I’m off on

my honey-

moon to Eu-

rope. I enjoy

traveling and now I can trav-

el with my wife Cristina.

She has never been to Eu-

rope so I am sure she will

enjoy it. We will be starting

in London for a day. Then

heading to Rome for a cruise

through the Mediterranean

stopping in Santorini,

Greece; Kusadasi, Turkey;

Athens, Greece; and Chania,

Crete. We will then spend

Unity Lodge #632, Free and Accepted

September 2016 Volume 8, Issue 9

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Inside this issue:

From the East Tribute Masons 4 Mitts

1

From the West Wanted

2

Roster 3

Sunshine 3

Masonic Law 3

Sept Calendar 4

Oct Calendar 5

From the South 6

Scholarships Pic 6

Hiram Award

913th District Fellowcraft

Pictures

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some time in Rome, Pompeii,

Venice and Paris, France. It

will be an exciting vacation

and honeymoon. I will then be

working in France for week. I

will be back in the USA on

September 11th. I have a very

strong and knowledgeable of-

ficers team who can handle the

lodge while I am gone. I am

lucky to have so many here to

help me.

We have our Mason

of the Year dinner coming up. If you would like to go, please

email the secretary the names

and what type of food you would like to eat. Wor. Terry

Allison will be receiving the award. We are also having our

picnic coming up. Please RSVP for the picnic also. Eve-

ry year we also have a great time at Admiral Bakers Field.

Fraternally,

Rico Castelo

Master

Tribute:

To our fraternal brother Chris Engstrom

SD#35: Thank you for showing us what excel-

lence is in our craft. Thank you for bestowing

upon us the best experience that we could hope

for in the search for further light. Thank you for

your friendship, your youthful humility, your

subdued passion and honesty, circumscribed

and squared by the tools of our trade. You are a

true and faithful brother among us and we wish

you all the joy and happiness for eternity as you

enter that house not made with hands, eternal

in the heavens.

We will never forget you.

James Robertson, Senior Deacon #632

Harmony really is the strength and support of society, especially ours. Harmony, like music, can be a pleasure to hear and

bring joy to the heart but if even one musician strikes the cords wrong, all the beauty of the others notes are drowned out and collectively the effort of harmo-ny, is heard as clatter and noise to those in the audience. Even more destructive to the resonance of an orchestra of vol-unteer musicians, playing the music to keep it alive, having the quandary that some musicians cannot hear their own music, believe it to be sublime, insist they know the music without sheet mu-sic, and always are squawking at the conductor at each intermission, that the others are off key.

Let me here use music as an instrument of metaphor, for us as Brothers of Unity 632, our harmony is now a good reso-nance of personalities and diversity of knowledge utilized to build upon each other’s experiences, while still main-taining brotherly love and cooperation to achieve our goals. Lately, Unity 632 has been showing all the signs of broth-ers realizing that our lodge has a new sonnet and spark of new personalities that are kindling a new generation of officers to lead our lodge. That is if we practice those tenets we have sworn to inculcate within us when we entered the music hall of freemasonry. There is no reason, and in fact it is hypocritical, to have tenets or even sheet music that makes us and our music more beautiful than the world around us, espouse them in beautiful words of ritual perfor-mance, and then walk out of the perfor-mance hall, and even before the foyer, not practice them in real life. We are attracting men who want the beauty of real music as opposed to synthesized and not practicing what we preach is like playing an electric guitar without electricity.

Like musicians we each play differ-ent parts or instruments and it is an in-creasingly pleasant feeling to feel coop-eration within the orchestra. We under-stand how to use the experience of our own instruments, playing them in har-mony and tuning those instruments reg-

ularly to enable us to play together. It is an understanding that it is the collective orchestration, through the conductor, that makes our work a melody that has pro-duced such recent pleasantry to the heart and mindset of our lodge, as of late. We realized the harmony of not having the loudest in the orchestra decide the tone, ignoring the harrumphing of the others, the musician innocently not understand-ing it is their own striking of the strings and blowing of the horn that causes the disharmony.

