We are hosting the district meeting on Nov. 29 and our own W. Bro. Ion Lazar is in line to be Worshipful Master. Please come enjoy the fellowship that is the 16th district and support W. Bro. Ion and the new officers.

Election of officers for Germania #46 this year is particularly important! There is much damage left in the wake of Katrina that needs mending and wise, energetic leadership will be imperative.

MASONIC BIRTHDAYS since last newsletter

• Klaus “Joe” Kueck P.M.                        03/13/1974 - 32 yrs
• Fred Hart P.M.                                       03/26/1980 - 26 yrs.
• Ted Kurz D.C.                                        03/26/1980 - 26 yrs.
• Tom Mason                                            03/12/1986 - 20 yrs.
• Bobby Barth P.M.                                  03/25/1992 - 16 yrs.                                                                               
• Lynn Seymore P.M.                               03/25/1998 - 08 yrs.
• Wilson Revelle                                        03/16/2005 - 1 yr.
• Jeff Alloway                                           03/16/2005 - 1 yr.
• Henry Thibodaux P.M.                          4/16/1964 - 42 yrs.
• James Miller                                           4/13/1966 - 40 yrs.
• Troy Tomlinson                                     4/14/1993 - 13 yrs.
• Charles Bopp                                          4/12/1995 - 11 yrs.
• Leon Bradford                                         4/24/1996 - 10 yrs.
• Louis Robinson                                       4/23/1997-  09 yrs.
• Jerry Embree                                           4/26/2000 - 06 yrs.
• Eldred Gilmore H.P.M.                          5/06/1959 - 47 yrs.
• Adolfo Bello P.M.                                  5/10/1966 - 40 yrs.
• Bill Shotts                                               5/23/1975 - 31 yrs.
• Aubrey Freeman                                     5/25/1983 - 23 yrs.
• Michael Williams                                    5/25/2002   - 4 yrs.
• Curtis Leon Rawlins                               5/26/2004   - 2 yrs.
• Wendell G. Leibe                                    06/08/1949 - 57 yrs.
• Paul D. Snow                                          06/08/1949 - 57 yrs.
• Raymond D. Slotness                             06/24/1953 - 53 yrs.
• Emile W. Heuer P.M.                             06/23/1954 - 52 yrs.
• Kenny Roberts P.M.                              06/23/1972 - 34 yrs.
• Patrick J. Cox P.M.                                06/12/1974 - 32 yrs.
• Glen D. Schexnayder                              06/08/1975 - 31 yrs.
• Arnold G. Finch                                      06/26/1985 - 21 yrs.
• Wayne M. Plaisance                               06/25/2003  - 3 yrs.
• John L. Markley                                     06/09/2004  - 2 yr.
• Robert “Chase” Cockrell                        06/23/2004  - 2 yr.
• Michael Poll P.M.                                  07/22/1975 - 30 yrs.
• Larry Tomlinson P.M.                           07/22/1981 - 24 yrs.
• Alan Cox                                                 07/14/1982 - 24 yrs.
• Billy Carter                                             07/10/1991 - 14 yrs.
• Patrick Kueck                                         07/14/1993 - 12 yrs.
• Ian Cairns P.M.                                      07/23/1997 - 09 yrs.
• Robert Rapp                                           07/22/1998 - 08 yrs.
• Wayne Plaisance                                     07/25/2003 – 03 yrs.
• Mike Wills                                              08/23/1989 - 17 yrs.      
• Eddie Bopp P.M.                                   08/27/1994 - 12 yrs.
• Shaun Kaulfers                                        08/08/2001 -   5 yrs.
• Nial Hartnett                                           08/27/2003 -   3 yr.
• Andy Kessler                                          09/21/1943 - 63yrs.
• John Schackai                                          09/19/1950 - 56yrs.
• Billy Ohler P.M.                                     09/25/1985 - 21rs.
• Craig Hart                                               09/09/1992 - 14yrs.
• Garry McKelvey                                    09/08/1993 - 13yrs.
• Adam Schexnayder                                 09/06/2003 - 03 yrs
• Jacob Schexnayder                                  09/06/2003 - 03 yrs
• Mark Dorsey                                          09/22/2004 - 2 yr.
• Warren Hawthorne P.M.                        10/22/1950 - 56 yrs.
• Henry Stegal P.M.                                  10/11/1967 - 39 yrs.
• Dale Mims                                              10/24/1973 - 33 yrs.
• Andy Mims P.M.                                   10/24/1973 - 33 yrs.
• John Masset                                           10/09/1974 - 32 yrs.
• Tommy Warren                                      10/14/1981 - 25 yrs.
• David Cox                                               10/13/1982 - 24 yrs.
• Willard Burley P.M.                               10/26/1984 - 22 yrs.
• David Daigle P.M.                                  10/26/1988 - 18 yrs.
• Ray Steele P.M.                                      10/12/1994 - 12 yrs.
• Clayton Money                                      10/09/2002 - 04 yrs.
• Joe Ulrick                                                11/22/1942 - 64 yrs.
• Ernest Freund                                        11/25/1953 - 53 yrs.
• Louis James P.M.                                   11/28/1956 - 50 yrs.
• Paul R. Geiger P.M.                                11/20/1969 - 37 yrs.
• Butch Blake P.M.                                   11/22/1978 - 28 yrs.
• Nolan Pansano                                        11/22/1979 - 27 yrs.
• John Tsatsoulis                                       11/12/1995 - 11 yrs.
• John Wood P.M.                                    12/19/1992 – 14 yrs

