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23 April 2024
GRAND MASTER’S NEWSLETTER
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GM Elect (top) with Gus and Michele Fiestas
GM congratulates MW Bro Bucca on behalf of Sister Constitutions
GMs Hicks and Bucca celebrate MW Bro Tony’s Re-Installation
Hello Brethren and welcome to my April Newsletter
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t the March Communication, elections were held for the office of Grand Master for the 2024/2025 term of office. Votes were tallied and our Deputy Grand MasterRW Bro Khris Albano was comprehensively elected as our next Grand Master. Khris joined the ceremonial team in 2011, and he served in each office until becoming Grand Director of Ceremonies in 2019. In 2021 Khris was appointed Assistant Grand Master and the following year, Deputy Grand Master. Khris has always worked incredibly hard for our jurisdiction. I congratulate Khris and his wife Caroline, and I look forward to seeing this jurisdiction which I love, flourish under his leadership. Initially, we had the Grand Installation set down for August but, due to some unforeseen booking arrangement issues, RW Bro Albano will now be installed as our 41st Grand Master at the Sydney Town Hall on 28 September this year. This will be a momentous occasion
brethren, and I encourage you all to make the effort to attend. The Grand Secretary will advise us when the online bookings are available. There is no doubt that the past few years have been challenging ones. There have been many changes and difficult decisions that needed to be made but there have also been many highlights. It’s not often a new Worshipful Master gets installed in another state in front of the Grand Masters of two jurisdictions, and it was my absolute pleasure to be invited up to Scarborough in Queensland for the Elysian 418 NSW & ACT Constitution Installation. I attended alongside MW Bro Jeff Harper, the Grand Master of the UGLQ and I want to thank MW Bro Harper for allowing a NSW & ACT lodge to meet and work in his jurisdiction. It made for a very historic night. It was witnessed by almost 100 masons from NSW the ACT and QLD, and I congratulate newly installed W Bro Charbel Haddad and his Lodge for organising what turned out to be a very successful ‘hands across
the border’ type event, an event that created many great friendships between the brethren from NSW, the ACT and QLD. Over the past couple of weeks we have attended the Grand Re-Installation of MW Bro Tony Bucca in Victoria, the Grand Installation of MW Bro Bill Merrill in South Australia and Northern Territory, as well as Lodge Army/Navy’s Centenary and ANZAC Ceremony with special Guest General Sir Peter Cosgrave and Lady Lynne Cosgrove in attendance. These were all wonderful events and I congratulate all involved.
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