I received a call from a past master Saturday asking if I could be sure to make it to lodge tonight. It seems the Most Worshipful Grand Master has pulled our Master, and is assigning a deputy to attend our lodge for the rest of the year. Still not sure as to reason for pulling our WM.
I'm told Grand Lodge is considering pulling our charter due to low attendance and not enough new members working their way through the chairs.
In the past two years since I joined, there have been several new members initiated, passed and raised. Last year I was JD, and chose not to move up this year due to obligations at work. Another brother took my chair. Every chair but the secretary and treasurer got a new brother elected. Some have been in the chairs before, but the elections were held in accordance with ritual and each brother accepted the office he was elected to.
Not sure where the GL is coming from in thinking we have declining membership and/or not enough members rotating through the chairs.
Is it customary for GL to set expectations of a certain amount of brothers rotating through the offices? What sort of shenanigans could our WM have pulled to lose his office?
FWIW, our lodge, and two others are scheduled for reconstitution next week for our 125th anniversary. The timing seems odd to have all of this going on, on the night we should be getting our 125th anniversary coins.