00. Be sure to sign up on the list so I can be sure to order and
prepare enough food for everyone.
Many Brothers have asked so here is the recipe for:

June 1 - Boy Scout Troop 1 Mtg - 7:00 PM

June 1 - DeMolay Mtg - Eustis - 7:00 PM
June 2 - Stated Communication - 7:00 PM
June 3 - Chapter/Council York Rite7:30 PM
June 4 - OES Meeting/ Official Visit - 7:30 PM
June 6 - First Saturday Breakfast - 8:00 - 10:00 AM
June 8 - Rainbow Assembly 79 - Mt Dora - 7:00 PM
June 10 - Open Books/School of Instruction - Tavares
June 10 - Lake/Sumter Commandry Mtg. - 7:30 PM
June 14 - Flag Day
June 14 - Second Sunday Dinner - 11:30-1:00 PM
June 14 - OES Leesburg Chapter 84 - 100 year anniversary
3:00 PM (Attire - Sunday Best) RSVP to 352-430-0238
June 15 - DeMolay Mtg - Eustis - 7:00 PM
June 16 - Stated Communication - 7:00 PM
June 17 - Masters & Wardens - 7:30 PM - Clermont No. 226
June 21 - Fathers Day
June 21 - Summer Solstice - Longest Day of the year
June 22 - Rainbow Assembly #79 - Mt Dora - 7:00 PM

Wayne's Meatloaf Recipe

1 lb ground beef

1/2 lb ground pork

1/2 lb ground veal

2 eggs

6 slices of bread

1 pkg Lipton onion soup mix

Once again Brothers and Sisters we ask that you please

DO NOT drive on the grass
next to the Lodge parking lot.
It is leaving ruts in the
ground and they are hard to
mow over. Thank You!
-Yard Maintenance Guy-

Mix all ingredients, except bread, in a large bowl. Dampen

bread with water and then squeeze water out. Add bread to
other ingredients. Place in loaf pan in 350 oven for 1 hour.
Enjoy with potatoes and vegetables and brown gravy.
This months menu is for an inside picnic! We will be having
Hot Dogs and Hamburgers with baked beans and chips.

Masonic Education Worksheet

Name(s) of Those Who Attended:
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Date(s) Attended: _____________________________________________________________________
Function/Activity/Training/Etc. Attended:
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Number of Hours Involved:______________________________________________________________
Location of Activity: ___________________________________________________________________
Please leave completed slips on the Secretarys desk at the Stated Communications, or email W. Hank DeBerry
with this information at hdeberry@embarqmail.com,
hdeberry@embarqmail.com or place them in the slot on the Secretarys door.

Name(s) of Those Who Attended:

____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Date(s) Attended: _____________________________________________________________________
Function/Activity/Training/Etc. Attended:
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Number of Hours Involved:______________________________________________________________
Location of Activity: ___________________________________________________________________
Please leave completed slips on the Secretarys desk at the Stated Communications, or email W. Hank DeBerry
with this information at hdeberry@embarqmail.com, or place them in the slot in the Secretarys door

Name(s) of Those Who Attended:

____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Date(s) Attended: _____________________________________________________________________
Function/Activity/Training/Etc. Attended:
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Number of Hours Involved:______________________________________________________________
Location of Activity: ___________________________________________________________________
Please leave completed slips on the Secretarys desk at the Stated Communications, or email W. Hank DeBerry
with this information at hdeberry@embarqmail.com, or place them in the slot in the Secretarys door

Leesburg Announcement Forms

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Date (s):__________________________ Time:_________________________
Description/Comments____________________________________________
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For further information contact:____________________ at ________________
Submitted by:_____________________________________________________

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2014 TRESTLE BOARD SPONSORS

YOUR NAME HERE - INDIVIDUAL OR COUPLE FOR ONLY $20.00
Current year or any part thereof - HELP US KEEP YOU INFORMED!
John Dean

