th International DeMolay Congress · June 21, 2008 – June 20, 2009 Robert W. Cockerham June 20, 2009 – June 19, 2010 Wesley Don Thornton June 19, 2010 – June 18, 2011 J. Weldon

DeMolay International

94th International Supreme Council

Annual Meeting

And

47th International DeMolay Congress

June 19 – 21, 2014

Kansas City, Missouri


International Supreme Council

Annual Session

June 13 – 15, 2013

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Table of Contents

Section I

General Information ...............................................................................................................1

Section II

93rd DeMolay International Supreme Council Annual Meeting ............................................13

DeMolay International Board of Directors, June 19, 2014 ................................................................15

DeMolay International Board of Directors, June 21, 2014 ................................................................41

Grand Opening ...................................................................................................................................42

Business Session #1 ...........................................................................................................................59

Grand Treasurer Report .........................................................................................................62

Grand Secretary Report..........................................................................................................63

Grand Master’s Report ...........................................................................................................76

Investment Committee Report ...............................................................................................79

Appeals & Grievances Committee Report .............................................................................80

International Relations Committee Report ............................................................................81

Alumni Affairs Committee Report ........................................................................................83

DeMolay Leadership Training Committee Report ................................................................86

Advisor Training Committee Report .....................................................................................87

Fraternal Relation Committee Report ....................................................................................88

Joint Session.......................................................................................................................................89

Ritual & Regalia Committee Report ......................................................................................89


Jurisprudence & Legislation Committee

Legislative Call ......................................................................................................................100

Decisions of the Jurisprudence & Legislation Committee 2013 – 2014 ..............................113

Centennial Committee Report ................................................................................................116

Nominating Committee Report #2 .........................................................................................121


Budget & Finance Committee Report....................................................................................124

Convention Planning Committee Report ...............................................................................125

Nominating Committee Report #3 .........................................................................................127

Appendix

Legislative Call ......................................................................................................................145

Nominating Committee Recommendations ...........................................................................152

Honors ....................................................................................................................................155

Active Legion of Honor .........................................................................................................155

Honorary Legion of Honor ....................................................................................................157

Chevalier ................................................................................................................................159

Cross of Honor .......................................................................................................................162

Past International Congress Officers .................................................................................................164

Past Congress Advisors......................................................................................................................166

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SECTION I General Information

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SUPREME COUNCIL ANNUAL MEETINGS

*Designates Executive Committee Only **Designates Special Called Sessions

March 7 – 8, 1921

Kansas City, MO

March 6 – 8, 1922

Kansas City, MO

March 5 – 7, 1923

Baltimore, MD

March 5 – 7, 1924

Kansas City, MO

March 16 – 18, 1925

St. Louis, MO

March 15 – 17, 1926

Kansas City, MO

March 21 – 22, 1927

Louisville, KY

March 18 – 19, 1928

Kansas City, MO

March 18 – 19, 1929

Pittsburgh, PA

*March 16 – 17, 1931

Chicago, IL

March 16 – 17, 1930

Washington, DC

May 10, 1932

Washington, DC

*May 6, 1933

New York, NY

*April 11, 1934

Washington, DC

April 5 – 6, 1935

Washington, DC

April 10 – 11, 1936

Washington, DC

April 1 – 2, 1937

Washington, DC

March 21 – 22, 1938

Kansas City, MO

March 20 – 21, 1939

Louisville, KY

March 11, 1940

Baltimore, MD

March 10, 1941

Dearborn, MI

March 9, 1942

Louisville, KY

*March 7, 1943

Kansas City, MO

March 6, 1944

Kansas City, MO

March 5, 1945

Kansas City, MO

March 5, 1946

Kansas City, MO

March 7, 1947

Kansas City, MO

March 8, 1948

Kansas City, MO

March 7, 1949

Kansas City, MO

March 6, 1950

Fort Worth, TX

March 5, 1951

St. Louis, MO

March 3, 1952

Chicago, IL

April 6, 1953

Tucson, AZ

Feb. 27-March 1, 1954

Washington, DC

February 24 – 26, 1955

Washington, DC

March 8 – 10, 1956

Reno, NV

March 7 – 9, 1957

Detroit, MI

March 6 – 8, 1958

Milwaukee, WI

March 29 – 30, 1959

Kansas City, MO

April 10 – 11, 1960

Tucson, AZ

March 27 – 30, 1961

Victoria, BC, Canada

April 2 – 5, 1962

Indianapolis, IN

April 2 – 4, 1963

Tampa, FL

April 14 – 16, 1964

New York, NY

March 30 – 31, 1965

Louisville, KY

April 4 – 6, 1966

Tulsa, OK

April 10 – 12, 1967

Dallas, TX

March 31-April 3, 1968

Washington, DC

March 15 – 19, 1969

Kansas City, MO

April 5 – 8, 1970

Omaha, NE

March 28 – 31, 1971

Sacramento, CA

June 18 – 21, 1972

Hollywood, FL

May 27 – 30, 1973

St. Louis, MO

March 31–April 3, 1974

Memphis, TN

April 6 – 9, 1975

Kissimmee, FL

March 13 – 17, 1976

Indianapolis, IN

April 17 – 19, 1977

Dearborn, MI

April 16 – 18, 1978

Milwaukee, WI

April 29–May 2, 1979

Kansas City, MO

April 13 – 16, 1980

Indianapolis, IN

April 5 – 8, 1981

Cherry Hill, NJ

March 21 – 24, 1982

Reno, NV

May 1 – 4, 1983

San Antonio, TX

May 6 – 9, 1984

Sarasota, FL

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May 12 – 15, 1985

Jackson, MS

April 20 – 23, 1986

Anaheim, CA

May 1 – 4, 1988

Tucson, AZ

April 12 – 15, 1989

Kansas City, MO

April 25 – 29, 1990

Philadelphia, PA

April 22 – 28, 1991

St. Louis, MO

April 22 – 27, 1992

Novi, MI

June 24 – 26, 1993

Washington, DC

**November 19–21, 1993

New Orleans, LA

June 22 – 26, 1994

Kansas City, MO

June 13 – 18, 1995

Bismarck, ND

June 20 – 22, 1996

Tulsa, OK

June 11 – 14, 1997

Kansas City, MO

June 17 – 20, 1998

Kansas City, MO

June 24 – 26, 1999

Kansas City, MO

June 14 – 17, 2000

Orlando, FL

June 14 – 16, 2001

Anaheim, CA

June 13 – 15, 2002

Houston, TX

June 19 – 21, 2003

Buffalo, NY

June 17 – 19, 2004

Denver, CO

June 16 – 18, 2005

Orlando, FL

June 15 – 17, 2006

Seattle, WA

June 14 – 16, 2007

St. Louis, MO

June 19 – 21, 2008

Anaheim, CA

June 18 – 20, 2009

Kansas City, MO

June 17 – 19, 2010

Dallas, TX

June 15 – 18, 2011

Grand Rapids, MI

June 20 – 23, 2012

Louisville, KY

June 13 – 15, 2013

Minneapolis, MN

June 19 – 21, 2014

Kansas City, MO



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PAST GRAND MASTERS

INTERNATIONAL SUPREME COUNCIL ORDER OF DEMOLAY *Deceased

*Alexander G. Cochran

March 7, 1921-May 1, 1928

*John H. Glazier

May 1, 1928-March 17, 1931

*Ernest A. Reed

March 17, 1931-May 6, 1933

*Jesse M. Whited

May 6, 1933-April 6, 1936

*Louis A. Watres

April 6, 1936-April 2, 1937

*Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries

April 2, 1937-March 21, 1938

*Chandler C. Cohagen

March 21, 1938-March 21, 1939

*Allen M. Wilson

March 21, 1939-March 11, 1940

*Robert D. Williams

March 11, 1940-March 10, 1941

*Elden E. DuRand

March 10, 1941-March 9, 1942

*Simon H. Rubel

March 9, 1942-March 6, 1944

*William J. Kerr

March 6, 1944-March 5, 1945

*Harry M. Bundy

March 5, 1945-March 5, 1946

*Frank H. Deal

March 5, 1946-March 7, 1947

*Laurence H. Watres

March 7, 1947-March 8, 1948

*Bryce B. Smith

March 8, 1948-March 7, 1949

*William R. McKay

March 7, 1949-March 5, 1950

*Egil Steen

March 6, 1950-March 5, 1951

*Carl A. Miller

March 5, 1951-March 3, 1952

*Walter C. Ploeser

March 3, 1952-April 6, 1953

*H. Malvern Marks

April 6, 1953-March 1, 1954

*Carl W. Gustkey

March 1, 1954-Feb. 26, 1955

*Frank H. Thompson

Feb. 26, 1955-March 10, 1956

*Robert H. Parker

March 10, 1956-March 9, 1957

*George M. Saunders

March 9, 1957-March 8, 1958

*Clarence W. Head

March 8, 1958-March 30, 1959

*Earl E. Dusenbery

March 30, 1959-April 11, 1960

*Albert J. McNally

April 11, 1960-March 29, 1961

*Willard P. Lombard

March 29, 1961-April 4, 1962

*Ralph E. Hamill

April 4, 1962-April 3, 1963

*Dr. Ivan H. Northfield

April 3, 1963-April 15, 1964

*Dr. Samuel S. Steinhauser

April 15, 1964-March 31, 1965

*Joseph S. Lewis

March 31, 1965-April 6, 1966

*R. Lee Lockwood

April 6, 1966-April 12, 1967

*William A. Hensley

April 12, 1967-April 3, 1968

*Albert P. Ruerat

April 3, 1968-March 19, 1969

*Stanley R. Garrity

March 19, 1969-August 9, 1969

*J. Chris Nungesser

August 9, 1969-April 8, 1970

*Walter O. Helwig

April 8, 1970-March 31, 1971

*Chester Hodges

March 31, 1971-June 21, 1972

*J.W. "Jack" Nutt

June 21, 1972-May 30, 1973

*George M. Klepper

May 30, 1973-April 3, 1974

*John L. Crofts

April 3, 1974-April 9, 1975

*Robert A. Grant

April 9, 1975-March 17, 1976

*Jack H. Myers

March 17, 1976-April 19, 1977

*William J. McCulley

April 19, 1977-April 18, 1978

Thomas C. Raum, Jr.

April 18, 1978-May 2, 1979

*C.C. Faulkner, Jr.

May 2, 1979-April 16, 1980

*William C. Chasey, Sr.

April 16, 1980-April 8, 1981

David J. Morgan

April 8, 1981-March 24, 1982

Reese L. Harrison, Jr.

March 24, 1982-May 4, 1983

G. Lawrence Hunt

May 4, 1983-May 9, 1984

*Don W. Wright

May 9, 1984-May 15, 1985

*A.J. Tullos

May 15, 1985-April 23, 1986



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Henry E. Stickney

April 23, 1986-April 29, 1987

*Robert M. Walker

April 29, 1987-Feb. 6, 1988

Robert F. Hannon

Feb. 6, 1988-April 15, 1989

Joe R. Manning, Jr.

April 15, 1989-April 28, 1990

*Edward C. Bieser

April 28, 1990-April 27, 1991

Russel C. Wells

April 27, 1991-April 28, 1992

Jerold J. Samet

April 28, 1992 - June 26, 1993

William J. Mollere

June 27, 1993 - June 25, 1994

Dale V. Sandstrom

June 26, 1994 - June 17, 1995

Joe A. Williams

June 18, 1995 - June 22, 1996

E. John Elmore

June 23, 1996 - June 14, 1997

Tony R. Krall

June 15, 1997 - June 20, 1998

*Samuel L. Cole, Jr.

June 21, 1998 - June 26, 1999

James C. McGee

June 27, 1999 - June 17, 2000

Ross Van Ness Bayer

June 18, 2000 – June 16, 2001

Gregory R. Klemm

June 17, 2001 – June 15, 2002

Franklin J. Kell, Jr.

June 16, 2002 – June 21, 2003

Frederick W. Welch

June 22, 2003 – June 19, 2004

Greg L. Kimberling

June 20, 2004 – June 18, 2005

Jeff A. Chretien

June 19, 2005 – June 17, 2006

Keith K. Klein

June 18, 2006 – June 16, 2007

Patton R. Hart

June 16, 2007 – June 21, 2008

C. Michael Watson

June 21, 2008 – June 20, 2009

Robert W. Cockerham

June 20, 2009 – June 19, 2010

Wesley Don Thornton

June 19, 2010 – June 18, 2011

J. Weldon Clampitte

June 18, 2011 – June 23, 2012

Gregory A. Chiles

June 23, 2012 – June 15, 2013

Mike A. Salazar

June 15, 2013 – June 21, 2014



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INTERNATIONAL SUPREME COUNCIL SESSION

ROLL CALL

ACTIVE MEMBERS Michael Howard Acker (Maine)

Jarrod Rodney Adkisson (Arkansas) Bret A. Akers (Missouri)

Frank Allen, Jr. (Rhode Island)

Samuel Eugene Ashcraft (Arkansas) Brian Lee Atkinson (Indiana)

Anthony Nichola Auck (Louisiana)

Bruce Alan Baily (New Mexico) George L. Baldwin (New Hampshire)

Gustavo Ma. Barboza Souza (Uruguay)

David Edwin Barnes, II (Kansas)

Stephen M. Berry (Florida)

Marc Bernard Bohn (Georgia)

George Orland Braatz (Maryland) Lee Bradley (Illinois)

Kevin R. Breitzmann (Wisconsin)

John Scott Brower (Arizona) Michael D. Brumback (Indiana)

Jeffery Alan Brunson (Washington)

Matthew Anthony Buckley (Iowa) Gary L. Burke (New York)

Larry Clarke Burruss (Virginia)

Edward W. Callaghan, Jr. (New York) Louis K. Campbell (Virginia)

William Ray Carver, Jr. (Georgia)

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM (Indiana) J. Weldon Clampitte, PGM (Texas)

Dale William Claypool (Oregon)

Robert W. Cockerham, PGM (Missouri)

Gregory Wayne Coffey (Kentucky)

Danny K. Coffey (Kentucky)

Warren R. Cole (Oregon) David Spencer Compton (Washington)

L. Richard Craft, II (Virginia)

Steven Ellis Crane (Kansas) Luciano Critelli (Italy)

Mitchell B. Cross (Missouri)

Vincent A. D'Aguanno (Michigan) Alexander S. Dakak (New Jersey)

Gary Dean Denklau (Illinois) R. Stephen Doan (Southern California)

Peter Norman Doelfs (Utah)

Robert William England (Maryland) William Calvin Eppig (Maryland)

Dr. Robert E. Erickson (Maine)

William R. Fischer (Kansas) Raymond Charles Flynn, Jr. (New Jersey)

Rick S. Freedman (New Jersey)

Gary A. Garafola, III (Arizona) Curtis L. Gimlin (Oklahoma)

David A. Glattly (New Jersey)

Russell B. Glendinning (Florida) Tony Randolph Glidewell (North Carolina)

Bruce C. Golway (New Jersey)

David Dixon Goodwin (New York) Raymond W. Gottschall, III (Pennsylvania)

Allan James Graulich (Florida)

Kevin D. Grazier (Nebraska)

Mark Roy Hailer (Minnesota)

Robert F. Hannon, PGM (Arizona) Reese L. Harrison, Jr., PGM (Texas)

Shane Allen Harshbarger (Iowa)

Patton Ray Hart, PGM (Kentucky) Craig Henderson (New York)

Howard Bart Henderson (Texas)

Matthew David Hunt (North Carolina) Austin C. Isham, Jr. (Vermont)

Alan H. Jelalian (Massachusetts)

Robert Marshall Jones (South Carolina)

Franklin John Kell, Jr. PGM (Oklahoma)

Ronald Glenn Keller (Maryland)

Duane Allan Kemerley (Ohio) Victor A. Key, Jr. (Southern California)

Gordon L. Kimball, Jr. (Maine)

Greg L. Kimberling, PGM (Idaho) Keith K. Klein, PGM (Indiana)

Gregory R. Klemm, PGM (Illinois)

Randy C. Knapp (Pennsylvania) Theodore B. Korn (Ohio)

Tony R. Krall, PGM (Minnesota)

Thomas R. Labagh (Pennsylvania) James C. Lamb (Oregon)

Fred G. Larson (North Dakota)

Michael Kenneth Lawson (Rhode Island) Charles M. Levan (Florida)

Robert E. Lijewski (Wisconsin)

John Douglas Limb (Utah)

Rodney C. Lippert (Oregon)

Ernest G. Loiselle, Sr. (Ontario)

Richard Edward Lynn (Florida) Craig Richard Maddux (Tennessee)

Joe R. Manning, Jr., PGM (Oklahoma)

Kenneth G. Martensen (Northern California) Walter Harrall Martin (Colorado)

J. Eldon Masters, Sr. (Kansas)

Chad Rory McCabe (North Dakota) Michael C. McLaughlin (Indiana)

Jerome M. Meguiar (Florida) Robert Jordan Meguiar (Florida)

Richard E. Melvin (New Hampshire)

Ronald J. Minshall (Oklahoma) Jose Martin Mita Salinas (Peru)

Ray Reid Morgan, III (Texas)

David J. Morgan, PGM (Nevada) G. Wayne Morrison (New Mexico)

Gary E. Mueller (Colorado)

Donald A. Muller (Southern California) Richard P. Naegele (Maryland)

Harry E. Needham III (Connecticut)

Brian S. Noble (Massachusetts) Johnny Dean Onkst (Oklahoma)

Sherman C. Parker, Jr. (Michigan)

Thomas Andrew Paul (Alabama) Roger H. Pelham (New York)

Arthur Lee Pendleton (Virginia)

Rodney Lynn Pensel (Missouri)

Terry L. Peters (Northern California)

David K. Poffenbarger (Illinois) Jorge A. Quintanilla (Bolivia)

Luis Fernando Ramirez (Paraguay)

Mark L. Rauschenberger (Illinois) James Allan Ray (Pennsylvania)

Dennis Lee Reed (Kansas)

Walter Lee Raym Reich (Maryland) James Neil Reid, Jr. (Washington)

Frank Spencer Rice (New York)

Charles William Ridgeway (Maryland)

Dennis Matthew Rose (Tennessee)

Keith B. Rung (New York)

Michael Stanley Rushin, Jr. (Arkansas) Mike Angel Salazar (Northern California)

Roger Dale Salyer (Missouri)

Michael L. Sampson (Texas) Michael L. Sanders (Washington)

Dale V. Sandstrom, PGM (North Dakota)

Douglas Lee Sappington (West Virginia) William M. Sardone (New Jersey)

Kurt Alan Schumacher (Missouri)

John Michael Schuster (Southern California) Robert M. Schvey (Florida)

Thomas Melvin Sellers (Virginia)

H. Jeffery Shaw (Ohio) Robert Eugene Simon (Wisconsin)

Donald John Slade (Alberta)

Ricky E. Smith (Virginia)

Danny Dwight Smothers (Missouri)

Gary M. Spicer (North Dakota)

Derek Glenn Sprague (Oregon) John Dolan Stallings, III (Virginia)

Mark Wilson Stephenson (Kansas)

John Patrick Storrs (Wisconsin) Michael Walter Stuhr (Nebraska)

Ralph E. Sturdevant (Missouri)

Wayne Thomas Szretter (Massachusetts) Robert Graham Taylor (West Virginia)

G.Thomas Taylor (Delaware) Scott Edward Thompson (Washington)

Wesley Don Thornton, PGM (New Mexico)

George E. Tilden (Ohio) Robert L. Tomlinson, Jr. (Kansas)

James R. Truax (Minnesota)

Lawrence Eugene Tucker (Texas) Leonard Vander Horn (New Jersey)

Vernon C. Vanderhule (South Dakota)

Fred Veinfurt, Jr. (Missouri) C. Michael Watson, PGM (Ohio)

Patrick C. Weisgerber, Sr. (New Jersey)

Frederick W. Welch, PGM (New Hampshire) Samuel Hugh Whitehead (Montana)

Michael E. Williams (Virginia)

Joe A. Williams, PGM (Oklahoma) Ward R. Williamson, II (Germany)

Randall Harold Wilson (Missouri)

Richard McCoy Young (Virginia)



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DEPUTY MEMBERS

James Norman Barr, Jr. (Southern California)

Kenneth Dale Best (Missouri) Giuseppe Alfons Bosio (Italy)

David Dale Capes (Illinois)

George Henry Cherry, Jr. (Utah) David A. Clements (Northern California)

Randall Lee Crask (Colorado) Craig L. Davis (Iowa)

Gavin Joseph DeGrave (Wisconsin)

James H Dell (Northern California) Thomas Lee Denslow (Colorado)

Marvin Dewayne Durden (Arkansas)

Roger David Epperly, Jr. (Oklahoma) Dennis G. Feldman (New York)

Chester L. Finley (Louisiana)

Rev. Kenneth D. Fuller (Maryland) David Victor Fulmer, Jr. (Michigan)

Gregory James Gabriel (Southern California)

Kendall S. Garton (Kansas) Vinson Dale Goodpaster (Illinois)

Brian Jonathan Gross (Washington)

Jon Roman Hahn (Arizona)

John Wendell Haney (Illinois)

Richard Paul Harlan (Southern California) John Paul Hay (Missouri)

Gary W. Hecht (Illinois)

James Wesley Hyde (Alabama) Roger Lynn Ingersoll (Texas)

John Anderson Jackson (Michigan) Paul David Jacobson (Washington)

James A. Jaeger (Northern California)

Luiz Adolar Cam Kieling (Brazil) Jeffrey Charles Kitsmiller, Jr. (Missouri)

Michael I. Lambert (Vermont)

Aurel Virgil Manea (Romania) Nathan L. Mason (Georgia)

William Donald Millett (New Brunswick)

Paul Eric Mossberg (Pennsylvania) Herbert William Mower (Massachusetts)

Jeffrey Austin Northrup (Massachusetts)

Troy Wesley Nutter (Washington) Jeremy Dean Olsen (Montana)

Sandro Romero T Pedrosa (Brazil)

Donald Harold Peterson, Jr. (So. California)

Michael Dee Phillipus (Texas)

Charles William Powers, II (Indiana) Leonard Proden (Maryland)

Jeff L. Rannebarger (Ohio)

Douglas A. Reiter (Colorado) William Eugene Rollins (Missouri)

Keith Louis Rushlow (Massachusetts) Russell Albert Scanlan (Illinois)

Gregory Michael Schaeffer (New York)

Ralph Lynwood Scott, Jr. (Tennessee) Charles V. Sederstrom, Jr. (Nebraska)

Robert George Siebold, II (New York)

Armando Stavole (Italy) James Walter Stovall (Georgia)

Claudio Vernale (Italy)

Wayne Marshall Vinton (Massachusetts) Dana Mark Vrsalovich (Southern California)

Michael Stephen Ward (South Carolina)

Randall E. Williams (Tennessee) William Richard Williams, Jr. (New York)

Jason B. Wood (Colorado)

EMERITUS MEMBERS

Albert T. Ames (Massachusetts)

Edwin D. Clarke (Northern California) Raymond Edward Davies (So. California)

Walpert Phillip Harden (Maryland)

Allan E. Iding (Wisconsin) Jack H. Jones (Florida)

Andre E. Lovas (Georgia)

Richard L. Sayre (Washington) Howard K. Smith (Virginia)

HONORARY MEMBERS

William Joseph Bray, III (So. California)

William R. Currier (Massachusetts)

Ronald Eugene Heald (Virginia)

Frank Loui (Northern California)

Frederick Garri Martin, III (Virginia)

Robert Bryce Pfuetze (Kansas)

James Alan Reed (Tennessee)

Hamilton Vieira Sobrinho (Brazil)

Ederson Pereira Velasquez (Brazil)



9

Grand Master Eagle Awards

Executive

Officer of

the Year

ISC

Member of

the Year

Builders

Award

Best

Membership

Development

Most

Improved

Publication/

Communication

Meeting

Planner

Visionary

Lifetime

Achievement

Benefactor

Ne Plus

Ultra - The

Highest

Standard of

Excellence -

or

achievement;

the acme;

the pinnacle;

the ultimate

Ductus

Exemplo -

Leadership

by Example

Nulli

Secundus -

Second to

None

Primus

Inter

Omnes -

First

Among All

- Best of

the Best 1992 D. Huston

Iowa D. Compton Washington

R. George Connecticut

W. Patterson Wyoming

R. Zumult Missouri

1993 R. George Connecticut

K. Klein Indiana

D. Huston Iowa

J. Elmore North Carolina

S. Williamson Pennsylvania

1994 D. Huston Iowa

G. Woody So. California

D. Huston Iowa

G. Kimberling Idaho

C. Hodges Ohio and

J. Lewis

Oklahoma

1995 W. Patterson

Wyoming

T. Krall

Minnesota

J. Know

Maine

R. Bean

South Carolina

C. Bennett

Missouri

1996 S. Williamson

Pennsylvania

C. Bennett

Missouri

R. Ogg, Jr.

Rhode Island

M. Oxenreider

New Jersey

P. Chisholm

New York

1997 G. Roten

So. California

D. Glattly

New Jersey

D.

Poffenbarger

Illinois

P. Chisholm

New York

G. Fairley

Alaska

B. Patterson

Texas

E. Trefts

Washington

1998 M. Oxenreider

New Jersey

R. Ogg, Jr.

Rhode Island

S. Krekus

Ohio

M. Stuhr

Nebraska

E. Clarke

No. California

F. Kell, Jr.

Oklahoma

M. Beitz

Iowa

1999 F. Welch

New Hampshire

R. England

Maryland

M. Oxenreider

New Jersey

R. Ogg, Jr.

Rhode Island

D. Poffenbarger

Illinois

G. Fairley

Alaska

R. Tutt

Kentucky

2000 G. Kimberling

Idaho

W. Paisley

Nebraska

C. Phillips

Nevada

D. Glattly

2001 M. Bressler

Maine

T. Krall

Minnesota

K. Klein

Indiana

W. Carver

Georgia

W. Miller

Nebraska

2002 D. Glattly

New Jersey

W. Mollere

Louisiana

J. Wadley

Utah

B. Hazard

New York

T. Labagh

Pennsylvania

L. Dillon

Michigan

J. Chretien

Utah

T. Krall

Minnesota

2003 J. Whitaker

Tennessee

G.

Kimberling

Utah

K. Klein

Indiana

G. Glattly

New Jersey

G. Coffman

Arkansas

C. Gimlin

Oklahoma

E. Clarke

No. California

2004 R. Sayre

Washington

D. Glattly

New Jersey

J. Durbin

Illinois

S. Crane

Kansas

M. Salazar

No. California

F. Kell, Jr.

Oklahoma

T. Krall

Minnesota

E. John

Elmore

North Carolina


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Grand Master Eagle Awards, continued

Executive

Officer of the

Year

ISC Member

of the Year

Builders

Award

Best

Membership

Development

Most

Improved

Publication/

Communication

Meeting

Planner

Visionary

Lifetime

Achievement

Benefactor

Ne Plus

Ultra - The

Highest

Standard of

Excellence -

or

achievement;

the acme;

the pinnacle;

the ultimate

Ductus

Exemplo -

Leadership

by Example

Nulli

Secundus -

Second to

None

Primus

Inter

Omnes -

First

Among

All - Best

of the

Best 2005 J. Whitaker

Tennessee R. Frevel Maryland

J. Reid, Jr. Washington

and

R. Cockerham

Missouri

and

J. Shaw

Ohio

B. Wood Nebraska

L. Dillon Michigan

B. Patterson Texas

J. Jones Florida

2006 G. Kimball Maine

P. Doelfs Utah

L. VanderHorn New Jersey

A. Jelalian Massachusetts

C. Ek Connecticut

2007

H. Needham Connecticut and

L. Critelli

Itlay

T. Nelson, Sr. Indiana

R. Cockerham Missouri

G. Mueller Colorado

Pennsylvania-WEB

and

Missouri- WEB

T. Labagh Pennsylvania

R. Hannon Arizona;

D. Poffenbarger

Illinois;

S. Williamson

Pennsylvania

W. Baker California;

P. Bohannon

Texas;

R.

Cockerham

Missouri;

E. Hinds Texas;

G. Klemm

Illinois;

A. Luchs;

H. Stickney

California;

J. Samet D.

C.; NMJSR;

SMJSR;

and

Imperial

Shrine

L. Burruss Virginia;

T. Moberly

California

M. Williams Virginia

J. Samet D.C.

J. Jones Florida

2008 R. Cockerham

Missouri

M. Salazar

NorCal/HI; J. Barr

SoCal

R. Cockerham

Missouri

R. Lynn

Florida

R. Lynn

Florida; L. Beattys

New Jersey

J. Whitaker

Tennessee

R. Lynn

Florida; C. M. Watson

Ohio

M. Oxenreider

New Jersey;

R. Harrison

Texas;

D. Morgan

Nevada

Southern

California Youth

Foundation

2009 M. Salazar

Northern

California

A. Iding

Wiconsin

W. Koon

Ohio

J. W. Clampitte

Texas

L. Critelli

Italy

M. Bohn

Georgia

G. Mueller

Colorado

W. Mollere,

PGM

Louisiana

C. Lancaster

Utah



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Executive

Officer of the

Year

ISC Member

of the Year

Builders

Award

Best

Membership

Development

Most

Improved

Publication/

Communication

Meeting

Planner

Visionary

Lifetime

Achievement

Benefactor

International

Benefactor

International

Brotherhood

2010 L. Critelli

Italy

T. Krall, PGM

Minnesota

R. Cockerham

Missouri

V. Key, Jr.

So. California

B. Cockerham

Missouri

F. Kell, Jr.,

PGM

Oklahoma

R. Hannon,

PGM

Arizona

J. Jones

Florida

R. Seale

Louisiana

E. Walker

Missouri

C. Lancaster

Utah

C. Farias

Brazil

2011 B. Noble

Massachusetts

R. Sayre

Washington

R. Cockerham

Missouri

S. Whitehead

Montana

W. Sardone

New York

M. Salazar

N.California

J. Kitsmiller

Missouri

M. Williams

Virginia

D. Garrido

Texas

2012 H. Needham

Connecticut

M. B.

Patterson

Texas

V. Key

Southern

California

M.

Rauschenberger

Illinois

B. Cockerham

Missouri

T. Labagh

Pennsylvania

F. Kell, Jr.,

PGM

Oklahoma R. Harrison, Jr.

PGM

Texas/Peru

A. Stavole

Italy

2013 R. Minshall

Oklahoma

L. Critelli

Italy

A.W. Crawford

So. Carolina

A. Iding

Wisconsin

A. Prescott

New Jersey

S. Crane

Kansas

J. Williams,

PGM

Oklahoma

G.

Kimberling,

PGM

Idaho F. Welch,

PGM

New

Hampshire

2014 M Rauschenberger

Illinois

G. Kimberling

Idaho

G. Mueller

Colorado

A. Stavole

Italy

R. Cockerham

Missouri

A. Iding

Wisconsin

L. Kieling

Brazil

E. Loiselle, Sr.

Ontario L. Critelli

Italy


General Information June 13 – 15, 2013, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Grand Master Eagle Awards, continued

94th Supreme Council Annual Meeting Section II

June 19 – 21, 2014, Kansas City, Missouri Business Meetings

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SECTION II

94th DeMolay International

Supreme Council Annual Meeting

Section II 94th Supreme Council Annual Meeting

Business Meetings June 19 – 21, 2014, Kansas City, Missouri

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Board of Directors Meeting June 19, 2014


(Meeting commenced at 8:04 a.m.)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Grand Secretary, do you want to give us a roll call, please?

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Grand Master.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Present.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Grand Senior Councilor?

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Present.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Grand Junior Councilor?

Steven E. Crane, Grand Junior Councilor: Present.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Grand Treasurer. Present. Grand Secretary is here. International Master

Councilor?

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: Present.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: International Congress Secretary?

Christopher M. LaBaw, International Congress Secretary: Present.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Region 1 Representative?

Wayne T. Szretter, Region 1 Representative: Present.


William M. Sardone, Region 2 Representative: Present.


Marc B. Bohn, Region 3 Representative: Present.


Sherman C. Parker, Jr., Region 4 Representative: Present.




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Mark R. Hailer, Region 5 Representative: Present.


Dennis L. Reed, Region 6 Representative: Present.


Gary A. Garafola: Present.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Region 8 Representative? Chairman of the EO conference?

Mark Rauschenberger, EO Conference Chairman: Present.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: J&L Chairman?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Present.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Congress Advisor?

Jason B. Wood, Congress Advisor: Present.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Budget and Finance chair?

Kevin Breitzmann, B&F Chairman: Present. That's our staff and Director of Jurisdictional Services,

Frank?

Francis J. Nordstrom, Director of Jurisdictional Services: Here.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Director of Administration, Nancy?

Nancy A. Shipps, Director of Administration: Here.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: And I've been notified that our Region 8 person, his flight was cancelled

last night and that's why he's not here. So we'll mark him as excused, please.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Our new Executive Director, Michael?

Michael C. Russell, Executive Director: Here.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Please stand up. I don't know if you had the chance, I know you're not

one to have name tags or whatever but we want to present our newest Executive Director for DeMolay

International, Michael Russell. Thank you.

Michael C. Russell, Executive Director: Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Pat, did you send out the minutes?



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Patton R. Hart, PGM: I distributed the minutes from the April 22nd meeting, the May 22nd meeting and

then the May 30th meeting.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: I'd like to have, I guess, a motion.

Mr. Speaker: Grand Master, I move for the approval of the minutes from our previous meeting.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Can we get a second to approve the minutes from our last meeting and

also our last conference call that we had. Any discussion? Call for the question. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Any opposed?

(Nay vote)

Patton R. Hart, PGM: And Warren walks in the door.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: There he is. We already excused you. Warren, thank you, even with all

the flight delays you made it here and you are dressed appropriately even being from Region 8.

Moving on to DeMolay International matters and we'll start off with the Congress Officer report.

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: Thank you, Dad Sal. The first thing that we'd like to

run you guys through is just a completion report. As many of you know, earlier this year Congress offered a

grant program to local chapters throughout the country and also jurisdictions.

We ended up having 18 submissions or we had 20 submissions to that grant program, 18 were approved.

From those, successful programs that were carried out were around 13. We're still waiting to hear back

from one. So we're giving them the benefit of the doubt that they took the grant money and did something

really good with it.

So we've had 13 completed activities out of the 18 submitted grants and from our estimate from, you know,

talking to our contacts at the chapter and the jurisdictional levels saying, you know, how many members do

you think you guys got from this event or how many are you sure signed after this event that you held? We

put the number of new members from this grant program at around 82. So that's pretty exciting. We're

really proud of that and excited about that.

As many of you know, yesterday the Congress finished our service project at Restart, which is a homeless

shelter and rehabilitation center here in Kansas City. We went into this space, it's a really tall building but

narrow building and there's lots of stairways and narrow hallways so we thought, wow, how are we going

to fit 110 guys in here, and it ended up turning out really, really, good.

We ended up painting several hallways, several new apartments so new residents could come in there. We

cleaned their emergency shelter, set up new beds. We also fed all the residents that were staying in the

shelter and many of the people from the surrounding community, and we've totaled it up to about 420 hours

of community service in one event. So that was really exciting.



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The other thing that I had in the Congress Officer report is last year's Congress passed some bylaw changes

to the Congress Bylaws and those have to be approved by the board. The only problem is I thought I had

them downloaded. So I have to get them downloaded on to my computer, I've got to get some internet. So if

we can move on to the next portion of the meeting until I get those downloaded, I would appreciate that.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Do you need internet?

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: Yes. You have a hot spot on your phone?

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Yes.

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: Perfect. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's an easy password, DeMolay1919.

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: Thank you.

Christopher M. LaBaw, International Congress Secretary: I don't know what that password means?

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: I told them the password was DeMolay1919 and they want to know what

that is. We've only got a couple of more days. Okay.

We'll move on to Item B and actually I think there's a misprint on here since our last meeting. Mark did not

resign as the Personal Rep in a sense, he actually -- I had appointed him as the Personal Rep for South

Carolina when we had some things that we needed to take care of, that we needed to change some

leadership there and the Grand Master of South Carolina approached me and asked that we do some things

there.

Mark graciously agreed to take that on and work with the folks in South Carolina to put a new structure

together and to come up with a new leadership plan. So actually under his direction we turned around and

came up with the fact that we are going to come up with a new Personal Rep in South Carolina. So he

called and said the person was ready to go. So we've actually appointed a new Personal Rep in South

Carolina. I guess they'll work out with the Service and Leadership Center on getting qualified to become an

Executive Officer and that will fall under Derek.

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: If you call for the question.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: If I call for the question. I will call for the question.

Mr. Speaker: He's already started that process.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you. And the Grand Master of South Carolina is extremely

supportive of the new Personal Rep and, you know, he's excited about getting behind DeMolay and helping

it grow in South Carolina so that's pretty exciting stuff there.

I'm going to give it back to our International Master Councilor who's ready to go.

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: So last year the Congress voted on four different

proposed changes to the Congress Bylaws, two of them were passed. I'm going to read these changes that



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are made, and then I'm going to make a motion that this Board approves these Bylaw changes so they can

be put in effect at the Congress level.

The first Bylaw change was put into Section A and it talks about candidacy for International Master

Councilor, International Congress Secretary and the change is that candidates for the office must have their

application filed with the Congress Advisor and it used to be at least 20 days prior to May 1st or the date --

or no, it was at least 20 days prior to the day of the election. So what has been changed is instead of 20

days prior to the date of the election, it's now changed to May 1st of every year. Then it's the same thing for

regional cabinet members, instead of 20 days before their election, it's May 1st. That was approved by the

Congress.

The second one was add and delete language as shown under the duty -- yes, this is to add an official job

description of the International Master Councilor and the International Congress Secretary. It's in the

Bylaws. These job descriptions were worked on by last year's cabinet and last year's international

Congress team and these were presented to the Congress. They were talked about and also amendments

were raised. So this truly was an entire Congress effort to develop these job descriptions.

So I will read them to you now. It's under Section 5 of the duties of the International Master Councilor.

"The duties of the International Master Councilor shall be to plan and preside over the International

DeMolay Congress. In consultation with the International Congress Secretary he should oversee the

DeMolay Congress cabinet which includes the assignment of tasks, the implementation of programs and

monthly communications with the cabinet.”

He should develop and update a strategic approach to social media and construct an implementation plan

for his term. He should develop a transition strategy and plan for his successor in consultation with the

Congress Advisor. He should create a policy and purpose report in consultation with the international

Congress Secretary, region cabinet members and Congress Advisor within one month of taking office and to

perform such tasks as may naturally devolve upon such a position or may be assigned to him from time to

time.

He should maintain active communication with all of DeMolay International, this includes but is not limited

to active DeMolays, jurisdiction officers, the cabinet, the Congress Advisor and the Grand Master of

DeMolay. He should communicate with each jurisdiction and State Master Councilor through phone call or

electronic means once a quarter. He should provide to the members of the International DeMolay Congress

a quarterly report on his duties, visits and updates on his policy and purpose report.

He should collaborate with the International Congress Secretary and the DeMolay cabinet to publish at a

minimum a quarterly newsletter on behalf of DeMolay International. He should remain in communication

with and consult regularly with a Congress Advisor and his staff as appropriate. He should provide

training and resources for the education of jurisdictional officers. He should ensure representation at

training opportunities and other DeMolay events when invited. He should present a positive public image

of DeMolay International and including, but not limited to events, social media, public appearances.

He should attend and participate in public events when invited on behalf of DeMolay International. In

consultation with the Congress Advisor he should prepare updates for the Congress officer handbook. He

should ensure with the International Congress Secretary that any and all changes to the Bylaws of the

International DeMolay Congress are updated and transmitted to the Service and Leadership Center.



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He should attend and participate in Board of Director's meetings on behalf of the active members of

DeMolay International, and he should prepare a written report for the Board of Directors at least at the

proper time before each meeting on behalf of the International DeMolay Congress that describes the

progress that the Congress has made since the last Board meeting.

Then it says, the International Secretary shall in coordination with the, I'm going to say IMC, plan and

preside over the International DeMolay Congress. He should preside in the absence of the International

Master Councilor. In consultation with the International Master Councilor he should oversee the

International DeMolay Congress cabinet and the assignment of tasks, the implementation of programs and

monthly communication. He should develop a transition strategy as should the International Master

Councilor.

He should maintain the records of the International DeMolay Congress and see that the minutes of each

DeMolay Congress are prepared for distribution one month following Congress, signed off by the Congress

Advisor or his designee. He should perform such tasks as naturally evolve upon such a position or may be

devolved upon him from time to time. He should maintain active communication with all DeMolay

International, this includes but is not limited to social media, the cabinet, the Congress Advisor and the

Grand Master of DeMolay. He should develop and maintain an International DeMolay Congress directory

that is to include all jurisdictional officers.

In the absence of jurisdictional officers, the active DeMolay designated to communicate with the Congress

by the Executive Officer. At a minimum the directory should include all mailing addresses, birth dates,

telephone numbers, social media contacts and the date of the successor's installation. The International

Congress Secretary should record the minutes and transactions of all cabinet meetings and distribute them

within one week of the meeting. He should communicate with each jurisdiction or State Master Councilor

through a phone call or electronic means once a quarter.

He should provide to the members of the International DeMolay Congress a quarterly report on his duties,

visits and updates on the policy and purpose report. He should collaborate with the IMC and the cabinet to

publish, at a minimum, a quarterly newsletter. He should remain in communication and consult regularly

with the Congress Advisor or his staff. He should provide training resources for the education of

jurisdictional officers, in consultation with the Congress Advisor prepare updates for the officer's

handbook.

He should ensure that all changes to the International DeMolay Congress Bylaws are updated and

transmitted to the Service and Leadership Center. He should attend and participate in all board room

meetings and he should prepare a written report for the Board at the appropriate time for each meeting on

behalf of the International DeMolay Congress.

So those are the job descriptions. There's also been an added job description for the Regional Cabinet

members so you can see that was the purpose was to give our elected leaders a sense of what their job

should be and how they can serve the Congress. Those are the two Bylaw changes that I've suggested and I

would move that we pass these Bylaws or we put these Bylaw changes into effect for the Congress.

Mr. Speaker: I second.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Dick, do these have to go to J&L first before the Board votes on it?



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Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: No, not technically, but I would gently suggest that the Board have a

copy of these so they could read them before they vote on them. I lost it after halfway through.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: I guess, can we postpone it then until Saturday's meetings?

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: Okay.

Richard L. Sayre: So somebody can make comments.

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: Yes, we will.

Mr. Speaker: Grand Master, I vote we table the motion until the Board of Director's meeting on Saturday.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Okay. All those in favor of tabling it until Saturday, say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: In the meantime, can you e-mail it to the Grand Secretary and he can e-mail it out

to us so we can have copies?

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: Yes, that's what we will do.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Anything else?

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: That's it.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: And moving on to the Grand Master's report. First of all, I want to

thank the Board for your support this year.

