CALENDER OF EVENTS
5 MON Eastern Star 7:30PM
7 WED Dinner & H.A. Meeting 6:30PM
Stat. Mtg. (Install. Practice after) 7:30PM
9 FRI DeMolay 7:30PM
10 SAT Job’s Daughters 10:00AM
10 SAT 2014 Installation of Officers 7:00PM
14 WED Officer’s Dinner 6:30PM
16 FRI Mariner’s Night (Friday Social) 7:00PM
19 MON Eastern Star 7:30PM
21 WED Dinner (6:30pm) First Degree 7:30PM
23 FRI DeMolay 7:30PM
24 SAT Job’s Daughters 10:00AM
29 WED Dinner (6:30pm) Second Degree 7:30PM
1 SUN Super Bowl Sunday 2:30PM
2 MON Eastern Star 7:30PM
4 WED Dinner & H.A. Meeting 6:30PM
Stated Meeting 7:30PM
6 FRI Mariner’s Night (Friday Social) 6:30PM
7 SAT Job’s Daughters 10:00AM
11 WED Dinner (6:30pm) Second Degree 7:30PM
Whiskey Flats Days (Feb 13-15)
13 FRI DeMolay 7:30PM
16 MON Eastern Star 7:30PM
18 WED Sweetheart Night Dinner 6:30PM
20 FRI Mariner’s Night (Friday Social) 7:00PM
25 WED Dinner (6:30pm) Third Degree 7:30PM
27 FRI DeMolay 7:30PM
28 SAT Job’s Daughters 10:00AM
4 WED Stated Meeting (dinner at 6:30) 7:30PM
Happy New Year…2015
Thank you my Brothers for having the faith in me to do this honored position. I
look forward to the challenges ahead to make this year
more prosperous than last. I have the fortune to review
what I had set out last year and improve upon it this
year. My goal to come up with a five year plan and
increase membership vital to sustaining our Lodge…has
not happened…I hope this year it will... Let us all put on
our thinking caps again and ask ourselves why we are
members and what would it take to get a non-member to
have the same vision. We need to ask what we do as
Masons to make a difference, why do we come out.
These are hard questions ones that we should all think
about and share so that we can approach someone and
give a reason why we belong so that they can relate
and want the same….. Another is community
involvement…we still do not have a face in San
Pedro…ask anyone and they could not tell us where
we are at or that we exist….to get into the community we have to do two
things…the first takes time the second takes money…since we are on such a
financial hold…one that might be won by our own demise….. I will forgo the
second measure in favor of the first and say that we MUST volunteer our time
into the community…yes it is hard enough to get people out here to volunteer
on a regular basis to work around the Lodge, but we need to get into the
community by volunteering and doing something…anything that will get us a
face in town…think about it, the more we do as Masons the more we get
recognized….. Last is what is it that we do as Masons here that keeps us
coming out…I think that we have great programs we have developed and this
will be an emphasis throughout the year to grow these programs and make
them vital to our success. Remember we are a Family of Freemasonry and we
will continue to support and work within our family.
Congratulations to Brother Eric Langdon who was recently installed Grand
Outer Guard of the Grand Council Job’s Daughters International. We are also
proud of Brother Roger Neider who is having a great year as Worthy Grand
Patron of the Grand Chapter of California, Order of Eastern Star.
In regards to the five year plan if you are interested in participating or
have any suggestions please come forward, it is your Lodge and your say
may help save us. I will be addressing the five year plan all year…….
Please check the calendar for the events for January and February and support
our Lodge…WE NEED YOU!!!!!
February we will honor our Sweethearts with a Family Night Dinner. Please
contact our Junior Warden for reservations. Remember all Sweethearts are
invited and dinner is on us.
Lastly if you want to receive the Trestle Board by e-mail only or both please e-
mail the Secretary with your info and if you already receive it please update
your info regardless if it is correct or not. ~Mike Logan, PM
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Kundalini and Hiram Abiff in Masonry “In an old manuscript appears the statement that the
Freemasonic Order was formed by alchemists and Hermetic
philosophers who had banded themselves together to protect
their secrets against the infamous methods used by avaricious
persons to wring from them the secret of gold-making. The
fact that the Hiramic legend contains an alchemical formula
gives credence to this story. Thus the building of Solomon's
Temple represents the consummation of the magnum opus,
which cannot be realized without the assistance of CHiram,
the Universal Agent. The Masonic Mysteries teach the initiate
how to prepare within his own soul a miraculous powder of
projection by which it is possible for him to transmute the
base lump of human ignorance, perversion, and discord into
an ingot of spiritual and philosophic gold. Sufficient
similarity exists between the Masonic CHiram and the
Kundalini of Hindu mysticism to warrant the assumption that
CHiram may be considered a symbol also of the Spirit Fire
moving through the sixth ventricle of the spinal column. The
exact science of human regeneration is the Lost Key of
Masonry, for when the Spirit Fire is lifted up through the
thirty-three degrees, or segments of the spinal column, and
enters into the domed chamber of the human skull, it finally
passes into the pituitary body (Isis), where it invokes Ra (the
pineal gland) and demands the Sacred Name. Operative
Masonry, in the fullest meaning of that term, signifies the
process by which the Eye of Horus is opened. E. A. Wallis
Budge has noted that in some of the papyri illustrating the
entrance of the souls of the dead into the judgment hall of
Osiris the deceased person has a pinecone attached to the
crown of his head. The Greek mystics also carried a symbolic
staff, the upper end being in the form of a pine cone, which
was called the thyrsus of Bacchus. In the human brain there is
a tiny gland called the pineal body, which is the sacred eye of
the ancients, and corresponds to the third eye of the Cyclops.
