Glendale Lodge #368. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Bro.

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1 Glendale Lodge #368 June July 2014 Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Bro. Winston Churchill

2 From the East Wor. Bilavian Greetings from the East! This being the Trestle Board for the month of June, I will review the highlights of the previous month. On May 6th, we had our stated meeting and as always it went well and smooth. We elected a new committee called Project and Planning Committee. I would like to wish the committee the best of luck in their future plans and projects. On May 13th we had the pleasure of having the brethren from The York Rite give a presentation about the history of the York Rite presented by Most Excellent Sam Pitassi, Most Illustrious Jose A. Fiss, Right Eminent Richard T. Cooper and Grand Commander Carlos H. Gonzalez. This night was very interesting and educational and I would like to thank all those who attended, and those who assisted me in making it a successful one. A special thanks to Wor. Sir Nick Khatcherian for helping me to make this event happen and our JR Warden Bro. Hrag Bekerian for arranging the refreshment. On May 20th, we had a beautiful first degree. Bro. Sevak Karapetyan was initiated an Entered Apprentice Mason, I would like to congratulate and welcome him to the fraternity. I also would like to thank all the officers for their great ritual work on that night. I would also like to congratulate Bro. James Barros for his excellent first degree proficiency and recognize the hard work of his coach Bro. Alex Meloyan. On May 27 th we had our Administrative Tuesday, besides the executive committee having their meetings, Wor. Karekin Karazian was reviewing the CMC with our members, and I would like to thank him and extend my appreciation for his great work that night. I recommend everyone to attend and be part of the CMC reading every last Tuesday of the month. On June 10th at 7:30pm we are holding a Past Masters meeting at Glendale Masonic Center which I would like to take this opportunity to invite all Glendale Lodge Past Masters. The Very Worshipful Allan L. Casalou s visit to Glendale Lodge on June 24 th as guest speaker has been postponed to November 11 th, so please update your calendars. I also would like to remind everyone that the Grand Master of the Masons of California Most Worshipful John L. Cooper the 3rd will be visiting Glendale Lodge and be our guest speaker on September 16th. This year the lodge will be dark in the month of July instead of August.

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4 Understanding Catherine At MCYAF, a Masonic daughter discovers a pathway to hope. At age 14, Catherine s* life had already been shaped by loss. Two years earlier, her father, a California Mason, was in a traumatic accident. He died of complications, leaving Catherine and her mother to sort through their grief and piece together a life without him. Catherine s mother, Margaret, suffers from diabetes and has limited resources to care for herself and her daughter. Catherine coped as best she could. She stayed close to home, watching the ups and downs of her mother s health with concern. She tried to keep her emotions to herself, but sometimes erupted in furious outbursts. She suffered debilitating abdominal pains without any physical cause. She was in trouble at school: She d always had to study hard to get by, and now, feeling distracted and ill, the workload seemed impossible. She began staying home, missing more and more days of class. By the middle of eighth grade, she was in jeopardy of failing middle school altogether. That s when her mother finally called the Masonic Center for Youth and Families (MCYAF). It wasn t the first place Margaret had tried to get help for her daughter. But so far, no one had offered any real answers. Exhausted financially, physically, and emotionally, she hoped that MCYAF would be different. It was. A caring, True tales of Masonic support compassionate team of psychologists met with mother and daughter, both together and separately. They guided Catherine through important tests to rule out learning and behavioral disorders. They took the time to understand the complete, complex picture of her grief and anxiety; her depression and fear of abandonment. They helped Catherine understand it, too. They showed her that she could work through her anxieties. They suggested ways to ease her fear of being alone and build up her confidence to venture into the world. They got in touch with her school and recommended special accommodations. They also met with Margaret privately to support her in her new role as a single mother. Because of MCYAF, Catherine s life has taken a new shape. Her school attendance is improving. She recently found the courage to attend a sleep-away camp for teens interested in horses, and has started to take riding lessons. She and her mother have learned new ways to support each other as they move forward from their grief. With the help of their fraternal family, they have found a path away from loss, and towards hope. To contribute to Masonic Assistance, visit freemason.org/contribute. Source: The Leader A publication for leaders of California Masonry