Hank & Paula DeBerry

Larry & Brenda Duff

Jim Angelos

William & Sharen Aston

Joe Schlegal

Suzanne Mina

John & Tina Haas

Jim & Becky Campbell

Richard Follett

Ed Spencer

George A. Brown

Bob & Carolyn Browning

Ken Graves

George Shoemaker

Betsey Jordan

Bill & Sharon Staple

RW Ed Mayfield

Gareld Grimes

Dennis & Ginny Ricker

Ronald J. Glover

Ronald W. Glover

Ed Spencer

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If you would like to be a sponsor in 2015, please see the secretary with your donation. Your
donations are applied to the monthly mailing costs of the Trestle Board, we need 60 sponsors to
cover the yearly mailing costs. Sponsorship is $20.00 for the year or any part thereof. Our Goal
for this year is 60 sponsors. Please consider a sponsorship.
"You get out of Masonry only what you put in it."

HIGH TWELVE
Meeting Times & Locations

RAINBOW
ASSEMBLY
No. 79 at Mt. Dora

Hawthorne Masonic High Twelve No. 547 Meets at 11:00 a.m. on the 2nd & 4th Tuesday
of each month at Golden Corral, 1720 Citrus
Blvd. (Hwy 27/441) Leesburg, FL. Tel: 352728-3911.

Lets not forget the young Ladies of our local

Rainbow Chapter. They need our support.
We should also remember they are the future
of our Ladies organizations and future leaders in our
communities. Meetings are at 7:00pm on the 2nd
and 4th Mondays of each month at Mt. Dora Lodge.
Know a young Lady who might want to join,
you can contact Chapter Mom Debbie Dyer at 407908-6973 or Chapter Dad Warren Shippee at 321689-6661.
Attend a meeting and be impressed.

Tri-County Masonic High Twelve meets

10:30 a.m. 1st Wednesday of each month at La
Hacienda Recreation Center, The Villages.
Reservations for lunch due by the Thursday before the meeting, call Rita at 750-5561.

It behooves every man to remember that

the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end,

magic to stir mens blood. Make

progress is accomplished by the man who

big plans aim high in hope and

does things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

18th MASONIC DISTRICT

LODGES
Stated Communication Meetings
Leesburg No. 58
Umatilla No. 65
Clermont No. 226
Eustis No. 85
Villages No. 394
Tavares No. 234
Wildwood No. 92
Groveland No. 190
Mt. Dora No. 238

Make no little plans; they have no

work.
- Daniel H Burnham

DEMOLAY
CHAPTER
At Eustis

1st and 3rd Tuesday

1st and 3rd Monday
1st and 3rd Monday
2nd and 4th Monday
2nd Monday
2nd and 4th Tuesday
2nd and 4th Tuesday
2nd and 4th Thursday
1st and 3rd Thursday

Lets also not

forget the young Men of our local DeMolay Chapter.
They also need our support. We should also
remember they are the future of Masonry and future
leaders in our communities. Meetings are at 7:00pm
on the 1 and 3rd Mondays of each month at Eustis
Lodge. Know a Man who might want to join, you
can contact Granddaddy Philip Paul at 407-8328771. Attend a meeting and be impressed.

Have YOU Traveled Lately?

HELP BY SUPPORTING OUR

MASONIC YOUTH
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June Birthdays

