Glendale Lodge #368 June—July 2014

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is

also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

- Bro. Winston Churchill

From the East—Wor. Bilavian

Greetings from the East! This being the

Trestle Board for the month of June, I will

review the highlights of the previous

month. On May 6th, we had our stated

meeting and as always it went well and

smooth. We elected a new committee

called Project and Planning Committee. I

would like to wish the committee the

best of luck in their future plans and pro-

jects.

On May 13th we had the pleasure of hav-

ing the brethren from The York Rite give a

presentation about the history of the

York Rite presented by Most Excellent

Sam Pitassi, Most Illustrious Jose A. Fiss,

Right Eminent Richard T. Cooper and

Grand Commander Carlos H. Gonzalez.

This night was very interesting and educa-

tional and I would like to thank all those

who attended, and those who assisted

me in making it a successful one. A spe-

cial thanks to Wor. Sir Nick Khatcherian

for helping me to make this event happen

and our JR Warden Bro. Hrag Bekerian for

arranging the refreshment.

On May 20th, we had a beautiful first

degree. Bro. Sevak Karapetyan was initi-

ated an Entered Apprentice Mason, I

would like to congratulate and welcome

him to the fraternity. I also would like to

thank all the officers for their great ritual

work on that night. I would also like to

congratulate Bro. James Barros for his

excellent first degree proficiency and rec-

ognize the hard work of his coach Bro.

Alex Meloyan.

On May 27th we had our Administrative

Tuesday, besides the executive com-

mittee having their meetings, Wor. Ka-

rekin Karazian was reviewing the CMC

with our members, and I would like to

thank him and extend my appreciation

for his great work that night. I recom-

mend everyone to attend and be part of

the CMC reading every last Tuesday of

the month.

On June 10th at 7:30pm we are holding a

Past Masters meeting at Glendale Mason-

ic Center which I would like to take this

opportunity to invite all Glendale Lodge

Past Masters.

The Very Worshipful Allan L. Casalou’s

visit to Glendale Lodge on June 24th as

guest speaker has been postponed to

November 11th, so please update your

calendars.

I also would like to remind everyone that

the Grand Master of the Masons of Cali-

fornia Most Worshipful John L. Cooper

the 3rd will be visiting Glendale Lodge

and be our guest speaker on September

16th.

This year the lodge will be dark in the

month of July instead of August.

“The Light, the Dark, and the Color”

Understanding Catherine—At MCYAF, a Masonic daughter discovers a path-way to hope.

At age 14, Catherine’s* life had al-ready been shaped by loss. Two years earlier, her father, a California Mason, was in a traumatic accident. He died of complications, leaving Catherine and her mother to sort through their grief and piece together a life without him. Catherine’s mother, Margaret, suffers from diabetes and has limited resources to care for herself and her daughter. Catherine coped as best she could. She stayed close to home, watching the ups and downs of her mother’s health with concern. She tried to keep her emotions to herself, but sometimes erupted in furious out-bursts. She suffered debilitating ab-dominal pains without any physical cause. She was in trouble at school: She’d always had to study hard to get by, and now, feeling distracted and ill, the workload seemed impossible. She began staying home, missing more and more days of class. By the middle of eighth grade, she was in jeopardy of failing middle school altogether.

That’s when her mother finally called the Masonic Center for Youth and Families (MCYAF). It wasn’t the first place Margaret had tried to get help for her daughter. But so far, no one had offered any real answers. Ex-hausted financially, physically, and emotionally, she hoped that MCYAF would be different. It was. A caring,

compassionate team of psychologists met with mother and daughter, both together and separately. They guided Catherine through important tests to rule out learning and behavioral disor-ders. They took the time to under-stand the complete, complex picture of her grief and anxiety; her depres-sion and fear of abandonment. They helped Catherine understand it, too. They showed her that she could work through her anxieties. They suggested ways to ease her fear of being alone and build up her confidence to ven-ture into the world. They got in touch with her school and recommended special accommodations. They also met with Margaret privately to sup-port her in her new role as a single mother. Because of MCYAF, Cathe-rine’s life has taken a new shape. Her school attendance is improving. She recently found the courage to attend a sleep-away camp for teens interest-ed in horses, and has started to take riding lessons. She and her mother have learned new ways to support each other as they move forward from their grief. With the help of their fraternal family, they have found a path away from loss, and towards hope.

To contribute to Masonic Assistance, visit freemason.org/contribute.

