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they do things. We have centers of excellence that show it. We have centers of excellencein other areas, not just membership, but I am saying to you that we need to find thecenters of excellence. I challenge the District Deputies to find those centers in theirdistricts and share those experiences. Bring those Masters from those lodges thathave centers where they do great ritual, where they have great membership, wherethey have great openings, closings, committees, or activities, whatever it is, bringthem. Davey White, you belong to a lodge that does great on visitation, share that, getthat out so other lodges can find out the magic that can bring. It pulls brotherstogether, they get in a car together and ride together. My brothers, aim high.”I will share one final story with you. I have loved being the Grand Orator becauseit forces me to learn new things, to study and do that sort of thing. I enjoy learning,I just love to learn. I took on a new project. My wife and I just bought a house. Wedecided that we could renovate this house and then put it back on the market. Bigmistake. It is a one hundred-year-old farm house. Thank goodness that I was inDeMolay as a young man because a friend of mine from DeMolay, whom I kept incontact with, does historic renovations of homes. He takes old homes like mines andmakes them original again. My friend said I am not doing anything for a couple ofmonths, why don’t I come up and help you. I said, ‘Bless you.’ So he came up and hehas been working with me on this house. He was there, thank goodness, on the daywe took all of the lath off one of the walls in the kitchen. We pulled all of the lath offand looked at it. I am looking at this wall and all there is are 2x4, but the people whobuilt this house decided if one 2x4 is good then two halves of 2x4 is better. I said tomy friend, ‘What held this wall up?’ He said the lap. As we were talking the 2x4 startbowing, it started coming down.. You could see it start to sag. I am figuring theupstairs is going to be the downstairs of my house and we’re going to be in there witha bulldozer in a week. I asked my friend what we were going to do and he said noproblem. He runs over and grabs two 2x8, grabs a saw and goes rip, rip, rip, rip.Plywood in the middle, he sandwiches them together with a nail gun, creates aheader, puts it up there and four 4x4 later, wedges them into place, lifts that floor intoplace and I am sure it’s there for another hundred years. He did that in about 20minutes while I stood there just slack-jawed. If I had been there by myself, I wouldhave been dead. The point is that after I saw that happen, it occurred to me that thereis a lesson for us here. The lath is coming down in our lodges. We use some of thoseold construction methods to build what we did in lodges and the lath is coming down.In the lodge I am in, the past number of years the old members laid down theirworking tools and they were the laths that held that wall up. They were the laths thatheld that lodge together, they were the contributors, and they were the attendees. Nownew young men are coming into that lodge and they are not lath material. Thatdoesn’t mean they aren’t good men, it means they don’t focus or function the way theconstruction was done. They work in new ways, they use the Internet. They communicateover email, they have Blueberries, they have everything and they are wired. Wesay we need to communicate with our members, these guys are bristling withcommunication. Unfortunately if you just rely on the old guys, guys like me, we go‘huh?’ How do I talk to them? At the Masonic Education Conference somebody saidthat if you are not on the Internet, you’re not there, you don’t exist. I think that isprobably true. We’ve got to find new ways to communicate, but as the old lath comesdown, we’ve got good men to put those headers up. We have good men ready torenovate and make it happen. That’s why I say to you today, what the Grand Masterhas made his theme Aim high. Be all you can be as a lodge, as a man as a Mason.Never forget what it is like to come in that door, kneel in someone else’s pajamas andsay, ‘My faith is in God. My trust is in God.’ You have all done it. If that isn’t the first112
step in Masonry, I don’t know what is. I tell you that the next step is across thethreshold to a new golden age of Freemasonry. We can do it. We can start it right herein Wisconsin and it will last us forever. God bless you and thank you.”PRESENTATION OF GRAND MASTER’SACHIEVEMENT AWARDSThe Grand Master Roger L. Magoon made the presentations of the GrandMaster’s Achievement Awards. The awards are presented to lodges that have metthe goals and objectives established by the Grand Lodge. It is an honor to receive thisaward.Roger Magoon thanked all of the lodges that participated in the GMAA for 2005.He suggested that in the beginning of each Masonic year this format be used as aplanning tool by the Worshipful Master. He then called forward, by district, thoselodges who received the awards:District #1 District #2 District #3Shell Lake-Spooner #221 Sanctuary #347 Island City #330Keystone #263 New Richmond #195 Rhinelander #242Acacia-Itasca #329 Hancock #229 Phillips #225Blue Hills #234 Geo. B. Wheeler #351 Eagle River #248Barnes #365 Chetek #277 Mystic Tie #280Landmark #244River Falls #109Eau Claire #112Menomonie #164District #4 District #5 District #6Des Peres #85 Tomah #132 Marshfield #224Washington #21 La Crosse Masonic #190 Appleton #349Crandon #287 Black River Falls #74 Wisconsin Rapids #128Theodore Roosevelt #322 Badger #345 Adams #332Buffalo River #252 Onalaska #214 Evergreen #93Valley #60 Prairie View #95Waverly #51Quincy #71District #7 District #8 District #9Sun Prairie #143 Fennimore #219 Milton #161Columbus #75 Melody #2 Dousman #315Social #245 Dodgeville #119 Fulton #69Lodi Valley #99 Barneveld #319 Bicknell #94Madison #5 Prairie du Chien #8 New Glarus #310Middleton-Ionic #180 Minneral Point #1 Union #32Commonwealth #325 Evening Star #64Amicitia #25Benton #268Smith #31Reedsburg #79Linden #206113
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ROGER L. MAGOONGrand Master2005-200
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RODNEY A. PAULSENGrand Master2006-2
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In the midst of reflecting on our p
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REMARKS BY DISTINGUISHED GUESTSRema
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Each resolution has been approved a
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Permission to Call a Special Meetin
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7. Nomination8. Personnel9. Executi
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Lodge #349. What can I say-you are
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celebrated the 100th birthday of th
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ACTIVITIES & VISITATIONSJune 200515
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April1 Midwest Conference on Educat
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James B Curran (143) George F Dale
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Thomas P Shimkus (130) Frederick Al
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Primary Members at the end of this
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covers all lodges in the master pro
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Dale Edward Koger (112) Donald L Ko
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its deliberations as the local lodg
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Totals for Fund: Spring Appeal $2,2
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TELLERS’ REPORTGrand Secretary Mi
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The first reports in this new forma
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primarily in finding new renters. W
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Page 116 and 117: Respectfully submitted,Nancy Storrs
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APPENDIX D2005-2006Grand Lodge Offi
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PAST GRAND MASTERSPerry A Risberg (
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2-3 Dan E Walters (149)Sanctuary #3
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6-2 Currently UnassignedClintonvill
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9-3 John M Winters (94)Oregon #151A
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GRAND LODGE TRUSTEESTerm ExpiresCar
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WISCONSIN MASONIC HOME, INC.Thomas
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Foreign Relations CommitteeBruce A
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Unfinished Business CommitteeKeith
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