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There will be an Orient-wide Oregon Leadership Symposium Saturday, July 13th at 10:00 am at the Portland Valley Scottish Rite Temple.

Several presenters will be giving talks on various topics regarding Freemasonry and best practices for leadership goals for the Scottish Rite in Oregon.

This is open to all Members of the Scottish Rite in Oregon but is closed to the general public. The current and future leadership of the various Valleys in the Orient are requested to attend. There is no fee to attend this year.

Please RSVP by email to officemanager@portlandsr.com for lunch arrangements or if you have any questions.

Brethren,

The roll of the workmen has been called, and one Master Mason, Brother Harold D. Johnson, 32°, has not answered to his name. He has laid down the working tools of life and with them has left that mortal part for which he no longer has use. His labors here below have taught him to divest his heart and conscience of the vices and superfluity of life, thereby fitting his mind as a living stone for that spiritual building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Strengthened in his labors here by faith in God, and confident of expectation of immortality, he has been granted admission to the Celestial Lodge above. His Brethren mourn the passing of a great man and Mason.

Brother Harold Dana Johnson was born on February 12^th, 1918 in Parkman Ohio and passed to the Celestial Lodge in Forest Grove Oregon on Friday, June 28^th, 2019 at 101 years of age. He was a 38 year member of Portland Valley Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, a 62 year member of the York Rite, a 46 year member of the Al Kader Shrine, and Past Master and a 64 year Blue Lodge member of Holbrook Lodge No. 30, A.F. & A.M. of Oregon.

There will be a Masonic Memorial Service for Brother Johnson on Wednesday, July 24^th in Forest Grove at the Jennings McCall Center in the Mt. Jefferson Room at 2pm.

http://www.fuitenrosehoyt.com/obituary/Harold-D.-Johnson/Forest-Grove-Oregon/1851200

About the author:

Michael D. Robinson 32° KCCH, earned his degree in History at Colorado State University. He was the second Master Mason Raised in Esoterika Lodge #227, and the first member Raised in that Lodge to serve as Worshipful Master. He was presented with the Hiram Award by Esoterika Lodge in 2012, and was elected Master in 2013 and 2014. He served as District Deputy for District #13 in 2016-17 and 2017-18, and was appointed Grand Historian for 2018-19. He is also serving as Historian for Research Lodge #198 and Eugene Lodge #11. Brother Robinson received the Scottish Rite degrees in 2010 and was the recipient of the “Novus Astorum” from the Portland Valley Scottish Rite that year. He was appointed Historian of the Scottish Rite Orient of Oregon in December of 2014. In March of 2015 he was made Secretary of the Eugene Valley, and Director of the Work for that Valley in January of 2017.

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Brothers,

The Scottish Rite Speech and Language Charity board has developed a program to
provide assistance exclusively for the young family members of Oregon Scottish Rite
brothers in good standing. The children, who must reside in Oregon and require
speech communication assistance form a licensed Speech Language Pathologist
(SLP). The child’s family can apply for financial support by completing the boards
application for aid.

The form is available on the Scottish Rite Blog and/or from your Valley PR. The
application is self-explaining and must be completed in full for consideration.

The Oregon Scottish Rite Speech and Language Charity is a 501(c)(3) tax deductible
origination funded entirely by your donations. It’s funds are used entirely within
Oregon. We are also proud that less than 3% of our funds are used for non-charitable
work, including accounting, equipment rent, and insurance.

We hope you will consider us when doing your estate planning.

In brotherhood,
Bill Anton 33°
President

pdf Application for aid to Masonic Children

The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Speech and Language Clinic at Portland State University is in full operation and the results of our support for this academic year are in.  The number of young children and the type of assistance they are receiving in addressing their communication issues are:

Number of children                         Assistance                      

2,500———————  completed hearing screenings

150———————  completed language screenings

17———————-  full diagnostic assessments completed

10———————-  pre-school (3 to 5 year old’s) with speech sound disorders.   Each child receives one therapy session per week.

20———————- children (5 to 14 years old) with speech language and literacy disorders.  Each child receives one to two sessions per week.

10———————  Children with stuttering issues are receiving are receiving their therapy thru tele-practice.

At the University of Oregon summer camps, funded by Scottish Rite are over and free speech therapy sessions are underway.  Remember your contributions to the Scottish Rite Speech & Language Charity are tax deductible and you might consider including us in your estate planning.  All of your contribution stays in Oregon helping Oregon children.

If anyone would like a tour of the Scottish Rite Clinic at PSU please contact Bill Anton to make arrangements.  charity@orientsr.com

Have you as a Master Mason ever wondered about joining the Scottish Rite? Good News!
The Portland Valley Reunion and New Member Initiation this Spring is being held on Friday April 19th & Saturday April 20th, 2019. As a reminder this year we will not have a Fall Reunion due to Honors on November 2nd.

The Scottish Rite in Oregon began in Portland in 1870 headed by the first Sovereign Grand Inspector General, John C. Ainsworth, 33°, who has been followed by eleven other Honorable Masons holding that office up to the present S.G.I.G. Illustrious Brother Gary Kuney, 33º Active, appointed in 2009.

The Scottish Rite is often called the College of Masonry and this Spring we will be having a Class of new Candidates to join us in the quest for further Masonic Light. The ritual of the Scottish Rite comprises twenty-nine degrees, the fourth through the thirty-second, each of which, in the dramatic form of a vaudeville era Shakespearean style moral play, presents lessons of high purpose developing the moral character of the individual.

The theater here was built expressly for these degree presentations. Our Temple in the Historic Goose Hollow Neighborhood is the first building exclusively designed and built for the Scottish Rite Degrees and was used as a model for other Scottish Rite buildings throughout the world. It was the great architectural vision of Brother Richard H Martin, Jr., 33º, who designed several other Fraternal Buildings in downtown. It is unique in still having over ninety hand painted stage drops available for the degree presentations. They were painted in the early 1900’s and are known for their outstanding perspective. The drops and fly system accompanying them are some of the best preserved in the country of their type and age. Our Temple, along with being the last vaudeville era stage still in active use in Oregon, is also the oldest building in downtown Portland still occupied by its original inhabitants, the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.

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