Source: The Leader—A publication for leaders of California Masonry

True tales of Masonic support

York Rite Presentation

“Give of yourself,” by Ralph Marston—Submitted by Bro. Arman Petrosian

When you give more than you expect to receive, you’ll end up receiving

more than you ever expected. That which you give, comes back to you many

times over, while that which you withhold never goes anywhere or accom-

plishes anything. Nothing makes you feel more positive about yourself than

giving of yourself to others. And when you truly, sincerely feel positive about

yourself, you can achieve magnificent things. If all you’re ever concerned

with is what’s in it for you, there will never be very much in it for you. Yet

when you expand your focus and give the best you have, in return you’ll

experience the best there is.If you wait to receive something first before you

ever begin to give, you’ll miss out on ninety percent of life’s best opportuni-

ties. Unfortunately, that’s an approach that all too many people adopt. But

there’s no need to be held back by the shortsightedness of others. Take the

first step, give of yourself, with enthusiasm, with positive energy, and with

the best of expectations. Keep it up, and you’ll find that those expectations,

high as they may be, will always, in time, be greatly exceeded by the positive

and valuable difference you make.

Glendale #368 F. & A. M.

Meets at 244 N. Maryland Ave., Glendale CA 91206

P.O. Box 329 Glendale, California, 91209

E-Mail: secretary@glendalemasons.com

2014 Officers

Master Wor. Nikoul Bilavian (818) 745-3245 wm@glendalemasons.com

S. Warden Wor. Travis Robinson

PM

(805) 217-2636 travis@rcs.bz

J. Warden Hrag Bekerian (626) 487-9445 hragbekerian@gmail.com

Treasurer Alex Ashjian (626) 354-7272 alexashjian@yahoo.com

Secretary Vram Martirosyan (818) 241-9516 secretary@glendalemasons.com

Asst

Secretary

Armen Keshmeshian (818) 445-4213 armenk@outlook.com

Chaplain John R. Carlton (818) 545-7278 ecarlton1@yahoo.com

S. Deacon Arman Petrosian (818) 621-4120 armancardiology@yahoo.com

J. Deacon Varouj Meneshian (818) 720-7983 vmtravel@prodigy.net

Marshal Mike M. Israyelyan (818) 445-7070

S. Steward Shant Hamamjian (818) 968-6694 shanthamamjian@yahoo.com

J. Steward Andranik Ovsepyan (818) 400-6565 ando6006@gmail.com

Tiler

Organist Shant Sarkisian (818) 400-3730 shant_intex@yahoo.com

Officers

Coach

Wor. Travis Robinson

PM

(805) 217-2636 travis@rcs.bz

Candidates

Coach

Alex Meloyan (805)813-6666 ameloyan@gmail.com

Inspector Wor. Jeff Yates PM (818) 568-9756

Bro. Winston Churchill Brother Winston – his full name was Win-ston Leonard Spencer Churchill – was born in Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire on November 30, 1874. He was the son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a politician, who was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and had served as Chancel-lor of the Exchequer. His mother, Lady Randolph Churchill was the former Jennie Jerome, daughter of an American million-aire Leonard Jerome.

Winston was an independent and some-times rebellious youth, who did not do well at school, but he ultimately complet-ed Harrow School, where he began his military career with the Harrow Rifle Corps, earning high marks in English and History and becoming the school’s fenc-ing champion.

After he left Harrow in 1893, Winston applied to attend the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. It took him three tries to make it, and he had to apply for cavalry rather than infantry since the grade requirements were lower. He graduated 8th out of a class of one hundred fifty and was commis-sioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars on Febru-ary 20, 1895.

In 1897, he fought in Malakand, now Pakistan and, published The Story of the Malakand Field Force in The Pio-neer and the Daily Telegraph. After Malakand, Churchill was transferred to Egypt in 1898, where he served under the command of Lord Kitchner. While in the Sudan, he participated in what has been described as the last

meaningful British cavalry charge at the Battle of Omdurman in Septem-ber 1898.

Winston became a Freemason in 1901, at the age of 27. Freemasonry in England had undergone a renais-sance during his lifetime. The election of the Prince of Wales, later Edward the VII, as Grand Master in 1875, the year after Brother Winston was born, gave a huge impetus to the Craft, and the Prince was an exceedingly popu-lar Royal and Grand Master.

Brother Winston was initiated in Studholme Lodge in London on May 24, 1901, passed to the degree of Fellowcraft on July 19, and became a Master Mason on March 5, 1902. Studholme Lodge was a prominent Lodge. The guest list of the Lodge’s 21st Installation Banquet in 1897 in-cluded seventeen Members of Parlia-ment, including the Lord Chancellor, as well as numerous Lords, Earls, Knights, and high-ranking members of the armed forces.

By 1912, Brother Winston was well on his way to political success and that year was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. His stated objective in that post was to get the British fleet ready for a possible war with Germa-ny.

Lodge membership in England was not a casual affair, and the members were expected to be active and

attend all meetings. Given the de-mands on his time and the knowledge that he would no longer be able to play the role expected of him in Lodge, he resigned from the Stud-holme Lodge but continued his mem-bership with the Craft and on a num-ber of occasions his involvement in Masonic affairs was sought and will-ingly provided.

