AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL GRAND lODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF PENNSYLVANIA
VOLUME XIX
NUMBER 3
Grand Lodge Aids Flood Victims .
The idea for creating above letter envelope sketch for Bro. Vf· Orville Kimmel, R. W. Grand Master, which depicts highlights m
I his Masonic life, came to Bro. Harry E.. H~hn ?f A~bler af~er he attended the March Quarterly Commumcatton m Philadelphta.
Postmen Deliver 1,200
Ambler Mason Creates 'Happenings'
BRO. HARRY E. HAHN THE PENNSYLVANIA FREEMASON Distribution Offite MASONIC HOMES Elixabethtown, Pa. 17022 (Send FORM 3579 to Above Address)
A work of art is usually the happening when Bro. Harry E. Hahn of Ambler gets home from visiting a Blue Lodge or attending a Masonic function. Over the years Uncle Sam's postmen have delivered hundreds of Bro. Hahn's art creations, one of his latest arriving at the desk of Bro. W. Orville Kimmel, R. W. Grand Master. BRO. HAHN, who is Junior Warden of Fort Washington Lodge No. 308, skillfully draws colored cartoons or sketches on letter envelopes. The sketch relates a message in depicting an event Second Class POSTAGE PAID AT Elixabethtown Pennsylvania
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or something of interest that happened during the Masonic program he attended. Bro. Hahn then mails the sketched envelope with a note to the Worshipful Master or one of the program dignitaries, telling him how much he enjoyed the evening. BRO. HAHN, who is head of the drafting department at Munro Systems Corp. in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., has created and mailed more than 1,200 envelope sketches. He started drawing on the envelopes of 'V' mail he sent home from overseas during W orld War II. He served with the U.S. Army's 1st Division in North Africa and the 29th Division in Europe. Favorite recipients of Bro . Hahn's works of art are his wife, Dorothy, and their daughter, Charlotte Ann. They cherish more than 325 of his envelope sketches which relate humorous incidents or events in their everyday lives. HE THINKS of his envelope sketches as small remembrances of the pleasures and rewards Masonic fellowship has brought him. Busy with another drawing for a Brother, he paused in his enjoyment to say: "The country is too full of faultfinders who criticize petty things and, as a rule, let the worthy things go unnoticed and taken for granted."
· The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania has set up a relief program to assist needy Brethren in flood ravaged areas of the state. ·In announcing the three-phase relief program, Bro. W. Orville Kimmel, R. W. Grand Master,' said: "YOUR GRAND Lodge officers are aware of the tragic flooding and great suffering caused by tropical storm Agnes in this Jurisdiction. "We are extremely sorry for this tragedy. Now we must meet our Masonic responsibility by doing everything within our power to assist our Brethren / ' · The program of assistance, Bro. Kimmel explained, will be carried out in three phases. They are ( 1) to provide immediate relief (2) to provide low interest loans and (3) to help local organizations doing outstanding work in flood distressed communities. BRO. KIMMEL appointed a threemember committee to administer the program. They are Bro. Rochester B. Wo?dall, R. W. Deputy Grand Master, cha1rman; Bro. Arthur R. Diamond, R. W. Grand Treasurer, and Bro. Ashby B. Paul, R. W. Grand Secretary." Bro. Kimmel said the aid funds will be provided through the General Relief Fund. It is administered by the elected Grand Lodge officers and Past Grand Masters. In providing immediate relief." Grand Lodge will give gifts of up to $500 to
Man and Nature's Beautiful Works Looking through magnificent formal gardens to Grand Lodge Hall the administration building at the Masonic Homes at Elizabethtown. Fountain in gardens, 'which take in more than six acres, creates brilliantly colored scene when illuminated at night. See Pages 4·5 for other scenes at Homes.
'Guest and Building Fund'
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September Quarterly Set
Drive Pushed to Raise $600,000
~he September Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge will be held Sept. 6 in the Masonic T emple Philadelphia. ' The District Deputy Grand Masters will hold their last meeting this year at 3 p.m. in the Grand Banquet Hall. . Grand Lodge will convene at 7 p.m. in Corinthian H all.
The 1972 "Guest and Building Fund" drive of the Masonic Homes at Elizabethtown is underway. The drive is to raise at least $600,000 for the fund, which provides many services for Guests at the Homes. EXPRESSING confidence the goal will be reached, Bro. W. Orville Kimmel, R. W . Grand Master, said:
"Every Brother in Pennsylvania must contribute if we are to continue the finest kind of human service, that is, helping others. We need your gift, no matter how small, if we are going to keep operating the Masonic Homes successfully." Bro. Kimmel said gifts to the fund (Continued on Page 7)