FVNews Daily  
No. 126. Wednesday, October 21, 2020

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What’s On (44 listings)
UPDATED DAILY.

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Wednesday, October 21

• 10.30am.Volunteer Action Team Leaders. Monthly Meeting. LINK
• 7pm. Grand Lodge Library/Museum Talks. ‘A Discussion on Masonic Etiquette’. LINK
• 7.30pm. Communications and Marketing Volunteer Action Team. Members. LINK

Thursday, October 22

• 10.30am. Past Deputy Grand Masters’ Meeting.
• 7.30pm. Creswick Havilah Lodge. Talk: Brendan Kyne, ‘Chaps, Rogues, Orangemen, Catholics’. Attire: Neat casual, dinner suit if you wish. EMAIL FOR LINK
• 7.30pm. Keysborough Lodge. Education Item and Trivia Quiz. LINK to come.
• 7.30pm. Leura Lodge. Talk: Randy Walton, ‘Process and History of the American Presidential Election’. LINK

• 7.45pm. Royal Ark Mariner Bayside trio meeting. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘In the Footsteps of Noah’. Current MMM, Former MMM, Current RAM, Former RAM only. LINK

Friday, October 23

• 7.30pm. Malvern-Waverley Lodge of Mark Master Masons No 39. Talk” Craig Spendlove, ‘Historical Origins of the Mark Degree’. meeting is not restricted to Mark Master Masons and all other Freemasons are welcome to attend. LINK

• 7.30pm. Victorian Lodge of Research. Talk: Fred Shade, ‘The Oddfellows – Their Origin, History and Ritual’. LINK

Saturday, October 24

• 9.30am-3pm. Secretaries’ Course. Hosted by Eric Williams and Barry Reaper. Register for both morning and afternoon sessions. MORNING andAFTERNOON

• 2pm. Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Victoria. Video Event in place of Annual Assembly which cannot be held due to COVID-19 lockdown. LINK

• 5pm. Concord Mark. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘Importance of the Mark Lodge’. For Master Masons and above. Attire: Casual. LINK

Monday, October 26

• 7.30pm. (8pm: Visitors). Spring Vale Lodge. Virtual tour: Grand Lodge of England, Freemasons Hall. Attire: White shirt, Lodge tie and jacket. LINK

Tuesday, October 27

• 7.30pm. Middle Park Lodge. Talk, musical performance: Dr David Kram, ‘Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth through the eyes of composers and singers who were Freemasons.’ Attire: Dinner Suit. LINK 
• 7.30pm. Mount Scopus and Collegians Lodge. Talk: ‘Prince Hall Freemasonry’. Attire: White shirt and black tie or lodge tie. LINK
• 7.30pm. Northern United Chapter. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘Cyrus – The Man and The Myth’. LINK
• 7.30pm. Wimmera Lodge. Presentation of a 50 year jewel to RWBro George Lanagan PDGM and a 60 year jewel to Bro James (Jim) Coates by WBro Ian Ballinger PGStdB. Attire: Neat casual. LINK

• 7.45pm. Lodge Epicurean. Talks: Peter Gumley on his Isolation rehabilitation and Armen Mardirousi, Secretary of North Hollywood Lodge No. 542 to talk about his own Masonic journey, Hollywood lodge and starting a lodge in California. LINK

Wednesday, October 28

• 7.30pm.Lodge Fraternal. Talk: ‘The Shriners’. LINK
• 8pm. GregoriosLodge. OXI Day. Greek ‘No’ Day Commemorative Ceremony. Includes Grand Master. Guests’ attire: casual. LINK

Thursday, October 29

• 10am-11am.Think Pink Foundation. Iryna Skincare Session for Masonic Ladies. LINK
• 7.30pm. Endeavour Lodge. Talk: Brendan Kyne, ‘Chaps, Rogues, Orangemen and Catholics’. LINK to come
• 7.30pm. Think Pink Foundation. Iryna Skincare Session for Masonic Ladies. LINK

Friday, October 30

• 7pm.Earl of Dunmore Lodge. Talk: Ben Quick, ‘Order of the Free Gardeners’. Visit by Lodge of the Golden Fleece. Brethren, partners and visitors welcome. LINK
• 7.30pm. Kilwinning Mark Lodge of Research No 2. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘Craftsman Marks’. 

