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4 The * NORTH CAROLINA MASON Official Publication of The Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free & Accepted Masons of North Carolina VOL. CI. NO. 12 Oxford, North Carolina, December, 1976 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR Dedications in November For Six New Lodge Halls North Carolinians have long talked about “Manteo to Murphy” when speaking of Tar Heel extremities. But there is something more than Tennessee west of Murphy. Ranger is west of Murphy. Grand Master Leslie H. Garner went to Ranger on November 1 to dedicate the new temple of Montgomery Lodge 426. Slightly more to the east, but still in the west, on Pictured below are the Masters of the six lodges that had new temples dedicated last month. George Martin, 426 Ray Reid, 482 Ben Gentry, 11 Darron Flowers, 613 November 3 he dedicated the new building of Saluda Lodge 482, at Saluda. Moving still eastwardly, on November 4 he was in Yanceyville to dedicate the new lodge hall erected by Caswell Brotherhood Lodge 11. On November 5 he was back in the flatlands at Fremont for the dedication of the new temple of Home Lodge 613. He kept right at it the following week. On November 12 he dedicated a new hall for Butner Lodge 697, at Butner, and the new lodge building of Charles B. Newcomb Lodge 740 on November 13 at Rt. 4, Raleigh. The Grand Master has also been to Manteo this year, and twice to Ocracoke. With a hundred or so North Carolina visits during 1976, he can be safely said to have just about covered it all. Although it is desirable to give dedications individual coverage, six separate coverages of the usual scope just will not fit in this paper. So the accounts of the six meetings have been consolidated. We are showing the 1976 Masters of the six lodges on the front page and other dedication pictures on pages 2 and 3. (Continued on Page Three) Masonic Education By Boyd Hopkins, Chairman “Masonic Education and Leadership Development” is the title of the slightly revised education manual, now ready for distribution. The binder is flexible instead of the hard three- ring notebook. Change will be detected primarily in the reorganization of the material and in the addition of ten Area Education Coordinators, abbreviated “AEC”. The Grand Lodge Committee on Masonic Education is concentrating on the six line officers: Stewards, Deacons, and Wardens. The committee now insists that the Junior Steward be a member of the Orientation Committee and that the Senior Steward be a member of the Lodge Committee on Masonic Education. They may or may not be the chairman of the committee, but they will represent these committees at the District Education Workshop. It is inferred that the Stewards will be responsible to see that these two committees function effectively. A noticeable change in the manual is that the material for the Junior Steward and the (Continued on Page Six) Kinston—Grand Master Leslie H. Garner (right) presents proclamation to Donald Hinds, Master of St. John's 4, during meeting on November 1 9. Trail Visits Kinston Elaborate Ceremonies Kinston—On its eighth and next to last stop, the Masonic Trail visited St. John’s Lodge 4 on November 19. The Masonic Trail was conceived by the Grand Lodge ’76 Committee as one of the means of dramatizing Masonic participation in the events of 1776. It consists of visits to the nine lodges now existing that were in operation prior to the Revolution. The ninth and final visit was to Fulton Lodge 99 at Salisbury on December 9 and coverage of that meeting will appear next month. The date for the Kinston visit was significant in that it was the 188th anniversary of the installation of Richard Caswell as the second Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina. Reference to Caswell was frequent throughout the afternoon and evening. Believed to have been one of the founders of St. John’s Lodge 4, his was one of the most prominent names on any listing of early Masonic patriots. He was the first governor of the state of North Carolina and served for six one-year terms. Often referred to as “the hero of the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge,” he attained the rank of Major General during the Revolution. A detailed account of Caswell’s life and accomplishments is far too long for inclusion here; for additional information concerning this distinguished Mason-patriot-soldier- statesman see Launching The Craft (Parramore), North Carolina Masons in the American Revolution (Speidel), and the 1938 Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina (Allen). St. John’s 4 had made extensive preparation for the observance last month. Grand Master Leslie H. Garner and other visiting Masonic dignitaries were met at the county lines, receiving Masonic and police escort to the courthouse lawn, where activities commenced at 3 p.m. The Grand Master and other Masons were officially welcomed by Kinston’s Mayor, (Continued on Page Three)
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