This week we will be presenting the Golden Trowel Award to Millard Jones. Please come out and help honor this Worthy Brother. Dinner will be at 6 with the presentation/meeting starting at 7.
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Zavala Bros.
WEDNESDAY at Zavala – called meeting – FC degree – Dinner at 6:00P Lodge as soon after as possible.
WEDNESDAY – We will also be wrapping a Christmas gift for each of the SRHC kiddos we’re sponsoring – could use some help with that so its “wrapping” and not “warping” – WM and I will be bring tape, wrapping paper and bows, etc.
FRIDAY evening – 5 or 6-ish – could use some help decorating the dining room for the Christmas dinner for the SRHC families on Saturday.
SATURDAY – If you can help with food prep – to be done at the Scottish Rite Cathedral on Harwood Ave – please contact SS Jimmy jimmy.hanks@yahoo.com.
SATURDAY – High noon – Christmas dinner for the SRHC families [four families 15 kids].
Fraternally,
Pat Throop
Message From the West | admin | December 13, 2010 11:52 am | Comments (0)
Events | admin | October 25, 2010 11:09 am | Comments (0)
Wednesdays are the highlight of my week! I can’t wait to see my Zavala brothers each week. It’s camaraderie akin to that of a combat unit – at Zavala brotherly love truly prevails! Just ask the Worshipful Master – if he gets one more “chug” on his recently operated on shoulder I think he’s going to pass out! But seriously, Zavalans really care about each other – and that is a rare thing!
I am so excited by the participation of our newest and often youngest Masons in degree work – we even have an “Under 35 Degree Team.” Joe Somerlott, a MM less than six months CONFERRED an EA a couple weeks ago and did so like an old pro! Randal Calhoun – I’ve lost track of how many parts this new MM has learned – ask him one week if he can do a part – he’ll deliver it flawlessly the next week! There are many more fine young men who are actively engaged and I can’t name them all for fear of slighting someone – suffice to say, the future of Zavala Lodge No. 1059 looks bright! Oh – and where can you get meals [make that feasts!] like we get at Zavala each week for $5.00! We’ve been blessed with talented stewards for several years – we’re getting spoiled!
When the Worshipful Master asked to “pass the hat” at our last meeting in August to help raise funds for an elementary school in our economically depressed neighborhood, what a pleasant surprise to find $400 in contributions – that was followed by a personal contribution of school supplies by another young Mason, Bro. Stephen Kadry; that collection was on a night when we did not have a large attendance. You, brethren, epitomize relief.
In July I had the opportunity to attend a “Warden’s Retreat” sponsored by the Grand Lodge of Texas in Waco. It was time well-spent. I came away from that with an even greater appreciation for Zavala Lodge. In our break-out sessions, other Lodges told of infighting, lack of attendance, lack of petitioners, budgetary woes, etc. We are truly blessed at Zavala where peace and harmony prevail!
The “What is a Mason” cards produced by the Grand Lodge of Texas [and available from R:.W:. Caldwell, DDGM] have as part of the description, “A Mason is dedicated. He recognizes his responsibility for justice, truth, clarity, enlightenment, freedom, liberty and integrity in all aspects of human endeavor.” In these days of “twisted truth” and obfuscation in our politics and culture, it is so reassuring to find real truth in two places – In the “Great Light in Masonry” and within the hearts and minds of Masons and in particular my Zavala brothers.
We’re off to a great start to this Masonic year under the leadership and guidance of W:.M:. Rick Mick – we’ve got momentum on our side – an inertia that cannot stop – unless – UNLESS – YOU do not participate! As John Ray Wallace, mentor to so many of us at Zavala, is wont to remind us, “You get out of Masonry what you put in to it.” I recently read that “you get MORE out of Masonry than you put in to it” – how true! Come be a part of it and get “more than your share!”
Fraternally,
Patrick H. Throop, S:.W:.
Message From the West | admin | September 27, 2010 8:25 am | Comments (0)
Presidents: George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, James Garfield, William McKinley,Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (EA), Gerald R. Ford
From the American Revolution: (other than Presidents): Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Paul Revere, John Paul Jones, LaFayette, Rufus King, James Otis, Baron von Steuben, Joseph Warren, Benedict Arnold (well, you can’t win them all)
Political Leaders: Winston Churchill, Simon Bolivar, Edmund Burke,Benito Juarez, Edward VII, George VI, Bernardo O’Higgins, José de San Martin, Francisco de Paula Santander, José Rizal, José Marti, Pandit Nehru, Lajos Kossuth, Jonas Furrer, Guiseppe Mazzini, Eduard Benes, Sir John A. MacDonald, Aaron Burr, George McGovern, Barry Goldwater, Estes Kefauver, Adlai Stevenson (not the governor of Illinois, but his father who was Vice President in 1892), Thomas E. Dewey, Alf Landon, Hubert H. Humphrey, Wendell Wilke, W.E.B. DuBois, William Jennings Bryant
Military Leaders: Omar Bradley, John J. Pershing, Douglas McArthur, General Winfield Scott, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, General Mark Clark, General George C. Marshall
Republic of Texas: Sam Houston, Lorenzo de Zavala, Stephen Austin, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, William B. Travis (and, it should be added, General Santa Anna)
Fine Arts: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (and his father, Leopold), Ludwig von Beethoven, Jean Sibelius, Franz Liszt, Josef Haydn, Irving Berlin, Gutzon Borglum, Charles W. Peale, Alfons M. Mucha, John Philip Sousa, both Gilbert & Sullivan, George Gershwin, George M. Cohen, Count Basie, Roy Clark, Thomas S. Ausbrook, Nat King Cole, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Signmund Romberg
Actors: John Wayne, Red Skelton, Clark Gable, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, Burl Ives, Roy Rogers, Danny Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Oliver Hardy, Tom Mix, Audie Murphy, Gene Autry, Wallace Beery, Eddie Cantor
Industry and Labor: Henry Ford, Samuel Gompers, Walter P. Chrysler, John Wanamaker, S.S. Kresge, J.C. Penney, John Jacob Astor, John L. Lewis
Adventurers: Lewis & Clark, Charles A. Lindberg, Kit Carson, Roald Amundsen, Adm. Richard Byrd, Commodore Robert Peary
Philosophers: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold E. Lessing, Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)
Athletes: Bob Feller, Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb, Paul “Dizzy” Trout, Harry Carey, Dell Rice, Jimmy Fox, Joe Tinker (of “Tinker to Evers to Chance”), Jack Dempsey, Arnold Palmer, Jack Arthur Johnson
Astronauts: Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr., Leroy Gordon Cooper, Donn F. Eisele, Virgil I. Grissom, Edgar D. Mitchell, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Thomas P. Stafford, Paul J. Weitz, James B. Irwin, John Glenn.
