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Unity Lodge No. 632, F.& A. M.

TRESTLEBOARD

http://www.unitylodge 632.com

Inside this issue:

From The West 2

From the South 2

Masonic Law 3

September Calendar 4

October Calendar 6

Lodge Officers 6

Circle of Concern 6

Photos 7

Memorial 7

Volume , Issue September 2013

Greetings from the East...

Hello Brethren and Ladies,­­­­­ Summer is almost over and it is time

for me to start wrapping up all the ideas

and goals that I had proposed for this year. Once again I want to thank all of

my Officers, Past Masters and Lodge

Members for all the support they give me.

We initiated two new Entered Ap­

prentice Masons on July 24th and after coaching them during the month of

August they are already prepared to be

passed to the degree of Fellowcraft. It has been a while since I have coached,

but once again I have been reminded of

that quote, “to teach is to be taught twice.”

I want to thank the brothers that

spoke on their experience with Masonry at our Stated Meeting Dinner in August.

What better way for potential new can­

didates to learn about Freemasonry than

to hear it directly from the mouths of

several of our distinguished members. I

have heard that two of the visitors join­ing us that night plan on submitting a

Petition for Degrees at our Lodge. Well done Brothers.

Unity Lodge donated the use of our

building to the young men of Valley Hills DeMolay on Saturday, August

24th. They held their Installation of

Officers in our Lodge Room and then following it they had refreshments and a

dance in the dining room…DJ, lights

and all. I supervised them all day and I cannot begin to tell what a pleasure it

was to see a young group, so well be­

haved and so full of energy take over our lodge. It was a real pleasure to know

that we were helping them out, but an

even greater pleasure to spend time getting to know them, seeing and feel­

ing all of their energy and witnessing a

well orchestrated, professional, moving and emotional Installation of young men

devoted to DeMolay. This was my first

exposure to their Chapter and I want to thank the brethren for the support we

were able to give this youth order.

I would like to congratulate Wor­shipful John Gowen, PM for receiving

Unity Lodge’s Mason of the Year

Award at the Scottish Rite on August 31st. The award was presented by Most

Worshipful John Lowe and it was great

to see so many members of Unity Lodge show their support and attend the event.

I would also like to congratulate Wor­

shipful Don Taylor, PM for being se­lected as Grand Tiler for the Grand

Lodge of California for 2014. His instal­

lation will be held on October 6th in the Grand Lodge Auditorium.

We will be holding a 1st Degree at

6:30pm on September 9th for Mr. Charles Sawyer so please come out and

show your support for him and our

Lodge as we can always use more side liners and it will give you an opportuni­

ty to join in the fellowship that we hold

so dear to our hearts. I was told by a Past Master that this year it is my job to

bring this Lodge together, well that’s a

tough one to tackle with a bunch of stubborn old farts (myself included), but

I can say that I have worked hard at it

by showing up to events, spending time

and getting to know our brothers, wives

and widows, and just being myself. So I

am asking those brothers that have been sitting at home during our events to start

coming out, participat swallow your pride and enjoy the “gloriousness of

when brothers come together”. We all

know our time here is limited, so let’s not deny ourselves of seeing our family

one more time.

We will be holding our annual George Steven’s Picnic at Admiral

Baker Field on Saturday, September 21st

from 11am until 4pm at Pavilion #15 so come out and join us for some ribeye

steaks (my treat), chicken, hamburgers,

hot dogs, potato salad, baked beans, chips, sodas and a selection of deserts.

Our grill masters Senior Warden Jahmal

Neff and Senior Deacon Enrique Caste­lo will be flipping some of the best

barbecue you have ever tasted. Also,

please remind your friends in The Daughters of the Nile, Eastern Star,

Amaranth and White Shrine that they

too are also invited to join us at this event. The cost is free and there will be

plenty or games and prizes to enhance

the fun. Unity Lodge will be participating in

this year’s Adams Avenue Street Fair,

along with the Al Bahr Shrine Clowns and Teddy Bear making machine, The

Lemon Grove Rainbow Girls, Job’s

Daughters Bethel #40, and Valley Hills DeMolay. We have eliminated the Beer

Garden in our parking lot and there will

be several kids rides in place of it. The youth groups will be serving Cotton

Candy, Popcorn, and Snow Cones with

supplies bought by Unity Lodge and the youth groups keeping all proceeds from

the sales of their snacks. Our Child ID

Booth will be up and literature on Free­masonry and the Youth Groups will be

available. I encourage you all to come

out, bring a friend and support us as this is one of our largest public events of the

year. We are fortunate enough to bring

all three youth groups together with our lodge and Shriners in one big Masonic

Event.

