CL89 Work

Br Phillip Shelton was passed to the degree of Fellowcraft on May 18. He is working hard with WB Burnley S. Hunt to pass the ex-amination in order to be raised prior to reporting for Army basic training in July.

District 7 Meeting: Queen City Lodge #761 hosted the 2017 District 7 Meeting on May 13. Grand Mas-ter Casey Hood officiated and pre-sented Brother Mike Lankford (Queen City #761) a plaque for his selection as District 7 Mason of the Year. Br Bryce Boyer was honored as CL89 Mason of the Year and Br Rick Bray was presented a Letter of Recognition for his continuous sup-port and involvement at all levels in Masonic organizations. Br Rick was recognized as being one of the go-to guys for every organization to which he belongs. Br Bray was also pre-sented a TN Grand Masters Com-memorative Trapper Knife by the Grand Master.

Scholarship award: The Clark Johns—Joe Stephens Memorial Scholarship will be formally awarded to Mr Levi A. Grubb by WM Chris Thomas at the June 24 CL89 Country Breakfast. Mr Grubb, a recent grad-uate of Montgomery Central High School will be entering Austin Peay State University in the fall pursuing a degree in Public Safety. Levi has a very interesting life story and a bright future. I am sure we can pre-vail upon him to tell us about his projects, experiences, community service and expectations for the fu-ture. He is a very articulate and in-teresting lad. Come on down to the Lodge for the presentation and wish Levi good luck.

W&O BBQ: Our signature fundrais-er, the 2017 Widows & Orphans/Masonic Relief Fund BBQ ticket sales are in the last week. I said it last month, and I will say it again, but a big thank you to all the brethren who have already purchased tickets. We not only need you to buy your tickets, but also to sell as many as you can. The Annual Widows & Or-phans BBQ has been set for Satur-day, 10 June.

I realize the BBQ will be in the books for those of you who get the Trestle-board through US mail rather than by email. Those who receive this via email can still sell tickets, or adver-tise it around the neighborhood right up to 6:00PM June 10. Re-member, this IS our signature chari-ty, and we do provide local relief right here in Montgomery County/District 7.

WM Thomas says the PM’s have the hot pit covered, but has openings for volunteers to help in the dining room for a few hours. Please volun-teer!

Memorial Day Activities: Our May Country Breakfast was postponed due to the many activities and pro-grams around the county. WB John Brown and Chaplain Arthur Stull were instrumental in a very moving and inspirational Memorial Day Cer-emony held at the Veterans Plaza Beech Civic Hall. Br Stull is a retired Army Chaplain having served several combat tours in Bosnia/Kosovo and the Middle East and was the guest speaker for the service. Brother Stull is the current CL89 Chaplain; Past High Priest, Clarksville Chapter #3 RAM; Past Illustrious Master, Clarksville Council #105 Cryptic Ma-sons and the current Eminent Com-mander, Clarksville Commandery #8 Knights Templar.

York Rite Bodies - Knights Templar: Clarksville

Commandery #8 will be evaluated on our presentation of the Order of the Temple on Saturday, Aug 12 at

12:00PM with dinner served prior to the work. All Templars are invited to attend the evaluation.

Order of the Eastern Star - Mary Morrison Chapter 500

will be hosting their annual Official Visit on Aug 25 at 8:00PM

National Sojourners /Heroes of 76 -

Chapter #177 (and Old Hickory Camp, Heroes of ’76) had a flurry of activity prior to suspending opera-tions for the summer. Meetings will resume August 22.

This last year was a year of great growth for Chapter #177 due to wel-come changes to National regula-tions. A total of 8 new Sojourners were inducted to membership. If you are a Master Mason who is cur-rently on active duty, retired (including medical) or received an Honorable Discharge we invite you to become a members of National Sojourners.

Br Jere Hodges, Commander of Old Hickory Camp inducted two new recruits, Br Joel Andalon and Br Will Welty into the Heroes of ‘76 at a ceremony held on May 20. The Camp inducted a total of 6 recruits during the past year. Commander Hodges has done an absolutely out-standing job in revitalizing the Camp. Under Br Jere’s leadership, we are now totally self-sufficient for conferring the degree with all the trimmings.

Br Jere Hodges, Past President and Past Commander was the Installa-tion Officer at a combined Chapter/Camp ceremony held on May 23, Br Steve Singleton was installed as the new Chapter President. Other Chapter officers installed were Brothers Arthur Stull, 1st Vice Presi-dent; David Sweatt, 2nd Vice; Rick Bray, 3rd Vice; Br Robert Gooch, Secretary/Treasurer and Br John Brown, Chaplain.

