DeSoto Lodge 105 88 · TRESTLEBOARD MAY 6019 A.L. MAKING MASONS SINCE 5889 A.L. 2 DeSoto Lodge #105 Officers—2018 DeSoto Lodge 105 Officers for 2019 Sr Steward Kevin Bush (Betty)

TRESTLEBOARD MAY 6019 A.L.

MAKING MASONS SINCE 5889 A.L.

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Stated Communications

1st and 3rd Tuesdays

At 7:30 PM

Between Two Golden Pillars and Thru this

Portal Wise men will pass

DeSoto LODGE NO. 105 F.&A.M.

10801 DeSoto Rd.

RIVERVIEW , FLORIDA 33569

MAY 2019 VOL. MMXIX NO. V

DeSoto Lodge 105

First Worshipful Master

B.N.Mathes 5888-A.L.



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DeSoto Lodge #105 Officers—2018

DeSoto Lodge 105

Officers for 2019

Sr Steward Kevin Bush (Betty)

557-3929

Marshall & Lodge Instructor

W∴ Stephen Williams

813-743-5739

Tyler

Richard “Dick” Sylvis

(Mary) 671-8959

Jr Steward Alex Kuriga (Heather)

(410) 925-1090

Senior Deacon Donald Fisch (Evelyn)

625-1034

Junior Deacon Shae Pringle (Lisa)

(843) 833-0003

Secretary

R∴W∴ Greg Wynn

(Theresa) 767-2189

Chaplain Miguel Viruet

(Patricia Ann)

205-2622

Treasurer

Mike Antonidis

(Linda Earle) 417-

Worshipful Master David St John (Vickie)

C 362-0087

Junior Warden Peter Loach

( Dee) 335-5035

Senior Warden Rick Vogt( Denise)

813-548-2760



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1888-..................B.N.Mathes * 1889-....................A.H.Meeks*

...Lodge first met in the Meeks Store

1890-.........................B.N.Mathes * 1891-.........................O.P.Buzbee * 1892-....................L.W.Buckholtz * 1893-.........................J.R.Brooker * 1894-1913-.............G.H.Symmes *+ 1914-1915-….........B.H.Emerson * 1916-1917-..............L.G.Scofield * 1918-......................J.W.WIlliams * 1919-1920-...............E.P.Blanton * 1921-........................F.Ray Hearn * 1922-1925-............W.T.Williams * 1926-...................J.E.McLean Sr. * 1927-......................A.Kirkpatrick * 1928-.......................J.W. McLean * 1929-......................D.H.Williams * 1930-1931…….......... E.J.Bryant * 1932-1934-................C.Friedling * 1935-.................................C.Pelt * 1936-1937-............L.D.Patterson * 1938-.........................T.H.Brown * 1939…………...….C P Remling * 1940-1941 ...............A.O.Moody * 1942-1943................... M.Linder * 1944-......................G.L.Pritchard * 1945-......................J.S.Meadows * 1946-....................H.W.Meadows * 1947-............................E.E.Doub * 1948-....................J.E.McLean Jr. * 1949-....................J.W.Thompson * 1950-.........................D.C.Graves * 1951-........................W.J.Gallana */+ 1952-................Wm.E. Hegeman * 1953-......................J.P.Massicotte* 1954-......................J.A.Bailey Jr. * 1955-............................W.Willis * 1956-...........................R.M.Ekker* 1957-…......................A.Vasquez * 1958-..............................A.Ekker * 1959-…….....R\W\G. Cooley 33+* 1960-.......……....H. Smallwood +* 1961-…...........…………H. Rice* 1962-...........…..J.R. Hamrick, Jr* 1963-…..…… ….….V. Linder 1964-……...… .....H.B. Wilder 1965-…………......A.L. Frisbie * 1966-…...........W.A. Thompson * 1967-…….……..W.L. Shurtleff 1968-……...…..….....W.W. Jay * 1969-…. …..….....J.D. Fletcher * 1970-…….….…......R.F. Tatum * 1971-…….….........A.W. Fenzau * 1972-……….......W.L. Stanford 1973-…………...….R.W. Smith * 1974-………….....H.L. Clausen 1975-………..……......C. Repp +* 1976-………….......O.H. Elmore * 1977-………….…...J. A. Brown * 1978-………........M. Beardsley +* 1979-….................D.R. Packard *

