LODGE NEWS

It is more probable than not that we will reach 100 members this year! We currently have 93 members with four FC’s in waiting to be raised, a new plural member, another plural member in process and a young EA who transferred here from Alabama and wants to finish his degrees at Germania! This is exciting times for us; we never were a huge lodge and peaked at about 160 members in the 50’s and early 60’s. I believe that we have always attracted an interesting and diverse group of brothers that have always made us a great lodge. Please don’t misinterpret this that we have overflowing crowds at the lodge on meeting nights. With everyone working and trying to make a buck attendance is actually down a little and sometimes degrees are tougher and less impressive than they should be. If you can make a few meetings the fellowship is still great and you are most definitely needed!

We will be having a Master Mason degree at the regular meeting on May 26. We aren’t sure if we will be raising one or two but there will definitely be a MM degree. Please mark you calendar now, more brothers is so much more impressive for the candidates.

The Grand Masters relay team will be at our lodge on June 5 to do a run/walk for Special Olympics. I’ve heard a few brothers say that they would like to see us do more for charity and the community, well what a better opportunity than Special Olympics. Get as many pledges as possible and be at the lodge on June 5 at 12:00 p.m. for the event, you don’t have to run or walk, JUST BE THERE, and get pledges. Checks should be made out to G.M.R. for Special Olympics. Last year one of the runners brought his Cajun accordion and he promised to be back this year and pass a good time. We will have light refreshments, drinks and good fellowship.
Klaus “Joe” Kueck P.M. Secy.

Message from the West (W. Bro. Reed Holmes)
BY THE TIME THIS REACHES YOU THE CRAWFISH BOIL SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY MAY 1 WILL BE HISTORY. THAT MORNING THE CONCORD CHAPTER OF DEMOLAY ARE MEETING AT OUR LODGE TO DISCUSS SOME SERIOUS TOPICS, MAINLY THEIR FUTURE. BRO. DAN MEHN, A MEMBER OF GERMANIA LODGE AND AN ADVISOR TO DEMOLAY FOR MANY YEARS, WILL BE THERE. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH THESE YOUNG BOYS, (THEY NEED VOLUNTEER LEADERS AND ROLL MODELS) CONTACT SEC. JOE KUECK OR DAN MEHN.
WE ARE CONSIDERING HAVING AN ELECTRICIAN LOOK AT OUR FUSE BOXES AND WIRING, THEY ARE ANTIQUATED AND NEED UPGRADING. IF WE HAVE A BROTHER WHO IS A MEMBER OF GERMANIA AND WOULD BE QUALIFIED TO PERFORM AN INSPECTION OR IF A MEMBER KNOWS OF A GOOD MAN OUTSIDE THE FRATERNATY WHO COULD DO THIS FOR US CONTACT THE FOLLOWING — REED HOLMES, P.M./S.W. PH.(504)454-6666

TRESTLE BOARD

• Wednesday, May 12, 7:00 p.m. regular meeting – examinations.
• Wednesday, May 26, 7:00 p.m. regular meeting – Master Mason degree.
• Saturday, June 5, 1200 p.m. Grand Masters Relay Team for Special Olympics at Germania.
• Sunday, June 27, 3:00 p.m. city wide bring a friend at Jerusalem Shrine Center. Speakers from many Masonic bodies will be present.
• June 29, 7:30 p.m. 16th district lodge at Kosmos Lodge in Pearl River. (road trip)
• Wednesday, July 14, 7:30 p.m., dual meeting with Indivisible Friends #404 in Gretna.
• Wednesday, July 28, 7:00 p.m. dual meeting with Indivisible Friends #404 at Germania.

NEW MEMBER
It is with open arms that we welcome Bro. Michael Lea Williams to Germania. Bro. Michael was raised in Louisiana Lodge #102 and became interested in Germania through Bro. Dan Mehn who was his Demolay counselor. Bro. Mike has traveled and lived in Prague, Chek Republic and knew that the Scottish Rite ritual was used there.

Last year he requested that Germania exemplify the Master Mason degree on him so he would know what to expect in a Chek Lodge. This cemented his desire to become a member of our lodge, so much so that he took out a perpetual membership after being notified that he was elected! We know that his job will take him all over the world and that he will spread the message of Germania Lodge #46!

1973: Long hair
2003: Longing for hair

1973: KEG
2003: EKG

1973: Acid rock
2003: Acid reflux

1973: Moving to California because it's cool
2003: Moving to California because it's warm

1973: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2003: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1973: Seeds and stems
2003: Roughage

1973: Hoping for a BMW
2003: Hoping for a BM

1973: The Grateful Dead
2003: Dr. Kevorkian

1973: Going to a new, hip joint
2003: Receiving a new hip joint

1973: Rolling Stones
2003: Kidney Stones

1973: Being called into the principal's office
2003: Calling the principal's office

1973: Screw the system
2003: Upgrade the system

1973: Disco
2003: Costco

1973: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2003: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1973: Passing the drivers' test
2003: Passing the vision test

1973: Whatever
2003: Depends

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshmen.

Here's this year's list:

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1985.

They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.

Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

The CD was introduced the year they were born.

They have always had an answering machine.

They have always had cable.

They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.

They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane Boss, de plane".

They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is.

McDonald's never came in Styrofoam Containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

Germania Lodge No. 46, F. & A. M.
4415 Bienville Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70119
Chartered: April 18, 1844
Lodge Phone 504-482-4080
Meets: 2nd & 4th Wednesdays 7:00 P.M.

Worshipful Master Ion Lazar (504)894-8750

Senior Warden Reed Holmes (504) 454-6666 • Junior Warden Henry Thibodaux (504) 279-8162

Secretary Klaus J. Kueck, P.M. (504) 737-6767 • Treasurer Ric Bell, P.M. (504) 828-2574