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Walter C. King 1964 Robert Moore 1968 Preston Giles 1977
Edward Sadowski 1979 Bradley Wurzel 1981 & 1982
Paul McDermott 1984 Donald A.C. Black, Sr. 1988 & 1999
Paul R. Mundy 1989 & 2003 Joseph Barcikai 1991
Nathan Mark 1992 Horace Buchanan 1994 & 1995
Peter Adragna 1996 Donald A.C. Black Jr. 1996
James K. Cairns II 2001, 2003, 2008 & 2009 David Csimbok 2002
Eric F.M. Chubenko 2004 Peter M.M. Chubenko 2005
Chester A. Bohanek, Jr. 2006 Taras Chubenko 2007
Ian Cairns 2007 & 2010 David A. Morris 2008
Jerome Buchanan 2009 Ray Alcantara 2010
Bruce Wadiak Sr. 2011 James Rustemeyer 2012
Kevin Fitzgerald 2013 Isidoro Garcia 2014 & 2015
Richard Hrycuna 2014 & 2015 Zachary Sieczkowski 2015
Gabriel Aguirre 2016 Ronald P. Pusillo Jr. 2017
M.W. Dieter B. Hees 100 Barrack Street
Trenton, NJ 08608-2008 C: 732-300-4860
Email: [email protected]
DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTER OF THE 10TH MASONIC DISTRICT
R.W. Ronald Murad
197 N. Martine Avenue, Fanwood, NJ 07023 908-499-1749
E-Mail: [email protected]
DISTRICT RITUAL INSTRUCTOR
R.W. C. John Lashley E-Mail: [email protected]
10th MASONIC DISTRICT
Atlas Pythagoras Lodge No. 10
1011 Central Avenue, Westfield Meets 1st & 3rd Fridays
Azure-Masada Lodge No.22
1550 Irving St., Rahway Meets 1st & 3rd. Mondays
Jerusalem Lodge No. 26
105 E. 7th St., Plainfield Meets 1st Tuesday
Lafayette Lodge No. 27
1550 Irving St., Rahway Meets 2nd Friday
Loyalty Lodge No. 33 1912 Morris Ave, Union
Meets 1st & 3rd Tuesdays
Mt. Zion Lodge No 135 483 Middlesex Ave., Metuchen
Meets 1st & 3rd Thursdays
Worshipful Master-Daniel P. Schittone
6 James Barton Blvd.Jamesburg, NJ 08831
(732) 207-5817 schittone.dan@gmail .com
Senior Warden-Robert Alcantara
1400 Park Avenue, Apt C Plainfield, NJ 07060
908-821-6980 [email protected]
Junior Warden-W.B. Gabriel Aguirre, PM
15 Fitzsimmons Ave Middlesex, NJ 08846
(908) 432-8866 [email protected]
Treasurer-Wil l iam Stokes, D.W.A.
1760 Brunella Ave., Piscataway, NJ 08854 (732) 968-1673
Secretary-W.B. Ronald P. Pusi l lo Jr . , P.M. 75 Washington Ave Carteret, NJ 07008
(732) 690-6881 [email protected]
Chaplain- Sylvestro Primavera Senior Deacon- Jose Aleman
Junior Deacon- Marcus Rosario Sr. Master of Ceremonies-Jonathan Dershowitz Jr. Master of Ceremonies- Stanley Nartowicz
Senior Steward- Joel Weissman Junior Steward- Chad Marciniak
Marshal- Haress Goodson Organist- Joe Haines
Historian- Anthony Beluch Tyler- W.B. Richard Hrycuna
Proxy to Grand Lodge- Jose Aleman
CARTERET CRAFTSMEN’S CLUB Meets every 1st Friday at 8 pm
All Master Masons welcome! Club President - Chester Bohanek, Jr.