We've had a lot on our table. We've had some things that were pretty big chunks of rock that we needed to

kind of, you know, chisel through and I feel we've done that. So, again, I just want to thank you for that.

In my report that will go to the complete International Supreme Council session, you know, I was looking at

it and it's like, wow, I had four operations this year. So having that done and still doing this and being able

to get you all to, you know, the different meetings we had. I think we had more phone call conferences than

I can recall in the last few years. So I appreciate your flexibility in being able to make those happen. So,

again, on behalf of myself personally, I want to thank all of you for that.

Also just so those that don't know although the notice went out, due to Boyd's sickness I appointed Dick

Sayre as the Chairman for J&L for this and he graciously accepted. It might have been late in the evening

or something, I don't know.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Two weeks ago as I recall.



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Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: I don't think he's gotten any sleep since then. So Dick, I want to thank

you for agreeing to do that and you've done a great job in trying to make sure that we can have this session.

You know, since our last meeting, those that have Facebook have probably seen I've done a lot of traveling.

I had the opportunity this year to visit both our additional supreme councils that we have. When I was in

the Philippines, they actually, their comment to me was they thought that we had forgot them. The last time

we had someone attend them was in 1984, and to them they look at -- the comments that were made was that

we're the mother ship.

It was like how's the mother ship doing because, you know, DeMolay International, you know, established a

Supreme Council there and it's really interesting talking to some of the folks that are there. They are

extremely loyal to the DeMolay International here and pledged their allegiance to us while I was there.

They said whatever they can do to help us, you know, please do so. We've got 30,000 DeMolays there. It

was quite an experience.

While I was there I got the opportunity to meet with the Vice President of the Philippines who happens to be

a senior DeMolay. He will be running for the President, being the President of the Philippines in 2016 and

if the current Grand Master at the time allows me, he's invited me to come back and be on his committee to

get elected as the President and he had 30 minutes on his schedule to talk with me and we talked for about

an hour.

Even after the hour he sent me off to have a private tour of the palace and while that was taking place he

actually met with the Grand Master of DeMolay in the Philippines along with some active DeMolays to

figure out how the government there can continue to work with the DeMolays there. So pretty impressive.

I attended their Grand Lodge session and the new Grand Master is actually the four star General in charge

of all the federal police in the Philippines. They don't have five stars so there's nobody above him. So it

was a great time and, you know, I also had the opportunity to go to Italy and see the changing of the guard

there. Their Grand Master has been Grand Master for 15 years and he finally stepped down so it was quite

a change.

So I had quite an opportunity to see a lot of DeMolays that are from all over the world and it's interesting,

DeMolays are the same everywhere you go and I had an opportunity to share with the young men in New

Jersey that sometimes we forget that we're DeMolay International. We tend to think that we're within the

borders of the U.S. but when you start looking at the numbers, it's pretty impressive what DeMolay is doing

out there internationally.

So like I said, tomorrow when I give my report I'll get in depth on some additional things that have taken

place since then, but I wanted to, again, just kind of give you a flavor of what's happened the last three or

four months.

It's been a great experience but I'm tired, and I got all this accomplished under budget so I'm proud to say.

Moving on to updates. Dick, would you like to take this meeting call ratification? I know you were waiting

for that.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Let me start first of all by reminding everybody that we have a court

reporter and the court reporter is used to things like your Honor and objections, they're not used to Grand

Master or grand poobah and so it would be helpful if when you speak, you speak slowly and distinctly so



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she can figure it out and if you have a funny name, spell it for her. She's got to write all this stuff down and

the faster we talk, the harder it is. So that's number one.

Number two, a quick report on Boyd. Boyd, of course, is the chair of J&L. I'm the chair today and through

this session but as many of you know, Boyd has throat cancer. So those of you who smoke a pipe, stop. The

result was cancer on the back of the tongue and in his throat. He had to have a couple of surgeries and they

took out the cancer and they believe they got it all.

That was then followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy. I'm guessing they fried his thyroid among other

things in the process of doing all this but the problem for Boyd was he couldn't swallow. So for many

months he's been using a feeding tube which is why he can't be here. It's kind of hard to drag a food tube

around with you. Those of you who know Boyd know that if he was in any condition at all to be here he'd

crawl here. The fact that he's not here gives you an indication of how he's doing. I've talked to him a

number of times and what he tells me is that he's very very tired, but otherwise the cancer appears to have

been removed. So the problem for Boyd is he expects to leap out of bed immediately and it's not happening.

I expect that he'll resume his duties in due course but I also expect it will be months.

Those of you who have had cancer know if you get both radiotherapy and chemotherapy in your 60s, it's not

exactly a cake walk. It will take him a little while to get back. We're not going to lose him, I don't think but

I think that he's very tired and he's got a long recovery ahead of him.

So let me talk a little bit about the call and I'll explain this to the general session later today but I'm going to

start with you guys. You need to know what's going on.

Tony and I have been working through this and we've got the corporate counsel involved. While you can

ask questions, but I'm going to start with the story of the meeting call and then I'll get around to legislation

but you kind of need to know why we're even sitting here.

So what happened is that when I was appointed Boyd, of course, couldn't come and Boyd notified the office

that he wasn't able to come and so Mike appointed me and I contacted the office and they sent the call. So

what that means is that all of you who sent proposals into the office, they get registered in if they are

determined to be timely and what happens is the proposal jumps to J&L, the chair of J&L who then cleans it

up. For those of you who have proposed something, you noticed that I've cleaned it up. In other words, your

rambling comments now make sense, and proposed language fits.

A lot of times a proposal affects other sections so we go back through and make sure whatever you're going

to propose actually will work. So what we end up with is what you see here.

I received that in the time frame that was after 30 days prior to session, which means that I missed the

deadline, we missed the deadline to have the call out but we also, as I was looking through this that was the

least of my concerns. As I was working through this it also occurred to me that we missed the deadline to

have the meeting call out on time which means that had nothing happened, we would be here for a pageant.

We would have a lovely pageant. We would have no meeting at all other than just general discussions for

periods of time, and then we'd get back together again in about a month and a half and do it again.

The first issue was to get the call before you. So I fixed up the call, I cleaned up the call and then I

contacted everybody on Jurisprudence and Legislation and I said this is what's happened. J&L have the

ability to rule an amendment as urgent and necessary, and I don't know that this is necessarily urgent and

necessary really but if we didn't make this determination, you wouldn't have anything to vote on.



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So the members decided that for purposes of making sure everybody had a chance to be heard and

legislation had a chance to hit the floor and things could be voted on and ideas could be prompted. Based

on Boyd's illness and what happened, the notice never went out.

It was determined that these pieces of legislation had been received by the office as being urgent and

necessary which allows us to waive the normal time frame. So that was kind of step one. So the time frame

for the transmission of this information to you was cut back to less than 30 days. So the call went out, the

determination was made that it was urgent and necessary so you got it about 20 days prior to the session

but that's okay based on the J&L ruling. That's step one.

Step two is more complicated, that is, how are we going to do anything else? So for those of you who are

scholars of our Bylaws you will notice in order to have an election, you must have an annual meeting. We

also have business to conduct. So we have this problem.

We can have a call but we can't vote on the call because we don't have a meeting. So step two in this

process was to call a special meeting. So for those of you who received notice of the special meeting, that's

why. The Board of Directors said call a special meeting of DeMolay International for this same time frame

which only requires 15 days notice.

Now, we have appropriate notice for the special meeting of DeMolay International which would allow us to

do the call and the budgets and everything but elections, almost everything. So that's why the Board of

Directors had a special meeting but we still aren't done yet.

So Pat sent out an e-mail a couple of days ago that brought you to that point but there's been more that's

happened since. So the e-mail from Pat caused a lot of confusion because a lot of people are coming up to

me and saying, how can you have elections, special meetings don't have elections, so here's how we get to

the next phase of this.

Tony is in Greece, and he returns and calls me and says, you realize you can't have elections. Certainly

glad you're back from Greece. Let's puzzle this through. So our puzzling came to a conclusion that

basically we're going to have the candidates meet and agree to the outcome of an election.

Under our Bylaws, this Board can declare an emergency and elevate the Grand Master and Grand Senior,

and then the rest of the people running would either stay in place or be elected ceremonially and then we

would come back in a month and a half and do it again, but just -- we'd have one day at the Kansas City

office and have lunch and we would complete our election process based upon agreement of the candidates

and that's about all we could come up with, but in the meantime we were trying to reach our corporate

counsel who does this a lot.

Tony finally reached us and Mike's response was, surely the members of DeMolay International knew when

the meeting would be. Well, we've known for five years when the meeting would be. Did you send anything

at all to them telling them when this meeting would be?

Originally, when I was going through this and sort of noodling it in my head I figured that Frank here

would have sent you the usual registration, that's telling you my age, but he didn't. It's modern now. So he

keeps it now online and had we sent you the usual registration it would have been okay, we would have been

okay because you would have had notice but that didn't happen, but what he did send you was a postcard,

right, and Tony talked to Mike and Mike said find out if they sent anything. Tony called Frank and said,



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yeah, I sent a postcard. The postcard, if you recall, what I remember about it was that KC, so when he said

it I said, oh yeah, the postcard.

The postcard said, meet here and now for the annual meeting. Mike's determination was that postcard is

adequate notice of the annual meeting. So we are going to have an annual meeting. We are going to have

elections at the annual meeting and we're also going to have a special meeting so we can take up the call.

So when you're called into session you'll be called into the annual meeting and the special meeting of all the

different bodies. The good news is the Board of Directors only requires 15 days notice so that works. So

pretty much we've got this fixed so you'll be able to proceed.

So for those of you who wondered why in the world we have a special meeting notice that is less than the

annual meeting notice, the answer is a number of years ago when we went to the Board of Director's format

there were a number of people who were concerned that this Board could adopt changes to the Rules and

Regulations without approval of DeMolay International.

DeMolay has historically had a huge problem with micromanagement and everybody likes to micromanage

it. So they added in a 15-day emergency call so if you did something nobody liked, they could, with 20

members acting, call a meeting and undo what you did. That was the reason for this. Thank God for

micromanagement because the effect of that regulation was to allow us to save ourselves with a special

meeting. So that's what happened.

So that kind of brings you up to speed. I'll explain it in less detail this evening, but I want you-all to know

why it's all going that way. Does anybody have any questions about that?

Mr. Speaker: Let's not ever do this again.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: I think the office has a large sign now above everybody's desk that

says, notice on time. We should never do this again. Thank you. Does anybody have any questions?

Mr. Speaker: That notice, is that a J&L function or is that just --

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: It's a function of the office of Grand Secretary. Questions? So now

we're going to move to the calls. You have in front of you Call Item number 1 which no longer exists so you

may mark the little box withdrawn. The proposer has pulled it. So all you past Grand Masters rest easy.

Call Item number 2, this will require a vote this morning to go forward. Some of these things require

approval of the Board of Directors and DeMolay International. This one does. Call Item number 2 is to

allow a Grand Master to suspend somebody who's been charged with a felony and to remove somebody

who's been convicted of a felony and whose appeal rights have run out. It's fairly straightforward. You can

read it, and it only applies to Class 1, 2, 3 and 4 members. It does not apply to members of the chapter of

DeMolay.

However, we have a pretty elaborate and quite clear discipline process for members of DeMolay who are

not Class 1, 2, 3 and 4 members. You can have an advisory council come to a conclusion about fitness as

many of you know this, and if there's a felony, basically the Executive Officer sends a transcript of the

felony to the Grand Secretary and that person is gone. So we have a process. A Class 8 member, Senior

DeMolays would be included.



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So even if we have a process other than for us, but there is no process for us other than a trial. A trial,

while there's very clear guidelines on a trial, it doesn't happen overnight and the proposer was concerned

that if Dick is charged with some heinous crime, he will remain an Active member or in my case an

Emeritus member until such time as I'm convicted and removed. He thought that was not such a great thing

for DeMolay so this is the proposal. The Board of Directors has to approve it. Grand Master, I would ask

you to put that in motion to approve Call Item number 2.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Motion to approve item number 2.

Mr. Speaker: Second.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Any discussion? All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Call Item number 3 is Greg Chiles and he can explain it. It's very

straightforward. It's part of this here. I'm not sure what the difference is except I think he's saying that he's

tired of extensions. Why don't you speak to that?

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: It's basically the same one that I tried to get in last year. We decided to

postpone it trying to get better language which Boyd and I could never do. Basically, what it is is to keep

from happening what happened two years ago where I was on the phone on New Year's Eve calling certain

individuals, some of them past Grand Masters, trying to get them to get their paperwork in. We have their

money.

I mean, we have a mechanism for the Grand Master to grant a waiver of the fees but not for the paperwork

and because of the fact that the office always seems to be closed between Christmas and New Year's, that's a

five or six-day period in there where the Grand Master pretty much has very little idea as to whether or not

anybody has turned in their paperwork late.

So this gives that opportunity for him to grant an extension of no more than 30 days in order to get that

paperwork in.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: The only comment I have is that I've been involved with this issue a

number of times over the years and it's usually somebody like the Imperial Potentate. So it's just my

comment. It will give the Grand Master a little more flexibility.

Again, Grand Master, I would appreciate it if you'll entertain a motion to adopt Call Item number 3.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Motion to second.




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Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Any discussion? All those in favor of approving Call Item number 3 say

aye.

(Aye vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Any opposed.

(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. Thank you.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: We're now on Call Item number 4. There's nothing to say about Call

Item number 4 other than to read it. This is an adoption to the Rules and Regulations. It wouldn't hurt for

you to approve it. Greg can speak to it. It's self-explanatory. It allows a DeMolay member to hold an

office in two chapters but not an elected office.

Greg, do you want to speak to call item number 4?

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: I'm kind of falling on the sword on this one. I have a current chapter that we

just started in January that have a couple of members that are dual members and I discovered, I didn't

realize that this was in there that they could not hold office in both chapters and currently, I have that

situation so I'm just wanting to clean up some language to allow it. I don't think it needs to be elected in

both chapters but if you want to be the recorder in one chapter and preceptor in another, I don't think

there's any harm in being able to do that. That's the reason for this.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Grand Master, can I ask you to entertain an advisory vote on this one

so I can report to the body of the board of directors meeting?

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Can I ask for an advisory motion on item number 4?

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Grand Master, I move that we send an advisory notice to the

J&L committee.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion?

Mark L. Rauschenberger: Grand Master, Mark Rauschenberger, EO Conference Chairman. I've talked

to the members of my jurisdiction and we're not for this Call Item and the primary reason is, our members

should be focused on their home chapters. If we spread people too thin and where they're trying to help two

different chapters. There's nothing that says a member of A cannot go and visit Chapter B and sit in a chair

or fill a chair but to put it in the Bylaws encouraging chapters to dual member and then try to hold office in

different chapters, I don't think it's in the best interest of the order.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Any more discussion? All those in favor of Call Item number 4 will say

aye.

(Aye vote)




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(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It passes.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Call Item number 5, I'd like to tell you we're done with 5. Call Item 5

calls for an advisory vote on the same issue. I believe this has been before us since I was a Deputy member.

It's a little bit more flushed out. I don't think the proposer is here and if he's here, he's invited to speak on it.

Is Bill here?

Mr. Speaker: No.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: It's before you and before the body again. It doesn't have to have the

Board of Directors' approval, but again, an advisory motion would be helpful. You are all very familiar

with this issue, that Legion of Honor Medal of Honor Honor, it's a super LOH kind of thing. I'd ask for an

advisory vote.

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Derek Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor, Brother Grand

Master, I think that we provide an advisory motion to the J&L committee.

Steven E. Crane, Grand Junior Councilor: And I second it.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor of

Call Item number 5 say aye.

(Aye vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: All those against.

(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Motion failed.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Same history.

Mark L. Rauschenberger: Mark Rauschenberger, I'd like to ask J&L that this is a Bylaw change and

would require two-thirds of the vote to pass, of the body, because I think that's what we did last year.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: The Rules and Regulations –

Mark L. Rauschenberger: That would be a majority vote.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: We can kind of get a feel on the vote based on what happened here.

The last Call Item, Call Item number 6, you don't have it because J&L hasn't ruled on it yet.

Here's the history of Call Item number 6. J&L has to decide whether it's necessary and part of our problem

at J&L is we don't want to present nothing but a slate of urgent and necessary amendments. We've got a

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This isn't a function of the notice problem, this has nothing to do with notice. It came up because Mike

called me three days ago I believe and said, Dick, we created two new Regions. I think one is in Europe

and one is in South America.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Correct.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: It occurs to all of us that these new members who will be regions will

be electing representatives at the session, will not be seated on the Board of Directors because our current

Bylaws say, essentially, that the Board of Directors will consist of eight Region Representatives from the

eight regions and four are elected in one year and four are elected in the second year. So we are sort of

locked into this eight-member cycle. That means that representatives of the new regions will not sit on the

Board.

So what I did was I created an amendment that would read this way, the Board of Directors consists of the

following: One Class 1 member as a representative of the DeMolay region. During the first year following

creation of a new region or regions, new representatives shall be elected at the meetings immediately

following the creation of the region or regions to the Board of Directors. Thereafter, half shall be elected

each year for two-year terms, et cetera.

So I've allowed for expansion and what has to happen next is J&L today has to decide whether this is urgent

and necessary. My general suggestion to them is having these people on the board is urgent and necessary

but I can't promise that and if they announce that it is, then this will go on the call.

You don't have to vote because you don't have it before you. It's more housekeeping than anything else.


Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: I have a copy if anybody wants it.

Dennis L. Reed: Grand Master?


Dennis L. Reed: Dennis Reed, Region 6 Representative. Just a question, Dick, on that. If I remember

correctly, the Grand Master can create new jurisdictions at his own discretion. Am I generally correct?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: He can put those jurisdictions into regions.

Dennis L. Reed: So it seems like he can create regions.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: If you can do one, you can do the other.

Dennis L. Reed: So based upon the wording of what you're currently thinking about, it sounds like then

that the, I'll phrase this bluntly, at the whim of the Grand Master he could increase the size of the Board of

Directors without any other approvals. Would that be a fair statement?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Yes and no. He can increase the number of regions but the people on

the Board of Directors have to be elected. The Board of Directors is an election. So even though you're a

regional representative and you're on the board there's an election process so there are some controls but



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generally if the Grand Master, Mike, decided to create new regions and we apportion everybody into them,

if this is adopted what would happen is the members of the 18 regions go on the Board of Directors through

an election process. I'm confident that the members here might question whether we needed 18 regions and

it could be pushed back.

Dennis L. Reed: That was my question.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: You're right.

Dennis L. Reed: The size of the Board is what I was thinking about, not so much the members on the

Board.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: It could be expanded. He can create 18 regions in California if he

wanted to.

Mr. Speaker: Remember, this Board voted to approve the addition of regions.

Dennis L. Reed: I just wanted clarification.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: There are checks and balances and one of the checks and balances is

that the Grand Master has to get approval of the board to create the regions and to move the jurisdictions

around so that's a check and balance. So you'll know about it before it happens. So if the Grand Master

selects to create 18 regions in the state of his origin, you'll know about it. We'll have to vote.

Wayne T. Szretter: When was the Regions 9 and 10 approved by the Board?

Patton R. Hart, PGM, Grand Secretary: At the August Board meeting.

Wayne T. Szretter: August. Okay. I wasn't quite sure when that was incorporated. Okay. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Any other questions? Thank you, Dick. Moving on.

Terry L. Peters: Good morning. I'm Terry Peters and I'm chair of the Convention Planning Committee

and I was asked to give a brief overview of the session. Just wanted to let you all know that things are going

well. We had a hotel that's been 100 percent booked for the last two nights and they've managed to get

everybody into a room situation. Things will ease up a little bit for the rest of the week so that's good.

All of our totals are up. We've more than met our minimum for the hotel for rooms. We are squeezed for

rooms because all the meeting rooms in the hotel are being used so what we have is what we have, and our

lunches and dinner totals are up as well. In fact, we maxed out the Newberry room. We can't take any

more reservations for that because the room is maxed out at this point. So those are all great signs that

things are looking good.

Going forward looking at future years, we're looking at the CaribeRoyale next year in Florida, Orlando,

Florida. That will be our session next year. The year after that is going to be the Double Tree in Mission

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The rates are, I believe, for the CaribeRoyale are $140 and $240. I'm trying to do this off the top of my

head and for San Diego is $149. The committee is currently looking for 2017. We're looking at the

northeast corner of the country. We're looking at cities like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Buffalo,

Indianapolis and we're just now getting proposals for all of those cities. Is there any questions from

anyone?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Terry, would you be kind enough to send that out in writing to

everybody to lock in the date?

Terry L. Peters: I'll be happy to do that. If I send it to Frank, he can distribute it to the Board?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: I think the answer is yes.


Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Notice is good.

Dennis L. Reed: Grand Master, Dennis Reed, Region 6 Representative, just a quick, and this is slightly off

topic, but I don't know if we ever got a final financial report from last year's session. Was that ever sent

out?

Mr. Speaker: There was a final report from the last Board of Director's meeting.

Dennis L. Reed: It was in that packet?

Mr. Speaker: Yes.

Dennis L. Reed: I must have overlooked it. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: No other questions. I know you got work to do so you need to get back

to work.

Dennis L. Reed: Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Boston Virtual Enterprises, what is that? We had this project that we

had for a few years that's called Boston Light or Kingdom of DeMolay. You know, last year we had a

special meeting. People came to Kansas City and I have to publically thank Derek here, it was one of those

times I was having an operation and my doctor wouldn't let me fly so Derek had to step up and be the

Chairman for that.

There was a lot of discussion taking place, and then afterwards we had a Board meeting and determined

that we could no longer continue to keep Kingdom of DeMolay going at the rate it was going. So the Board

voted to actually not renew the contract with Boston Light.

So at that point I think we've spent pretty close to 1.6 million is the rough number with Kingdom of

DeMolay. The Board then approved me to go and negotiate with Boston Light on what to do with the

intellectual property, specifically the patent.



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It has taken six or seven months of working with Boston Light and we've engaged our paid legal team to

work with us. Boston Light had pushed back to us as I showed at the last Board meeting that originally

there was some discussion, we thought we were going to get 50/50 and they pushed back and said, no,

you're going to get ten percent of the patent and we, again, had some more discussion.

The bad issue is that when our legal folks reviewed the contract, there's nothing in there that said we, in

fact, were entitled to 50 percent. So if they wanted to, they could just go ahead and tell us, you're not

getting anything. We could have taken them to court and actually fought it but it would have cost us quite a

bit of money. It depended on who had more money to spend on legal fees is essentially what I was told.

So again, working through Boston Light. Boston Light is still seeing that there was some reason to have

DeMolay International be on their good side. They figured there was a way for us to be able to let people

know that it was a good company to associate with.

So the bottom line, we've actually reached an agreement. Last night, actually, I received the final contract

from our attorney because he had some language he wanted to change. He sent it back to the folks at, by the

way, they call it BVE, this new corporation that they're forming, their attorney sent it to our attorney and he

responded back and they've accepted all our changes.

Essentially, you know, what they've done is they've turned around and said the patent is now going to be

part of BVE. DeMolay International will own ten percent of the company. We were advised that we didn't

really want to own the patent or part of the patent because it was going to be too difficult to try to get any

revenues from it because there could be some things that were done within the corporation that would

enable them to essentially not give us any money for it, but being as how now we own part of the company,

ten percent of it, it's not foolproof but it's pretty good as far as trying to make sure that if they sell the

company, we're entitled to ten percent of it.

If they decide that they want to issue new stock, again, you know, we have first rights to go ahead and

purchase the stocks especially if they want to turn around and say they want to dilute the stock and sell it at

a penny a stock. Well, in the language it now allows us to go ahead and do that.

You know, the discussion I had with Mike McCann is basically saying this is probably as good as you're

going to get. So I've got the contract, like I said, I got it yesterday afternoon or yesterday evening. I can

send it out, I guess, and have the Board look at it and then on our next meeting is on Saturday. On Saturday

hopefully we can approve to have the contract signed and then we would be completely done with Kingdom

of DeMolay and we would now own ten percent of BVE.

The other thing that also we worked out is that you, know, we spent a lot of money on Kingdom of DeMolay

so what do we get for that? Well, all of the Kingdom of DeMolay virtual, I don't know what you want to call

it, it actually now resides on a hard drive. So that hard drive is actually, once the contract is signed, will be

shipped to Kansas City. So it will be held here in Kansas City. If at a later date we want to try to figure out

a way to give it some more oxygen and put it back up.

We also paid for a lot of the artwork that Boston Light created for us, that's also coming into a second hard

drive and so that hard drive will also come to Kansas City. So those items will now belong to DeMolay

International and they'll reside in Kansas City.



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Any questions? I got to tell you, it's been like going to the dentist and having a root canal without any

novocain, absolutely.

Warren R. Cole: Grand, Master is there -

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Who are you?

Warren R. Cole: Warren Cole, Region 8 representative. Does that ten percent ownership, does that come

with any representation?

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It comes with no voting rights. Our folks had quite a discussion on that

and his comment was, is that something you want to fight for instead of getting ten percent, you're not going

to have a lot of say anyway and that was actually one of the issues that Boston Light really had with us and

that was actually one of the reasons, because we went to a nonvoting stock, they went from five percent to

ten percent, okay, because their concern was that we are a slow moving body and they want to be a fast

moving body and they don't want us to slow them down from making us money is essentially what they, that

was their marketing side.

They have two patents that they're working on. Those patents are being planned to be put into BVE and

they would actually then become part of that ten percent. So anything that goes into BVE will say that. In

the contract there's also language that says they cannot take the patents that are sitting in BVE and use

them for another corporation without us getting something in return.

So then I will forward the contract packet to you and to Frank, then redistribute them so everybody has a

chance to look at it and we can vote on it Saturday morning.

I guess, actually, I want to thank the Chairman of this committee because you guys did a great job in at

least getting us there. Bill has been heavily involved in working with Jim in trying to make sure that, you

know, we get some additional things. Actually, with his assistance we were actually able to trim down

about $9,000 off the bill on some three computers that they sent to us. So Bill, thank you very much. Moving

on. Financial matters, Wes.

Wesley D. Thornton, PGM, Grand Treasurer: Thank you, Grand Master. Wesley Thornton, Grand

Treasurer. It seems like the very first line of my report for every year that I've been Grand Treasurer is it's

been another year of transition and change. For the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2013, DeMolay

International ended the year with expenses exceeding revenues by $49,729. These are from the reviewed

financial statements which are in your packets, I believe. DeMolay International had income totaling

$2,148,988 and costs and sales and expenses of $2,198,717, and again, those come from the reviewed

financial statements.

The internally prepared monthly financial statements which are unaudited are still being presented in a

format similar to the audited or reviewed financial statements for yearend prepared by the outside

independent accounting firm. Corporate allocation is made to the DeMolay & More Store to reflect the

actual expenses to that department in the form of rent, payroll costs and other direct attributable costs to

the administration.



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The budget for 2013-2014 was approved and is reflected in the interim financial statements. DeMolay

International budget follows the year of the elected advancing line from July 1st to June 30th. This does not

change our tax reporting year which remains at December 31st. Program revenues and expenses will

follow the elected advancing line years.

Schmidt, Cornish & Smith, CPAs of Lee's Summit, Missouri were again selected by the Board to prepare the

review for 2013. The independent review report for 2013 has been completed. Is in all of the board of

director's packets.

Davenport & Company continues to serve DeMolay International as our investment manager. There have

been no changes to the investment policy since our last meeting.

Probably the most significant thing in the accounting department is that our accounting staff in Kansas

City, under the capable and watchful eye of William Bryan, Director of Finance, continues to produce and

distribute our monthly financial statements to the Board of Directors in a timely and efficient manner. Justin

Lee, the assistant corporate controller will be promoted to Director of Finance when Mr. Bryan retires July

1st, 2014. Mr. Bryan will continue to offer his services on a temporary, as needed basis during the

transition.

That's it. Grand Master, I move for receipt of the report.

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Brother Grand Master, I move to submit the Grand

Treasurer's report.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Is there a second?


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Any discussion? All those in favor of accepting the Grand Treasurer's

report say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you. Where is Kevin?

Kevin R. Breitzmann, B&F Chair: Kevin Breitzmann, Budget & Finance Committee chair. The budget

was sent out to everybody prior to our May teleconference. We were able to look at it then. At the time I

asked, since we weren't voting on it, I asked that any questions that people had be sent to me and I would

answer them and I received some questions from Region 1 and I was holding off on trying to answer those

until I get further information from the database committee, but I have not received any further information

so I assume we don't have any updated numbers from the database committee at this time so we are going to

move forward with the budget as it was presented at that last meeting. I sent out the answers to those

questions on Monday, if people haven't received those, going with the numbers that we have. A couple of

highlights from those questions that I answered.



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The first question was about the heading on it that says for reflected year 2014. The Grand Treasurer

reported the budgeting is on a July to June year, that doesn't change our tax recording, but I said it was a

2014 year because that's the way the tax returns would be reported as well so I just used that as the heading

so if anyone has any questions on that. We did include the dates on the top of the budget. It says it's for

year 2014 but its July 1st, 2014, to June 30th, 2015. So hopefully that answers those questions.

Regarding the database project, all the costs from the original proposal are incorporated in this budget.

There's one line item in the budget that we put in for $144,000 but that included the software costs that was

originally proposed for the first year, some server hosting and some outside tech support for getting it up

and running.

The additional amount that was in the original proposal for an outside project manager, that is included in

the line item in the budget under "personnel" in the salaries. A lot of the budget numbers were prepared in

discussions between Greg Kimberling and the office staff. So we appreciate the help in that. I did change

and tweak a little bit some of those numbers and then incorporated the database project in there.

The other thing I want to point out was the last question that was proposed about the corporate allocation,

this current budget has an investment draw in this year of $426,000, which is a 17.65 percent draw as of

our May 31st investment balance. I said in my answer that's not a sustainable draw amount. Most of these,

not most but a large portion of the database project cost is in this year one. If everything would remain even

the draws in future years would go down because of the lesser cost of the database project.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Do you know what that draw would be?

Kevin R. Breitzmann, B&F Chair: At the current investment level, next year would be at 14 percent and

the year after that would be a 12.6 percent draw at the current spending levels and at the current investment

levels.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Thank you.

Kevin R. Breitzmann, B&F Chair: As I said, those were the only questions that were sent to me about the

budget and if there's no other questions at this time, I would move for approval of the 2014 budget.


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: The motion has been moved and seconded, moved and seconded to

accept your report. Any discussion?

Mr. Speaker: I have a discussion. The personnel costs for the project manager you said was included in

the personnel expenses.

Kevin R. Breitzmann, B&F Chair: Yes.

Mr. Speaker: But when you look at the personnel expenses that we have budgeted for this current year, it

was $498,378 and you're projecting for next year $494,854. That doesn't include the $55,000, you know,

which is kind of why I was asking for the breakdown because it did not appear that the personnel costs that

are being projected cover the costs of the new director.



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Kevin R. Breitzmann, B&F Chair: I'm not going to bring those forward in public, but I have the

individual numbers for the individual people in the office. I'm not going to make that public information, but

I do have those here with me. We can talk.

Mr. Speaker: Grand Master, if I might, as I mentioned in my report, our Director of Finance is going to be

retiring and so obviously his full year salary and Justin's full year salary were reflected in the previous and

they're not being replaced.

Kevin R. Breitzmann, B&F Chair: Correct. So that's minus one there.

Warren R. Cole: That would be good information to have, you know, when you go to compare that. I'm

still concerned that how can we approve a projected budget when we don't have the information from the

Database Committee? I don't know what the status of the report is, whether we'll have that tomorrow or

today, later on today. If we do then I would suggest that maybe we table that so that we have everything on

the table to do it. Otherwise, you know, we haven't approved the database yet so should we not have a

discussion whether or not we're going to go forward with the data initiative before we put it into the budget.

I think we're kind of putting the cart before the horse here. So I would recommend that we table this until

we have some more answers on the database committee in particular.

Dennis L. Reed: Dennis Reed, Region 6 Representative and also chairman of the Database Committee

and we go into a little more detail a little later in the agenda but honestly, this is a budget guys. This is not

saying we're going to write a check for $144,000 as soon as this thing is approved, it just allows space for

the project to go forward and to say this is what we've authorized up to that point and I'll jump a little bit

ahead by saying I think that's a high end number, I still think it's a high end number the later we go scooting

the project line around. When we put that 144 together it was based off us starting in April. Well, it hasn't

started yet so we've shifted it another three months so I would expect that to be a high end number. That

just allows us to make sure that this project has at least got a space in the budget and we don't have to do a

special budget allocation. I don't see a problem with leaving it in there knowing that that's where we want

to go. We've still got to authorize it. You know, if it turns out we decide not to do it then it just goes away

and we don't spend the money. I don't think it's a problem.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: The chair recognizes Tony Krall.

Tony R. Krall, PGM: Tony Krall from Minnesota. Kevin, do I understand that under this three-year

projected budget you're going to invade corporate by the tune of about 30 percent?

Kevin R. Breitzmann, B&F Chair: That would be the projection.

Tony R. Krall, PGM: Not being a Board member, but I would just remind everyone that this Board is

prohibited from adopting a deficit budget. You're going to, in my opinion, have to take an affirmative action

to authorize a corporate allocation that invades the corpus. My personal opinion, it's a bad idea to spend

30 or 40 percent of your endowment for corpus, but I don't think you can just do it by a stroke of the

accountant's pen, no offense gentlemen.

I think in the past this Board has taken and made it an affirmative vote to take five, six or seven percent out

of investments to put on the income side of things. I don't know that maybe you've done that and I just

haven't paid attention or been around, but I don't know that you can just arbitrarily do that without an

affirmative vote that the corporate allocation will be X percentage this year.



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Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Tony, I think we've done it the last three years right under Kingdom of

DeMolay that budget, you know, hang on second.

Tony R. Krall, PGM: Well, I was going to reiterate the same point that, yes, we've done it in the past with

Kingdom of DeMolay but we had a particular vision and goal of, you know, having things improve

drastically, but here, you know, we're not looking at things improving drastically, we're looking at a budget

that instead of an average of five percent, we're drawing down an average of 17 percent but over three

years it would be 40 percent. How can we, as a Board of Directors, do that?

You know, I know that we need a database. We have a new director now, maybe we should be thinking

about having that person look into an independent assessment. Maybe there's a better way of doing things.

Maybe we need to look at the office structure and come up with a business plan. We don't have a business

plan. We talked about, well, by bringing on the database we'll be able to reduce other recurring expenses

elsewhere in our operation. Well, we don't have that. As Board members it's our responsibility to have as

close to a balanced budget as we can. If we're going to go into our reserves, hopefully there's a solid plan

that says over time we'll start to recoup some of those losses. We can't expect the investments to be as good

as they have in the past year. Look at what the investments have been over the past five years. You can't

continue that and I think it's our responsibility to kind of draw the line and, yes, it is a budget we can

disapprove it, you know, again, I think we're putting the cart before the horse.

Let's come up with a balanced budget. If we need to come back in and, you know, approve an amendment to

the budget to add it in later on, fine, let's do that, but I just don't think it's wise for us as a board to go

forward with basically a negative budget, one that drains our reserves.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: One of the things, I guess, you know, I'm looking that hopefully in a

couple of days there will be somebody else sitting here in this chair but I guess, you know, look at it

personally like, you know, we have a reserve and I'm sick and if I turn around and say I can't go to the

hospital because I'm not going to spend my reserves, gentlemen, I can tell you going through and watching

the process that takes place in our center today where a single transaction, where somebody orders

something from the store and it requires six or seven transactions to be able to process that one T-shirt you

got, what it is doing is keeping them from being able to supply for me as an Executive Officer out in the

field.

So I would turn around and say back to the comment that Reid made is this is a budget and as a Board

you'll have the ability to turn around and say, after you get all the information that, no, you know, we're not

going to spend that money but at least you have the ability to do that.

It's a management tool, that's essentially what a budget is. Just because you have the money doesn't mean

you need to spend it. I create a budget at home for my own personal and it doesn't mean that I'm going to go

out and spend all that money but at least I know that I'm going to have it. Again, that's my two cents.

Steven E. Crane, Grand Junior Councilor: There's been some numbers thrown around here and you

cannot cumulatively add 17 percent and 12 percent and then ten percent and call it 40 percent, that's

nonsense. So it is 17 percent one year, then it's maybe 12 the next year and it's maybe 11 the year after that.

Those are not additive numbers. So to be commenting that it's a 30 percent draw or it's a 40 percent draw,

that's just not in the world of fiscal accounting.

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Kevin R. Breitzmann, B&F Chair: One thing to note on this. The percentage that I said before, if nothing

else changes, in this budget there is nothing budgeted for grant income. The DeMolay Foundation in the

past has given grants to DeMolay International. They're not able to this year so we do not have any grant

income in here and those further percentages are based on nothing changes meaning no other grants.

Hopefully the Foundation's financial situation will be that they can give grants in the future so those

percentages would be reduced if we don't have to take this big a draw on our investments.

Marc B. Bohn: Grand Master, Marc Bohn from Region 3. Kevin, the Foundation grants that we had been

receiving stopped just before we started into the Kingdom of DeMolay program as well, didn't they? Is that

an accurate statement?

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: As the former Chairman of the Budget and Finance

Committee, yes, that was approximately the timing that the grants from the Foundation, I wouldn't say

ceased but they went in another direction with the Foundation. As they have reported to us on multiple

occasions that was to start their fund raising Chief Development Officer initiative but also when they made

those decisions they also moved into the maintenance on the buildings that went on this year as well.

So I fully expect that our Chief Development Officer is going to be successful and that our Foundation is

going to get back in the business of doing what they're in the business of doing which is to be the

endowment side to provide funds for the operations. So I agree with what Kevin is saying that if nothing

changes those would be the numbers. It's not a cumulative effect, but yes, that we have a Foundation that

has funded our operations for years and that we've just been in a situation right now due to other

circumstances that there have not been grants in the budgets for numbers of years.

Marc B. Bohn: So what we're saying is we're having to use our own resources to replace funding that

we're not receiving from the Foundation.

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Correct. Right. Those grants have ranged from somewhere

between $100,000 to $250,000 over the years that I was on the Budget and Finance committee, whether as a

member or the chairman. So depending on what the grant requests were from the various committees that

were requesting funding, we had that field rep program a number of years ago, all of these things came

together as various types of grants and if the Foundation was funding grants in the normal process, the

database project would be something that we would request a grant for but we don't have the ability to do

that right now. Does that answer your question, Marc?

Marc B. Bohn: Absolutely. Thank you very much.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Guys, just so you know, we actually have to move on. We've got like

eight minutes left for this meeting and we have another meeting coming back.

Tony R. Krall, PGM: Grand Master, I'm not offering comments -- Tony Krall from Minnesota. I'm not

offering comments for or against deficit spending, we can debate that at a more appropriate time, my point

is I think from a legal standpoint this Board of Directors needs to have an affirmative vote about the amount

of draw down because of the balanced budget requirement.

You can't just, in my opinion, and maybe J&L will say that I'm wrong but I don't believe that you can just by

the stroke of the accountant's pen increase the corporate draw, you have to have an affirmative vote to do

that. That's the way we always did it in the past. I don't know what we did for the last three years for

Kingdom of DeMolay. Again, I'm not weighing in on the merits, I just think that you have to make an



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affirmative decision as a corporate board to define the draw down and then whatever it is you vote on and

the merits. I don't think you can do it just to make your budget balance, I think you have to define it by

affirmative vote. That's my only point.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you. So the vote is actually right now, so I guess we're saying

we're going to move to receive the report and not necessarily approve it. Is that okay? So now, we had a

motion on the floor. I know Wes is going to tell me that I can't do that, right? I already see the look on his

face.

Wesley D. Thornton, PGM, Grand Treasurer: I'm not the parliamentarian here, Tony is.

Mr. Speaker: What is the motion?

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: The motion was to approve the budget.

Mr. Speaker: To receive the budget.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: What was said was the move to approve.

Mr. Speaker: You have to approve a budget at some point. You can receive a report or approve a budget.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: So the motion on the floor is to approve the budget. Okay. It's been

moved and seconded and we've had lots of discussion. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Those opposed.

(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It passes. Thank you.

Richard L. Sayre: Grand Master, for those of you who wonder why we do some of these things in terms of

deficit spending and all that, Tony and I would be happy to discuss it. Those people who are sort of new to

the Board and why in the world we do some of this stuff, we'd be happy to tell you offline. We'd be happy to

tell you personally.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Moving on to the Service and Leadership Center. Frank, is that you?

Francis J. Nordstrom: Frank Nordstrom, Service and Leadership Center. In the Board packet there is an

annual report. I copied that off of past reports and modified it a little bit.

Let me keep it really brief. Over the past year we have focused on a couple of different things, transparency

being one and it has not always been pretty nor has it been fun at times, but I will tell you that transparency

has gotten us to a place where we can now bring forth people like Michael Russell, our Executive Director.

I'm very proud of what we've done in terms of transparency and what we've done in the office.



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In the ten minutes that I took just to think about some of our highlights I came up with 22 things. So

although oftentimes we say there's a lot of negatives, I would like to remind this Board and everyone in this

room that the Service and Leadership Center staff has a lot of things to be proud of.

For those of you who are interested in elections at this session, I know Mr. Sayre was very kind to say my

name. I'd like to have you thank Nancy Shipps who got your postcards out. So for anyone who is interested

in an election please, please, please thank Nancy for that.

Other than that I would like to just say that I'm looking forward to working with our new Executive

Director, sitting back in my office and focusing on some other avenues other than the day-to-day

management items. So I appreciate you coming on board and I look forward to working with you and thank

you everyone on the Board, especially Grand Master and the elected line for the countless phone calls

regardless of whether it was 1:00 a.m. or not, I appreciate it so thank you.


Mr. Speaker: I tell you what we do in the interest of time on what happened, we can defer that overall

discussion on the database committee. The short version of it is we don't have a lot of extra detail right

now. There's some very good reasons including some that Wayne mentioned and Dennis Reed. Mostly when

we realized we were working through the contracts trying to get it refined enough to our legal department

and with the addition of the new Executive Director, we totally agree that we need to get the Executive

Director involved in this process and do a lot of what Wayne said and I think that's where we're at just

trying to get that processed and done. I'm more than happy to bring a little more detail in our later session.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Very good. Tony. You're on the agenda for legal and legislation.

Tony R. Krall, PGM: No lawsuits. All is well.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you. We already talked about the ten regions. Mike.

Mr. Speaker: Is that being advanced as an emergency?

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: He doesn't know yet. They're getting together, right?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: You're talking about call item 6?


Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: J&L doesn't know whether it's urgent and necessary until they decide.

If it's not, it won't be on the agenda.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: We covered that. Anything else that needs to come before this Board?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: You will know if it's deemed urgent and necessary because they will

hand you copies of it.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Appreciate it. Thank you. Again, I just want to thank everyone for your

dedication to DeMolay and being here. I don't know if Greg Kimberling is here but Greg, I just personally

want to also thank you for, you know, we had some projects that we needed help with and you willingly



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stepped in and helped up there and spent a lot of your own free time and money to help us, so on behalf of

this board I want to personally thank you for that.

