Volume 68 Number 5 May 2015 Bulletin California Rainbow Girls, throughout the state made this donation to the California Language Center Foundation by holding local fundraising projects throughout the year! Way to go girls!
Fresno Scottish Rite Bulletin Official publication of the Fresno Bodies Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fresno, Freemasonry. California Published monthly at the Center, 1455 L Street, Fresno CA 93721 Phone (559) 268-9631 FAX (559) 268-0261 email: fresnosr@sbcglobal.net WEB PAGE: http://www.fresnoscottishrite.com Web Master: Karl Wenn, 32 Editor: Juliet Vitz Asst. Editor: Bernard R. Hollenbeck, 33 Office Secretary Assistant to the Personal Representative Ross Simonet, 32 KCCH Venerable Master Fresno Lodge of Perfection Richard E. Vitz, 32 Wise Master Fresno Chapter of Rose Croix Ronald P. Obernolte, 32 Commander Fresno Council of Kadosh H. Vincent Carter, 32 KCCH Master of Kadosh Fresno Consistory David Coleman, 32 KCCH Orator James H. Clark, 33 Almoner Louis W. Jelinek Jr., 33 Secretary C. Ray Whitaker, 33 Treasurer The deadline for submissions is the third Monday of the month. Permission is granted to Masonic Publications to copy. ALL BRETHREN WHOSE NAMES APPEAR IN THIS BULLETIN ARE OF THE 32 UNLESS OTHERWISE IDEN- TIFIED. Allegiance: The Bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, sitting in The Valley of Fresno, Orient of California, acknowledge the authority of and yield allegiance to the Supreme Council (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General, Knights Commander of The House of the Temple of Solomon of the Thirty-Third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America. Ill. Frank Loui, 33 Sovereign Grand Inspector General in California ILL. Ronald A. Seale, 33 Sovereign Grand Commander Washington D.C. ILL. Richard Paris, 33 Personal Representative of the SGIG Advisory Conference
Big Big News!!!! Fresno Scottish Rite is now accepting Credit Cards We have the square credit card reader What this means is you can now: Pay Dues & Fees Make Donations Scholarship, Clinic, Memorials, Almoner... Buy Event Tickets Except for Friends of the Center Events Purchase Merchandise Pay for Stated Dinners All with Visa, Master Card, American Express and Discover Card. Page 3
From the Venerable Master Lodge of Perfection The age old poem says April showers bring May flowers. The West Coast, especially California, has received very little rain and/or snow. We are parched, dry, and turning dusty. Just like we must save nature and conserve water, so must we cultivate and nurture candidates into Blue Lodge and eventually into Scottish Rite and Shrine. Yosemite Lodge No. 99 in Merced has a bumper crop of applicants for Masonry. Other lodges in this valley must be doing something as well, since we have 14 candidates for our Spring Class. Join your Masonic brothers in putting on the Scottish Rite degrees on May 1 and 2 and May 8 and 9. We will be busy. If you have experience or not come out and participate. Call the Director General, Mike Nella. There are things to do and help with in all degrees. The summer is almost here and we will be busy. There is a fishing adventure, a baseball game at the Grizzlies Stadium and then the Dinner Auction. Most of us can find something of interest in one or all of these events. Yes, your Venerable Master and Lady went to Spring Training in Arizona. Yes it was fun. Allergies dried up and went away and gas was a lot cheaper. But we came back. Alas, so did the allergies. Keep the faith, be safe out there! Baseball Season has begun. Ross Simonet, 32 KCCH Venerable Master Lodge of Perfection Page 4
