THE NORTH CAROLINA MASON
Published once a month by the Grand Lodgeof
A F & A M of North Carolina. Successor to The
Orphans’ Friend and Masonic Journal.
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the NORTH CAROLINA MASON
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By a. Edward Fey, Secretary-GSB
On Saturday, August 28, the Masonic and
related bodies of Winston-Salem really made
“Big History.” The occasion was the banquet
in the ballroom of the Hilton Inn honoring
Sojourner Sinclair Tebo as Supreme Watch
man of Shepherds of the International Order
of the White Shrine of Jerusalem.
327 Hillsborough St., Raleigr
WILL YOU BE READY?
The average North Carolina Senior Warden
will be Master of his lodge about two months
from now. How well the individual Senior
Warden has prepared himself for this advance
ment will determine to a large degree how well
his lodge will fare in 1972, and how well our
Senior Wardenss collectively have prepared
themselves will determine to a large degree
how well North Carolina Masonry will fare m
1972.
governed, but he should know as much about
THE CODE and the Rules of Order as he is
capable of knowing. In all things pertaining to
his office he should function to the very best of
his ability; his lodge deserves his best.
Most important of all is what is in the Sen
ior Warden’s heart. He must truly love Ma
sonry and truly wish to serve Masonry before
he can in good conscience accept the high of
fice of Master.
Camel Shrine No. 6 of Winston-Salem was
the host Shrine. About three hundred Masons,
Sojourners and friends came from many
states, including California, Idaho, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, New York and Florida to pay
homage to our honored guest.
Mrs. Dorothy M. Green, Supreme Worthy
High Priestess and all her line officers at
tended and were also honored on that occasion.
Mrs. Green is from St., Paul-Minneapolis and
will shai-e the East with Reverend Tebo at
the International Supreme Session, _ the
“Aurora Borealis” session in Minneapolis in
May 1972.
After all distinguished guests were escorted
to the bulging platform the Mayor of Win
ston-Salem, Dr. Franklin R. Shirley, wel
comed all to our fair city and presented 9
gold emblematic key to the city to our Supreme
Worthy High Priestess. Sojourner Rolland F.
Tepsword of Taylorsville, Illinois then sang
the “Lord’s Prayer” to open the meeting.
Each Masonic or related body present was
recognized—interspersed with two more solos,
“It Is No Secret” by Miss Linda Mabe of
Madison and ‘‘Just A Closer Walk With Thee”
)y Sojourner Vicki Ward of Camel Shrine No.
True, our Grand Lodge has some fine pro
grams, well conceived, well prepared, and well
administered; but these programs will succeed
only to the extent that they_ are participated
in and promoted by the individual lodges. And
the leadership in the individual lodge, pro
vided principally by the Master, will largely
determine the extent of the lodge’s participa
tion.
The year in the East is not provided mere
ly to equip a Mason with the title of Past Mas
ter, In fact, the Senior Warden who sets that
goal as his prime ambition will best serve his
lodge and Masonry by announcing to his lodge
prior to the first stated communication in Dec
ember that he is not prepared to serve as Mas
ter.
A lodge has the right to expect a year of
total service from the Mason it elects to ite
highest office. Now that Mason may have oth
er demands upon his time which he considers
to be more deserving of his time than are the
demands of his lodge and Masonry, and he has
the right to make this determination. But hav
ing made this determination he then has the
responsibility to decline the office of Master,
for he has NO right to assume duties he knows
he cannot or will not perform.
If the Senior Warden has satisfied his con
science with respect to the foregoing matters,
he now must consider how well he has prepared
himself with respect to knowledge of the duties
which will soon be his and how well he has pre
pared himself to perform those duties. The
best ritualist will not necessarily make the
best Master, but the Master should at least be
as good a ritualist as he is capable of being.
A Master need not be an attorney or a parlia
mentarian in order that the lodge may be well
If the Mason about to become Master has
put himself to all these tests, and if he has
passed them to his own satisfaction, he now
faces the first and probably the most impor
tant decisions he will ever make as Master:
He must select the Masons he will appoint to
fill any vacant lodge offices. There are any
number of reasons that are used in makir^
appointments; a member may be a close friend,
he may be a relative, a business associate, a
good ritualist, or just a good fellow. None of
these reasons, by themselves, qualify a Mason
for appointment to lodge office. It should
kept in mind that the Mason appointed this
year will probably become Master in a future
year. He should be a Mason, therefore, who
can successfully meet the tests that this year s
Senior Warden is facing.
December is drawing near. Will you be
ready?
HELP
The North Carolina Mason is a publication
of the North Carolina Grand Lodge for North
Carolina Masons. If it is not what the Masons
of North Carolina wish it to be it is failing in
its purpose.
We receive written and oral comments, good
and bad, concerning the contents of the paper
These comments, though, in the main are con
cerned with items of local rather than general
nature and are too few to draw any real con
clusions from.
We ask Masons all over the state to comment
on the paper. Let us know what there is in the
paper that you would like more of, less of, or
none of. Let us know what is not in the papei
0.
The featured speaker of the evening was
lumorist Dave Morrah who is on the staff of
Guilford College, author of several books, and
for many years the cartoonist of “Heinrich
Snibble,” featured in the Saturday Evening
Post. His hilarious address, “How to be a Fail
ure,” was joyously received and will be long
remembered by all.
Another solo, “How Great Thou Art, by
Rolland Tepsword, followed by the benediction
by Sojourner Bernice Geyer, Supreme Worthy
Chaplain, closed the meeting.
Breakfast was served on Sunday morning
at the Temple, followed by a religious service
led by the North Carolina/Virginia State
Club, after which all fellowshipped, met the
Supreme Officers, and reluctantly left for a
safe journey to the several states represented.
The White Shrine of Jerusalem is a bene
volent organization requiring Masonic rela
tionship for the ladies’ membership. The White
Shrine helps physically handicapped people
who can be rehabilitated.
East Goes West; New MM
By W. J. Scoggins, Jr., Masfer-530
At an Emergent Communication of Joppa
Lodge No. 530, held September 17, we were
pleased to have Brother Carol Massey of Sem
per Fidelis Lodge No. 680 in Jacksonvilc
visit our lodge to raise his brother, Charles
R. Massey, to the Sublime Degree of Master
Mason,
that you would like to see in it. Offer any crit
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its readers, but we can, with your help, see to
it that there is at least something for every
one in the paper.
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