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E v a n s v i l le Lodge #64 F & A M O n t h e S q u a r e Lt. Cmdr.

Brothers, On September 16, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Evansville Lodge #64 will host the Lodge of

The host lodge will open on the Entered Apprentice Degree, present the first section of

As the visiting lodge, Reed will present the second section of the Master Mason degree and

Apprentice degree. Let s be prepared and have fun. Fraternally, August A. L. 6013 The Worshipful Alfred Cloum Master of the Lodge Dennis A.

1 E v a n s v i l le Lodge #64 F & A M O n t h e S q u a r e Lt. Cmdr. John Philip Sousa, USMC From the Area Representative Dennis A. Schraeder, Sr. Brothers, On September 16, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Evansville Lodge #64 will host the Lodge of Instruction with Reed Lodge #316. The host lodge will open on the Entered Apprentice Degree, present the first section of said degree and then call the lodge from labor to refreshment. As the visiting lodge, Reed will present the second section of the Master Mason degree and then call the lodge from refreshment back to labor and then close the lodge on the Entered Apprentice degree. Let s be prepared and have fun. Fraternally, August A. L The Worshipful Alfred Cloum Master of the Lodge Dennis A. Schraeder, Sr. WM Dennis A. Schraeder, PM, 33 Master of Fort Branch Lodge #696 Area #40 Representative for the Grand Lodge of the State of Indiana WWW. EVV64.ORG

2 A Report from the Temple Board Representative The Saga continues Lessing Lodge has proposed buying the Temple for $1. Furthermore, if allowed to purchase the temple, Lessing proposed to rent out space to any current tenants at favorable rates. The Grand Lodge Deputy has informed Lessing Lodge to go no further, and to prepare a PLAN to be submitted to the Grand Lodge Supervisory Board in which plan Lessing would make a case for receiving ownership of the building whilst maintaining financial sustainability. The proposal initially did not address profit sharing from a future sale of the building. However, once Lessing made it clear that the proceeds from any sale would be split fairly, I sensed that Reed and Evansville were amenable to Lessing s proposal. The Grand Master s Deputy explained that Lessing selling the building at a profit without a split would be considered a Masonic offense. We further voted to give the realtor a ninety day extension with the understanding that, if Lessing s proposal received the green light by Grand Lodge AND no other serious offers were on the table, our agreement with said realtor would be terminated. James F. Jones, PM Fall Fundraising

Our fall fundraising schedule is about to get started and we again need you, as volunteers. Won't you come forward and give us a hand. For just one event, or for them all, we need you there.

3 Our fall fundraising schedule is about to get started and we again need you, as volunteers. Won't you come forward and give us a hand. For just one event, or for them all, we need you there. Your help does make a difference! Fundraising is a great way to help your lodge. Raising money like this can strengthen our lodges' financial reserve. It can allow us to cover the cost of special projects or even help offset some of those unexpected expenses, without going into the lodge savings or possibly raising dues. It can allow us to buy items for the benefit of the lodge or to enjoy activities as a masonic family that quite simply could not happen without fundraising dollars. Not only are there financial benefits through fundraising, there are the personal gains. Our brothers often get the chance to work side by side, building close friendships and bonds that may not normally occur through simple attendance of a lodge meeting. Friendships that can grow and last for life. Please make this a project for you to help the lodge. This is a win-win for us all. Below is a schedule for August at the Ford Arena. This includes the date, report time, event name, and number of workers needed to cover. August 1st 5:45 August 17th 5:15 August 23rd 6:15 August 24th 6:15 Lynrd Skynyrd (6 Workers) Toyota Employee Concert (9 workers) MMA Concert (4 workers) Mixed Martial Arts ( 5 workers) Contact Kenneth Roy at kenneth.royjr@gmail.com, or James Gaston at jgaston87@yahoo.com or call James at James has agreed to wear the mantle of event coordinator. I will be working with him this season to transition leadership into his capable hands. Let's be there to give him all of the support that he needs. Kenneth Roy Kenneth Roy, PM, 33 Secretary Evansville Masonic Lodge No. 64 F&AM Grand Master s One Day Class