Scottish Rite

www.OcalaSR.com or www.SROrlando.com June 4 - Forest Case

June 4 - Harvey Chase
Ocala Scottish Rite meets the first Monday of each month, June 5 - Edward Sowden Jr
at 7:30pm.at Ocala Scottish Rite Center, 3632 NE 7th Street, Ocala, June 6 - Gregory Connell
June 8 - Bascom Tucker Jr
Fl.
June 9 - Richard Follett
Orlando Scottish Rite meets at 1485 Grand Road, Winter
June 13 - Blair Gingrich
Park, Fla. on the 4th Friday of each month, except, November,
which is on the third Friday and dark in December, meetings at June 13 - James Ferguson
June 14 - Ted Jansen
7:30pm.
June 20 - Jerry Stegall
June 21 - John Schneider
York Rite Bodies
June 22 - Dallas Douma Jr
June 22 - Wayne Longo
A Continuation of the Blue Lodge
June 24 - Ted Patton Jr
www.flgyr.org
June 26 - David Raber
June 27 - Donald Coletti
Ocala York Rite Bodies Meetings at Belleview Lodge No. 95
June 29 - Ken Graves
Ocala Chapter No. 13 - Meets Second Wednesday of January,
March, May, September and November beginning at 7:30 PM.
Ocala Council No. 22 - R&S Masters - Meets Second Wednesday of February, April, June, October and December beginning at
7:30 PM.
Ocala Commandry No. 19 - Knights Templar - Meets on the
fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:30 PM.
Lake/Sumter York Rite Bodies - Meetings at Leesburg Lodge 58
Eustis Chapter No. 33, Meets on the first Wednesday at 7:30
PM
Golden Triangle Council No. 28Royal & Select Masters Meets first Wednesday at 7:30 PM.
Chapter and Council will alternate on who begins first.
Triangle Commandery No. 38 Knights TemplarMeets on the
second Wednesday of each month at 7:30 PM, except in July and
August.

Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter No. 84

Lady Paula DeBerry PM Worthy Matron
W Hank DeBerry PPWorthy Patron
Lady Orrissa Maurer PMSecretary
W Robert Welch PGP Treasurer

Attention Brothers and Sisters! The official

visit by the Grand Conductress, Sister Barbara
Blanton will be held on June 4th at 7:30 PM
Please try to attend and support your Chapter.
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Editors Note: All articles and information must be received by the editor
prior to the 23rd of the publishing
month for inclusion in the next issue.
Articles can be e-mailed to:
leesburglodge58@centurylink.net

Change

Comedy Corner

We live in a country where

change is a way of life. The
United States is based on
change.
A change from a Monarchy
A change from oppression
A change from one president to the next
A change from the 19th century technology to the
20th, and then to the 21st century. All in the same
century, actually all in a 30 year period.
Our forefathers agreed that we should be able
to change the constitution to meet the needs and
situations of the future. That is why amendments can
be added.
Everything changes; transportation, homes,
energy, government, environment, food, religion, and
even families. We talk about dysfunctional families,
common law spouse, living together, living apart, living alone, and just plain living. Some of us think that
this is unsatisfactory, but it's olny change.
Even the Holy Scripture makes reference to
change, for if we do not change we stagnate.
We must make changes to meet this new and ever
changing world. Those who say "The old ways are
the best ways" better look again, THEY ARE NOT
WORKING! The saying "If it ain't broke don't fix it"
only works for machines, and at the rate our membership is dropping, it's broke.
Masonry, like the United States, the constitution, religion, and our families will always keep their
core values, ideas and ideals but we must change to
meet the future.
Forty years ago Lipton Tea had little saying
on the paper tag attached to their tea bags, on one of
those tags was printed these words; "The best way to
cope with change is to help make it."
We now have an opportunity to move Masonry into the future, to make the changes. We must
make Freemasonry desirable for the young men looking for fellowship. The only way we can do this, is
through change to meet the needs of these young
men.
The word change was used 19 times in this
short talk. How many times did you say it in Lodge
last year, and then act on it.

The Worshipful Master of our Lodge found a bottle with

a Genie in it. In accordance with custom, the Genie offered to grant him a wish.
"OK," said the WM, "Ive always wanted to go to Hawaii, but I hate to fly. So my wish is for you to build a
bridge so I can drive to Hawaii."
"I cant do that!!!" exclaimed the Genie. "Dont you
know thats impossible? No Genie could do that. Its
too far, the water is too deep, its just totally beyond
anybodys power. You will have to make another
wish."
"OK," said the Master. "I wish that at our next Stated
Meeting all the old PMs would just get along and not
cause any trouble, not have to tell us how they did it
their year, not complain about the ritual, not put down
the current officers ... just sit on the sidelines and behave!"
"Hmmmmm," said the Genie. "Do you want that
bridge with 2 lanes or 4??"

