li NY Mason Given 70-Year Award
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VOLUME XXXIX
FEBRUARY 1992
Brother Edward H. Fowler, Jr., Begins Tenn as R. W. Grand Master of Freemasons in Pennsylvania
Responding to a request from the Grand Lodge of New York, Bro. Gary L. Waters (front left), the District Deputy Grand Master of Pennsylvania District "C," and Officers of Palestine-Roxborough Lodge No. 135 recently presented a 70-year Membership Award to Bro. Meyer L. Freed (seated, center), a 95-year-old New York Master Mason now residing on W. Tulpehocken St., Philadelphia. Joining District Deputy Waters for the presentation were: (front right) Past Master Curtis C. Gensemer, II, Worshipful Master, and (back, left to right) Bro. Robert J . Waters, Senior Warden; Bro. Walter J. Humm, Treasurer, and Bro. Martin I. Bogdon, Senior Deacon.
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I J Bro. Edward H. Fowler, Jr. Right Worshipful Grand Master
Bro. Edward H. Fowler, Jr., of Belle Vernon, a Pittsburgh executive and active 38-year Member of the Masonic Fraternity, was installed Friday, December 27, as Right Worshipful Grand Master of Masons in Pennsylvania. His installation as the 101 st
Grand Master in the 205-year history of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania took place during the Annual Grand Communication in the Masonic Temple in Oakland. Bro. Fowler now holds the State's highest Masonic Office and will lead more than 175,000 Masons through 1993. He succeeds Bro. W. Scott Stoner of Lancaster, who headed the Fraternity in 1990-91. Bro. Fowler's Masonic career began in Avalon Lodge No. 657 in Bellevue in 1953. He since served in various Lodge Offices as Worshipful Master in 1964 and as a Trustee 1965-71. In 1970, he began serving the Grand Lodge as the Grand Sword Bearer. In 1971 , he was appointed as District Deputy Grand Master in the North Hills area of Pittsburgh and served ten years. Bro. Fowler was elected Right Worshipful Junior Grand Warden, Senior Grand Warden and Deputy Grand Master , the Office held until his Installation as Grand Master. · Last year, he served on Grand Lodge Committees on Masonic Homes, Finance, Youth Activities, Landmarks; and on the Board of the Pennsylvania Masonic Foundation for the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Among Children, and The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania, as a Grand Lodge Consolidated Fund Trustee and Chairman of the Administrators of the Pension Fund. In the York Rite Bodies of Freemasonry, he is a Member of Bellevue Royal Arch Chapter No. 286 and was Most Excellent High Priest in 1970; Excelsior Mark Lodge No. 216 in Philadelphia; Allegheny Council No. 38, Royal and Select Masters and was Thrice Illustrious Master in 1973, and Allegheny Commandery No. 35, Knights Templar and was Eminent Commander in 196970, during their lOOth Anniversary. He has been Most Excellent Great Chief of the Grand Council of Knight Masons of U.SA; Excellent Chief of Gateway to the West Council No.5, Knight Masons and an Honorary Member of Minnesota Council No. 34 and St. Bridget's Council No. 23 Knight Masons. He has been Governor of the Golden Triangle York Rite College and received the York Rite Purple Cross in Indianapolis in 1974. He is a Member and Past Prior of Keystone Priory No. 26, Knights of the York Cross of Honor and a Member and Past Preceptor of Transfiguration Tabernacle XXIX, Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priest, and a Past Sovereign of United States continued on page 6