4 O ctober 19th, is the date set for the fall session of the One Day Masonic Class. Put this on your calendar and join us! This fall class will be hosted by Evansville Lodge 64 at the Evansville Masonic Temple and sponsored by our friends at the Evansville Scottish Rite. Activities will get started around 7:00 AM (CDT). Registration of candidates will be on the main floor; coffee and breakfast will be served downstairs. The degree work should get started by around 8:15 AM. Later, after the Fellow Craft degree, we will break to refresh ourselves. The Scottish Rite staff will be waiting for us, across the street, where they will have prepared an appetizing lunch for everyone, and a pleasant meet and greet to welcome to our new brothers to the fraternity. After lunch we will return to the temple building for introduction of our distinguished guests and the highlight event of the day, the Master Mason degree, which will be conferred by Eureka Lodge, the southern-most lodge in the State of Indiana. Start getting those friends of yours petitions in so they can become a part of our ancient and honorable fraternity! Our Web Master, Ben Poormokhtar, has installed a special feature that will allow members to make personal contact information changes as easy as pushing a few buttons on a keyboard. This is a great feature. All you do is put in the changes that you need to make or make any additions you wish and press the submit button. That information will be automatically sent via to the lodge secretary who can and will then update you records. Just think, no more trying to call. No more trying to reach the secretary. No more letters to be written and postage to be paid. It is going to be EASY. FAST, AND SIMPLE. Of course, we never mind getting a call from you either. You choose! Remember, keep us informed so we can keep you in the loop. After all, it is your lodge! Ken Roy 812/ From the Desk of the

5 Brethren; With approval of the lodge, we have purchased three 8" X 8" commemorative bricks for the Indiana Masonic Home honoring the three Past Grand Masters who belonged to Evansville Lodge No. 64. M.W.B. Ralph E. Legeman, Grand Master from , will have a commemorative brick permanently placed into the Memory Walk. M.W.B. Jack F. Hewson, Grand Master from , will have a commemorative brick permanently placed into the Memory Walk. M.W.B. Darrell A. Veach, Grand Master from , will have a commemorative brick permanently placed into the Honor Walkway. Your generosity is standing and will stand as a lasting tribute to these great men. Your donations to this great project will also go a long way toward the continued support of our Indiana Masonic Home. Calendar of Events July 29 th Evansville Lodge will be dark (no meeting) Reed Lodge #316 will be conferring a Master Mason. You could join some of us there! August 3 rd Evansville and Cynthiana Lodge will hold a joint Master Mason degree at Cynthiana Lodge, in Cynthiana, Indiana. 7:00 AM- Breakfast at Stohl s Restaurant, located on US 41 North, north of the Indiana State Police Post. (Breakfast is self pay) 8:15 AM Party will move to Cynthiana Lodge, located in downtown Cynthiana. THIS WILL BE A GREAT MORNING OF FELLOWSHIP, SO PLEASE COME JOIN US FOR BREAKFAST OR FOR THE ENTIRE MORNING!

