Wardens Leadership Training

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MASONIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

• Wardens Leadership Training
• The Future of Freemasonry
• Maintained By Committee on
  Masonic Education
• Sponsored By Grand Lodge of Kentucky
  F A.M.

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MASONIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

Welcome to the 2005 Wardens Leadership
Training. This program has been revised again
this year with the goal being to get back to the
basis of Freemasonry in our Blue Lodges in the
Commonwealth of Kentucky. I can see the
expressions on your faces. What is the first step
how are we going to accomplish this?
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MASONIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

• Suggestions and Recommendations
• Open and Close your lodges proficiently.
• Proper Protocol For Masonic Dignitaries.
• Proper Examination of Visitors.
• The importance of Investigating Committees.
• Knowing the Proper way to Ballot.
• Proficient Degree Work in the 1st section of
  all degrees.

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MASONIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

• Agenda
• Open Introduction / G. Masters Comments
• Open Lodge
• Protocol
• Examination of Visitors
• Break Out Sessions
• Masters, Sr. Wardens,
• Jr. Wardens Secretarys
• BREAK

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MASONIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

• Agenda
• 6. Investigating Committee
• 7. Balloting
• 8. 1st Section EA Degree
• Masonic Renewal
• Close Lodge
• 11. Evaluation Report

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Grand Master Grand Lodge of Kentucky F. A.M.
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Open Lodge

• By Monitor Full Form

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MASONIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

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Protocol Introduction of Masonic Dignitaries
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• For an official visit from the Grand Master or
  his proxy, the Lodge must be opened on the third
  degree. The Master will instruct the Senior
  Deacon to recognize the guests.
• The Senior Deacon will arrange the guests in the
  Tyler's room in reverse hierarchal order. The
  order in which the distinguished guests will be
  received is

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1. Heads of affiliated bodies. (Development Office,
   Scottish Rite, York Rite, and other bodies.)
2. Masonic Homes Administrator.
3. Past District Deputy Grand Masters of your
   district- one Representative for all- usually the
   most senior.
4. Current Committee Members of the Grand Lodge.
5. Current District Deputy Grand Masters from other
   Districts. (Worshipful) (Public Grand Honors)

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• Past Grand Masters. (Most Worshipful)(Public
  Grand Honors)
• Elected Grand Lodge Officers. (Right
  Worshipful)(Public Grand Honors) (Grand Chaplain
  is Right Reverend). Appointed officers as
  (Worshipful). The line up places the Elected
  Grand Lodge Officers at the door, and they enter
  with the Senior Deacon, in a path to the left of
  the altar. Even though they enter first, they
  are introduced last. Of course, the Grand Master
  enters, and is always introduced separately, and
  last.
• h. The Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Kentucky.
  (Most Worshipful)(Private Grand Honors)

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• 3. The Senior Deacon will make an alarm at the
  door. After being requested to enter by the
  Master, the Senior Deacon will lead the guests
  into the lodge room. They will arrange
  themselves in a semicircle around the altar
  facing the east.
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• 4. The Master will call all brothers to their
  feet with 3 raps of the gavel as the Senior
  Deacon enters the room.
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• 5. The Senior Deacon will recognize each
  distinguished guest in the reverse order they
  entered the room. This recognition will be by
  name and title. The guest will take one step
  forward and make the sign of a Master Mason when
  recognized in this manner.

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• 6. After all guests are recognized the Master
  will ask the marshal to have the guests turn and
  face the brethren. The Master will then lead the
  brethren as they give the guests the Public Grand
  Honors of 3x3. (all appointed and elected
  officers should be recognized at all meetings)

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• At this time (at the Master's direction) the
  Senior Deacon will escort the ranking guest to
  the east where the Master will offer him the hat,
  gavel and oriental chair. The guest may chose to
  preside over the meeting or seat the craft at his
  discretion.
• If present the Grand Master will be presented
  after all other distinguished guests. The Senior
  Deacon will bring him in separately and escort
  him west of the altar. He will be presented as
  the Most Worshipful Grand Master.
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• 9. At this time the Master will request the
  Senior Deacon escort the Grand Master to the
  east. On the cue of the Master the brethren
  will give the Grand Master the Private Grand
  Honors (the three signs of Masonry). The Master
  will then offer him the hat, gavel and oriental
  chair. The Grand Master may chose to preside
  over the meeting or seat the craft at his
  discretion.

