Certificate presentations mark two personal Masonic milestones
Two members of Scunthorpe’s St Lawrence Lodge have been given certificates to mark personal masonic milestones. The latest Lodge meeting was fifty years to the day since Trevor King’s initiation, and he said the welcome when he had entered the building was exactly the same as it had been on his first night.
Trevor was given his fifty-year certificate by Lodge Liaison Officer Paul Anyan. Karl Lycett was presented with his Grand Lodge certificate and accompanying Royal Arch paperwork by Stuart Pearcey.
The night also marked the return to membership of the Lodge of Norman Howes, who had been Secretary for 13 years, but resigned to have more time to care for his ailing wife. He always said that after she’d passed he would renew his membership. That having happened, he was proposed for membership by Lodge DC Andy Pascoe.
The principal business of the night for more than 50 members who attended was to hear a talk by Andy Pascoe about the earliest days of the Lodge, which first met in 1885. Rather than just a dry resume of the minutes, he was able to inject life and personality into the characters in the story, which made it all the more interesting. He described a menu at a Festive Board in the 19th century, which included prodigious amounts of food served in numerous courses. On one evening the Lodge had initiated three new members, but had called off after the first two and gone to the pub before returning to initiate the third.
In the early years one Master had led ten initiations, nine passings, and ten raisings….
From left; Trevor King, Norman Howes, and Paul Anyan.