From the Wise Master Chapter of Rose Croix Fresno Scottish Rite Brethren, We had the privilege, at our April stated meeting, of giving two of our local recipients of the Foundation s Special Scholarship to Samantha Jones (Rainbow Girl) who will be attending college in San Luis Obispo and Christopher Estrada who will be attending Stanford University. Our CART school recipients of the Fresno Scottish Rite Scholarship will be receiving their awards at the next stated meeting. They are Reina Warnert, Kasani Ligget-Wise (Rainbow Girl), and Christian Camarena; what a wonderful group of young people. Thank you to all that purchased tickets or made donations to the Heart of the Valley Rainbow Girls as they were selling tickets at our last meeting for their Cowboy Breakfast and bake sale on May 3 rd at Las Palmas Masonic Center. It was this kind of fundraiser that raised the $72,127.00 by the girls last year. I would like to welcome our new members and their families to Fresno Scottish Rite. The Ring Rose and Cap Ceremony will be May 18 th following our Stated Meeting Dinner, in the Lodge room. I hope we have a large turnout of all of our members to welcome our new members and their families. Richard Vitz, 32 Wise Master Chapter of Rose Croix Page 5
From the Master of Kadosh What a beautiful time of year, to have a Spring Reunion. How exciting to have a large Class! The Director General, Degree Directors and all degree cast members are busy getting ready and learning their parts. Sound, Stage and Wardrobe are also getting ready. Hope to see all of you there. August 1st, might seem like a long way off, but it s just a little over three months and it will be time for our Annual Dinner Auction! Everything is in order with Sunnyside Country Club. I am sure that all will have a great time and a good meal at this beautiful location. The Alotus Club of Ft. Millerton Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star will be doing the table decorations this year. It is not to soon to put together a table of eight and make your reservations. Also, please start getting donations for the silent and live auctions to the Scottish Rite office. I am sure it will be a wonderful evening in August. H. Vincent Carter, 32 KCCH Master of Kadosh, Consistory SAVE THE DATE! 4th Annual Celebrating the Craft Web Event Join us on May 16, 2015, for the fourth annual Celebrating the Craft (CTC) web event. You can join us here at the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C., for the LIVE show or you can watch online at ScottishRite.org from 6:00 pm EDT until Midnight. Music, magic, comedy, celebrities, never-before-seen video content from the House of the Temple and Valleys across the country, and so much more will be included in the webcast. Page 6
Grizzlies Baseball with Fresno Scottish Rite Fresno Grizzlies vs. Reno Aces Date: Saturday, June 6th, 2015 Time: 7:05 p.m. Where: Behind First Base Price: $15.00 Deadline for Reservations: Friday May 29th, 2015 Call 559-268-9631 with your reservations and payment Giveaway Night Bobble Head Grizzlies Baseball Game Name: Address: City, ST, Zip: Telephone: Number of tickets $15.00 each Amount Enclosed: Tickets must be prepaid at Scottish Rite (Check or Credit Card) Tickets to be picked up at Will Call at the ball park the day of the game. Page 7
2015 SHAVER LAKE FISHING DERBY $5,000 TAGGED FISH Sponsored By Fresno Scottish Rite Children s Language Disorders Center Rite Care Friends of the Center WHEN: Saturday, June 20, 2015 Adult registration: $50 each (includes lunch) ($30 is Tax Deductible). Children 15 yrs and younger may register for $30.00. (includes lunch) Lunch only (Non-registrant donation for lunch only will be $10.00). WHERE: Free entry and launching at Edison Campground Boat Ramp at Shaver Lake. Please inform Entrance Gate that you are with the Scottish Rite Children s Language Center Fishing Derby. DETAILS: 1. Prizes paid out for Kokanee and Trout only. 2. All persons in each boat that are fishing must be registered. 3. On-site registration at Edison Group Picnic Area #2 (Tanager) on Saturday, June 20th at 5:00 a.m. Fishing start time is 6:00 a.m. 4. Weigh-in line closes at 2:00 p.m. 5. Lunch served from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 6. ALL REGISTRANTS ELIGIBLE FOR THE $5,000.00 TAGGED FISH. 7. ADULT CASH PRIZES: 1st Place $500, 2nd Place $300, 3rd Place $200, 4th Place $100 and 5th Place $75 for Largest Fish by Weight. 8. CHILDREN S CASH PRIZES: 1 st Place $200.00, 2nd Place $100, 3rd Place $75 and 4 th Place $50 for the Largest Fish by Weight. 9. BLIND BOGEY: $10.00. (Smallest and Largest weight divided by 2). The Scottish Rite Childhood Language Center, Rite Care provides free services to children ages 2-18 with speech and language challenges. Federal Tax ID Number is 94-6078728.