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• 10. At the end of the meeting start at the
  lowest ranking guest and go up the line asking
  if they have anything to be addressed. The
  last one will be the one to speak at the end of
  the meeting. After the Grand Master speaks, the
  meeting is immediately closed.

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• Reference 2004-2005 Hand Book of Instructions
  and Suggestions for District Deputy Grand
  Masters, The Grand Lodge of Kentucky Free and
  Accepted Masons pages 11-13.
•  Kentucky Monitor by Henry Pirtle, pages 316-318.

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How to Perform Examination

• On Visiting Brethren

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• Brethren who attempt to attend a tyled Masonic
  meeting and do not have another known brother to
  vouch for them should be examined to determine if
  they are a Mason in good standing. This strict
  trial and due examination is required by Masonic
  Law.

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• A printed form of visitor's cards should be kept
  in the Tyler's room to be used the first time
  each visitor attends lodge. This form is on page
  319 of the Kentucky Monitor.

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• The Master should appoint a committee of at
  least three brothers to examine the visitor.
  They should first ask to see a valid dues card
  and compare the signature on the dues card to
  that on the visitors card noted in 2 above.

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• The committee and visitor(s) should then retire
  to a convenient room where the visitor(s) should
  give Tyler's Oath. (page 320, Kentucky
  Monitor). The committee members should also give
  the Tyler's Oath in the appropriate fashion.
  After this point each visitor shall be examined
  separately.

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• If the Tyler's Oath is satisfactorily given the
  committee may proceed to ask the visitor(s) any
  questions on the catechism it deems necessary to
  determine if they are Masons in good standing

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• If the meeting has already begun and the
  committee finds the visitor(s) has proven himself
  to be a Mason in good standing then they shall
  report so to the Tyler. The Tyler will inform
  the visitor(s) of the degree the lodge is open on
  and announce that the committee and visiting
  brother wish to enter. The Senior Deacon will
  introduce the visiting brother west of the altar
  at the direction of the Master. (see page 321
  Kentucky Monitor).

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•     If the committee determines the visitor has
  not proven himself as a regularly made Mason in
  good standing then they should inform him in a
  courteous manner without giving any reasons for
  their conclusion.
• Reference Kentucky Monitor 
• See pages 322-323 in the Kentucky Monitor for
  definitions of Strict Trial, Due Examination and
  Lawful Information. 

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Breakout Sessions

• - Masters and Sr. Wardens
• - Jr. Wardens
• - Secretaries Treasurers

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DUTIES OF THE MASTER (Ky Constitution Section
89)

• The following is a list of the powers and duties
  of the Master of the Lodge as outlined by
  the
• Book of Constitutions
• Powers of Lodge (Sect 75)
• By-Laws of Lodge

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Master shall have power to

• Issue, or cause to be issued, all summonses or
  notices which may be required
• Discharge all the executive functions of his
  Lodge and
• Perform all acts, by ancient usage proper to his
  office, which are not prohibited by the
  Constitution or Ordinances of Grand Lodge.
• Preside and have general supervision over his
  lodge and decide questions of law and order, but
  any member of the lodge may appeal from the
  decision of the Master to the Grand Master, and
  from his decision to the Grand Lodge. Sect
  89 (1)

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• To see that the by-laws and resolutions of his
  lodge are observed, and that the constitution,
  rules, and edict of this Grand Lodge are duly
  obeyed. Sect 89 (2)
• To see that the reports are promptly made to the
  Grand Lodge.
• To attain such proficiency in the work as will
  enable him to conduct the ceremonies of his lodge
  in a creditable manner.
• To call communications of his lodge as provided
  in KMC Section 107.
• To attend Grand Lodge, District Meeting and
  Educational Programs.