Greg L. Kimberling, PGM: Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's 9:31. We're closed. Thank you.

(Proceedings closed at 9:31 a.m.)


Board of Directors June 21, 2014

Westin Crown Center Hotel


Attendance:

Grand Master Mike A. Salazar

Grand Senior Councilor Derek G. Sprague

Grand Junior Councilor Steven E. Crane

Grand Secretary Patton R. Hart, PGM

Grand Treasurer Wesley D. Thornton, PGM

Region 1 Representative Wayne T. Szretter

Region 2 Representative William M. Sardone

Region 3 Representative Marc C. Bohn

Region 4 Representative Sherman C. Parker, Jr.

Region 5 Representative Mark R. Hailer

Region 6 Representative Dennis L. Reed

Region 7 Representative Gary Garafola

Region 8 Representative Warren R. Cole

Budget & Finance Chairman Kevin R. Breitzmann

Jurisprudence & Legislation Chairman Richard L. Sayre

EO Conference Chairman Mark L. Rauschenberger

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor

Others Attending:

Michael Russell, Executive Director

Nancy A. Shipps, Director of Administration

Ross Pfannenstiel, Director of Development

Jason Wood, Congress Advisor

Stephen M. Berry, Region 3 (elect) Representative

Ward Williamson, Region 10 (elect) Representative

Luiz Kieling, Region 9 (elect) Representative

Keith K. Klein, PGM, Grand Secretary (elect)

James C. Hawkins, 48th International Mater Councilor (elect)

Stephen C. Mattox, 48th International Congress Secretary (elect)

Grand Master Salazar opened the meeting at 11:00am.



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Alumni Committee

Rusty Glendinning was called on to continue his presentation for the Alumni Report with information

regarding the Harris Report for the Alumni use to compile a directory and database clean up. He encourages

the Board to approve, contingent on our attorney reviewing the proposal and contract.

Sherman Parker made a motion to table, Dennis Reed seconded, motion was passed.

Congress Committee

Revision of the Congress Bylaws to add the name of the Congress Advisor. Sherman Parker made a motion

to move for the purpose of discussion.

Wes Thornton made a motion to receive the recommendation after a cost allocation, it was seconded by

Sherman Parker, motion passed.

James Hawkins, International Master Councilor elect made a motion for the Board of Directors to accept the

Bylaws, Rules & Regulations changes for the descriptions of the International Master Councilor and

International congress Secretary. Wes Thornton seconds the motion.

Stephen Berry calls for discussion and requests to table until the August Board of Directors meeting.

Division. The table was withdrawn.

Discussion.

Greg Chiles, Jason Wood and Mark Rauschenberger states their reasons for being against this.

Chris LaBaw clarifies the issue on behalf of the Congress.

Wes Thornton recommends the Board does not pass and the Grand Master calls all in favor, it was properly

seconded and failed.

Boston Virtual Enterprises (BVE)

Wes Thornton makes a motion that the contract be approved by the Board of Directors and signed, all in

favor, second and motion passed.

Grand Master Salazar thanks the Board of Directors for the past year and adjourns the meeting at 11:21am.


Grand Opening June 19, 2014


(commenced at 6:37 p.m.)

Keith K. Klein, PGM: Good evening and welcome to the opening ceremony of the celebration of another

successful year in DeMolay International. This annual session brings us back to Kansas City, Missouri, the

birthplace of DeMolay International.

Good evening. My name is Keith Klein. I am a Past Grand Master of DeMolay International and I'll be

your master of ceremonies for this evening. It's now my honor and privilege to introduce our distinguished



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leaders for DeMolay International. It is my privilege to introduce the International Master Councilor, the

International Congress Secretary and the Grand Master of DeMolay International.

The 47th International Master Councilor, Robert Laing. The 47th International Congress Secretary, Chris

LaBaw and the 82nd Grand Master of DeMolay International, Mike A. Salazar, and the first lady of

DeMolay International, Janet.

It is now my distinguished honor to present the elected officers of the International Supreme Council, Derek

Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor, Oregon, and his wife, Corinda.

Steve Crane, Grand Junior Councilor from Kansas and his wife, Marilyn.

Wesley D. Thornton, Past Grand Master and Grand Treasurer from New Mexico and his wife, Robin.

Patton R. Hart, Past Grand Master and the Grand Secretary from Kentucky.

Please welcome our elected line.

We'll now introduce all of the delegates and Executive Officers so please hold your applause until all of

these loyal jurisdictional leaders for the Order of DeMolay have been introduced, and then we'll give them

and greet them with a hardy welcome and extend our sincere appreciation for their faithful service. We'll

now have the entrance of the Congress Officers and the Executive Officers.

Jeffrey C. Kitsmiller, Jr.: Representing the jurisdiction of Alabama, State Master Councilor Evan

Cheeley, State Senior Councilor E. Ray Hinderliter, Jr. and their Executive Officer Tom Paul.

We'll improvise.

Representing the jurisdiction of Arizona, State Master Councilor Matthew Hartzell-Robbins, Chandler

Gordon their Deputy State Master Councilor, and the Executive Officer of Arizona William Gordon.

Representing the jurisdiction of Arkansas, State Master Councilor Connor Appleton, Deputy State Master

Councilor Matt Adcock and their Executive Officer Michael Rushin.

Representing the jurisdiction of Colorado, State Master Councilor Tally Bennett, Deputy State Master

Councilor Tim Zumalt and their Executive Officer Gary Mueller.

Representing the jurisdiction of Connecticut, State Master Councilor James P. Cavanaugh, II, Deputy State

Master Councilor Nicholas S. Carpenter and their Executive Officer Harry Needham.

Representing the jurisdiction of Delaware Executive Officer Ronald Keller.

Representing the jurisdiction of Florida, State Master Councilor Martin Cox, State Senior Councilor

William Brown and their Executive Officer Stephen Berry.

Representing the jurisdiction of Georgia, James Hawkins State Senior Councilor, Austin Everson State

Master Councilor and their Executive Officer Marc Bohn.

Representing Germany, Ward Williamson, Executive Officer.



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Representing Idaho, William D. Votaw, II and Elijah Newberry.

Representing Bolivia Jorge A. Quintanilla Executive Officer.

Representing the jurisdiction of Illinois, Nick Capes State Master Councilor, Daulton Hammes Deputy State

Master Councilor, and Mark Rauschenberger, Executive Officer.

Representing the jurisdiction of Indiana Gregory A. Chiles, Past Grand Master, Executive Officer.

Representing Italy, Executive Officer Luciano Critelli and Lorenzo Marenco.

Representing the jurisdiction of Kansas, David Barnes, III State Master Councilor, Greg Marriott State

Senior Councilor and David Barnes their Executive Officer.

Representing the jurisdiction of Kentucky Executive Officer Danny Coffey.

Representing the jurisdiction of Louisiana, Kyle Cook State Master Councilor, their Deputy State Master

Councilor Tyler Hortmann and their Executive Officer Nicholas Auck.

Representing the jurisdiction of Maine, Gordon Kimball, Executive Officer, Aaron Wright State Master

Councilor and their State Senior Councilor Christopher Cassette.

Representing the Nation's Capitol Jordan Bressman Deputy Jurisdictional Master Councilor, Sepp Panzen

State Master Councilor of Maryland, Deputy State Master Councilor, Spencer Schuch and the Executive

Officer of Maryland and the Nation's Capitol, William Eppig.

Representing the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, Brian Noble, Executive Officer, State Master Councilor

Justin Cargill, State Senior Councilor MacLean Rankin and Region 1 cabinet member Brandon Thorne.

Representing the jurisdiction of Michigan, James Oliver, Joshua Lampar and Sherman Parker their

Executive Officer.

Representing the jurisdiction of Minnesota Mark Hailer, Executive Officer.

Ladies and gentlemen representing your host jurisdiction, the Show Me State of Missouri your State Master

Councilor Brandon Rarey, your Deputy State Master Councilor Quentin Cockerham and the Executive

Officer of the Show Me State, Robert Cockerham, Past Grand Master.

Representing the jurisdiction of Montana, Deputy State Master Councilor Justin Johnson, State Activities

Director Zach Clausen and their Executive Officer Sam Whitehead.

Representing the jurisdiction of Nebraska Executive Officer Mike Stuhr.

Representing the jurisdiction of New Hampshire, Scott Jenckes State Master Councilor and their Executive

Officer George Baldwin.

Representing the jurisdiction of New Jersey, Ryan VanderHorn past State Master Councilor, Region 2

Congress cabinet member, State Master Councilor Jon White.



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Representing the jurisdiction of New Mexico and their Executive Officer, Wesley Thornton, Past Grand

Master in the Distinguished East.

Ladies and gentlemen, representing the jurisdiction of New York Executive Officer William Sardone.

Representing the jurisdiction of Northern California, Hawaii, Nic Poulter Master Councilor, Gared Hassel

Senior Councilor and their Executive Officer, ladies and gentleman let's hear it for Mike A. Salazar, Grand

Master.

Representing the jurisdiction of North Carolina, Executive Officer, Tony Glidewell.

Representing the jurisdiction of North Dakota, Gary Spicer, Executive Officer.

Representing the jurisdiction of Ohio, State Master Councilor Samuel Cohen, Deputy State Master

Councilor A.J. Thomas and Martin Woodworth their Executive Officer.

Representing the jurisdiction of Oklahoma Ron Minshall, Executive Officer.

Representing Ontario from the jurisdiction of Canada Executive Officer Ernest Loiselle.

Representing the jurisdiction of Oregon, State Master Councilor Ryan Thornburgh, State Senior Councilor

Gabriel Jones-Gallardo and their Executive Officer Mike Sanders.

Representing the jurisdiction of Paraguay Executive Officer Luis Fernando Ramirez.

Representing the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, Deputy State Master Councilor Adam Pritchard, Isaac

Holtzer State Chaplain and their Executive Officer Tom Labagh.

Representing Peru, the Executive Officer Jose Martin Mita Salinas.

Representing the jurisdiction of Rhode Island, Executive Officer Mike Lawson, state representative Randy

Alsabe and state representative Michael Palmer.

Representing the jurisdiction of South Carolina, their State Master Councilor Zachary Spargur and Deputy

State Master Councilor Taylor Foulds.

Representing the jurisdiction of Southern California, Victor Key their Executive Officer. Also with them is

the Southern California Jurisdiction Master Councilor Michael Hannum and Southern California

Jurisdiction Deputy Master Councilor Tyler Davis.

Representing the jurisdiction of Tennessee, their Deputy State Master Councilor David Hastings and State

Senior Councilor Matthew Bridgers.

Representing the jurisdiction of Texas, Michael Sampson, Executive Officer, Joseph McAteer State Master

Councilor and John Parker their Deputy State Master Councilor.

Representing Uruguay, Gustavo Ma. Barboza Souza Executive Officer.



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Representing the jurisdiction of Utah, Deputy State Master Councilor Taylor Anderson, Matthew Harris

State Master Councilor and their Executive Officer John Limb.

Representing the jurisdiction of Vermont, Austin Isham, Executive Officer.

Representing the jurisdiction of Virginia, their Executive Officer, Rick Young, State Master Councilor

Darren Murray and Deputy State Master Councilor Derrick Sanders.

Representing the jurisdiction of Washington, their Executive Officer.

Representing the jurisdiction of West Virginia, Doug Sappington, Executive Officer and their state advisor

Mason Winkie.

Representing the jurisdiction of Wisconsin, Executive Officer, Allan Iding, State Master Councilor Ryan

Dunn, Mitchell Beaudry and Region 5 Congress cabinet member Stephen Mattox.

Representing Brazil Douglas Aguiar, National Master Councilor Adjunct, Osvaldo Leite, National Master

Councilor.

Keith K. Klein, PGM: At this time we would like to ask that the Past Grand Masters of DeMolay

International please stand for introduction when their name is called and we will also ask their wives to

stand if they're with us in the room.

First, Gregory Chiles, Past Grand Master, and his wife, Dawn. Jay Weldon Clampitte, Past Grand Master.

Robert Cockerham, Past Grand Master, and his wife, Stacy. Robert Hannon, Past Grand Master, and his

wife, Marion. Reese Harrison, Past Grand Master. Patton Hart, Past Grand Master. Franklin J. Kell, Jr.,

Past Grand Master. Greg Kimberling, Past Grand Master. Keith Klein, standing. Gregory Klemm, Past

Grand Master. Tony Krall, Past Grand Master, and his wife, Bev. Joe R. Manning, Jr., Past Grand Master,

and his wife, Cindy. David Morgan, Past Grand Master. Dale Sandstrom, Past Grand Master. Wesley

Thornton, Past Grand Master, and wife, Robin. Michael Watson, Past Grand Master, and his wife, Brenda.

Fredrick Welch, Past Grand Master, and Joe Williams, Past Grand Master.

Please welcome our Past Grand Masters. To help preserve the solemnity of the next part of our program we

ask that you please set your cell phones to stun. That means mute them or turn them off. Will the honorary

Senior Deacon now attend at our sacred DeMolay altar and display the mighty bulwarks of our Order.

Mr. Speaker: We light the candles to commemorate all that is good and right in the world. They are

beacons in the darkness and the light to illuminate our pathway throughout life. Each candle represents the

great standards upon which we have pledged to base our lives. The standards of feeling love, reverence for

sacred things, courtesy, comradship, fidelity, and patriotism are enduring principles that are displayed with

seven burning candles.

Mr. Speaker: Brother, Honorary Senior Steward, you will open our Holy Bible upon our altar.

Mr. Speaker: The Holy Bible is proudly opened upon our altar during all of our deliberations in

observance of our faith in Almighty God and our right to worship according to the dictates of our own

conscience. Upon our altar it is not the symbol of any one creed or the repository of any one system of

theology but the Word of the one living and true God whose universal fatherhood teaches the inescapable

lesson of the brotherhood of all his sons.



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Mr. Speaker: The school books are also placed upon the altar as a symbol of our intellectual liberty

without which there could be neither civil nor religious freedom. They are emblematic of the great public

school and the championship of universal enlightenment.

Keith K. Klein, PGM: Grand Marshal, you will retire and escort the DeMolay and American flag.

Mr. Speaker: One of our proud principles in DeMolay is love of country as symbolized by the flag of the

DeMolay’s country. We learn the value of good citizenship in our service to our great Order and to

maintain the honor of our emblem through the patriotism of peace as well as the heroism of war.

In token of our tribute to the various nations which DeMolay International has an active program, the flags

of the various countries are on display in our distinguished East.

The flag of the United States of America is now presented for recognition of patriotism in the service of

national pride that all people have for their respective countries. With the United States serving as the site

of the annual session, please remain at attention saluting the flag of your nation as those who are citizens of

the United States of America, please join me in saluting and pledging allegiance to the flag of the Unites

States of America.

(Pledge of Allegiance was recited)

My brothers, you will please post the flag.

Keith K. Klein, PGM: As no great undertaking should ever begin without asking the blessing of Almighty

God, let us direct our attention to the Grand Chaplain as he leads us in our prayers. Active DeMolays,

where possible, please kneel, all others please remain standing.

(Prayer was said)

Keith K. Klein, PGM: Brothers and friends, we have now reached the point in our proceedings where we

are privileged to ask the Grand Master and the International Congress officers to declare the 94th session of

the Supreme Council and the 47th International DeMolay Congress open.

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: We now declare the 47th International DeMolay

Congress.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: And the 97th session of DeMolay International.

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: Open for the transaction of business, ceremonies and

festivities.

Keith K. Klein, PGM: It is now our pleasure to hear from the International Master Councilor with his

opening remarks.

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: Thank you Dad Klein. Good evening everyone.

(Crowd responds good evening)



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Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: Today is the best day for DeMolay, isn't it? Together

we come together as our International body representing thousands of DeMolays from around the world to

do our work and do it well. I don't have much to say. I am very honored to be here. I am blessed for all of

your guidance and for this past year serving the International DeMolay Congress.

Chris and I have done our best to put on a good Congress program that all of our delegates can come here,

not just to represent their jurisdictions and work hard and become inspired, but also we hope to teach them

some life lessons and some skills that they can take back home and use in DeMolay and outside of it.

Our mission is clear that we are very excited to be here with all of you and to share this wonderful week

with our DeMolay family. Thank you all for the hard work that you do for DeMolay because without you

DeMolay does not work so we thank you so much for your hard work. I look forward to talking with you all.

Let's have a great session.

Keith K. Klein, PGM: It's now my honor to welcome Grand Master, dad and Brother Mike A. Salazar for

his opening remarks.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Good evening.

(Crowd responds good evening).

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: On behalf of DeMolay International I'd like to welcome all our honored

guests and extended bodies of our Masonic families and also our youth organization, Job’s Daughters, our

grand lodge jurisdictions. We are pleased that you took time out of your busy schedules to be here with us

and join us in celebration of this great opening.

Your friendship is very important to us. Your presence here in Kansas City which is the birthplace of

DeMolay is a testament of the importance that together we can accomplish more.

I'd also at this point like to let you know I really tried working really hard to include the active members.

All of the young men that participated are actually members of my home chapter, Pleasanton, California.

They actually made a trip out here so for the Pleasanton DeMolay, thank you for the honor of flying out

here and helping us open this session. Please give them a round of applause.

I'd like to also take this opportunity a little bit to share something. I'm really excited about some of the

things that took place this year. One of the things that, you know, I set out to do was to turn around and

make sure that we could offer our DeMolay leadership training to more jurisdictions, either on site or doing

it virtually through the web, and I can tell you that I think we were pretty successful. This year we actually

were able to reach out to about 1,000 people doing the leadership conference which for us it's an increase

over the years before and in some cases the training was provided to jurisdictions at no cost. That was one

of the things that we've heard from the jurisdictions that say, sometimes I can't fly out to wherever you're

doing it, it will cost me money so this year as a DeMolay International group we actually were able to

provide onsite training.

You know a lot of the universities are going to that where they're doing everything online. You're able to

take classes online. I know that our IMC here, International Master Councilor here takes advantage of that.

So I hope that at DeMolay International we continue to do that.



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Another push that we tried doing this year was also doing a lot of live streaming. Let's live stream

everything that we do so we can show the world what DeMolay is doing. One of those things that was

extremely successful this year was the fact that, thank you to the support of the Scottish Rite we actually had

the privilege of going to Paris and being there for the 700-year anniversary and it was actually live

streamed.

Your two Congress officers were up, I think for almost two days solid doing the filming and trying to make

sure that they were awake so we can do the live streaming. I was told that we actually had about 10,000

hits and according to Frank, is Frank Nordstrom in the room? According to Frank back there, this is what

he said, he said we became the largest show in town. You know, it says it was the banner of a single event in

history and essentially we were the show in town for that particular event. We actually took so many hits

that we actually had to order a special wide band to try and get the filming out so I actually want to thank

the Congress officers and Frank and my friends at Scottish Rite, again, for making that possible.

You know, if you get the message, my whole year was trying to do things virtually and trying to reach out to

more people. I probably am the first Grand Master that's ever virtually attended a convention or conclave.

I don't know if my brothers who are sitting out here whether you've had the opportunity to do that but as

some of you know, I've had a little bit of medical issues in the latter part of last year and my doctor

grounded me and I was supposed to go to Southern California to conclave and Dad Key actually arranged

for me to be able to attend their convention via Skype. So I was able to meet with their advisors while I was

at home. So Dad Key thank you for that privilege and, again, I think that's just another vehicle that we as

an organization need to take better part in that.

I think somebody asked me, they said, as Grand Master what was it like? If you had a wish to be granted,

what would it be, and I guess for me the wish is that every jurisdiction that we have in DeMolay

International and maybe just not DeMolay but, you know, the Jobs and the Rainbow, all of your groups, that

they wind up with the support that I personally as an Executive Officer for Northern California received.

So actually if I can ask Past Grand Masters of California, could you please stand, and their wives? They've

been here the whole session. They've been here to work. They've been working in the hospitality and

actually in our room, they've been working in registration. You know, their comment was, I'm here to help

whatever it is to help DeMolay and they actually, you know, at our last convention, I mean, they were out

there moving chairs so that the guys could get to their dance sooner. Please remain standing.

To add to that group of folks we actually, and he'll be introduced later but our Deputy Grand Master sitting

in the back against the wall and his lovely wife, Linda, is also here. Linda, will you stand up? Again, you

know, the same issue, moving chairs. They're there for the kids.

Can I get the executive staff for NorCal to stand up, please? These are the folks that actually do the work in

the background. I'm the one that gets introduced but the work actually happens with them so I appreciate

all them.

Can I get Past Jurisdictional Master Councilors, can you stand? These are the guys that continue to give

back. They turn around and they age out but they continue to give back to DeMolays. DeMolays look more

to past jurisdictional officers than they do to somebody like myself who they probably consider ancient. No

laughing, okay.



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Can I get all the Active members from Nor Cal to stand up? All the Active members, where are they? Can I

get all the advisors and Active members of California to stand up? Look around the room folks, we're from

California and yet they're here to support DeMolay.

This is what I wish for every jurisdiction to be able to turn around and say, you know, that I can provide this

kind of support for our youth. You know, this isn't just unique because I'm here as Grand Master, this

happened all the time at home. So I just want to thank all of you and, again, like I said, if I had a wish as

Grand Master, that would be my wish that we could be able to provide that kind of support so all of you,

thank you again for your support.

Another thing I probably would like to share with you is that the interest in developing DeMolay outside of

the U.S. is just phenomenal. As you know I've had the opportunity to travel the world and literally the world,

you know, meeting DeMolays from Romania, Serbia, Italy, Brazil. three, four weeks ago I was in the

Philippines. You know, DeMolays are everywhere.

Just the excitement that is out there and sometimes I think we forget that we truly are DeMolay

International. You know, we turn around and say we're within our own boundaries but this organization is

thriving and people out there that look at what we have are constantly knocking at our door and asking how

can I get DeMolay in my country? You know, just a few weeks ago Dad Kimberling and a group of people

actually went to Panama and started DeMolay in Panama.

Like I said, we're having, if nothing else, we're having a difficult time trying to stay on top of it. Of course,

that's a nice problem to have where people are knocking on your door and saying, I want DeMolay in my

country. So I'm sure that the leadership of the new group will figure out how to get there and just, I guess

one last item, I would be really, I guess publicly want to thank my family.

Can I have my immediate family please stand? You can sit Maria. My daughter, Maria, and two-year-old

grandson and my son-in-law, Steve, and the person that actually carried the flag, the American flag, was my

grandson, Charlie, who's in the back. Next to him is my son, Michael. Michael was the one that started me

in DeMolay. When he joined DeMolay, you know, turned around and said, well, it's something I want to do

with you, Michael, so thanks Michael. Our latest, our newest addition to our family is Mrs. Salazar,

Stephanie. I have a hard time calling her Mrs. Salazar, but we're really excited. They just got married May

17th, so just recently and my high school sweetheart who continues to be the wind beneath my wings, thank

you.

So, again, thank you for being here. Thank you for showing your support for DeMolay. You know, if there's

one message and I guess it was given at the Executive Officer conference and for those that already heard

this, all the adults that are here that are from our Masonic family, thank you for the support you provide our

youth.

You know, someone said that if we don't mentor our youth, somebody else will and, you know, having a

grandson who is going to join DeMolay here pretty soon, you know, I'm not ready to let just anybody

mentor my grandson, you know. I want someone that I know what his character is like and so for that I want

to thank all of our Masonic family that is here supporting our youth. I can't thank you enough. So, again,

thank you for being here with us this evening.

Keith K. Klein, PGM: Will the Grand Marshal, I'm going to ask you to retire and present some special

dignitaries to the east. We are honored to have with us this evening several distinguished leaders of

DeMolay and the Masonic families who have demonstrated their support for the Order of DeMolay



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throughout the years and I'd like to go through the list of names and our Grand Marshal will work with the

people as we call their name.

John Philip Barre, the Deputy Grand Master of Masons in France. Jon Broyles, Grand Master of Masons in

Missouri. Louis Campbell, Louis was the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Virginia in 2013. Russ

Charvonia the Deputy Grand Master of Masons in California. Amber Galaz, the Supreme Bethel Honor

Queen of Job's Daughters International. David Glattly, Deputy, Ancient Acceptance Scottish Rite Northern

Masonic Jurisdiction representing (John W. McNaughton), the Sovereign Grand Commander, David

Goodwin, the Most Eminent Grand Master of the Grand Encampment of the Knights Templar. Brianna

Hall, Ms. International Job's Daughter, Job's Daughters International. Edmund Harrison, General Grand

High Priest General Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons International. Jack Jones, Honorary Past Grand

Master DeMolay International, Imperial Recorder Shrine International, Past Imperial Potentate and

representing Potentate John Cinotto. Joe R. Manning, Jr., Past Grand Master, SGIG of Oklahoma

representing Ronnie Seale Sovereign Grand Commander, Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction. Ian Milne,

Supreme Council of Australia. Jeffrey Nelson, Right Eminent Grand Generalissimo, Grand Encampment

Knights Templar. Omar Rogerio Pereira Barbosa, Grand Master of DeMolay in Brazil. Patty Reardon,

Supreme Guardian Job's Daughters International. Gary Semaniuk the Associate Supreme Guardian Job's

Daughters International, and John Slade, Executive Officer for Alberta DeMolay and Grand Master of

Masons in Alberta, Canada.

Please welcome our distinguished guests.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Now, I have the honor of calling on Brianna Hall, Miss International

Job's Daughter for her remarks.

Brianna Hall, Miss International Job’s Daughter: International Master Councilor, Robert Laing;

International Congress Secretary Christopher LaBaw; Grand Master, Mr. Mike Salazar, DeMolay brothers

and friends, good evening.

(Crowd responds)

Brianna Hall, Miss International Job’s Daughter: Thank you. I got a response. That's wonderful. I

would first like to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for welcoming myself and the rest of the

representatives from Job's Daughters International to your Congress. I have never been before. So I'm

very excited to be here in my home state. Thank you for welcoming me and I have been very impressed with

your courtesy, your public speaking and leadership skills, so thank you.

Have you ever taken a moment to observe our world and modern communities and been both impressed and

saddened by what you see? I have many times. I've been impressed by our advances in technology,

medicine and entertainment, but there is one thing that our society sorely lacks, leadership training for

youth and that is one of the main reasons I love and have supported Job's Daughters International and my

Masonic family for a life changing ten years.

Job's Daughters, Rainbow Girls and DeMolay all teach leadership skills and lessons that do not always

merit attention from other youth groups such as respect for our elders and the belief in the opinion of

others, reverence for sacred things, courtesy, patience, brotherhood or sisterhood and above all, service.

Through leadership workshops, performing ceremonies and presiding over business meetings, we have

learned parliamentary procedures and gained confidence as well as public speaking, planning and



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supervising skills; furthermore, we understand that being a leader is not about enjoying our time in the

spotlight, it is all about servicing our brothers and sisters in our orders.

We are not afraid of reaching towards the best, supporting individualism and originality and just hours

upon hours of stress, and at times, challenging work. This is where we as Masonic youth differ drastically

from today's stereotypical teenagers and young men and women. Modern youth have an unfortunate

reputation for being irresponsible, reckless and focused on various sources of entertainment.

Involvement in our three youth groups, however, provides young people with the opportunity to shatter that

reputation and build a more productive one. Our communities desperately need inspiring leaders like us to

fight against the pathetically low expectations for today's youth.

Unfortunately, just when organizations like ours are most needed, our membership numbers have been

dropping. Promotion is a constant struggle for all of us. This is why now more than ever I am so

passionate about strengthening the relationship between our three youth groups.

I firmly believe that one of the keys to our success is joining forces and supporting one another. This entails

both vocally providing advice and encouragement and also actively hosting joint events and sharing

promotion advice and opportunities. After all, we are brothers and sisters within our Masonic family so we

should protect, love and support each other as families should.

I truly believe that if we work as a family, we can inspire thousands more of our peers to join with us in

going above and beyond and with the combined leadership skills of Job's Daughters, Rainbow Girls and

DeMolay, we can carry the skills and values of true leadership into the future.

Thank you, again, for your hospitality and for the honor of speaking before you this evening. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you, Brianna. Brianna, one of the things I probably should have

told you before you started speaking is that we're live streaming this so you're being seen all over the world,

by the way. I guess I should have told her before. Sorry.

The next person that I'd like to call up here I can tell you actually had the opportunity in July to go to Brazil

and see the things that DeMolay is doing in Brazil and it's absolutely amazing. You know, the hospitality

that I received, it was just phenomenal.

So, first of all, I want to thank all the Brazilian's that are here. I think like 25 folks made the trip here, so

thank you. At this point I'd like to call to the podium the Grand Master of DeMolay Brazil, Omar.

Omar Barbosa: Good evening Brothers, Dads and guests for this evening. To start with our remarks

tonight I would like to ask for the Brazilians here to stand up. I would like to thank you for all the hospitality

from you guys since the time we got here. Representing our nation and Brazilian DeMolays for more than

40,000 active and senior DeMolays in Brazil is something that we cannot express.

We are now even -- we have a certainty that that idea from Dad Land is still alive and more and more

strong. We have always been close to you guys through the representative that you guys send to Brazil. For

example Dad Salazar, Steven, Greg Kimberling, all that have always represented you in our national

Congress in Brazil and now we can prove that the world is here united to discuss, develop and be DeMolay.

Alan Kelvin, Interpreter: I'll try to summarize what he said.



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Omar Barbosa: Okay. It's an honor to Brazil to be here united with you and look into your eyes and say

that DeMolay is being developed throughout the world, I guess, and also with the countries from South

America.

Alan Kelvin, Interpreter: He's apologizing for having too much words said because he's not used to

having a translator here.

Omar Barbosa: But anyways, I would like to thank you for everything you've done and also to say that our

country has opened doors for any of you here to visit and come and see DeMolay.

To end my speech I would like to introduce our two Master Councilors that were working here as delegates.

They have followed me here in this visit as they represent all our active DeMolay in Brazil. On behalf of

these people standing before you they represent Brazil and also all our DeMolay nation. I give here my

special thanks and I hope that we have a great congress.

Thank you Grand Master Salazar and International Master Councilor, Bob Laing.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: You heard him right when he said 40,000. Okay. Some people turned

around and said, was that 4,000. No, it was 40,000 they have there. It's amazing to go to one of their

sessions.

Now, I take the pleasure of hearing remarks here from the General Grand High Priest, General Grand

Chapter Royal Arch Masons International.

Edmund Harrison, General Grand High Priest: Wow, I'm not accustomed to standing for such a great

group. This is a little embarrassing and I'm going to do something I've never done before, I'm actually going

to speak briefly. Grand Master Salazar, International Master Councilor Laing, Distinguished East but

importantly all the DeMolays out here, the most important people in this room.

I had an interesting experience with DeMolay bringing Royal Arch and DeMolay together. Last year when I

was here I was approached by the advisor of the Fredrick Chapter in Frederick, Maryland. Now, the

interesting thing about this chapter was it was going to celebrate its 80th anniversary. That's right 80th.

Now, DeMolay is only 91 so I think that's a pretty old chapter. The significant thing was it was chartered

by a Royal Arch chapter and is still supported by a Royal Arch chapter. So they invited me to come down

here. Thank you, Mike, I appreciate it.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: He's doing exactly what I asked him to do.

Edmund Harrison, General Grand High Priest: So we went down to Frederick, Maryland which is out

in the western part of Maryland where most of the people of Maryland don't know that there's anything out

there, but it was a very nice town and we had a wonderful celebration and the exciting thing for me was to

see the passion and enthusiasm of the DeMolays in that chapter and that's where I was, first saw your

Maryland State Master Councilor Seth at work and he really impressed me with his dynamism and

presentation and I learned at that meeting that he was already a master mason. So what did I do, I got

together with the Grand High Priest, Richard Naegele, who was present with us and we cornered Seth and

we said, you've got to become a Royal Arch Mason. Later on that year we had a special celebration in

Baltimore where Seth exalted to the sublime degree of the Holy Royal Arch in a chapter that the degree was



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conferred, all the officers conferring the degree were former DeMolays. The Grand Master was present,

the Grand High Priest. It was a really exciting event.

I think Seth was probably one of the first DeMolays to become a Royal Arch Mason while he was State

Master Councilor. I think there's a great sign in there, the connection of one thing leading to another

because Royal Arch offers the answers to a lot of the questions that are left unanswered as a Master Mason.

One of the questions I want to pose to you guys is we hear all the time, well, DeMolay needs our help,

DeMolay needs our help and that's very good, we recognize that and we're prepared to try and help you but

the one thing that's left undone in that is what the hell are we supposed to do.

Okay, we'll help you but tell us what you want us to do. Communicate. Just come up to us and say, listen,

we need you guys to do this and we'll go out and try and do it. We're dumb. We're slow. We're old. We

need to be led by you guys that are sharp and alert and have got the ideas and are modern and up to date

and know what's going on in the world. Kick us in the ass and get us out there and make us do what we're

supposed to do. We want to help you but you got to tell us what you want us to do.

Now, I've had some wonderful things happen to me in the Royal Arch. I know some of these guys from

Brazil. I was Regional Deputy for General Grand Chapter for Brazil for three years back nine years ago

and at that time we had seven Royal Arch chapters in Brazil and just like DeMolay has grown to 40,000, we

now have 92 chapters in Brazil. Brazil is a thriving place for Masonry. It's a really fascinating, exciting

place to be, Mike, isn't it?


Edmund Harrison, General Grand High Priest: Absolutely. I've also been to Paraguay. Anybody here

from Paraguay tonight? I visited your chapter in Asunción. We were taking a trip one Sunday and we went

by the temple and there you guys were at work and we went in and had a wonderful time. Congratulations.

Nice to see you here.

How about Serbia, where's Bogi? Bogi, where are you. There's my friend from Serbia. We've had some

nice connections over there. Wonderful to see you here. So there's some great things going on. A lot of

great unity.

Dave, would you come up and join me here for a second and, Mike, would you stand up with me? We just

want to show you the fraternity united, Grand Encampment, Grand Chapter and DeMolay working together

to make things better for everybody.

So in closing, I do actually close. For that Goodwin I'm going to talk longer. Just like to think seriously

back to a piece of ritual that I think is so pertinent to what we've got here and unfortunately, it's taken from

Knights Templar but in spite of that it's good. Just think for a moment that this frail organization, though

here subject to the many ills that flesh is heir to possesses an immortal soul which will soar to realms of

endless bliss beyond the power of change to live forever. Thank you folks.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: You heard him, put your list together. Derek's writing. Okay. Now, it's

my pleasure to call on our most Emminent Grand Master of Grand Encampment of Knights Templar, a

brother who has been an Active member of the Supreme Council, Brother David Goodwin. Would you bring

remarks, please?



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David D. Goodwin, Grand Master, Grand Encampment Knights Templar: Young men of DeMolay,

lovely ladies and guests, Distinguished East and finally members of the Supreme Council, good evening.

(Crowd responds)

David D. Goodwin, Grand Master, Grand Encampment Knights Templar: It is my great honor and

pleasure to be with you and bring you the warm knightly greeting of the 110,000 Knights Templar across

these United States and 18 countries around the world that make up our Grand Encampment.

Certainly, the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar and the Order of DeMolay have a lot in common, a

strong bond between each other, knighthood, chivalry and the principles of honor, integrity and truth

handed down from the ancient Knights Templar especially through our last ancient Grand Master Jacques

DeMolay, namesake for this organization.

The Grand Encampment of Knights Templar is proud to support DeMolay in international, jurisdictional

and local levels. We've had a great relationship for many many years that almost came to an end last fall.

He looks with a blank look. I got a phone call from the International Master Councilor last fall and he had

a brainstorm, a brilliant idea, he wanted a joint venture between Knights Templar and the Order of

DeMolay. Well, it sounded great to me, I'm buying into this and then he talks a little more. He reminds me

of the upcoming 700th anniversary of the burning at the stake of DeMolay.

I thought, yeah, we can probably do something with that. He's sucking me in a little more as we're going

along and it's sounding good and then he said, you know, we can go over to Paris and have a ceremony and

I'm thinking, a memorial ceremony would be good. This kid has some great ideas and then the clincher

came in, I found out it was his intention to have an actual reenactment using the current Grand Master as

the example. That's where I drew the line and the joint venture just went down the tubes.

But seriously, it's great to be with you. I thank you for all your hospitality and courtesy and love that we get

at meetings at times like these. We wish you much success both for the International Supreme Council and

for the Congress and the deliberation over the next couple of days. I wish God's blessing upon each and

every one of you and your family, the family of free Masonry, DeMolay and all the great countries

represented by those flags behind me. Good evening.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you, Dad Goodwin. Actually, this next person I don't know that

he really needs to be introduced because I think everybody knows him but he's a great DeMolay supporter.

It's my honor to introduce the current Imperial Recorder, Past Imperial Potentate and representing our

Imperial Potentate. At this point I'd like to, we need to get a mic, to hear remarks from Jack Jones, our

Imperial Recorder.

Jack H. Jones, Imperial Recorder, Shriners International: Boy, these are some tough acts to follow.

That's what makes it difficult sometimes when you're near the end or at the end, whatever it might be and

with some great speakers that you've had and all have had terrific messages, I mean terrific messages and

my heartiest congratulations to all the DeMolay representatives that are here from your various chapters

and your districts and I think it's just great. The leadership that you have shown to be here and represent

your chapters and your states or provinces in your countries, wherever that may be. That's absolutely

phenomenal and fantastic.

The Shrine has always tried to be a great supporter of DeMolay and of course I think, as probably most of

you know, Frank S. Land, founder of DeMolay, was also our Imperial Potentate of Shriners International



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back in 1954, '55. So that's where, even before then but especially then the Shrine has always been very

supportive of DeMolay.

And I do want to bring you a special greeting, Grand Master and everyone assembled here from the

Imperial Potentate John Cinotto from Indiana. He's, of course, being prepared for the session coming. As

a matter of fact, just about two weeks from now, actually a week and a half from now, several of us, all the

Imperial and trustees of the Shriners Hospitals have to assemble in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the

beginning of our session which will start a week after we get there.

So he did ask me that I bring you greetings and also Past Imperial Potentate in there, Raoul Frevel. I think

most of you know him. He's a DeMolay, also a Hall of Fame and he is the 5th International Master

Councilor, he asked that I bring his greeting because he was supposed to arrive here this morning to be

here with us this evening but I guess in the Baltimore area they've had some kind of bad weather. So,

anyway, his flight got cancelled and they said they couldn't get him here until probably, at the airport here

at 8:00 this evening. So he did ask that I extend his greetings to you as well.

We always want to work in the areas of whatever we can do and it's just phenomenal to see so many

DeMolays here that are from other parts of the world and to those, such a large delegation from Brazil

that's here, I'm pleased also to inform you, those of you from Brazil at this coming imperial session that

we'll have in Minneapolis in a couple of weeks we are going to be giving a dispensation for a Shrine temple

in Mato Grosso, Brazil. So that will be quite a bit of activity and I think this all will probably follow them

next year in 2015. We do have several Shrine clubs there, but I know the Imperial Potentate is going to

insist that those temples too, they'll be informed to assist DeMolay and assist all of you in that area and

your growth is absolutely phenomenal.

Grand Master and the International Master Councilor, could you come down to here for just a moment? I

have to leave because of -- tomorrow actually. I won't be here for the start of the Supreme Council session

tomorrow afternoon so I'd like to make a presentation, if I could at this time, and it's always so great. You

did a phenomenal job.

The Shrine sponsors the Frank S. Land memorial breakfast at the Conference of Grand Masters of North

America every year and, of course, we generally always have the International Master Councilor as our

featured speaker and this young man did a fantastic job as those have done before him so it's really great.

Since I can't be here tomorrow to do the presentation at that time at the Supreme Council, I would like to

present our usual check to the Supreme Council and Congress for $25,000.

Thank you everyone. It's been great. The hospitality has been absolutely phenomenal. God bless DeMolay

and God bless you all. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It said Mike Salazar on it, didn't it, Jack? I tried. Thank you. Jack,

again, thank you for being here with us and I know you have to head out tomorrow but, again, you know,

you've been a great support of DeMolay for years. Thank you just sometimes doesn't seem appropriate

enough.

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Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's now my honor to, I guess, Grand Marshal, will you please retire and

escort in the Deputy Grand Master of Masons in California? It's my honor to introduce Russ Charvonia, the

Deputy Grand Master of Masons in California. Please greet him with a round of applause.

When we talk about DeMolay supporters, you know, actually when I was here I received -- in California we

actually have two Masonic homes. We have one in the north and one in the south and actually I received a

call while I was here from the executive vice president of the homes and said that, by the way the Homes

have given DeMolay in the north $5,000 to use, you know, to help out on our training package and I know

that they provided $5,000 for Southern California also and it's because of, you know, Russ here is such a

DeMolay and Masonic youth supporter or at least a couple of years that I know of he's been meeting with

the elected leaders from the different organizations to figure out what the Grand Lodge can do for the youth

and so Russ, if we can hear some remarks from you at this time, it would be great.

Russell Charvonia: Thank you Dad Salazar, International Master Councilor, International Congress

Secretary, visiting dignitaries, brethren, friends and especially our brother DeMolay. It is indeed a

pleasure to share this special event with you this evening, and Linda and I thank you from the bottom of our

hearts for the hospitality you have already shown to us.

You know, I am very very excited for what the Masonic family has to offer our world today. You may be

aware of the fact that many masons from across the continent and North America have taken on this effort

to restore civility back into our society. I think we can all admit that we are not pleased with the level of

incivility that we witness in our daily rhetoric, in our daily conversation and yet we have a belief as masons

that we have the principles, the values, the tools, the common language and most importantly the delivery

system to help restore civility back to society and I ask that our youth groups, our brothers in DeMolay, our

sisters of Job's Daughter and Rainbow for girls, you too have that language and have the tools to do just

that.

So my challenge to you is will you accept that challenge? Will you take it as a responsibility, in fact, as a

duty to breed civility back into society. I hope you start to think about how we can do that because it starts

where? With each and every one of us. I am here to tell you that in my opinion DeMolay is actually out in

front of this effort with your preceptive courtesy towards all. That is civility in its most basic form.

So I hope you will join with the brethren from across North America, one and a half million of us, as we are

here to support not only you but our society at large in doing great things and, in fact, repairing our world

and doing that by first improving ourselves.

So I wish you a very productive session. I know that you are going to go about changing the world, not only

today but as you enter into the work force, and please know that masons from all over the world are here to

support you 100 percent as brother masons, as dads and as your friends. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Russ, if you would stay with us that would be our honor. Thank you.

Where is the Grand Marshal? He moved. Thank you.

Grand Marshal, will you please retire and escort into the room our Grand Master of Masons in Missouri,

Brother Jon Broyles. Most personable of Grand Masters, Jon.