(732) 710-1161 Hall Rental: Patrick Tucker - (732) 586-3838
Masonic Temple Located at Intersection of Elm and Taylor Streets
Carteret, NJ 07008
Meets Every 2nd & 4th Mondays
Mailing Address: Theodore Roosevelt #219
Attn: Lodge Secretary PO Box 296
Carteret, NJ 07008
Lodge Website www.tr219.org
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Living Past Masters
Grand Master of Masons for the State of New Jersey
2018 Lodge Officers THEODORE ROOSEVELT LODGE NO. 219
F&AM
January 2018
Brethren,
As we enter our new masonic year together, I would first like to say thank you and congratulations to all of the officers and brethren on our 98th installation. With the New Year upon us, and with our new roles for 2018 let us remember the words “…yet no eminence of station should make us forget that we are brethren.” Those words should ring strongly in our ears, for regardless of age or station, we are first and foremost brethren, and the greatness of our fraternity does not lie within any one brother, but lies in us together as Masons. I thank you all for the honor of electing me as the Worshipful Master for 2018. With each new year and new position we have the chance to become part of our rich history as freemasons. We have an eventful journey ahead of us, and I know that together as a lodge with the support of each and every brother, we can accomplish our greatest goals.
In the coming year, we have laid out many goals and events. We will continue our fundraising efforts with a variety of events for both Masons and friends and family alike. We will spread more masonic light with speakers and lectures for the brethren. I look forward to working with the officers and welcome all ideas and efforts from the brethren. For our goals to come to fruition I ask for only but one thing in return, for the brethren’s support of one another. By so doing we will have a very active and fruitful year. I thank you again for the opportunity to serve as the Worshipful Master and I leave you with these words from Theodore Roosevelt as the foundation for 2018:
“Great thoughts speak only to the mind, but great actions speak to al l mankind.”
Fraternally, Daniel P. Schittone Worshipful Master
Regular Communication
Monday January 8, 2018 Business Meeting, Lodge Opens at 7:30pm
Business Attire for Officers
Off ic ial Vis it of the Distr ict Deputy Grand Master
Monday January 22, 2018 Business Meeting, Lodge Opens at 7:00pm
Tuxedos for Officers Opening, Closing, Balloting, First Section of
Fellow Craft Degree.
“Mardi Gras Party” Saturday, February 10th, 2018
Festivities start at 7:00pm Tickets are $30 per person
Contact the Worshipful Master for Details
“Paint With A Purpose” Saturday, March 10th, 2018
Event starts at 4:00pm. Tickets are $40 per person
Contact The Secretary for Details
Gold Token Night Monday May 14, 2018
Business Meeting, Lodge Opens at 7:00pm Tuxedos for Officers
Petit ions Under Investigation
Mr. Aryeh White
Wait ing EA Degree None
Wait ing FC Degree
Bro. Henri Skiba
Wait ing MM Degree Bro. FC Gary Milak
2018 10th Distr ict Grand Reception Tuesday, January 9 th, 2018
@ Shadowbrook at Shrewsbury 1 Obre Place,
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702 Buffet Dinner: 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Reception: 7:00pm to 9:00pm (More details to follow)
Jerusalem Lodge #26
Instal lat ion of Off icers Saturday, January 6th, 2018
Installation: 2:00pm, Dinner Follows
DLI: 4 th Wednesday Monthly January 24th, 2018 @ Jerusalem Lodge,
Plainfield, NJ
Off ic ial Vis its Lafayette: January 12 Azure Masada: January 15 Loyalty: January16 Mt. Zion: January 18 Atlas Pythagoras: February 2 Jerusalem: March 6
Gold Token Nights
Lafayette: May 11 Azure Masada: May 7 Loyalty: May 15 Mt. Zion: May 3 Atlas Pythagoras: May 18 Jerusalem: May 1
Blood Bank W.B. Gabriel Aguirre, P.M.
Mentoring
WM & all qualified Brethren
By-Laws and Roster W.B. Joseph Barcikai, P.M.
R.W. Paul Mundy, P.D.D.G.M. R.W. Nathan Mark, P.G.C.
F inance
W.B. Jim Rustemeyer, P.M. W.B. Bruce Wadiak, P.M.