1980-…...........W.B. Ellis 33º* 1981-……...E.E. Oglethorpe * 1982-………......J.D. Fowler 1983-…................G.J. Davis 1984-................W.J.Wiggins* 1985-...................G.W.Fears 1986-…………..A.E.Baker * 1987-.............J.M.Williams 1988-.................R.S.Varney 1989-..........R. “Gene” Horne* 1990-..............J.H.McDaniel 1991-..................R.M.Hardy 1992-1993…....L.Swilley, Jr.* 1994-....................T.A.Berry 1995-…..............F.R.Hudson* 1996......................D.M.Little 1997...............RW:.F.E.Lowe+ 1998.................R.E.Kennedy 1999.......David G. Watson Sr.* 2000…….....Dennis Owenby * 2001 .....................Bob Boose 2002 .......David G. Watson Jr. 2003..............“Skip” Franklin 2004....................James Hiller 2005.......David “Doc” Rivera 2006..........Ronald J. Brimner 2007................Robert Dishon 2008 ………........Mark Titzel 2009 ….........Howie Angeloni 2010.................Don Campbell 2011.....................Greg Wynn 2012..........Hoyt “Al” Lawson 2013...............Adam Barsoum 2014...................Troy Di Vito 2015.......................Bill Tracy 2016……………...Steve Wilson 2017……………William Miller 2018………….Stephen Williams

DEGREE PRACTICE

Every Wednesday

DeSoto Lodge

7:00 pm : "Brothers, please support the degree team, your help

is greatly needed. District School of Instruction

Every 3rd Monday 7:00PM

Tampa #240

6920 E. Chelsea St; Tampa, FL 7:00 pm

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DeSoto Lodge 105

Mason of the Year 2018

Worshipful Steve Wilson



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W∴ M ∴ David St. John

The Master’s Word

Fraternal Greetings from the East,

As we start this month, I want to remind you that we will be discussing the upcoming legislation during

both the business, as well as the family night meetings. I ask you to come and participate in the discussion so that

the three principal officers can ballot based on what the Craft would like, as we represent you during the upcom-

ing Grand Lodge. Unless some get withdrawn there are 19 possible resolutions to be balloted on and range from-

what we call “housekeeping” to some very important items we need to discuss. There is one in particular that will

be discussed during the family night meeting which involves the possibility of raising the Per Capita each year for

the next five years. The hope is to help cover the budget of the Grand Lodge. While the administration of the

Grand Lodge has taken steps to reduce the budget where they have been able to, there is still a shortfall.

Another step to help cut the deficient in the Grand Lodge’s budget is growing the fraternity. As you will

hear during the upcoming year, Deputy Grand Master RW John Westerman III’s motto for the year is “each one -

reach one”. The thought is to think outside the box. Who would you call for advice for legal, financial, medical or

other advice? Do you look them up in the “yellow pages” or “Google”? Do you ask someone? If you trust

someone enough to ask them for their opinion on these important personal issues, ask yourself, would they make

a good Mason (if they are not already)? If they are not bring them down to Lodge. If married, bring the family to

a family night or pancake breakfast.

While growing the Fraternity is important, so we can continue to have Masons, it is equally important, if

not more, to retain our current memberships in the Fraternity. I have asked in the past of what can I and or the of-

ficers of this Lodge do to get you back in our meetings? There is so much competition for your time. I received a

very nice letter from a Brother with some suggestions. I have started one of his ideas with giving the Brothers a

laugh before they go home. It allows you to leave with a smile on your face and hopefully the beginning of want-

ing you to come back for more. I will be discussing the other ideas with the officers and we will put a plan into

place to implement more ideas by family night where it will be announced. We will need some volunteers. No, it

does not take a lot of time, nor do you have to be physically strong. Come hear the announcement or wait until

next month’s Trestleboard to find out. Thank you Brother for your great ideas!

Finally my travel schedule is Thursday May 16th to J.F. Swartsel Lodge, 3109 Lutz Lake Fern Road, Lutz.

Anyone is welcome to meet me there—6:30pm dinner and 7:30 gavel.

Fraternally,

WM:.Dave St. John



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From the West

S.W. Richard Vogt

Greetings from the West!

We have had a GREAT month of April. We wit-nessed our own Past Master Stephen Williams present his grandfather his 50 year Masonic Pin and Certificate, we com-pleted more of our exterior renovations for the Lodge, we held a Fellow Craft Degree, we attended the roasting of the District Deputy Grand Masters from the 19th and 20th Masonic Dis-tricts, we attended District School where we learned some good ritual practices, we attended Masters and Wardens, and we participated in the Degree Competition in the Master Ma-son Degree. WOW! What a month. You cannot say that DeSoto is not an active Lodge. The only thing that would make it better is if a lot more of our Brothers joined in on all of these activities. We have approximately 275 Brothers on the roles, yet our attendance averages around 10%, or 25-30 Brothers. We have accomplished all of these things in April, actually year-to-date, with 10% of our Brothers. It boggles my mind to think of what we can accomplish if more of our Broth-ers re-engaged with the Lodge and came out to support all that we do. Come on Brothers, let’s make this happen!