It's a pleasure that you're here with us today. I had the honor of going to Missouri conclave two or three

weeks ago and, you know, we're talking about Masonic support, we were there the whole time, you know,

out there engaging with the youth and, again, I wish that for all the jurisdictions and you're doing it in



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Missouri. So give us the pleasure of you joining us up here in the east. Thank you. Jon, if you can give us

some words of enlightenment that would be fabulous.

Jon B. Broyles: May I seat them? Please be seated. Welcome to Missouri or some of you may have heard

welcome to Missoura. Depends on where you're from in the state whether you say Missouri or Missoura.

Our Masonic home of Missouri just celebrated its 125th anniversary last weekend and we were addressed

by a former governor, who's also a Masonic brother, and informed us that both pronunciations are correct.

Typically though when you're talking to someone outside of the state you say Missouri. I was brought up

saying Missoura, but he said commonly when you're talking to someone from out of the state you say

Missouri. Since you're all here and guests of ours and part of the Masonic family I should say welcome to

Missouri.

It's indeed an honor and pleasure to be here with you today and pleasure for you to be meeting in our home

jurisdiction. Masonry is very strong in Missouri. All of our Masonic family are very strong, very close to

each other and we cooperate and work together.

I was asked for some words of enlightenment by Grand Master Salazar, that's always dangerous to ask me.

I don't know what else I could tell you that this group of leaders of the DeMolay organization is doing such

a good job. Let me just tell you what we're doing in Missouri in masonry and maybe it might have some

application to you.

As leaders of DeMolay you make a difference in everything that you do in this organization, every little

thing that you do, every life that you touch, every member of DeMolay, every plan that you make, every

event that you execute, you make a difference.

What I've challenged the masons of Missouri to do this year and along with you if you'd find a way to do it

is to make a greater difference. To find that extra thing you can do. It doesn't have to be much, but if you do

ten things, do 11 or if you see something that hasn't been done for awhile, try it again or if you've done

something the same over and over again, let's try something different. Let's make a greater difference in

what we do. Again, it does not have to be a large change. A small incremental change can be just as

effective and powerful as some large sweeping change.

For instance, we are also giving an award to several of our members in the state called the 212 Degree. It's

not a Masonic degree, it's a representation of water. At 211 degrees water is simply hot, but if you add the

energy to make it raise the temperature of that water to one more degree to 212 degrees the water becomes

steam and with steam you can do work like run a locomotive or jackhammer. One extra degree will make

the difference my brothers. Find that extra degree. Find that extra thing that you can do to make that

greater difference and if you make a greater difference and you make a greater difference and you, all those

little incremental changes add up and out, only then are we doing what we did before, we're doing the work

of many more and making this organization better, improving the men and improving our society. Make a

greater difference. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you, for those words of enlightenment there. At this time, Steve, I

think I'll turn the gavel back over to our Master of Ceremonies. Thank you, sir.

Keith K. Klein, PGM: Grand Master, you asked to move this along and to get us out on time and I'm

looking at the schedule and it says that we go until 9:30 and my Indiana time says it's five minutes to ten

and that means it's five minutes to nine here so you did really nice tonight and I want to remind everyone.



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I think it was a great idea that you knew you were going to go until 9:00 but you put in 9:30 and thought

everyone thinks we're out a half an hour early.

I want to remind everyone that immediately at the conclusion of this, well, not immediately now that we're

early, there are the regional meetings and please consult your program for where those meetings will take

place.

Now, as we conclude our festivities with this joint session and the opening of the 47th International DeMolay

Congress and the 94th Session of the International DeMolay Supreme Council, we want to express our

gratitude for your presence. It's been incredible. What a great celebration.

Your participation in joining us for our annual celebration of DeMolay International is wonderful. As we

depart and proceed into our festivities, remember that the world -- you are a person in this world but to

some you are their world. So let's work together to make the world a better place for everyone.

By the direction of our Grand Master I now declare the opening session from labor to refreshment.

(Grand Opening concluded at 8:56 p.m.)


Business Session #1 Friday, June 20, 2014


(Meeting commenced at 1:55 p.m.)

Nominating Report #1 Executive Session

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Those that were just nominated to the Class 1's, actually elected, sorry,

can now vote based on J&Ls whispering of good council in my ears. Thank you.

At this time we're actually going to, like I mentioned yesterday, we actually moved necrology to this session

so we'd have it where we'd have more members here, so at this point I'd like to have Reid Morgan up here to

lead us in what would be nomination report number one.

R. Reid Morgan, III: I would ask for you to close your eyes for a moment and let's just begin with a

moment of silence.

(Prayer)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Reid, thank you. Grand Marshal, that's you, Terry, would you please

escort up to the East Joe Manning who's representing commander for the Scottish Rite. We'll accommodate,

with all the flight delays and all the cancellations, I want to make sure that we don't cause him to miss his

flight. Thank you for being with us here today. I know you've got some words of wisdom.

Joe R. Manning, Jr., PGM: Grand Master Salazar, Distinguished East and brethren, now, Grand Master

you just invited me up here, you know, you didn't give me prewarning on words of wisdom. That's a pretty

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Brethren, it is my privilege to represent the Grand Commander of the Southern Masonic jurisdiction

Illustrious Ronald Seale, 33rd Degree and bring his personal greetings and best wishes for this International

Supreme Council session. I note that I'm not the only inspector or Active member of the Supreme Council

here. Past Grand Master Inspector Hannon from Arizona is here, Inspector Cockerham from Missouri,

Inspector Sanderson from Nebraska, and Inspector Barnett from Kentucky, Inspector Louie from California,

and Emeritus member of the Supreme Council Inspector Morgan and also a Past Grand Master of this

Supreme Council. So we are all here and we all wish the very best for the success of this session.

Our Supreme Council, obviously, continues to support DeMolay whether it's the program that you each

received and the back cover of that what I believe to be an exciting joint fund raising effort that we're going

to embark between the Scottish Rite Supreme Council Southern Jurisdiction and the DeMolay Foundation

that you're going to hear more about or a check that I have already turned over to our Grand Treasurer.

On Wednesday I came early and went on the Heritage tour. I enjoyed that greatly. I appreciate the Supreme

Council putting that together and, of course, one of the first things that we did on that Heritage tour was to

go by the old Scottish Rite temple in Kansas City at 15th and Troost where it all began. Frank Land and

Louis Lower were both employees of the Scottish Rite in Kansas City. Frank Marshall, an active member of

that Scottish Rite body and, of course, we know the rest is history, including the first Grand Master of this

Supreme Council being Alexander Cochran, the Sovereign Grand Inspector General of Missouri, which

Dad Land credited him with lending the Masonic prestige that was able to hold a new young organization

together and to make it what we enjoy today.

Also part of that Heritage tour we went to the Service and Leadership Center out by the airport, toured the

history room and we all remember and have seen maybe in our personal collection, those of us that collect

the different head gear that DeMolay wore whether they were caps or fezzes, but don't forget when you go

through that you also see the head gear that members of the Supreme Council wore, a cap. Different colors

for active members, different color for deputies, different color for the Grand Master. Those look pretty

good. I think we might want to reinstitute that. You all would look good sitting out there with caps on so

kind of look that over.

I think we should all remember that the Order of DeMolay imparts its teaching through its ritual that Frank

Marshall wrote. That ritual was certainly, obviously, based on the teachings that Frank Marshall had

received and absorbed as part of the Scottish Rite. So all that we do and sometimes we get wrapped up in

how much money this is or that is or how much we have and we need to remember that the purpose of

Masonry and the purpose of DeMolay is self-improvement and that's something we always need to keep in

mind and dedicate ourselves to that.

Grand Master, while I'm here I have been also asked to represent most Distinguished Gerald A. Ford who is

the Governor General of the York Rite Sovereign College of North America and also represents all the

companion knights of that organization in bringing you his greetings, likewise from that organization I have

delivered a check to the Grand Treasurer so it's been my privilege to introduce both of these organizations

and I think representing a part of the Scottish Rite in this country and I think representing part of the York

Rite in this country just shows the good fortune that we all have in DeMolay to be the beneficiary of wide

Masonic support and that helps us all.

There was a day in our history when we did not have that but now we sometimes take that for granted but

we should not take it for granted, we should be appreciative of those that have gone before us that have



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created that broad support and I'm here representing those two organizations to continue that support and

pledge the support of those, both those organizations to the continuance of the good fortune of the Supreme

Council.

Grand Master, thank you very much for the opportunity to be here. I appreciate your generosity, I

appreciate your courtesy.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you very much. The SGIGs that are here, part of the Southern

Scottish Rite please stand and we have several. Just stand for recognition. Again, thank you for what you do

for DeMolay and I really appreciate you being here. I know the young men also appreciate all that you do

for us. Thank you. Please give them a round of applause.

Moving on. Dad Peters, did you have any announcements?

Terry L Peters: I do.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: I knew he would. While he's walking up here it's announcement number

553, make sure that you sign the book. If you haven't signed the book, please do so. I've met three or four

people who asked me if I've signed the book already and I said I have. Nancy, do you have the book here

with you?

Nancy A. Shipps: Not today. It's still down there.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: The change and no change, make sure that you get those done.

Terry L. Peters: Thank you, Grand Master. The lost and found is in registration. We do have a pair of

cufflinks and, you know, they're really nice. I think they're Masonic cufflinks so if somebody's lost their

cufflinks, that's where they are. If you have any dietary issues, you need vegetarian or diabetic and that sort

of thing and didn't identify it during registration, please stop by registration so that they can give you the

appropriate ticket so that you'll be taken care of.

We also have a pair of glasses that are in -- we're looking for some reading glasses. So if somebody found

reading glasses, please let us know. On Sunday the hotel is booked again. They're going to be transitioning

another very large group so they've respectfully asked us to try and be out of our rooms by noon on Sunday

and they're also offering a green choice and they'll give you a $5 food voucher if you sign up for their Star

Awards rewards points. So if you're interested in that please, go to the front desk and for those of you that

haven't been to the DeMolay & More store, we'd appreciate you to drop by and see if there's some things

there that you might need to pick up. We've got some new things in the store so he's asked me to

communicate that with all of you. That's it, Grand Master. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: At this time maybe we can hear the report from the Grand Treasurer.

Wesley D. Thornton, PGM, Grand Treasurer: Thank you, Grand Master, Brethren. My report is printed

and I'm sure some of you have picked it up. I'm not going to read the entire thing, but I seem to start each

year with this has been another year of change and, again, it was.

Probably the most salient point of the report this year is that our chief accountant, Bill Bryan, is retiring on

July 1st and he will be replaced by Justin Lee who is the assistant corporate controller. Bill has done a very



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fantastic job for us over the years by getting the financial statement out timely to the Board of Directors

every month and so he's done a really good job there.

We completed the annual review. There are some things in the verbiage that you'll see that it's an audit. It

is not an audit, it is a review this year. So there are bound copies of the review available. Just come up and

see me at some point at a break. I also have this in electronic format. If you would like a copy of it, give me

your e-mail address and I'll see that you get a copy of it.

Report of the Grand Treasurer Wesley D. Thornton, PGM


June 20, 2014

Yet another year of transition and change. For the fiscal year ending December 31, 2013, DeMolay

International ended the year with expenses exceeding revenues by $49,729 (Reviewed).

DeMolay International had a total income of $2,148,988 and costs of sales and expenses of $2,198,717

(Reviewed).

The internally prepared monthly financial statements (Unaudited) are still being presented in a similar

format to that of Audited or Reviewed Financial Statements prepared by the outside independent accounting

firm. A “corporate allocation” is made to the DeMolay and More Store to reflect actual allocable expenses

to that department in the form of rent, payroll costs, and other directly attributable costs of administration.

The budget for fiscal 2013-2014 was approved and is reflected in the internal financial statements. The

DeMolay International budget follows the year of the elected advancing line July 1 to June 30. This does

not change our tax reporting year, which remains at December 31. Program revenues and expenses will

follow the elected advancing line’s year.

Schmidt, Cornish & Smith, CPA’s of Lee’s Summit, MO, were selected again by the Board to prepare the

Review for 2013. The Independent Review Report for 2013 has been completed and is available upon

request.

Davenport and Company continues to serve DeMolay International as our investment Manager. There have

been no changes to the investment policy statement since our last annual meeting.

Our accounting staff in Kansas City, under the capable and watchful eye of William Bryan, Director of

Finance, continues to produce and distribute our monthly financial statements to the Board of Directors in a

timely and efficient manner. Justin Lee, Assistant Controller, will be promoted to Director of Finance,

when Mr. Bryan retires July 1, 2014. Mr. Bryan will continue to offer his services on a temporary as needed

basis during that transition.

It is an honor to continue to serve DeMolay International.

Fraternally Submitted,

Wesley D. Thornton, PGM

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There are no real significant issues at all with the financial statement and Grand Master I move the

acceptance of this report.


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to accept the Grand Treasurer's report.

All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. Now, we'll hear on the Grand Secretary's report.

Patton R. Hart, PGM, Grand Secretary: Grand Master, Grand Officers, members of the Supreme

Council of DeMolay and others, it is my distinct pleasure to submit for your review and approval this

annual report covering the business affairs and activities of the office with DeMolay International for the

period of June 2013 through June 2014. You should have a copy available to you if you want to come up

and pick it up, hopefully, you have done that.

Report of the Grand Secretary Patton R. Hart, PGM

June 20, 2014


It is my distinct pleasure to submit for your review and approval this annual report covering the business

affairs and activities of the office with DeMolay International for the period June 2013 through June 2014. I

have worked with the Elected Line, the Board of Directors and the members of the Supreme Council with

the purpose in mind to advance the Order of DeMolay to the very best of my abilities.

Making a difference always matters.

Improved Office Facilities

Upon the immediate return to the office from the 2013 DeMolay International Supreme Council Session &

DeMolay Congress, the staff of the Service & Leadership Center moved to temporary office space for two

and half months. This was due to the DeMolay Foundation’s renovation plans that were necessary and

previously decided upon by all interested parties. I would like to thank “Dad” Steven Crane, Grand Junior

Councilor for tireless work and management in the previous year as Foundation Chairman and “Dad” Curtis

Gimlin for “paying the bills” this year. Your efforts and others have made a wonderful workspace for the

staff to occupy. 10200 NW Ambassador has a great look and feel for those whom have the pleasure in

seeing it. I encourage you all to visit the office if the opportunity arises during your stay in Kansas City this

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Office Management Oversight

The role of the Grand Secretary is to oversee the individual or individuals in charge of management for the

Service & Leadership Center. I have worked with the Elected Line, DeMolay International Board of

Directors, stakeholders, and the staff at the Service & Leadership Center during this year to accomplish the

tasks of the day to day operations, as well as laying a solid foundation for the office moving forward. At no

point during this year has this obligation gone unfulfilled.

Prior to my taking office, an Executive Director was hired on September 6, 2012. Upon taking office, under

my direction, the office underwent significant restructuring in order to maximize communication,

create greater efficiencies and superior customer service. His employment terminated on August 9, 2013. I

appointed an office administrator to manage the office while we began our search for a new Executive

Director. Shortly thereafter, he asked to be reassigned to his former department and this request was

approved. This led to the decision to maintain departments reporting directly to the Grand

Secretary. During this time, I appointed an Assistant Grand Secretary to assist in the process. His

involvement focused on an action items list that was time sensitive and finite. Dad Greg Kimberling, PGM,

did an admirable job. This has all acuminated in the hiring of a new Executive Director.

I announced at the Executive Officers Conference that we would pursue a search for an Executive Director.

I appointed the following individuals to serve on the search committee. I wanted and asked to have a

diverse and qualified group of representatives in serving on the Search Committee for the position of

Executive Director by having representatives from the DeMolay Foundation, Past Grand Masters of

DeMolay, a former staff member who is dedicated to the field of DeMolay as an Executive Officer, the

Grand Line, Active Member of DeMolay International who is a former Executive Officer, a Past Grand

Master of Florida Freemasonry and a current Grand Secretary that employs 11 staff members with the

Grand Lodge of Florida and a representative of the Executive Officers. The Search Committee was

comprised of the following individuals: Tom Labagh – Executive Officer of Pennsylvania DeMolay and

former staff member of DeMolay International; Wes Thornton, PGM and Grand Treasurer; Curtis Gimlin –

President of the DeMolay Foundation and former Executive Officer of Oklahoma; Steve Crane – Grand

Junior Councilor; Derek Sprague – Grand Senior Councilor; Mike Salazar – Grand Master; Richard Lynn –

Active Member of DeMolay International, PGM of Grand Lodge of Florida and current Grand Secretary of

Grand Lodge of Florida; Mark Rauschenberger – Chairman of the Executive Officers Conference and

Executive Officer of Illinois; Greg Kimberling – PGM of DeMolay, Amy Dinofrio – Vice President of

Human Resources & Internal Operations with Pikes Peak United Way and Patton Hart – Grand Secretary

and PGM of DeMolay.

I want to convey to each of you that we received over 100 applicants interested in for the position of

Executive Director. We started our search in the middle of March and ran through the deadline of April 18,

2014 for all who wished to apply. The job position and opportunity was well posted and visually seen

throughout the country. The applicants were reviewed and eight promising candidates selected for virtual

interviews. Then the Search Committee conducted via virtual media virtual interviews of the eight

candidates during the week of April 21 – 23, 2014 and then did a face to face interview with three

outstanding candidates for the position.

Michael Russell, Hired as Executive Director

On behalf of the DeMolay International Board of Directors, I am very pleased to announce that we have

chosen Michael C. Russell, MBA to serve as our next Executive Director.



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It was a difficult task in our selection process that we received over 100 applicants interested in for the

position of Executive Director. The applicants were reviewed and eight candidates selected for virtual

interviews. Then, the Search Committee conducted virtual interviews of the eight candidates and narrowed

the field to the three exceptional candidates for a face to face interview that were held on Monday, May 19,

2014 at the Service and Leadership Center in Kansas City, MO.

Michael was our obvious choice to serve DeMolay’s mission. Michael is coming to us from The Institute of

Internal Auditors, located in Orlando, FL, where he served as the key relationship manager to 159 North

American chapters through the execution of membership growth initiatives, organizational and chapter

budgeting, facilitation, and leadership training and development.

Early in Michael’s career he worked for Tau Kappa Epsilon both in expansion and chapter consulting, in his

last role at TKE he lead their western regional team in aiding collegiate men in their mental, moral, and

social development by focusing on chapter membership growth, community service, philanthropic funds

donated, and risk assessments.

Michael received his Bachelor’s degree in Speech Communication from Northwest Missouri State

University and his Master’s in Business Administration from Strayer University’s Jack Welch Management

Institute. Additionally, Michael is a Master Mason from the Calvin W. Prather Lodge No. 717 and an Eagle

Scout.

“I am so thankful to the DeMolay Board of Directors for the opportunity to join such a prestigious

organization. There is no other place I’d rather be than leading a team of dedicated men and women and

working with such a talented board to ensure we continue to promote the mission of helping young men lead

successful, happy, and productive lives," says Russell.

“Michael brings a lot of energy, enthusiasm and excitement to the DeMolay program. He has an

outstanding list of qualifications and experiences that made him the ideal candidate to succeed in the

position of Executive Director. Michael is a welcome addition to the management and professional staff of

DeMolay International. He will be an excellent asset to lead our organization forward in the years to come,"

stated Hart.

With all of us working together for the good of DeMolay, we will ensure a promising future in fulfilling the

mission and dream of our organizational success for future generations. Please join me in congratulating

Michael Russell on becoming the Executive Director of DeMolay International. He can be contacted at

[email protected]. His official duties will start June 16, 2014.

I would like to express my gratitude to the Executive Director Search Committee for your efforts in

providing thoughtful and meaningful action in finding the right candidate for the position of Executive

Director. The position of the Executive Director going forth must provide efficient and effective operations

for the Service & Leadership Center and DeMolay International as a whole.

Service & Leadership Human Resources Oversight

Increased efforts have been spent on the Service & Leadership Center Human Resource records and

methods. Job descriptions for staff members have been completed. New employee handbook is completed.

Employee files have been reviewed and updates to the files are under way and continuing. Employee

recognition programs have been started and the staff has been recognized for their service.

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Service & Leadership Center Departmental Reviews

Each department at the Service & Leadership Center has provided a review of the department with

successes and accomplishments. Please read them below.

ACCOUNTING

The accounting department took over the processing of payroll and the handling of Human Resources

functions during the past year. One accomplishment in this area was bringing the filing of the Form 5500

for the 401(K) plan up to date. Previously, the company was paying a $1500 fee on an annual basis for not

filing the annual report by the filing deadline.

During the past year, the accounting department has taken on more responsibility in handling more invoices

for the Foundation due to remodeling of the Service and Leadership Center and the addition of the new

employee for the Foundation Ross Pfannenstiel.

Personnel with the Service and Leadership Center have put Session registration and LCC on-line this year.

Also, we have been able to set up an option for the field to use on-line for transmitting Form 10’s and

donations. While this on-line capability has made it easier for the Field of DeMolay to process paper work,

these changes require more time for accounting because the changes gives accounting another source

document to pull information and makes for more transactions to enter increasing the work load. This

additional work load has been absorbed into accounting on a monthly work schedule.

Accounting this year has been able to format acceptable financials using the accounting software package.

Previously, the financials information was pulled from the accounting software into another software

package to obtain the desired format for distribution. By pulling the financials directly from the accounting

software, accounting has been able to save about 5 hours a month.

ADMINISTRATION

I wish to highlight some accomplishments and successes with Administration. Administration has endured

office relocation with little to no interruption of service immediately after the return of session. They have

provided assistance with the office remodeling project, obtaining contractor bids, selecting paint, carpet, etc.

They were responsible for planning and arranging the location for Special Session held in September, 2013,

Kansas City Missouri, working with hotel for lodging and room arrangements. They provided resources

and assistance with removal of artwork with guidance for the Foundation President, who gave his

appreciation at the annual Foundation meeting in June, and being able to obtain updated appraisals for

insurance purposes. Most of this was done at a time when the office was relatively busy for last year’s

session preparations. Administration was responsible in working closely with a new Convention Planning

committee for session to ensure a relatively smooth session for attendees. They researched a better

background screening tool in advance of a new database that can be used for volunteers to be able to register

online and let them process their own background checks with results coming back to us and them, this way

we can get away from storing personal information about prospective volunteers and they will have the

convenience of self-registering at their leisure online. It is the belief that this is a function that the field has

been asking for quite some time. With the help of accounting function, we are getting authorize.net set up

for the administrative side so that items such as Session registrations, form 10’s, ACR’s, etc. can be

developed and then processed on our website, currently everything is being done manually, but with this set

up can now be moved to our website and moved away from Acceptiva which we currently are paying for.

Administration has researched bilingual session registration on our online site. It is hopeful that this can be

completed for next year’s registration process and working with an idea with the Convention Planning



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Chairman to streamline the registration area at session. Due to untimely delays and the office renovation,

Administration completed the annual proceedings with Session 2013 in a timely basis.

Researching a better background screening tool is being implemented prior to the 2015 ACR season

information being released, as long as database implementation is in place. This will rely on building the

site content for advisors registration on the DeMolay site with a portal to a background checking site for the

advisor to complete his/her own screening with the results coming back to DI and the volunteer, while at the

same time notification will be sent to Executive Officer of the application for his approval.

Definite online session registration from authorize.net was implemented for the 2014 session, steps have

already been placed for the authorize.net portion for the “live” payment recording and research has begun

for the bilingual portions is looking very promising to utilization next year.

Based on the work with authorize.net I would like to move next year’s ISC billing to the web with email

notifications being sent to the Actives/Deputies that they can go online to pay their annual fee and digitally

sign off for their certificate of change no change online. With payments coming back directly to our

accounting department, notifications to administration is now in order.

With the building of a new database for DeMolay International, Administration would like to move that

annual ISC cards are distributed with a barcode which can then be used for their Session attendance

collection electronically at session instead of signing a book they can then swipe their identification card for

collection with a report at the end of session.

Administration is looking forward to the new database for many thoughts and ideas that will help streamline

the day to day business for DeMolay.

DEMOLAY & STORE

The DeMolay & More Store management of past years has quite successfully moved on to other

responsibilities at the Service & Leadership Center and this department is thankful for their efforts currently

and in the past. Frank Nordstrom and Justin Lee set a standard of excellence that we sought to match and

now seek to improve as they would encourage any successor to do. It has been a year of transition.

Extensive operating procedures, advice, training, and assistance cannot make up for the time, talent, energy,

and fluidity that has become the hallmark of the DeMolay & More Store and needed to be replaced.

Christian Pierce, who served as Store Manager during part of this year, can share in current staff’s

appreciation of the amazing opportunities to serve that the DeMolay & More Store provides. Dalton Kock

has been tasked with the temporary management of the DeMolay & More store.

Over this past year, reviews of the processes were done. Training evaluated. Staffing changed. An extensive

effort has been placed on service opportunities encountered and have been engaged. We are working swiftly

and diligently in solving the remaining opportunities to serve our customers better.

We are looking forward. We are committed to serving our Customer base, and re-dedicating ourselves to

better inventory levels, and many new products. If you would like a preview of the new direction and

commitment of the DeMolay & More store, please feel free to stop by our store operations at the DeMolay

International Supreme Council Session and DeMolay Congress. Your purchases are always greatly

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JURISDICTIONAL SERVICES & TRAINING

Jurisdictional Services & Training formerly known as “Field Operations” has completed a transformation

process this year. The department’s vision and messaging increased considerably this year. Our message

matters. Growing our exposure with more effective social media strategies, tools and technology has

created a robust communication platform which was first addressed at the Executive Officer’s Conference in

2012. Our focus continues to be to providing robust content that affects our members, advisors, and

supporters in our fraternally allied organizations and has created a paradigm shift in DeMolay relevancy and

marketing. All of these initiatives have been universally welcomed by members, advisors, International

Supreme Council members, and Masonic supporters. They have experienced the new look, emphasis and

vibrancy of this department.

Leveraging resources more effectively without total reliance on individual staff members has started to

occur as well. Moving forward, this department will be revamping the processes, content standards, and

tools that further expand these exciting advances. We will continue to advocate for the needs of our

Executive Officers to remove impediments to progress and create more flexibility in gaining success in our

jurisdictions, our chapters, our members, our advisors, and those supporters interested in the future of

DeMolay.

The successes of the Jurisdictional Services & Training Department are many and varied.

Jurisdictional Services & Training Milestones:

Training events are now available for all regardless of economic circumstances.

Increased visibility and exposure in our social media footprint to over 60,000 unique individuals and

still it is growing exponentially.

Grand Master training events overhauled with emphasis on relevant content with over 1,000

individuals attending via physical or online attendance. This exponentially increased previous event

attendance for the past 15 years. The number of individuals using DeMolay International training

programs and content created by this department is at an all-time high.

Live steaming of DeMolay International events (non-existent prior to this year) has exploded with

our broadcasts. The 700th Anniversary of Jacques DeMolay experienced over 10,000

impressions. In one night, we became the largest gathering of individuals under the DeMolay

banner for a single event in history. In essence, we became “the largest show in town.”

Increased two-way communication with our Executive Officers. This is due to the increased

availability of staff past the “standard” working hours of the Service & Leadership Center.

Jurisdictional Services & Training Guideposts:

Resource material matters. The Leadership Resource Guide revision has begun in earnest with word

files being created and used by a small group of dedicated writers and creators. The DeMolay

Handbook Action group will be created and an outline and sample language by Session 2015.

New marketing material capitalizing on new language and relevant to today created. Launch of new

products starting as soon as July of 2014.

Online training courses expanded with Action Group assisting in creation.

Social media strategy moving forward with a minimum of 75,000 unique users and the goal being

100,000 unique individuals by June 2015.

Jurisdictional Management Training Action Group Created. Revision of program to start by

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Online reporting and new data resource for Jurisdictions available by June 2015.

This department is firmly committed to continuing our approach of engagement with fellow staffers,

Supreme Council and Congress members, advisor, stakeholders as well as outside resources that are

committed to creating thoughtful, intelligent, and passionate content that is timely and relevant.

Information Technology & Database Management

The staff as well as the field has been clamoring for movement in this area for some time. This year there

was an increased focus on utilizing technology in ways that reduces road blocks experienced by the Service

& Leadership Center staff as well as our volunteer base that interact with them in the process of our day to

day operations. The dollars connected to our technology infrastructure has been wisely spent in this arena.

Technology Updates at the Service

The following are a list of technology updates in terms of hardware and service. They are as follows:

New laptops purchased to increase speed and mobility of workforce. This allows for greater usage

of staff time and decreases the amount of downtime in cases where the staff may not be directly

behind a desk in the office or wait times as applications run.

Secondary monitors & docking stations purchased to increase the amount of work that can be

accomplished through multitasking or even as simple as visibility.

Desktop stands for technology purchased to increase the amount of surface work space each

employee can utilize in their personal work environment by lifting all laptops and monitors above

desks.

Centralized print stations for the office were purchased and removal of desktop printer options

occurred. This generated savings by the purchase of less toner. Higher support by outside vendor

that is providing maintenance ensures investment continues to operate fully and increases longevity

of service which reduces future overhead costs.

Increased RAM purchased for current in-house servers increases the workload of each server and

minimizing technological roadblocks related to data creation, data transfers, and applications housed

on servers.

Hardware related to social media was purchased including web camera, professional digital camera,

lighting kit, photo shoot box. The cost per individual whom interacted with this hardware through

our verging social media explosion is less than $0.05 investment per individual user.

Database Management

An area of concentration this year as highlighted by advisors, stakeholders and staff was Database

Management. A tremendous amount of time, talent, and energy was focused on this matter in order to

improve our operations. In November of 2013, it was determined by the DeMolay International Board of

Directors to evaluate our current strategy and implement an RFP process based on those results. After

extensive and tedious work by a task force of three members of the Board of Directors with extensive

knowledge in this field and assistance from staff, Grand Line members and industry professionals a solution

was found through a fair and balanced approach. I encourage you all to discuss the findings with the

Database Management Task Force lead members Dennis Reed, Region VI Representative, Warren Cole,

Region VIII Representative, and Mark Rauschenberger, Executive Officers Conference Chairman. I thank

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JURISDICTION MANAGEMENT TRAINING SESSIONS

There were four sessions of Jurisdictional Management Trainings held this past year in Kansas City,

Missouri with a total of 21 attendees from Kansas, Illinois, Rhode Island, Texas, Alaska, Wisconsin,

Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil attending. This training program gives a basic understanding of the

policies and procedures of DeMolay. In addition, advisors form foreign countries will be trained in Kansas

City prior to this year’s Session. We encourage you to send your key staff to one of the training sessions in

the future.

GRAND MASTER’S DEMOLAY LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

Grand Master Salazar held four Leadership Conferences this year. Locations included Kansas City, MO (2),

Addison, IL (1) and Anaheim, CA (1). We had excellent participation. The three M’s (Membership,

Marketing, and Motivation) was our focus with the leadership conferences with over 1000 individuals

attending conferences online and in physical attendance. Online content and live streaming of our

conferences occurred for the first time by DeMolay International has been received soberly. We commend

Frank Nordstrom, Director of Jurisdictional Services and Training and Dalton Kock for providing their

expertise and resources with the conferences content and logistics. We thank all those who participated and

attended the conference.

700TH ANNIVERSARY OBSERVED by DEMOLAY

The month of March marked the 700th Anniversary of the martyrdom of Jacques DeMolay, the 23rd and last

Grand Master of the ancient Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon or the Knights

Templar. Jacques DeMolay was the namesake of DeMolay International. It was on March 18, 1314, that

DeMolay was burned at the stake on the Ile au Juifs, or the Ile des Templiers, an island in the Seine River in

Paris, France near Notre Dame Cathedral. Philip the Fair, King of France, had him burned for recanting his

confession that condemned the Templars and stating his only offence was not being true to the order of

Knights Templar.

Some of the attached excerpt and information came from the Grand Master’s Message David Dixon

Goodwin, GCT Grand Master of Knights Templar who is a Senior DeMolay and an Active Member of the

International Supreme Council of the Order of DeMolay.

“We celebrate the lore and ideas born out of Jacques DeMolay and the values he represents. We

celebrate 95 glorious years of DeMolay International. We celebrate the members of DeMolay, the

advisors, and the support of the DeMolay family that makes the fraternity of DeMolay a source of

pride. 700 years ago, this March, Jacques DeMolay was burned at the stake. The legend that marks his

peril gave birth to an everlasting idea. This idea has turned into an organization that has influenced

more than 4 million young men about the principles, values and experience with DeMolay. History

rarely gives us people like Jacques DeMolay to revere. Please acknowledge the monetary commitment

and tremendous support of the Northern Scottish Rite for their generous assistance of the Grand Master,

the International Master Councilor, Director of Jurisdictional Services and Training and others

attending the momentous celebration of this event in March. “

SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING THE YEAR

1. The Board of Directors voted to form two new regions South America and Europe making a total of

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2. Warren Cole, Region VIII Representative was instrumental in establishing a program for DeMolay

International with online DAD training program.

3. The Board of Directors allocated funding to purchase new computers for the Service and Leadership

staff workstations to work for effectively and efficiently.

4. Office renovations and remodeling efforts for the office of DeMolay International allocated funding

by DeMolay Foundation.

5. Enhanced the channel of communication and better utilizing our technology in getting our DeMolay

message distributed.

6. We established formal job descriptions for each position with our Service and Leadership Center

staff.

7. Ongoing project of updating current resources like the Leaders Resource Guide with the assistance

of Phil Itzenhuiser of Wisconsin is continuing.

8. Fraternal Relations with DeMolay has been present and promoted at the Shriners International

Convention, Northern and Southern Scottish Rite meetings and at the regional conferences of the

Grand Encampment of York Rite. We are continuing our efforts to be well represented and received

at the National Masonic meetings this past year. Our visibility leads to credibility for the fraternity

of DeMolay. It is my opinion that Visibility leads to Credibility. Visibility with positive action and

results will create credibility and will in turn provide better appreciation of the DeMolay

program. At the Imperial Shrine, our Grand Master, International Master Councilor, Executive

Director and the Grand Secretary represented DeMolay. The Conference of Grand Masters was

attended by our Grand Master, Grand Senior Councilor, Grand Junior Councilor, International

Master Councilor, International Congress Secretary and the Director of

Jurisdictional Services. Bob Laing was the main speaker at the Frank S. Land Memorial Breakfast

sponsored by the Imperial Shrine. We greatly appreciate their generous contribution to make this

happen for DeMolay’s presence and recognition at the conference.

OFFICE STAFF

My deepest thanks and appreciation goes to the office Staff of DeMolay International. Each one of you

takes the job duties seriously and is always willing to make the extra effort to accommodate a request from

the membership. They always attempt to respond to inquiries from the membership promptly, courteously

and professionally. I know my appreciation to office staff is shared by the membership of DeMolay

International with which they are in constant contact from time to time – by the many compliments I am

asked to rely to them.

I presented years of service pins to the staff of DeMolay International for their service and loyal dedication

to the mission of DeMolay. We had a recognition luncheon on Tuesday afternoon, May 20, 2014 to show

our gratitude and appreciation to what they do for field of DeMolay International. Special Thanks to Frank

Nordstrom for 14 years of service, Nancy Shipps for 10 years, William Bryan for 10 years, Bobi Maddux

for 8 years, Justin Lee for 6 years, Erica Spottswood for 1 years and Dalton Kock for 1 year of loyal service.

Our staff of seven accomplishes the work of many. Thanks to you in serving the greatest youth organization

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FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS

There has been considerable interest in DeMolay with foreign jurisdictions. DeMolay continues to flourish

by the great contributions and service of Greg Kimberling, PGM. We are currently set up at the DeMolay

Headquarters and have listed positive activity in the following countries: Aruba, Peru, Germany, Italy,

Romania, Panama, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Serbia and Japan. The country of Columbia will be set up

soon and is on the horizon. Brazil in South America has more than 42,000 active DeMolays making it the

largest jurisdiction within DeMolay International. We congratulate Brazil for the great achievement in their

membership recruitment efforts.

HALL OF FAME

During Session we will be inducting Senior DeMolays Richard S. Coy and Thomas W. Moberly into the

DeMolay Hall of Fame. Brother Coy is PSMC of Michigan, the first International Master Councilor and

currently a partner with a law firm in Lansing, Michigan. Brother Coy was initiated June 8, 1961 into

Shiawassee Chapter in Owosso, Michigan. Brother Tom Moberly is a Senior DeMolay from Ferndale

Chapter in Michigan and was initiated June 13, 1955. He is a former staff member of the office staff with

DeMolay International in Kansas City, Missouri. He currently serves as the Executive Director with the

Jurisdiction of Northern California DeMolay. Brother Tom Moberly is certainly overdue the honor in

accorded this distinction and is rightfully deserved in being inducted into the International DeMolay Hall of

Fame. Tom has been honored as Chevalier, Active Legion of Honor and a Cross of Honor.

GRAND MASTER MIKE SALAZAR & GRAND LINE OFFICERS

Grand Master Mike Salazar, along with able assistance of his line officers, Grand Senior Councilor Derek

Sprague and Grand Junior Councilor Steve Crane have led the membership through another year of

DeMolay history of DeMolay International in a commendable manner, each adding their special talents to

the end result. Grand Master, Salazar and his line officers have always kept the best interest of the Order in

mind while dealing with the many issues and problems arising during the year. All were addressed and

resolved in a manner satisfactory to DeMolay and good of the Order. Brother Mike, congratulations on a

job well done, and best wishes to you as you join the ranks of Past Grand Masters, where I am sure you will

continue to be of service to DeMolay.

As for the Grand Treasurer, Wesley Thornton, PGM, I can only say that I have a greater appreciation of

your service to DeMolay International and you are a valuable asset to DeMolay International. It has been a

pleasure working with you this year.

CONCLUSION

I express my sincere thanks to each of you for the opportunity to serve DeMolay in this capacity of Grand

Secretary. As another DeMolay year comes to a close, I thank the membership of DeMolay International

for your confidence and the trust they placed in me. I have tried to serve with the utmost dignity and respect

to the office in serving you – DeMolay International.

It is inevitable that what the Order of DeMolay will be tomorrow will depend upon what we do today.

Thank you for all that you do in advancing a bigger and better DeMolay! With us working together,

strengthening and supporting each other, we will succeed in our service for God, for Country, For DeMolay.



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God Bless our young men of DeMolay, the Moms, the Dads, advisors, their families who volunteer their

time and energies for DeMolay and this great fraternity for the world-wide movement DeMolay

International.

Respectfully and fraternally,

Patton R. Hart

Grand Secretary


Appended to this report you will find the statistical information and data maintained in the office of Grand

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I move for the acceptance of this report.


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to accept the report of our Grand

Secretary. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's passed. At this time I'll do the Grand Master's report.



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Report of the Grand Master Mike A. Salazar

June 20, 2014


My Brothers, in accordance with Article 2, Section 202.1 (a) I Hereby submit to you my report as your

Grand Master for the 2013-2014 term of office.

DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL MILESTONES:

This year I wanted to offer DeMolay Leadership Training (DLT) to the jurisdiction via on-site or virtual.

We were able to have more than 1,000 individuals attending DLT this year and in some cases at no cost to

the jurisdictions who attended online. More Universities are using this method of teaching. I would suggest

that DeMolay International continue to find more opportunities for online training.

Our push this year of Live steaming as many DeMolay International events as possible and has grown with

our broadcasts. The 700th Anniversary of Jacques DeMolay experienced over 10,000 hits. In one night,

DeMolay became the largest gathering of individuals under the DeMolay banner for a single event in

history. In essence, like Frank Nordstrom said we became "the largest show in town."

I can probable say that I am the 1st Grand Master to attend a Conclave/Convention virtual. I was grounded

by my doctor so Executive Officer of Southern California Victor Key arranged for me to be part of his

session with his advisors via Skype.

We have improved our process on receiving form 10’s from foreign jurisdictions. Which has resulted in

Positive grown this year for DeMolay International!

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP CENTER:

We had a lot of challenges this year in our Service & Leadership Center everything from having to move

out of the building and move to temporary facilities and work out of boxes to the change in leadership. Our

SLC staff worked hard to meet the needs of the field and should all be commended for their efforts.

I would like to give a special thanks to Frank Nordstrom for his support this year. I will miss the late night

calls. Another special thanks should go to Steve Crane for the countless hours he spent to get the SLC

building renovated so our staff could move back in. I think that without his effort it would have never

completed in the time frame it took and I am sure it would have cost more money. Thanks Steve!

ELECTED OFFICERS OF DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL:

I wish to thank our elected officers this year for their dedication to DeMolay. A special thanks go out to Derek Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor. I had a lot of health problems this year requiring four operations one of those times happen to be when we had our Special Meeting of ISC in September and Derek had to take the role as chairman of that meeting and did a great job. Thanks Derek!



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DISPENSATIONS:

I did not grant dispensations this year.

HONORS: Richard Burgess Active LOH (MA)

Fredrick Sorsabal Honorary ISC (Nor-Cal)

David Clements Chevalier (Nor-Cal)

Michele Noeth Cross of Honor (Nor-Cal)

Michael C. Salazar Active LOH (Nor-Cal)

VISITATIONS:

I had the honor and privilege this year of representing DeMolay International at a number of National Masonic Events, foreign Events and visiting our Jurisdictions to witness the great work done by the members of our Order. My schedule is attached.

Date Event Location

June 16 – 19 ID Daughters of the Nile Supreme Session Dallas, TX

29 – 4th July Imperial Shrine Session Indianapolis, IN

July 16 – 28 Brazil DeMolay Session Brazil

August 1 – 3 Board of Directors Meeting Kansas City, MO

17 – 21 Northern Scottish Rite Session Washington, DC

24 – 27 Southern Scottish Rite Session Washington, DC

31 So. California Conclave via Skype California

January 9 – 12 Congress Cabinet Retreat Kansas City, MO

February 7 – 9 DeMolay Leadership Conference Anaheim, CA

15 – 18 Conference of Grand Masters Baltimore, MD

26 – 28 Executive Officer’s Conference Chicago, IL

March 1 – 2 EO Conference, continued Chicago, IL

14 – 19 700 Year Anniv J. DeMolay Paris, France

28 – 30 Frank Marshall Tournament Dallas, TX

April 1 – 13 Italy Grand Orient/DeMolay Italy

17 – 21 Hawaii Grand Lodge Session Honolulu, HI

23 – 30 Philippine DeMolay Supreme Council Philippines

FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS:

Our interest in the development and growth of DeMolay outside the United States continues to grow. The

number of requests for information or to develop DeMolay is becoming a greater challenge as we attempt

to deal with having the manpower to accomplish this goal.

MY FAMILY:

I have been blessed to not only have an exceptional Masonic Family but a number of great friends who

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support I have received in so many different and personal ways. I would need to mention a couple hundred

names to do justice but know that each one of them understand how much I appreciate their support.