Our 164th Annual Communication will be held on October 4th-6th. The

Pillars and a Past Master will cast their

votes on legislation proposed to change

the California Masonic Code. Some

highlights of the legislation involve:

Changes/Transfer of Life Membership Funds, Pillars being responsible for

Master’s Lectures of and below their station, Privacy of Members’ infor­

mation in public mailings, use of Cipher

by Officer’s Coach during ritual, pre­senting ID before depositing ballots at

Grand Lodge, requiring Pledge of Alle­

giance at meetings, allowing EAs and FCs to participate in Funeral Services,

create a 25 year Award, Payment plan

for lifetime memberships, new ages/multiples for calculating lifetime mem­

bership amount, Secretary emailing

minutes of lodge to avoid having to read them at meetings, Funeral Expenses,

Require the Treasurer-elect and Secre­

tary-elect to be proficient in the Candi­date’s Lecture of MM degree.

I look forward to seeing you all at

our upcoming functions and for the last time this year, due to the heat, I am once

again authorizing HAWAIIAN

SHIRTS/ATTIRE FOR SEPTEM­BER’S STATED MEETING.

Fraternally, James Glunt

Worshipful Master

Unity Lodge #632

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Brethren and families; Traditionally August is

the month we typically go dark. It gives the members of Unity lodge an oppor-tunity to schedule and take vacations. Ritual practices are not the rou-tine, but the exception in August and even though some still follow this tradi-tion, it has become less and less significant. Peo-ple and their families take vacations when it best fits their lifestyle, work re-quirements, or even their kid’s schedules. This was evident by my trip to Ja-pan in July. Japan is truly a country of heritage, tradition and honor. Even though I did not spend a lot of time in the history aspect of Japan during this trip I did have an op-portunity to visit the Ki-

yomizu Kannon-do Temple in Ueno park on one of my excursions to one of Tokyo’s three Hard Rock Cafes. As humongous and modern as Tokyo is, the Japanese still managed to maintain many beautiful green areas in the form of parks throughout the city and this was no exception. The grounds of the park were very well kept and clean and most parks have some sort of shrine or temple included within their boundaries, like Ueno Park. An interesting tradition I experienced was the prayer walls which can be found out-side the temples of Japan. Here visitors write out their prayer wishes and hang them on the wall to be answered. With 99% of them being written in Kanji, it resembled art

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From the West...

From the South...

notified as more infor-mation is provided. Thank you to Worshipful Hal Scott and our architect Worship-ful David Terry, who have been working hard to expe-dite the planning and ap-proval pieces of the remod-el.

During October 4th – 6th Worshipful Glunt, Brother Bumgarner and I will attend The Grand Lodge of Califor-nia Free & Accepted Ma-sons 164th Annual Commu-nication to cast our votes for this year’s resolutions. Our Brother Worshipful Don Taylor will be there as well as Grand Tiler of California Free &Accepted Masons.

Greetings Unity,

I hope you have enjoyed your summer and had a chance to get out and have some fun in the nice weath-er. Thank you Worshipful James and Worshipful Ste-ve for a month off. Now it’s time to get back to work. Congratulations to our new-est Entered Apprentice Ma-sons: Aaron Cathcart, and Gilberto Sabina. Welcome Brethren! We are looking forward to your progression in Masonry.

Next year’s calendar has been completed and sub-mitted to the building man-

ager. Since joining the fraternity, there has always been brothers available to support my development as a Mason and help me along my journey as a lodge of-ficer, so in this instance I would like to thank Wor-shipful Terry Allison for his help with putting together next year’s calendar. The incoming Wardens and I will meet later this month to finalize our programs for the year as well. At this point we have no specific dates for our planned re-model, but it is possible that we may not always have full access to the building. Everyone will be

If anyone would like this year’s proposed resolutions they are available on the Masons of California Web-site or you can request them through the pillars.

I hope to see you all at our picnic at the end of this month. There will be good food and great company.

Installation of 2014 offic-ers will be Sunday Decem-ber 15th.

Fraternally,

Jahmal Neff

more than just the random cluttering of notes it actu-ally was.

My family knows all too well of my collection of beer glasses from various Hard Rock Cafes through-out the world and I was ecstatic that I had three within striking distance on this trip. I was lucky enough to visit and have a beer in the Uyeno-Eki and Roppongi Hard Rock Cafes in Tokyo as well as the one in Yokohoma. This brings my count to 34 Hard Rock Cafes visited with 14 of them being outside the USA.

