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Elected and Installed as Junior Warden tonight

Keith C

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Tonight at our stated meeting I was elected and installed as Junior Warden of my lodge. It was a great evening and it was an honor to be installed by the current Junior Warden, who has helped me quite a bit in my Masonic journey so far. It was also nice to see many other brothers from our Masonic District as well as the DDGM be there and offer their congratulations and support to all 3 of us newly installed Officers of The Line. The three of us have been meeting for several weeks and our new WM has a lot of great stuff planned for this year and myself and the SW are supporting him 100%. It should be a great year.

Now just a short wait until we officially take up our offices on St. John's Day!
 

billyjfootball

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Congrats!! Sounds like you have a healthy lodge there, brother. I was installed as JW too a few minutes ago. Right now, My head is spinning. Just to think I no longer have to wear a sword as SMC makes me happy. Hated that thing. Anyway, best of luck.


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Keith C

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Congrats!! Sounds like you have a healthy lodge there, brother. I was installed as JW too a few minutes ago. Right now, My head is spinning. Just to think I no longer have to wear a sword as SMC makes me happy. Hated that thing. Anyway, best of luck.
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LOL I don't mind the sword sitting in the SMC chair, but sitting and standing and sitting and standing with it in the JMC chair during a degree is tough!

Best of luck to you as well. And we will rock 2020!
 

Andy Fracica

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Tonight at our stated meeting I was elected and installed as Junior Warden of my lodge. It was a great evening and it was an honor to be installed by the current Junior Warden, who has helped me quite a bit in my Masonic journey so far. It was also nice to see many other brothers from our Masonic District as well as the DDGM be there and offer their congratulations and support to all 3 of us newly installed Officers of The Line. The three of us have been meeting for several weeks and our new WM has a lot of great stuff planned for this year and myself and the SW are supporting him 100%. It should be a great year.

Now just a short wait until we officially take up our offices on St. John's Day!
Congratulations Brother Keith! I was also elected and installed as Junior Warden last night. The new officers had to close the lodge which none of us were expecting to do. Most of us flubbed our lines but we got through with a little prompting. Our WM is a past master and a ritualist so he will be a great mentor for us.

My son was appointed Senior Steward last night as well.

We should keep in touch it would interesting to compare notes. I grew up in Mechanicsburg, PA and moved out of PA almost 20 years ago.
 

Andy Fracica

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Congrats!! Sounds like you have a healthy lodge there, brother. I was installed as JW too a few minutes ago. Right now, My head is spinning. Just to think I no longer have to wear a sword as SMC makes me happy. Hated that thing. Anyway, best of luck.


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Congratulations to you as well Brother Billyjfootball. The three of us New Junior Wardens should stay in touch and compare notes.
 

billyjfootball

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Congratulations to you as well Brother Billyjfootball. The three of us New Junior Wardens should stay in touch and compare notes.
I'm in the Wilkes Barre/Scranton area. I'd love to keep in touch with you guys. I've only been a Mason for a little over a year and I think the enormity of the position hit me last night during OAO. It's daunting. I'd love to be able to ask you guys questions and advice as we progress.


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Keith C

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I'm in the Wilkes Barre/Scranton area. I'd love to keep in touch with you guys. I've only been a Mason for a little over a year and I think the enormity of the position hit me last night during OAO. It's daunting. I'd love to be able to ask you guys questions and advice as we progress.


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I am in the same boat, I was raised at the end of last November. My plan was to just sit on the sidelines for 2017, observe and learn and seek either MC or the Pursuivant chair. However, our JD had some work and family conflicts that made it impossible to be at our meeting nights, So I was asked to take that chair in March. Over the Summer our SD had similar issues come up so I was approached at the end of August and asked if I would be willing to fill that chair and, by the way, do you think you can learn the ritual by November and serve as JW for next year? So, here I am! I have done the JW duties for several degrees, but standing there in the open lodge after being installed my mind was spinning! At dinner afterwards I had 4 PMs come up to me and offer both congratulations and told me not to hesitate to call if I had any questions or needed any assistance.

