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Brethren:
 
 Greetings from the East. Our May stated meeting will be held on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. and I hope to see many of you there, as this stated meeting will feature an open discussion of the By-law changes that were presented at our April stated meeting. The By-law committee has worked very hard to make their recommendations and we will discuss and vote on these proposed changes at this May meeting.

The following Articles have been proposed for changes:

Article 1  Section 2
Article 5   Section 1
Article 10  Section 1
Article 10  Section 2
Article 11  Strike entire article
Article 12 Renumber to Article 11
Article 13 Renumber to Article 12

The following tasks are also proposed:

Update past masters lists to bring records in line with Lodge records. Also authorize printing of the By-laws

 We continue to be busy with degree work. Two E.A. Degress will be done on May 12th, with a practice scheduled for Sunday, May 11th at 5:00 p.m. A Master Mason degree will be held on May 19th by the Shipyard Degree Team. A supper will be served at 6:00 pm. with the MM Degree to start at 7:00 p.m.
 We will hold a FC practice on Sunday, June 1st. This will be an important practice to prepare us for our Lodge inspection on June 9th. It is important that all officers and participants attend this practice. Floor work is just as important in the presentation as the spoken word, and we definitely need to improve on that aspect of our work!
 

Sincerely and fraternally,

Wor. Richard Smith
 

High Brass

 The late Frank M. Totton, Past Grand Master of New York, introducing Chaplain Charles D. Broughton of Buffalo, told this story:
 “They told me when he graduated from Seminary his first church was a very small one up in a small town in New York. He didn’t have the silk stocking church he has now, just a small church, but he became popular in that town almost overnight, so popular in fact that they invited him to join a noon-day luncheon club three weeks after he came to town. Shortly after that they had the annual election, and they waited upon him and asked him if he would accept election as an officer. He said, ‘What do you want me to be?’
 “They said. ‘We want you to be hog caller.’
 “Dr. Broughton said, ‘Hog caller? No, I couldn’t do that.’
 “They said, ‘Well, it is a very important office in this club. We have a president, vice-president, treasurer and hog caller, so you can see it is quite high brass.’
 “Finally, they prevailed on Brother Broughton to accept and he said, ‘Well, all right, if you want me to be hog caller, why, hog caller it is, but I must confess to you folks that when I came to town a few months ago I ha hoped that some day I might be known as the shepherd of the sheep, but certainly you folks know your own people better than I do.’ ”
 
 

 At an entertainment in Chicago, the speaker of the evening stressed the main topic of his address and said “one purpose of our noble Fraternity is to save young men.”
 A sweet young lady in the audience leaned over and whispered to the older Brother sitting in front of her: “Tell ‘em to save a good one for me, please.”