I am not sure how to adequately thank my family. You are the wind beneath my wings. You have allowed

me to have this experience of a lifetime. Always asking what you can do to help. I have missed so many

family events the last few years. They understood how important this has been for me and always just

continued to support me in more ways than I can mention in the short time we have here. I am so bless to

have you in my life.

IN CONCLUSION:

I would like to express my gratitude to the members of this Supreme Council for electing me to serve as its

82nd Grand Master. I hope that I made a positive difference in this great organization that has helped so

many young men be better young men. I believe that this is the best organization in the world for young

men and we need to do whatever it takes to let our communities know we are there.

I offer my congratulations and best wishes to next year's officers. I cannot thank you enough for the privilege to serve as your Grand Master this year.

Sincerely and Fraternally,

Mike A. Salazar

Grand Master

I move for acceptance of the Grand Master's report.

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: It's been moved to receive the report of the Grand Master.

Is there a second?


Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Second. That he's asking about the distribution of the

report. It's been moved and seconded to table the discussion of receipt of the report until it has been printed

and each of you have a chance to receive it in accordance with the Bylaws, Rules and Regulations. All

those in favor.

(Aye vote)

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: All opposed.

(Nay vote)

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Motion passes.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: We'll move on to committee reports. I know that the Ritual Committee,

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Curtis Gimlin: Thank you, Grand Master.

Investment Committee Report DeMolay International

June 19, 2014

Goals

The goals of the Investment Committee are:

1. 7 1/2 % rate of return.

2. 4% return over inflation rate.

3. Attain return goals with minimum risk.

4. Standard deviation (risk): 9-12 rounded.

The plans to accomplish these goals are continuing and are reviewed on a quarterly basis. Decisions on

investment performance, however, are generally made on the manager’s performance over a minimum of a

year, and more likely over a market cycle of probably three to five years.

Benchmark

The Committee has established a benchmark rate of return which we also track on a quarterly basis.

This is based on 60% Standard &Poor 500 Index, 30% Barclays Corporate and Government Bond Index and

10% US 3-month Treasury Bill Index. The DeMolay International quarterly and annual investment returns

are then compared to the benchmark rate of return.

Investment Manager and Consultant

Davenport & Company LLC serves as the investment manager for DeMolay International, with Art

Winstead of Davenport as the Investment Consultant.

Quick Review

At December 31, 2012, the investments of DeMolay International had a fair market value of $2,913,853.

(For a point of reference end of year balance at December 31, 2010 was $3,642,900.) The withdrawals for

2013 totaled $799,154. Earnings totaled $468,155. As of December 31, 2013, the portfolio value was

$2,582,854.

First Quarter 2014

During the first quarter of 2014, DeMolay International had investment earnings of $29,710 and

withdrew $199,701. The value of the DI portfolio at March 31, 2014 was $2,412,863.

2013 Performance

For the year of 2013, the net investment return was 18.44%,.

This compares to a benchmark return of 16.23%. Accordingly, for 2013, the actual total return for

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Year to Date Performance

For the first three months of 2014, the net investment return was 1.38%,.

This compares to a benchmark return of 1.43%. Accordingly, for the first three months of 2014, the

actual total return for DeMolay International exceeded the benchmark by (0.05)%

At March 31, 2014, DI was invested 62.1% in equities, 34.7% in fixed income and 3.2% in cash

equivalents.

Respectfully submitted,

Curtis L. Gimlin, Chairman

Grand Master, I move for the receipt of this report.


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to receive the report from the Investment

Committee. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you. Appeals and Grievances.

Appeals & Grievances Committee Report Dale Sandstrom, PGM

Dalve Sandstrom, PGM: Thank you. I'm Dale Sandstrom, Past Grand Master from North Dakota. In my

spare time I'm a justice of the Supreme Court and this is a report of the Appeals Committee.

Brother Robert Laing appealed the Grand Master's action stating that he was removing Brother Laing as

International Master Councilor. After the committee heard its appeal but before it issued its opinion, the

Grand Master rescinded his actions stating he was removing Brother Laing as International Master

Councilor. At the request of Brother Laing his appeal was then dismissed as moot.

The former State Master Councilor in Michigan attempted to appeal his removal from that position by the

Executive Officer. He was advised that under Section 204.5 the decision of the Executive Officer was not

appealable.

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Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to accept receipt of the report. All those

in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: All those opposed.

(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: International Relations.

Greg L. Kimberling, PGM: Thank you, Grand Master.

International Relations Committee Greg L. Kimberling, PGM, Chairman

Grand Master, Elected Line and Members of DeMolay International:

The International Relations Committee Reports in accordance with its charge and the requirements of the

By-Laws and Rules of DeMolay International.

The year 2013-2014 has been most productive for DeMolay International outside of the United States.

Our Brothers in South America continue to be productive in their extension of the Order. The Supreme

Council of the Federativa Republica do Brazil continues to be highly successful in continuing to attract new

members thereby continuing its very substantial growth making it the largest jurisdiction within DeMolay

International with more than 42,000 active DeMolays. The problems that caused the reorganization of the

Supreme Council of Brazil continue toward resolution and we look forward in the near future to have all

issues behind us. A joining of the former and current Supreme Council’s is currently being negotiated and

once completed will result in approximately 75,000 active DeMolay’s within Brazil.

DeMolay is spreading throughout Central and South America and continues to grow under the leadership of

our Supreme Council Members in the various countries. With the additions of Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay

into the DI organization last year along with a more formalized relationship with Bolivia the year has been

spent solidifying and clarifying those organizations. A visit to Colombia and Panama in November began

the process of adding those countries into DI. Panama was instituted on April 25, 2014 and we expect

Colombia to join in the next few months. We will have in excess of 40 DeMolays and Advisors attending

Session from South America.

DeMolay in Australia continues to move forward in at least two provinces of the country. The Supreme

Council of Australia continues to function. Last year saw the recognition of DeMolay by some Grand

Masonic Bodies in Australia.

The Supreme Council of the Philippines continues to prosper with over 57 active chapters located

throughout the country. Our Chapter on Guam continues to operate under the jurisdiction of the Supreme

Council of the Philippines who represents DeMolay International in the administration of this Chapter. Our

Grand Master Michael Salazar made a two week trip to the Philippines this year which will assist us in

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DeMolay in Europe continues to grow and prosper. The Grand Master visited the Jurisdiction of Italy in

April with his Personal Representative for DeMolay in Europe Past Grand Master Frederick Welch. The

Grand Master met with the representatives of several countries during his trip and also attended the Annual

Meetings of the Grand Orient of Italy and the Grand Lodge of San Marino.

The jurisdiction of Germany continues to receive assistance from the new Shrine Temple that is operating in

Germany. They look forward to increased growth and interest in DeMolay within Germany.

The Jurisdiction of Italy continues to grow under the leadership of Luciano Critelli as Executive Officer

with 12 Chapters open and functioning and membership steadily approaching 300 active DeMolays. Brother

Critelli continues to function as the Grand Master’s representative in residence in Europe and is the reason

for our success in establishing DeMolay in Europe.

2013 saw the establishment of a Chapter under the jurisdiction of Italy opened in Paris, France. Our

Brothers from France are most excited about the spread of DeMolay in the country that is the home of our

namesake. A ceremony was held in March of the 700th Anniversary of the death of Jacques DeMolay at the

site of the burning of Jacques DeMolay in 1314 with our DeMolays in France in attendance along with

several other countries.

In 2012 the Grand Master created the Jurisdiction of Romania that is functioning with several chapters and

growing. We also have chapters in Serbia.

During 2014 we have received inquiries for DeMolay in several additional countries. We continue to

explore conversations with interested parties and Grand Lodges.

The Committee wishes to express its appreciation and thanks to the Grand Master for our appointment and

his strong support of the goal of increasing DeMolay involvement outside of the United States.

Respectfully submitted

The International Relations Committee

Greg L Kimberling, PGM, Chairman

Grand Master, I move for receipt of the International Relations' Committee Report.


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to receive the report from the

International Relations' Committee. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


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Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. Congress Committee. That's probably with the Congress; right?

Well, believe it or not we're actually ahead of schedule again so we can either take a health break. We

actually are going to have a joint session with the Congress at 3:30 or we can turn around and try and

move some of the committee reports from Saturday, if the chairmen are ready, so that we have less to do.

Break is what I'm hearing. Keep going is what I'm hearing most of the time. Are the Alumni here?

ALUMNI AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

2014 Session Meeting Minutes

Committee Members

Russell B. Glendinning, Chairman Thomas Denslow

Vernon C. Vanderhule

Randall Williams

Visitors

Michael Feinloft Steve Ward

James Lamb John Kodet

Dan Smothers

Certificates of Recognition – The Committee discussed the distribution of Certificates of Recognition for

Senior DeMolays who are presiding officers of Masonic and community based organizations. Since our

2013 Session there were 57 certificates prepared and send to Executive Officers or presentation. This is an

increase of 21 over the previous year. In addition to Senior DeMolays who are presiding officers of

Masonic bodies, we also prepared a certificate this year for a Chief of Police. The committee continues to

feel that this is one of the easiest and best ways in which to honor and recognize a Senior DeMolay for his

current endeavors and dedicated to leadership. Most of these certificates have come information obtained

through Facebook and Masonic websites.

The Committee recommends that these certificates be continued in the next year and that Executive Officers

be encouraged to identify those Senior DeMolays in their jurisdiction who are the presiding officer of

Masonic and community organizations and request a certificate from the Alumni Affairs Committee.

2014 Hall of Fame Induction – We are looking forward to our Hall of Fame induction ceremony on

Saturday night during the 2014 Grand Master’s Banquet. We are honored to have two inductees this year:

Brother Roderick S. Coy and Brother Thomas Winston Moberly. Brother Coy was our 1st International

Master Councilor, who joined Shiawassee Chapter in Michigan. Brother Moberly is a dedicated Senior

DeMolay who has spent his life working on behalf of the young men of DeMolay. He is a Senior DeMolay

from Ferndale Chapter in Michigan. Due to the background of our two inductees and their close ties to the

DeMolay Congress, all past Congress officers have been invited to this year’s Hall of Fame Induction on

Saturday. We are happy to report that several of them will be here to see these two leaders of the DeMolay

Congress inducted into our Hall of Fame.

Our thanks go out to Brother Klein, PGM and Brother Thomas Labagh for their work on the committee’s

behalf in producing our Hall of Fame induction videos and to the Youth Fund of Southern California for

their continued financial support in underwriting this program. Without the help and dedication of Brothers

Klein, Labagh and the Youth Fund, our Hall of Fame induction ceremony would not have the impact that it

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We have already begun working on our 2015 Hall of Fame inductees and have received a commitment from

Brother Leonard Shurtleff of Massachusetts, a career employee of the United States State Department to

attend the induction ceremony in Orlando.

Hall of Fame Nominations - Nominations for the Hall of Fame are earnestly solicited from those who are

aware of a Senior DeMolay who has been successful in a field of endeavor. Any person can nominate an

individual for the Hall of Fame. It does not have to be a member of the Committee or a member of the

Supreme Council to submit the nomination. Nomination forms are available from the Service & Leadership

Center and from the Resources page of the web site. The deadline for consideration of the nomination is

October 1 of each year.

Alumni Membership Fees – The committee feels that the current lifetime membership fee in the Alumni

Association be retained at its current amount of $50.00.

DeMolay & More Store – The committee discussed the possibility of packaging our Hall of Fame videos

into categorical groups for resale in the DeMolay & More Store. As an example packaging the videos of

our three military Hall of Fame members would make an ideal program for a Chapter to celebrate the virtue

of Patriotism. There are other possibilities that the committee would work with the store on grouping.

Alumni News – Since our last Session, the Committee has produced and distributed three issues of the

Alumni News newsletter. These newsletters were distributed to members of the Alumni Association who

have provided us with an email address (561 members). It is the intent of the Committee to continue

producing these newsletters during the next year.

Alumni Directory – The Committee spent considerable time in discussing the production of an Alumni

Directory using the services of Harris Connect, Inc. Harris Connect is in the business of producing alumni

directories for colleges and universities along with the Boy Scouts and several Grand Lodges. Through the

proposal that has been received from Harris Connect, the Alumni Association would receive a minimum

royalty of $5,000 plus the benefit of Harris Connect cleaning up our Alumni database. A complete report

will be presented to the Board of Directors at this Session for their consideration.

2014 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ACTION

The Committee recommends the following action items to the Board of Directors for their consideration:

1. That Life Memberships be made available for $50.00.

2. That Certificates of Recognition continue to be presented to the incoming presiding officer of any

community/charitable based organization - not necessarily restricted to Masonic bodies.

3. That a Hall of Fame Induction ceremony be held at the 2015 Session in conjunction with the Grand

Master’s Banquet.

4. That the DeMolay & More Store in cooperation with this committee package our Hall of Fame

videos into several categories for sale to the Chapters for their use.

5. That the Committee pursue the publication of an Alumni Directory using the services of Harris

Connect.

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Grand Master, I move for the amount of the life membership in the alumni association to remain at $50.



Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded the fee for the alumni remain at $50. All

those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Opposed?

(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It stays at $50.

Russell B. Glendinning, Chairman: Grand Master, I move that the Alumni Certificates of Appreciation

continue to be a part of this program. Brethren, it costs DeMolay International nothing for this program.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Moved and seconded to continue with the certificates of recognition. All

those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)


Russell B. Glendinning, Chairman: Grand Master, I move that there be a Hall of Fame induction

ceremony at the 2015 session in Orlando, Florida.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded that we have a Hall of Fame induction

ceremony in 2015. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)


Russell B. Glendinning, Chairman: Grand Master, we move that the DeMolay & More store, in

cooperation with this committee, package our Hall of Fame videos into several categories for resale to the

chapters on a local level.



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Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to provide the videos to the DeMolay &

More store so they can provide them to the field.


(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)


Russell B. Glendinning, Chairman: Grand Master, finally the committee recommends that the Board of

Directors approve and continue with the publication of the DeMolay Alumni Association Directory using

the service of Harrison Connect.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to continue to use the Harrison Connect.


(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)


Russell B. Glendinning, Chairman: Grand Master, I move for receipt of the report.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to receive the report. All those in favor

say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. Thank you. Is the DLC chairman here? How about advisory

training? You are ready. Can you do it now?

DEMOLAY LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT

Brad Northcutt, Chairman

A. DLC web page on DeMolay International site.

Updated each year by March 1.

B. Use of wiggio.com for ongoing, general communications



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C. Use of shared folder on Dropbox.com for curriculum and resource sharing.

D. Consideration of development of online available resources

(similar to freemasonuniversity.com)

E. Best Practices & Resource Summit, January 9-11, 2015

For the purpose of strengthening current DeMolay Leadership Conferences as well as to assist in

establishing and resourcing additional conferences.

F. Budget $6,000 primarily to underwrite on site expenses of the Best Practices & Resource Summit

to fulfill the purpose stated in item E.

Brad Northcutt: Thank you, Grand Master. I move for receipt of this report.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to receive the report from the DLC

Committee report. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. Thank you. Frank, there is now copies of my report up here.

Francis J. Nordstrom: 50 copies and more coming.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: They're right here so you can get a written copy of the report. Advisor

Training, are you guys ready?

Advisor Training Report Jeffery A. Brunson, Chairman


The committee met on Thursday afternoon, June 19th with 34 people attending.

We discussed the current state of the DAD Training Program and direction of the committee for the coming

year. We addressed five action items for 2014-15:

1) Advisor 2 and Continuing Advisor Training

2) Jurisdiction Management Training

3) Online DAD Training

4) Updating the current DAD Program Materials

5) The Leader’s Resource Guide revisions

We proceeded to brainstorm topics for the Advisor 2 Program and populate a comprehensive list for

continuing education materials, and discussed options of distribution.



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a) To complete the implementation of the online DAD Training Program including the transfer

of the software to the DI server, with operation and management by the DI office, and policy/procedure

decisions by the Grand Master and the Board of Directors.

b) The new committee, once organized, are to prioritize the listed actions items and then divide

and conquer the expectations of the new Grand Master.

Grand Master Salazar, the committee wishes to thank those who attended out meeting and for their openness

in speaking up concerning their passion for quality trained advisors working with DeMolay.

Thank you,

Jeffery A. Brunson, Chairman

Advisor Training Committee

Jeffery L. Brunson: I move for the receipt of this report.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to accept the report from the Advisor

Training Committee. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)


Michael D. Brumback: Grand Master, thank you

Fraternal Relations Committee Report Kansas City, Missouri

June 20, 2014

The Fraternal Relations Committee met on Thursday, June 19th, am makes the following

recommendations:

1. The EO in each jurisdiction should appoint a well connected advisor to serve as a Fraternal

Relations liaison. Their sole duty is to build support with the appendant Masonic bodies in their

jurisdiction.

2. Publish a best practices handbook (or binder) with examples of fraternal relations programs that

have been successful.

Some examples of successful programs include:

a. Honorary DeMolay Chapters. Each Honorary member shall be registered with ISC as an

Alumni member.

b. Exemplify the DeMolay degrees at a Grand session.

The handbook should include sample letters and certificates. It is essential that all documents be

available electronically so that they may be downloaded (and altered as necessary) to be printed.



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3. Partner more specifically with National and State Masonic bodies to build, or rekindle,

relationships in support of DeMolay. Imperial Sir Jack Jones attended our meeting and pledged to

partner with ISC to communicate to Temples and Nobles the importance of getting personally

involved with a local DeMolay Chapter, in addition to their financial support.

In summary, fraternal relations is a one-to-one process. Rather than focus on just financial support,

we recommend that we focus on building relationships.

Your committee moves the receipt of this report.

Michael D. Brumback, Chairman

Fraternal Relations Committee

I move to receive this report.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to receive this report. All those in favor

say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. Thank you. Tom, do you want to -- I see you with your stack of

papers so I figured you're ready. We'll do this. There's no reason we can't do this during joint session. It'll

probably be appropriate with the young men in here.

I call us on recess until 3:30 when we'll open up with joint session.

(Meeting concluded at 3:26 p.m.)

Joint Session Friday, June 20, 2014


(Meeting commenced at 3:38 p.m.)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: At this point we're going to continue where we left off and Tom Labagh is

going to take us through the Ritual and Regalia Committee.

Ritual & Regalia Committee Report Thomas R. Labagh, Committee Chairman

Thomas R. Labagh: Thank you Grand Master. Grand Master, Officers and members of DeMolay

International, the original Regalia Committee report, in front of most of you, a lot of you, there may even be

a few more still down here, I'm not going to read the entire report, but I want to highlight certain parts of it,

and then we have some very specific recommendations that those of you who are involved in the knighthood

program will want to pay attention to in particular.



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So we received -- ten of the 16 members were present. We received reports from the Ritual Tournament, the

Old South Tournament held in Georgia, the Mid Atlantic Tournament will be held in Wilmington, Delaware,

the Frank Marshall Tournament down in Texas and talked about some of their particular issues.

We discussed the very specific definition of what prohibited ritual ceremonies mean. We've had a discussion

over the years on whether an e-copy or an e-text would be valid and up until this year it was not deemed

something we wanted, but we recognized the fact that most young people are using electronic texts. Some

are using electronic textbooks in school all the time and having them available on their phone is a good

thing.

So the committee was a little bit divided whether we should create one with a license and charge for the key

to it or whether we should just make an electronic copy available for free and it was finally determined that,

yes, we are going to recommend that this body vote to authorize an electronic ritual for distribution and that

it not be on a charge basis. That will come as a specific recommendation for action in a moment.

We also had questions about translating the ritual into other languages and, of course, we don't have

anybody on our committee who can do that or can review a ritual used by one of the non-English speaking

jurisdictions. We can't tell whether the text is a good translation or a bad translation. We have to trust that

they've done a good job in the translation or get a translation service to review it for us.

We're a little bit concerned that at least somebody should be doing that review to be able to say to this body,

yes, the Spanish ritual that's being used in South America is as close to what our authorized ritual is as can

possibly be done. We know that word for word translation doesn't work. Certain idioms or certain

inflections or phrases that just don't work in other cultures but we should know the lessons that are being

taught and so we're going to be looking at getting some kind of review, independent review done of those

texts.

In keeping with our ten-year cadence of updates, the next time the monitor of ceremonies will be reviewed

will be 2016. So we're preparing for that over the next two years. If you are using ceremonies in your

jurisdiction that are authorized by DeMolay International and you'd like to see them added to the monitor,

please submit them specifically for consideration by the committee.

On the floor of the Supreme Council last year a member raised a question about the Representative

DeMolay ceremony, taking it back to having multiple participants instead of one person conferring. I just

want to point out that that's already there, that's an option. You can split that up. It doesn't have to be one

speaker, you can split it up to among four speakers and that's already in the monitor.

A question was raised about robes and whether different colors are permitted and the committee simply

asserts the fact that in the general instructions the official DeMolay cape is described as a black cape lined

with red for use in all of our ceremonies with the permission of the Executive Officer.

We don't have anything in the ritual on colored robes. If you use colored robes in your jurisdiction, that's at

the discretion of the Executive Officer. It's not something we're going to rule on.

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The first printing of the 15th Edition of the DeMolay ritual, the red one that you're now using, hopefully

everybody is using, was 10,000 copies. We sold all 10,000 copies and we have another printing. So if

you've been into the DeMolay & More store you'll see that it looks a little bit different. It has a coating on

the cover now so it won't scratch off, the ink that's made them scratch off and make them look really worn

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It's kind of cool actually because it looks like the guys are really really working hard at reading the rituals

like crazy, you know. They may have only turned the page three times but it looks really good. Well, now we

have coated stock on the covers so they'll last a little longer.

There was one typographical error in the ritual. Did anybody find it? Come on, own up to it. One person.

Nick Capes. Yes, Nick Capes found it, one typographical error. I'm not telling you where it is, you're just

going to have to find it yourself. It was nonsubstantial. It does not affect any of the words you've learned.

The committee moved on to a discussion of Priory Ritual which was last revised in 1978 and after running

out of the 3rd Edition of the green books, the small books that were the rituals, the office had scanned a

copy and been selling something they were printing off the copier. The scan was not a very good scan and

there were a lot of errors in it. So if you're using one of those staple bound books, you've probably found a

lot of words that don't make sense or misspellings, things like that.

We have gone through the entire text and we proposed a number of changes, a number of things to be done

to the ritual and I'm going to outline this because this is important for Supreme Council members to pay

attention to because you're going to vote on whether or not you'll accept this.

So we've done an overall complete reformat of the text to make it like the 15th Edition. That means, you

know, fonts, margins the style of the thing, it's going to look like the 15th Edition of the Ritual so you'll have

consistent looking text. We replaced the existing vouching of visitors with the same welcome address that's

used in the new 15th Edition of the ritual. It's the same adults are now allowed to attend the priory that can

attend a DeMolay chapter. So it's consistent.

To clarify the general instructions we've made sure that in the text at every prayer the response “To God”

and his dominion is included in the text because it wasn't. It was inconsistent. There was a question as to

whether they were supposed to do it or not.

In the ceremony of investiture, you know, this is secret stuff, guys, if you're not knights, ladies, you're not

supposed to hear this, just close your ears for a minute.

In the Ceremony of Investiture the deacon should repeat the password after the Illustrious Knight

Commander gives it. It clearly delineated it. We put that into the text.

The general instructions have been expanded and rewritten to be consistent with the 15th Edition of the

ritual so all of the descriptions of movement and walking bands and things like that that are in the general

instruction are also included in the knighthood ritual now.

The flag customs, the specific ways of handling the American flag or any other banner were moved from the

15th Edition of the ritual into the knighthood ritual.

The appendix A, the pronunciation glossary will be expanded dramatically. Basically, we're using an 8th

grade reading level to be the marker for what we put into the glossary.

Appendix D will have updated diagrams and photographs. Diagram 1 will now be like the diagram 1 in the

ritual. The last printed copy of the ritual did not have the letter code, the forward letter code that all of you

use. So we're adapting all of the forward instructions to that letter code.



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The 9:00 interpolation is referred in the text as being something you use at 9:00 but it's not in the ritual. To

be consistent with the ritual we're putting it into the knighthood ritual.

Some minor grammatical and punctuation changes were also made throughout the ritual.

Now, those are the things that we consider housekeeping and the committee voted to approve them without

us seeing a complete text of all that material because they know it's going to be the same as what they've

already approved in the ritual.

There were 11 very specific changes that the Chairman and the Vice Chairman proposed. These were

handled on individual vote and they were all passed unanimously by the committee. Replacing the word

Saracen with the word infidel because when you look up Saracen it actually has a somewhat offensive tone

to it. It could almost be termed racist. So rather than run the risk of offending anybody we'll take it out and

replace it with infidel. That's a word we already use in the ritual and it's not going to be offending anybody.

We've removed the phrase, "through Masonic affiliation" from the opening ceremony because that was a

way of allowing people to attend the meeting because of their Masonic affiliations. That's no longer a

restrictive requirement so that little piece comes out of the opening.

The preceptor's floor work in the opening ceremony is going to be consistent with the Marshal. He's the

same character, he's just called the Preceptor instead of the Marshal and now his floor work will be exactly

the same as the Marshal's floor work in the opening of a chapter.

Same thing for the opening of the Priory. It was just slightly different before. The raps were in a different

place.

We removed a small piece of floor work before the deacon collected the password. In the priory ritual for

some unexplained reason the deacon went to the altar before they started collecting the password, so we

made it consistent with the ritual.

There was a redundant addressing of the Sir Knight Page Commander in the opening ceremony. The

Illustrious Knight Commander was already talking to him and then he had to say that, had to be addressed

again and it didn't make sense so we just suggest removing that.

There's some specific things about having everybody standing, three raps when the Bible's being opened,

that wasn't in the old Knighthood ritual. We're going to add that in.

There was a discussion of the full form opening and closing ceremony. There's a short form and then a full

form opening and closing in the Knighthood ritual and there was a statement that said when you're doing

the ceremony of investiture -- or do the full form opening when the ceremony of investitures takes place. It

says something control of the orders or something like that and that's not terminology we're used to so we're

using terminology that making sense.

Succeeding the registrar in number 8, again, it's just putting a rap in a right place.

Clarifying that the Preceptor and Senior Deacon give two quick raps on the door in this ceremony, number

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These are all just minor things, again, to make the knighthood ritual consistent with the conventions of the

DeMolay ritual.

In the 15th Edition of the ritual, we replaced the word lesson with lessons in the examination queries, it's the

same thing, same thing here.

Then the entrance of the officers were not specified. There was a formation shown in front of the altar but it

didn't tell anybody how to get to it. That would be like saying guys, you're going to form the triangle, we

don't care how you get there. That could be interesting, couldn't it? Yeah. Well, that's why you have very

specific instructions on how to form the triangle so the formation in front of the altar for the officers

entering and retiring are now being specified so it will be uniform.

So that's essentially the report. I'm going to move the acceptance of the report and then we have two

specific recommendations for actions.

DeMolay International Annual Session

Kansas City, Missouri, June 20, 2014

RITUAL AND REGALIA COMMITTEE

Grand Master, Officers and Members of DeMolay International:

The meeting was opened at 9:06 AM with an invocation by the Chairman. 10 out of 16 members of the

Committee were in attendance, with a large number of visitors.

Reports were given from representatives of the various Ritual Tournaments:

Old South was held in Savannah, Georgia this past spring, and the Scottish Rite venue was excellent.

There were around 40 competitors. Next year is the 25th Anniversary, and it will be held again in

New Orleans, Louisiana, March 20-22, 2015. For those bringing a large team to compete, there will

be a registration discount.

MATOC will be held September 5-7, 2014 in Wilmington, Delaware. It will be held in conjunction

with a regional DeMolay conference. Peter Brusoe is the chairman.

Frank Marshall was held in late March and had 414 attendees, with 310 DeMolay and Rainbow

competitions. As usual, the competition was fierce, and the event went extremely well. Next year’s

competition will be held March 27-29 in Arlington, Texas.

The tournament representatives were given 2 documents to help with converting their judging sheets

to the 15th Edition: a document highlighting all the changes; and a document with all of the text so

the tournaments could copy-and-paste into their judging sheets. They stated that both documents

made it straightforward to make the changes, and suggested that having line numbers would help for

future revisions.

The Committee discussed what “prohibited Ritual ceremonies” are, according to the Rules and Regulations

and Youth Protection policies. The Youth Protection policies allow an Executive Officer to sanction

ceremonies for his Jurisdiction, which is a broader statement than what the Rules and Regulations allow.

We agreed to refer people to the Board approved Youth Protection policy document, rather than having the

Committee come up with its own definition and standard.

The committee reinforced the policy that the DeMolay International office is only authorized to distribute

the ceremonies in the Ritual of Secret Work, the Monitor of Ceremonies and the Knighthood Ritual or



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otherwise specifically authorized by this committee. Unofficial ceremonies such as the Mother’s Watch and

Shield Talk can only be distributed to members and Advisors through their Executive Officer. We request

the Executive Director to see to the enforcement of this policy.

Bro. Labagh reported that a question had been raised about the Treasurer’s Installation, which says that he

was “elected.”, this is misleading since the Advisory Council now appoints the Treasurer. The Committee

agreed to leave the ceremony as-is, and let the Chapters use common sense in changing the language as

appropriate.

The Committee discussed whether we should provide an electronic copy of the Ritual, so that the members

can view the Ritual on their phones and other devices. Most members agreed that it was time to provide

one, and felt that the document should be password-protected, so that only members and Advisors could

download and use it. The members were divided on whether we should charge for a license key or app. A

motion was made and seconded that the Committee authorize an electronic copy of the Ritual for

distribution which would be secured. Specifics on implementation will be decided later. The motion was

approved unanimously.

The Chairman received questions during the last year about translating the Ritual into other languages.

Nobody on the Committee is qualified to deal with translations, or approving Rituals from foreign

Jurisdictions. This would need to be handled by an external company if the Committee wanted to control

these translations; currently, each Jurisdiction manages its own translations. We agreed to consult with the

International Relations Committee on best practices for dealing with translations, and receive official

statements sanctioning the Rituals that are in place in those Jurisdictions. We also feel that the DeMolay

International office should maintain a file set of the latest Rituals from all Jurisdictions.

In keeping with the 10-year cadence of updates, the Committee will look to promulgate a new Monitor of

Ceremonies in 2016. We will look at adopting new ceremonies, and updating existing ceremonies. We will

also discuss whether to offer a printed version, or only offer the ceremonies as free, public downloads.

On the floor of Supreme Council last year, a member raised a question about the Representative DeMolay

ceremony, and reinstating a version with four officers. The official 6th Edition of the Monitor already

provides an option to involve four officers, so no action is required.

A question was raised about robes, and whether different colors are permitted. As documented in the Ritual,

the only robe that is sanctioned is a black cape lined with red, which is for use in our ceremonies as

permitted by the Executive Officer.

The first printing of the 15th Edition of the DeMolay Ritual was 10,000 copies, which had an inked cover

that was easily marked up. The store is now on the second printing of 10,000 copies, which has a glossy

cover. It has no changes from the first printing. The printed Ritual does have one typographical error in the

DeMolay Degree instructions, but it is not substantive, and will be fixed in the third printing. The

overwhelming feedback on the 15th Edition was positive.

The Committee moved onto discussing the Priory Ritual, which was last revised in 1978. After running out

of the 3rd Edition green books, the DeMolay & More Store has been selling a scanned copy which has a

number of errors and formatting problems. The Chairman and Vice-Chairman proposed 11 categories of

changes that were deemed to be housekeeping, and not substantive, all of which the Committee reviewed

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1. Overall reformatting to be consistent with the 15th Edition fonts, margins, and style.

2. Replaced the existing vouching of visitors with the same welcoming address which was adopted for

the Ritual. The same adults (including women) are allowed to visit a Priory as a DeMolay Chapter,

so this provides consistency.

3. To clarify the General Instructions, the unison response “To God and His dominion” is included with

every prayer (this was not consistent before).

4. In the Ceremony of Investiture, the Deacons should repeat the password after the I.K.C. gives it, to

clearly delineate it.

5. General Instructions have been expanded and rewritten to be consistent with the 15th Edition of the

DeMolay Ritual (as appropriate)

6. Flag customs / directions will be replaced with those from the 15th Edition.

7. Appendix A (Pronouncing Glossary) will be expanded.

8. Appendices B and C (Music and US Flag Code) will be copied from the Ritual.

9. Appendix D will have updated floorwork diagrams and photographs. Diagram One will have the

same alphabet letter standard for points on the floor, and all directions in the Ritual will be rewritten

to use that alphabet designation.

10. 9 O’clock Interpolation will be included, just like it is in the DeMolay Ritual, since it is to be given

as the closing prayer if the meeting ends before 9PM.

11. Minor grammatical / punctuation changes throughout the Ritual.

There were 11 changes that the Chairman and Vice-Chairman proposed, which were significant, and were

handled as individual call items. All were unanimously adopted.

1. Replace the word “saracen” with “infidel”, since “saracen” might be taken as a racist term.

2. Remove the phrase “through Masonic affiliation” from the opening ceremony since non-Masonic

Advisors and visitors are allowed to be present at Priory meetings.

3. Make the Preceptor’s floorwork in the opening ceremony consistent with the Marshal’s in the

DeMolay Ritual, where the I.K.C. raps after the Preceptor returns to his station, not before.

4. Remove a piece of floorwork before the Deacons collect the password; they will directly go to the

East and begin collecting it, rather than first going to the Altar and waiting for a rap from the I.K.C.

5. Remove a redundant addressing of the “Sir Knight Page Commander” in the opening ceremony.

6. Have the I.K.C. give 3 raps before the Bible is opened, not after.



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7. Clarify when full-form opening and closing ceremonies should take place, to say “when the

Ceremony of Investiture is to take place”.

8. In the Ceremony of Investiture, the I.K.C. should rap once to seat the Registrar, rather than his

sitting down without any direction.

9. Clarify that the Preceptor and Senior Deacon give 2 quick raps during the Ceremony of Investiture.

10. Replace the word “lesson” with “lessons” in the opening ceremony, which is consistent with the

Obligation Queries in the 15th Edition of the DeMolay Ritual.

11. Adopt standard floorwork for forming the sword formation in the opening ceremony, and breaking

the sword formation in the closing ceremony. There is currently no direction for this. The

Committee agreed that Priories should not be given flexibility in this floorwork, and should migrate

to this standard policy.

One call item was proposed from the floor, which was unanimously adopted.

12. In the Ceremony of Investiture, the I.K.C. should return to East after the obligation, seat the brethren

and then remain there to explain the secrets and regalia.

The Committee’s goal is to have a final draft ready by September 1st, and then to publish it as a book. A

motion was made and seconded to adopt the 4th Edition of the Priory Ritual, incorporating all of the changes

that were approved. The Committee asked for a green cover, but in a different shade than the 3rd Edition.

The motion was unanimously approved.

The Committee agreed that the procedures for use of swords in the ceremonies are specific to each

Jurisdiction, and should not be promulgated by DeMolay International.

The committee asserted its long-standing policy that the text of The Order of Ebon may be distributed

through the office, but it is not part of the official Ritual promulgated by DeMolay International. No other

ceremonies are sanctioned by the Committee.

The Committee thanked Bro. Schaeffer for his work in reviewing and proofreading the Priory Ritual,

formulating call items, and preparing it for printing.

Peace and harmony prevailing, the Chairman closed the meeting at 10:31 AM.

Recommendations for Action:

1) That DeMolay International create and distribute electronic copies of the authorized rituals, which would

be password-protected.

2) That DeMolay International adopt the 4th Edition of the Priory Ritual and cause it to be printed in a hard-

bound edition for sale in the DeMolay and More Store.

Fraternally, the 2013-2014 Ritual & Regalia Committee,

Thomas R. Labagh, Chairman

Greg Schaeffer, Vice-Chairman



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Gary Denklau

Gary Garafola

Curtis Gimlin

Reese L. Harrison, Jr, PGM

Nathan “Skip” Mason

Sean Metroka

Craig Phillips

Doug Reiter

Michael Sanders

Thomas Sellers

Robert Taylor

Fred Veinfurt

John Whitaker

Sam Whitehead

So brother Grand Master I move acceptance of the Ritual and Regalia Committee report. I move for the

receipt of the report.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to receive the report. All those in favor

say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)


Thomas R. Labagh: Grand Master and brethren, I have two recommendations for action. I move that

DeMolay International create and distribute electronic copies of the authorized rituals which would be

password protected.



Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to provide electronic rituals that are

password protected. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)




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Thomas R. Labagh: Brother Grand Master and brethren, I move that DeMolay International adopt the 4th

Edition of the Priory Ritual and cause it to be printed in a hardbound edition for sale in the DeMolay &

More store.



Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's moved and seconded that we provide a hardcopy of the Knighthood

Ritual at the DeMolay & More store. Is there any discussion? Call for the question. All those in favor say

aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. Is David Glattly in the room? He was here before. There he is.

Grand Marshal will you please escort... faster, faster. You know, he's going to have a heart attack. Do we

have a doctor in the room? I think Terry was a DeMolay in 1919.

I hear you have some remarks for us from Commander McNaughton.

David A. Glattly: Thank you Grand Master, International Master Councilor and International Congress

Secretary and my brethren and guests, good afternoon.

I bring you the greetings of Illustrious John William McNaughton, 33rd Degree, the Sovereign Grand

Commander of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. He sends his regards to you and his regrets that he can't

be here with you today.

As you know Commander McNaughton is a Senior DeMolay from the great state of Indiana and he is also

in our Hall of Fame. I would like to acknowledge one of my colleagues that's here today with me. He's

from the state of New Hampshire and he's now going to be working with DeMolay in New Hampshire and

that is Illustrious Rich Elliot, 33rd Degree, our Grand Treasurer General. It's always nice to have the

Grand Treasurer around. Thank you, Rich.

You know, I was driving down the turnpike in New Jersey, which I do all too often and this was in December

and a phone number came up on the car phone and it had the area code of Lexington, Massachusetts which

is the headquarters of Northern Masonic Jurisdiction Scottish Rite so I picked it up and it was Commander

McNaughton and I said, Bill, aren't you in Paris right now and he said, yes, I am.

He said do you know that there's this island under this bridge in Paris where there's a plaque that says

Jacque DeMolay was burned at the stake on this spot and I said, yeah, I know about that. He said do you

know the date March 18th, 2014. And I said, oh sure. As a DeMolay, of course, I know that date. Do you

know what anniversary is coming up and I said, no, absolutely no idea. He said, 700 years. He said this,

will be 700 years since Jacque DeMolay was martyred and burned at the stake. I said, oh yeah, okay. He

said I think you and Monica should be standing on this spot on March 18th, 2014.



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So I paused and I said Commander have you been drinking the vino while you're over there in Paris and he

said, yes, I have but this is what I want you to do. He said I want you to get a DeMolay delegation together

because I think that DeMolay should be here on that spot on March 18th, 2014. He said I want you to

contact the Grand Master and I want you to contact the International Officers and we'll put together a little

group and he said, we'll sponsor that on behalf of all of Scottish Rite, not just Northern Jurisdiction but on

behalf of all of Scottish Rite, and I said, okay, that's a good task so we did that.

Then we had the opportunity to, I guess it was ten in our group but then other people did come over also but

our International Master Councilor, our Congress Secretary, Grand Master and his wife, Janet, and a

couple of couples from our Supreme Council Scottish Rite. Bob Ogg of Rhode Island who's also a former

Executive Officer and senior DeMolay like myself and Dick Burgess, the 8th Sovereign Grand Commander

who is also a senior DeMolay and he speaks French and he knows Paris well, so really I didn't have to do

much to organize the trip, he did.

We had a great time over there. Frank Nordstrom came over and put on that great program that our

International Officers and our Grand Master put on for everybody. At that point I was really more of a

spectator or maybe representing a producer if you will, but let me tell you about one moment in standing

there and watching that ceremony and I know most of you have seen the video but there was a moment when

our international officers were speaking right under the plaque that, have you ever had one of those

moments where all of the sudden you realize that you're doing something very special, you're in a special

place?

I had one of those moments and then the awe hit me and I looked at Bob Ogg and I looked at Dick Burgess

on either side of me and they were getting the same DeMolay feeling I was getting and I could see their eyes

welling up as mine were, and the unique moment was when they talked about King Philip and we could look

over our left shoulder and see what was King Philip's palace back in 1314 and, you know, ole King Philip

could have looked right out his window, seen the smoke at least, if not the flames, of our Grand Master

DeMolay being executed. So it was a very very unique feeling and the Northern Jurisdiction was very proud

to be able to support that on behalf of all of Scottish Rite and it was just a spectacular trip.

Those of you that are delegates here, this is such a good time in your life. I was a delegate once 100 years

ago back in the single digit congresses and I know what you're feeling now and take that feeling, take this

enthusiasm back to your own jurisdiction and keep building DeMolay, and in other words for you to help

keep building DeMolay.

In order to continue with the support of the Northern Jurisdiction, I happen to have two checks here, Grand

Master and International Officers. They're each the same, $12,500 to give you a total of a $25,000

donation for the Congress for DeMolay International.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Wes is already walking over here. Dave, I know we said thank you to

the Commander but, again, if you can thank him on behalf of the Order and he did this for all of Scottish

Rite and it was a fabulous trip and I'm glad we were able to be part of that so thank you.

The other thing is part of that, you know how you show up somewhere and all of the sudden you see

somebody and you know you know them but it's like they're not supposed to be there, well that happened

actually while we were in Paris. I was standing there with Bob and Chris and all of a sudden I look out and

there happens to be Tom Moberly, okay, and I'm like Tom Moberly, he's supposed to be in Northern

California working and it was also one of our Deputy members was also there. Jim Dell was with him and

this is, like, really strange.



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Tom proceeds to tell me that the plaque that we were looking at that he actually took it to Paris, you know,

back in 1919 and had it put up there but he did actually take it there, it wasn't in 1919. Sorry Tom. The

only reason I said it was because he was in the room.

At this time I'd like to call up our International Master Councilor and our International Congress Secretary

up here to kind of give a summary, I guess, of Congress.

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: Thank you Dad Salazar. Chris and I have come here

today on behalf of the 47th International Congress to inform the Supreme Council we have finished our

business as far as legislation goes. All that remains is elections of the next international officers. New

region cabinet members have been elected as well.

This year our Congress decided to entertain debate on two of the Supreme Council Call Items and those two

Call Items were your Call Item on dual membership and appointed office and also the Legion of Honor

Honor Medal.

In the issue of the Legion of Honor Honor Medal, the International DeMolay Congress voted in the

negative. We did not pass that Call Item and we had fervent debate on both sides and we had extension of

the debate but the Congress made their opinion clear. So that was our vote on that issue, and then Chris is

going to tell you about how we voted on the other Call Item. Chris.

Christopher M. LaBaw, International Congress Secretary: And for the second Call Item we voted in the

affirmative that we would allow for dual membership. It was passed without division so pretty solid.

