While on Okinawa, he became a dual member of the Okinawa York Rite Bodies, under the jurisdiction of the Grand York Rite of the Philippines. He served as High Priest of Okinawa Chapter No. 14 in 1979 and Commander of Okinawa Commandery No. 2 in 1978, and retains a life membership in those bodies. John T. Parsons was raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason in George W. Lininger Lodge No. 268, Omaha, on November 25, 1975.

All chairmen of lodge education committees were presented a workbook by the Masonic Education Committee on developing a Masonic education program. With nearly two-thirds of lodges not initiating new members, the Grand Lodge officers decided to offer One-Day Blue Lodge Multiple Candidate Conferrals in Omaha, Beatrice and Hastings where 209 candidates were raised. Falling in compliance with a new law that required safety committees in all businesses, the number of days lost due to work-related incidents dropped from 252 in 1992 to 15 in 1993 at The Nebraska Masonic Home. The improvement made the home the first nursing facility ever to be removed from the Workers’ Compensation high-risk pool.

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He claimed that lodge secretaries were the mainstay for the Master and were frequently asked for information, and should be encouraged to attend Annual Communication. An amendment passed providing for succession to the office of Grand Master in the event of his death. All dispensations to form new lodges in towns with a population of less than 300 were refused by the Grand Master. CurvesConnect A professor from the University of Nebraska, and his assistants, worked on cataloguing ancient weapons from M∴W∴ George Lininger’s estate and books from Brother John Monell that were donated to the Grand Lodge. The Grand Master recommended that a Finance Committee be created to take responsibility from the Grand Secretary to manage the large amount of funds of the Grand Lodge.

The Membership Committee encouraged lodges to hold informational dinners and invite non-Masons and their wives to attend. Because of positive results, the committee pursued the program the following year with lodges located on or east of Highway 14. The Grand Lodge, Omaha Scottish Rite, Grand York Rite and Tangier Shrine underwrote the cost of guests’ dinners up to $5 each. Nearly 100 petitions resulted from informational dinners held in 47 lodges. A total of 141 lodges had been contacted and urged to hold such a dinner. The Committee on Fraternal Relations reported that since mid-1977, a growing concern was a ban proclaimed by the Arab Boycott League against Freemasonry based on the erroneous belief that Masonry supported the Zionist cause.

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The Grand Master attended the Missouri Grand Lodge’s Annual Communication and ate breakfast and dinner with M∴W∴ Harry S. Truman, former U.S. New lodges were dedicated for Frank Welch Lodge No. 75 in Sidney and Omadi Lodge No. 5 in South Sioux City. Lodge secretaries preparing hand-written reports were urged to use greater care so they could be read more easily. More than 150 members of McKinley Lodge No. 712 in Hammond, Indiana, visited Alliance Lodge No. 183. A former resident of Alliance was Master of the lodge and it was a tradition of that lodge every year to visit a distant lodge.

A program was begun to protect subordinate lodges and the Grand Lodge by providing comprehensive liability insurance. A brother living in Missouri, who was a member of Nebraska Lodge No. 1 in Omaha, was found guilty in Nebraska of unmasonic conduct by being involved in the liquor business. Upholding the Nebraska decision, Missouri expelled him from the fraternity. The Grand Custodian, representing the Grand Master, visited a lodge and enforced a law forbidding the use of ciphers or keys to the work.

The Grand Lodge of Illinois instituted Nebraska Lodge No. 184 at the John Jacob Astor Fur Trading Company. The event was attended by the Grand Masters from Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, the three jurisdictions that started lodges in Nebraska before the Grand Lodge was formed in 1857. That evening, a banquet with several speakers reminisced about the early days of the Grand Lodge.

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With no new lodges started the first three years and membership maintaining a slow growth, the Grand Master attributed the situation to a poor economy and older brethren abandoning lodges to find fortune in the gold fields. To cope with the resulting low funds, the Grand Secretary’s salary was reduced from $150 to $50 per annum. It was required by the rules and regulations that all lodge officers should be elected.

And my #1 rule in life is…I only chase Drinks and Dreams…never men. If you are still reading…maybe you should message me 😉 Probably a drink or 2…we will determine in the first few minutes if we would get along or not. The Nebraska Masonic Foundation received permanent exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service as a 501 organization in December 1991. The Grand Master said its purpose was to educate the general public about Freemasonry, what it stands for and what it does. During the previous year, the Foundation contributed $10,000 to the Grand Masters of North America Committee on Masonic Renewal to help produce videotapes and other promotional information for membership recruitment and retention. It also purchased supplies and materials for the Drug Awareness Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program which was coordinated by the Nebraska State Patrol.

The Committee on Masonic Education mapped out a program to inform Masons of the ideals of the fraternity, so Masons would be well grounded in its traditions and philosophies. The program was prompted by the return of WWII veterans who received Masonic work in a short time. The committee reported that it was necessary to revise much of the work that was done during the war, to revive some of the procedures of pre-war days and to add others. The Grand Secretary said that a majority of lodges were again active and conferring more degrees than the officers could find brethren to help confer them. Despite the absence of young men at war and working in defense plants, he said attendance at lodge meetings and interest in the Craft was surprising. A committee examining whether lodges could sponsor DeMolay Chapters reported that Grand Lodge bylaws forbid use of lodge funds for other than Masonic purposes, and DeMolay disavowed any claim to be a Masonic organization.

Pointing out that subordinate lodges were required to have a committee on membership, the Grand Master said few were familiar with their duties. He recommended the name of the committee be changed to Membership Sustaining Committee, which more realistically described their duties. It was felt that information could be expedited and less costly with better results if handled by one committee. The Orphans Fund, which was created at the close of the Civil War, had received sufficient funds that no per capita assessments were needed.

Nebraska had recognized the division of jurisdictions by territory in the cases of the Grand Lodge of Hamburg in New York and the Grand Orient of France in Louisiana, as well as the autonomous power of a Grand Lodge. Furnas said lodges organized in a jurisdiction and not authorized by that Grand Lodge were clandestine. “This principle is universal – not applicable alone to ‘colored persons or colored organizations.’” He added that a national schism in the Prince Hall lodges needed to be resolved. Furnas commented that an Ohio proposal to establish a second Grand Lodge in their state destroyed the concept of universality.