Sunday, November 3, 2013

Great Freemasons: Fred Pabst Jr. (November 3, 1869 - March 1, 1977)

"Fred Pabst Jr. was to skiing what Dr. Spock was to babies."
Gov. Thomas Salmon (Vermont)


Fred Pabst Jr. (November 3, 1869 - March 1, 1977) was the heir to the Pabst fortune, ski enthusiast and creator of several ski resorts.


http://www.newenglandskihistory.com/biographies/pabstfred.php


( Lafayette Lodge 265, Milwaukee)

I Used to Seek the Holy Grail Like You....


Great Freemasons: Francis Davis Millet (November 3, 1848 – April 15, 1912)






Francis Davis Millet (November 3, 1848 – April 15, 1912) was an American painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.



Reading the Story of Oenone (painting), The Detroit Institute of Arts, ca. 1883.



An Autumn Idyll



(Kane Lodge 454, NY)


Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Great Freemasons: Richard Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947)

"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."
Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Goodbye Girl.
Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated in 2002 for Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dreyfuss



On June 10, 2011, Dreyfuss was made a Master Mason by the Grand Master of Masons of the District of Columbia at the Washington DC Scottish Rite building, as well as a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason and is a member of the Valley of the District of Columbia, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite


Monday, October 28, 2013

Great Freemasons: Cornelius Hedges (October 28, 1831 - April 29, 1907)


CORNELIUS HEDGES. Born in Westfield, Mass., Oct. 28, 1831; died in Helena, Mont., Apr. 29, 1907. A member of the 1870 Washburn party of Yellowstone explorers, proponent of the idea of reserving the Yellowstone region in the public interest (this was the third expression of the idea), and special correspondent for the Helena Herald.

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/haines1/iee4a.htm#hedges

(Helena City Lodge 10, Colorado)


C.S. Lewis


Let Me Lead You to Freedom