Robert W. Laing, International Master Councilor: That is our report on your Call Items. Any further

questions, you can come up to me and Chris, or any delegate for that matter. Thank you for hearing our

voice and thank you for supporting this Congress program. It's because you allow this joint session that

we're able to come here and give our input and our opinions that make this Congress a viable body. Thank

you very much.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you, Bob and Chris. At this time we'll go into our legislative

items. So if I can ask our J&L Chairman to walk us through this.

Business Session #2

Legislative Call Richard L. Sayre, Committee Chairperson

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Thank you. Hello everybody. I assume you have your calls in front of

you. We are now reaching the time to do the Legislative Call and I will go through it with you Call Item by

Call Item.

Board of Directors who are in this room kindly do not leave because you're going to be called on at some

point for a special thing.

For the moment Call Item number 1 which was to change some of the classifications based upon

nonattendance has been withdrawn so it's not before you. Call Item one is gone.



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You're now on Call Item number 2. Call Item number 2 was adopted by the Board of Directors. It needs to

be adopted by DeMolay International and it is presented by Ken Martensen. You have it before you, I'm not

going to read it. I assume you can all read.

Basically, it allows the Grand Master to suspend an individual, when I say individual I mean a Class 1, 2, 3

or 4 member, people in here, from DeMolay International if he is charged with a felony offense and it

allows the Grand Master to remove a member who is convicted of a felony offense and whose appeal rights

have been exhausted. Currently our system requires charges and a trial and that's a fairly cumbersome and

lengthy process. So this is kind of a short cut for people charged with and convicted of a felony.

I believe Ken is in the room and he can speak to this. There's movement over there. Ken, would you like to

move your proposal?

Kenneth G. Martensen: I'm Ken Martensen from Northern California Active member and I move the

adoption of this. This motion is intended to help out members of the Supreme Council, well not help them, it

will actually suspend or remove them if they commit a felony.

It's my understanding now, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, the only way to remove a member of the

Supreme Council right now is by a vote of all Board members.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: It's a trial process and it comes back if there's an appeal here but

there has to be a trial so it takes awhile.

Kenneth G. Martensen: This will give the Grand Master the option of suspending somebody who's been

accused of a felony and if he's convicted then the Grand Master can, at his option, remove him as a member

of the Supreme Council.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Is that your motion?

Kenneth G. Martensen: I move for the adoption of Call Item number 2.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Can we have a second and the person that's making the second give us

your name for the court reporter?

Reese L. Harrison, Jr., PGM: Seconded.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Grand Master, it's been moved and seconded for the adoption of Call

Item number 2.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Is there any discussion? Again, if you would state your name for the

court reporter.

Robert M. Jones: Robert Jones from South Carolina. I have a problem with the suspension portion of this.

What is a suspension? What have we defined what it entails and the statutes?

Secondly, as a small town lawyer, I still believe a person is not guilty until he's proven guilty beyond a

reasonable doubt. So we're punishing beforehand. So unless we can separate it, I would be against this

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Vernon C. Vanderhule: Grand Master, Vernon Vanderhule, Class 1, South Dakota. I have no problem

with the removal portion of this, I think it's appropriate. I also, like Brother Jones, have a problem with the

suspension portion of it and I say that for a number of reasons.

First of all, it's a very common practice of prosecutors to over charge. Charge a felony when the facts

support a misdemeanor to get a plea of guilty to the misdemeanor. It's done all the time.

If you're thinking of a major felony, then that's a different thing but felonies can happen at a fairly low level,

you can get charged. I happened to have witnessed one of these over the last ten months. There was no

evidence for a felony, the charge for a misdemeanor was iffy but forced a plea of guilty to a misdemeanor to

avoid the exposure to the felony and also because of the cost of defense of the felony. So prosecutors do use

this and they use it a lot.

That brings up a really good question. If someone is suspended, can they attend session? If they cannot

attend session, is it an excusable absence? If it's not an excusable absence, can they, therefore, lose their

membership later being found not guilty but they're out. See, I don't think suspension has been thought out

well on this. I think it's got some serious problems.

The removal part, yeah, I would support that if we could separate those two but leave the suspension out of

this thing. I think it's a big problem.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Is there more discussion? Okay. Ken, did you have a comment to the

recommendation from --

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Another friendly amendment.

Kenneth G. Martensen: Grand Master, I'd like to actually make an amendment which would remove the

portion about the suspension and only if he is convicted could he be removed, if that will satisfy the body.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Is there a second to that friendly amendment?


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Any more discussion?

Mark L. Rauschenberger: Grand Master.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: This is a discussion on the amendment; right?

Mark L. Rauschenberger: Correct.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Okay.

Mark L. Rauschenberger: Grand Master, Mark Rauschenberger, Active member Illinois DeMolay.

Grand Master, I'm in opposition of removing that and the reason I do that is because if the felony is dealing

with a youth protection issue, we need to have that individual separated from the organization until such a

time that the trial or whatever situation is taken into consideration.



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The Bylaws we started in the original is that the Grand Master may suspend. I think we as a body need the

flexibility if there is a charge against somebody that is in violation of our youth protection rules or

something that could come back and haunt us because there is an issue and we do not act upon that

individual and something else happened, the liability to the corporation is going to be huge.

So we need the ability to remove somebody who is accused of something. Maybe we need to be more

specific in the suspension, but we need to separate that individual from the body until such a time that there

is a conclusion to that situation or that trial.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Any more discussion on the amendment? We're going to call the

question on the amendment seeing as how there's no more discussion.

All those in favor of the amendment satisfy it by saying aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: The amendment fails. So now we're back to the main motion. Is there

anymore discussion on the main motion?

Andre E. Lovas: Andy Lovas, Georgia, Emeritus member. I don't have a vote here, but I do have

something to say. I think we need to redefine, I think Skip said it best, we need to redefine the suspension

portion of this. I think it isn't quite thought out well enough. Give it time, some definition of what he's

suspended from being able to do, I think all of this needs to be wound up in that. I'm not the writer of a

piece of legislation to make that happen, but I agree that we may need a suspension but let's have it defined

for how long or what he's excluded from being able to participate in and these various things that will better

define a suspension and that would make it palatable, I think, to all of us present.

Gregory M. Schaeffer: Grand Master, Greg Schaeffer from Pennsylvania. Section 314.12 applies to

active DeMolays and the quote about expulsion is if a DeMolay pleads guilty or nolo contendere or is found

guilty of a felony he may be expelled from the Order. Why are we not using the same type of language to

deal with expulsions of Supreme Council Class 1, 2, 3 or 4 members? It seems appropriate. He may not be

found guilty but if he pleads guilty, we should get rid of him immediately; right?

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Anymore discussion?

R. Reid Morgan, III: Grand Master, Reid Morgan, Class 1 member from Alabama. Is it not true that an

Executive Officer may remove an advisor at any time based on maybe what we're talking about or other

things without having to go through the Grand Master?

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Grand Master can do that but he cannot remove --

R. Reid Morgan, III: No, Executive Officer.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Executive Officer but he can't remove a Supreme Council member.



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R. Reid Morgan, III: If the Supreme Council Member is currently serving as an advisor, can that person

not be suspended?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: He can remove him from the chapter but that's not going to affect his

membership here.

R. Reid Morgan, III: So we're talking about membership --

Richard L. Sayre: Here. Just here.

R. Reid Morgan, III: Okay. Thank you.

Michael S. Rushin, Jr.: Grand Master, Mike Rushin, Active member of Arkansas. I think one thing that

we need to point out on both sections of the suspension and removal, it says that the Grand Master may

suspend which gives the Grand Master the option to review the felony.

We all know there's different types of felonies. Some are very egregious, some are relatively low level but

the opportunity of the may there I think is very important because it doesn't say the Grand Master must or

he has to or he will, he may, which gives you the opportunity to review the case to determine if that advisor

or that person is truly a threat to our organization or something that lets the due process go through and

let's not ruin someone's reputation or hurt them when it may, in the end, turn out to be not so much.

Robert E. Lijewski: Bob Lijewski, Wisconsin, Active member. My question is, if the suspended member is

found innocent, will he then be reinstated?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: I would say presumably but it is not addressed in this proposal.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been called for the question. All those in favor of Call Item number

2 will signify by saying aye.

(Aye vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: All those opposed?

(Nay vote)

Mr. Speaker: I call a division of the house.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: All those in favor, please stand up? Could you please count that side?

This is only Active members that can vote.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: We have 64 in favor. If you'd kindly be seated. Those opposed stand

up. We need two-thirds to pass this.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It needs two-thirds to pass. There's no sense in counting guys. Thank

you. Sit down. Failed. Call Item 2 fails.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Thank you Grand Master. Thank you brethren. Call Item 3. Greg

Chiles, if you would make your way to a microphone.



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This provision allows the Grand Master to grant an extension for somebody who is a Class 1 or Class 3

member and has not signed and filed their paperwork on time. It gives the Grand Master the option to

extend it for 30 days for that person to get caught up. I can tell you from experience typically those are Past

Imperial Potentates and people like that, SGIGs and others we would not like to boot out of DeMolay, but

I'll let Greg speak to Call Item number 3 and if you would be kind enough to move for the adoption when

you're done.

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: Grand Master, first of all, Greg Chiles, Executive Officer, Indiana. If I can

offer an amendment to the last right after the last period of no change, insert the Grand Master may issue

one 30-day extension per member annually.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Go ahead and speak to your amendment.

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: Speak to the amendment?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Yes.

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: Do I get a second first?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Yes. I'm sorry. Go ahead and move. Is there a second to the

amendment? Tony should be correcting me.


Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Now, you can speak to your amendment. The problem is we've got to

go back to the main motion. So would you be kind enough to move the adoption of this Call Item number 3?

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: As originally presented?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Correct.

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: So moved.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Is there a second to Call Item number 3?


Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Now, you want to amend it; correct?

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: Yes.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Proceed. We have a second to the amendment; correct?

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: Correct.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Grand Master, you can now have discussion on the amendment;

right?

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Right.



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Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: The basis for the amendment is to prohibit the Grand Master from

giving extension after extension after extension. He's got one 30-day period to do it. If the guy still hasn't

done the paperwork, then he's out basically.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Is there any discussion? Could you restate the amendment?

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: The Grand Master may issue one 30-day extension per member, annually.

Mr. Speaker: Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: The amendment was so that you can only do it once per person per year.

We're voting on the amendment. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Opposed.

(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: The amendment passes so now we're going to vote on the main motion.

Any more discussion?

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: Do you need me to speak on that?

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Okay. Go ahead.

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: Basically, for this as Dick kind of stated, there have been instances and there

were two last year while I was Grand Master where we had one Past Grand Master and one Past Imperial

Potentate and a Hall of Fame member who I was tracking down on December 31st to get their paperwork in.

I would have preferred to have enjoyed New Year's Eve and I have a feeling the Past Imperial Potentate

probably was, but I was still able to get ahold of him.

In addition with the office being closed usually between Christmas and New Year's, it puts a heavy burden

on the Grand Master, the Executive Director and everybody else. This just really gives them a little more

time to get it done.

I realize that 95 percent or better adhere to December 31st. There are a few stragglers and this just gives us

the opportunity to keep some of those guys for politically correct reasons.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Anymore discussion? It's called for the question. All those in favor say

aye.

(Aye vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Any Opposed.

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Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passes.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Thank you Grand Master. We're now on Call Item number 4. This is

an amendment to the Rules and Regulations which must happen here. You can read them. It allows a

DeMolay member to hold an office in two chapters, just not an elected office. Brother Chiles, if you'd like

to speak to this and move its adoption.

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: First of all, I'll move for the adoption of this.



Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded. Discussion.

Gregory A. Chiles, PGM: The basis for this is personally I have a couple of chapters where I have some

members who are currently helping out to start a new chapter. They are holding offices in both chapters.

To be perfectly honest, I didn't realize it was in there that they could not hold office in two different chapters

so this is basically just to clean up my problem, but I think the problem does exist in other jurisdictions or it

will in the future.

I don't think that they should hold an elected office in more than one chapter. I do think that's spreading

them too thin but if a young man wants to be orator in a chapter and 5th preceptor in another chapter, he

should be allowed to do so if the chapter needs him.


Roger Salyer: Roger Salyer from Missouri. I'd like to see where this is left with that he might hold an

elected office as well at the discretion of the Executive Officer.


Roger Salyer: I'd like to see that this be amended so that he could hold an elected office but it would be at

the will of the Executive Officer.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Is there a second to that?

Mr. Speaker: That's not a motion.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: What I'm being told is you have to come up with language on what

exactly it is and make a motion to amend that. So if you're looking to do that... In other words, tell us what

you wanted it to say then.

Roger Salyer: Roger Salyer, again, from Missouri. I would like for it to be amended to say a member may

hold an elected office in more than one chapter at the same time, and may hold an elected or appointed

office in more than one chapter at the same time at the will of the Executive Officer, at the discretion of the

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Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Is there a second to that?


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: There's not a second. I'm sorry, there is a second. Now, a discussion on

the amendment.

Dale V. Sandstrom, PGM: Grand Master, I'm Dale Sandstrom, Past Grand Master from North Dakota.

This amendment goes further than the amendment which was noted in the Call Item and approved and as

such it goes further and thus, the body cannot amend that without going back to the proper process of giving

notice.

You can do something less than is proposed but you cannot do something more than is proposed. So this

would be a new legislation item spontaneously appearing on the floor of the Supreme Council so it is not

properly in order. We have to go and it would have to be submitted as a separate amendment because it

goes further. The body can only amend something less. So I suggest to you that it is out of order.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Do you agree?

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Yes.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been brought to your attention that the motion is out of order. Are

you okay? So we're back to the original motion.

G. Tom Taylor: Tom Taylor, Active member from Delaware. I'm not opposed to the motion, but I think

this is one of the pieces of legislation that the young men discussed in the Congress sessions. Since this

directly impacts the young men and they've got some involvement in it, can we get one of the Congress

Officers to perhaps give us the input from the Congress?

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: I've already kind of geared them up that they need to do that.

Christopher LaBaw, International Congress Secretary: Christopher LaBaw, International Congress

Secretary. Like I had mentioned earlier, we did, in fact, pass this piece of legislation. We do understand

that occasionally having dual members for struggling jurisdictions can spread a young man too thin but at

the same time, we realize that that's his choice if he wants to join two chapters or help out, he can always

prioritize which chapter and things like that so we did strongly support this Call Item.

Robert Laing, International Master Councilor: Bob Laing, International Master Councilor. The vote on

this Call Item was very much in favor with very few disapprovals. I just wanted to let you know that. I don't

have the numbers, but I do have notes in my phone for this purpose that it was strongly agreed by the

Congress.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Anymore discussion? It's been called for the question. All those in favor

of Call Item number 4 in its original state, will satisfy by saying aye.

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(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passes.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: We're now on Call Item number 5. This is the creation of the Legion

of Honor Honor Medal. William Eppig, wherever you are, head this way. You can read it. It creates an

honor medal that is called the Legion of Honor Honor Medal and it's fairly well defined and spelled out in

here.

This was put to advisory vote before the Board of Directors and they voted no. I think Congress voted no as

well. If you would first make your motion and we get a second and then speak to your amendment.

William C. Eppig: William Eppig, Active member of Maryland. I move that we adopt Call Item number 5.



Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Any discussion?

William C. Eppig: Gentlemen, the reason I made this motion in this manor is as in my explanation we've

been discussing this for over 12 years. Many Executive Officers, such as myself, feel we have a need to

honor those who have gone above and beyond in our service to the Order of DeMolay. You're rightly so, it

is our female advisors. Many of us have many a female advisor who have done just as much as any man

and we cannot honor them because of their title. After reviewing many of the comments for and against, I

realized the main hang up was that we did not want to give them the Honorary Legion of Honor because it

wanted to maintain the tradition of being a Master Mason.

This proposal is to have its own separate honor called the Legion of Honor Medal. I named it that for a

reason. To have a connection but is not a Legion of Honor. It is given in the name of the Legion of Honor

by the Legion of Honor.

It has its own separate rules. Hopefully, its own separate presentation. It would eliminate the private vow

as well as the kneeling vow but would require a public pledge of continued service. That is why I did it. I

feel that there is a need. I in my own jurisdiction have many a woman as well as a non-Master Mason who

would deserve this medal or this recognition. A Medal of Appreciation is not the same thing as a Medal of

Honor or, I'm sorry, Legion of Honor. A Cross of Honor is not the same thing as Legion of Honor. We need

a special, a distinct medal for those who go above and beyond for DeMolay just like we give Senior

DeMolays and Master Masons.


Richard M. Young: Rick Young, Active member from Virginia. As Dad Eppig said we've had this issue

before us for about 12 years in one form or another and I've been against it for 12 years but this past

summer I was faced with a situation very similar to what he described. We were going to an honors

investiture where we were bringing presentations to two professors from Radford University who have

worked for us in Virginia DeMolay for four or five years.



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One was a senior DeMolay from Maryland and he received the Legion of Honor. The other one received

the Medal of Appreciation which was the best thing that we had to give him. When we made that

presentation, he was as excited about what we gave him as the gentleman who received the Legion of

Honor.

I would submit, brethren that we are hung up on how important the honor is rather than what the perception

of the recipient is. These men and ladies are thrilled that they are getting sincere, honest, appreciation.

Call it the Medal of Appreciation, call it what you want, but I think that we have the tools in place to

properly honor the folks that we are, in fact, honoring and I don't think it's necessary that we create a new

honor for them.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: More discussion?

Andre E. Lovas: Andy Lovas, Georgia. Emeritus member. My brothers, if we think back to the various

honors that have been created for DeMolays, Master Masons, advisors, they're all separate and different.

For an active DeMolay the highest honor we can give them is the Chevalier, which is fine and it's a

wonderful tool and should be well used.

For an advisor the highest honor we can given an advisor is a Cross of Honor. Any Executive Officer that

is using the Legion of Honor as a super award for an advisor is using it inappropriately. That's not what

the statutes have provided the Legion of Honor to be.

The Legion of Honor is for senior DeMolays or Master Masons who have provided outstanding service not

only or not for DeMolay or Masonic service but within the community and within the nation. Therefore, if

you want to honor non-Masonic people in the community, we have the Medal of Appreciation or if you want

something higher than that create a completely separate different award for those that are not in the

Masonic family, and I have no problem with that, but let's use the awards that have been created

historically in DeMolay for those people for whom it was intended and let's not try to water something down

or to build something up but let's live with what we have and if we need another award, let's create it

separately. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Anymore discussion? Call for the question. All those in favor of Call

Item number 5 will signify by saying aye.

(Aye vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: All those against.

(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Fails.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Thank you. We're coming up to Call Item number 6 and Call Item

number 6 requires a little work. Because of the timing of the session we cannot elect, assuming that you

pass Call Item 6 we have to have a Board meeting for the Board to approve it before we can elect them

tomorrow. So Grand Master I would ask you to call the Board of Directors into meeting at this time and

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Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: I'd like to call the Board of Directors in session. If I can have the Board

of Directors please stand.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: The first issue that we have before us is the minutes of the board

meeting where the creation of two regions was apparently approved are not clear. So my first question to

the Board and it needs to come in the form of a motion by the Grand Master or one of you is to approve the

creation of the two new regions. Would some board member make that motion?

Mr. Speaker: So moved.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Is there a second?


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Call for the question. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)


Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Thank you. Don't sit down. The second issue is the Board has

reviewed Call Item number 6. The Board of Directors must approve it to fit within the schedule so that we

can elect these guys tomorrow. So the question before you as the Board of Directors is to vote affirmative

or to reject Call Item number 6. So Grand Master, if somebody would make a motion to approve or reject

Call Item number 6.

Mr. Speaker: Motion to approve.


Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Past Grand Master Krall wherever you are. Come on up. This is the

Board of Directors, never mind. Stay cool. Grand Master, would you call the question for the Board?

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: All those in favor of approving Call Item number 6 say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)


Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: You may sit, you're unconvened. They're still in session, they're just

not cooking anymore. All right. Now, we have Call Item number 6 before you, it's self-explanatory during



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the year and just a moment ago to be sure the Grand Master and the Board of Directors created two new

regions. One is in Europe, I believe, and the other is in South America.

The difficulty is that under our current structure they don't hold seats on the Board of Directors and so this

amendment is designed to allow them to hold seats on the Board of Directors. We gave you kind of a draft

yesterday and many of you found the typos. This was typed by me and at about midnight and I apologize,

but we found some typos and the language that we had about the rotation of the terms was confusing so

Tony and I sat down and cleaned it up.

So what you have now before you is the cleaned up version of Call Item number 6, J&L has approved it to

be heard tonight or this afternoon as urgent and necessary and Past Grand Master Krall If you will move

your adoption of Call Item 6 and discuss it.

Tony R. Krall, PGM: I move for the adoption of Call Item number 6.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Discussion?

Tony R. Krall, PGM: I guess I'm the sacrificial lamb.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Yes, you are.

Tony R. Krall, PGM: On behalf of J&L committee, which I'm not a member, we have put this together to

try and continue to expand DeMolay and allow representation on the Board of Directors. I think it's pretty

self-explanatory and I urge you to vote.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Anymore discussion? Call for the question? All those in favor of Call

Item number 6 will say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passes. Thank you, gentlemen.

Richard L. Sayre, J&L Chairman: Thank you. You're done. I know that breaks your heart. I fondly

remember the good ole days where this went on for three days and we had 85 Call Items. The other things,

J&L has two more functions. One is to read into the record and for you, to tell you what J&L did during the

year.

Boyd, as you know, Boyd has been the C hair this year and he made a number of decisions, and I'll tell you

what they are I appreciate your patience with me. I got this job about two weeks ago and it was kind of an

immersion in hot oil and I'm glad we figured out a way to actually have a session instead of a pageant and I

appreciate all of you being here to bear with me.



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Jurisprudence and Legislation Committee

2013-2014 Decisions

1. ISSUE: May an Executive Officer, acting solely upon his own authority, amend any rules,

regulations or bylaws governing a state DeMolay association in his jurisdiction?

DECISION: There are four statutory provisions which provide an answer to the question asked.

Generally, Executive Officers have a great deal of authority in regulating the operation of DeMolay within

their jurisdiction. Section 204.3(a) of the Rules and Regulations provides that he “is responsible for the

administration, extension and promotion of the Order in his Jurisdiction”. Section 204.3(b) goes further by

adding that he “may exercise within his Jurisdiction all power necessary for the best interest of the Order

which is not prohibited by the bylaws or these rules and regulations, or by DeMolay International, the Board

of Directors, or Grand Master”. Additionally, Section 208.3 addresses the issue directly wherein it provides

that “With the approval of the Executive Officer, Chapters may organize into area, jurisdictional or

geographic organizations to promote and encourage activity and cooperation in DeMolay programs. The

organizations may provide for election of officers and with the approval of the Executive Officer or Officers

may adopt bylaws not in conflict with these rules and regulations”.

Finally, Section 208.4 states that “area or jurisdictional organizations are under the control of the Executive

Officer”.

Each of these sections is consistent with the others in that they recognize the power of an Executive Officer,

absent a proper prohibition, to govern DeMolay within his jurisdiction. There is no requirement that a

jurisdiction even have a state or jurisdictional organization. However, should the Executive Officer choose

to permit one, it is wholly within his authority to establish and amend at will any bylaws, rules or

regulations which may exist.

2. ISSUE: May the Grand Master create new Regions and thereby expand the number of members on

the Board of Directors?

DECISION: Article VI, Section 1 of the Bylaws specifies who are the members of the Board of

Directors and provides that there shall be one representative from each Region. At the annual meeting in

2012 it was anticipated that new jurisdictions and new regions might be created when Section 208.2 of the

Rules and Regulations was substantially amended to include the language in Subsection (c) that “the Grand

Master shall, with the advice and consent of the Board of Directors, assign jurisdictions to regions”. There

is no provision in either the Bylaws or the Rules and Regulations which sets a maximum limit or a

minimum number of regions. Therefore, so long as the Board of Directors consents, the Grand Master may

assign jurisdictions to a new region or regions and thereby expand the membership of the Board.

3. ISSUE: May an Executive Officer opt out of participation in Kingdom of DeMolay and so avoid

payment of the funding assessment adopted to support that program?

DECISION: Kingdom of DeMolay is a program adopted by the corporation for participation by all

members. Like any other program, funding may be accomplished through inclusion in the annual budget,

assessment of a fee as provided in Section 209.2 of the Rules and Regulations or “from other sources as

DeMolay International may approves” as provided in Section 209.1. Absent any limitations established in

the creation of a program, it is applicable to the entire corporation.

A Jurisdiction is defined at both Article I, Section 4(e) of the Bylaws and Section 101.3(e) of the Rules and

Regulations as “the area within the geographic limits assigned to one Executive Officer”. Section 204.1 of

the Rules and Regulations provides, in part, that an Executive Officer “is the representative of DeMolay

International in” his jurisdiction. Read together these provisions demonstrate that a jurisdiction is an



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administrative subdivision of the corporation DeMolay International and has no separate legal existence as

an independent entity nor does an Executive Officer have the authority to operate the Order in a manner

contrary to the governing documents.

When an assessment is properly adopted to fund a program and made applicable to all jurisdictions it

thereby becomes mandatory that all remit the amount required. An Executive Officer may not refuse to pay

such fees or assessments.

4. ISSUE: If a Class 1 or 3 member is unable to attend a special meeting of DeMolay International is

he required to secure an excuse for such absence to avoid being subject to possible loss of membership?

DECISION: Article IV, Section 9 of the Bylaws sets forth the requirement for attendance at

corporate meetings of DeMolay International and possible consequences for failure to do so. As provided in

that Section, attendance is mandatory for Class 1 and Class 3 members only at annual meetings of the

corporation, not any special meeting which may be called as provided in Article V, Section 2. It is not

necessary to secure an excuse if a member is unable to attend a special meeting.

5. ISSUE: Is it permitted for official DeMolay activities to be conducted on religious holidays?

DECISION: There is no provision within the governing documents of the corporation concerning

religious holidays. As a result, there is no rule prohibiting any DeMolay activity or event from being held

on such a day.

6. ISSUE: How is the conflict between sponsorship rules for establishing a Chapter and those for

reinstatement of a charter resolved?

DECISION: Within the Rules and Regulations Section 311.4(a) provides that either an organization

composed exclusively of Masons or an Advisory Council may sponsor or apply to establish a chapter. The

distinction between the two arises from language within Article 14 which permits non-Masons to serve as

members of an advisory council. Section 313.5 limits those who may apply for reinstatement of a charter to

a single group, that being “any organization composed exclusively of Masons”. Clearly there are two

different standards but that does not mean that the statutes are in conflict with each other because they deal

with two separate topics. DeMolay International has chosen to set one set of rules governing the

establishment of chapters and a totally separate set governing reinstatement of charters. There is to

requirement that the two should be identical and there is therefore no conflict between the two.

7. ISSUE: May the Grand Master remove an officer of the International DeMolay Congress?

DECISION: Although there is no specific statutory provision which addresses this question, Article

VII, Section 5(a)(1) of the Bylaws provides that “when DeMolay International and the Board of Directors

are not in session” the Grand Master “has general supervision of the Order.” Additionally, Article V,

Section 1(c) of the Congress Bylaws states that “all officers serve under the supervision of the Grand Master

and the Congress Advisor”. Read together the Decision to this Issue is that the Grand Master may remove

an officer of the Congress.

8. ISSUE: If a Congress officer ceases to hold that office for any cause, whether by removal,

resignation or other, what effect does such action have on his status as a member of the Board of Directors if

any?

DECISION: As set forth in Article VI, Section 1 of the Bylaws, only five members of the Board of

Directors serve as such due to the office they hold: the Grand Master, Grand Senior Councilor, Grand

Junior Councilor, Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer. Should any of those five cease to hold office they

also cease to be a member of the Board of Directors. All other members of the Board are elected

individually by the corporation and serve as such irrespective of any other office they may hold. If a Class 6



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member is elected as one of the two who serve on the Board he continues in his term even if he ceases to

serve in an office.

9. ISSUE: May a meeting of the Board of Directors be recessed and thereafter called back into session

without the requirement that a new notice be issued by the Grand Secretary?

DECISION: Article VI of the Bylaws provides rules for the Board of Directors. Section 5 requires

that at least fifteen days prior notice shall be given of all meetings. However, no provisions exist which

govern how long a meeting may last. So long as a meeting is called into recess and not closed and that a

specific date and time for resuming business is stated prior to the call to recess, then no new notice is

required.

10. ISSUE: May a Class 3 (Deputy) member of DeMolay International be elected as a Class 2

(Emeritus) member?

DECISION: Article IV, Section 6 of the Bylaws provides, in part, that DeMolay International may

“elect a Class 2 member from any of its Class 1 members”. No other Class of member is listed in this or

any other part of the statutes as being eligible for election to Class 2 membership. A Class 3 member may

not be elected as a Class 2 member.

11. ISSUE: May the Grand Master appoint an Assistant Grand Secretary to aid the Grand Secretary in

the performance of his duties?

DECISION: Article VII, Section 1 of the Bylaws lists the officers of DeMolay International and

nowhere in that Article is provision made for the appointment of any not included in that list. However, this

does not mean that the Grand Master may not confer a title and enlist the assistance of an individual so long

as it is understood that the title is merely honorary and does not create a new office. As is often noted,

Section 5(a)(1) of that Article provides in part that the Grand Master has general supervision of the Order

when the body and Board are not in session. Creating an honorary title is within the scope of that general

grant of authority.

In describing what duties an Assistant Grand Secretary may fulfill, reference is also made to Section 5(b)(1)

of Article VII wherein it is provided that in discharging his duties, the Grand Secretary “may designate any

person to represent him in the exercise of his authority”. However, under no circumstances can the

selection of anyone to assist in performing the duties of office, whether accompanied by a title or not,

relieve the elected Grand Secretary from the ultimate responsibility for their fulfillment.

12. ISSUE: What is the effect on his position as an Executive Officer and his membership classification

if a Class 1 member is appointed as an Executive Officer and prior to the next annual meeting attains the age

of 75?

DECISION: In the Bylaws, Article IV, Section 5(e) mandates that, except for Past Grand Masters,

all Class 1 members must be reclassified as Class 2 members upon attaining the age of 75. The only other

exception to this mandatory retirement is found in Section 5(f) which establishes other rules for

reclassification if the member is an Executive Officer appointed on or after June 19, 2011. Read together,

these statutes lead to the conclusion that the Class 1 member described in the Issue presented must be

reclassified at the next annual meeting after attaining the age of 75. His new membership status will be

determined based upon whether the provisions of Section 5(e) or 5(f) apply.

Section 204.1 of the Rules and Regulations describes an Executive Officer as “a Class 1 member assigned a

Jurisdiction”. Restated, this Section mandates that only a Class 1 member may serve as an Executive

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Unless exempt by being a Past Grand Master, the individual described in the Issue presented will, at the next

annual meeting after reaching the age of 75, be reclassified and will no longer be a Class 1 member. He

thereby becomes ineligible to continue as Executive Officer as well and that position will be deemed

vacated as soon his election to another Class of membership is announced.

Having said that, the last thing we do is that J&L or myself actually move that DeMolay International ratify

the actions of the officers and Board of Directors during the term of Grand Master Michael Salazar and

indemnify the same.


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: There's a second. All those in favor of the motion will say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Motion passes. I've actually had quite a few people ask me what the

plans are from a DeMolay International perspective, you know, for our centennial and so on. So we're just

a little bit ahead of schedule so I thought it would be a great opportunity for us right now to actually hear

from that committee so that you can all quit asking me, I guess. So I'll ask the chairman to step up here.

Centennial Committee Report Patton R. Hart, Committee Chairman

Patton R. Hart, PGM: I submitted our report from the Centennial committee, electronically submitted to

Nancy Shipps and it's ready for distribution for all to see.

I want to bring you up to date with a couple of matters. I submitted back in November, Greg Chiles' year as

Grand Master, that $10,000 be set aside in the 2013 budget and each year thereafter through 2019 to

provide some of the funding necessary for the centennial year program and activities.

I checked with Bill Bryan at DeMolay International headquarters and he's the controller there. He verified

that we've got $16,387 in the anniversary fund so far. So perhaps we've got to seek some donations or

campaign in order to seek some funding for the centennial celebration.

Now, I would like to share some comments that were initiated in our Centennial Committee meeting this

morning as well as review some of the reports that we have come up with. We cannot let such a milestone

go by without a formal comprehensive first class observance of this anniversary celebration.

The 50th anniversary session that was held in Kansas City, Brother Moberly was a part of that celebration,

he attended that as the jurisdictional staff officer in Northern California. He indicated that active planning

began only about two years prior to the anniversary year, we're approaching that now and was totally staff

driven with exceptions of one jurisdictional coordinator. So I would encourage you to be thinking now of a

coordinator or director in your jurisdiction to coordinate some of the activities for the Centennial

celebration. More than 5,000 attended the four-day event held in Kansas City.



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The focus of this centennial celebration was the Congress. The Congress session was held during the

anniversary session with delegate seating on the floor of the Municipal Auditorium arranged in

congressional style.

I've been told that the former headquarters at DeMolay International has the top floor that can be used for

congressional seating. So that would be a perfect opportunity for the Congress of DeMolay International.

I think we should also contact the President of the United States' office and hopefully they can send a

representative or the President can attend, get former Bill Clinton involved. That would be something

special.

There were four sessions of the ritual demonstration by Concord chapter from Louisiana that were held

with the chapter presenting the DeMolay degree in which actors had one side of their face painted white

and the other side in black. So we can think about ritual performances. We can involve the ritual

tournaments and designate honorees to be a part of this ritual performance at the session.

Entertainment was held each night and also while President Nixon, at the time, could not attend he sent

white house staff member, broadcaster and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan to bring his

message to the celebration.

There was efforts to get the President Honorary and Past Grand Master of DeMolay Harry Truman there

and Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri who was living, at the time, in Independence,

Missouri but he couldn't attend because of his illness.

On the last day of the celebration, the 50th anniversary three planes left for the two-week European

pilgrimage during which a 200-member delegation visited the Vatican and was greeted by one of the Pope's

personal staff wearing an I'm for DeMolay button and placed a memorial marker at the place where Jacque

DeMolay was burned. So hopefully we can develop some efforts towards this.

Some of the suggestions and recommendations I will highlight for you for your review. It was suggested

that we plan some event around March 18th, 2019, the actual 100th anniversary of the founding of the Order.

It was further suggested that the celebration should be a year-long celebration, that we involve all the

chapters and DeMolay throughout the world in this celebration beginning on March 18th, 2019, which is a

Monday and extending through March 18th, 2020, with a number of activities and events held by chapters

and jurisdictions throughout the world.

One suggestion focused on the possibility of a worldwide initiation to increase membership held on a

chapter to chapter basis near March 18th. It was indicated that 2019 is also the 60th anniversary of Dad

Land's death and could serve as another occasion for us to honor this devoted man, Dad Land. Other

suggestions would be promote the celebration in social media to get interest and attract DeMolays,

coordinate our planning with the Congress centennial committee.

I think they've come up with an idea to have a statute of Dad Land. Consider contests in the 2016-17 for

active DeMolays to create their logo to be used for the anniversary. Create a postage stamp in honor of

Dad Land for DeMolay's 100th anniversary. Create a commemorative Coca Cola bottle and then another

European pilgrimage that we could launch and have for our two-week session for DeMolay.

Then Brother Moberly who volunteered to talk with the NorCal advisor who owns about 50 radio stations

on advice how to get the anniversary story to and used by appropriate media outlets. We've got to do a



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great job on public relations to increase PR and we need to coordinate with the Convention Planning

Committee regarding the 2019 date and make sure that a couple of extra days are blocked to provide time

for anniversary activities at the annual session.

And finally, it was suggested that we prepare an updated history of DeMolay picking up from the 50th

anniversary publication and prepare and print in electronic form, and also create a special 100th

anniversary year commemorative item or certificate for presentation at the local Chevalier or Chevalier

and Legion of Honor observances.

We need to make this project happen. We need to be proactive now to make our 100th celebration of

DeMolay a huge success.

Centennial Committee Minutes June 14, 2013

Room 2006, Doubletree Hotel

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Chairman Pat Hart, PGM, called the meeting to order at 10 a.m. Committee members in attendance were:

Weldon Clampitte, PGM; Tom Denslow, PIMC; Tom Moberly, Tim Strawn and Randy Williams. Visitors

were: Ray Flynn and George Tilden.

Brother Williams offered an opening prayer.

Chairman Hart welcomed everyone. He indicated he had sent a committee report to the Grand Master and

Board of Directors in November, requesting $10,000 be set aside in the 2013 budget and each year

thereafter through 2019 to provide some of the funding necessary for the centennial year

programs/activities.

Brother Hart then recapped some of the ideas that had been generated by previous years’ Centennial

Committees, including: 100 Year Club, Ritual Tournament, and Golf Tournament. The committee quickly

came to unanimous agreement that, while some have questioned whether we should expend a lot of effort in

planning such a celebration and questioned whether DeMolay would even exist or have anything

worthwhile to celebrate in 2019, we cannot let such a milestone go by without a formal, comprehensive,

first class observance of this signal anniversary year. Brother Strawn, the only member of the committee

who attended the 50th anniversary celebration other than Brother Moberly, indicated that DeMolay

everywhere benefitted from a 2 to 3 year “buzz” and excitement after the 50th anniversary and that provides

a good reason to undertake a 100th anniversary celebration. Brother Moberly affirmed that remark.

Brother Moberly, the jurisdictional Staff Officer in Northern California and former DeMolay Headquarters

staff member, reflected on the planning for the 50th anniversary celebration in Kansas City in late June/early

July, 1969. Tom was on the Headquarters staff in the mid-1960’s and was one of the staff members actively

involved in planning and presenting that anniversary celebration. He indicated that active planning began

only about two years prior to the anniversary year and was totally staff-driven with the exception of one

jurisdictional “coordinator” (read: information contact) in each jurisdiction. More than 5,000 attended the

four day event held in downtown Kansas City. Among the features of that celebration were:



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Focus on the Congress: congress session was held during the anniversary session with delegate

seating on the floor of Municipal Auditorium, arranged in Congressional style; no ISC meeting was

held in conjunction with the celebration

Note: At this time, ISC sessions were held in March/April

Four sessions of a ritual demonstration by Concord Chapter from Louisiana were held, with the

chapter presenting a “surreal” DeMolay degree in which all actors had one side of their face painted

in white and the other side in black;

Entertainment was held each night and included: Pat Paulsen, comedian and perennial Presidential

candidate; the musical group, America; the musical group, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition.

Also, while President Nixon could not attend, he sent White House staff member and subsequent

broadcaster and presidential candidate Pat Buchanan to bring his message to the celebration.

Tireless efforts were made to get President and Honorary Grand Master of DeMolay Harry Truman

(Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri) who lived in Independence, MO, a Kansas City

suburb, but were unsuccessful due to President Truman’s illness.

All attendees made their own hotel reservations at various hotels throughout the downtown area;

One meal was served to 4,700 attendees in the Auditorium (it was prepared in the nearby Meuhlbach

Hotel and “driven” to the Auditorium for serving); and

On the last day of the celebration, three planes left for the two week European pilgrimage during

which the 200 member delegation visited the Vatican and was greeted by one of the Pope’s personal

staff wearing an “I’m for DeMolay” button and placed a memorial marker at the place where

Jacques DeMolay was burned at the stake on a small island in the River Seine, near Paris. The

pilgrimage which included air fare, hotel, bus transportation throughout Europe, and most meals cost

$827/person!

Brother Denslow suggested we use the 50th anniversary “playbook” (files, schedule, information) be used

as a guideline as we plan the centennial celebration just as it was for the 75th anniversary celebration when

Brother Denslow was IMC.

Brother Moberly suggested it was virtually imperative that we plan some event for March 18th, 2019, the

actual 100th anniversary of the founding of the Order. It was further suggested that the celebration should be

a year long program, beginning on March 18, 2019 (a Monday) and extending through March 18, 2020 with

a number of activities/events throughout the year. One suggestion focused on the possibility of a worldwide

initiation, held on a chapter-by-chapter basis on March 18th. Hopefully, the aggregated number of initiates

from all the individual initiations would represent a very large class.

Brother Strawn indicated that 2019 would be the 60th anniversary of Dad Land’s death and that could serve

as another occasion/date (November 8th) on which to build an anniversary program around.

Throughout the discussion, the following ideas and suggestions were offered:

Promotion of the celebration will have to be social media focused to interest/attract DeMolays;

We may want to meet with current/future Congress delegates and seek their input, possibly

presenting the request for input as if the anniversary celebration would be held next year;

We need to coordinate our planning with the Congress’ Centennial Committee;



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Consider a contest in the 2015-16 and or possibly 2016-17 year to seek then currently active

DeMolays to sit on the Centennial Committee;

Consider a contest in the 2016-17 year for active DeMolays to create the logo to be used for the

anniversary;

Creating a postage stamp in honor of Dad Land/DeMolay’s 100th;

Creating a commemorative Coca Cola bottle;

Another European pilgrimage. (Brother Moberly mentioned that, prior to 1969 we had only a few

chapters in Europe, in Germany, and now we have chapters in Germany, Italy, Romania and France

who would happily take part in an anniversary program in Europe.)

Brother Moberly volunteered to contact an active Mason/Grand Lodge officer in California who is a

travel agent to see how he might be able to help us in organizing/coordinating a European trip for a

reasonable price;

Brother Moberly also volunteered to talk with a NorCal Advisor who owns 50 radio stations re:

advice on how to get our anniversary story to and used on appropriate media outlets;

Brother Strawn volunteered to do research on the process to have a commemorative postage stamp

issued which several committee members indicated they understand takes a long time to accomplish;

Brother Clampitte volunteered to do research on the process of having a Coca Cola commemorative

bottle created;

We need to coordinate with Convention Planning Committee re: 2019 dates and make sure that a

couple of extra days are blocked to provide time for anniversary activities at the annual Session.

That should be done quickly to secure the dates we want so we have those basic arrangements made

no later than five years out;

It was recommended that we seek representatives to the Centennial Committee from a number of

other existing DI committees, including Convention Planning;

It was suggested we prepare an updated history of DeMolay, picking up from the 50th anniversary

publication, and prepare it in print and/or electronic form;

It was suggested we create a special 100th anniversary year commemorative item/certificate for

presentation at local Chevalier and Legion of Honor observances.

The committee determined that it would attempt to meet in November at or around the time of the quarterly

Board meeting in Kansas City. It was also decided that, at that time or possibly in conjunction with the

2014 Session in Kansas City, we do a “driving tour” of Kansas City sites historically related to DeMolay.

With no further business appearing, the meeting was adjourned at 11:17 a.m.


Tim Strawn

Tim Strawn

Secretary

Patton R. Hart, PGM: I move for receipt of this report.




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Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to receive the report from the Centennial

committee. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: All those opposed.

(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. At this time Ross, the Foundation asked if they can have a few

minutes to talk to us about some of the great things that they're doing that will help DeMolay International

with their program.

Ross Pfannenstiel, Director of Development: Thank you Grand Master Salazar for letting me have a few

minutes in the joint session to talk about a couple of things we have coming up.

