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
All Portland Scottish Rite Members and a guest are invited to attend the Portland Valley’s 14th Degree Ring Ceremony to be held Tuesday May 7th, 2019. If you have not already done so please RSVP as soon as possible.
Note: If you were a Portland candidate in this April’s Reunion or if you RSVP’d to a recent email then you are already expected and you do not need to respond to this notice.
Schedule:
Member’s Social at 5:30 pm
Formal dinner at 6:15 pm
14th Degree Ring Ceremony at 7:00 pm
Meal for Ceremony
• Roast pork loin stuffed with seasonal fruit & nut stuffing • Whipped maple sweet potatoes • Roasted vegetables with aioli • Green House Salad. [vegetarian option available if requested]
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.
If you weren’t able to attend Portland Valley’s Reunion, you missed one of the greatest reunions in a very long time. Congratulation to all the Stage crew, Wardrobe, Make- up, Lighting, Sound, Special effects, K.S.A., Photographer, Servers, Class conductors, Portland’s administrators, and Cast members. Fantastic job my Brothers!
The stage crew was down to three people and they hit the mark every time. Working the stage, sound, lighting, make-up, and wardrobe is very hard work and you came through with flying colors. K.S.A. and others also work very hard without applause or admiration, I say to you, thank you, thank you, and thank you!
Now the cast members, who put their lives on hold to rehearse, learn their lines, work on blocking, and put their hearts and souls into the degrees. Thank you for a beautiful job well done. The old timers came through with their usual great performances. The excitement and performance was nothing short of being perfect! What I am very excited about are all the newer members who participated and helped in every way. Thank you!
Welcome to our newest members and I encourage all of you to get involved and experience what the Scottish Rite is all about.
Finally, I am so very proud of each of you for your fabulous work. This reunion reminded me of years pass when everyone worked very hard to impress upon the candidates the lessons of the Scottish Rite.
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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Rite Movie Night! Tuesday, April 16th at 7pm the Portland Valley Scottish Rite will have a movie night in the Ballroom.
The feature for the evening will be the full length Discovery Channel documentary film Hunting the Lost Symbol.
“This documentary takes the viewer on a journey through the secret codes, architecture and symbols in Dan Brown’s novel The Lost Symbol. Also examined are secret societies and new science describing what’s myth and what’s real. Scientist, code breakers, psychologists and historians are interviewed.”
Schedule Doors open at 6:00 pm for a social. The feature will start at 7:00 pm and the run time is 2 hours. The 18th Degree will also be having its Dress Rehearsal at 7pm.
This event is open to all Masons and their Families and Friends. As with all our events this is not open to the general public.
NOTE: There will be snacks but no meal for this event; make sure you dine before arrival. Dress is casual.
Remembrance and Renewal Ceremony Medford Valley Scottish Rite April 15, 2019
The Rose Croix Chapter of Medford Valley will traditionally observe the Celebration of Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday in our Remembrance and Renewal at the Medford Scottish Rite Center on April 15, 2019. The words of this ceremony speak to the hearts and minds of all men but, are especially significant to Brothers of the Scottish Rite and all Masons. The ceremony includes the Mystic Banquet that was first included as a ritual of the Eighteenth Degree which Charles de Ladebat prepared and published in 1856 in New Orleans. The Code of Statutes in 1866 lists Maundy Thursday as a feast day, and as of 1878, the Statutes indicated its observance as obligatory. In deference to the Maundy Thursday rites of churches however, in 1994 it was deemed appropriate that a Scottish Rite nonobligatory “Celebration of Remembrance and Renewal” should replace the traditional Maundy Thursday observance and be held near the vernal equinox as much as possible.
The ceremony of Remembrance and Renewal, including the Mystic Banquet, is not a religious observance. It is neither the Feast of the Passover nor a Sacrament of the Holy Communion, although it commemorates the spirit of both days.
Chapters of Rose Croix traditionally observe the celebration of the Mystic Banquet as a memorial service honoring the Knights of their Chapter who have passed on during the preceding year.
This observance strengthens the ties of brotherly love, past and present. We meet together to break bread of fraternity, to reconcile ourselves with those we may have offended and, to drink the wine of refreshment and renewal. Thus, we celebrate the lives of our departed Brethren and all mankind. We are reminded that our lives are to be dedicated to the Masonic principles of duty and service to elevate mankind; for what is a man, if a man, does not make the world better? This effort may be fraught with personal sacrifice, and requires the dedication to principles and values we as Scottish Rite Masons espouse.
As the earth brings forth new life in the spring, this celebration reminds us that the sincere man will find a reality that is seen with more than eyes. In the midst of life’s fleeting shadow, these rituals shed a bright light that reveals an abiding hope and sustaining confidence in man’s innate ability to be reborn.