At the start of World War I, Churchill was the First Lord of the Admiralty, but had to vacate the position after the disaster at the Battle of Gallipoli. He was commissioned a Major with the 2nd Battalion, of Grenadier Guards, later Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. When he was with the Grenadier Guards, he learned that they were a “dry” outfit, which drank only such beverages as tea and milk. He felt a great thirst, and when he learned that the Guards permitted alcohol in the trenches on the front line, yes, you guessed it, he volun-teered for the front.

In the period between WW I and WWII, Churchill was in and out of government, won support on some issues and lost ground on others. No-tably, he was a fierce critic of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Adolf Hitler and, in a speech to the House of Commons, he bluntly and propheti-cally stated, "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.”

Britain declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939 and Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the War Cabinet, as he had been during World War I. When this information was passed to the Board of the Admiralty, a signal was sent to the Fleet, “Winston is back.”

On May 10, 1940, prior to Germany’s invasion of France, Chamberlain re-signed as Prime Minister and George VI asked Churchill, who had been among the first to recognize the growing threat of Hitler, to take the job and form an all-party govern-ment. Churchill, who had fought in many wars and was no stranger to combat, was a truly great wartime leader, who had the credibility to urge the people of Britain to stand and fight. His rhetorical skills played no small part in motivating the citi-zenry. You may have heard some of his famous wartime phrases, for ex-ample: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat,” and “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender.” He remarked after the second battle of El Alamein: “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, per-haps, the end of the beginning.” You may also recall that he said to the fighter pilots who won the Battle of Britain, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

Churchill’s effectiveness as a wartime Prime Minister was, in part, due to the relationship he developed with Presi-dent Franklin D. Roosevelt. This facili-tated Britain receiving needed war materials from America under the “Lend Lease” program, which provided not only munitions but destroyers and tanks “on credit” and “on loan.”

Germany was ultimately defeated on May 7, 1945 and later Japan on August 15, 1945. But, despite having led Brit-ain to the greatest military victory in its history, his Party was nevertheless defeated in the 1945 election. He served for six years in Parliament as the Leader of the Opposition, and be-came Prime Minster again in 1951. During this term, he further enhanced the relations with the United States and dealt with the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya, and a war in Malaya.

Queen Elizabeth II, upon his upon his retirement from office in 1955, offered to raise Churchill as Duke of London, but he declined. However, there were no shortages of honors for this Broth-er. He received numerous degrees from prestigious universities, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his numerous published works, espe-cially his six-volume set on the Second World War. President Kennedy, fol-lowing an Act of Congress, proclaimed him an honorary citizen of the United States.

Brother Winston died at home January 24, 1965 at age 90, exactly 70 years after his father’s death. By Royal De-

cree, his body lay in state for three days and a state funeral was held at St. Paul’s Cathedral. As his body passed down the Thames, the Royal Artillery fired a nineteen gun salute and the RAF staged a sixteen fighter fly-by.

I think it is fair to say that Brother Winston, who was selected in a BBC poll as the “Greatest Britain of them all,” lived his life guided by the values and principles he learned in Stud-holme Lodge, and I think he would have subscribed to the statement made by our own George Washington, when he spoke about Freemasonry:

“Being persuaded that a just

application of the principles, on

which the Masonic Fraternity is

founded, must be to promote

private virtue and public pros-

perity, I shall always be happy to

advance the interests of the Soci-

ety, and to be considered by

them as a deserving Brother.”

While we may not achieve the heights of Brothers George Washington or Winston Churchill, we too should be guided by the same moral and social virtues as they were and, each in our own way, serve as an effective ambas-sador of Freemasonry in our commu-nity.

July Birthdays

In Memorial

Called From Labor

Mitz, Eugene R. 5/12/2014

Frederick Mc Elhaney

Leon Blakely

Richard Hale

Carl Cisco

Robert Woodburn

Bret Leduc

William West

Michael Carstens

Vardkes Avetisian

George Hogan

Peter Steuer

Henri Aflalo

Harold Cross

Donald Muller

Gary Snowden

Robert Parks

Charles Halligan

Edvin Vartanian

Levon Baghdassarian

Narbeh Bagdasarian

Michael Koesling

John Gustafson

Karekin Karazian

Haroutioun Tachian

Willard Hansen

Ian Young

Nick Dow

Jora Baghdasarian

Marvin Johnson

Andranik Khachadourian

Edward Davenport

James Rush

Calendar

May-27 7:30pm Admin meeting, Social night

June-3 6:30pm Dinner

7:30pm Stated Meeting

June-10 Past Masters Meeting

June-17 7:30pm TBA

June-24 7:30pm Admin meeting, Social night

July-1 6:30pm Stated Meeting Dinner

7:30pm Stated Meeting

July-8 Dark

July-15 Dark

July-22 Dark

Aug-5 6:30pm Stated Meeting Dinner

7:30pm Stated Meeting

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