Writers: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Sir Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns, Wassily I. Maikow, Heinrich Heine, Jean P.C. de Florian, Leopoldo Lugoner, Antonio de Castro Alves, James Boswell, Alexander Pushkin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Johnathon Swift, Oscar Wilde
Law: John Marshall, Earl Warren, Thurgood Marshall
Medicine: Drs. Alexander Fleming, Jules Bordet, Antoine DePage, Edward Jenner, Charles and William Mayo, Karl and William Menninger
Science: Hans C. Orsted, Jons Jakob Frk. von Berzelius, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Luther Burbank, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Albert Abraham Michelson, Gaspard Monge, C.F.S. Hahnemann, Pedro N. Arata, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, Alexander Fleming, James Smithson
…as well as Harry Houdini, Norman Vincent Peale, David Sarnoff, Thomas J. Watson, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Cecil J. Rhodes, Marvin Zindler, Malcomb Eugene Dugger, and many, many more.
Famous Masons | admin | August 30, 2010 10:31 am | Comments (0)
On August 21st, Canyon Lake Lodge No. 1425 held a Master Mason degree for State Representative Doug Miller in the Senate chambers in the Texas State Capitol building. Brothers Somerlott, Fuston, Robertson, and Calhoun woke up early that morning and were on the road by 4am. We made it there in almost record time, including a stop at the Czech Stop in West, TX. It was truly a great sight to behold watching the degree in the Senate chambers. Afterward, we had lunch and stopped by the Grand Lodge in Waco. Then another stop at the Czech Stop and home by 5:30. Whew, what a road-trip!
Events | admin | August 25, 2010 3:39 pm | Comments (0)
It’s hard to believe two months have passed since our Installation of officers, time really does fly when your having fun and working hard and we have been doing both!
We have conferred three Master Masons, Matt Wilson, Ashley McDaniel and Amaha Hailey. Two Entered Apprentice degrees and an examination too. Congratulations to all these brothers.
On Wednesday night August 18, 2010, Zavala members rose to the moment of what it means to be a Mason. The need of school supplies for our needy children was addressed, the hat was passed and when it came back we had $400 to donate to Charles A. Gill Elementary School, along with a huge bundle of supplies from Brother Stephan Kadrey! These were presented to Ms Brenda Amour, Principal of Gill Elementary on Monday 8/23/10 the first day of school by Pat Throop, SR Warden, Joe Eli Murphy, Jr Deacon, Dan Crockett and myself, Rick Mick, WM. How proud I was of my lodge, I tried to picture all of our lodge brothers with me, as we gave our gift of charity. It might not have been the largest donation ever made to a school, but you couldn’t tell it from the reaction we received. I want to thank everyone who helped in this.
Also on Wednesday night I counted over 35 in the lodge room when we opened! Brothers you make up what is Zavala, and from where I sit, things are looking good. New masons worked in the E.A. degrees as if old pros. Old pros gave stellar conferrals, Doc Lackey told us a overwhelming story of our great flag of our country, I hope we get to hear that one, again.
Fall is right around the corner and we will be ready for it. First, we have Zavala’s Moto Rally on 10/02/10. We still need a lot of help, please contact Joe Eli Murphy at 972-782-7936 if you would like to do anything. This is a fund raiser for our lodge, so please come on out and help support our cause. Hella Shrine will have their Bucket Brigade on September 17th and 18th please contact Morgan Robinett at 972-938-0060 if you want to help here. Also Shrine Fall ceremonial on November 20. Scottish Rite is coming up for any mason who would like to receive the degrees 4 thru 32. The three day class begins on Saturday October 23, continues on October 30 and concludes on November 13.
In closing I just want to say again how good it feels to be a Zavala Mason and I hope you feel it too!
Yours in Brotherly Love,
Rick Mick
Worshipful Master Zavala Lodge A.F. & A.M. 1059
Message From the East | admin | 3:16 pm | Comments (0)
From active Masons, resolute,
Our wives and families we salute;
We surely know the price you pay,
Who sit alone while we’re away.
No high degrees on you conferred,
In Lodge, your name is seldom heard;
You serve our cause though out of sight,
While sitting home alone tonight.
Masonic papers list our names,
Awards are given, fit to frame;
But yours is absent…you who strive,
To keep our fortitude alive.
You’re part of every helpful deed,
On your encouragement we feed;
Without your blessings, how could we,
Continue acts of charity?
And so, this poem, we dedicate,
To every Master Mason’s mate;
And offer our undying love,
Rewards await in Heaven above.
Author Unknown
Other | admin | August 13, 2010 11:55 am | Comments (0)
