PEARL HARBOR LODGE

F. &. A.M.

HONOLULU, HAWAII

TRESTLE BOARD

APR-JUN 2006

Chartered by The Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of California  September 25, 1924

Chartered by The Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Hawaii  May 20 1989 

WORSHIPFUL MASTER

James R. Davis PM

email:davisj009@hawaii.rr.com

Brethren, the proposal to spend $250,000 for capital improvements and maintenance to the Makiki Temple has met with the approval of the four owner Lodges.  Each owner Lodge will share equally in this revitalization of our existing Temple building.  The improvements to be made are long overdue.  A larger vision plan for the property and the subsequent approvals from our Sister Lodges still awaits fruition.

On May 6^th, the Family of Freemasonry will participate in honoring the officers, crew, and families of the USS Honolulu which will soon depart on its last active patrol.  Thereafter, the vessel is scheduled for “Mothball” status.  This Aloha Deployment Reception is presented by the Navy League of the United States, Honolulu Council and sponsored by the Hawaii Family of Freemasonry.  We view this as an opportunity to put “Hawaii Masonry” in the limelight.  Hopefully, this will prove to be fertile ground for prospective members. 

We recently received a financial report from the Lodge Trustees.  I congratulate the trustees, Paul Chung, Donald Leong, and Peter Nakanaishi, for their superb stewardship of our trust fund.  Additionally, the trustees had already agreed to turn over the day-to-day management to Wachovia Securities.  This has proved to be a sound investment decision.

The Lodge degree work continues at a solid pace.  My thanks to PGM Donald W. Wilson for being our Officers’ Coach.  Under his tutelage, the floor work has improved and we have all benefited considerably in our Masonic ritual and education.

                                                      Yours in the Trust and Faith of our Ancient Order:

The following poem is submitted for your reading pleasure.

SHOW ME!

"I would rather see a Mason

than hear one any day,

 I would rather one would walk

 with me than merely show the way.

The eye's a better pupil and

more willing than the ear,

Fine counsel is confusing, but

examples are always clear.

And the best of all Masons

are the men who live their creeds.

For to see the good in action

is what everybody needs.

I can soon learn how to do it

if you let me see it done.

I can watch your hands in action,

but your tongue too fast may run.

And the lectures you deliver

may be very wise and true,

But I'd rather get my lesson

by observing what you do.

For I may misunderstand you and

the high advice you give.

But there's no misunderstanding

how you act and how you live

 

WB Bennet A. Lorber, PM

Azure-Masada Lodge #22 F & AM

 

Secretary's Corner

The price of everything keeps going up; housing, energy, communications, shipping, food, government and other basic services.  These spiraling costs are making it harder and harder to make ends meet.

Our dues income exceeds the cost of administration and lodge functions for your Lodge. We have been able to make ends meet through the efforts of our trustees.  Now, these rising costs and a smaller membership have made it necessary for the Lodge to consider raising the dues.

Currently, your Lodge dues are $40 per year.  The per capita tax paid to the Grand Lodge of Hawaii is $25 per person.  This results in only $15 per person to run your lodge.  This is not enough money to administer the lodge, have a newsletter, take care of the widows, pay the rent and have a community program.  In addition, we will need to spend some money to maintain & upgrade our meeting place (Makiki Temple).  These same costs are also affecting the Grand Lodge and the pressure will be on them to increase the per capita tax.

Our Lodge has made a proposal to increase the dues to $50 per year plus the Grand Lodge per capita tax.  This would mean that your dues would be $75 for 2007.  This is not set in concrete.  The subject of an increase in dues will be taken up in our July meeting.  In the meantime, we would like to hear your comments and concerns.  Please send them to Pearl Harbor Lodge, PO Box 3115, Honolulu, HI 96802-3115 or by email to brucehale@hawaii.rr.com.

Several years ago the Grand Lodge of Hawaii authorized the Lodges to offer a scaled Life Membership Plan to its members.  Heretofore, Life Membership was 21 times the annual dues or 21 X $40 [$840] for the present dues structure for Pearl Harbor Lodge. 

We urge you to consider purchasing Life Membership before the end of the year.

If you have email, please inform the secretary at brucehale@hawaii.rr.com.  We would like to send our trestle board to as many people as we can via email.  This will speed up communications and save money on postage.

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Please notify Brother Pete Larson of any news, activity, or article you would like included in the Trestle Board. E-mail:  palarson@hawaii.rr.com or mail:  P.O. Box 197, Kunia, HI  96759                                                     

Entered Apprentice Degree

A symbol of youth.  The word apprentice comes through the French prendre from the Latin praehender, to take, to hold, to seize.  An apprentice is one “taken to learn,” also one who “seizes an opportunity to take.”

Originally an Apprentice was not a part of the Masonic Craft, even after being entered on the books of the Lodge; not until he had passed his apprenticeship and had been accepted as a Fellow was he a Craftsman.  This gradually gave way to the modern idea and after 1717, Apprentices initiated in lodge formed the bulk of the Craft.

Ritual teaches that the Apprentice is a symbol of youth; a Fellowcraft, of manhood; and a Master, of old age.  Probably this is most easily derived from the fact that learners, beginners, are young; experts and the skilled are men; and the wise and learned, the elder group

As we move forward in masonry, there are three things the members of the craft must do. 

1. PARTICIPATE - You get out of something what you put into it!
2.  COMMUNICATE - If you keep your light to yourself, how will your brothers see and hear it?
3. INNOVATE - If you keep doing what you have been doing, you keep getting the same results!

Brighten your Masonic picture, make it happen.

April – June Birthdays

April-June Third Degree Anniversaries

Word of the Month

 ASHLAR

The Latin assis was a board or plank; in the diminutive form, assula, it meant a small board, like a shingle, or a chip. In this con-nection it is interesting to note that our "axle" and' "axis" were derived from it. In early English this became asheler and was used to denote a stone in the rough as it came from the quarries. The Operative Masons called such a stone a "rough ashlar," and when it had been shaped and finished for its place in the wall they called it a "perfect ashlar." An Apprentice is a rough ashlar, because unfinished, whereas a Master Mason is a perfect ashlar, because he has been shaped for his place in the organization of the Craft.

Masonic Puzzle

 Find the hidden words within the grid of letters.

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X  A O K  X  U Z  B  N Z  A O B  E  I  O Y  T  E  J 

V  L  N I  I  Y  N U E  D O Y  K  Y  I  U W T  T  V 

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