6 August 5 th August 12 th August 21 st 6:00 PM Officers meeting (discussions on upcoming events) 6:00 PM Meal at the Temple meeting with our good brothers at Reed Lodge and then our Stated meeting at 7:00 PM. 4:30 PM - Dream Center Meal- Volunteers needed. Please contact WB Rex Goodman, PM, MSA, 32 at xrayman79@wowway.com and join us. August Birthdays CHARLES ERNEST ANDERSON 8/27 KEITH JOYCE BENEDICT 8/18 JASON MATTHEW BLONDIN 8/24 JOSEPH EARL BROWN, PM 8/28 LAFAYETTE PIERCE DALLAS 8/6 TRACEY RAY DALLAS 8/7 JARED PAUL DAVIS 8/6 JASON DEWAYNE DICKEN 8/16 RYAN LEITH FARMER 8/1 HAROLD JAMES FUQUAY 8/10 THOMAS RICHARD HALE, JR. 8/8 JEREMY LEE HEATH 8/23 DAVID M HENG 8/2 PAUL KENDALL HIGHT 8/27 RAYMOND ALLEN HITCHCOX 8/1 ROBERT DELMAS HORNBROOK 8/14 DONALD LEE JOHNSON 8/14 RICHARD ANTHONY KURZENDOERFER 8/22 BOBBY LAUDERDALE 8/15 ALFRED MARLIN LINDSEY 8/26 ROBERT SCOTT MCCARTY 8/17 DAVID ARLIN MORRIS 8/29 DONALD RAY OETH, PM 8/14 DAVID WILLIAM PFETTSCHER 8/4 JOHN GLENN ROBINSON 8/10/1956, MICHAEL KENT SANDERS 8/10 ALLAN CLARK SWAN 8/11 RAYMOND W. WINTERNHEIMER 8/17 The Work by Brother Montford C. Holley The gavel sounds and all is still: The Master speaks, proclaims his will: Each one obeys, takes up his tools. Inspects the plan, consults the rules: With trowel and level, plumb and square, Each stone is set exactly where The plan provides, the drawing shows And day by day the Temple grows: The porch is finished, pillars placed; The strands of net-work interlaced; The chambers furnished, pavement laid, The sacred vessels all displayed: The walls are standing straight and true; The roof is on, the labor through: The Master speaks, The work is done: The gavel sounds, God calls us home. From the Senior Warden

It was rumored that he mastered levitation and that he discovered the secret to the building of the pyramids.

7 I recently discovered an interesting thing while trolling around the internet. I was looking at a feature in Florida called the Coral Castle. A Latvian immigrant built a huge castle as a monument to a woman who spurned his advances. He built it out of huge blocks of coral, some weighing in at twenty-eight tons. It was rumored that he mastered levitation and that he discovered the secret to the building of the pyramids. It is rumored that he worked at night so no one would learn his secret to levitating large weights. Some say he used massive block and tackle units, hoisting the huge blocks to incredible heights. But at 5'-0" and barely one hundred lbs, this appears to have been an impossible feat for this diminutive man. One of the websites debunking this "magical feat" is This man uses simple physics to move huge blocks - without block and tackle units and without large external ramps. He does this all by himself. He even moved a huge pole barn 300 feet to another location to prove his point. The website includes all the necessary physics and videos. If you have internet access it is worth 30 minutes of your time to check this out. So what's the point? Using simple physics, it is quite possible that the Egyptian pyramids were built using no external ramp systems, no huge block and tackle hoists, and no incalculable numbers of Hebrew slaves. Less than 1000 men could have built the pyramids in 20 years with hardly any strain. And what is the point in that, you say? It is not only possible, but probable, that the Temple of Solomon, so spacious and magnificent and constructed by so many celebrated artist, took much fewer men than originally estimated. And while our ritual accurately describes the care and the great attention to detail exerted by the artists involved, and while it is true that the stones were cut and numbered in the quarries and erected into place without tools of iron, it was not so impossible to imagine that this temple could be erected so easily using simple physics. No innumerable slave labor, no direct lifting of massive stone load, no alien intelligence, no magic levitation. Just plain old fashion know-how and a few good Freemasons. Fraternally, Joey Weigant J. A. Weigant, 32 Senior Warden EVANSVILLE LODGE #64 F & AM 301 CHESTNUT STREET EVANSVILLE, IN

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On The Level. Since Jun Volume 2, Number 1. Meetings

On The Level. Since Jun Volume 2, Number 1. Meetings Wagoner Masonic Lodge #98 A.F. & A.M On The Level Since 1895 Jun 2009 www.mastermason.com/wagonermasons.com Volume 2, Number 1 Meetings Are Still held on the 1 st and 3 rd Thursday of each month. Dinner