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What's an Installation of Officers?
Alpha Lodge will be hosting our 144th installation of officers on September 11, 2017, and you're wondering, "what is an installation of officers?"
Formal or Casual -- Yes!
The uniform of an Officer of a masonic lodge in Massachusetts is the Tuxedo. Members of the lodge typically wear a suit or shirt, tie, and a jacket to masonic meetings and functions. Our visitors, however, should feel free to wear whatever they consider to be comfortable and respectful within their own views given the occasion.
It's a bit of ceremony
The Freemasons have practiced our craft for many hundreds of years. The ceremony is about accepting the duties, responsibilities, and commitments that the officers of a lodge make to the membership and Freemasonry. It's about honoring your commitments, following reason, treating all others with respect as equals, and it's about upholding these values for the upcoming year during which these elected and appointed officers will be entrusted with the care and direction of the lodge, with the incoming Worshipful Master leading the lodge.
It's a bit of a dinner party
Before the installation, we invite our guests to join us for dinner to enjoy each others' company and conversation. The presiding Master, Worshipful Brother Craig S. Rothman, will address the current officers, members, and guests of Alpha Lodge.
It's a bit of a retirement party
After dinner, we adjourn to the lodge room and conduct a formal retirement ceremony for the officers that served Alpha Lodge for the 2019 masonic year. It's also a bit of a formal event, since it's essentially been the same protocol for a very long time. We thank them for their services.
It's a bit of a welcoming party
We welcome aboard the elected and appointment officers for the 2020 masonic year. Our new officers make a commitment before all to uphold the duties of their office. The responsibilities of a lodge officer are many and include maintaining the finances of the lodge, upholding the customs and traditions of the lodge, planning and executing the upcoming year's mission and goals, having a command of our oral tradition, mostly unaltered from the beginning of the fraternity. In the end, it's very much an inauguration.
It's a bit of a history lesson
Because Freemasonry is steeped in History and because our officers join the ranks of many distinguished predecessors, our master of ceremonies will give a bit of history along with our installation to explain the importance of the events.
Fraternal Visit of the DDGM and 1st Degree
Alpha Lodge will warmly welcome the District Deputy Grand Master for the 15th Masonic District, North, Right Worshipful Danny Vogel and his suite of officers and guests at our regular communication on Monday, February 25, 2019, for a Fraternal Visit. The evening will start with dinner in our usual fashion. Will will open on the first degree and will conduct our business until the arrival of the district deputy grand master. We hope you will join us. Dinner reservations can be made via the event link on the right.
Right Worshipful Brother Vogel was raised and is an active member in United Brethren Lodge, which was instituted 1859, in the town of Marlborough, Massachusetts. United Brethren Lodge is presently under the guidance of Worshipful Daren A. Nowlan, Master.
Alpha Member Brings to Focus Brotherly Love and Relief
Erik Marks, member of Alpha Lodge, brings into focus the subject of Masonic Relief in his expanded article, "In Darkness, Wishing for Light" published on The Midnight Freemasons and first published in the Trowel Magazine in the Fall of 2018.
The expanded article provides advice and strategies for reaching out to those in need who may not be able to do so for themselves. We commend our brother for this contribution and look forward to seeing more from him in the near future.
Alpha Says Goodbye at Arlington National Cemetery
On October 11, 2018, the Worshipful Master and five members of Alpha Lodge met at Old Post Chapel, Fort Myer, for the service of Brother and Colonel Lee Dickson, after which Brother Dickson was laid to rest with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
The fact that the members of Alpha Lodge had never met Brother Dickson in person, and that only a handful of the brothers had the pleasure to have spoken to Brother Dickson during our regular calls to members, was not of consequence. This was going to be both an emotional and poignent day, but also a day where the light of Freemasonry and humanity shines brightly.
Read more: Alpha Says Goodbye at Arlington National Cemetery
Alpha Past Master to Head the Aleppo Shrine
Right Worshipful Robert E. Havener will be installed Potentate of the Aleppo Shrine this month. Brother Havener was raised in Alpha Lodge in 1993 and is a Past Master (1999, 2011); he is also our acting Treasurer. Rob has served as both an officer of and a representative to the Framingham Temple Association and has done so for many years. He was District Deputy Grand Master for the 15N Masonic District in 2009, and he is a founding member of Scimitar Lodge.
Brother Havener will be installed as Potentate Saturday, January 19, 2019. Please mark this date and consider celebrating this milestone with your Brother.
For more details, please visit the Aleppo Shriners website: https://nobles.alepposhriners.com/event/aleppo-january-2019-ceremonial/
Golden Gavel Awards - Jan 2019
Alpha Lodge has been named a nominee for the Golden Gavel Awards, being held on January 26, 2019, at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum in Lexington. The Golden Gavel Awards is a new event meant to showcase outstanding programs and activities by lodges in the jurisdiction and are presented to those “advancing our Craft and the lodges.” Alpha Lodge has been nomination in the category of “Activation” for the work done to promote Freemasonry via our technology and web site.