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BE PREPARED

• Annual plan
• Budget
• Goals (Educational Building Plans)
• Newsletter
• Agenda (stated and called meetings)

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APPOINTMENTS

• Standing Committees
• Special Committees
• Coaches
• Mentors

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• Superintend the official acts of all officers of
  his lodge and to see that respective duties are
  properly discharged.

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RITUAL

• To have knowledge of the work and lectures of the
  First, Second, and Third Degrees
• To be knowledgeable of the ritual for conducting
  stated meetings
• Balloting
• Receiving dignitaries
• Draping the charter

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LAST RITES

• Conduct Masonic Funerals
• Have someone ready
• Be ready yourself
• Have a system for notifying members
• Contact the funeral home (s)

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PRACTICEEVERYTHING

• Opening / Closing
• Degrees
• Funerals
• Balloting
• Introductions

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ENJOY YOURSELF

• Know your responsibilities
• Work on your weaknesses
• Exploit your strengths
• Dont let the negatives get to you
• Situations
• People
• HAVE FUN

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Senior Warden Duties

• John Cauley

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DUTIES OF THE SENIOR WARDEN

• By their conduct, their dress, their attendance,
  their enthusiasm, the proficiency of their work
  and their attitude, the officers of the lodge set
  the tone for the entire lodge operation. Each
  officer can do much to convey to the new
  candidates and members of the lodge, the
  seriousness, beauty and honor of Masonry as well
  as fun and fellowship.

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• To serve as Master in the absence of the Master
• To prepare the calendar for your year as Master
• To see that the Worshipful Masters Orders are
  carried out in full.
• To prepare the Senior Warden's Trestle board
  articles, when required

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• To prepare an estimated budget for your year as
  Master
• Prepare a calendar for your year
• To consider brethren to be appointed to the line
  during your year as Master and to ask them if
  they will serve. (Discuss possible choices with
  the present Master and Junior Warden.)

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• To be knowledgeable of the work and lectures of
  the Third Degree and the ritual to qualify as
  Worshipful Master
• To be qualified to give the work of the Senior
  Warden in the three degrees
• To attend all degree practices designated by the
  Master.

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• Installation Day

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• All men who aspire to the Oriental Chair hope
  that their year as Master will not only be
  pleasurable to them but will bring growth and
  improved fellowship to their Lodge.
• Often the only difference between the successful
  year and the one that falls short is planning!

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HOW IS ANNUAL PLANNING DONE?

• Get a Calendar for your upcoming year.
• THE BIGGER THE BETTER.
• Write in those dates that you know are fixed
• Stated Meetings
• Installation
• District Meetings
• Annual Communication

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• Budget
• Does your Lodge have one now?
• What are you sources of income?
• What will you have to spend money on?

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• Use the Masonic Education Book provided for you.
  There are alot of helpful things for you in
  there. We are just scratching the surface today.

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• Remember
• The early bird gets the worm, but the second
  mouse gets the cheese!

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• Thank you for your attention!

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• 10 MINUTE BREAK

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Investigating Committees

• Chris Baughman

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Outline

• Who should serve on the Committee
• What the Committee should ask
• Educating the Candidate about Masonry
• Out of Jurisdiction Candidates
• The importance of the Investigating Committee
• Conclusion

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Who should serve

• Committee is typically composed of three members
• Appointed by the Master of the Lodge
• Members should be a good cross-section and
  representation of the Lodge
• Members should have the time to serve
• Investigations should be prompt

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Questions to be asked

• General Information
• Religious Opinion
• Moral Standards
• Clubs or Groups
• Financial Stability
• Home and Family Environment

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Educating the Candidate

• What Masonry is
• What Masonry is not
• What the Candidate may expect
• What is expected of the Candidate
• The structure of Masonry

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Jurisdictional Concerns

• In Out-of-Jurisdiction cases, both Lodges must
  investigate the candidate
• Home Jurisdiction Lodge investigates first
• Waiver
• Petitioned Lodge then investigates

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Importance of the Committee

• Even so, many duly and truly unprepared make
  their way into our Lodges
• Candidates who do not make it through proficiency
• Effects of a Candidate passing the ballot box who
  should not have

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Conclusion

• Inspect the Cornerstone before you erect the
  superstructure!