I agree that we three should stay in touch and compare notes. Wilkes-Barre isn't very far away for me, I will try to come visit your lodge billyfootball, but probably not until Spring, it seems we may be in for a snowy winter!
 

billyjfootball

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It's funny because our stories are similar. I was raised on November 17th of last year. I was hoping to watch from the sidelines too. My very first stated meeting they put me in JMC. Then, I was appointed to SMC. Been studying for qualification every day. It's been crazy. I'm sure we'll all do a great job. Seems like we have passion. I'm glad I waited until I was in my early forties. A younger me would have been scared to death over all this responsibility and pressure. At 42, I'm nervous but embracing it.


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Andy Fracica

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I am in the same boat, I was raised at the end of last November. My plan was to just sit on the sidelines for 2017, observe and learn and seek either MC or the Pursuivant chair. However, our JD had some work and family conflicts that made it impossible to be at our meeting nights, So I was asked to take that chair in March. Over the Summer our SD had similar issues come up so I was approached at the end of August and asked if I would be willing to fill that chair and, by the way, do you think you can learn the ritual by November and serve as JW for next year? So, here I am! I have done the JW duties for several degrees, but standing there in the open lodge after being installed my mind was spinning! At dinner afterwards I had 4 PMs come up to me and offer both congratulations and told me not to hesitate to call if I had any questions or needed any assistance.

I agree that we three should stay in touch and compare notes. Wilkes-Barre isn't very far away for me, I will try to come visit your lodge billyfootball, but probably not until Spring, it seems we may be in for a snowy winter!
I was raised in October of this year and elected JW in December, so I have a very steep learning curve, but I have a lot of life experience in leadership roles and I teach leadership at the college level, so my learning curve is in learning my lines and coming up to speed with our Bylaws, Blue Book, and trying to subdue my passions and to be just and upright Mason.

We generally make two trips to PA to the Harrisburg area during the summer. That is a 7-1/2 hour drive for us. It's too bad I'm not closer.
 

Andy Fracica

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I'm in the Wilkes Barre/Scranton area. I'd love to keep in touch with you guys. I've only been a Mason for a little over a year and I think the enormity of the position hit me last night during OAO. It's daunting. I'd love to be able to ask you guys questions and advice as we progress.


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I know what you mean. I have been praying for guidance and wisdom as I undertake this journey.

Back when I was initiated, I told our WM and SW that I didn't become a member to sit on the sidelines I wanted to serve our lodge. I'm 59 and if it takes 8 years or so to go through the chairs, I didn't have a lot of time left, like my son who is 28 and has the leisure of waiting. I assumed that I would start as a Junior Steward and have to work through the chairs and I was okay with that. I am very committed to learning everything that I can and I have attended every meeting, stated or called, every degree that I could attend, and I've gone on every lodge visit that we went to as a lodge.

I told our SW (in coming WM) that I would serve in any capacity that he needed. About a month ago, I was asked if I would consider the JW office. I said yes if you think I am duly and truly prepared. His answer was that the past masters would support me in that position. It took two rounds of voting to be elected. Our outgoing WM threw us a curve and installed us that night because our newly elected WM was already a past master of the lodge, so we apparently don't do a public installation the 2nd time.
 

Andy Fracica

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Brothers, what do the initials SMC and JMC I'm assuming Senior and Junior. We don't use that designation in our lodge.

Thanks,
 

Keith C

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Brothers, what do the initials SMC and JMC I'm assuming Senior and Junior. We don't use that designation in our lodge.

Thanks,

As CLewey44 mentioned that is Senior and Junior Master of Ceremonies we also have a Puruivant Chair between the two MCs, the three of them sit in front of the SW station and they are in charge of the doors to the lodge, The Pursivant in charge of the inner and outer door, the SMC in charge of the examining room door as well as the S&C and the JMC in charge of the preparing room door.
 

Andy Fracica

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As CLewey44 mentioned that is Senior and Junior Master of Ceremonies we also have a Puruivant Chair between the two MCs, the three of them sit in front of the SW station and they are in charge of the doors to the lodge, The Pursivant in charge of the inner and outer door, the SMC in charge of the examining room door as well as the S&C and the JMC in charge of the preparing room door.
That's interesting. Bro. Keith. We have a Junior Deacon who sits as the right hand of the Senior Warden in the south he controls the inner door and we have a Tyler who controls the outer door and the outer door to the preparation room.
 
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