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: secretary@glendalemasons.com

2014 Officers

Master Wor. Nikoul Bilavian (818) 745-3245 wm@glendalemasons.com

S. Warden Wor. Travis Robinson

PM

(805) 217-2636 travis@rcs.bz

J. Warden Hrag Bekerian (626) 487-9445 hragbekerian@gmail.com

Treasurer Alex Ashjian (626) 354-7272 alexashjian@yahoo.com

Secretary Vram Martirosyan (818) 241-9516 secretary@glendalemasons.com

Asst

Secretary

Armen Keshmeshian (818) 445-4213 armenk@outlook.com

Chaplain John R. Carlton (818) 545-7278 ecarlton1@yahoo.com

S. Deacon Arman Petrosian (818) 621-4120 armancardiology@yahoo.com

J. Deacon Varouj Meneshian (818) 720-7983 vmtravel@prodigy.net

Marshal Mike M. Israyelyan (818) 445-7070

S. Steward Shant Hamamjian (818) 968-6694 shanthamamjian@yahoo.com

J. Steward Andranik Ovsepyan (818) 400-6565 ando6006@gmail.com

Tiler

Organist Shant Sarkisian (818) 400-3730 shant_intex@yahoo.com

Officers

Coach

Wor. Travis Robinson

PM

(805) 217-2636 travis@rcs.bz

Candidates

Coach

Alex Meloyan (805)813-6666 ameloyan@gmail.com

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

please visit

www.GlendaleMasons.com or

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