Notes from the Provincial Grand Master’s Address
Brother Mess President, thank you for your kind words and Brethren, thank you too for the way you received them.
Brethren, I also thank you all for your support here today. As you know this is the first time we have held this meeting at a non masonic venue and also away from the south for some years.
It is my intention to discuss with you whether this trend should be continued and whether I should consider moving this event around the Province each year. I will get back to you on these questions in the near future.
As you know it has been the tradition at this meeting for some years now to make certain announcements to you. I think this is a wonderful tradition and one I will continue, and so without further ado.
My nomination for next years Senior Warden has been a Mark Man for 36 years. Also a Royal Ark Mariner for the same period of time. He is currently a member of three Mark Lodges and 2 RAM lodges; he was last promoted to PPGJW in 2010. He is a regular attender of the annual meeting at Felsted and this Officers mess over a number of years and is also a regular attender at 1044.
I, therefore, believe he is well deserving and qualified. Brethren it is my intention to promote
W. Bro John McCann to Provincial Grand Senior Warden at the next annual meeting of provincial Grand Lodge.
My nomination for Junior Warden has been a Mark Man for over 14 years and a Royal Ark Mariner for over 13 years. He is a member of 3 Mark Lodges and 3 RAM Lodges. He also is a regular attender at Felsted, this mess and at 1044. In his “spare” time he has helped the Province to increase and improve its use of social media, has carried out surveys for me, has increased the use of the Provincial Facebook and was one of the leading lights in the creation of the Combined Stewards Lodge. So, again, I believe he is well deserving and well qualified.
Brethren, it is my intention to promote W. Bro Chris Hicks to Provincial Grand Junior Warden at the same meeting.
Lastly, Brethren, as you know in the past this Province has been asked to nominate a Grand Steward, if that continues next year then I believe the brother I intend to put forward has worked well and hard for the Province. He has been a Mark Man for the past 13 years; he also is a member of 3 Mark Lodges and 2 RAM Lodges and, by virtue of his provincial role, an active member of 1044. He is always at the end of the telephone supporting the Province or one of its members; he works tirelessly looking after the welfare of us all and, in my view, does a wonderful job. I believe because of this commitment to the Province and his support to the members that W. Bro Roy Kaye is deserving of being nominated Grand Steward.
Brethren I hope you agree that each of these nominations is well deserving of those promotions and I congratulate all three.
Can I ask you, please, to make a note of two dates in your busy diaries, firstly, the Provincial Meeting. As you know we conducted a short survey about this meeting and the results were very clear for no change. So the meeting will be held at Felsted on Thursday 31st May starting at 3 pm. Thank you to all those who responded and some of the other ideas forwarded are under consideration.
Secondly, the Provincial Golf day; this is to be held at StockBrook Manor on Friday 27th July 2018. Please do try and support these events and more information will be sent out over the next few months.
I should also like to take this opportunity to thank you, and your Lodges, for the tremendous support given to the Provincial Auction day. As the result of that support, and the hard work from the organisers, we raised over £6000 for the Welfare fund which is a wonderful result.
As some of you will know I have been trying to lose some weight and today I have decided to call the sponsorship to a halt. When I started I weighed 15st 11lbs, and today I am 14st 5lbs so I think that is a total of 20lbs. If you sponsored me and haven’t paid I would be pleased to receive your money.
Lastly Brethren thank you once again for your support and if I don’t see you before have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!
Brother Mess President, thank you for your kind words and Brethren, thank you too for the way you received them.
Brethren, I also thank you all for your support here today. As you know this is the first time we have held this meeting at a non masonic venue and also away from the south for some years.
It is my intention to discuss with you whether this trend should be continued and whether I should consider moving this event around the Province each year. I will get back to you on these questions in the near future.
As you know it has been the tradition at this meeting for some years now to make certain announcements to you. I think this is a wonderful tradition and one I will continue, and so without further ado.
My nomination for next years Senior Warden has been a Mark Man for 36 years. Also a Royal Ark Mariner for the same period of time. He is currently a member of three Mark Lodges and 2 RAM lodges; he was last promoted to PPGJW in 2010. He is a regular attender of the annual meeting at Felsted and this Officers mess over a number of years and is also a regular attender at 1044.
I, therefore, believe he is well deserving and qualified. Brethren it is my intention to promote
W. Bro John McCann to Provincial Grand Senior Warden at the next annual meeting of provincial Grand Lodge.
My nomination for Junior Warden has been a Mark Man for over 14 years and a Royal Ark Mariner for over 13 years. He is a member of 3 Mark Lodges and 3 RAM Lodges. He also is a regular attender at Felsted, this mess and at 1044. In his “spare” time he has helped the Province to increase and improve its use of social media, has carried out surveys for me, has increased the use of the Provincial Facebook and was one of the leading lights in the creation of the Combined Stewards Lodge. So, again, I believe he is well deserving and well qualified.
Brethren, it is my intention to promote W. Bro Chris Hicks to Provincial Grand Junior Warden at the same meeting.
Lastly, Brethren, as you know in the past this Province has been asked to nominate a Grand Steward, if that continues next year then I believe the brother I intend to put forward has worked well and hard for the Province. He has been a Mark Man for the past 13 years; he also is a member of 3 Mark Lodges and 2 RAM Lodges and, by virtue of his provincial role, an active member of 1044. He is always at the end of the telephone supporting the Province or one of its members; he works tirelessly looking after the welfare of us all and, in my view, does a wonderful job. I believe because of this commitment to the Province and his support to the members that W. Bro Roy Kaye is deserving of being nominated Grand Steward.
Brethren I hope you agree that each of these nominations is well deserving of those promotions and I congratulate all three.
Can I ask you, please, to make a note of two dates in your busy diaries, firstly, the Provincial Meeting. As you know we conducted a short survey about this meeting and the results were very clear for no change. So the meeting will be held at Felsted on Thursday 31st May starting at 3 pm. Thank you to all those who responded and some of the other ideas forwarded are under consideration.
Secondly, the Provincial Golf day; this is to be held at StockBrook Manor on Friday 27th July 2018. Please do try and support these events and more information will be sent out over the next few months.
I should also like to take this opportunity to thank you, and your Lodges, for the tremendous support given to the Provincial Auction day. As the result of that support, and the hard work from the organisers, we raised over £6000 for the Welfare fund which is a wonderful result.
As some of you will know I have been trying to lose some weight and today I have decided to call the sponsorship to a halt. When I started I weighed 15st 11lbs, and today I am 14st 5lbs so I think that is a total of 20lbs. If you sponsored me and haven’t paid I would be pleased to receive your money.
Lastly Brethren thank you once again for your support and if I don’t see you before have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!
