Member Update 5/22

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Issue Number 30

May 22, 2014

History of Memorial Day

 

 

Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer with warm weather, picnics, barbecues, and celebrations. But, the holiday has a deeper meaning.

 

Originally called Decoration Day, "for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the Civil War”, Memorial Day is a day for remembrance of those who have died in service to our country. 

 

By proclamation of General John A. Logan (Mason) of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans, the holiday was first widely observed on May 30, 1868 to commemorate the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers.

 

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20th Annual Teddy Bear Classic 

 

In 1995, a group of Scottish Rite Masons from the Valley of Boston, organized the first Golf Tournament fundraiser, the Teddy Bear Classic, for the Children’s Dyslexia Center of Greater Boston. Today, it is named the J. Phillip Berquist Center in memory of Illustrious J. Phillip Berquist, 33º, MSA, Past Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts, and Past Thrice Potent Master of Boston Lafayette Lodge of Perfection.

 

The 20th Annual Teddy Bear Classic to support the J. Philip Berquist Children’s Dyslexia Center for Greater Boston will be held on...

 

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A Scottish Rite Tribute to the Flag

 

It was tattered and soiled, hardly a thing of glorious beauty. And yet in 1995, when John E. Craver donated it to the Scottish Rite Museum in Lexington, MA they wanted to show it off. 

 

The old flag needed a lot of love and care. Over the next two years, conservators would devote some 500 hours to preserving it and preparing it for display. All this because the Scottish Rite Masons felt proud and protective of a bedraggled patchwork of red, white, and blue.

 

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