CHICO-LELAND STANFORD Masonic LODGE № 111 BLOG
Lodge and Other Masonic News
Golden Veterans Award: Bro. Warren Brusie
/Come Celebrate 50 Years of Masonry
Come join with us in celebrating
Brother Warren Brusie
Who has spent the last 50 years tirelessly working within the craft to better himself and spread the light
Tuesday, May 8th
Dinner 6:30pm - Stated Meeting & Ceremony begins at 7:30pm
Please RSVP for dinner with the lodge secretary 111secretary@sbcglobal.net or 530-893-3171
The Chico-Leland Stanford Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons No. 111 presented its Golden Veteran Award for 50 years of membership to Warren Brusie on May 8. Pictured from left are Warren Brusie and Darrel Deatherage, who is grand marshal of the Grand Lodge of California, an inspector of Masonic District 216 and a member of the Chico lodge.
Warren was born and raised in Chico. He graduated from the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science. Warren was a member of the Army National Guard and was a Platoon Sergeant. He started working at Brusie Funeral Home in 1958. Warren enjoys volunteering in the community. His memberships include, Chico Rotary Club, Chico Elks Lodge #423, Chico Aerie #218 Fraternal Order of Eagles, Josephine-Chico Chapter #104 Order of Eastern Star, Chico-Leland Stanford Lodge #111 F. & A.M. Masons (member since 1967), Butte Creek Country Club, Comanche Riders Assoc. Warren sits on the Enloe Medical Center Board of Trustees.
Chico Shrine Club: Hamburger Bean Feed MAY 5th!!
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Brothers, families and friends of the lodge. Come on down to the lodge Saturday May 5th for burgers and beans. If you can lend a hand to the Chico Shrine Club, your offer of help will not be turned away! Come support the dedicated work at the Shriner Hospital in Sacramento.
Saint John's Celebration at the Los Molinos Masonic Family Center
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Saint John's Celebration/Dinner - to honor Saint John the Baptist (one of Masonry's Patron SaintS)
Date: Saturday, June 30th
Time: Starts at 2 pm
Hosted by: The Tehama County Shrine Club, Vesper Lodge and Los Molino Lodge
The celebration starts at 2 pm with a no-host bar, followed by a seven course dinner (interspersed after each course with a toast and a shot of wine). Toasts are to various dignitaries such as the POTUS, Grand Master, Potentate and others. After each toast the shot glass is slammed to the table in a symbolic firing of the cannon. After the dinner, WM Mark Smith (Vesper Lodge) will provide cigars to those who wish to join him outside for a cigar. This is a fun event and will be a great time for Masons and their Ladies to mix and enjoy fellowship.
Cost: $35 per person
Tickets: May be obtained by contacting Mark Smith (530) 215-8864; or, Dean Cofer (530) 736-1832; or, John Gumm (530) 526-1301.
Proceeds will be sent to the Sacramento Shrine Hospital for Children.
Fraternally,
Dean Cofer
Secretary Molino 150; President Tehama Co. Shrine Club
April Schools Month: Help a Classroom in Chico
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We are partnering with the Adult Community Classrooms at Chico and Pleasant Valley High Schools. Their purpose is to provide an environment in which young special needs adults, aged 18 to 22, can continue to learn and develop independent life skills that will help them in their personal development outside of a classroom setting.
The lodge secretary working with Bro. Glenn Story, is accepting the following donations for these classes based on their needs:
- Clorox Wipes
- Hand Sanitizer
- Kleenex’s
- Fruit Snacks
Please consider purchasing these items (the Dollar Store is a good place) and bringing them to the lodge for donation. The lodge has also donated $50 to each classroom to help them in their efforts.
Every April, the Masons of California and communities throughout the state celebrate Public Schools Month. This year, the theme is “Together we make a profound difference for public education.”
Gift card presentation to Pleasant Valley Adult Day Class by WM Darrel Hunter with Bro. Glenn Story who started the classroom adoption project. Also picture of the community garden the kids build and use and maintain.
Special Lodge Dinner & Stated Meeting
/April 10 Dinner and Stated Meeting Events
Dinner Talk "Sacred Geometry in the World"
Bro. Dean Fairbanks will be giving a graphical and colorful account of what sacred geometry is and how it comes about in the natural world and our human built environments. Dean is a professor of geography and planning at Chico State University.
Time: 7:00-7:20pm
Masonic Education Night in our STATED MEETING!
