ANNUAL MEETING OF PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF

MARK MASTER MASONS OF WARWICKSHIRE

THE HEART OF ENGLAND CONFERENCE AND EVENTS CENTRE

SATURDAY 24th NOVEMBER 2018

THE ANNUAL MARK MEETING IS ALWAYS ONE TO REMEMBER

TAKING PLACE AS USUAL ON A SATURDAY IN NOVEMBER

THERE WERE THIRTEEN BRETHREN WE COULD NOT SEE

REMEMBERED FONDLY IN THE OFFICIAL OBITUARY

SOME ABSENT FROM THE YEAR BEFORE

WERE ABLE TO ATTEND THIS YEAR ONCE MORE

TO RE-ACQUAINT THEMSELVES WITH OTHERS

WHO THEY RECOGNISE AS THEIR MARK MASONIC BROTHERS

THE PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER DID DULY PRESIDE

WITH BRETHREN AND VISITORS WELCOMED FROM FAR AND WIDE

APPOINTMENTS,  RE-APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS WERE MADE

WITH THANKS TO THOSE CONCERNED FOR THE PART THEY HAD PLAYED

IN ENSURING THE PAST YEAR HAD BEEN ONE OF MASONIC ENJOYMENT

MAY THE FORTHCOMING YEAR BE THE SAME FOR THOSE NEWLY APPOINTED

THE RETIRING CHAPLAIN WORSHIPFUL BROTHER VICTOR KEENE WAS THANKED MOST SINCERELY

FOR HIS MANY YEARS OF OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE  MARK DEGREE

A CERTIFICATE OF MERIT WAS THE SURPRISE OF THE DAY

PRESENTED BY THE PGM IN HIS OWN INIMITABLE WAY

TO VERY WORSHIPFULBROTHER GARETH HUGHES, CONSTERNATION

HAVING THOUGHT HE HAD FAILED IN HIS ADMINISTRATION

THE PGM SAID WITH NOTHING FURTHER TO REPORT

GARETH WAS  BY THE DC TO THE PGM TO BE BROUGHT

A CITATION WAS THEREAFTER READ TO HIM

GARETH THEN RELAXED AND GAVE A GRIN

THE DC, ANDREW ARMBRISTER GAVE NOTICE OF AN EXTENDED CITATION

ALL BRETHREN RESPONDED WITH AN OUTSTANDING OVATION

WITH ALL BUSINESS DONE, THE FESTIVE BOARD COMPLETED

UNTIL THE NEXT YEAR WHEN THE MEETING WILL AGAIN BE REPEATED 

Bill Clark PPGJW – The Provincial Grand Poet