Glendale Lodge #368 Feb Mar 2014

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1 Glendale Lodge #368 Feb Mar 2014

2 From the East Wor. Bilavian The Holidays Have passed; the weather has been very courteous to us, and Glendale lodge had its installation, I want to thank all those who came to support the officers and Glendale Lodge. I would like also to extend a special thanks to my installing team, Wor. Khatcherian, Wor. Collon, and Wor. Hollinger, for a wonderful ceremony. As well as much thanks and appreciation to all the officers who are in progressive line and in appointed positions for serving to the betterment of Glendale lodge. This year we will have a very busy year, with the executive team we are planning to have several events, which we will announce as they are approaching, I hope to see you all enjoy these events with us and support Glendale lodge. On March 18th, we will be having a first degree; the significance of this degree is that we have asked Ararat Lodge to confer the degree in Armenian language. If you are interested in attending please let us know in advance to have a head count for refreshment. We are also planning on having a degree in Spanish, French and Farsi; the dates will be announced as it approaches. Thank you all for re-electing me as master of Glendale lodge, as I mentioned in my installation speech, It is a great honor that you again have bestowed upon me, I will do my best to serve you all, specially Glendale lodge. Fraternally Nikoul Bilavian

3 John Yarker Born in Westmorland, England, April 17, 1833, died March 20, 1913, and was long identified actively with Freemasonry in Manchaster but connected with Masonic Bodies in all parts of the world. He was initiated on October 25, 1854, in Integrity Lodge No. 189, later No. 163, at twenty-one years of age. He contributed an article on Military Masons in 1858 to the Freemason's Magazine and Masonic Mirror. Thereafter he was a frequent writer on Masonic matters to the publications of the Craft. His book, The Arcane Schools, a Review of Their Origin and Antiquity, with a general history of Freemasonry and its relation to the theosophic, scientific and philosophic matters, was published in 1909 after some ten years' labor, as the preface tells us, and is a book of 566 pages dealing with the traces of a speculative system from the ancient days.

4 To Hail or Hale Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry This word is used among Freemasons with two very different significations. 1.When addressed as an inquiry to a visiting Brother it has the same import as that in which it is used under like circumstances by mariners. Thus: "Whence do you hail?" that is, "Of what Lodge are you a member?" Used in this sense, it comes from the Saxon term of salutation huel, and should be spelled hail. 2.Its second use is confined to what Freemasons understand by the tie, and in this sense it signifies to conceal, being derived from the Saxon word helan, to hide, the e being pronounced in Anglo-Saxon as a in the word fate. By the rules of etymology, it should be written hate, but is usually spelled hele. The preservation of this Saxon word in the Masonic dialect, while it has ceased to exist in the vernacular, is a striking proof of the antiquity of the Order and its ceremonies in England. "In the western parts of England," says Lord King (Critical History of the Apostle's Creed, page 178), "at this very day, to hele over anything signifies, among the common people, to cover it; and he that covereth an house with tile or slate is called a helliar." "As regards the Anglo-Saxon hele, it survives of course in the word Hell-the covered world-of the Apostle's Creed, but," says Brother Canon J. W. Horsley, (page 21, Transactions, Quatuor Coronati Lodge, volume xxvi, 1913), "I thought until lately that a hellyer, that is, a thatcher who covers over with thatch the sticks of corn, was only North Country. However, lately when asking who had so well covered a stick close to Detling Church I was told it was a hellyer from the next village. And in the best dictionary of the Kentish dialect I find: Hele (heel) verb, to cover Heal (heel) verb, to hide, to cover anything up; to roof in. ''All right! I'll work Jim; I've only just got this 'ere row o taturs to heal." Heler (hee-ler) substantive. anything which is laid over another: as, for instance, the cover of a thurrick, or wooden drain.

5 To Hail or Hale Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry To the above information Brother Doctor Hammond added that in the West of England, the word "hele" is used at the present time, and its common pronunciation there and on the moors of the Cornish Country is hale (see also Heler). From correspondence with Brother Charles E. Funk in regard to the pronunciation of the word, we learn he is convinced that in most Lodges until 1750, and perhaps even later than 1800, the words hele, conceal, reveal, were perfect rhymes pronounced hayl, concayl, revayl, as they would be in Ireland today, but modern dictionaries give the pronunciation as heel. From the Secretary Bro. Martirosyan For the month of March the Stated Meeting Dinner will be $15 for members. Additionally a second plate for the members spouse is also included. The idea behind this is to encourage members to bring their spouses to dinner so they may meet other spouses. So please Brothers, don t leave the wives at home! Words In Masonry Installation: Stallum was the Late Latin for place, or seat, or proper position, which meaning is preserved in our English stall. To install therefore means that one has been placed in his seat or station the "in" meaning here the same as in English. A Masonic installation is a ceremony by which an elected officer is officially placed in the seat to which his brethren have elected him.