Bro. Joe Ulrick was presented the Fidelity Medal in 1993 (longest living member of the lodge) Sixteen years later he still owns it and is doing well! Keep it up Bro. Joe lets go for 70 yrs. and more!

The dues notices recently sent out said dues for 2006 and it should have been 2007 so if you haven’t figured it out please disregard the 6 and change it to a 7 and send in your 2007 dues. They are due before December 31 of each year. Thanks.

 Our Mehn Brother

What can I say about my friend, our brother, Dan Mehn?  I can give you the facts.  He was born January 14, 1937 and died October 26, 2006. He was the father of two sons.  He had one brother.  He was the friend of many who crossed his path in the last sixty-nine years. He worked for eighteen years with IBM, served in the Army, and graduated from Tulane with a master’s degree in engineering.  He spent nearly thirty-three years working as the co-captain of the Krewe of Hermes.  He worked for years with the Boy Scouts of America as a scout and as a troop leader.  His years with DeMolay span five decades, from being the master of his chapter to being on the International Supreme Counsel for the Order of DeMolay (which he worked on for years on the Committee on Ritual).  I can tell you of his private work first with computers as Data Ventures and then his life of renaissance—Dan the Master Joyner.

However, with all of that, you will know nothing of Dan Mehn. For over half my life I have known Dan Mehn and with his passing I have felt more grief than at any other time in my adult life. I met him as a young man joining DeMolay. I came to know him beyond the duties of the order. I came to know him as my dear friend. I remember one of the last times I saw Dan was when I learned of the passing of Eric Bethancourt. It was the last time I made it to lodge, crashing in after having arranged a ride from Lafayette. I had written him when I got wind of Eric’s passing, knowing how much it would affect him. Dan pulled for underdogs and Eric was a special case that Dan always supported. He often said that Eric was a victim of bad luck and had trouble catching a break. It seemed things were turning for the better for Eric when he learned of his cancer.  Dan did not take it well.  We spent that evening sitting in the living room talking about all the times Dan believed Eric came close to those breaks Dan wanted for him.  That was Dan with his friends, the consummate cheerleader.  If you could count Dan among your friends, you had that person to call to bum a ride, to chat about the topics of the day, and that person if you were in trouble and had only one phone call—in all three situations, Dan would be my first choice.

Dan was a master since 1958. He never sat in the east.  “I like to rebel too much,” he once told me of never going through the chairs. He did not desire a Masonic burial, telling me once, “I want to be in the ground too fast for that.  Besides, I am a tool for Masonry.  Not the other way around.”  When Dan made up his mind it was made. No man had a finer since of integrity. In all my travels I have never actually seen anyone play third base in the United States other than Dan Mehn. With all of my travels I have never seen anyone play it as well in the world. The loss of Dan Mehn does not only strike at the heart of our fraternity, but in the hearts of all he touched and knew. I will miss you my friend, my Brother. All words fail me now.  So I say only this: well done, well done.

sent in by Bro. Mike Williams