I also had the oppor-tunity to take in a Japa-nese Professional base-ball game, which was also right up my alley. I went to Jingu Stadium, home of the Tokyo Yakult Swal-lows who took on the

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Hanshin Tigers. Each team had about 3 to 5 Americans on their ros-ters so I recognized a few of them. The Tigers showed no mercy to the lowly Swallows beating them 10-0 behind a grand slam by the Ti-gers Japanese catcher in the 7th inning. Every-one loves fireworks and in the USA the firework festivities are after the game. In Japan, they stop the game after 5 ½ innings and the fire-works show begins. Once it’s over the game resumes, odd? Perhaps not as odd as cheer-leaders at a baseball game? Yes, they had cheerleaders and the girls would come out every inning just before the home team would

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MASONICA LAW…Provided By Hal Scott PM

§405.050. FUNERAL SERVICE CERTI-FICATIONS.

Master Masons may be certified to officiate at Masonic funerals and memorial services in this Jurisdiction as follows:

A. The Inspector of the district shall certi-fy to the proficiency of all who perform the Funeral Service for the Lodges within his district, or those of adjacent districts. Upon being completely satis-fied as to the proficiency and qualifica-tion of such Master Masons, the In-spector shall, forward to the Grand Master a request that a certificate of qualification and authorization be is-sued which shall grant to each such Master Mason the authority to perform the Funeral Service of this Jurisdiction when properly requested to do so;

B. Prior to officiating, the Master must be certified in the Funeral Service. If the Master is not certified, it shall be the responsibility of the Master and the Inspector to have a certified Master Mason available at all times;

C. In order to be certified, a Master Mason must demonstrate the following to the complete satisfaction of the Inspector:

1. Delivery of the Funeral Service in its

entirety in a creditable manner, ei-

ther by total memorization or the

ability to read and deliver it in a

creditable manner;

2. Proper pronunciation and enuncia-

tion;

3. Complete knowledge of duties and

responsibilities of the Funeral Service

officiant;

4. Personal habits, dignity, and appear-

ance appropriate to the solemnity of

the Service; and

5. Emotional stability;

D. All requests for certificates shall be

submitted on the Grand Lodge form to

be furnished to the Inspector and shall

be effective for a period of three years

from date of issuance;

E. The Inspector shall maintain a current

record of all qualified Master Masons in

his district, with date of certification

and expiration date and shall forward a

copy to the Grand Lecturer and the

Assistant Grand Lecturer each year on

July 1st, when filing his annual report;

F. The Inspector shall furnish annually to

the Master of each Lodge in his dis-

trict, and the Executive Secretary of

all adjacent Masonic Service Bureaus,

a written list of all Master Masons who

are currently qualified in his district.

He shall also notify the above named

individuals of any additions or dele-

tions during the year, at the time such

changes occur;

G. Prior to renewal of any certificate, the Inspector must satisfy himself as to the Master Mason’s continued profi-ciency; and

H. Any Inspector desiring a certificate must be examined and certified by another Inspector who has already been certified, by his Assistant Grand Lecturer or by the Grand Lecturer.

[Source: Section 28040 of the 1991 Cali-fornia Masonic Code.]

bat. Cheering? The fans never shut up either, well, ok they did take took turns, but the stadium was never quiet. The main fan cheering sections were in the left field bleachers for the visitors and right field for the home team. They had drums, trumpets, flags and song leaders. They did take turns as it is considered in bad taste to cheer when your team was in the field, you only cheered when your team was up to bat. My trip to Japan wasn’t a long trip but it was to a part of the world where I had not been before.

How about that dinner we had on August 14? I was trying to keep it simple thinking we would have a

(Continued from page 2) smaller than usual crowd. Well I was wrong on the crowd as I counted 47 and I heard no nega-tive comments about the food ei-ther. We all loved the fruit, bru-schetta, lasagna, spaghetti and tiramisu. Our meeting in Sept, fall-ing on the 11th and Sept. being constitution month I thought it would be good to eat like they did in the 18th century. Wow, the food all looked and sounded terrible. I guess I am glad to live n the 21st century and I would be a skinny boy if I lived in the 1700s. So, I know it’s a stretch (relating to America’s history) but we are go-ing Cajun for Sept 11th. Don’t forget about the end of the sum-mer Unity lodge picnic either, that’s coming up 10 days after our meet-

ing on the 21st. Everyone loved go-ing to Admiral Baker Field so the Master decided, let’s do it again. Same place too, right next to the pool and the parking lot in pavilion #15. We will run from 11am to 3pm and it should be fun for all. Don’t forget to come out to the Ad-ams Ave. Street Fair on the week-end of Sept 28/29. We plan on having the Child ID booth, Al Bahr Shrine Clowns, Al Bahr Shrine Sa-maritans Teddy Bears and Masonic youth groups selling snow cones, cotton candy and popcorn along with some interesting kid ride at-tractions.