FOR INFORMATION & REGISTRATION CONTACT Office (559) 268-9631 or Jim Wilson (559) 779-8727 (2015 California Fishing License Required) ONE FORM PER PARTICIPANT Make check payable to: Fresno Scottish Rite Language Center Mail this form and check to: Fresno Scottish Rite, 1455 L Street, Fresno, CA 93721 Participants Name: Legal Guardian name if applicable: Phone: e-mail: Group Last Name: Address: City: Zip: ( ) Adult $50.00 ( ) Junior 15 Yrs & Under $30.00 ( ) Blind Bogey $10.00 Enclosed is a check in the amount of: $ for reservation of person listed above. I understand that the Scottish Rite Children s Language Center is not liable for personal injury or property loss resulting from my participation in this fishing derby. (Signature of participant or Legal guardian) Date Signature grants all rights for photo to be used in publicity and advertising.
Tom s Talks Two of my sons compete in the Ironman Events and have introduced me to the sport of Triathlons. I have been intrigued by the lessons that endurance events and training teach you. Triathlons are endurance events in which you swim, bike and run continuously for a predetermined length; an Ironman event is a 2.4 mile swim, 12 mile bike ride and a 26 mile run. I have done several Olympic length triathlons 1 mile swim, 26 mile bike ride and 6 mile run and hope to do a half Ironman next summer. In the middle of these events and the training you ask a very important question: Why am I doing this? The answer is vitally important. You will hear many tri-athletes simply say Because it is fun and rewarding. Sounds crazy but, it is. Hopefully this is the same answer to why you support the Childhood Language Center. It is fun because of the fellowship, friendship and activities for fundraising, and rewarding because you see children's lives changed. So many of our learning challenged children are like a tri-athlete in that they are endurance students. They work and work at speech, language and learning, as hard as any endurance athlete. That is why it is so important for us to be their cheerleader and playmate. Learning should be fun and rewarding. Encourage a student near you, so that they can have the endurance they need. Your emotional and financial support is vital to their success! Tom Tatum Fresno Clinic Director Page 10
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR THE AMERICAN LODGE (continued from April edition) Lodge rooms were decorated in historical motifs to assist Masons in separating themselves from the ordinary world. Revivalist decorations allowed the membership to leave the present and enter a romantic past. Masons of this period proudly proclaimed that Freemasonry had been practiced during all eras of Western civilization. Lodge room ornamentation supported this ideology. The largest temples with multiple rooms decorated like medieval Europe, ancient Egypt and 18 th -century America, expressed materially the temporal transcendence of the fraternity s mythic frame. The membership literally surrounded itself with the message that the brotherhood had existed throughout time and around the globe. Elaborate costumes and makeup added theatrical spectacle to the rituals words. In the 1870s, the ritual usually was performed in the member s business attire augmented by the Masonic aprons, but in the 1890s some lodges used costumes. By the 1920s, scores of firms produced and marketed supplies for enhancing the Blue Lodge degrees. The Pettibone Brothers Manufacturing Company and M. C. Lilley & Company of Ohio, the Ward-Stilson Company of Indiana, and the Henderson-Ames Company of Michigan, were among the largest. Pete Clark, 32, KCCH Page 11
