Iowa Grand Master's 2007-2008 Website

"Everyone wants improvement, but no one wants change.  Change is constant and necessary for continued success.  It doesn't matter whether you're the gazelle or the lion.  When the sun comes up, you'd better be running."  
                             --    JP Besong, Senior VP of e-Business, Rockwell Collins

Welcome to the Iowa Grand Master's Website.  This site is designed to be a focus for communication between the Grand Master and the Craft of Iowa for the 2007-2008 Masonic Year.  Please visit often, since the contents are likely to change frequently.  Or as frequently as I find time at home to update it.             Who Am I?      
For your convenience, here are the links to new locations on the site.     

Tornado and Flood--Appeal for Assistance

Quick Facts and Figures
    Hope Lodge Donations to Date  from Pin Program > $63,000   (THANK YOU BRETHREN)
    Masonic Cookbooks Sold                                          About 390
    Cookbooks Remaining (Unless we order more)     About   50 

Note:  A big thank-you to all those who have donated $100 or more to the pin program.  As you are aware, all those individuals who donate $100 or more receive, as a thank-you, a slide rule tie bar.  I originally ordered 250 tie bars.  I gave careful consideration to the number to order.  I expected to give out 100-150 of them.  Thanks to the generosity of Iowa Masons, all 250 tie bars have been distributed.  An additional 25 or so individuals have contributed at the $100 level.  More tie bars have been ordered.  If you have made a large donation, and have not yet received your tie bar, please be patient.  They will be mailed out as soon as they arrive.

Grand Master's Motorcycle Rides For Hope Lodge, July 12 in Sioux City and July 19 in Iowa City
Sioux City Ride Cancelled,  Iowa City Ride Still Scheduled

Oxford Lodge Donates $1000 to Hope Lodge

**  IOWA MASONIC LICENSE PLATE APPROVED **  ORDER FORM NOW AVAILABLE--ORDER HERE

Frequently Used Links                           

Masonic Links Grand Lodge of Iowa Lodge Service Committee Creston Masons Masonic Service Assoc. Iowa York Rite Des Moines Scottish Rite Cedar Rapids Scottish Rite Iowa Eastern Star Iowa DeMolay IA/MN Rainbow Iowa Jobe's Daughters From the GM Msg from the GM Past Messages Diary of GL Year GM's Calendar Book Reviews Masonic FAQ GM Personal History GM Masonic History GM Area Meetings Picture Gallery 2007-2008 GLOs Masonic Motorcycle CardBoard Boat GM Area Meetings GM Reception GM Recept ENTERTAINMENT Butler Falls Down Installation 2007 Lohrville EMS Bldg Cornerstone Maquoketa Cornerstone Bybee Baby Shower 2007-08 Emphasis Long Term Plan Pride Education Change License Plates Hope Lodge Training WM Training Warden Training GLO Training Degree Prologues Info/Questionaire Entry Personal Data New MM Questions Hope Lodge GL Pledge ACS Hope Lodge Link Cook Book Order Form Museum and PGMs Museum Items Special PGMs   Miscellaneous Cookbook Novus... Forum Lodgeroom USA Forum OnLine Books
 

READ THIS  IOWA MASONIC MEMBERSHIP RETENTION FORUMS    READ THIS

Farmer's Lodge Bluegrass Jam and Festival  

Memorial for M.W. Brother C. Glenn Brown
Memorial for M.W. Brother Laverne R. Clary

Mission of the Grand Lodge And Its Officers for 2007-2008

To Support The Lodges Of Iowa In Their Task Of Improving Themselves,
Their Members, Their Communities, And Their Country.

I believe that one of the best ways ways we can help the lodges is to persuade them to use their efforts on activities that promote their lodge, invigorate their lodge, excite their members, and make them visible to the community.  And that does NOT mean having stated meetings that run for two hours, including reading aloud a list of all bills paid during the past month, reading aloud a set of minutes that tells in detail the names of everyone who attended the last meeting, everyone at the last meeting who was recognized as a Past Master, everyone at the last meeting who was recognized as a Veteran, everyone at the last meeting who managed to stay awake for the entire meeting, etc.  Christopher Hodapp, the author of Freemasons for Dummies, wrote an excellent paper on this very topic.  It is called Boring Our Members to Death.  Every Mason should read this paper.  Every Lodge Officer should really read this paper.  Then they should all go to lodge and convince their brethren that there really is a better way to do things.  I got this article off the Grand Lodge of SD website.  I have seen it since in a couple other publications.  Read it HERE.

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Note:  All opinions expressed on this page and other pages on this website are nothing more than the personal opinions of the author.  No person speaks for Freemasonry.  Not the Grand Master, not the Grand Secretary, not the Grand Anybody.  NOBODY.  Anyone who claims that they know differently than that because their great uncle twice removed was the next door neighbor of a man who was a 47th Degree Black Belt Holy Patriarch of the Mystic Secret of the Blue Knights of Jerusalem  and that he revealed the true secrets of the fraternity on his deathbed is, sadly, mistaken, deluded, and misled.

Also note:  This is NOT an official site of the Grand Lodge of Iowa. This is the personal Web Site of Donald Mosier.  All opinions expressed on this site are his and his alone. Well OK, I suppose some other folks may share his opinions, but the expression of them on this site is solely his responsibility. So if you disagree with something you see here, don't complain to the Grand Lodge of Iowa, any of its officers (other than Don Mosier) or anybody else.  Send them right here.

If you have comments regarding this website, please send me a message at  WebMaster  I am the webmaster, so it will come directly to me.

Web Site Contents  Copyright 2007,2008, Donald E. Mosier

Last Updated 07 June 2008