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Balloting of Candidates

• John Cauley

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• There is, sometimes, too much carelessness and
  indifference in Balloting. The ballot for
  candidates should be a very solemn matter. It is
  no light thing to receive an unworthy person into
  a lodge as a member or to reject on who is
  worthy. It is therefore suggested that all such
  balloting be done under the sign, as follows

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• The Master first examines the box and sees that
  the ballot chamber is empty and that a proper
  supply of white balls and black cubes is in the
  outer chamber. The box is then carried by the
  Senior Deacon to the Senior Warden and Junior
  Warden for examination. The Senior Deacon then
  returns the box to the Master who first announces
  the names of the candidates upon whose petitions
  the for the E.A. degree, whether the committees
  report was favorable.

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• He then casts his ballot and remains standing
  while the box is presented in succession to the
  Senior Warden and Junior Warden. Such officers
  rise, give the D.G. and S., deposit their ballots
  and remain standing at their stations.
• The Senior Deacon then deposits the ballot box
  on the altar so that the person who approaches it
  to cast his ballot shall face the East. The
  Master then calls up the craft, who form in
  single file, approach the altar, give the D.G.
  and S., cast their ballots, return to their
  respective places and remain standing until all
  have voted.

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• The Senior Deacon should take a position about
  six feet to the west of the altar, where the line
  should halt as each brother approaches the altar
  to vote. There is nothing in the Book of
  Constitutions which prohibits a ballot from being
  taken collectively upon two or more petitions,
  but if any member objects the ballot should be
  spread separately. Should one or more black
  cubes appear on a joint ballot the ballot must
  then be spread upon each petition separately.
  After all have voted the Master declares the
  Ballot closed and orders the Senior Deacon

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• to present the ballot to the Junior Warden
  and the Senior Warden for examination. If, on
  inspection by the Wardens and the Master, two or
  more black cubes shall appear, the balloting upon
  that petition shall cease but, if only one black
  cube shall appear on the first ballot, a second
  ballot shall immediately be spread before anyone
  leaves the room. If at least one black cube
  still appears the Master must declare the
  petition rejected.
• Kentucky Monitor p. 343-344

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• PETITION FOR MEMBERSHIP
• SECTION 124. Petitions
• When received and balloted on. Such petition
  must be received at a stated communication and
  one lunar month must intervene between its
  reception and the balloting thereon.

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• SECTION 126. For Degrees and Affiliation.
• The balloting for the degrees or affiliation
  shall be taken only in a Master Masons lodge and
  then only at a stated communication and a
  favorable ballot on the petition shall elect the
  candidate to receive all three degrees.

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• SECTION 128. Ballot Secret.
• In all cases every ballot shall be strictly
  secret, whether a favorable or unfavorable ballot
  was cast and every brother shall be secured in
  his right to cast his ballot privately for or
  against a candidate, as between himself and his
  own conscience. If anyone shall make known or
  reveal his own or anothers vote in secret ballot
  he shall be guilty of unmasonic conduct and
  subject to trial. (more)

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• SECTION 130. Unanimous.
• The Ballot must be unanimous to elect a
  candidate to receive the degrees or for
  affiliation.
• SECTION 131. Two Unfavorable Ballots. If two or
  more unfavorable ballots appear against a
  candidate he shall be declared rejected.

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• SECTION 132. One Unfavorable Ballot.
• In balloting on a petition , if only one
  negative appears, a second ballot shall
  immediately take place if on the second ballot
  one negative again appears, the petitioner shall
  be declared rejected.
• SECTION 134. Objection.
• (a) An objection to initiationmay be made by a
  member of the lodge, and the objection to the
  initiationshall have precisely the same effect,
  in every respect, as if the objector had cast an
  unfavorable ballot on the petition.

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• Demonstration

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Degree Work
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Masonic RenewalRobert W. Davenport Roger D.
Barnett

• Past Grand Masters

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Friend-to-Friend Program

• Kentucky Lodges have been using the
  Friend-to-Friend program for several years now
  and many of them have been successful in their
  membership development efforts as a result.