Saturday, October 31

• 7.30pm. Blue Lounge Social Club Education Forum: Cryptic Masonry: The Order of Royal and Select Masters. All Freemasons welcome. LINK

Monday, November 2

• 7pm (7.30pm: Visitors). Oakleigh Mark Lodge. Business Meeting. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘India -The Raj, Mysticism and Masonry’. LINK

Wednesday, November 4

• 7.30pm. Gippsland Lodge. Talk: Iain Nicolson, ‘Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem’. LINK to come.

Thursday, November 5

• 7pm (7.30pm: Guests).Killara Lodge. Talk: Barry Watson, ‘The Last 100 Days of World War I.’ LINK
• 7.30pm. Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge. LINK to come.
• 7.30pm. Robbie Burns Lodge of Mark Master Masons. Presentation of 50-Year Jewel to V.Wor.Bro Bill Wright. Talk: Glen Hollibone. LINK Passcode: CFW239 

Saturday, November 7

• 7pm. Blue Lounge Social Club. Forum: ‘Why Freemasonry is an organisation worth joining in the 21st Century’. LINK

Monday, November 9

• 10am-12 Noon.District Co-Ordinators’ Meeting.
• 7pm. Lodge of Commerce. Vacant Chair Ceremony. LINK to come.

Wednesday, November 11 – Remembrance Day

• 7.30pm. Traralgon Lodge. Talk: Martyy Tanzer, Remembrance Day. LINK to come.
• 7.30pm. United Services Lodge. Remembrance Day Ceremony. Talk: Bro. Col. John Wertheimer, ‘A Remembrance Day’. Vacant Chair Ceremony. Attire: Members, jacket and tie. Visitors welcome, neat casual. LINK

Thursday, November 12

• 7pm. Masons Connect. Sharing Freemasonry Meeting. RSVP
• 7pm for 7.30pm. Antient York. Talk: John Glover, ‘The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and Power Point production of the Vacant Chair Ceremony. Attire: Jacket and tie. LINK to come.

Friday, November 13

• 7.30pm. Altona Lodge. Talk: Brendan Kyne, ‘Guided Tour of the Victorian Lodge of Research Portal’. Attire: members collared shirt and tie, visitors smart casual. LINK

Thursday, November 19

• 7pm. Prospect Hill Mark. Interview with Peter Gurr, First Grand Principal, Grand Chapter. Attire: members jacket and tie, visitors smart casual. Open to non-Mark brethren. LINK

Tuesday, November 24

• 7pm. Lodge Amalthea. Talk: Chris White, ‘Freemasonry and the Goat’. LINK

Monday, November 30

• 7pm. Oakleigh Council, Royal and Select Masters. Talk: David Yole. All members past and present of the Order, in addition members of other Orders. Attire: Casual. LINK
• 7.30pm. Citizens Marine Royal Ark Mariners. RAM Masons only. LINK

Videos

• Square Meals. (05:18) LINK
• The East and Solomonic North. (25:15) LINK
• In The Hearts of Men. (25:46) LINK

Vale Claire Rumble
• Bairnsdale Daylight Lodge Chaplain Nick Thurbon writes: “Claire Rumble passed away [Monday] evening. Her husband John was a former Master and much respected member of the Daylight Lodge. Claire was a wonderful, generous ‘Masonic lady’.”

Board Reports

• An era of transparency continues as the Freemasons Victoria Board of General Purposes reports to members of the deliberations at its October meeting. Subjects include Finances, Freemasons Future Recovery Team, Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master Extension of Term, Works VAT as a Committee of the Board, Freemasons Melbourne Second Floor, Masonic Convention, Board Reports. The Report is signed by Myles King and Bill Lodge, President and Vice-President respectively. To read the report, click on the Freemasons Victoria website HERE, log-on as a member, go to ‘Messages’, click on ‘Board Reports’.