Contributions to the Fresno Scottish Rite Childhood Language Disorder Clinic, Rite Care Donations Adele Avant Richard & Judy Hopper honoring the Ferguson Family David & Louise Coleman Memorials Bill Bottorff C. Ray & Joyce Whitaker Truman Campbell Eugene Bopp & Louise Rosenthal Ken & Onedra Bratcher James Graham Ronald Weiner Douglas & Thelma Burton The Campbell Family Jack R. Chappell Douglas & Thelma Burton Elmer Cook Raymond & Beverly Baker James Forshey Richard Paris Dr. Malcolm Ghazal Douglas & Thelma Burton Joe Hammond Lee Powell Ron Neils Elbert & Evelyn Petersian Mary Nichols Ron McClain William Owen MD Douglas & Thelma Burton Orine Paris Art & Verta Carlson Ron McClain Douglas & Thelma Burton Lee Powell Leverne Peterson Douglas & Thelma Burton Ralph A. Smith Douglas & Thelma Burton Volunteer Hours Robert Baily H. Vincent Carter Dale Hammel David Kelley Andrew Miller John Scott John Tracy James Wilson
Fresno Scottish Rite Monday, May 18, 2015 Appetizers at 6:00 p.m. Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Chili Verde Rice and Beans Cactus Salad Flan Dessert Cost $12.00 per person Reservations Required Plain Chicken breast available upon one week advance request Check out our Web Page! www.fresnoscottishrite.com Building a Scholarship Donations Thank you to all who are supporting Building a Scholarship fund. Your continued donations will allow us to expand our scholarship program and continue to support the deserving students of the C.A.R.T. School. Donations made this month by Allan Miller Jerry & Billie Tabor in memory of Cindy Smith
May Coming Events 1 Friday Spring SR Class 6:00 p.m. 2 Saturday Spring SR Class 7:30 a.m. 8 Friday Spring SR Class 6:00 p.m. 9 Saturday Spring SR Class 7:30 a.m. 11 Monday Advisory Conference 6:30 p.m. (Council Practice) 18 Monday Stated Meeting, Ring, Rose and Cap Ceremony (Council Host) 6:00 p.m. Hors d oeuvres 6:30 p.m. Dinner Presentation CART School 19 Tuesday Clinic Board 6:00 p.m. at Scottish Rite 25 Monday Memorial Day Office Closed No Study Group meeting June 6 Saturday Grizzlies Game 7:05 Fresno 13 Saturday New Wrinkles 2:00 p.m. Matinee 15 Monday Stated Meeting in Mariposa (Lodge Advances) 6:30 p.m. Dinner, Advisory Conference followed by the Stated Meeting 16 Tuesday Clinic Board Meeting 6:00 p.m. 20 Saturday Fishing Derby, Shaver Lake 22 Monday Study Group 7:00 p.m. July 20 Monday Stated Meeting in Tulare (Consistory Advances) 6:30 Dinner Advisory Conference 21 Tuesday Clinic Board Meeting 6:00 p.m. at Scottish Rite Page 15
Masonic Youth Groups around the Valley: State Center DeMolay: Regular meetings are the 1st and 3rd Mondays at 7:00 p.m. at the Fresno Masonic Center. State Center will be visiting Lemoore DeMolay on May 13 at 7:00. Saturday, May 23 is the Parents Luncheon at 12:00 then the Mystery trip for the boys. Lemoore DeMolay: Regular meetings are the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at the Lemoore Masonic Center. Fellowship fun nights are the 3rd Friday of the month. Lemoore Job s Daughters: Fundraising dinner on Friday, May 1st at the Lemoore Masonic Center 6:30 p.m. Regular meetings are the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month. Heart of the Valley Rainbow Assembly: Regular meetings at Las Palmas Masonic Center Tuesday, May 5th and May 19th at 7:00 p.m. Rainbow Picnic - Saturday May 16th 11:00 a.m. Dry Creek Park, 855 N. Clovis Ave, Clovis. June 2nd Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Installation of Officers, Las Palmas Masonic Center. Scottish Rite Tough Mudders Challenge June 12 14, 2015 Northstar Lake Tahoe The Ultimate Team building experience Create a team and meet the Challenge, all team members do not have to be Master Masons or Scottish Rite members. 10-12 mile obstacle course designed to build teamwork with 20 to 25 obstacles. Current cost of event ticket is $154.00 per person, Team Lodging at Lakeland Village South Lake Tahoe, additional proportionate to team size. To learn more go to www.facebook.com/srtoughmudder Meet the Tough Mudder Challenge and start building your team NOW!
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