Little is known concerning the function of the pineal body,
which Descartes suggested (more wisely than he knew) might
be the abode of the spirit of man. As its name signifies, the
pineal gland is the sacred pine cone in man--the
eye single, which cannot be opened until CHiram (the Spirit
Fire) is raised through the sacred seals which are called the
Seven Churches in Asia.” ~Excerpt from Manly P. Hall: The Secret Teaching of All Ages, pg 227
2014 OFFICERS MICHAEL LOGAN, P.M. (ROBIN) MASTER
RON DUNCAN, P.M. (LIANELA) SENIOR WARDEN
MATTHEW STEVENS (TRISH) JUNIOR WARDEN
ERIC LANGDON (MICHELLE) TREASURER
SHAWN DONOHUGH, P.M. (DENA) SECRETARY
PAT DONOHUGH, P.M. (SUZANNE) ASST SECRETARY
JOHN (JD) WALKER (CHERYL) CHAPLAIN
DAVID BERNARD (LAURA) SENIOR DEACON
JOSEPH ARITELLI-NEWMAN JUNIOR DEACON
JOHNNY GALIAN (KRISTINE) MARSHAL
ANDREW MCGREGOR SENIOR STEWARD
LAYNE VON HANNEMANN (TRISHA) JUNIOR STEWARD
JOSEPH BOWKER, P.M. (PAULA) ORGANIST ROBERT HAYNES, P.M. (ELIZABETH) TILER
JEFF BAKER, P.M. (CINDY) OFFICER’S COACH RIO SANTONIL, P.M. (LUISA) INSPECTOR 1010
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Food and drinks will be provided after.
Mike Logan 310-833-3648
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F O O D , F R I E N D S & F U N
January 16
February 6
February 20
By: Ronald Duncan Jr, Senior Warden By: Matthew Stevens, Junior Warden
Brethren,
In case you didn’t hear, it is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of Brother Dale Ogden. Just as it appeared that he was making it through the rough-est part of his treatment and looking forward to being able to attend Lodge again, Dale lost his battle with
cancer. R.I.P. Dale.
I wanted to say that it is with great honor that I was elected to this office again and I am look-ing forward to overseeing our candidates and assisting the Worshipful Master in “governing” the Lodge. We had a wonderful year full of new applications last year and did quite a few First Degrees. As such, there will be many candidates progressing through the rest of their degrees this year and I will be assisting them with their progression. If you are willing to help out and take on a candidate, please let me know as I’ll be
looking for volunteers to assist.
The latest crop of “janglers” are really engulf-ing themselves into the Craft and getting involved in many aspects of the Lodge. I am looking forward to the future Masons that are being cultivated in the newest generation that we have as part of our links
program.
Allow me to take a moment to remind all regu-lar Masons of Los Angeles Harbor Lodge #332, that are not life members, of your responsibility, nay, your DUTY to your Lodge to pay your dues.. The annual dues for 2015 will again be $236.50 due to per capita not changing. Remember, if you have not paid your dues by 12/31/2014, you are ‘technically’ in arrears. Please remember your duty and pay your dues as soon
as possible!
I look forward to a busy year of Degrees and a busy social calendar that our Brother Junior Warden Matt Stevens will undoubtedly do a stellar job maintaining for the 2015 calendar year!
Look well to the West!
