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