A Very Busy Day

Today started out early in the morning with Waynesville Lodge Inspection in my district in the Fellowcraft Degree. This is the home Lodge of several very active York Rite Masons. They also had some very cool new props that they used to add to the Fellowcraft degree. In all, they did a very nice job and we were out before noon. Next I headed to Xenia for Nathaniel Greene's Commandery Inspection. Their Eminent Commander was a friend of mine who I found out was serving for the first time. Why this is significant is that he has already served Lodge, Chapter, and Council as the presiding officer but the last one was in 1989. He explained that he had started several times but had always had to drop due to work commitments. After witnessing the Order of the Temple, I headed down the road to the next activity at the Dayton Temple. The 21 Club which I instituted when I was a District Deputy Grand Master was meeting for their annual get-to-gather. The 21 Club is earned by any Lodge member who attends 21 Lodge inspection in the 2nd Masonic District in one year. While I expected just around 5 a year to complete this visitation requirement, we have ran closer to around 10+ per year achieving it, some now have over 10 years of achieving it. One extra benefit was going to be this annual get-to-gather of those who were members and around 4 years ago we started that tradition. We also have ties you can get (exclusively) for joining the 21 Club and an apron you can earn for so many years (I think it may be 10) of achieving the goal of 21 Inspection in our District. Unfortunately, the unofficial president of the 21 Club was unable to attend as he had to rush his wife into the hospital with breathing problems just prior to the get-to-gather. Last for the evening, Pam joined me and we attended the Scottish Rite Spring entertainment which was a presentation of the Van Dell's. They have a musical review of the 50's & 60's with some humor mixed into the program. Lot's of great music. A very busy day indeed starting before the sun came up and lasting well after it went down but it was also a fun filled day with lots of surprises along the way.