November 2012 Volume 12, Number 11

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November 3rd 9am to 11am

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Biscuits & Gravy, OJ, Coffee.

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Petition(s):

Entered Apprentice: Craig W. England, Thomas W. Nevitt, Edmund Jennings, &

Alan Stephens

Fellow Craft: W. Kevin Mento/Ed Jennings

The Masonic Pipe Line

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My Brothers

It’s About Time. Time is by far the

most precious of commodities

which we are endowed with. How

we use it is up to us. We can al-

ways make more money; we can

always rebuild a structure. It is the

one thing the poorest man has in

common with the richest. Once we

spend it, it is gone forever. None

of us knows when ours will come

to an end, but it is also a relative

thing.

Ask any parent; the golden years of

our child’s youth flies by and be-

fore you know it they are borrow-

ing the car. Ask any Junior War-

den, and the time seems to go by at

a snail’s pace. Ask any Worshipful

Master and they will tell you it took

a long time getting there and before

you know it, it’s done. We are ap-

proaching the end of another presi-

dential term, so I urge you please

spend the time to get out and vote.

We are also approaching another

Lodge election as well, again

please join us and vote.

This year has seen it’s good and

bad. We hope to learn for the fu-

ture and try to leave each station in

a better way than how we found it.

We endeavor to renew our Craft

and our Lodge each year and I see a

bright future for Nitram as it has

grown in many ways this year.

Partially, in number, but more im-

portantly in quality. Quality en-

dures. Let us focus in the coming

year to improve our quality of

work, quality of life and quality of

the time we invest in one another.

For you country music fans; “We

come in kickin’ giddy-up, and go

out hollerin’ Whoa” - Garth

Brooks.

From the West

Scott Pankonie, S.W.

On the Level

Trestle Board

Upon the Square

Brothers,

Greetings! Your lodge had an in-

credible October. We started off

with the "Family Fall Fling". It was

a huge success. Many of the area

kids came to enjoy Nitram's hospi-

tality. Hot dogs, chips, sodas, cup-

cakes and a bounce house were all

on hand. It was a resounding suc-

cess. Credit truly goes to Bro.

Bench and his committee. They did

a wonderful job!

Preparations are currently under-

way for the Holiday Feast. Tickets

this year will be $15.00. Turkey

and all the trimmings will be on

hand. Please join us on December

15th. It will be a wonderful event.

Secondly, we will again sell holi-

day wreaths and garland. Before

purchasing them anywhere else,

support your lodge and buy them

from us. Pick up will be late No-

vember / early December. More

details on that later.

Finally, we initiated two new

Brothers this month. One of them

came directly from our St. Peters-

burg Chapter Order of DeMolay.

Bro. SW Pankonie was in the East

and did a wonderful job. Congratu-

lations to our new Brothers and all

who helped to make the degree a

success. DeMolay is truly the fu-

ture of our Fraternity. I am so

proud of them. St. Petersburg

Chapter is full of bright young men

that are ready for the world. If you

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Brethren,

This month’s article is going to be short and to

the point. DUES, DUES, DUES.

I would like to thank many of our Brothers who

have already sent in their 2013 dues. It is great-

ly appreciated. We still have 11 Brothers who

have not paid their 2012 dues. I will be sending

out one more notice to those Brothers in the

near future. If you are one of 11 and are having

difficulties, please let us know. Your lodge will

work with you. Also, your Lodge has a Brother

to Brother program. If you would like to help

with this program, please get with me and I will

explain it to you further. All contributions to

this program are strictly confidential.

Fraternally,

Secretary’s Scribe

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By the Plumb

Brothers,

First off, I want to thank all of

the Brothers who helped out

with our Breakfast this month,

and especially those who made

the Family Fall Fling a success.

We served up about 50 hot

dogs, and had lots of kids run-

ning around between the

bounce house and the other

games.

November will be busy again.

The Monthly Breakfast will be

on Saturday, November 3 from

9 to 11 AM. We will be having

French toast this month in addi-

tion to the usual full menu.

Come on out and enjoy a great

breakfast and even better fel-

lowship!

We have a Fellow Craft degree

scheduled for November 15.

Dinner will be served at 6:15

PM.

The flier and tickets are ready

for our 3rd Annual Holiday Din-

ner. This year’s event will be

held on Saturday, December 15

from 6 to 9 PM, with a social

hour from 6 to 7 PM with cider

and hors d’oeuvres, and dinner

served at 7. Once again, we will

be having roast turkey, baked

ham and all the usual holiday

fixings. We will be honoring

our Widows as well. The sug-

gested donation will be $15.