5 Give of yourself, by Ralph Marston Submitted by Bro. Arman Petrosian When you give more than you expect to receive, you ll end up receiving more than you ever expected. That which you give, comes back to you many times over, while that which you withhold never goes anywhere or accomplishes anything. Nothing makes you feel more positive about yourself than giving of yourself to others. And when you truly, sincerely feel positive about yourself, you can achieve magnificent things. If all you re ever concerned with is what s in it for you, there will never be very much in it for you. Yet when you expand your focus and give the best you have, in return you ll experience the best there is.if you wait to receive something first before you ever begin to give, you ll miss out on ninety percent of life s best opportunities. Unfortunately, that s an approach that all too many people adopt. But there s no need to be held back by the shortsightedness of others. Take the first step, give of yourself, with enthusiasm, with positive energy, and with the best of expectations. Keep it up, and you ll find that those expectations, high as they may be, will always, in time, be greatly exceeded by the positive and valuable difference you make. York Rite Presentation

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 Mike 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 Brother Winston his full name was Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire on November 30, He was the son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a politician, who was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. His mother, Lady Randolph Churchill was the former Jennie Jerome, daughter of an American millionaire Leonard Jerome. Winston was an independent and sometimes rebellious youth, who did not do well at school, but he ultimately completed Harrow School, where he began his military career with the Harrow Rifle Corps, earning high marks in English and History and becoming the school s fencing champion. After he left Harrow in 1893, Winston applied to attend the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. It took him three tries to make it, and he had to apply for cavalry rather than infantry since the grade requirements were lower. He graduated 8th out of a class of one hundred fifty and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 4th Queen s Own Hussars on February 20, In 1897, he fought in Malakand, now Pakistan and, published The Story of the Malakand Field Force in The Pioneer and the Daily Telegraph. After Malakand, Churchill was transferred to Egypt in 1898, where he served under the command of Lord Kitchner. While in the Sudan, he participated in what has been described as the last Bro. Winston Churchill meaningful British cavalry charge at the Battle of Omdurman in September Winston became a Freemason in 1901, at the age of 27. Freemasonry in England had undergone a renaissance during his lifetime. The election of the Prince of Wales, later Edward the VII, as Grand Master in 1875, the year after Brother Winston was born, gave a huge impetus to the Craft, and the Prince was an exceedingly popular Royal and Grand Master. Brother Winston was initiated in Studholme Lodge in London on May 24, 1901, passed to the degree of Fellowcraft on July 19, and became a Master Mason on March 5, Studholme Lodge was a prominent Lodge. The guest list of the Lodge s 21st Installation Banquet in 1897 included seventeen Members of Parliament, including the Lord Chancellor, as well as numerous Lords, Earls, Knights, and high-ranking members of the armed forces. By 1912, Brother Winston was well on his way to political success and that year was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. His stated objective in that post was to get the British fleet ready for a possible war with Germany. Lodge membership in England was not a casual affair, and the members were expected to be active and