Old Hickory Camp installed Brother Dean Grimes as Commander. Other installed officers were Brothers Jon-athan Brown, Chief of Staff; Aaron Ayers, Vice Chief of Staff and Robert Gooch, Adjutant.

Secretary’s Memo -

I just received the 2017 CL89 Master Mason listing from Grand Lodge. I need to verify all information on this 90 page document and submit all changes to the Grand Secretary. You can help me immeasurably by emailing (or US mail) me any chang-es to your addresses, phone num-bers and email addresses. I only need you to notify me if you have any changes since January 2016.

This is not only important for the GL report, but also to help me keep accurate records for the Lodge. Email addresses are very important. If you are receiving the Trestleboard through the postal system and you have an email address, please pro-vide that along with any other changes to your contact infor-mation.

Postal mailings for the Trestleboard are one of our largest recurring costs, including over a hundred dol-lars this year for returned mail due to inaccurate addresses. The “return service requested” costs us full stamp price for a returned letter.

Thank you in advance for your help.

I saw these on display at the George Washington Masonic National Me-morial last month. They are circa 1900. Thought you would get a kick out of it.

Masonic Memes -

The following was sent to me by a brother. I have no idea where he got it or if he wrote it himself. I only know it is very appropriate.

IS YOUR FREEMASONRY IN JARS?

Not often do I find a Masonic lesson in a funny story, but there's one that seems to me to give the opportunity for developing one.

At a gathering of women the conver-sation turned `to a discussion of Ma-sons. Some of the women seemed to be rather well informed on the sub-ject, and discussed it at some length,

but one woman was bored and final-ly remarked, "Well, I don't know much about Masons, but I think their fruit jars are very nice."

If we analyze that, we may find she said a mouthful without intending to point a moral of any kind. Don't many of us Masons have a lot of fruit jars into which we put our Masonry, then seal the jars and set them away in a dark corner? Even when Mason-ic friends visit us, we don't get out some of the jars and treat our friends to the contents. We might at least take a jar along every time we go to a Masonic meeting and pass around what the jar contains.

Freemasonry put away in jars doesn't improve with age, and the contents are likely to be forgotten. Freemasonry improves by dissemina-tion. Brethren, keep your Freema-sonry out of fruit jars; but, if you do put some away now and then, bring it out at the first opportunity and let the Brethren partake with you.

Worshipful Master – Christopher D. Thomas Cell Phone: (931) 220-5937

E-Mail: christopherdouglasthomas@gmail.com

Senior Warden – Jerry G. Cole Senior Deacon – David T. Parsell Junior Warden – Edwin L. Lowrey Junior Deacon – Bryce F. Boyer Treasurer – Peter A. Palmieri Senior Steward – William Welty Secretary – Dean R. Grimes Junior Steward – Richard L. Bray 10 Canterbury Road Tiler – Raymond C. Forbes Clarksville, TN 37043-5252 Chaplain – Arthur R. Stull Cell Phone: (931) 801-3862 Historian – Edwin L. Lowrey

secretary@cl89.org

Keep in Your Thoughts and Prayers -

Br Bob Atkinson

Br Daniel VanWinkle

Br Tommy Thompson

Br Johnny Ragsdale

Br Howard Jenkins

Br Howard Jenkins

Br Steve Cushman

Br Dewayne McCauley

Br JC Morrow

Br Jacob Leighty

Calendar of Upcoming Events

July 2017

July 3, 6:30 PM CL#89 Stated Meeting (eat @ 5:30) July 6, 6:30 PM CL89 Degree/Practice Work July 10, 7:30 PM York Rite Bodies Chap #3 RAM Council #105 CM

July 17, 7:30 PM Commandery #8 KT July 18, 7:30 PM Mary Morrison #500 OES July 22, 8:00 AM CL89 Country Breakfast July 24, 6:00 PM Scottish Rite Club (@ Shoney’s of Riverside)

June 2017

Jun 5, 6:30 PM CL#89 Stated Meeting Jun 8, 6:30 PM Degree Work (if required) Jun 10, 11:00 AM—6:00 PM W&O BBQ Jun 12, 7:30 PM York Rite Bodies Chap #3 RAM Council #105 CM Jun 19, 7:30 PM Commandery #8 KT Jun 20, 7:30 PM Mary Morrison #500 OES Jun 22, 6:30 Master Mason Degree Work (eat @ 5:30) Jun 24, 8:00 AM CL89 Country Breakfast Jun 26, 6:00 PM Scottish Rite Club (@ Shoney’s of Riverside)

“I LOVE TO LOVE A MASON

‘CAUSE A MASON NEVER TELLS”

“LET’S END ALL THE DISCONTENT

ELECT A MASON PRESIDENT”