Glendale Lodge #368 Sept—Oct 2014
“The men who have guided the destiny of the United States
have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees.
This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring
source of reassurance for the people of America.”
Lyndon B Johnson
From the East—Wor. Bilavian
Greetings Brethren,
August 5th was our Stated Meeting which
was as always successful and short.
August 12, we conferred 2nd Degree, Bro.
James Barros passed to the fellow craft
degree and I congratulate him and look
forward to hear his proficiency. Follow-
ing, Bro. Gevork Asatryan gave his Fellow
Craft Proficiency, congratulations Brother
for your excellent long form proficiency I
look looking forward to schedule your
Master Mason degree and thank you to
Bro. Varouj Meneshian for coaching Bro.
Gevork.
Our officers coach Wor. Travis Robinson
held a degree practice Aug. 19th. Thanks
for all his hard work many Brothers
whom attended left knowing more about
the ritual and improved in their work.
Our annual picnic was on August 24th
and it was very successful, I like to extend
my special thanks to Bro. Alex Ashjian and
Bro. Armen Keshmeshian for organizing
it. The kid’s toys, the backgammon and
poker games were fun for all, especially
the water guns! I would also like to thank
all the brethren who participated or con-
tributed, physically and financially, in
making the picnic a success.
September will be one of the busiest
months this year. On September 2nd is
our Stated Meeting and we are going to
have a special guest Most Wor. Larry L.
Adamson who will be visiting us and also
enlighten us more about the Midnight
Mission.
On Sept 9 we will have webinar ‘Historical
Lecture: Pilgrimage and Procession: The
1883 Knights Templar Triennial Conclave
and the Dream of the American West’
On September 16th, the Grand Master of
the Masons of California Most Wor. John
L. Cooper III will be visiting Glendale
Lodge. He will be presenting “The Ancient
Landmarks of Freemasonry” due to sensi-
tivity in its topic it will be open to Mater
Masons only.
On Sept 23rd at the District OSI at Glen-
dale Lodge. District Inspector Wor.
George Whitmore will be our guest
speaker and the topic will be on “The
proper way to incorporate with handi-
capped Masons in the ritual”. It is ar-
ranged by our inspector and open for all
masons.
To avoid the holiday seasons and our
busy schedules, our Annual Dinner Dance
will be held on Sat. Oct. 25th at Piers Gar-
den in Glendale. We are looking for your
participation let us gather have fun and
spend some good time together with our
families and friends.
On November 11th, we will have Very
Wor. Allen L Casalou as our guest speaker
at the lodge. Please mark your calendars
Wor. Nikoul Agop Bilavian
Northeast Corner In the Institutes of Menu, the sacred
book of the Brahmans, it is said: "If
any one has an incurable disease, let
him advance in a straight path to-
wards the invincible northeast point,
feeding on water and air till his mortal
frame totally decays, and his soul be-
comes united with the supreme." It is
at the same northeast point that
those first instructions begin in Free-
masonry which enables the true Free-
mason to commence the erection of
that spiritual temple in which, after
the decay of his mortal frame, "his
soul becomes united with the su-
preme."
In the important ceremony which re-
fers to the Northeast Corner of the
Lodge, the Candidate becomes as one
who is, to all outward appearance, a
perfect and upright 7nan and Mason,
the representative of a spiritual Cor-
ner-stone, on which he is to erect his
future moral and Masonic edifice.
This symbolic reference of the Corner
-stone of a material edifice to a Free-
mason when, at his first initiation, he
commences the moral and intellectu-
al task of erecting a spiritual temple in
his heart, is beautifully sustained
when we look at all the qualities that
are required to constitute a "well-
tried, true, and trusty" Corner-stone.
The squareness of its surface, em-
blematic of morality its cubical form,
emblematic of firmness and stability
of character and the peculiar finish
and fineness of the material, emblem-
atic of virtue and holiness show that
the ceremony of the Northeast Cor-
ner of the Lodge was undoubtedly
intended to portray, in the consecrat-
ed language of symbolism, the neces-
sity of integrity and stability of con-
duct, of truthfulness and uprightness
of character, and of purity and holi-
ness of life, which, just at that time
and in that place, the candidate is
most impressively charged to main-
tain.
- Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of
Freemasonry
Glendale #368 F. & A. M.
Meets at 244 N. Maryland Ave., Glendale CA 91206
P.O. Box 329 Glendale, California, 91209
E-Mail: [email protected]
2014 Officers
Master Wor. Nikoul Bilavian (818) 745-3245 [email protected]
S. Warden Wor. Travis Robinson
PM
(805) 217-2636 [email protected]
J. Warden Hrag Bekerian (626) 487-9445 [email protected]
Treasurer Alex Ashjian (626) 354-7272 [email protected]
Secretary Vram Martirosyan (818) 241-9516 [email protected]
Asst
Secretary
Armen Keshmeshian (818) 445-4213 [email protected]
Chaplain John R. Carlton (818) 545-7278 [email protected]
S. Deacon Arman Petrosian (818) 621-4120 [email protected]
J. Deacon Varouj Meneshian (818) 720-7983 [email protected]
Marshal Mike M. Israyelyan (818) 445-7070
S. Steward Shant Hamamjian (818) 968-6694 [email protected]
J. Steward Andranik Ovsepyan (818) 400-6565 [email protected]
Tiler
Organist Shant Sarkisian (818) 400-3730 [email protected]
Officers
Coach
Wor. Travis Robinson
PM
(805) 217-2636 [email protected]
Candidates
Coach
Alex Meloyan (805)813-6666 [email protected]
Inspector Wor. Jeff Yates PM (818) 568-9756
Lyndon B. Johnson—36th President and Freemason
"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men else-where was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative pro-grams in the Nation's history. Maintaining collective security, he carried on the rapidly growing struggle to restrain Communist en-croachment in Viet Nam.
Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas, not far from Johnson City, which his family had helped settle. He felt the pinch of rural poverty as he grew up, work-ing his way through Southwest Tex-as State Teachers College (now known as Texas State University-San Marcos); he learned compas-sion for the poverty of others when he taught students of Mexican de-scent.
In 1937 Lyndon B. Johnson was ini-tiated in Johnson City Lodge No. 561, at Johnson City, Texas, but completed only the Entered Ap-prentice this same year he cam-paigned successfully for the House of Representatives on a New Deal platform, effectively aided by his wife, the former Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor, whom he had married in 1934.
During World War II he served briefly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander, winning a Silver Star in the South Pacific. After six terms in the House, Johnson was elected to the Senate in 1948. In 1953, he became the youngest Minority Leader in Senate history, and the following year, when the Demo-crats won control, Majority Leader. With rare skill he obtained passage of a number of key Eisenhower measures.
In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, as John F. Kennedy's running mate, was elected Vice President. On No-vember 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as President.
First he obtained enactment of the measures President Kennedy had been urging at the time of his death--a new civil rights bill and a tax cut. Next he urged the Nation "to build a great society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's la-bor." In 1964, Johnson won the Presidency with 61 percent of the vote and had the widest popular margin in American history--more than 15,000,000 votes.
The Great Society program became
Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, ur-ban renewal, beautification, con-servation, development of de-pressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and pre-vention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote. Congress, at times aug-menting or amending, rapidly en-acted Johnson's recommenda-tions. Millions of elderly people found succor through the 1965 Medicare amendment to the So-cial Security Act.
Under Johnson, the country made spectacular explorations of space in a program he had championed since its start. When three astro-nauts successfully orbited the moon in December 1968, Johnson congratulated them: "You've tak-en ... all of us, all over the world, into a new era. . . . "
Nevertheless, two overriding cri-ses had been gaining momentum since 1965. Despite the beginning of new antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs, unrest and rioting in black ghettos trou-bled the Nation. President John-son steadily exerted his influence against segregation and on behalf
of law and order, but there was no early solution.
The other crisis arose from Viet Nam. Despite Johnson's efforts to end Communist aggression and achieve a settlement, fighting con-tinued. Controversy over the war had become acute by the end of March 1968, when he limited the bombing of North Viet Nam in or-der to initiate negotiations. At the same time, he startled the world by withdrawing as a candidate for re-election so that he might de-vote his full efforts, unimpeded by politics, to the quest for peace.
When he left office, peace talks were under way; he did not live to see them successful, but died sud-denly of a heart attack at his Texas ranch on January 22, 1973.
Lyndon B. Johnson—36th President and Freemason
Glendale Lodge Annual BBQ
Most Worshipful John L. Cooper, III
Grand Master of California Free and Accepted Masons
Special Guest Lecture:
The Ancient Landmarks of Freemasonry
Sept 16th @ 730p
Glendale Lodge
244 N Maryland
Glendale, CA
Following the lecture a
dinner will be provid-
ed to RSVP’d guests
818.241.9516
Open to Master Masons only
October Birthdays
Edmond Fitzpatrick
Howard Roe
Marcos Martinez
Richard Arnold
John Beems
Richard Ibrahim
Harry Missakian
Francisco Guerra
Louis Yaussi
Dwayne Johansen
Roger Dillon
Vahe Karamian
William Waldmann
Daniel Gamble
Robert Kent
Richard Cox
Christopher Kayepekian
William Wong
Eric Rustigian
Roupen Avsharian
Artine Kokshanian
Robert Gaines
In Memoriam
First Name Last Name Raised Called From Labor
Richard Dewey 4/17/1941 06/03/2014
Wyndon Wolfe 9/18/1964 07/30/2014
Calendar Sep-2 6:30pm Stated Meeting Dinner
7:30pm Stated Meeting
Sep-9 7:30pm 2nd Degree
Sep-16 Guest speaker. The Grand Master of the Masons of California—MW John L. Cooper III
Sep-23 District OSI, Guest speaker Worshipful George Whitmore—Handicapped Masons in the ritual
Sep-30 7:30pm Admin Tuesday
Oct-7 6:30pm Stated Meeting Dinner
7:30pm Stated Meeting
Oct-14 Dark
Oct-21 1st Degree
Oct-25 Annual Dinner Dance
Oct-28 7:30pm Admin Tuesday
Nov-4 6:30pm Stated Meeting Dinner
7:30pm Stated Meeting
For the most updated list of upcoming dates and events
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