Congratulations go out to Brother Eric Dunn who be-came our newest Fellow Craft. He is anxious to learn his cate-chism and then become a Master Mason. Great kudos go out to Brother Dores McDonnell who has been working tirelessly to teach the catechisms to our new Brothers—EA for Brother Kevin Russo, Master Mason for Bros. Mark Seland and Oscar Patterson. It takes a lot of time and effort to complete this in-struction, it would be nice if we had more Brothers come back and help with catechism and mentoring. There is a wealth of knowledge out there that, quite frankly, is being wasted. Won’t you come and share with your Brothers?

Are you picking up on the theme of my article this month? We all miss our Brothers whom we haven’t seen in quite a while. We are doing a lot of good things, we have been having outstanding meals, and the fellowship is the best it has ever been. We truly enjoy being around each other and we would really like to share that with ALL the Brothers. I hope you will take this plea to heart and come be part of DeSoto again. If you stopped coming for particular reasons, please let us know what those reasons are so we have a chance to fix things. All of the officer’s phone numbers are listed in this Trestleboard—we would love to hear from you. If you are not coming because you need a ride, or you don’t drive at night, or whatever the reason, please call us and we’ll make sure you can get to the Lodge. If you would like to see particular pro-

grams and/or education, please let us know, so we can incor-porate them into our meetings and get-togethers.

Here is what we have coming up in May:

May 1: Catechism Practice

May 4: Quarterly MLT—Modules 5, 8, and 10; To be held at Tampa No. 240

May 7: Stated Meeting



May 16: WM travel to JF Swartzel Lodge

May 18: Scottish Rite Reunion

May 19: Scottish Rite Reunion

May 20: District School of Instruction

May 21: Family Night

May 22: Officer’s Meeting

May 26: Pancake Breakfast

May 26-29: Grand Lodge of Florida

The Lodge will be used by Crestview Academy on May 4th, beginning at 11:00 AM. Plan accordingly. Also, OES will be using the Lodge on May 9th beginning at 6:00 PM for their School of Instruction.

I mentioned earlier that we had a workday on April 6 and got more work on the exterior projects done. We still have more to do, though. I have not planned another work day, but I would ask any Brother that is willing to come down and help with our projects to let me know when they are available and I will let you know what needs to be done and where the sup-plies are. We need to finish the entrance columns; and, the painting—one exterior window and then the pedestals and col-umns in the Lodge room. Let me know if you can help.

We are right on budget for our spending and we are getting the building beautified. It sure would be nice to fill the Lodge room with Brothers. We would love to have our own 100 Mason event just with our own Brothers. Not impossi-ble—just need you to come down. Think about it, and if you need help getting to the Lodge, we are only a phone call away.

Fraternally,

Rick Vogt, SW



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From the South

J.W. Peter Loach

Greetings from the South!

On March 24th, we had our normal Pancake Breakfast at DeSoto which was very well attended, serving ap-

proximately 130-150 including many children. The dining room was full of good conversation and happy children’s

laughter filled the Lodge room as Worshipful Williams, Brother Kuriga and his wife had games setup for the kids to

play.

Our April 2nd Stated Meeting was a lightly attended but good with 35 Brothers eating Chili Dog Casserole.

On April 6th we had another Lodge work day to complete several projects. Painting of the Pillars and window

scrolling, Rebuilding of the Pillar bases. All worked hard and had a great time with lots of fellowship.

We had a Degree on April 9th, passing brother Eric Dunn to the degree of Fellow Craft. There were 14 broth-

ers in attendance. We had Mexican Lasagna for dinner.

For Family Night we had about 25 Brothers and family. PJ gave a brief description of what the DeMolay

are, what they are about, and what it has done for and means to him. The meal was a Lasagna Stuffed Meatloaf with

apple and peach cobbler topped with ice cream. I planned for forty, served twenty-five and yet had almost no lefto-

vers.

Our May meals will be:

Shepard’s Pie (leftovers)

Mexican Lasagna (leftovers)

Just like home we have to “clean out the fridge” .

Fraternally,

Peter

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P.S. On Jun 18th, there is a Steak & Lobster dinner planned. The ask is for a $15 donation for that meal. Help me

plan by sending me an RSVP for June 18th to [email protected]. If you don’t RSVP, I may not have enough

for you. This is our DDGM visit so let’s make it well attended. And hey, where else can you get a Steak & Lobster

dinner for $15 plus have some great fellowship.