(Development presentation)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you, Ross. We'll hear from the Nominating committee so you all

know who's running.

Nominating Committee Report #2 Ronald J. Minshall, Committee Chairman

Ronald J. Minshall: Thank you Grand Master. Ron Minshall, Chairman of Nominations, Active member

from Oklahoma. Grand Master, the 2014 DeMolay International Nominating Committee nominates the

following DeMolay International members to the elected line.

For Grand Master, Derek G. Sprague of Oregon. For Grand Senior Councilor, Steven E. Crane of Kansas.

For Grand Junior Councilor, Sherman C. Parker, Junior, of Michigan. William M. Sardone of New York

and G. Thomas Taylor of Delaware. For Grand Treasurer, Wesley D. Thornton of New Mexico. For Grand

Secretary, Patton R. Hart of Kentucky and Keith K. Klein of Indiana.

Grand Master, I move for the receipt of this report on the elected line.


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to receive the report from the Nominating

committee. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)




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Ronald J. Minshall: Grand Master, the following International DeMolay members have been elected to

fill actually six vacancies created for region representative. For Region 1, Wayne Szretter of Massachusetts.

For Region 3, Stephen Berry of Florida. For Region 5. Mark Hailer of Minnesota. For Region 7, Gary

Mueller of Colorado. For Region 9, Luiz Kieling of Columbia and for Region 10, Ward Williamson of

Germany.

Grand Master, I move for the receipt of this report.



Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to receive the report. Is there a

discussion?

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Derek Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor. Is the Board

member from Germany or actually representing Germany?

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Point of clarification. For Region 9 is Luiz Kieling who is from Columbia and for

Region 10, Ward Williamson who is from Germany.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Anymore discussion? All those in favor of receiving this portion of the

report say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. Thank you. Dad Peters, are you in the room? Do you have any

announcements for --

Terry L. Peters: No.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: No announcements. Thank you. I want you all to take note of this, okay,

we're, again, early Derek. I call the close of business session 2. We'll see you in the morning. Thank you.

(Meeting concluded at 5:23 p.m.)

Business Session #3 Saturday, June 21, 2014


(Meeting commenced at 9:07 a.m.)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: My brethren, we should never start a meeting without a prayer so at this

point I'm going to turn it over to the Grand Chaplain so he can lead us in prayer.



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(Prayer)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you. Just a couple of quick announcements just making sure that

if you -- would all the citizens of the United States lead this with me?

(Pledge of Allegiance)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you, Michael, for saving my knuckles. I want to make sure that

all Supreme Council members sign the book. At this point I'd like to turn the gavel over to our Grand Senior

Councilor.

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: I'd like to call upon past Grand Master Dale Sandstrom.

Dale Sandstrom: I move to take from the table the Grand Master's report.

Mr. Speaker: Seconded.

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: It's been moved and seconded to move from the table the

Grand Master's report for consideration. Is there discussion? All in favor of the motion.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Motion passes. I'd like to make a motion to accept the

report of the Grand Master.

Mr. Speaker: Seconded.

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: It's been moved and seconded to accept the report of the

Grand Master. All in favor please signify by saying aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Same sign. Motion passes. Congratulations Grand

Master.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you. It's getting closer. Thank you. Is Ian in the room? I was

going to get the Grand Marshal but if you want to come up here. It's my pleasure actually to introduce the

Supreme Council from Australia.

Ian Milne: Thank you, Grand Master. This is a surprise. Good day everybody. My name is Ian Milne. I'm

an Active member of the Supreme Council of the Order of DeMolay of Australia. This is my second time



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attending a supreme session. I was here five years ago in this town, probably in this very room five years

ago I suppose we might have been and, it's certainly great to be back.

Because of the business that's normally conducted by this Supreme Council that doesn't have a real impact

on Australia, I've been spending a lot of my time in with the Congress session getting ideas to hope that we

might be able to use something there. So I'm sitting in this morning to catch the last session. The elections

are next door but that part doesn't involve me either.

So I really appreciate the friendship that everybody has shown towards me and the cooperation and the

welcome that I've received from the staff at headquarters, and for the warm welcome that I've received from

the Grand Master. So thank you, Grand Master, for the welcome this morning and also for allowing me to

speak to this such august body. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Let's get right into the committee reports. I know there's some anxious

people up here that would like us to move up on the agenda so let's move on to --

Mr. Speaker: Grand Master, I apologize for interrupting but we cannot hear you in the back of the room.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Can you hear me now? Thank you. Let's move on to the Budget and

Finance committee. If we can hear from you, that would be great.

Budget & Finance Committee Report Kevin Breitzmann, Chairman


Gentlemen and fellow members International Supreme Council:

On behalf of the members of the Budget and Finance Committee, it is my pleasure to present the report of

the activities of our committee during the past DeMolay year.

Since our last Session in Minneapolis, the B&F Committee was charged with a number of projects

throughout the year and met formally at this session to discuss the budget and the financial condition of

DeMolay International. A budget for the period of July 2014 to June 2015 was developed and presented to

the Board of Directors at their meeting in April of this year and updated to incorporate additional

information received since that time.

With your pre-proceeding materials you were sent a budget which was indicated as a draft budget. This was

done to allow for changes if any proposal came forward from the database committee. Since no final

proposal is available at this time, the originally distributed proposal is the budget that was brought forward

at this session. A budget is a management tool to allow for planning of various items for the upcoming

budget period. Therefore, even though there has been no final decision on a database project, the funds for

any final proposal are being made available within this budget for the coming year. If no project is

approved, then the funds will not be spent and the investment draw will be reduced accordingly.

The basis for the budget that has been proposed was compiled in large part by discussions between the

Service & Leadership Center Staff and Past Grand Master Greg Kimberling. They looked at current

operations and reasonable spending levels for the various expense categories. These numbers were further

refined and updated to reflect other spending items. It is the feeling of the committee that the numbers

contained in the budget are accurate and reflect current operations. It is true, the investment draw contained



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in this budget is higher than it typically would be if we did not include the funds for the database project.

However, if take these funds out of the budget, the investment draw would still be above the typical 5-6%

draw we would like to see from a continuing endowment account just to fund current operations. This is due

to the depletion of our investment accounts over the past few years for other approved projects.

I am pleased to report that the budget was compiled and presented to and approved by the Board of

Directors at their Board meeting this past Thursday – a copy of which is available up front today and was

distributed with the pre-proceedings. This budget shows a bottom line surplus of $395 dollars.

In closing, I would like to thank the committee members that have diligently served the corporation

throughout the year and recognize the assistance and support of everyone involved in getting this budget

together. I would also like to recognize our Lead Accountant, Bill Bryan, for his many years of service to

DeMolay International and to this committee.


Kevin Breitzmann

Chairman

Kevin R. Breitzmann: I would move for the receipt of the report of the Budget and Finance committee.


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to receive the report from Budget and

Finance. Is there any discussion? Call for the vote. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. Thank you. Is the Heritage Committee in here? The

Convention Committee, Dad Peters? I have to call him Dad Peters because he's older than me. Sorry.

Convention Planning Committee Report Terry L. Peters, Chairman


Grand Master, the Convention (CPC) Planning Committee along with the Congress Advisor and IMC/ICS

have worked diligently this year in planning this year’s Convention. The CPC would like to thank Frank

Nordstrom, Nancy Shipps and the rest of the Service and Leadership Center for their support in the planning

and execution of this year’s Session.

The Session Yearbook intentionally spotlighted individual jurisdictions so that this Yearbook would be

representative of what’s happening in DeMolay around the world. It was an aggressive step and we hope

that this year will be a catalyst to motivate All Jurisdictions to participate in future Sessions. Special thanks

to James Kuester in designing and producing this outstanding program.



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This year we introduced a couple of Registration process changes by moving the Online registration to a

software called ‘Event Bee’ and received many positive comments about the ease of its use. Online

registrations make up 82% of our registrations and we expect that this percentage will continue to grow.

We also translated the registration form into Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese to streamline and simplify

the process for these foreign jurisdictions. Many thanks to Gary Denklau for making registration a positive

experience for most of the attendees.

The total attendance was 615 and we had attendees from 9 foreign jurisdictions from Australia, South

America and Europe. The hotel was at or above capacity for a couple of nights and meeting space was

constrained in some instances which did create some challenges. The Newbury Lunch sold up to the

capacity of the room and we had to stop taking reservations because there were no larger rooms available in

the hotel.

The Congress focused on giving back to the community by working for the reStart Shelter, providing a BBQ

dinner for the homeless and their families, and finished the evening at Sky Zone for brotherhood and hard

earned fun. A special thanks to the Royal Arch Masons for their financial donation which supplied the

delegates with work Tshirts and food for the BBQ dinner. All lunches and dinners were supplied to the

delegates and youth visitors during the Congress sessions.

The Supreme Council and visitors had 2 fun activities to select from. Those that opted to take the Heritage

Tour were guided by the knowledgeable and entertaining Tom Moberly and Frank Nordstrom with 83

signing up for the tour. Lunch was provided to the tour guests by the Scottish Rite. Approximately 95

attendees had a fun and relaxing time dining and solving the mysterious murder which happened on a train

bound for Kansas City.

The hospitality suite was well managed by Eldon and Judy Masters and hospitality hours posted through-out

the hotel to accommodate all attendees; especially the delegates.

The DeMolay and More Store enjoyed strong sales from opening throughout the Session.

Attached is the list of future locations. The Convention Planning Committee moves the receipt of this report.

Respectfully Submitted,

Terry L. Peters, Chair of Convention Planning Committee


DeMolay International Future Scheduled Sessions

2015 - June 17-20 CaribeRoyale Resort Orlando, Florida

Rate: $140 per night (1 bed/1 bath suite) –or-$240 per night (2bed/2 bath villa)

- Four Star all suite resort less than 2 miles from Walt Disney World.

- Florida State Tax Exempt

2016 - June 15-18 Doubletree Mission Valley San Diego, California

Rate: $165 per night inclusive of taxes

- Great location - $5 light rail/per day = Petco, Gaslamp District, zoo, Old Town, and

Shopping Mall, etc.

2017 - TBD



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Terry L. Peters: The Convention Planning Committee moves for receipt of this report.



Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded to receive the report of the Convention

Planning Committee. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)


Terry L. Peters: I have copies of the report outside for you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: I understand that we have a special announcement. If I can call on

Eldon Masters and David Barnes to come up here.

J. Eldon Masters: Brethren, in our session yesterday we received the information from the Foundation in

regards to the Frank S. Land campaign to working with the Scottish Rite to ensure a portrait of our founder

in the House of the Temple and, of course, they called upon all of us to raise funds to help do this with

matching funds from the Scottish Rite and with the Executive Officer in Kansas and I'm the president of the

Kansas DeMolay Foundation. We wish to put up the first $1,000 for this campaign and challenge every

jurisdiction here to match that or do better. Kansas is not a rich state but we do believe in DeMolay. Thank

you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: I guess you all can fill out those forms and get them to the Foundation

and we'll be excited. That's pretty great. Thank you.

I call on our Nominating Committee Chairman.

Nominating Committee Report #3 Ronald J. Minshall, Committee Chairman

Ronald J. Minshall: Ron Minshall, Chairman of Nominations. The 2014 DeMolay International

Nominating Committee would like to nominate the following for Grand Master of DeMolay International,

Derek G. Sprague of Oregon.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Is there any other nomination for the office of Grand Master? Is there

any other nomination for the office of Grand Master? Is there any other nomination for the office of Grand

Master. I declare it closed.

We're calling for the question. All those in favor of electing Derek Sprague as your new Grand Master say

aye.



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(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)


Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: I'll make it quick because I've got a lot to say this afternoon

and you're going to hear a lot from me in the next 12 months so my brethren thank you very much. I'm

humbled.

As I said in the Executive Officer conference 30 years ago I joined DeMolay. I never in my wildest dreams

would I believe that I would be standing here. I thank you for the confidence that you have in me and I will

do my very best to assure you that you have made a very very wise decision for the goodness and the

betterment of our organization, and for the next 12 months I will put my heart and soul in this like I have

every day. Thank you.

Ronald J. Minshall: Grand Master, the DeMolay International Nominating Committee would like to place

in nomination for Grand Senior Councilor Steven E. Crane of Kansas.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Is there any other nomination for the office of Grand Senior Councilor?

Is there any other nomination for the office of Grand Senior Councilor? Is there any other nomination for

the office of Grand Senior Councilor. Nominations are closed. All those in favor of electing Steven Crane

to the office of Grand Senior Councilor signify by saying aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. Thank you, brethren.

Ronald J. Minshall: Grand Master, the 2014 DeMolay International Nominating Committee would like to

submit the following for the office of Grand Junior Councilor, Sherman C. Parker, Jr., of Michigan;

William M. Sardone of New York and G. Thomas Taylor of Delaware.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Is there any other nomination for the office of Grand Junior Councilor?

Is there any other nomination for the office of Grand Junior Councilor? Is there any other nomination for

the office of Grand Junior Councilor? Nominations closed.

If I can have the nominees, you have five minutes for a speech from Sherman Parker.

Gordon L. Kimball, Jr: Grand Master, brethren, good morning. I was told I only had five minutes.

Normally, it takes me five minutes to say hello to somebody but I'll be careful that I don't go over. I

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I am very humbled and honored this morning to place a nomination in the name of my friend and fellow

Executive Officer Brother Sherman C. Parker for the office of Grand Junior Councilor. Sherman has

served his jurisdiction faithfully as Executive Officer for over seven years. During that time, myself, many

of you have had the opportunity to work with Sherman and labor with him for our youth in DeMolay.

Professionally, Sherman has an impressive background. He's a certified public accountant. He has a

strong background with educational institutions having served in various management positions for two

major universities. As a field manager he was in charge of large clients, public schools, state and local

government, financial institutions and manufacturing firms.

With Sherman's professional background it serves as a great backdrop for many capabilities. His Masonic

background is far more telling of his understanding of the challenges our fraternity faces moving forward.

Sherman is a three-time Past Master and has served his lodge on many committees. He's also a two-time

Past High Priest and the current Right Eminent Grand Treasurer of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch

Masons of Michigan.

In his youth Sherman served Michigan well as both a chapter member and jurisdictional officer. He was a

founding member of Romeo Chapter in 1955 which shows, like most of us, he's been around DeMolay for a

long time.

Sherman's fraternal background proves that he has the fraternal experience that we not only expect but that

we need from our leadership. His Masonic career spans nearly 60 years and his professional background

on top of it makes an invaluable part of our institution. As the current Executive Officer of Michigan,

Sherman is uniquely positioned to understand the current needs of DeMolay and how best to meet them

while maintaining the histories and traditions each of us is so very proud of.

Our organization needs leaders willing to focus on the crisis at hand, the financial wellbeing of our Order

and driving our membership. While Parker is an advocate for developing a holistic strategic plan for the

organization that will address our financial and fraternal needs, more importantly though he knows that this

plan needs to address the biggest challenge of all, supporting our youth through meaningful programs

which will attract and retain members for many years to come. Brethren, I thank you very much.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Sherman, do you accept?

Sherman C. Parker, Jr.: Grand Master, I do.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Sherman, do you have some words that you'd like to -- come on up. If

we can keep it to three minutes though, okay?

Sherman C. Parker, Jr.: Thank you, my brothers. Dads, brothers, let me ask the first question that's been

asked many times, why is this old man seeking the job of Grand Junior Councilor when he's reached his

second majority?

I requested the opinion of Boyd Patterson about running. I said I am running for the office of Grand Junior

Councilor. There's much that needs to be done and I believe that I can do that and as you choose, I can.

I returned to my room last night to contemplate what I was going to tell you today. Well, I had a Gideon

bible in the room. I'm not a regular reader of it but I watch Facebook and Brother Reid Morgan and his

journey and I've come to read it and understand his convictions. The day I found First John, Chapter 17, "If



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we walk from light is He the light fellow as we have fellowship with one another." And then there's Isaiah

Chapter 1, verse 18, "but now let us reason together therefore we must have that conviction."

Today I see my conviction, brothers, the mission that Dad Land gave us. Keep these young men safe, teach

them how to become leaders today, give them a safe environment to learn, experience the value of their

work without the fear of failure but learn the reward of high expectation.

What is wrong today? What can we do to fix it for the long future? Not just this year, not just next year but

for many years to come. We embark each year as our boat leaves a new port, picks up a new leader, a

skipper, if you will, our Grand Master on his course for the year.

We need a long-term strategic plan that takes our enthusiasm for our youth and melds them into a dynamic

leadership program to guide us in the future. That plan will need to be tweaked each year as the needs of

our youth change and technology increases exponentially.

How can we do this by working together? Listen to our youth, involve them in our long-term plans, revisit

that plan each year and every year, not just our youth leaders but our Executive Officers. This plan must be

a clear vision of what our goal is and how to get there. We need tools that we do not even know exist and

what programs our youth need, we have to find out for them.

This can be done and if I'm elected Grand Junior Councilor I'll work tirelessly to development this plan.

Thank you, my brothers. God bless Father, God bless Mother, God bless the purposes of DeMolay and

Dads, God bless each one of you for the work you do tirelessly for our dedicated youth. I thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: We have a nominator that is going to speak for Bill Sardone. And if Bill

can come up at the same time and save us some time.

Thomas R. Labagh: Thank you, Grand Master. Tom Labagh, Executive Officer of the jurisdiction of

Pennsylvania. I need to find my glasses. Getting a little old there I know.

Brethren, there are certain traits that I value and respect in leadership and Brother Bill Sardone, Executive

Officer of the State of New York, embodies each of them.

Earnest. It might be easy to say that Bill Sardone is a stereotypical New Yorker, brash, opinionated,

stepping out of an episode of the Soprano's, you know, until you get to know him, and then you find out that

it isn't bravado or competition that motivates him and makes him speak out but rather his belief that he has

something to contribute to either the conversation or the decision or the project at hand.

Forthright. Bill isn't afraid to share his opinion about something regardless of the environment and whether

or not he agrees with the majority or even the hierarchy. He's upfront about everything and I respect that

no holds barred honesty. I trust a man who is honest even when or especially when he knows that his

audience won't like what he says but he says it anyway.

Respectful. When on opposing sides of a discussion and the debate involves civil, thoughtful and intelligent

conversation, I appreciate that and Bill is that kind of a debater. He is firm in his opinions, but he is careful

with his words and explains his position based on good judgment and not on a personal need to win every

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Realistic. Bill doesn't see a half glass of water as either half empty or half full but as water to be consumed

because it's essential to the survival of the body. We need our leaders to tell us like it is. He's not cockeyed

optimist nor the pressing pessimist. Bill Sardone looks for positive solutions to every challenge he faces.

Experienced. You don't ask a refrigeration tech to invest your money and you don't ask your financial

advisor to fix your refrigerator. I choose to follow leaders who have a proven track record and an

accumulation of experiences that are germane to the area they want to lead and where I want to go. Bill's

Professional experience in the corporate world of AT&T and as a private consultant in marketing, public

relations and communications suits him perfectly for service to DeMolay International.

Personable. Bill has a great sense of humor and he doesn't take himself too seriously. He knows there's a

time and a place for everything and he makes work fun while still being productive.

Fraternal. In our business we need to stock our elected line with men who bring a strong Masonic

background and who evidence a clear understanding of our fraternal roots and alliances. Bill has

experience as an officer in the Grand Lodge of New York and easily mixes and mingles with Masonic

leaders on a jurisdictional and national level. His long history of involvement and experience in the Order

of DeMolay goes back to the 1960s when he was tapped to be the first State Master Councilor of New York

after they merged the eastern and western jurisdictions when he had to be the builder of the relationships

and a creator and sustainer of a larger vision for DeMolay New York than had been previously voiced.

Courageous. Bill stepped up when nobody else would take on the out of control monster called the

Kingdom of DeMolay and he set the agenda immediately by saying we'll get control of this first and then

we'll try to make it work and did that. He took on the owners of Boston Light, held them to their contract

after nearly two full years of unchecked spending and he took proactive action by reviewing each and every

bill and projected expenses and said this has to stop now.

He stopped the hemorrhaging but he couldn't stop the contractual expenses. He went nose to nose with

people who had been given carte blanche by our lack of oversight from the start. He tried to project a

means of continuing the program at a reasonable expense but it was too late. With his astute and firm

negotiating he conservatively saved us over $600,000 in that process. He took on a job that nobody else

wanted to do, was sometimes seen as a zealous proponent of the Kingdom but pulled the plug on it when it

was obviously not going to work. In doing this he performed a vital service to the Order.

Balanced. Bill is a busy professional, as well as his wife, Nancy, a Georgian Court University time

professor, but he makes time to visit his son and grandson in Georgia and support his daughter's activities

at her science college in Pennsylvania. He also shares his time with a Masonic fraternity and New York

DeMolay and in his few moments of relaxation he finds time to play with his legendary collection of

tractors.

That's a balanced and healthy life style. Brethren, it's my pleasure and confidently offer to the body the

nomination of Brother Bill Sardone as the best candidate for the office of Grand Junior Councilor. Thank

you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Bill, we'll hear from you. Three minutes.

William M. Sardone: Grand Master, brethren. Brother Labagh, thank you for that introduction. I will

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It is my pleasure to be here and asking for your vote to be your Junior Councilor of DeMolay International.

I know full well that DeMolay has truly helped me in my life.

Brother Labagh mentioned the fact of my career with AT&T. There's also a career that I had with the

United States Army and I retired as an E8 and for those in the Navy that's a Master Sergeant. I retired with

38 years of service to include some of the rougher times and also during the times of Desert Storm. I

learned a lot and I know all of the success that I have had started when I was a teenage boy joining at 14

years old in this terrific organization of DeMolay.

I believe in this organization. I believe what I see our young men grow to be and I believe in the

opportunity that we still have to give to young men who are coming along behind us today. I know that we

are here at DeMolay International, we are sitting here in Kansas City, but I also know that DeMolay

International resides in your towns, in your cities and your jurisdictions and in your hearts and that's where

we need to continue to focus.

I appreciate it. I thank you for your time. I hope you do vote for me. God bless each and every one of you

and God bless the purposes of DeMolay. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: We have the nominator for Thomas Taylor and also if he can come up at

the same time.

Matthew D. Hunt: Good morning. Matthew Hunt, Active member from North Carolina. Brethren, I stand

before you this morning to nominate Brother Tom Taylor of Delaware for the office of Grand Junior

Councilor.

While it is truly an honor to be able to stand here and nominate anyone to an office of service and

leadership within our order, I personally take a little more pride in being able to nominate a man who was

an advisor for me while I was growing up in DeMolay.

I've known Tom since around 1997 when his son, George, moved to High Point University to attend school

and also he started attending my home chapter meetings. On many family and business trips Tom would

attend our chapter meetings and on several occasions make special trips to attend state activities in the old

north state.

This started an 18-year friendship that has been based on our common bond of brotherhood. Over the years

we've remained good friends working on more than just DeMolay projects and our Masonic careers, but

our common goal has always been and will be supporting the Order of DeMolay.

Tom was initiated in DeMolay in 1965 by Newport Chapter and I don't know if you realize that's almost 50

years. Since that time he has served in almost every capacity DeMolay has to offer from Master Councilor

to Chapter Dad, Chairman of the Advisory Council to Executive Officer and back down to the most

rewarding position we have in all of DeMolay, being a Chapter Dad again.

Tom belongs to St. John's Lodge Number 2 and has thrice served as its master. He has served the Grand

Lodge of Delaware in several capacities and has also served the Grand Commandery of Delaware as its

Grand Commander.

His other Masonic accolades are too numerous to mention, but I can say that each and every body that he's

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Tom began his career on the Supreme Council in 1995 when he was installed as the Executive Officer of

Delaware DeMolay. As Executive Officer Tom took on a state that only had one chapter and in a few years

cultivated that one chapter into four more and expanded the programing of his jurisdiction to help with his

growing membership.

Tom and his wife both reside in Bear, Delaware, both are active in their community, school committees,

church board, things like that. Doing their part to be doers and givers of the community.

In closing I ask that you consider my good friend and brother, Tom Taylor, for the office of Grand Junior

Councilor. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Tom, we'll hear from you now.

G. Thomas Taylor: Good morning. I'm Tom Taylor and I stand here before you honored to be here to

have the opportunity to become a member of the elected line of DeMolay International. Being a member of

the ISC for the past 18 years, I've seen many different interpretations of the directions and type of support

that has been given.

Having served as a Chapter Advisor for 13, an EO for seven, I know the types of resources needed to help

make our young men and advisors successful. As EO I inherited a jurisdiction which had only six active

DeMolay. Seven years later we had four active chapters. Delaware now has five active chapters and over

100 members of DeMolay.

My passion of supporting the nation's youth is not just focused on DeMolay. I was elected to four five-year

terms on the local board of education. I spent two years as its president. As part of the board I established

the policies, oversaw the policies and policed the policies governing the ninth largest employer in the State

of Delaware and a student body or over 12,000 pre K through 12th graders.

I was honored to receive the Distinguished Service Award by Delaware State Association of School Boards.

I was instrumental in bringing Communities in Schools, the nation's oldest and largest high school dropout

prevention program in the nation to Delaware. This is now used in Collin Powell's America's Promise

initiative.

Why am I seeking this office? My only set agenda is to develop the young men into leaders by focusing our

organization on the values inculcated throughout our rituals. Our seven precepts must be as relevant today

as they were for us as young DeMolay.

At the EO luncheon the speaker quoted Plato and I would like to paraphrase the questions. Who do we

teach? What do we teach and how do we prepare the teacher? These are the questions we need to address.

Who do we teach? Do we only go to the middle class young men, do we take the young men from the not so

nice part of town, do we provide a well rounded program for all. What we do teach has to be appropriate

today as it was in 1919, 1960, '70, '80, '90, pick the time. I have a history of dedication to youth. I have a

proven record in achieving growth and experience in coalition building.

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Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Can I get all the Active members to please stand? At this same time if

we can get someone to pass out the ballots to the Active members that would be great. Dad Klemm, Frank

Kell. Can I also ask you to help us? You're getting your ballots. Ballot number 1 will be for your Grand

Junior Councilor. Just to remind you, the candidates are Sherman Parker, William Sardone and Tom

Taylor. We'll figure out what the majority will be in a second.

Michael, did you count all the ones and these?

Mr. Speaker: Yes, I did.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: You can sit down. Just so you know, the number that we have is 164

people eligible to vote. Majority is 83. Have we picked up all the ballots? The question is, normally we

read them one at a time as they're coming along. Is there any objection from anybody if the tellers, who are

two Past Grand Masters actually just take them out and count them, and then come back and give us the

numbers?

Mr. Speaker: Objection.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: There's an objection so we'll read them. Sherman, do you agree that the

motion was to stop the process and declare a unanimous ballot for Bill Sardone as Grand Junior

Councilor? All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passes. Bill, do you want to come up here? Our new Grand Junior

Councilor elect, Bill Sardone. Let's move on to nominations for Grand Treasurer.

Ronald J. Minshall: Grand Master, the 2014 DeMolay International Nominating Committee submits the

following names for election to Grand Treasurer, Wesley D. Thornton, Past Grand Master from New

Mexico.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Is there any other nomination for the office of Grand Treasurer? Is

there any other nomination for the office of Grand Treasurer? Is there any other nomination for the office

of Grand Treasurer. Nominations closed.

All those in favor of electing Wesley Thornton to the office of Grand Treasurer will signify by saying aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. Congratulations.



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Ronald J. Minshall: Grand Master, the 2014 DeMolay International Nominating Committee submits the

following names for election of Grand Secretary, Patton R. Hart, Past Grand Master from Kentucky, Keith

K. Klein, Past Grand Master from Indiana.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Brethren, we're going to use -- are there any further nominations for the

office of Grand Secretary? Are there any other nominations for the office of Grand Secretary? Are there

any other nominations for the office of Grand Secretary? Nominations closed. Nominating speeches. Can

we just get all the nominators and the people running just to save us on time?

Richard E. Lynn: Thank you, Grand Master. I rise to placing the nomination for the office of Grand

Secretary Patton Hart, Past Grand Master of DeMolay, Past Grand Master of Kentucky.

Why do I nominate Most Worthy Patton Hart? I'm the current Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of

Florida and have a similar staff in numbers, similar responsibilities. I've worked closely with Patton in

several areas.

He's very Masonicly involved. He's a 33rd Degree Mason. As I said, he's a Past Grand Master of Kentucky.

He served as a Worthy Grand Patron in Kentucky in 2000. He's a Past Potentate of Shrine Temple and he's

involved in so many Masonic bodies and served in so many offices there's way too many for me to list.

The Service and Leadership office is undergoing a tremendous change including a new Executive Director.

We now have the train packed up and heading on the proper track to a better destination and I don't feel

this is the time to change the destination of the train but fire it up.

I think we know that Most Worshipful Pat is committed. He served as Grand Master of DeMolay with

distinction excellence and it's time for us to move forward. The DeMolay website probably sums it up best

of all. Most Worshipful Hart brings to the office of the Grand Secretary a wealth of experience and service

at the chapter, jurisdiction and international levels and his traits of organization, management, human

resource and knowledge. Through his stewardship and leadership it is the hope that DeMolay International,

with the experience successful venture in achieving its goals. That's on our own website.

So I place a nomination for Patton Hart.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Thank you for that nomination. DeMolay and DeMolay International has been a

large part of my life and my passion for many years. It has been my pleasure and honor to serve you, the

membership, as your Grand Master for the 2007-2008 and as Grand Secretary for this past year.

As Grand Secretary I'm committed to you, this International Supreme Council increased levels of

communication. I committed to you more attention on staff operations. I committed to you increased

customer service level. I've committed to you to take action where needed and continually evaluate the

process and standards employed that make sense.

This has been accomplished and will continue in the transformative process with the service and leadership

center, mission and our goals and aim as an organization. Increased efforts have been spent on the Service

and Leadership Center human resources records and methods.

Job descriptions for all staff members have been completed. Employee files have been reviewed and updates

to the files are underway and continuing. Employee recognition programs have been started and the staff



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has been recognized for their service. This past year the service and leadership center has faced it's share

of challenges.

I'm proud of the staff overcoming these obstacles, creating positive working relationships with board

members and state controllers alike and providing thoughtful, passionate and intelligent leadership to meet

the needs of the organization and our Supreme Council members. We are a better organization to have

committed professionals and passionate volunteers working hand in hand to accomplish the business of the

Service and Leadership Center of DeMolay International.

I've also had the privilege of serving on several committees in the past for the Supreme Council of DeMolay,

namely Alumni, Centennial, Congress, Convention Planning, Fraternal Relations, Membership and

Nominating Committee.

In addition to being deeply involved in freemasonry as Past Grand Master for the Grand Lodge of

Kentucky. I've served in leadership roles for the Grand Lodge of Kentucky by serving on the Youth

Committee, Finance Committee and representative to the National Foundation of Masonic Children and the

Masonic Renewal Committee of North America. I've been involved with the membership program for the

Shriners International.

For my professional career, I'm Director of Human Resources for Three Rivers Medical Center located in

Louisa, Kentucky. I graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor in Health Sciences degree.

I can make this observation that a close partnership between human resources and finance must be realized

with today's economy and managing cost preparing reforms.

In closing, it is inevitable what the Order of DeMolay will be tomorrow will depend upon what we do today.

Thank you for all you do in advancing a bigger and better DeMolay. With all of us working together,

supporting and strengthening each other we will succeed in our service to God, to country and to DeMolay.

Thank you.

Tony R. Krall, PGM: Grand Master, it is a great pleasure to be called upon to place in the nomination the

name of Keith Klein for Grand Secretary. It's an honor because we have two very qualified candidates for

this important office for our Order and we have a tough decision to make. I first met Keith Klein in 1975. I

had been elected or appointed to the high office of Grand First Preceptor in Wisconsin DeMolay and I was

invited to travel to the Illinois DeMolay conclave where I roomed with the Master Councilor of Steel City

chapter.

I still remember George Gonzalez but what I really remember was at that time an advisor who I thought

was older and that chapter advisor was Keith Klein and he impressed me with his dynamic personality and

his dedication for DeMolay. Our paths have crossed over the years many times from being elected to the

Supreme Council and learning that Keith almost sat in the first row by that time to working on various

leadership conferences and on various committees in DeMolay.

I'm not going to list all the Masonic and DeMolay honors. Keith has been a DeMolay for 58 years and you

know that he's served as Grand Master. You hear his voice every year at the Hall of Fame banquet.

Rather, I think the important consideration today is what qualities do you want in a Grand Secretary? We

know that we face trying times so I would suggest that we consider our candidates, think about what they

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There are several things that I would suggest are important. First and foremost is the time. Keith, after

serving many years in education as the Chairman of the Ivy League Communications Department of his

community college in his town, is retiring later this year and Keith views this as a natural and continuing

extension of his DeMolay service to be able to serve DeMolay International in yet another role.

He commits to interacting with the office on a regular basis both in person and regular contact. We need a

Grand Secretary that has the trait of being able to be a critical thinker. If you've been around Dad Klein for

very long you know that he likes to think outside the box. Respecting the traditions that we have but not

always accepting the way things have been.

We need a Grand Secretary and manager. Somebody who can bring together and build a team of people

both in the office and with volunteers and I think that Keith Klein possesses those traits. He pays attention to

detail. He focuses on what's important. We need a Grand Secretary who can communicate and if you've

met Keith Klein, you know that he's served as a reporter for NBC and chairs in his college the

communications department. He excels in communicating and being in contact with people.

Most of all we need somebody who can take care of the business of DeMolay. We all have a background in

DeMolay and we love the Order deeply, but we need somebody who can make sure that the Is are dotted

and the Ts are crossed and in the role of Grand Secretary, that is critical. Building a team, communicating

and taking care of the business of DeMolay.

So it's with a great deal of pleasure that I place in the nomination the name of Keith Klein for Grand

Secretary.

Keith K. Klein, PGM: Thank you, Tony. In Indiana we have a saying, if you always do what you've always

done the way you've always done it, you'll always get what you always got and we need to move beyond

that. I'm a communicator by profession, been in communications all my life.

My kids in my classes who don't like taking speech, get really nervous, they get really scared and they say to

me, don't you get nervous when you speak and the answer is, no, I don't get nervous, I get antsy and so

you've been on time and ahead of schedule every moment you've been here.

I am so anxious to get started. I want to get this job underway. I want to work at this. I have the time, I

have resources and I have the commitment and I will thank you for your support for my position as Grand

Secretary of DeMolay International. Thank you for your support.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: We're going to use ballot number 2. If we can try and speed this up a

little bit, that would be awesome. For those that were planning to go to the Foundation meeting after this,

it's been cancelled, just so you know.

Mr. Speaker: Grand Master, we have the election results. Brother Keith Klein received 109 votes.

Patton R. Hart, PGM: Grand Master, officers, members of the Supreme Council, I'd like to make this a

unanimous ballot for Keith Klein as your next Grand Secretary, so moved.


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded that we make it a unanimous ballot to

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(Aye vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Opposed.

(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you. Passed. Keith, where are you?

Keith K. Klein, PGM: Gentlemen, thank you. I want to get to work.

Ronald J. Minshall: Grand Master, the 2014 DeMolay International Nominating Committee would like to

place the following region members for nomination: For Region 1, Wayne Szretter of Massachusetts. For

Region 3, Steven Barry of Florida. For Region 5, Mark Hailer of Minnesota. For Region 7, Gary Muller of

Colorado. For Region 9, Louis Keeling of Columbia and Region 10, Ward Williamson of Germany.

Grand Master, I move for the acceptance of this report and move that these be elected to the following

regions as listed.


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: It's been moved and seconded that we accept these. All those in favor

say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Moved.

Ronald J. Minshall: Thank you, Grand Master. This concludes the Nominating Committee report.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Dad Wood, our newly elected, IMC and ISC, sorry for the delay.

Jason Wood: Brethren of the Supreme Council it is my distinct honor and pleasure to present to you our

new 48th International Master Councilor, Brother James C. Hawkins from the jurisdiction of Georgia and

Brother Steve C. Mattox who's been elected our 48th International Congress Secretary from the jurisdiction

of Wisconsin. Please congratulate them.

Stephen C. Mattox, 48th International Congress Secretary Elect: Grand Master Salazar, Grand Master

elect Sprague, members of the International Supreme Council, I just want to tell each and every one of you

that I am humbled and honored to be able to serve with you and work in tandem to make DeMolay a better

association.

To outline a few plans that we hope to bring to fruition. We're hoping to endear ourselves more to Masonry

through an International George Washington honorary DeMolay chapter as well as a five-plus year

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While I'm speaking briefly about it, I can't express enough how much I'm excited to get to work for DeMolay

and bring our international fraternity to the home of every young man in the world. Thank you.

James C. Hawkins, 48th International Master Councilor Elect: Grand Master, Grand Master elect

members of the Supreme Council, it is indeed an honor to be standing before you today. Over the next term

I have three main plans I wish to accomplish in association with the Board of Directors, the Supreme

Council, the Service and Leadership Center, my brother International Master Councilor and the DeMolay

cabinet.

The first one being communication. This is a key problem in the Congress and I think DeMolay as a whole.

We need to better communicate with one another, we need to reach out to our International jurisdictions

and see what they are doing. Obviously, something is working for them.

Secondly, we need to work on a marketing strategy. Right now one doesn't even exist for DeMolay

International and that is the problem. We need one universal message to move forward with DeMolay.

Lastly, we need to make the Congress an effective body by doing this through developing the Congress

website housing our best practices database where every jurisdiction and chapter can reach out and see

what programs are working in other states and other places around the world.

I thank you for the opportunity to stand before you and work for you today. Thank you.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you. I'd actually like to move that we elect our new International

Master Councilor and International Congress Secretary to the Board of Directors. Is there a second?


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: All those in favor of nominating our DeMolay IMC and ISC elected to

the Board of Directors say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Passed. Congratulations. I offered for them to stay up here and they

said no. They wanted to but they've got work to do. Okay. I had to seek a little bit of counsel and we're

moving along. We're a little bit behind and I apologize for that. At this point we can hear some remarks

from our Grand Master elect, Derek Sprague.

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Gentlemen, I don't really have any kind of remarks because

I've got a big speech here that I'm going to do so I won't have anything to talk about then so I'm going to

more just talk about announcements that I've got here, and I know we've been in here already for a long

session, and I know we've got a big afternoon and evening, and so I know you guys want to get moving but

Reid Morgan, did you want to make a quick announcement on the mic down here and get us all organized?

R. Reid Morgan, III: For those of you that are appointed Grand Officers that will be installed this

afternoon, when you come into Ballroom C on the north side of the riser, so if you're facing the riser it will



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be to your left, there are a group of seats back there, that's where you will be seated and that's also where

the cabinet members and the region representatives who will be escorted in will be seated as well. So if

you're an appointed officer, if you will sit toward the back of that section so that the front can be filled up

with the region reps and the cabinet members.

Thank you, Grand Master Elect.

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Thank you, Brother Morgan. We have a Board meeting for

all of the newly elected Board members, that's in the Shawnee room and that's immediately following this;

correct? We are going straight to the Board meeting right after this?

Mr. Speaker: Yes.

Derek G. Sprague, Grand Senior Councilor: Shawnee room, same place where we were on Thursday

morning. My deacons are Jeff Brunson and James Lamb. For all the appointed Officers, all my Committee

Chairmen and Vice Chairman, you all know who you are, thank you very much for responding to all my

letters, thank you for accepting my appointments. We're going to make a great team this year. We're going

to get a heck of a lot done. We're going to divide and conquer this thing and we're going to do the business

of DeMolay. James Lamb and Jeff Brunson have packets for you, some gifts from me, and so they'll be

looking for you to hand those things out. In there you will have some term calendars and a letter from me

and a pen and going forward into this year my theme is structured around, I was a heck of a baseball player

and I was the captain of my baseball team and the one thing I loved at DeMolay way back when I saw it,

and I've seen it in the office for a number of years, is that DeMolay letter.

I love my letterman's jacket and we're going to have a varsity club this year and we're going to talk about it

a little bit more later today, but you're going to see a pen with a big ole D for DeMolay and we're going to

have jackets and we're going to start celebrating what DeMolay is all about and we're going to celebrate

the opportunity for each one of our DeMolays to letter in DeMolay.

DeMolay is about more than just becoming a Master Councilor, it's about figuring out how to become part

of a team and getting out on that field and proving that you have the ability to be part of that team and that

you earned the right to wear that letter just like whether you're on a sports team, a debate team, a speech

team. We're going to give those opportunities not only to our young men, but also to our advisors and more

to follow on that but there's a letter in there to discuss what that's going to be.

So with that we go to work tomorrow. I just want to let you guys know that I will be working on Sunday for

you, and I'll be working on Monday and the team is going to be right here in Kansas City and we are going

to have meetings starting tomorrow afternoon. We have meetings scheduled for Monday morning.

Your two officers that you have just elected to the Board, our IMC and Congress Secretary, their flights are

being changed as we speak. They're going to work tomorrow. They've known about it for a long time, but I

want to let you know there's only 365 days and we're going to make use of them starting right now.

With that, thank you, again. Here's to a heck of the rest of the day. Here we go.

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Brethren, again, I just want to thank all of you for allowing me to serve

you this last year. Like I said, it was an experience of a lifetime. Just real quick, I just wanted to make a

quick comment. They were talking about how the delegates all went out and did some community service.

My girlfriend from high school actually put together a program for the ladies and she's sitting back there in



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the back and they went to Harvesters and I can tell you the people that went, the ladies have commented

about how great they felt when they left there because like they said, they've made a difference. So on behalf

of DeMolay International, Janet, I want to say thank you for putting together a program for the ladies and

helping us put the name of DeMolay out there on behalf of some of the ladies that have participated so,

again, thank you.

To the newly elected line I wanted to turn around and say I know you all do a great job and if there's

anything I can do to help, just give me a holler. I'm a 2x by the way, just in case you're looking for that

jersey.

Anyway, I know it's getting later so I'll keep my comments short. Again, thank you very much. If I can call

on our Grand Chaplain to -- sorry, just hold on one second. We actually need to elect the chair of the EO

Conference to the Board of Directors so where are you? Is he in the room?


Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Marc Bohn, he's the EO Chair for this coming year so it's been moved

and seconded to put Marc on the Board of Directors. All those in favor say aye.

(Aye vote)


(Nay vote)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: Thank you. Dick Sayre didn't know what he was getting into when he

said, yes, I'll take this on. Hopefully everybody got a chance to sign the get well card for Boyd.

Thank you.

(Prayer)

Mike A. Salazar, Grand Master: I now declare the business session closed or we'll put it on recess for the

installation session this afternoon.

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2014 Legislative Call

Call Item #1

Topic: To allow for change of classification of Class 1 membership following absence from

Annual Meetings upon approval of DI

Proposed by: Albert M. Smith, Class 1 Active Member

Bylaws: Article IV, Section 9

Action: add & delete language as shown

Explanation: This call item allows DeMolay International to allow a Class 1 Active member who has been

absent from two successive Annual Meetings to be elected as a Class 2 Emeritus Member, or

a Class 4 Honorary Members.