R.W. Paul Mundy, P.D.D.G.M.
Instruction of Candidates/Ritual R.W. Donald A.C. Black Sr., P.G.C.
All Qualified Brethren
Lodge Trustees W.B. Zach Sieczkowski, P.M. 1 Year
W.B. Gabriel Aguirre, P.M. 2 Year W.B. Ronald P. Pusillo P.M. 3 Year
Masonic Funeral Services
W.B. Kevin Fitzgerald, PM W.B. Daniel Schittone
Sickness and Relief
W.B. Daniel Schittone, WM W.B. Gabriel Aguirre P.M., JW
W. B. Ronald Pusillo P.M., Secretary
Historic Preservation W.B. Gabriel Aguirre, P.M.
Jonathan Dershowitz Ricklin Harmening
Master’s Message Designs Upon The Trestle Board
Committees
Lodge Events
Grand Lodge Events
District Events
2018 Dues are Due: 2018 dues are $130.50
For Previous Years Owed: Call or Email the Secretary for Details
All hardship cases should be referred to
the Worshipful Master
As the New Year begins, I cannot help but be reminded of the Cornerstone. With the officers being installed to their proper stations and places, new roles and responsibilities will claim our efforts for 2018. For the month of January we are laying our new foundation for the months to come. As Freemasons we are taught that when building a Masonic Edifice, the first stone is laid in the northeast corner. Just a few years ago we discovered video footage of the cornerstone laying ceremony for our own lodge! This ceremony has been practiced for generations of freemasons and it holds a particular symbolism, which is befitting of beginning our new year together. The following is an excerpt from an article entitled “Symbolism of the Cornerstone” from Brother Norm McEvoy at theeducator.ca. I hope this
reaches every bother and touches on your own spiritual, moral and masonic edifice, and how it pertains to laying our new foundation together. Enjoy! “The symbolism of the corner-stone when duly laid with Masonic rites is full of significance, which refers to its form, to its situation, to its permanence, and to its consecration. As to its form, it must be perfectly square on its surfaces, and in its solid contents, a cube. Now the square is a symbol of morality, and the cube, of truth. In its situation, it lies between the north, the place of darkness, and the east, the place of light; and hence this position symbolizes the Masonic progress from darkness to light, and from ignorance to knowledge. The permanence and durability of the corner-stone, which lasts long after the building in whose foundation it was placed has fallen into decay, is intended to remind the Freemason that, when this earthly house of his tabernacle shall have passed away, he has within him a sure foundation of eternal life – a corner-stone of immortality – an emanation from that Divine Spirit which pervaded all nature, and which, therefore, must survive the tomb and rise, triumphant and eternal, above the decaying dust of death and the grave. The stone, when deposited in its appropriate place, is carefully examined with the necessary implements of operative masonry – the square, the
level, and the plumb, themselves all symbolic in meaning – and it is then declared to be ‘well formed, true, and trusty.’ Thus the Freemason is taught that his virtues are to be tested by temptation and trial, by suffering and adversity, before they can be pronounced by the Master Builder of souls to be materials worthy of the spiritual building of eternal life, fitted, ‘as living stones, for that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. And lastly, in the ceremony of depositing the corner-stone, the elements of Masonic consecration are produced, and the stone is solemnly set apart by pouring corn, wine and oil upon its surface, emblematic of the Nourishment and Joy which are to be the rewards of a faithful performance of duty. The cornerstone does not seem to have been adopted by any of the heathen nations, but to have been as the eben pinah, peculiar to the Jews, from whom it descended to the Christians. In the Old Testament, it seems always to have denoted a prince or high personage, and hence the Evangelists constantly use it in reference to Christ, who is called the Chief Cornerstone. In Masonic symbolism, it signifies a true Freemason, and therefore it is the first character that the Apprentice is made to represent after his initiation has been completed.”
George Washington at the Cornerstone Laying Ceremony for the United States Capitol Building in 1793.
From The East