Masonic Care WA: $10,000 incentives
• “Masonic Care WA is offering a choice of incentives to the value of $10,000 on selected villages to make a move into one of its villas easier,’ reports The West Australian. “We recognise moving house at any time can be very stressful,” Masonic Care CEO Marie-Louise MacDonald said. LINK

For the Statisticians
• YouTube and Vimeo provide detailed statistics for each of the videos produced by Freemasons Victoria. The ‘analytics’ give details of the exact number of viewers of each videos, and identify the points of each video where viewers ‘switch on’ and ‘switch off’. Four days after the latest video with a 14:30 chat between Grand Master Richard Elkington and President Myles King, YouTube reports on 481 viewers, with a retention rate of 41 per cent to the end. Some cable television channels cannot match these statistics. 

Our Major Project
• Chrys Kypreos, member of the Freemasons Victoria Board of General Purposes, is heading a move for our entire organisation to involve itself in a major project that will serve the community. Ideas are being sought from the members on what that major project might be. Please give thought of a project that excites you; an idea that you think might enthuse your Brother Freemasons. Imagine the possibilities of a major project that had a breathtaking impact across Victoria – a significant long-term difference to the community.
• Nothing is too ‘out there.’ This is your opportunity to make a difference, to harness the talents, energy and resources of our Victorian brotherhood. Please submit your ideas by sending an email to the Grand Secretary – grandsec@freemasonsvic.net.au and write ‘Major Project 2020’ in the subject line.

Masonic Mailbag
• Graham Sloman writes: “I received [this] from Masons Connect. It is one of the best lists I have seen and the detail has 90 per cent of Lodge Facebook pages and more. It is a great tool. We’re all in this together and I think they should be praised for what they have done.” LINK

Information of Lodge Workings
• Colin Peterson, Lecture Master at Ivalda Lodge of Instruction, is compiling a list of errors and omissions in the Information of Lodge Workings. His email address is colin@cmbar.net
• The Ritual and Ceremonial Committee is currently compiling a new edition of the publication. 

World News
• What does Freemasonry have to do with the first Black-owned television station in the United States? Patch explores the story. LINK

New Subscribers
• We are aiming to increase our opt-in subscribers list by seven every issue before August 31, 2021, to reach 4000 members. Subscribe at LINK Today, we welcome Vern Loeckenhoff, Murray Luxford, Jose Heredia, David Gibbs, Simon Ussher, Erick Salgado

Please Send Your Summons
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Famous Freemasons
• Zanuck, Darryl Francis (1902-1970) – Darryl Zanuck was a writer, actor, producer, and studio executive who, in 1933, became a co-founder of 20th Century Fox. Films such as The Jazz Singer (1927); The Longest Day (1962); The Sound of Music (1965) and Patton (1970), made him a legend, yet the memorial by his family notes his Masonic affiliation and achievements above all his other accomplishments. Brother Zanuck belonged to Mount Olive Lodge No. 506, Los Angeles, California.
– Timothy Horton

Masonic Knowledge
• Masonic Etiquette. “An act of Masonic etiquette is some movement, action, courteous gesture or speech performed at a given time and place, in a certain manner, and according to rules, fixed and imposed by the Fraternity itself. Since the rules are for the good of the Craft as a whole, it affects each member. An organisation such as ours adopts these rules to better enable it to carry out its good work in an atmosphere of harmony. They are not empty and meaningless, and they are not arbitrarily enacted. The rules have been tested, and they work!” – Masonic Etiquette Protocol and Decorum

Masonic Wisdom
• “During the time I have been in the army, I never knew a bad soldier who was a Freemason.” – Duke of Wellington 

The Last Word
• “Brotherly love, belief, truth, temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice – these are far more potent to human development, to human relations, to human life, than are the rules of science. It is simply a question of physical of spiritual values”. – Bro. L. L. Williams 

INFORMATION TO KNOW
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