Class 3 Deputy Members who have failed to attend two successive Annual Meetings could,

at the option of DeMolay International, be elected Class 4 Honorary Members.

This legislation will NOT make Class 3 Deputy able to become Members Class 1 Active

Members except as set forth in existing Bylaws, but will allow DeMolay International greater

flexibility in determining how to best handle its membership classifications following

unexcused absences. This proposal also removed the Past Grand Master Exemption on

attendance. DeMolay International needs its membership to be fully engaged in governance

and meetings.

Section 9. Absence from Annual Meeting. A Class 1 or Class 3 member who is absent from two

successive annual meeting may, after the second day of the second meeting, be deemed to

have resigned his membership, or at the option of DeMolay International, may be elected a

Class 2 or a Class 4 members. This action shall not be taken with respect to anyone who is a

Past Grand Master of the Order. A member may be excused for cause by action of DeMolay

International.

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DeMolay International:

Withdrawn Amended Defeated Adopted

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Call Item #2

Topic: Suspension and Removal of Membership Status based upon Criminal Conduct

Proposed by: Ken Martensen, Class 1 Active Member

Bylaws: Article IV, Section 2 (a)(6)

Action: Add new subsection (10) to Article IV by adding the language proposed and renumber

existing subsection (10) as (11), existing subsection (11) as (12), (12) as (13) and (13) as

(14).

Explanation: If an ISC member does something criminal during the year, he cannot be suspended or

removed until the ISC session which could be an entire year.

Section 10. Suspension or Removal Based Upon Criminal Conduct

Suspension. The Grand Master may suspend any Class 1, 2, 3 or 4 member who is formally charged

with a felony criminal offense pending the outcome of that charge without regard for action pending or

taken under Subsection 10 of this Article. The ability of the Grand Master to suspend a Member who has

been charged with a felony criminal offense, or the ability of a qualified Member of DeMolay International

to bring or prosecute charges and of DeMolay International to hold hearings under Section 10 of this Article

may proceed concurrently with any pending criminal matter. The outcome of proceedings under Section 10

of this Article are not dependent upon the outcome of a pending criminal charge. Nothing herein prevents a

qualified Member of DeMolay International from exercising remedies set forth in this Article IV, Section 10

relative to conduct unbecoming a Member of DeMolay International

Removal. The Grand Master may remove any Class 1, 2, 3 or 4 member who is convicted of a

felony criminal offense whose conviction for a felony criminal offense is affirmed following exhaustion of

all available appellate appeals and remedies, without regard for any action pending or taken under

Subsection 10 of this Article. Nothing herein prevents a qualified Member of DeMolay International from

exercising remedies set forth in this Article IV, Section 10 relative to conduct unbecoming a Member of

DeMolay International. The ability of the Grand Master to remove a Member following conviction of a

felony offense, or the ability of a qualified Member of DeMolay International to bring or prosecute charges

and of DeMolay International to hold hearings under Section 10 of this Article may proceed concurrently

with any pending criminal matter. The outcome of proceedings under Section 10 are not dependent upon

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Call Item #3

Topic: Requirement of Members of DeMolay International to Complete an Adult Worker

Profile

Proposed by: Gregory A. Chiles, PGM, Class 1 Active Member

Bylaws: Article IV, Section 2 Qualifications

Rules and

Regulations: Article 15, 315.12 Dual Membership

Explanation: The proposer did not submit an explanation to accompany this proposed legislation

Action: Add language as shown

Bylaws, Section 2. Qualifications.

(6) Unless an extension not to exceed 30 days has been granted by the Grand Master, Class 1 and

Class 3 members must, by December 31st of each year sign and file with the Grand Secretary a completed

adult worker application, a certificate of change, or certificate of no change. (2010) (2011)

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Call Item #4

Topic: Revision to Allow a Dual Member to hold Appointive Office in More than One Chapter

at the Same Time

Proposed by: Gregory A. Chiles, PGM, Class 1 Active Member

Rules and

Regulations: Article 15, 315.12 Dual Membership

Explanation: The proposer did not submit an explanation to accompany this proposed legislation

Action: Add language as shown

Rules & Regulations, 315.12 Dual Membership.

(b) A member may not hold an elected office in more than one Chapter at the same time.

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Call Item #5

Topic: Creation of a Legion of Honor - Honor Medal

Proposed by: William Eppig, Active Class 1 Member

Rules and

Regulations: Honors and Awards, Article 6, 206.1 (c)

Action: Add new subsection (c) to Article 6, section 206.1 to create a Legion of Honor - Honor

Medal and amend 206.1 subsection (3) to provide for nomination and conferral, renumbering

all subsections accordingly as shown.

Explanation: Over the last 12 years, there has been a strong debate at DeMolay International concerning

the need to honor those individuals who have gone above and beyond in their service and

dedication to the Order of DeMolay, but who are not Senior DeMolays or Master Masons. The first choice

would be to make the Honorary Legion of Honor eligible to all, by dropping the Master Mason requirement.

This has caused dissension among the ranks for a number of reasons. The members of DeMolay

International that feel the need to change the LOH in order to keep up with the changes within DeMolay,

and since the LOH is the highest honor, it should be open to all who meet the requirements. The only

agreeable exception would be to call it a Civic LOH with different color cord. Many against the legislation

want to keep the current requirement of being a Master Mason, in order to keep the DeMolay/Masonic

relationship. Some are concerned about the taking of the Secret Vow, and some do not like the idea of

designates not familiar with the masonic tradition having to kneel and take the public vow. I am proposing

a new Honor connected to the LOH. The description would be the same as the HLOH, but would have its

own requirements for nomination, presentation, regalia, and ceremony. It is my hope to have a new

honor with its own requirements, but it would still have a connection with the Legion of Honor, we

are able to recognize those extremely hard workers for DeMolay and keep the tradition of the LOH.

Proposed Description of the Medal: The Medal will be gold tone of a shape to be determined, but will

have the Legion of Honor Cross with the words Legion of Honor - Honor Medal. It will be suspended by a

Red/White ribbon to symbolize the Active and Honorary cords of the Legion of Honor. A neck ribbon and

picket drape ribbon will be provided to give the wearer the choice as to how they would like to wear the

Medal.

Rules and Regulations, Section 206.1 Legion of Honor.

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Honor-Honor Medal upon a person who is not a Senior DeMolay or a Master Mason, who has attained the

age of thirty years of age on the first day of the annual meeting of the year nominated, and who has

performed unusual and meritorious service on behalf of the Order or has evidenced a spirit of cooperation,

dedication, and appreciation for the Order. The Legion of Honor – Honor Medal shall not be given only for

service on an Advisory Council.

(c)(d) Posthumous Election. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Article, DeMolay

International may posthumously confer the Legion of Honor or Honorary Legion of Honor upon one who is

otherwise qualified and who died during the twelve months immediately preceding the annual meeting at

which the nomination is considered. The formalities of conferral may be waived or altered as necessary to

effectuate the goal of recognizing his leadership, success in fraternal life or service to the Order. (2010)

(d)(e) Nominations.

(1) Nominations for the Legion of Honor must be made to DeMolay International by an

Executive Officer, who may nominate any number who are qualified. An Executive Officer making a

nomination of a person having legal residence outside of his Jurisdiction must notify the Executive Officer

of the Jurisdiction where the nominee has legal residence of his intention to nominate. The Executive

Officer of the Jurisdiction where the nominee held DeMolay membership also must be advised of the

nomination. The nomination form must contain the certificate of the nominating Executive Officer that the

notice was given.

(2) Each Class 1 member may make one Legion of Honor nomination and one Honorary Legion

of Honor nomination each year, but it shall be submitted through the Executive Officer of the Jurisdiction

where the nominee resides, to give him the opportunity to comment or object.

(3) Nominations for the Legion of Honor-Honor Medal must be made to DeMolay International

by an Executive Officer, who may nominate no more than two (2) persons per year who are qualified and

must live within the Executive Officers Jurisdiction during the year of nomination.

(e)(f) Conferral. This degree must be conferred upon a nominee by the Executive Officer for the

Jurisdiction, or, at his request, by another Executive Officer or by a member of the Legion of Honor.

(f)(g) Presentation. The Legion of Honor-Honor Medal may be presented to the nominee by the

Executive Officer for the jurisdiction, or by a Preceptory of the Legion of Honor within his Jurisdiction or,

at his request, by another Executive Officer.

(g)(h) Annually on March 18th each member of the Legion of Honor must comply with the

Traditional Observance in accordance with his vows. He shall report his observance on a form provided by

the Grand Secretary.

(i) Annually on March 18th each holder of the Legion of Honor-Honor Medal will comply with

the Traditional Observance in accordance with their Presentation Pledge. They shall report their observance

on a form provided by the Grand Secretary.

(j) DeMolay International, through the Grand Secretary, may at any time require of any member

a signed rededication of the vows and ethics of the DeMolay Legion of Honor. Failure to comply forfeits

membership. (2000)



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Call Item #6

Topic: To amend Article VI, Section 1 of the Bylaws to allow for the inclusion of region

representatives of a new Region nine3 (9) and ten (10) created in 2014 to serve on the Board

of Directors.

Proposed by: Tony R. Krall, PGM, Class 1 Active Member; Richard L. Sayre, Class 2 Emeritus Member

Bylaws: Article VI, Section 1

Action: Delete and add language as shown

Explanation: During the year 2014, the Grand Master with consent of the Board of Directors as required

by Article 8, Section 208.2 of the Rules and Regulations, created two (2) new Regions to

facilitate continued expansion of DeMolay International throughout the World. While the

Rules and Regulations permit the expansion and creation of Regions, Article VI, Section 1 of

the Bylaws only allow for inclusion of the representatives of the eight DeMolay Regions on

the Board of Directors. As such, the new Regions would not be represented on the Board

absent this Amendment. The Amendment also permits additional expansion as needed in the

years ahead, and will include the representative of each new Region on the Board.

Proposed Amendment:

Article VI, Section 1. Members. The Board of Directors consists of the following: one Class 1 member as a

representative of the each of the eight regions, four to be elected each year for a two year term;. During the

year following creation of a new region or regions, new representatives shall be elected to the Board of

Directors at the annual meeting immediately following creation of the region or regions.

Region representatives shall serve a two-year term. Representatives from even-numbered regions will

be elected in odd-numbered years and representatives from odd-numbered regions will be elected in

even-numbered years; and the Grand Master, Grand Senior Councilor, Grand Junior Councilor, Grand

Secretary, a representative of the Executive Officers Conference.. [no further changes to this Article].

Keeping Track



Board of Directors:




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Nominating Committee

The following recommendations were made for election to membership.

Elected Officers

2014 – 2015 Derek G. Sprague – Grand Master Keith K. Klein, PGM – Grand Secretary

Steven E. Crane – Grand Senior Councilor Wesley D. Thornton, PGM – Grand Treasurer

William M. Sardone – Grand Junior Councilor

Active/Class 1 Members Nominated as Regional Representatives

Region 2 – None Elected Region 6 – Dennis L. Reed (KS)

Region 4 – Sherman C. Parker, Jr. (MI) Region 8 – Warren R. Cole (OR)

Nominated to the Board of Directors

Executive Officers Conference Chair: Class 6 Member: Class 6 Member:

Marc B. Bohn (GA) James C. Hawkins (WI) Stephen C. Mattox (GA)

Active/Class 1 Memberships

(8 nominations recommended for membership)

Vinson D. Goodpaster (IL)

Jeffrey C. Kitsmiller, Jr. (MO)

Aurel V. Manea (ROM)

Donald H. Peterson (SoCAL)

Leonard Proden (DC)

Jeffrey L. Rannebarger (OH)

Charles V. Sedertrom, Jr. (NE)

Randall E. Williams (TN)

Executive Officer / Class 1 Active Appointed by Grand Master

Michael K. Lawson (RI)

William R. Gordon (AZ)

Bogolijub Pejesic (SER)

David E. Barnes, II (KS)

Luiz A. Kieling (COL)

Michael L. Sampson (TX)

Resignations – Class 1 Active Members

David A. Craft (ME)

Emeritus/Class 2 Membership

Weston B. Aanderud (OR)

Stanton J. Cohen (AZ)

Richard N. Fitzsimmons (PA)

Scott A. Bishel (CT)

George E. Bauder (SD)

Allan E. Iding (WI)

Robert L. Tomlinson, Jr. (KS)

James R. Truax (MN)

Recommended – Class 2 Emeritus by Committee

None



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Deputy/Class 3 Memberships

(35 Nominations recommended for election)

Seth C. Anthony (PA)

Roger D. Barnett (KY)

David A. Bodine (MI)

Aaron T. Brendel (MN)

David M. Brown (SoCAL)

Jeffrey Bryant (KY)

Juan M. Capunitan (ITA)

David A. Clements (NorCAL)

Ryan M. Cockerham (MO)

Robert S. Cook (OK)

Scott R. Cooper (MI)

William R. Currier (MA)

Angelo S. Deserio (IL)

Mohamad El-Bsat (ROM)

Richard W. Elliot (NH)

Matthew S. Gerrish (MA)

Steven R. Gough (NM)

Eugenio Iencinella (ITA)

Paul M. Jones (NC)

Andrew S. Krall (MN)

Joshua B. Lightle (NM)

Justin D. Lowe (OH)

Daniel E. Massey (MT)

Bogdan M. Matache (ROM

Carl A. Michel, Jr. (MD)

Stephen K. Moline (FL)

Frank T. Palmer (ME)

Mihai Priscariu (ROM)

David F. Puzzo (FL)

Eric R. Scanlan (IL)

Rusu V. Silvio (ROM)

Arthur W. Stauff (CT)

Igor Tolstoi (SER)

Grady A. Wells (NE)

Alan J. Williard (NC)

Recommended – Resignations Class 3 Deputy Members by Request

Steven C. Heller (OR) Charles J. Graham (AR) Dana W. Ryder (ME)

Honorary/Class 4 Memberships

(13 Nominations recommended for election)

Stewart L. Aronson (NH)

Russell W. Baker (PA)

Dean A. Barr (MI)

Allan L. Casalou (NorCAL)

Dale I. Goehrig (FL)

Robert W. Hagen, Jr. (LA)

John J. Hillyar, IV (FL

Curtis S. Holtman (CT)

Raymond C. Lemons (MI)

Jeremyha R. Lyle (SoCAL)

Jimmy G. McKinney (OK)

Kenneth G. Nagel (NorCAL)

Ronald G. Pauly (IL)

Recommended – Class 4 Honorary Members by Request

Howard L. Graff (IL)

Recommended - Excuses Accepted for Class 1 Active Members

Lee A. Beattys (NJ)

Rodney E. Boyce (PA)

Paul R. Chisholm (NY)

L. Lee Cram, Jr. (PA)

E. John Elmore, PGM (NC)

Billy J. Fannin (OH)

Raoul L. Frevel, Sr. (MD)

Luke A. Giannini (VA)

Matthew S. Golway (NJ)

Brian K. Golwitzer, Jr. (IL)

Bruce N. Hazard (NY)

James C. Herndon (ID)

William H. Koon, II (OH)

Jeffrey E. McMorris (NY)

William J. Mollere, PGM (LA)

Simon Q. Oduber (ARU)

William K. Paisley (IA)

M. Boyd Patterson, Jr. (TX)

Craig A. Phillips (NV)

Brian W. Pierson (OK)

Craig S. Ruby (NV)

Darrell W. Sartin (MS)

Kevin R. Smith (IA)

Timothy B. Strawn (OH)

John W. Whitaker (TN)

Recommended – Excuses Not Accepted for Class 1 Members

Acott A. Bishel (CT

Dale H. Gillilan (AK)

Robert M. Schvey (NY)



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Recommended – Excuses Accepted for Class 3 Deputy Members

Gordon M. Candee (CT) Charles P. Cross (SoCAL)

High S. D’Anna, III (GA)

George S. Greytak (CT)

Robert J. Hanna, Sr. (OK)

Don R. Jones (SoCAL)

Paul E. Lacroix (SoCAL)

Leo A. Ponson (ARU)

Robert E. Scott (SoCAL)

Michael J. Stern (NorCAL)

Richard W. Kaeser, Jr. (MO)

David W. Berry (PA)



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Active Legion of Honor

Alabama

Lee W. Jones

Alberta

Glenn William White

Arizona

Andrew Stefan Warianka

Arkansas

Brandon Ray Herring

Cody Beight

Bryan Heath Langston

Connecticut

Christopher Jon Michael Buck

Florida

Clifford Cooper

Jason Shane Webb

Robert James Lambert

Leonard Grant Shurtleff

Randy Lee Ziegler

Gary Owen Kearney

Georgia

Hans Allen Wilson

Germany

Carleton Terry Johnson

Idaho

William David Votaw

Illinois

Mark L. Rauschenberger

Louis Mines Kline, III

James Dewey Johnston, Sr.

Ted Curtis Fultz

James Paul Smith

Indiana

David A. Trobaugh

Iowa

Greg Hapgood

Jerry Robert Hough

Italy

Giuseppe Alfonso Bosio

Paolo Morreale

Kansas

Herbert Franklin Merrick

Joe H. Vanghan

Maryland

Brett Thomas Joseph Bean

Kenneth S. Kiesslin

Massachusetts

Richard B. Burgess

Donald Micheal Cargill, Jr.

Scott David Inglis

Bryant Lunt Carter, Jr.

Samuel Robert McClure, Jr.

Justin F. Prescott

Arnold Melvin Johnson

Richard L. Burgess

Richard Earle Haley

Michigan

Ryan Drew Toll

Joshua Morgan Parker

David Anthony Bodine

Fred Richard Jex

Richard David Wisley

Louis Charles McCray

Howard H. Crumit, Jr.

Minnesota

Myles J. Weinblatt

Carl F. Lidstrom

Missouri

Ryan Matthew Cockerham

Billy B. Ruhling

Chris Ray Maxfield

David L. Lourwood, Jr.

David James Johnston, Jr.

Robert James Thompson

Kenton Thomas Harper

Montana

Jeremy Dean Olsen

Shawn T. Ratchford

Daniel Elsworth Massey

Leslie A. Saisbury

Donald R. Slaybaugh

Mark A. St. John

Richard Harry Smith

Mark Doyle Wilson

Michael Trevor Monsos

John M. Barrows

Northern California

James A. Jaeger

Alan Wandesforde

Myron A. Tisdel

Nevada

Alex Terrance Wilson

Adam Thomas Wilson

New Jersey

Patrick Charles Weisgerber, Jr.

Paul James Eberly

Richard Peterson

Frank Martin Williams

New Mexico

Steven Robert Gough

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New York

Drew V. D'Angelo

Ryan Bradley Huston

Thomas Robert Norris, Jr.

Robert Todd Bailey

Joseph Hilton Wilkes

Brian Duane Larick

Randolph Charles Daley

Gary Allen Tahsler

Scott A. Roller

Douglas Eugene Moshier

Gregory Carl Postal

Oklahoma

Ryan John Rudebock

Nathaniel Corbin Johns

Brian Chester Lux, II

John Dale Allford

Thomas Jeffery Cole

Oregon

James Dale Conner, II

Nabeel Mohammad Shaaban

Howard W. Haynes

David Dale Fuller

Elden Charlie Porter

Pennsylvania

Christopher Michael Fry

Ronald Eugene Bush, Jr.

Scott E. Levy

Adam Nathaniel Croumer

Steven Jay Smith

William Lawson Reed

Brian Keith Shaffer

Ronald J. Norcross

Timothy R. Settlemyer

Jerry Owen Richards, Jr.

Stephen R. Logan, Sr.

Craig Arthur Kern

Robert F. McCabe, Jr.

William Scott Shillady

Charles Homer Johnston

Rexford Franklin Cox

Matthew D. Dupee

Pete Christopher Elliott

Andrew H. Kauffman

Rakesh R. Kumar

Jay Michael Laser

Robert Ray Nye, Jr.

David C. Santini

Daryl Ralph Sycher

Rhode Island

James Ian Ogilvie

Robert J. Kempf

Stephen Andrew Hart

Southern California

Roger Darren Parker

John Robert James

Donald Charles Schremp, II

Alan Dean Walbridge, Jr.

Robert T. Burger

Tennessee

Walter Jerome Martin

John Harold Truebger

Michael D. Villines, Sr.

Marlin Leroy Beard, Jr.

Michael Allen Harris

Texas

Thomas W. Peebles

Bruce Don Dalton

Michael L. Skinner

Randy Fincher

Utah

George Henry Cherry, Jr.

Vermont

Douglas Lee Smith, Jr.

Joshua D. Burt

Virginia

Zachary Andrew Panitzke

Washington

Corey Clifford Kent

John Benson Danner

Richard William Snyder

Darel E. Maxfield, Sr.

Wisconsin

Andrew Josef Storrs

James Robert Fenno



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Honorary Legion of Honor

Arizona

Christopher M. Hagenian

Michael Bruce Manning

Jerry Weiers

Arkansas

William Ray Herring

Colorado

Christopher Eric Putman

Clyde R. George

Kerry Alan Hart

John F. Reinking

Delaware

Herbert J. Atkinson

Florida

William Charles McCarthy

Paul Michael Gazo

William Donald Valentino

James Wesley Ford

Paul Wilson Friend

William Robert Jacobs

James O. Cheek

Bryan Roy Coffey

Henry A. Adams

James William Rouse

Howard Warren Almand, Jr.

Dayle Laverne Schrock

Germany

Charsten Wienberyer

Illinois

Mark Andrew Ertler

Donald E. Courter

Richard David Hacker

Stephen Forrest Oakley

Indiana

Daniel J. Barenie

John Bridegroom

Iowa

Robert Knowler

Arthur Guy Crandon

Roger Kenneth Kadel

Italy

Servel Jean-Pierre

Seri Gianearlo

Enrieo Bruseitini

Kansas

Christopher Lane Lewis

Thomas Robert Rigg

Michael Scott Bell

Kevin Wayne Larson

Charlie McClain, Sr.

Kentucky

Charles J. Boeschel

Cloyd J. Bumgardner

Louisiana

Eric Paul Zollinger

Martin John Reinschmidt

Maryland

Howard Wayne Graham

Creed Fred Parker

Massachusetts

Richard Oliver Cusick

Bruce Edward Tarr

Michigan

Eugene Edward Abbaticchio

Minnesota

Ralph Edward Johansen

David Neil Kampf

Mississippi

Ronald Bruce Killary

Alred Silva Bettencourt

Billy Wade Spires

Missouri

Virgil Davidson

Ryan Baker Skidmore

Sean David Sandow

Steven Kent Statham

Bryon Walter DrLear

William Wray Lain, Jr.

Eric Matthew Strong

Kurt Donald Witzel

Randal Bruce Bowden

James Thomas Chaney

Randy Carl Davis

Montana

Thomas L. Lund

Kevin N. Olson

Charles Joseph Stein

Thomas Earl Holman

Thomas Wayne Chisholm

Northern California

Stanley Spinrod

Nebraska

Rex J. Moats

New Hampshire

Larry A. Sprague

Alfred R. Chesley

David Collins

John Everett Lobdell

New Jersey

Ricky D. Stoneking

George Mackanin

Michael F. Lakat

Walter R Kaulfees



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New York

Edward T. Bartels

John L. Montross

Robert L. Hogan, Jr.

George Norris Wineberg

William J. Thomas

Anthony Joseph Pecorella

John Koller

David Paul Spencer

Griffith Jones, III

North Carolina

William Allan Mann

Ohio

Roy Keith O'Dell

Douglas Neal Kaylor

Dennis Lee Hughes

Alfred Thomas Johnson

Lynn Bert Alexander

Robert Charles Rill, Jr.

Hugh A. Harris

Thomas Selby

Glenn F. Stoots

Oklahoma

Jonathan "Todd" Ebersole

William H. Howell

Kevin Hall

Oscar Karl Geilfuss

Jack W. Hughey

Steven Alan Viner

Richard L. Allison

L. Erik Stuckey

Jimmie Edward Pilgrim

Preston L. Doerflinger

Oregon

Craig Ryan Thornburgh

W. Myles McMillan

William Brian Allphin

Thomas P. Shine

Pennsylvania

William Frederick Harner

Gary Lee Dukeman

Larry McCleary Miller

Donald Charles Wobb

Nicholas Vaccarello

David A. Mc Dade

James Robert Shaw

James Slater Roberts

Jerry J. Hamilton

Edward James Stumm

William H. Weichsel

Rhode Island

Russell R. Davis, Sr.

Southern California

Robert Edward Slater

Michael Strader

John Richard Heisner

South Carolina

Dr. Dickran Mgrdechian

Jack Allen Marler

Tennessee

Joseph Clayton Pryor Kindoll

Roy C. Etherton

Carl Edward Barnes

Sean Hugh Hamilton

Earl Lynn Barnett

Texas

Charles Curtis Powell

Ervin Leslie Richards

John Edward Cline

William J. Giles, Jr.

Archie W. Scott

Buddy Harmon Wigley

John Dempsey Myers

Utah

Drew C. Sanders

Vermont

George J. Deblon

Virginia

James Edward Litten

Reese Edward Carroll, Jr.

Lyle Scott Cassell

W. Thomas Newcomb

Giles Madison Gilley

Washington

John Henery Roberts

Donald G. Munks

Wisconsin

William G. Hahnfeldt

Donald W. Hensiak



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Honors & Award Committee

Chevalier

Alberta

Gerrit Steven Wright

Geoff Gelden Patterson

Alaska

Mark Sawyer Gillilan

Alabama

Forrest Dean Buchanan

Evan L. Cheeley

E. Ray Hinderliter, Jr.

Arkansas

Connor DeWayne Appleton

Arizona

William Lawrence McKean

Timothy M. Dougherty

Jarrett Ramsey Kunz

Northern California

Johnny D. Huffine

Anderson V. Bouwens

Gregory G. Kendall-Park

Gared Hassel

Bryan Daniel Schmall

Anthon R. Maquiling

Travis A. Magro

Teak R. Foster

James R. Fowler

Justin Richard Tristano

Jonathan R. Marin

Adam L. Orwig

Jordan W. Teschan

Tristan E. Hance

Charles Norman Pharaoh

David A. Clements

Southern California

Mitchell Anthony Ramirez

Adam R. Siders, Jr.

Alexander Isreb

Cody Gonzalez

Christopher Michael Baker

Joshua F. Camantigue

Mitchell Dwayne Bowman

Nicholas A. Florentino

Benjamin Agusto Villanueva

Joshua Thomas Gardner

Matthew E. Higginbotham

Sean Solorio

Mitchell Nathan Gottesmann

Roger Thomas Childs

Jesus Martinez

Devon Hoff-Felix

Ryan William Gooch

Colorado

Tanner Samuel Thompson

Matthew James Lord

Zachary Thomas Zumalt

Connecticut

Nicholas Scott Carpenter

Lorenzo Cardoso

Tyler N. Brush

Jason Ferenczy

Florida

Alden Lincoln Doane, lll

Nicholas Francisco Massanet

Ashton Drake Abela

Jerrod Robert Threadgill

Erik Legge

Timothy James Ferdon

Tyler McCarthy

Tyler Pernal

Joshua Cole Ellich

Justin Tyler Prowant

Brian Mitchell Catalano

Justin Smith

Shane Doran

Christopher William Bennett

Darion Paul Mackey

Georgia

Hans Wilson, Jr.

Jackson Dailey Fussell

James Craig Hawkins

Paul R. Peeler, III

James Austin Everson

Iowa

Phillip Matthew Oleksa

Idaho

Kevin Eugene Anderson

Frederick Joseph Gray

Illinois

Devin Jonathon James

Samuel Parker Anderson

Benjamin Andrew Dosch

Sante Angelo Deserio

Zachary Brooks Peterson

Alan Edward Garza

Eugene Joseph Carl Gross

Logan Bryant Webb

Michael John Weaver

Andrew J. Guibord

Daulton Richard Hammes



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Indiana

Brandon William Norcutt

Nestor Perez

Jacob Nicholas Hiday

James Reid Harris

Aaron Matthew Pfeiffer

Nathaniel Todd Singer

Dominic Michael Martyne

Kansas

James William Haxton

Tyler Austin Taylor

Kentucky

Joshua Dwayne Justice

Jacob Boeschel

Jordan Matthew Brewer

Gauge C. Hodge

Alex Sottile

Jeremiah James Crum

Massachusetts

Robert Outly

Jacob O'Connell

Kevin Michael Hudon

William H.M. Blake

Jared Kingston Garneau

Maryland

Douglas R. Nodonly, Jr.

Spencer D. Schuch

Steven M. Makres

Christopher Paul Makres

Joshua R. Walker

Christopher Sean Ollivett

Joseph John Uliasz

Jake Edward Fenton

Christopher Paul Ichniowski

Jacob Patrick Bridges

Trevor John Trost

Brian Halsey Pierce

Michigan

James Lyle Oliver

Aaron James Proudfoot

Joseph Ernest Golec

Joshua Michael Blackburn

Steven Lee New, Jr.

Lucus Duane Moore

Ohio

Harrison Warren King

Missouri

Samuel James Puttman

Brian Tracy

David Paul Smith

John Butron

Colin Sullivan

Ryan Michael Weber

Milo Edward Brucker

Kanyon Dale Salyer

Jake Witte

James Edward McManigle

Kellon Thomas Chiles

Alfous Raymond Johnson

Matthew Graham

David Hawthorne Ardrey

Mississippi

Brandon Dale Ezell

Jimmy Clinton Jones

Jonathan Hodge

Montana

Nicholas Anthony Combs

North Carolina

Kyle Edward Rains

Nebraska

Joshua Liam Wray

Kyle Richard Barchus

Dakota James Wells

Logan Lewis

Lucas Rosenbaum

Ronald A. Nielsen

Robert Alex Lowe

John Spencer Lowe

Keegan Dean Miller

New Hampshire

Scott Jenckes

New Jersey

Charles E. Richardson, III

Simon Kramer

New Mexico

James N. Christopher

Nevada

Buzz David Ingram

Arthur Ward Cozad, III

Richard Paul Hunker, Jr.

Steven William Rose

New York

Christopher John Draves

Andrew Robert Storck

Carl Smith Siegel, II

Allecks Russell Sadler

Ohio

Jonathan A. Stonebraker

Brian Christopher Kelzer

Austin Michael Sutter

Dillon Zackary Barto

Eric Jay Lovingshimer

Paul David Harshbarger

Samuel Alexander W.

Crawford

Ian Duncan Hawthorne

Ricky Allen Staler, Jr.

Thomas Louis Martin

Nicholas Paul Willeke

Alexander Michael Hoffman

Brandon Aaron Carpenter

Joseph Kenneth DiSanto

Joshua Chase Kelley

Fredrick Morris

Zachary Lane Lappert

Donald Harvey Gelhot, III

Ian Hackworth

Alex Hackworth

Andrew Joseph Thomas



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Oklahoma

Tyler Taylor

Brody Andrew Duncan

Bradley Allen Liles

James Anthony Denny

Chase Ebersole

Christopher Ebersole

Philip Tyler Brown

Joshua Dean Leyba

Corey M. Honn

William Deven Lee Haynes

Brian Alan Sutton

James David R. Hill

Ontario

Noah Snowdon

Michael John Ticknor

Jonathon Connor Nichol

Oregon

Ryan Matthew Thornburgh

Gregory Michael Durnal

Gabriel Hall Jones-Gallardo

Benjamin James Allphin

Pennsylvania

Philip John Cancilla

Andrew James Trapp

Adam Tyler Pritchard

Ryan Earl Daub

David Stanley Kopp, III

Jeffrey Robert Hample

Lorenzo Alexander Rodriguez

Marshall LeLand Mills

Evan Michael Ippolito

Jordan Alexander Ippolito

Trenton Lee Swindler

South Carolina

Devon William Crawford

Tennessee

Spencer Thomas Martin

Robert Cole Coats

Texas

Xavier Zacharrus Wiley

Andrew George Nitsch

Mark Alan Peebler

Anthony Ellis Peebler

Christopher James Little

Galen Keir Mikel

Charles Dakota Wolfe

Anthony L. Coca

Jonathon Andrew Aper

Lars Monroe Anderson

Eric Austin Pohland

Nicholas Walton Smith

Jeremy Jordan Gueits

Utah

Matthew Lee Harris

Virginia

Keith Tyre Yancey

Billie Walker Chenault

Derrick Sanders

Alexander Edward Whidden

Dakota Burns

Charles Michael Chang

Martin Taylor Schmidt

New Hampshire

Timothy Roy Sprague

Vermont

William Charles Sartelle

Keegan T. Aldrich

Benjamin Fontaine

Washington

Stephen Frederick Stewart

Austin Mitchell Collins

John Robert Roe

Matthias McFarlane

Jerrald Ralph Parton

James C. Taylor

Tyler Youngs

James Michael Armstrong

Wisconsin

Steven Allen Jendrzjek

West Virginia

Mason Patrick Winkie

Bolivia

Kevin Aliendre Perez

Franklin A. Flores Cervantes

Mario Alberto Teran Aiza

Israel A. Callejas Troncoso

Eduardo R. Barrientos

Sahonero

Marcelo Fernando Velasco

Arias

Juan Luis Gil Rollano

Wilder Orellana Lopez

Diego Carrasco Enriquez

Guido Angel Perez Gallo

Mauricio Villafuerte Guerra

Andre A. Montero Terrazas

Italy

Dionisio Silvaggio

Giovanni Coppola

Carlo Milone

Alessandro Riina

Giovanni Carianni

Mario Presta

Romania

Alexandru Cristian Toader

Robert Tanase

Alexandru Virgil Trandafir

Andrei Cristian Lupu



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Cross of Honor

Alberta

Tamara L. McMillan

Reginald D. Jerome

Colleen E. Kelly

Arizona

David Paul Miller

Colorado

Earl Harry Sandman

Donna Lynn Johnson

Mark Anthony Steinhauser

Christina D. Henderson

Connecticut

Susan L. Carpenter

Florida

Stephen Kyle Moline

James Curt Haughey

Dwight Edward Brown

E. Jason Sinnott

Timothy Andrew Ferenchik

Kenneth Virata

Lambert "Ed" Villiaume, III

Dawn Lynette Moline

Karen Lee Slauson

Kristin Markle Ross

Edward Michael Slauson

Robert McKnight Clements

Georgia

Donald Charles Combs

Illinois

Anthony Kenneth Rojas

James Bradley Schols

Bryan Scott Lange

Sharon J. Peterson

Louis Ray Gordon

Karla S. Weaver

William Howard Thomas

David Dale Capes

Indiana

Rodney L. Ira

Richard Crandall Condre

Judy A. Sell

Italy

Pietro Riccio

Mario Milone

Luca Floriani

Paolo Slaviero

Gaspare Giallo

Franco Sgarella

Gregorio Silvaggio

Kansas

Jacob Clifton Glover

Kentucky

William Brawner

Jesse Ray Sims

Maine

Sam J. Michaud

Alan L. Collins

Maryland

Reginald Joseph Eda

Timothy William Ollivett

Massachusetts

James Douglas Hotaling

Jonathan Robert Bryan

Steven P. Collins

Holly Randall

Michelle D. Blake

Lynne Ellen Currier

Michigan

Jonathan Lawrence Premo

Thomas John Anthony Shad

Mercedes R. Parker

Christine Lynn Parker

Tamela Jean Rusch-D'Aguanno

Mary Jean Celmer

Greg Edward Oliver

David Dean Hutton

Sarah Kathryn VanDuinen

Missouri

Robert L. Weber

Stacia Ann Cockerham

Rebecca Lynne McFarland

Northern California

Patrick D. Quinn

Kevin Conyers

Frank Nelson Kimmey

Marcy Lynn Christensen

Benjamin Herman Hance

Laura F. Jenkins-Conyers

Nicole L. Wandesforde

Michele Noeth

Nebraska

Grady A. Wells

Garen W. Miller

Caryn Elizabeth Stuhr

New Jersey

Fred Fucetola

Ohio

Michael George William

Sassman

George Robert Merchant

Wendy Jane Crawford



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Oklahoma

Ryan John Rudebock

Jason Bradley Rawdon

Bo Jim Ross

Ralph Robert DeCardenas

David Alan Sutton

Roy Ruben McKinney

Dudley Ridge Smith

Garry Don Odom

Ontario

Ian Robert McGugan

Blake R. S. Kennedy

Stephen Richard Horne

Oregon

Jodi R. Durnal

Debbie Susan Sifford

Teri Lynn Allphin

Timothy Gene Durnal

Pennsylvania

Cayle D. Swindler

Ruth Elizabeth Noble

Rhode Island Alfred J. Anton

Romania

Mihai-Rares Prisecariu

Sorin Niculae

Rusu Vasilica Silviu

Mohamad El-Bsat

Dinita Ion

Southern California

Sandra Kay Vrsalovich

Sandra Marie White

Denise C. Finnefrock

Patricia Dawn Peterson

Frank Joseph Shapiro

Lori Ann Specker

Mayo Terry Overbeck

Tennessee

Kristopher Mark Fisher

Texas

Charles Edward Maddox

Utah

Nathan J. Warlin

Danielle Warlin

Vermont

Eric Charles Steele

Virginia

Jane Camp Gladwell

Foy Jackson Holland

Robert Ray Chenault

Christopher Andrew Pierce

Michael Fechisin

Washington

Kimberly Vera May Kent

Judy Jean Shanebrook

West Virginia

John H. Och, III



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PAST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OFFICERS

YEAR MASTER COUNCILOR CONGRESS SECRETARY

1967-68 Roderick S. Coy Niles F. Jensen, Jr.

1968-69 James R. Alleman Duwaine M. Hunt

1969-70 C. Dan Killian Richard A. McKenzie

1970-71 Gary H. Lukovich James Sanders

1971-72 Raoul L. Frevel, Sr. Gregory S. Carpenter

1972-73 D. Christopher Pedigo Gregory L. Berry

1973-74 William J. Heller Tim Grooms

1974-75 Richard J. Olson Brian F. LaFontaine

1976-77 Jeffery Lee Harris* Travis D. Eden

1977-78 David M. Stout Steven J. Button

1978-79 C. Kelly Tutt Jeffrey Reighter

1979-80 William K. Clark, Jr. Eugene L. Martino, Jr.

1980-81 Theodore J. Nicholas* J. Ricky Lyle

1981-82 Fred P. Baerenz John P. Durie

1982-83 Alan A. Arney Lee L. Cram, Jr.

1983-84 Terry D. Koubele James W. Price, Jr.

1984-85 Steven W. Borror Mike Meyer

Mike Young, Jr.**

1985-86 Steven J. Sichterman Johnny D. Onkst

1986-87 Robert E. Screws Jack E. Carlson

1987-88 Jay R. Aldis Paul D. Jacobson

1988-89 John M. Hinck Michael L. Bishop

1989-90 David P. Kinney Loren A. Froomin

1990-91 Jon P. Burgess F. Hunter Creech, III

1991-92 Matthew W. McKay J. Steven Adams

1992-93 Thomas L. Denslow Michael J. Baird

1993-94 David W. Hendricks Alexander C. Newby

1994-95 Chad E. Northcutt Sean S. Kimball

1995-96 Ben W. Johnson, II Derek C. Thamuarus

1996-97 Brad M. Maruschak Daniel M. Masselli

1997-98 Michael S. Cueva Christopher J. Sylvia

1998-99 Jeff R. English Brad J. Northcutt

1999-00 Jason B. Wood Eric A. Polonsky

2000-01 Edward W. Taylor, Jr. Adam E. Roof

2001-02 Jason R. Polonsky Michael E. Fritz

2002-03 Christopher W. Elko Christopher R. Martin



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PAST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OFFICERS (continued)

YEAR MASTER COUNCILOR CONGRESS SECRETARY

2003-04 Peter W. Brusoe J. Wendell Haney

2004-05 Christopher G. Eells Guillermo “G” Gonzalez

2005-06 Stephen M. Ashman Matthew D. Ross

2006-07 James D. Conner, II John Nathaniel Stallings

2007-08 Austin W. Whitaker Brandon “Buddy” Herring

2008-09 Richard W. Eells, II Ryan J. Rudebock

2009-10 Benjamin B. Turconi Jaymie B. Jordan

2010-11 Michael Benedetti Ryan T. Grazier

2011-12 Maxwell C. Shoemaker Michael A. Burge

2012-13 Andrew J. Prescott Carl W. Wunsche

2013-14 Robert W. Laing Christopher M. LaBaw

*Deceased **Appointed to fill a vacancy



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PAST CONGRESS ADVISORS

YEAR CONGRESS ADVISOR(S)

1968 I Walter C. Ploeser, PGM, & Albert P. Ruerat, PGM

1969 II Walter C. Ploeser, PGM, & Albert P. Ruerat, PGM

1970 III Walter C. Ploeser, PGM, & Albert P. Ruerat, PGM

1971 IV Walter C. Ploeser, PGM

1972 V Walter C. Ploeser, PGM

1973 VI Walter C. Ploeser, PGM, & H. Malvern Marks, PGM

1974 VII Robert M. Walker, PGM

1975 VIII Robert M. Walker, PGM

1976 IX Chester Hodges, PGM, & C. C. Faulkner, Jr., PGM

1977 X Edward C. Bieser, PGM

1978 XI Edward C. Bieser, PGM

1979 XII Henry A. Matschiner

1980 XIII G. Frederick Klyen, III

1981 XIV Odie R. Howell, Jr.

1982 XV Odie R. Howell, Jr.

1983 XVI Joe R. Manning, Jr., PGM

1984 XVII Joe R. Manning, Jr., PGM

1985 XVIII G. Frederick Kleyn, III

1986 XIX G. Frederick Kleyn, III

1987 XX Edgar E. Trefts

1988 XXI Edgar E. Trefts

1989 XXII Keith K. Klein

1990 XXIII Keith K. Klein

1991 XXIV David S. Compton

1992 XXV David S. Compton

1993 XXVI David S. Compton

1994 XXVII David S. Compton



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PAST CONGRESS ADVISORS (Continued)

YEAR CONGRESS ADVISOR(S)

1994 XXVII David S. Compton

1995 XXVIII David S. Compton

1996 XXIX David A. Glattly

1997 XXX David A. Glattly

1998 XXXI Larry C. Burruss

1999 XXXII Larry C. Burruss

2000 XXXIII Johnny D. Onkst

2001 XXXIV Johnny D. Onkst

2002 XXXV Jeff A. Chretien

2003 XXXVI Jeff A. Chretien

2004 XXXVII Rick S. Freedman

2005 XXXVIII Michael S. Cueva

2006 XXXIX Michael W. Stuhr

2007 XL Thomas S. Nelson, Sr.

2008 XLI Bengamin W. Johnson, II

2009 XLII Bengamin W. Johnson, II

2010 XLIII Bret A. Akers

2011 XLIV Gary E. Mueller

2012 XLV Gary E. Mueller

2013 XLVI Brian S. Noble

2014 XLVII Jason B. Wood

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