It seems a Jewish family had rented an apartment that

sat directly under the Masonic Temple, and at least
once a month they would always hear this stomping
from above.
One day Izzy told his wife he was going to drill a
hole in the ceiling and see what those Masons were up
to. After doing so, one evening he heard some stomping coming from above, so he got his ladder, climbed
up and decided to take a peek.
After a few moments, he flew down the ladder and
ran in and told his wife to pack all their belongs and
"Let's get out of here and fast !!!"
When she asked why, Izzy told her that he was just
peeking in on the Masons above and saw them kill a
man and said they were going to blame it on the 'JEWBELOW.'

- William R. Fischer
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Pictures from around the Lodge

WJohn Haas; Brother Jayson Wood; WJay Frizzell; WMRon Glover

One very proud Grandpa! Congratulations Jayson and RW Frizzell !

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Pictures from around the Lodge

Brother Garth Phillips with his lady Molly and Brother James Reynolds with his lady
Jeannie enjoying the recent Sunday dinner.
WTom Russell and his lady Lynn

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Pictures from around the Lodge

Brother Ralph Rogers and his lady Joann

At the dinner before the Initiation of Ms Edna Mayfield into the International Order of Rainbow for
Girls. Held at Umatilla Lodge No. 65 on May 2, 2015

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Pictures from around the Lodge

The transformation is about to take place!

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Pictures from around the Lodge

Becoming Miss EDNA

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Pictures from around the Lodge

Yes folks that is a garter and yes there was dollar bills involved!

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Pictures from around the Lodge

The final product and I think the Rainbow girls did a remarkable job with
what they had to work with! Thank You RW Mayfield for being such a
great sport!
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Pictures from around the Lodge

Sister Edna with her Rainbow sisters from Mt Dora Assembly 79 and some of the Brothers she blessed
with a little smooch on their bald heads

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SUNDAY DINNER
Leesburg Lodge No. 58
June 14, 2015
Menu
Hamburgers and Hot Dogs w/ Chips
Salad, Desserts both ( Sugared and Sugar free),
Drinks
$8.37 + .63 tax - Adults, under 14 - $3.72 + .28 tax

11:30 AM until 1:00 PM

Please call the Lodge at 787-5696 or sign the guest list in the lobby
and provide the number attending with you,. This ensures enough food is purchased
and prepared for all.
ALL MASONS, their families and friends are invited to our Monthly
Second Sunday Dinners and First Saturday Breakfasts
Help support your Blue Lodge, IT IS where all other Masonic Bodies Begin.

Future menu suggestions are always welcome!

Introducing 2015 Chef Crew

JW Wayne Reynolds
SS James Michael Thomas
JS Norman Novis
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Leesburg Masonic Lodge No. 58 F&AM

PO Box 985
Fruitland Park, Florida 34731

NONPROFIT
US Postage
PAID
Permit#1040
Leesburg,, FL
34748

Celebrating 147 years (1868 2015)

in Leesburg, Fla. The Lakefront City

SUNDAY DINNERS

11:30 a.m. TO 1:00 p.m.

Menu items: June 14, 2015
Hamburgers and Hot Dogs
Chips,

Garden Salad, Desserts (Sugared & Sugar-Free)

Coffee, Iced Tea and Lemonade

$8.37 + .63 tax per person, Children under 14 years of age $3.72 + .28 tax

PLEASE call the Lodge at 787-5696, or sign the guest list in the foyer, provide
the number of guests attending with you, this ensures enough food is prepared for all. ALL MASONS,
their families and friends are invited . Menu suggestions welcomed, just fill out a comment card.
Dont forget to call or sign -up!!!

1st Saturday Monthly Coffee Klatch & Breakfast

8:00am to 10:00am

Eggs (cooked to order), Pancakes, Waffles, Bacon, Sausages

(Pattys or Links), Breakfast Potatoes, Grits, Sausage Gravy,
Biscuits, Toast
Coffee, Orange Juice
$5.58 +.42 sales tax per person
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