Calendar
May 2 Executive Committee 7:00 p.m.
May 7 Central City Bodies Annual Reunion - Social 6:15 p.m. / Dinner 7:00 p.m. / Program to follow dinner
May 9 Guard’s Club Dinner and business meeting 6:30 p.m. / Central City Bodies Annual Meetings and Election of Officers for the four Bodies 7:30 p.m.
May 23 Central City Bodies Public Installation of Officers - Social 6:15 p.m. / Dinner 7:00 p.m. / Public Installation of officers follows dinner
Jun 2 Trustees 6:30 p.m. / Executive Committee 7:00 p.m.
A note from the Valley Secretary
Dear brothers,
Another year has passed and the time has come for our new officers to assume their duties and prepare for the events for the new Scottish Rite year. 2012 is an especially exciting year for the Valley of Syracuse.
May 23, 2011 is the date of the Public Installation ceremony for the new officers of our Valley.
The Presiding Officers for 2011-2012 are Central City Lodge of Perfection Thrice Potent Master, Ill\Craig E. Cobb, 33°; Central City Council Princes of Jerusalem Sovereign Prince David A. Barnello, 32°; and Central City Chapter Rose Croix Most Wise Master Lawrence W. Egnaczyk, 32°; and for 2011-2013 in the Central City Consistory Commander –In – Chief Ill\ Lynwood J. Bennerson, 33°.
I urge every Scottish Rite Mason to make every effort possible to attend the Public Installation of the new Valley Officers. My brother s these gentlemen labor very diligently to lead our Valley each year. They deserve your support of their efforts.
Consistory
This will be my last Word article as your Commander-In-Chie. It doesn’t seem possible that two years could fly by so quickly.
There is really nothing for me to say except “thank you” to all who have helped make my term as C-I-C a rewarding and enjoyable journey. A special thank you to my officers, Lynwood Bennerson, Robert Tyrrell, Richard Powell, Garry Visconte, Garret Wikoff, George Black, James Swan and Mike Gates.
Most of all, I would like to thank all the brothers who have participated in our programs and degrees. I feel we had a successful two years and I am confident that the next two years will even be better.
My best wishes to Lynwood Bennerson and to each and every one of you.
Sandy
Chapter Rose Croix
Brother Knights Rose Croix,
This is my last message to you as Most Wise Master. The year has passed more quickly than I expected, and thanks fill my heart for the privilege of serving among you.
First, I thank all the Brothers who took part in the Feast of the Paschal Lamb. Your effort to honor our departed brothers and their families reflects well on you as men and officers in the Chapter and the Valley. I especially thank Ill. Fred Greene for serving as Most Wise Master. His leadership in the feast always inspires me as a model of the best in our ritual work.
I thank my brother officers in the Chapter for their diligent service over the past year. I applaud the announced nominees for Rose Croix’s elected offices as good men who will lead the Chapter into its future. You have done a great job, and I believe next year will be an even better year for Central City Chapter.
I thank my brother presiding officers for the work we accomplished together. Ill. Carl Fahrenkrug’s compliment that the executive board contained more than enough skill and wisdom to accomplish any task that came before it is right on point. It was a pleasure to share leadership with Tom Santmyer, Milo Peterson and Sandy Samson.
Finally, I thank you, my Brothers in this Valley. I originally petitioned this Valley to receive its degrees to accompany my son, Adam, through the process of becoming a 32̊ Mason. (We went through our Master Mason degrees together, too.) Scottish Rite was Adam’s dream. I never expected to get very involved. Here I am, after serving a year as Most Wise Master, thanking you for the honor of being an elected officer. I have had more enjoyment than frustration. I have seen the best this fraternity has to offer. I have received your concern, your support and your laughter. You not only kept my Monday evenings busy, you made me look forward to being among you. I hope and pray you will keep building this Valley and welcome more men and their families into this great family of Scottish Rite Freemasons.
This is my last message to you as Most Wise Master. The year has passed more quickly than I expected, and thanks fill my heart for the privilege of serving among you.
First, I thank all the Brothers who took part in the Feast of the Paschal Lamb. Your effort to honor our departed brothers and their families reflects well on you as men and officers in the Chapter and the Valley. I especially thank Ill. Fred Greene for serving as Most Wise Master. His leadership in the feast always inspires me as a model of the best in our ritual work.
I thank my brother officers in the Chapter for their diligent service over the past year. I applaud the announced nominees for Rose Croix’s elected offices as good men who will lead the Chapter into its future. You have done a great job, and I believe next year will be an even better year for Central City Chapter.
I thank my brother presiding officers for the work we accomplished together. Ill. Carl Fahrenkrug’s compliment that the executive board contained more than enough skill and wisdom to accomplish any task that came before it is right on point. It was a pleasure to share leadership with Tom Santmyer, Milo Peterson and Sandy Samson.
Finally, I thank you, my Brothers in this Valley. I originally petitioned this Valley to receive its degrees to accompany my son, Adam, through the process of becoming a 32̊ Mason. (We went through our Master Mason degrees together, too.) Scottish Rite was Adam’s dream. I never expected to get very involved. Here I am, after serving a year as Most Wise Master, thanking you for the honor of being an elected officer. I have had more enjoyment than frustration. I have seen the best this fraternity has to offer. I have received your concern, your support and your laughter. You not only kept my Monday evenings busy, you made me look forward to being among you. I hope and pray you will keep building this Valley and welcome more men and their families into this great family of Scottish Rite Freemasons.
Council
Brethren, Greetings from the Council Princes of Jerusalem.
The month of May is now upon us and we begin the business of a new year with the events: the Reunion Dinner, Annual Meeting and Public Installation of officers for the 2011 – 2012 year.
I take this opportunity as I step down as the head of the Council Body this past year to express my gratitude to all those that have served and supported the works of the Council in its endeavors to serve the Valley. I thank the Council officers for their service and willingness to “jump in” to support others when the need arose. I thank the Secretary and the office staff in support of the Council and, for keeping me on the straight and narrow path. I thank the Council's mentor, Illustrious brother John Fuller for his guidance and advice. I thank the other concordant Bodies for making this an over-all enjoyable experience.
And, finally, I am looking forward to enjoying the works of the coming year knowing that the officer lines within all of the Bodies will carry on in the tradition of brotherhood of this, the Scottish Rite fraternity.
Milo Peterson, Sov. Prince
Notes from the Children’s Dyslexia Center CNY
Welcome to My World
When I wrote you last, we were looking forward to spring- as of this writing, we are still waiting for spring and it is time to begin to think about our end of year activities.
You may have noted the change in the name of our Center. I imagine that most of you are aware of this new change from Lexington. The name may come from Massachusetts but most of our support comes from you (as it will need to in the future) and we truly do appreciate it, no matter what our name.
Bryce continues to move forward and is working on levels 3 and 4 (we have 5) dealing a lot with prefixes and suffixes. He and his mother have already asked about a third year, which he would truly benefit from. The availability of this will depend on whether we can get a full class of scholars and how many paid tutors we can afford to keep. In an ideal world, every child at the Center would have the option of three years, but due to numbers we are not often able to offer the third year.
If you know of someone with a Bachelor’s degree with the time and interest who would like to participate in the upcoming training class, please, have them give us a call or send us an email: Ph. (315-736-0574) or
Thanks to your support we have been able to achieve near maximum capacity and have kept to our goal of not having children on the wait-list for more than an academic year before we offer a child a spot in our program- not every Center can achieve that goal.
As always, thank you all!
HAPPY SPRING!
Linda
