From the East
Joseph Wallach - Worshipful Master
Greetings, my Brothers.
July is the seventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., being the month of his birth. Before then, it was called Quintilis, being the fifth month of the calendar that started with March.
Fraternally,
Joseph Wallach WM
From the West
William Workman - Senior Warden
“In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.”
”
S'chn T'gai Spock - Star Trek, Season 3, Episode 9
(“The Tholian Web,” 1968)
Brethren,
It is on average the warmest month in most of the Northern Hemisphere, where it is the second month of summer, and the coldest month in much of the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the second month of winter. The second half of the year commences in July. In the Southern Hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of January in the Northern hemisphere.
From the South
Brandon Jenkins - Junior Warden
"Dog days" are considered to begin in early July in the Northern Hemisphere, when the hot sultry weather of summer usually starts. Spring lambs born in late winter or early spring are usually sold before 1 July.
July's birthstone is the ruby, which symbolizes contentment.
Blue delphinium (Larkspur)
White water lily
Its birth flowers are the larkspur and the water lily. The zodiac signs are Cancer (until July 22) and Leo (July 23 onward).
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
JULY
• 01 Executive Committee Meeting (Zoom) Tuesday 6:30 PM
• 03 Stated Meeting Dinner (Banquet Room) Thursday 6:00 PM
• 03 Monthly Stated Meeting (LR1) Thursday 7:30 PM
• 10 Officers' Practice (LR1) Thursday 6:30 PM
• 17 Officers' Practice (LR1) Thursday 6:30 PM
• 24 DARK or Degree
• 31 DARK or Degree
AUGUST
• 05 Executive Committee Meeting (Zoom) Tuesday 6:30 PM
• 07 Stated Meeting Dinner (Banquet Room) Thursday 6:00 PM
• 07 Monthly Stated Meeting (LR1) Thursday 7:30 PM
• 14 Officers' Practice (LR1) Thursday 6:30 PM
• 20 OSI (Officers School of Instruction) (LR3) Wednesday 7:00 PM
Topic: First Degree, Advanced Stations
• 21 DARK or Degree
• 28 DARK or Degree
JULY
BIRTHDAYS
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05 Kelvin Kimball (Fellow Craft)
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06 Christopher Hamilton (Marshal)
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07 Jon Isaacson (Past Master)
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11 Robert Cole (Master Mason)
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17 Andrew Wilson (Master Mason)
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18 Brandon Jenkins (Junior Warden)
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18 Maury Hicks (Senior Steward)
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18 Wesley Jackson (Master Mason)
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21 Isaacson (Past Master)
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23 Daniel Mueller (Master Mason)
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23 Albert Lazare (Master Mason)
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29 Thomas Ansell (Master Mason)
MASTER MASON ANNIVERSARIES
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08 Dan Dailey (Past Master) (30 Years)
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08 Floyd Tritt (43 Years)
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10 Nico Montero (11 Years)
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16 Mac Contreras (11 Years)
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22 Jerry Livingston-Joy (27 Years)
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22 Josh Pane (30 Years)
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23 Joshua Djubek (16 Years)
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24 Jason Sibbring (11 Years)
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29 Alex Chompff (15 Years)
Washington Lodge No. 20 F. & A. M.
Mission Statement
To practice and promote a way of life that binds like-minded men in a worldwide
brotherhood that transcends all religious, ethnic, cultural, social and educational differences.
Through Masonic principles and tradition, and by the outward expression of these
through its fellowship and compassion, Washington Lodge No.20 Free & Accepted Masons provides ways in which to serve God, family, country, neighbors, and self in an environment that contributes to the enrichment and betterment of its members, mankind, and its communities.
Freemasonry is
Kindness in the home,
Honesty in business,
Courtesy in society,
Fairness in work,
Pity and concern for the unfortunate,
Resistance toward evil,
Help for the weak,
Forgiveness for the penitent,
Love for one another and,
Above all, reverence and love for God.
Freemasonry is many things but
Most of all:
Freemasonry is a way of life.
Signers of the Declaration of Independence:
A Biographical Introduction
by Robert G. Ferris
Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical Introduction provides contemporary readers with a brief summary of the lives of the fifty-six revolutionaries who signed the Declaration of Independence, the founding document of the United States of America.
Signers of the Declaration of Independence include:
John Adams [Massachusetts],
Samuel Adams [Massachusetts],
Josiah Bartlett [New Hampshire],
Carter Braxton [Virginia],
Charles Carroll [Maryland],
Samuel Chase [Maryland],
Abraham Clark [New Jersey],
George Clymer [Pennsylvania],
William Ellery [Rhode Island],
William Floyd [New York],
Benjamin Franklin [Pennsylvania],
Elbridge Gerry [Massachusetts],
Button Gwinnett [Georgia],
Lyman Hall [Georgia],
John Hancock [Massachusetts],
Benjamin Harrison [Virginia],
John Hart [New Jersey],
Joseph Hewes [North Carolina],
Thomas Heyward, Jr. [South Carolina],
William Hooper [North Carolina],
Stephen Hopkins [Rhode Island],
Francis Hopkinson [New Jersey],
Samuel Huntington [Connecticut],
Thomas Jefferson [Virginia],
Francis Lightfoot Lee [Virginia],
Richard Henry Lee [Virginia],
Francis Lewis [New York],
Philip Livingston [New York],
Thomas Lynch, Jr. [South Carolina],
Thomas McKean [Delaware],
Arthur Middleton [South Carolina],
Lewis Morris [New York],
Robert Morris [Pennsylvania],
John Morton [Pennsylvania],
Thomas Nelson, Jr. [Virginia],
William Paca [Maryland],
Robert Treat Paine [Massachusetts],
John Penn [North Carolina],
George Read [Delaware],
Caesar Rodney [Delaware],
George Ross [Pennsylvania],
Benjamin Rush [Pennsylvania],
Edward Rutledge [South Carolina],
Roger Sherman [Connecticut],
James Smith [Pennsylvania],
Richard Stockton [New Jersey],
Thomas Stone [Maryland],
George Taylor [Pennsylvania],
Mathew Thornton [New Hampshire],
George Walton [Georgia],
William Whipple [New Hampshire],
William Williams [Connecticut],
James Wilson [Pennsylvania],
John Witherspoon [New Jersey],
Oliver Wolcott [Connecticut] and
George Wythe [Virginia].
Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical Introduction is an abridgement of Signers of the Declaration: Historic Places Commemorating the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, produced under the direction of Series Editor Robert G. Ferris, et al., and published by the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service in 1973 as a part of the series, The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings, Volume XVIII.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
ROBERT G. FERRIS served with the National Park Service as series editor of the National Historic Landmark book project for fifteen years.
ASIN : B0892DP4PH
ISBN-13: 979-8642783122
The Declaration of Independence
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