Masonic Birthdays this Month
Klaus J. Kueck PM. 03/13/1974 31 yrs
Fred Hart P.M. 03/26/1980 25 yrs
Ted Kurz D.C. 03/26/1980 25 yrs
Tom Mason 03/12/1986 19 yrs
Bobby Barth P.M. 03/25/1992 13 yrs
Lynn Seymore P.M. 03/25/1998 07 yrs
LODGE NEWS
Well we could have fit about two more cars in the parking lot but it was just about full for the Endymion Parade Open House. It was an outstanding turnout for a dazzlingly beautiful day. EA Wilson Revelle and his wife Darla were there early and stayed late helping in every way, their enthusiasm is contagious, and the lodge thanks them! Hopefully Bro. Wilson’s voyage to become a Master Mason in Germania Lodge #46 will be fulfilled soon! Our Tulane students/army cadets/brothers were also there with many of their Tulane friends. Bro. Clayton Money would be proud of the job that the Army has done in his and his Coast Guard buddies absence! Bro. Bello and his family were there as was Ray Steele, The Ric and Angie Bell family, my family including one year old Ian McIntire, my niece’s son, attending his very first Mardi Gras parade. Bro. Ian and Regina Cairns stopped buy and our custodian, Ken Cox, had a crew in from Oklahoma. Unfortunately the Gilmore’s couldn’t come but they did send a representative of the family, Maria’s son Rocky, his wife and sons. Bro. Hawthorne sent his daughter to stand in for him. I probably left someone off but…. It was a great time, the food wonderful and plentiful and everybody went home with tremendous smiles, peace and harmony prevailing.
~K.Kueck
Perpetual Membership
We are well on our way to filling out the new perpetual membership plaque. Three names have been added to it! Bro Tom Mason, Adam Schexnayder and Jacob Schexnayder have all applied for perpetual membership. If you are interested give me a call. The cost is $1,000 cash or five annual installments of $226. It’s based on the price of dues and is sure to increase over time so the time to buy is now. The cost for a memorial perpetual membership is $240. This gives us 29 perpetual memberships and one memorial.
TRESTLE BOARD
Wednesday, March 9, 7:00 p.m. regular meeting – double EA degree.
Wednesday, March 16, 7:30 p.m. Special Communication - double MM degree.
Wednesday, March 23, 7:00 p.m. regular meeting – double Ea degree.
Thursday, March 31 – 7:30 – p.m. 16 th district @ Germania . Guest speaker Germania hosting
Wednesday, April 13 – 7:00 official visit by Grand Master
Saturday, May 7 – Crawfish Boil
Wednesday, September 28 – 7:00 official visit Worthy Grand Matron
November 12 – Germanfest 2005
Whoa, have you looked at the degrees and activities for March? Yours truly will sit in the East on the 9 th but will be MIA for the meetings on the 16 th and 23 rd, Cindy and I will be in Okinawa visiting my cousin, a commander in the navy. W.M. Holmes will be out of town for the meeting on the 23 rd but the degrees will go on regardless so please make every attempt to be there, you will be needed more that usual. At the district meeting on the 31 st , which we are hosting, Mr. Grey Goudeau of Goudeau Hyde and associates will give a talk about bequeathing to non profits, charitable contributions to 501c3’s and long term care. He is providing food for the meeting at no cost to the lodge! The district lodge is a lodge of education and instruction. Albert Pike Lodge won the traveling gavel at the first district meeting in January, can we win it next?
MESSAGE FROM THE EAST
Brothers:
The last two months have been very busy with degree work, we are making plans for some upcoming programs and the house committee is planning on some renovations inside Germania Hall.
The Grand Master will visit Germania the 13th of April. We are planning a crawfish boil on May 7 th. We will put this in the newsletter and send out announcements.
In June we are getting together with Level lodge for joint meetings as we have done for the last six years with Indivisible Friends #404. We will still have our customary joint meeting with Indivisible Friends in July.
We are thrilled that our degree work has sparked the interest of some of our new Master Masons. It must be contagious because our EA's & FC’s are helping too. Their fertile minds are quickly grasping the fundamental teachings of Masonry and they are hungry for more and we are accommodating them as they progress in their degrees.
~Reed Holmes, PM/WM
Practice What You Advocate (Sent in by 80 year old and raised last year Bro. John Markley)
Have you ever noticed that each succeeding year seems to be shorter than the past one?
A recent theory postulates that the reason for this is that in our youth we continually commit "first events" to memory and each year contains many memorable events--first loves, proms, marriage, first job, birth of children, baby's first steps, travels, etc., etc.
As one ages, the "been there; done that" phase takes over and there are fewer new high lights to commit to memory so the year appears shorter in retrospect.
One solution: Travel to new places; meet new people; join an exercise club--book club--dance club; or public help organization. Make a conscious attempt to expand your horizons and add excitement to your life even at the expense of reaching out of your comfort zone or doing things that may seem a bit scary.
The time may "fly" when you are busy doing something enjoyable but when you look back you will see a full and longer year.
Going to the dogs! (Sent in by Christie Bein of the Deutsches Haus )
♦ The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. - Anonymous
♦ Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. - Ann Landers
♦ If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers
♦ There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Ben Williams
♦ A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. - Josh Billings
♦ The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. -Andy Rooney
♦ We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. - M. Acklam
♦ Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. - Sigmund Freud
♦ I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. - Rita Rudner
♦ A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. - -Robert Benchley
♦ Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. - Franklin P. Jones
♦ If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. - James Thurber
♦ If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. - Unknown
♦ My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money.
-Joe Weinstein
♦ Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the grea test hunters on earth! - Anne Tyler
♦ Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein
♦ Speak softly and own a big, mean Doberman. - Dave Miliman
♦ If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain
♦ You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!' - Dave Barry
♦ Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras
♦ If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. - Phil Pastoret
♦ My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am. -Anonymous
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