How pleasant it is to know that even in disagreement of opinion we have learned how to tune the discussion so the tone is expressing our belief or opinion, knowing that other brothers will listen and if they disagree it will be in harmony. Each time we come together and when we are away from each other, we now under-stand we need to practice how to properly strum the strings, of brotherly love, not strike them. It is important for musicians to practice what they learn from the con-ductor with the baton in the east, because if they don’t, when they come back to play with the orchestra, it would be no-ticeable that they seem to be striking a different cord than the others are strum-ming. It is good that our band, practices strumming the strings, when practicing together or away from each other, be-cause we know others hear our music and we want it to be pleasant to the ears of others. We must absolutely adhere to the knowledge that the music of brotherly love is lovelier to hear than the tone of the world outside our doors.

As a metaphor, our brothers, the audi-ence, are always welcome to interact with the orchestra and the conductor and sug-gest what tunes to play and what tenor needs to be brought forth to keep our show going and growing. It is after all the members of Unity 632’s show, and we as the officers are only the performers, working through the conductor in the east. It is the expectation of the audience that the conductor, produce the proper harmony or they will not come to the show. The audience is the reason for the show. We understand, occasionally the conductor needs to lovingly put his hand on the shoulder of a player in the orches-tra and suggest that he is striking the keys, express he understands it is the way

he learned how to play, and assure him he will also enjoy the show from the audience. Without the interest and par-ticipation of the audience of the broth-ers, there is no need for the music. The music, if we practice and perform what is inculcated within the tune of freema-sonry, can make the world at large and brothers within our music hall better men, better tuned for truth and light and a sublime resonance that makes Brothers enter the doors of our lodge.

Robert Dockery, PM

From the West...

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Volume 8, Issue 9

Contact the Senior Warden Robert Dockery, PM

at (619) 384-6742, if you know of anyone else

who is ill or in need of our prayers.

Charles Ames James O. Lee Cliff Richards Ray Richmond ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christian S. Engstrom Jr. Deacon, San Diego #35 3/11/89—8/17/16

Sunshine Report LODGE OFFICERS

Office Name Telephone

Master Rico Castelo (858) 361-8504

Senior Warden Robert Dockery, PM (619) 384-6742

Junior Warden Bill Romer, PM (858) 278-2389

Treasurer John Gowen, PM (858) 414-6125

Secretary Terry Allison, PM (619) 501-5515

Asst. Secretary Steve Bumgarner, PM (619) 895-6258

Chaplain David Allen (858) 278-2042

Senior Deacon James Robertson (724) 350-7155

Junior Deacon Kevin Monahan (760) 746-3482

Marshal Warren Thomas (858) 382-9919

Senior Steward Tommy Dones (858) 205-4822

Junior Steward Jeff Switzer (858) 451-0195

Tiler James Kenniston (619) 264-3328

STAFF

Inspector: 913th District Gil Magdaluyo, PM (619) 445-8069

Officer’s Coach John Gowen, PM 858) 414-6125

Asst. Officer's Coach Steve Shultz (619) 987-9856

Head Candidate’s Coach Bill Romer, PM (858) 278-2389

Trestleboard Editor Steve Bumgarner PM (619) 602-9730

Building Manager Beth Eldridge (619) 284-0925

MOS Ambassador Bob Creager (619) 298-5818

§810.050. LODGE ROSTERS.

A Lodge may publish a roster for Masonic purposes and for the benefit of its Masons

containing the names, mailing addresses and telephone numbers of all of its Ma-

sons. A Lodge may also include in its published roster an electronic mail address for

a Mason of the Lodge. However, no Lodge may include in its published roster any

personally identifying information about a Mason of the Lodge which he has request-

ed in writing be withheld. [Amended: 2011; 2013; 2014.]

[Source: Section 15115 of the 1991 California Masonic Code.]

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Masonic Law

Congratulations to our Newest Fellowcraft Mason:

Derrick Murray

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The superior man is mod-

est in his speech, but ex-

ceeds in his actions.