At April’s stated meeting we will host a short video, slides and a talk about aspects of the first degree in the Lodge Room. While we focus much time and energy on the third degree, it is the first degree that provides much of our values, principles and esoteric aspects that are often over-looked but require us to look again and be amazed at how many groups more than 300 years ago helped influence the development of our blue lodge degrees. This presentation will only happen in the stated meeting, where it needs to happen.
Working Tools Group: Showing movie Thursday April 5th
/When: Thursday, April 5th
Time: 6:30-8:30
Where: Lodge Library
We will be showing the new documentary "33 & Beyond: The Royal Art of Freemasonry". Its a beautiful documentary celebrating Freemasonry and was created for the 300th Anniversary of Freemasonry.
Come join us for special movie night. Come share some snacks and a cool beverage with your brothers. You will not want to miss seeing this Masonic documentary.
Please let brothers know in other local lodges: Paradise, Orland, Gridley, and Oroville
Join us for a 3rd Degree Raising - April 3rd
/When: Tuesday, April 3rd @ 7:00pm
Light snacks and desert afterwards.
Do you remember your 3rd degree?
Please make time to come out to support this young brother and help raise him to the sublime degree of Master Mason.
Contact Sid Crane (893-3171 or 111secretary@sbcglobal.net) in the Lodge secretaries office if you need assistance with transportation. Lodge officers and others can help get you to the degree and home again.
Brothers, Do you need some Financial Planning? Spread the word!
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This is a FREE event offered by the Chico State's College of Business.
Special Meeting and Dinner Tomorrow: 6:30 Members Only
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Important meeting of our membership, TUESDAY 27th @ 6:30pm
We will be discussing the future of YOUR lodge. There will be a dinner at 6:30 with discussion to follow. Members only, no guests.
This is YOUR lodge therefore your input is critical. We can’t fix it if we don’t know what’s broken or how to fix it. COME SPEAK YOUR MIND. Come be validated. Bring your complaints, issues, but bring your constructive ideas. Historically we have been poorly represented in endeavors such as this. Its a new day and a new way for Masonry.
There are 220 members in our lodge, everyone has a voice. It is time to revitalize your lodge and what YOU as a member want from it. Masonic revival is on the move in California. Your lodge wants to hear from you. Learn from the past to develop news ways of operating in the future.
See you Tomorrow!
Sunshine Report: Brothers to keep on our mind
/We have two brothers that have been struggling with their health. Please keep them in your thoughts, and reach out to them with well wishes.
- Bro. and WM Darrel Hunter who left the hospital today after surgery yesterday.
- Bro. and PM Steve Catteral who is fighting cancer.
Please also consider our older members who may not make it to our dinners or meetings but would like to hear from other Brothers. They should not be forgotten.
Contact Secretary Sid Crane at the lodge for more information on how to reach out to those brothers in need.
Mozart's Magic Flute: Freemasonry Inspired Opera @ CSU Chico
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Filled with ritual and symbolism, Mozart’s final masterpiece is a playful but profound look at man's search for love and his struggle to attain wisdom and virtue. Mozart joined a Masonic Lodge in the autumn of 1784 at the age of twenty-eight.
That the Magic Flute is a barely veiled Masonic allegory cannot be doubted. It acts, in fact, as a kind of introduction to the secret society. Its story celebrates the main themes of masonry: good vs. evil, enlightenment vs. ignorance, and the virtues of knowledge, justice, wisdom and truth. The evocation of the four elements (earth, air, water and fire), the injunction of silence in the Masonic ritual, the figures of the bird, the serpent and the padlock as well as the ‘rule of three’ all play important roles in the plot or in the musical fabric of the opera (three ‘Ladies’, three ‘Boys’, three loud chords at the beginning of the overture signifying the three ‘knocks’ of the initiates at the temple, three temples, the three flats of E-flat Major which is the primary tonality of the work, etc.). All of these symbols and characteristics come from Egyptian lore and the various original texts of Masonry. (Source: San Francisco Opera Education)
February 16 and 17th @ 7:30pm
Opera returns to California State University, Chico when the Department of Music and Theatre present two performances of Mozart's delightful "The Magic Flute" in Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall. Performed (in English) by Chico State vocal students, community members, the University Chorus and Chamber Orchestra, the "Magic Flute" is a comic opera the whole family will enjoy!