Greetings from the South, or as we say in my home town “Ay up from t’South” (It Yorkshire dialect). Thankfully I can write in correct English so my messages from the South this year will be understood by all. It is now 3 and a half years since I first visited LA Harbor Lodge and in that time the social events at the Lodge have gone from strength to strength. We will be holding our regular annu-al events along with one special event in June, of which more information will follow. At the time of writing the exact dates for some of the events are not fixed but here are a current list of planned events and the month. The dates and times will be posted on the Lodge Calen-dar and in the relevant Trestle Board. January – Installation of officers February – Sweethearts and Widows dinner May – Scotch and Wine Tasting + Silent Auction June – Grand Lodge Officers Reception for Worshipful Shawn Donohugh Senior Grand Deacon June – St Johns Feast Dinner July – 4th July Lodge BBQ July – 6th Annual Old West Chili Cook off December – Annual Christmas Party and Puppet show Along with these events we will also have our Bi-monthly Mariners nights (Socials) held in The Goose and Gridiron – these are on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month and begin at 7:00pm. These events do not happen by themselves and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those in advance who volun-teer to help with the set up, cooking and clean up that each event requires. Luckily we have a fantastic, dedicated group of “Janglers” at LA Harbor Lodge who do a great job behind the scenes as they progress through their degrees. Here’s to a very socialable 2015 – Chin Chin
Come out and enjoy
some cold drinks, tasty
food and GREAT fel-
lowship at Lodge!!!
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Trip to
Lake Isabella
February
13th-15th
For more
information
call:
Paul Galyean 310-833-5985
Sweetheart’s Night
Honor your sweetheart and the Sweethearts & Widow’s of Los Angeles Harbor Lodge by coming out to Family Night Dinner
February 18th, 2015 at 6:30pm. For Reservations contact: Matt Stevens (616) 795-8795 or [email protected]
The Worshipful Master for the Ensuing Masonic Year is requesting the presence of his
Officers and their Ladies for a meeting on January 14, 2015 at 6:30pm at
Los Angeles Harbor Lodge. For details, contact: Mike Logan (310) 833-3648
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ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR
1ST
& 3RD
MONDAYS AT 7:30 PM
The Order of the Eastern Star is the largest fraternal organization in the world to which both men and women may belong. Founded on heroic conduct and moral values, it is open to all faiths. The stated purposes of the organization are: Charitable, Educational, Fraternal and Scientific. It is dedicated to love, service charity and truth.
ORDER OF JOB’S DAUGHTERS
2ND
SATURDAYS AT 10:00 AM 4
TH SATURDAYS AT 7:30 PM
Job's Daughters is an organization of young women between the ages of 10 and 20. It is an order that promotes fun, while offering life skills that teach young women about the importance of organization, leadership, service to others and scholarship.
CRISSIE HULL 310-427-2105 DICK WATSON 310-833-6134 SANDY DAOS 310-831-5651
ERIC LANGDON 310-831-1067
ORDER OF DEMOLAY
2ND
& 4TH
FRIDAYS AT 7:30 PM
DeMolay is an organization for young men, 12 to 21 years of age, who develop management, leadership and social skills as they participate in community projects, sports, and educational programs. Young men learn to grow into responsible adults of good moral character, providing them with lots of fun, companionship, and the opportunity to develop solid values.
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L I V I N G P A S T M A S T E R S
1960 BRUCE L. WILSON 1989 REX S. WIEDERANDERS 2003 F. SCOTT CORRIGAN AFFILIATED PAST MASTERS 1963 JOHN D. HOLLAND 1990 MICHAEL J. LOGAN 2004 M. SHAWN DONOHUGH 1967 PATRICK T. DONOHUGH
1971 ROBERT H. HAYNES 1992 PHILLIP R. HEISS 2005 M. SHAWN DONOHUGH 1975 R. STEPHEN DOAN PGM 1972 ANTHONY N. ENGLISH 1993 RICHARD D. WATSON 2006 M. SHAWN DONOHUGH 1983 DONALD A. HULL 1972 JOHN COSTANTINI 1994 MICHAEL J. LOGAN 2007 JEFFREY P. BAKER 1987 STEVEN R. YOUMANS 1975 WILLIAM A. STECKER 1995 ROBERT E. WHITNEY 2008 JEFFREY P. BAKER 1988 DONALD A. HULL 1977 EDWARD HOLLAND, JR. 1996 RICHARD D. WATSON 2009 PHILLIP R. HEISS 1989 M. SHAWN DONOHUGH 1977 ROBERT R. WOLFE 1997 JEFFREY P. BAKER 2010 M. SHAWN DONOHUGH 1998 JOSEPH P. BOWKER 1978 THOMAS A. CARSTEN 1998 RONALD R. MOORE 2011 RONALD E. DUNCAN, JR. 1981 BEN C. PONDER 1999 MICHAEL J. LOGAN 2012 KENNETH M. FULLER 1982 WILLIAM A. STECKER 2000 PHILLIP R. HEISS 2013 EDWARD J. TAYLOR 1986 ROBERT A. ERBACKER 2001 RONALD R. MOORE 2014 MICHAEL J. LOGAN
1988 PAUL H. GALYEAN 2002 JEFFREY P. BAKER
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