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• The program encourages Lodge members to share
  information about Masonry with their non-Masonic
  friends.
• When a friend or interested person asks about
  Masonry.

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Mission of the program

• To inform the public what Freemasonry is, what it
  has done, what it can do for an individual, a
  family, and a community.
• To build a well rounded mature membership base.
• ?To provide selected men with facts and
• information about Masonic membership.

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ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS TO THE
PROGRAMThere are three essential components to
the Friend-to-Friend program? The Lodge
committee? The Friend-to-Friend video tape? The
Friend-to-Friend brochure (tape and
brochure available soon)
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IMPLEMENTING THE PROGRAM IN YOUR LODGE
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To implement the Friend-to-Friend Program in
your lodge, the lodge should be fully informed on
all aspects of the Friend-to-Friend Program.
All officers and members should be aggressive
in promoting the implementation of this program
in each lodge.
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The Lodge should put together an educational
program for Friend to Friend,for all Lodge
members who have a particular interest in this
program. By doing so, the Master should appoint
an educational chairman. The chairman should
hold educational exercises for implementing the
Friend to Friend program. The chairman should
report at a stated communication of the Lodge or
as directed by the Master.
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SUMMARY

• There are, in each community, many men who will
  make great Masons and who would benefit from
  membership in our fraternity.

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We will NEVER solicit anyone for membership, but
we should make information about the fraternity
available to the Public.Friend-to-Friend
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The Friend-to-Friend program is very helpful in
this regard and should be made available in your
Lodge.
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Masonic information programs HOW TO PLAN A
SUCCESSFUL MASONIC INFORMATION PROGRAM
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Those who attempt to have a Masonic Information
Program without proper preparation may fail to
give a correct impression of our Fraternity.
This result could affect your Lodge for years to
come. For some Lodges, this may be the most
important event of the year.
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Promotion

• Remember, the primary factor in your success is
  the attendance of both Masons and non-Masons.
• Put Your Best Effort Forward

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The Mentor Program The Kentucky Masonic Mentor
Program has been developed from a variety of
successful instructional programs now in use in
several Masonic jurisdictions. PURPOSE OF THE
MENTOR PROGRAM The purpose of the Mentor Program
is to ensure that every initiate is properly
informed about all stated communications and
lodge functions, and generally to see that the
new brother is happy and informed. He should
also answer any questions the new brother may
have.
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METHOD Upon election of a petitioner for the
Degrees of Freemasonry, the Master should appoint
a Masonic Mentor. The Masonic Mentor will
contact the candidate and advise him of the
tentative Degree schedule and invite the
candidate and his wife to any open Lodge
functions.
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The Mentor will meet with the candidate at least
several times  Prior to the First
Degree   Prior to the Second Degree   Prior to
the Third Degree   Following the Third
Degree   Final Follow-up Session
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• Brother To Brother Program
• We would like to increase attendance in our
  lodges this year. We are asking each member to
  be a friend to a member that is not attending
  lodge.

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• Show that you are concerned and that you would
  like to see them back in lodge.
• Make a special effort to visit a brother.
• Make a special effort to call before lodge
  meetings.
• Work with a brother until you get him back to
  lodge.
• Dont give up on your brothers.

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Remember Our Patriotism

• United We Stand And Divided We Fall
• Thanks for your Attention
• Support Our Troops

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Close Lodge

• By Monitor Full Form

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• Closing Comments

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• Masters of each lodge was presented a manual at
  Grand Lodge.
• This manual should be in your lodge.
• Revisions will be made to the manual and those
  revisions will be mailed to each lodge secretary.
• Refer to this manual often and use it as a
  guideline.

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• Remember to Read your Constitutions
• Remember to Communicate.
• Thanks to the DDGMS for promoting this program
  in their Districts.
• Thank you to the Brethren that opened, closed
  lodge and performed the degree work.
• Thank you for your facility to host this program
  this year.

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• Question and Answer Time

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Thanks for your attention today and we hope that
you leave today with more Masonic Lightthan you
had when you arrived.

• Remember United We Stand and Divided We Fall.
• Maintained By Committee on Masonic Education
• Sponsored By Grand Lodge of Kentucky F A.M.