Call the University Box Office -- 530-898-6333 -- for tickets. For more information, call the Department of Music and Theatre at 530-898-5152.
Let's get a group of Chico-Leland Stanford No. 111 brothers and their wives/partners to support this "Freemasonic" opera of Mozart!
Join Us for a 3rd Degree Raising - February 6th
/When: Tuesday, February 6th @ 7:00pm
Light snacks and desert afterwards.
Do you remember your 3rd degree?
Please make time to come out to support this young brother and help raise him to the sublime degree of Master Mason.
Contact Sid Crane (893-3171 or 111secretary@sbcglobal.net) in the Lodge secretaries office if you need assistance with transportation. Lodge officers and others can help get you to the degree and home again.
Working Tools Group: Showing movie Thursday January 25th
/When: Thursday, January 25th
Time: 6:30-8:30
Where: Lodge Library
We will be showing the documentary Terra Masonica: Around the World in 80 Lodges. We showed a teaser of this documentary in October, just the first 30 minutes at the stated meeting dinner. Now we will show the whole movie. Its a beautiful documentary celebrating Freemasonry around the world in recognition of the 300th Anniversary of Freemasonry.
Come join us for special movie night. Come share some snacks and a cool beverage with your brothers. You will not want to miss seeing this Masonic documentary.
Please let brothers know in other local lodges: Paradise, Orland, Gridley, and Oroville
Called from Labor: Bro. Walter J. Matthews
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Walter J. Matthews
Was called to the Celestial Lodge Above
on January 16, 2018
Memorial services to be held at:
Newton Bracewell Funeral Home
680 Camellia Way
Chico, CA
Monday, January 29, 2018
10:00am
Lodge 2018 Installation
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Back row, left to right: Chris Burchfield, Mike Johnson, George Ghawai.
Middle row, left to right: Ray Dunham, Sid Crane, Scott Wonacott
Front row, left to right: Brad Marr, Darrel Hunter, Rob Peters
Missing: Fritz Zanker and John Barneson
We had a good turn out for the installation on Tuesday night. Sean Loch made a great dinner of baked ham with fixings and fresh apple crisp. His fearless kitchen partner junior steward Fritz Zanker was out with the flu but Sean handled it well, especially using his new apple peeling toy!
Be sure to see all our new officers in the Officer section of the website. If you have the interest and time, we need a treasurer to work with secretary Sid Crane.
2018 Worshipful Master Darrel Hunter, PM started two new initiatives for the year:
- Thursday morning coffee at the lodge from 6:00-9:00am
- Any month with a 5th Tuesday will be a family night with games and refreshments. Starting at 6:30pm
As an added bonus, Bro. Sid Crane has donated a dart board for the library and we are looking for anyone to consider donating a large flat screen TV to mount on the wall in the library to show movies via DVD or Internet. Let the lodge know if you can help out. The library will become a multi-functional room for meetings and entertainment.
Happy 2018 to all our Brothers and Sisters in the Masonic Family!
Lodge College Scholarships Available - Chico and Durham Highschools
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Chico Freemasons Offering Scholarships for College-bound High School Seniors
Up to $2,400 for Each Student Available
CHICO, Calif. – Chico Freemasons are accepting applications for scholarships from college-bound high school seniors in Chico and Durham. Each recipient can receive $300 per semester for a total of $2,400.
Applications must be received by March 16 to be considered. Seniors currently attending Chico Unified or Durham Unified high schools are eligible to apply.
Application forms are available from guidance counselors at the high schools in Chico and Durham. Forms can also be downloaded from the Chico-Leland Stanford Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons No. 111’s web site HERE
The Chico-Leland Stanford Lodge has offered scholarships for decades. Applicants need to include high school transcripts showing grades and overall grade point average. While academic performance is important, applicants are also evaluated on financial need, hardship and extracurricular activities.
Each scholar will receive $300 upon proof of full-time enrollment in the first semester of college and needs to maintain a 2.5 GPA or better and submit proof of completion for each subsequent $300 payment.
For more information email chicolelandstanford111@gmail.com
Happy New Year! Lodge Officers Installation Postponed...
/2018 Lodge Officers Installation Ceremony
-- Postponed TBA --
The installation of the 2018 Lodge officers was scheduled for this coming Saturday January 6th, but unfortunately the FLU has struck! Some of the new officers are under the weather. Thus the installation is canceled until further notice. See you all for the ham dinner next Tuesday!
credit: freemasonryfordummies.com