Please RSVP to me at junior-

warden@nitram188.org or 727-

542-3805, or see any of the

Lodge Officers for tickets. You

won’t want to miss it!

2012 Lodge Officers

Worshipful Master

W:. Matthew Winters

727-452-8846

Senior Warden

Scott Pankonie

727-488-4640

Junior Warden

William Sundquist

727-542-3805

Treasurer

R:.W:.David A. Henderson,

PM, PDDGM

Secretary

R:.W:.Richard G. Hoover, PM,

PDDGM

727-409-6665

Chaplain

Gary Coddington

Senior Deacon

Brian Moffat

Junior Deacon

Clifford Batchelder

Senior Steward

Greg Williamson

Junior Steward

Michael Lucente

Tyler

Leo Smith

Organist

Bryan Shuler

Marshall

W:. Ney Delgado-Arias, PM

Historian

W:. Arthur Wasserman, PM

David Back 10/14

Bruce Bayes 10/11

Lionel Blakeney 10/12

Richard Cameron 10/07

Gary Cate 10/03

Gary Coddington 10/24

Walter Gilmore 10/07

Anthony Griffon 10/17

Richard Hall 10/17

Danny Hammons 10/31

Fletcher Herring Jr 10/21

Gary Jones 10/04

William Marshall 10/25

Gary Meredith 10/10

Lawrence Mitchell 10/27

Charles Morris 10/21

James Ollsen 10/27

John Perry 10/24

November 2012

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

1

7:30pm: M

asonic

Education

2

3 9:00am Lodge

Breakfast

4

5

7:30pm OES

6

7:30pm LOS

7

7:30pm Degree

Practice

8

7:30pm Stated

Communica

tion

9

10

11

12

13

7:30pm DeMolay

14

7:30pm Degree

Practice

15

7:30pm FC Degree

16

17

18

19

7:30pm OES

20

21

7:30pm Degree

Practice

22

Thanksgivin

g (D

ark)

23

24

25

26

27

7:30pm DeMolay

28 6

:30pm

Office

r’s meeting

7:30pm Degree

Practice

29

30

December 15th, 2012 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Lodge Social Hall

4275 78TH Street North,

Saint Petersburg, Florida

Please R.S.V.P. by December 1 to

Bill Sundquist at

juniorwarden@nitram188.org or

call (727) 542-3805.

Nitram

Lodge

3rd Annual

Holiday Feast

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PERMIT 657

Nitram Lodge No. 188 F&AM 4275 78th St. No. St. Petersburg, FL 33709 727-544-4400 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED

1961 David A. Young 1962 James T. Cate* 1963 Robert C. Foskett* 1964 Paul Weber 1965 Ludwig C. Seufert* 1966 Richard J. Skiles* 1967 Robert D. Arthur* 1968 Alvin F. Baumgartner 1969 Robert J. Schram* 1970 Carl Weisenberg 1971 David J. Barr 1972 J. Fred Bobbitt* 1973 Paul G. Phillips 1974 Willard A. Olson*

1975 Jack VanBreedveld* 1976 Leland O’Quinn* 1977 Donovan B. Hansen 1978 James C. Pauch, Jr. 1979 Lester K. Gehman, Jr. 1980 William R. McKee* 1981 William D. Hoffman* 1982 J. Russell Davenport* 1983 Manton Giles* 1984 George W. McGee 1985 William McCullough* 1986 Don Coleman 1987 Gabriel Kober, Jr. 1988 Anthony J. Tudi 1989 Jack S. Hill* 1990 William D. Hoffman* 1991 John M. Cook* 1992 Arthur H. Wasserman 1993 William Adams, Jr. 1994 Ronald McMillan PDI PDDGM 1995 James E. Elam*

1996 William J. Zimmerman* 1997 Kenneth A. McKenzie* 1998 Richard G. Hoover PDDGM PDI 1999 Russell I. Gilson* 2000 Stanley H. Szemer 2001 Robert L. Johnson 2002 David A. Henderson PDDGM 2003 Jeffrey J. Morris 2004 Anthony L. Griffon 2004 Royal K. Eden∆*

2005 Scott M. Geisler 2006 Ney Delgado-Arias 2007 Stanley H. Szemer 2008 Daniel Barto 2009 Scott M. Drake 2010 Charles J. Morris 2011 L. Edward Villiaume III (* Deceased)

(∆ Honorary Past Master)

Past Masters of Nitram Lodge No 188