6 Glendale #368 F. & A. M. Meets at 244 N. Maryland Ave., Glendale CA P.O. Box 329 Glendale, California, Officers Master Wor. Nikoul Bilavian (818) S. Warden Wor. Travis Robinson PM (805) J. Warden Hrag Bekerian (626) Treasurer Alex Ashjian (626) Secretary Vram Martirosyan (818) Asst Secretary Armen Keshmeshian (818) Chaplain John R. Carlton (818) S. Deacon Arman Petrosian (818) J. Deacon Varouj Meneshian (818) Marshal Manvel M. Israyelyan (818) S. Steward Shant Hamamjian (818) J. Steward Andranik Ovsepyan (818) Tiler Organist Shant Sarkisian (818) Officers Coach Wor. Travis Robinson PM (805) Candidates Coach Alex Meloyan (805) Inspector Wor. Jeff Yates PM (818)

7 From the West Wor. Robinson, PM Please check the next Trestle Board for the Senior Wardens message. From the South Bro. Bekerian Greetings Brethren, in my first article as Junior Warden, it gives me a great pleasure to extend my warmest congratulations to all the newly installed officers for the ensuing masonic year. The future of our lodge is looking very bright and strong. I would like to thank each and every single one of you for your trust in my knowledge and leadership skills, and with your support; I will work hard to the best of my abilities to fulfill my duties this year as Junior Warden of the lodge. It is a pleasure and honor for me to be installed as Junior Warden of the lodge and I am looking forward to a great year as well as supporting the Master and Senior Warden in their work. The year before us will provide us with numerous opportunities and great chances to work hard and improve our skills in the craft and provide the lodge with the necessary direction to become more skilled and better masons. The questions we all need to ask ourselves and each other are: Where will we be in a year? Where will the Lodge be in a year? Let s all choose to make it the best year yet, and recognize that each and every single one of us has the power to make it happen. Masonic Quotes I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to show himself in every respect a good citizen; for after all, the way he can best do his duty by the ancient order to which he belongs is by reflecting credit upon that order by way in which he performs his duty as a citizen of the United States. - Brother Theodore Roosevelt.

8 2014 Installation of Officers

9 2014 Installation of Officers

10 Febuary & March Birthdays Manvel Israyelyan Gevork Asatryan Shant Hamamjian Robert Logan John Sargavakian James Schrage Miles Wollam Arsen Stepanyan Robert Langford Kevin Papirian Robert Adams Karnik Dovletian Noubar Ishak Donald Estrin Derrick Paine Charles Pruett John Rundles Gevork Tatarian George Aposhian Brad Guske William Russell Sogomon Ayrapetyan Nazaret Dermendjian Edward Buchak Stephen Heinitz John Conry Joe Camejo Messrob Bezdjan Hanri Khachikian Alvin Lardner Greg Mkrchyan Vigen Shahbazian Hovsep Demirdjian George Nshanyan Floyd Stubbs Harry Arzouman Norman Mandel Hugh Polkinghorne Walter Richardson John Sherry Vagan Khachatryan Eugene Mitz Alvy Moore Bernard Williams Vernon Swanson Albert Mac Bride Emil Menasserian Sevada Vartanian Melvin Lockwood Louis Hayward Jack Carlson Don Derrington Frank Gullihur David Henderson Joseph Marashlian Frank Drake Ronald Allen Paul Brown Malcolm Mochan James Spencer Nick Avakyan Charles Feibush Jack Sells Albert Tenorio Gerald Avila Craig Missakian Roy Strauss Paul Tayrien Manuel Dubon Robin Hambley William Wentzel

11 Calendar Feb-4 6:30pm Stated Meeting Dinner 7:30pm Stated Meeting Feb-11 Feb-18 Feb-25 Mar-4 7:30pm OSI practice 7:30pm OSI 7:30pm Admin Tuesday 6:30pm Dinner 7:30pm Stated Meeting Mar-11 Mar-18 Mar-25 Apr-1 7:30pm TBA 7:30pm possible 1st degree in Armenian 7:30pm Admin Tuesday 6:30pm Dinner 7:30pm Stated Meeting Committee Meetings Board of Trustees: TBD Hall Association: TBD For the most updated list of upcoming dates and events please visit or facebook.com/glendalemasons

12 Glendale Lodge #368 F.&.A.M. P.O. Box 329 Glendale, CA