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mailto:[email protected]



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Thought for January

By Bill Bartman

ANGER

We are admonished in the Bible to “Be ye angry and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” (Ephesians 4:26). It reminds me of the little boy who was going to buy his dad a new temper, because his mom said he kept losing it.

Anger is a God-given emotion that each of us has, but it is very important that we keep it under control, especially as Masons. After all, aren’t we good men, striving to improve ourselves? Anger easily can become hatred, resentment, and create a grudge-like feeling within us, and that is very un-healthy. When you get angry, deal with it in a positive way, and then “get over it!” Life is too short to waste it on anger and resentment.

Fraternally,

Bill Bartman

Worshipful Williams giving the Lodge a new facelift



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Worshipful Master David St. John, Right Worshipful Tomas Izquierdo, District

Deputy Grand Master, and Right Honorable Jack Hampton, District Instructor

Worshipful Master David St. John with Brother William Briggs who received his

50 year pin from Worshipful Willams (Grandson) on right.



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May 3 On this date in 1886, Rudyard Kipling received is 2nd degree.

May 4 On this date in 1821, the Grand Lodge of Missouri was formed

On this date in 1821, the Grand Lodge of Illinois was founded.

May 5 On this date in 1851, Andrew Johnson (U.S. President 1865-1869) received his 1st degree in Green-

ville Lodge #119, Tennessee

May 8 On this date in 1843, a national Masonic Congress was begun in Baltimore, sometimes referred to as

the Baltimore Convention, to attempt to establish a uniform ritual for United States Grand Lodges.

May 11 On this date in 1865, the Grand Lodge of West Virginia was formed

May 12

On this date in 1932, the George Washington Masonic National Memorial, in Alexandria, Virginia,

was dedicated in a very large ceremony, attended by thousands, including the President of the United

States

On this date in 1931, Senator Barry Goldwater (candidate for U.S. President in 1964) received his 1st

degree in Arizona Lodge #2, Phoenix AZ.

On this date in 1999, the Grand Lodge of D.C., under the leadership of Grand Master Dan L Freder-

ick, voted to recognize the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of D.C.

May 16 On this date in 1866, the Grand Lodge of West Virginia was founded.

May 17 On this date in 1921, High Twelve International was organized.

May 18 On this date in 1959, Harry S. Truman (U.S. President 1945-1953) received his 50 year masonic

award.

May 24 On this date in 1901, Sir Winston Churchill received his 1st degree in Studholme Lodge #1591,

London.

May 27 On this date in 1957, Carl H. Claudy, Masonic author and playwright, D.C. Grand Master in 1943,

Executive Secretary of MSA, died

May 31 On this date in 1801, the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the

United States, "mother council of the world," was established, in Charleston, South Carolina.

What Happened on the Date in Masonic History—May



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On Memorial Day

Remember Our Fallen Brothers Who Gave

The Ultimate Sacrifice



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May

May 4 — Quarterly MLT

May 7 — Lodge Dinner and Meeting

Mar 16—WM travels to JF Swartzel Lodge

May 20— District School

May 21—Family Night

May 26— Pancake Breakfast

May SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

1 DeSoto Lodge

105

Instruction 6pm

2 GS Troop

– Wilson

3 4 Quarterly

MLT at

Tampa # 240

Crestview Acad-

emy 11AM

5 6 7 Lodge

Dinner and

Meeting

8 DeSoto Lodge

105

Instruction 7pm

9 OES

School of

Instruction

6:00pm

10 DeMolay

6:30pm

11 DeMolay

Lock-in 4pm

12 Mother’s

Day

13 Order of the

Eastern Star

7:30pm

14 15 DeSoto

Lodge 105

Instruction 6pm

16 WM

travel to JF

Swartzel

Lodge

17 Girl

Scouts Ward

18 Scottish Rite

Reunion

19 Scottish

Rite Reunion

Board Mtg at

Masonic

Home

20 District

School

Tampa 240

7 pm

21 DeSoto

Lodge Fami-

ly Night

6:30

22 Officers’ Mtg

6:30 pm

24 DeMolay

6:30pm

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26 Pancake

Breakfast

0830-

1130

27 27 Order of

the Eastern

Star 7:30pm

Memorial Day

28 29 DeSoto

Lodge 105

Instruction 6pm

30 31

Grand Lodge of Florida

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DeSoto Lodge 105 88 · TRESTLEBOARD MAY 6019 A.L. MAKING MASONS SINCE 5889 A.L. 2 DeSoto Lodge #105 Officers—2018 DeSoto Lodge 105 Officers for 2019 Sr Steward Kevin Bush (Betty)