Until next month Steve Bumgarner

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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Labor Day

3 4

7 pm1st De-

gree Practice

5 6 7

8 9

7 pm 1st De-

gree Mr.

Charles Saw-

yer

10 11

6:30 pm Stated

Meeting Dinner

7:30 PM Stated

Meeting

12 13 14

15 16

DOD at Uni-

ty Lodge—

3rd Degree

17 18

2nd Degree

Practice

19 20 21

22 23

6:30 pm 2nd

Degree for

Bro. Garner

& Cathart

24 25

7 pm Temple

Board Meet-

ing

26 27 28

Child ID Ad-

ams Ave.

Street Fair

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Child ID Ad-

ams Ave.

Street Fair

30

6:30 pm 2nd

Degree for

Bro. Sabina

& Perez

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

7 pm 3rd

Degree

Practice

3 4 5

6 7

7 pm 3rd

Degree

Practice

8 9

6:30 pm Stated

Meeting Dinner

7:30 pm Stated

Meeting

10 11 12

13 14

7 pm 3rd

Degree

Practice

15 16

6:30 pm 3rd

Degree

17 18

7 pm 913th

Dist. 3rd De-

gree for Bro.

Dones at SGTS

Lodge

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20 21

DOS at

SGTS Lodge

22 23

6:30 pm 3rd

Degree for

Bro. Garner

24 25 26

27 28 29 30

7 pm Tem-

ple Board

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Halloween

October 2013

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LODGE OFFICERS

Office Name Telephone

Master James B. Glunt (619) 335-0714

Senior Warden Jahmal R. Neff (619) 847-0595

Junior Warden Steven H. Bum-

garner (619) 602-9730

Treasurer John Gowen, PM (858) 414-6125

Secretary Vacant (619) 501-5515

Chaplain David Allen (858) 278-2042

Senior Deacon Enrique Castelo (858) 361-8504

Junior Deacon Warren A Thomas (858) 578-1051

Marshal

Senior Steward Gerald Brown (843) 263-8386

Junior Steward Brian Galt (619) 276-3044

Tiler James Kenniston (619) 264-3328

STAFF

Inspector of the 913th Dis-

trict Gil Magdaluyo, PM (619) 445-8069

Officer’s Coach Steve Shultz, PM (619) 987-9856

Asst. Officer’s Coach Hal Scott, PM (858)277-4039

Candidate’s Coach Marvin Holmberg (619)-582-3908

Trestleboard Editor Terry Allison PM (C) (619) 895-6258

Building Manager Beth Eldridge (619) 284-0925

George Stephens Memorial Picnic

Saturday Sept. 21, 2013,

11am—3pm

Admiral Baker Field

2400 Admiral Baker Rd.

San Diego, CA 92120

Pavilion 15 (next to pool)

Fun, Food & Entertainment for ALL!

The Masonic Center is available to Rent for your Special Event.

Book Early for your Holiday Celebration

Please call 619-284-0925 or Come in Mon. thru Fri. 9:00am to 3:00pm

Look forward to seeing you! Beth Eldridge

Circle of Concern

The following is a list of people who could use a

special prayer or kind thought.

Mrs. Loma DeSantis

Mrs. Charlotte Hawes

Gordon Drummond

Robert Dewar

Charles “Chuck” Knight

Darel Reynolds

Thomas Mossison

Dr. Karel J. Lukas

Frank Martin

Ron Rash

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Valley View Chapter Order of DeMolay

Installation of Officers at Unity Lodge

Saturday Aug 24, 2013

Entered Apprentice Masons Aaron Cathcart (Left), & Gilberto Sabina

Memorial

Brother Edward L. Harris

passed away at the age of 83 years on 8/23/2013.

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September Stated Meeting Menu

Berries and Melon

Stuffed Mushrooms

Vegetable Gumbo

Shrimp Etouffee

Bourbon Chicken

Red Beans and Rice

3rd Degree

Brother Tommy

Dones

Put on by the Officers

of the 913th District

Location:

Silver Gate Three

Stars Lodge

October 18th at 7 PM

UP Coming Degrees

1st Degree

Mr. Charles Sawyer

Sept 9th at 6:30PM

2nd Degrees

Brothers Garner &

Cathart

Sep 24th at 6:30 PM

And

Brothers Sabina &

Perez

Sep 30 at 6:30 PM