Moving to the East - Page 1

Posted: 10/17/2017 3:08:06 PM EDT

Who else is getting ready for their first trip to the East?

It's been a busy year and I'm a bit behind :) I just passed off my my last degree, and am excited to make the move on St John's Day

Posted: 10/17/2017 7:59:54 PM EDT

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Congratulations, but we didnt vote yet,

you should get this.

Not many PA Brothers in here. What Lodge do you attend?

Posted: 10/17/2017 8:19:55 PM EDT

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Congratulations, but we didnt vote yet,

you should get this.

Not many PA Brothers in here. What Lodge do you attend?

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Not much competition.. being the only one passed off and all ;)

That's awesome, thanks!

232 - Jersey Shore

Dang.. i used my dropfire sig post...

Posted: 10/17/2017 10:51:12 PM EDT

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I will most likely do a second year in the East next year.

Posted: 10/18/2017 2:24:09 PM EDT

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I would say congratulations, but that's not always a good thing :)

Best advice for an incoming Master?

Posted: 10/18/2017 3:26:41 PM EDT

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Who else is getting ready for their first trip to the East?

It's been a busy year and I'm a bit behind :) I just passed off my my last degree, and am excited to make the move on St John's Day

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What does that mean? Is it like being certified proficient?

And, Congratulations Brother!

My advice? Write all your plans in pencil. They are going to change.

So far, Symbolic Lodge is the only thing I've only been the head of once.

Posted: 10/18/2017 3:28:30 PM EDT

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Double Tap

Posted: 10/18/2017 6:22:10 PM EDT

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I would say congratulations, but that's not always a good thing :)

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Make sure your agenda is also the Lodge's agenda.

You won't get everything done on your agenda. It's ok, no one does.

Don't try to do everything. Delegate.

Include your SW and JW in discussions and decisions. They will most likely follow you to the East, it's helpful if they are in the loop on things.

In UT the SW and JW can obligate and raise guys. By the time someone gets to be WM here they should be proficient in that stuff. Let the SW and JW become proficient.

Posted: 10/19/2017 1:00:28 PM EDT

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Correct, signed off by my DDGM and head of school of instruction as proficient.

Thanks!

Posted: 10/19/2017 2:25:10 PM EDT

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In UT the SW and JW can obligate and raise guys. By the time someone gets to be WM here they should be proficient in that stuff. Let the SW and JW become proficient.

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We don't have a requirement as to who can, or must, confer the degrees. It's "suggested" that the JW confer the EA, SW the FC and WM the MM; but not required. I've seen high speed, low drag JD's and SD's confer the EA and FC: and JW's and SW's do the MM.

For years we used ringer PM's. When I was JW we started doing it the, in my opinion, correct way. The only degree I didn't confer during those three years, was the first MM when I was Master. It was the day after I got out of the hospital after a week from having 13" of ruptured colon removed. But, I was there, opened and closed. Yeah, dumb-ass I know.

Posted: 10/20/2017 12:49:58 AM EDT

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We don't have a requirement as to who can, or must, confer the degrees. It's "suggested" that the JW confer the EA, SW the FC and WM the MM; but not required. I've seen high speed, low drag JD's and SD's confer the EA and FC: and JW's and SW's do the MM.

For years we used ringer PM's. When I was JW we started doing it the, in my opinion, correct way. The only degree I didn't confer during those three years, was the first MM when I was Master. It was the day after I got out of the hospital after a week from having 13" of ruptured colon removed. But, I was there, opened and closed. Yeah, dumb-ass I know.

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Interesting. According to our GL Code, only someone who has been installed a Master or Warden can confer a degree.

Posted: 10/20/2017 4:59:08 AM EDT

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Here you can only be elected and sit as Master if you have been previously elected JW, SW or WM.

Posted: 10/20/2017 6:50:38 AM EDT

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I'll enter the line next July.... Will be a 7yr trip to the East.
Our lodge is 51yrs old and we've had 51 WM, Never a repeat.

Posted: 10/20/2017 3:58:39 PM EDT

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That is quite an accomplishment!

We were founded in 1848, but have had more than a few multi term masters :)

Posted: 10/20/2017 4:00:16 PM EDT

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In our district any MM can confer the a degree, but they have to be passed off prior by either the DDGM or the head of the school of instruction.

Posted: 10/20/2017 4:55:32 PM EDT

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Interesting. According to our GL Code, only someone who has been installed a Master or Warden can confer a degree.

In our district any MM can confer the a degree, but they have to be passed off prior by either the DDGM or the head of the school of instruction.

You and I are in the same state, I've Never heard it called passed off.

Anyone in my lodge can do degrees, and they do. Our in lodge ritualistic instructor makes sure they know it, but I've Never heard it called passed off.

Posted: 10/24/2017 1:43:05 PM EDT

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That is quite an accomplishment!

We were founded in 1848, but have had more than a few multi term masters :)

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I'll enter the line next July.... Will be a 7yr trip to the East.
Our lodge is 51yrs old and we've had 51 WM, Never a repeat.

That is quite an accomplishment!

We were founded in 1848, but have had more than a few multi term masters :)

We also have 2 charter members (also PM's) that still attend lodge.

Posted: 10/25/2017 7:23:09 PM EDT

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my lodge is so old that some of our members fought in Gettysburg and they were Raised here first

Posted: 12/18/2017 1:35:55 AM EDT

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I'm doing my first trip to the oriental chair. John H. Atwood Lodge #461 in Kansas we were founded last year and I'm the first elected master of the lodge. Last year the officers were all appointed by the Grand Master of Kansas and I had the privilege of being the charter Sr. Warden.

Posted: 12/18/2017 3:44:39 AM EDT

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my lodge was 1876, second oldest to The Lodge in apopka FL which was 1859, some of the elders here speak of the lodges during those times having members of both sides of the war sitting in uniform during stated communications.