8 attend all meetings. Given the demands on his time and the knowledge that he would no longer be able to play the role expected of him in Lodge, he resigned from the Studholme Lodge but continued his membership with the Craft and on a number of occasions his involvement in Masonic affairs was sought and willingly provided. At the start of World War I, Churchill was the First Lord of the Admiralty, but had to vacate the position after the disaster at the Battle of Gallipoli. He was commissioned a Major with the 2nd Battalion, of Grenadier Guards, later Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. When he was with the Grenadier Guards, he learned that they were a dry outfit, which drank only such beverages as tea and milk. He felt a great thirst, and when he learned that the Guards permitted alcohol in the trenches on the front line, yes, you guessed it, he volunteered for the front. In the period between WW I and WWII, Churchill was in and out of government, won support on some issues and lost ground on others. Notably, he was a fierce critic of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Adolf Hitler and, in a speech to the House of Commons, he bluntly and prophetically stated, "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war. Britain declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939 and Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the War Cabinet, as he had been during World War I. When this information was passed to the Board of the Admiralty, a signal was sent to the Fleet, Winston is back. On May 10, 1940, prior to Germany s invasion of France, Chamberlain resigned as Prime Minister and George VI asked Churchill, who had been among the first to recognize the growing threat of Hitler, to take the job and form an all-party government. Churchill, who had fought in many wars and was no stranger to combat, was a truly great wartime leader, who had the credibility to urge the people of Britain to stand and fight. His rhetorical skills played no small part in motivating the citizenry. You may have heard some of his famous wartime phrases, for example: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat, and We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender. He remarked after the second battle of El Alamein: This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. You may also recall that he said to the fighter pilots who won the Battle of Britain, Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

9 Churchill s effectiveness as a wartime Prime Minister was, in part, due to the relationship he developed with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This facilitated Britain receiving needed war materials from America under the Lend Lease program, which provided not only munitions but destroyers and tanks on credit and on loan. Germany was ultimately defeated on May 7, 1945 and later Japan on August 15, But, despite having led Britain to the greatest military victory in its history, his Party was nevertheless defeated in the 1945 election. He served for six years in Parliament as the Leader of the Opposition, and became Prime Minster again in During this term, he further enhanced the relations with the United States and dealt with the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya, and a war in Malaya. Queen Elizabeth II, upon his upon his retirement from office in 1955, offered to raise Churchill as Duke of London, but he declined. However, there were no shortages of honors for this Brother. He received numerous degrees from prestigious universities, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his numerous published works, especially his six-volume set on the Second World War. President Kennedy, following an Act of Congress, proclaimed him an honorary citizen of the United States. Brother Winston died at home January 24, 1965 at age 90, exactly 70 years after his father s death. By Royal Decree, his body lay in state for three days and a state funeral was held at St. Paul s Cathedral. As his body passed down the Thames, the Royal Artillery fired a nineteen gun salute and the RAF staged a sixteen fighter fly-by. I think it is fair to say that Brother Winston, who was selected in a BBC poll as the Greatest Britain of them all, lived his life guided by the values and principles he learned in Studholme Lodge, and I think he would have subscribed to the statement made by our own George Washington, when he spoke about Freemasonry: Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be to promote private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving Brother. While we may not achieve the heights of Brothers George Washington or Winston Churchill, we too should be guided by the same moral and social virtues as they were and, each in our own way, serve as an effective ambassador of Freemasonry in our community.

10 July Birthdays Frederick Mc Elhaney Leon Blakely Richard Hale Carl Cisco Robert Woodburn Bret Leduc William West Michael Carstens Vardkes Avetisian George Hogan Peter Steuer Henri Aflalo Harold Cross Donald Muller Gary Snowden Robert Parks Charles Halligan Edvin Vartanian Levon Baghdassarian Narbeh Bagdasarian Michael Koesling John Gustafson Karekin Karazian Haroutioun Tachian Willard Hansen Ian Young Nick Dow Jora Baghdasarian Marvin Johnson Andranik Khachadourian Edward Davenport James Rush In Memorial Called From Labor Mitz, Eugene R. 5/12/2014

11 Calendar May-27 June-3 7:30pm Admin meeting, Social night 6:30pm Dinner 7:30pm Stated Meeting June-10 June-17 June-24 July-1 Past Masters Meeting 7:30pm TBA 7:30pm Admin meeting, Social night 6:30pm Stated Meeting Dinner 7:30pm Stated Meeting July-8 July-15 July-22 Aug-5 Dark Dark Dark 6:30pm Stated Meeting 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