- Confucius

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 Georrge

Stephens

Picnic 11am

4 5

NO Practice

6 7

7pm

Practice or Degree

8 9 10

Mason of

Year

11 12

7pm

Practice or Degree

13 14 6:30pm Stated Meeting Dinner 7pm Stated Meeting

15 16 17

18 19

7pm

DOSI

Host: BM

20 21

7pm

Practice or Degree

22Mason’s Night @ Pet-co Park

23

1st Day of

Fall (22nd)

24

Adam’s Ave

Street Fair

25

Adam’s Ave

Street Fair

26

7pm

Practice or Degree

27 28

7pm

Temple Board Meet-ing

29 30

September 2016

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October 2016

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

2 7pm 3 Practice or Degree

4 7pm 5 Practice or Degree

6 7pm 7 913th Mason-ic 3rd Degree at SGTS

8

9 7pm 10 Practice or Degree

11 6:30pm 12 Stated Meeting Dinner 7pm Stated Meeting

13 14 15

16 7pm 17 DOSI

Host: Unity

18 7pm 19 Practice or Degree

20 21 22

23 7pm 24 Practice or Degree

25 7pm 26 Temple Board Meet-ing

27 28

167th Ann

29

ual Comm

30

nication

31

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From the South...

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In a continuation of my previous two articles,

this month I explore another ap-proach called “Friends to Broth-ers”

This approach requires the Master to assign a Chairman to field re-quests from prospect members.

He then reaches out to the Pro-spect and introduces the Prospect to a Brother. The Brother and Pro-spect meet for a ”One on One” to learn from one another and an-swer familiar question each may have.

The Brother introduces the Pro-spect to other lodge members in the area, and invites the Prospect to a Lodge event.

At the Lodge event, the Brother acts as host, introducing the Pro-spect to other Lodge Brothers and facilitating conversations and con-nections.

Each Lodge Brother should ac-tively seek to learn more about the Prospect, and exchange personal information, should the Prospect have questions at a later time.

The Prospect spends time one on

one with other Lodge Brothers. (the Host Brother facilitating con-nections if requested)

The Prospect actively seeks two sponsors with whom he has formed a meaningful friendship.

Meaningful Lodge Activities: Reasons to come together.

What are common recurring reasons for lodges to come together? Why are they im-portant?

Stated Meetings.

Degree Conferrals (have an impact?)

Fellowship / Education meet-ings.

Ritual Practices.

What are other special rea-sons:

Masonic Information nights.

Events for Widows.

Community events including public school programs.

Visits to other lodges.

Annual Program Plan:

The Annual program plan is a calendar of events and infor-mation for mambers to be ac-tive participants in the lodge.

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What do members want?

What do they currently at-tend?

Do the events promote true friendship, learning, and im-proving, and having an im-pact?

Ideally, program planning is done in advance:

Junior Warden should lead planning for the year he will become Master.

Advance planning allows leaders to discuss ideas with the members.

Will the members come?

Put members in charge of events, and assist them to be successful.

The plan should be published before the year begins.

This concludes ideas on how to start meaningful relations with Prospective members, if anyone has any other ideas, please con-tact me and voice them. It could improve our member retention for the future.

William “Bill” Romer, PM

Junior Warden

WM Rico Castelo, Taryn Kilgore, Alena Angela, Riley Hart, Lucy Peritz, Anthony Loaiza’s Mom, Bro. Jeff Switzer

Unity Lodge #632 Scholarship Winners for 2016

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Warren Thomas &

WM Rico Castelo

Aug 6, 2016

913th FellowCraft Degree at Covina Homes

Bro Derrick Murray

July

30,

2016

Last Call!

RSVP with the

Secretary!

George Stephens

Memorial Picnic

Sat. Sept. 3, 11am

Admiral Baker

Field

Paviliion #15

(by the pool)

September Stated Meeting Dinner

Wed. Sept 14, 6:30pm

Chicken fried steak, Mashed Potatoes Corn on the Cob,

Caesar Salad, Rolls & Mixed Desserts

Stated Meeting:

7:30pm

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