VOL CXVIII — NO. 3 Oxford, North Carolina May/June, 1993
Masons from around North Carolina shared each other’s company in the lobby
and outside Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh during Annual Communication.
PGMs Pass Away
We have recently lost two past grand masters of North Carolina.
Berl Maurice Kahn served as grand master in 1972.
Kahn was born in Charlotte in 1913. He spent most of his
life in Goldsboro where he owned and operated Issacs-
Kahn Furniture Company.
It was in Goldsboro that he met and married his wife Ruth
Issacs who preceded him in death. They had two children.
He was raised in 1944 at Wayne 112 in Goldsboro where
he was eventually made a life member. He served there as
master in 1949.
He was an active member of both Wilmington Valley of the
Scottish Rite and York Rite bodies of Goldsboro. He served
as potentate of Sudan Shrine Temple and patron of Goldsboro
54, Order of the Eastern Star.
He was awarded North Carolina Masonry’s highest honor,
the Joseph Montfort Medal, in 1961.
Everette Stansil Aldridge was elected North Carolina’s
127 ,h grand master in 1980. He was born in the town of
Albemarle in Stanly County. He was the head of Stanly
Funeral Home there.
He lost his first wife, Catherine Taylor, to cancer. He
later married Gaynelle Ragan. He had two children and
two step-children.
He was made a Master Mason in Stanly 348 in 1957. For 20
consecutive years he held one office or another in that lodge,
including master in 1965.
He was a member of both York and Scottish rite bodies in
Charlotte. He was a member of Oasis Shrine and served as
patron of Albemarle 71, OES. He was an active supporter of
the Order of Rainbow for Girls.
Grand Lodge Holds
Annual Communication
Raleigh — R.G. “Rick” Moore was elected grand master at the 206th Annual Communi
cation of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina. There’s no official count of the total attendance
at the April 20-21 meeting, but there were 1,258 voting delegates according to an early figure.
Three hundred sixty-six lodges were represented.
Boards and committees met at the Radisson in downtown Raleigh for most of Monday.
Dignitaries attended the Grand Master’s Banquet on Monday night. The next day the real
action started down the street at Memorial Auditorium
Tuesday was pomp and circumstance day. Visitors from several other grand lodges were
welcomed with full honors. Officials from the appendant bodies of North Carolina were
formally received. Seventeen past grand
masters were conducted to seats of
honor on the stage.
Most of the committee reports were
submitted on Tuesday morning.Ex-
Governor Jim Martin delivered his ora
tion. In the afternoon a service was
held for those Brothers who died this
past year. Grand Master Ray Norris
presented his annual report..
Wednesday was crunch time. All
debates and votes were held that day.
Attention was more focused as del
egates listened for votes that meant the
most to those they represented.
So, how did the votes go?
A suggestion that past district deputy
grand lecturers be added to the list of those qualified to serve as district deputy grand master
was rejected. A DDGM must still be a master or past master to hold the office.
Unless asked to excuse themselves from a meeting by vote of the committee, the grand
treasurer and grand secretary will, by a newly adopted regulation, be required to be present
at meetings of the finance committee. The intention is to assure that the committee has all the
necessary information in detail to make financial decisions.
See ANNUAL COMMUNICATION, Page 3
Take a Load Off! St. John’s Day Is Coming!
Oxford — Hey, folks, it’s time to take a load off. Next
month we salute St. John’s Day. Saturday, June 26 will be
the perfect time to take a load off your brain and your feet.
Take a trip to Oxford Orphanage that day, and you’II find
as friendly a bunch of people as you can think of. Heck, the
folks you see here were so friendly, they gave up one of
How You Voted
AMENDMENTS
Qualify DDGLs for DDGM NO
GS & GT Must Attend Finance YES
Minimum $100 Initiation Fee NO
Annual Lodge of Sorrow NO
Remove Jurisdictional Restraints....NO
Emergents on Degree Conferred ..YES
Three Cubes Needed to Reject NO
RESOLUTIONS
Hire Foundation Director YES
Put NC Mason on Subscription NO
Revise The Code YES
their seats to some clown who dropped out of the Shrine
Parade to take a breath. There are kids (bring your own or
enjoy the ones there), delicious food (lunch free), great
entertainment, top notch fellowship, and much more. Come
alone or bring a busload. For details on this year’s cel
ebration turn to page eight.
Introducing Our New Grand Master
Richard Groves (Rick) Moore was born March 11, 1935
in Gastonia, North Carolina. The fourth of six children of the
late Brother Dr. Oliver S. and Anna M. Moore of Mt. Holly,
North Carolina. He attended the Gaston County Schools and
graduated from Mt. Holly High School where he lettered in
varsity football and basketball. He furthered his education at
the University of South Carolina, majoring in business ad
ministration. He was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity.
In community life he is a former member and director of the
Mt. Holly Jaycees and past president of the Mt. Holly Civitan
Club. Rick and his wife, Marie, are active members of Calvary
United Methodist Church in Charlotte He serves as the church’s
vice-chairman of the Administrative Board and chairman of the
Pastor/Parish Staff Relations Committee.
Rick and Marie reside on Lake Norman in Lincoln County.
He has three sons, Tony, Chris, and Mike; a daughter, Pam;
a stepson, David; and seven granddaughters.
Moore was employed in the finance and accounting de
partments of Piedmont Natural Gas Company. He served as
controller for Impac, Inc. and as regional controller for the
Ervin Co. before being appointed secretary of the Charlotte
Scottish Rite Bodies in March, 1978.
R.G. “Rick” Moore
Grand Master
In the summer of 1978, the Valley of Charlotte started
construction of its new temple. Completed in September,
1979, construction required borrowing $500,000 for a term
of twenty years. Working closely with Fred Trethewey,
Isadore Silverstein, G. Dick Pierce, Walter F. McCall, and
the Advisory Conference; Brother Moore carefully moni
tored and steered the financial affairs of the Valley. The
Valley paid off its loan in 6% years and set aside an adequate
reserve fund for maintenance of the Temple.
In July, 1988 the Valley of Charlotte opened a Childhood
Language Disorders Clinic at the University of North Caro
lina at Charlotte. The establishment of this clinic was Moore’s
fulfillment of a commitment made to the late James Guy
Johnston, past grand master and sovereign grand inspector
general, that upon paying off the indebtedness of the Temple,
the Valley of Charlotte would establish and finance a clinic
to help these special children. In order for the brethren to
become more involved in working with the children, the
clinic was moved from the University to the Scottish Rite
Temple in January, 1993.
Rick’s Masonic career began when he was raised a
Master Mason in Mt. Holly 544 on May 20, 1957. He was
appointed an officer in that lodge in 1964 and served as
master in 1968. He served as district deputy grand master
See GRAND MASTER, Page 3