Please join us at our Remembrance and Renewal Ceremony as announced below.
Remembrance and Renewal Dinner
Apr. 15th, 2019
Ceremony will begin at 6:00pm Dinner will follow at approx. 6:30pm – Cost $15.00 per person and can be paid at the door. RSVP by Apr. 8th, 2019 541-772-2205
Menu: Lasagna Green Salad Garlic Bread Dessert Coffee and Water
Medford Scottish Rite Center 3581 Lear Way, Medford, Oregon
At their Stated meeting on March 25, 2019 the Brethren of Eugene Valley Scottish Rite had the pleasure of presenting Col. Dick Heyman with a 50 year cap. We were, however, rather late to the party so to speak as Brother Heyman has been a member of the Scottish Rite since September 17, 1952, or 66 ½ years ago.
(left to right) Art McGhehey, Venerable Master, Col. Dick Heyman, Ill. Bro. Dale Vanderpool PR Eugene Valley.
Richard Michael Heyman, Jr. was born on May 25, 1924 in Coffeyville, Kansas. Seven days after his 18th birthday he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps on June 2, 1942, and was commissioned an officer on July 28, 1943. In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, preceding the morning invasion, he flew escort with the 101st Airborne. Flying back to refuel he returned to cover the invasion in the morning. He was a member of the 364th Fighter Group which flew 342 missions in P-38 Lightnings and P-51 Mustangs from Honington, Suffolk, England. The missions ranged from escorting bombers and dive-bombing and strafing targets to area patrol missions across a swathe of land that took in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. After converting to P-51 Mustangs, the Group also flew long-range bomber escort missions, winning a Distinguished Unit Citation for their defense of B-17 Flying Fortresses on a mission to Frankfurt on 27 December 1944.
Richard Heyman WWII ca. 1944
Dick was Raised a Master Mason in Bartlesville Lodge #284 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1947. Bartlesville is about 46 miles north of Tulsa and 47 miles southwest of Coffeyville, Kansas. He continued his service to the Country flying during the Korean Conflict. After that war ended he determined he finally had the resources to join the Scottish Rite. He received the Scottish Rite degrees 4° – 18° on September 16 and the 19° – 32° on September 17, 1952 in Gutherie, Oklahoma. At that time he was a Captain in the United States Air Force and was living in Stillwater, Oklahoma. When the war started in Vietnam Dick continued his service to his Country and had a distinguished flying career during that conflict.
Dick Heyman Vietnam ca. 1967
Lieutenant Colonel Richard M. Heyman, United States Air Force, was awarded a Third Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Fourth Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight while serving with the 388th Combat Support Group in Southeast Asia on 4 February 1967. Among his achievements during an outstanding career of service to his Country he received the following Awards:
Air Medal with 13 oak leaf clusters (2 silver, 3 bronze)
American Campaign Medal
Army of Occupation Medal
Distinguished Flying Cross with 3 oak leaf clusters
Korean Service Medal
Legion of Merit
National Defense Service Medal
Silver Star
United Nations Service Medal
World War II Victory Medal
Croix de Guerre (French)
Air Force Commendation Medal
Air Force Longevity Service Award with 6 oak leaf clusters (1 silver, 1 bronze)
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 4 bronze stars.
Dick lives in Creswell with his wife of 59 years, Barbara. He is still active in his community having served on the Creswell City Council for a number of years, and attends his Blue Lodge and Scottish Rite whenever he can.
The Research Lodge of Oregon #198, in conjunction with its sponsorship by the Oregon Scottish Rite is planning an interview with Brother Heyman, and he is scheduled to share some of his stories at the next Stated communication of the Lodge of Perfection in Eugene on April 22, 2019.
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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.
On March 22 and 23, 2019 the Brethren of Medford Valley Scottish Rite hosted the 10th annual Southern Oregon Reunion in Medford. The event began on the 22nd as Coos Bay Valley, with the assistance of the Brothers in Medford, conferred the 4° on the Reunions only candidate Kacy Morse of Medford Lodge #103. This was followed by a fine rendition of the 14° by the members of the Medford Valley. In the morning of the 23rd the members of Eugene Valley presented the 18th degree, followed by the Roseburg Valley and the 30°. The Brothers from Klamath Falls Valley presented the 32° bring to a close the degree portion of the Reunion. Much thanks to the Medford Valley KSA for their usual hard work in putting together the Reunion and to the Brethren of all the Valleys who worked hard to put on the degrees for this Reunion. Ill. Bro. Gary Kuney S.G.I.G. in Oregon was in attendance on the 23rd, also in attendance were the PR’s from Portland Valley, Larry Roberts 32° K.C.C.H.; Eugene Valley, Dale Vanderpool 33°; Coos Bay Valley, Fritz Thomas 33°; Roseburg Valley, James Rogers 32° K.C.C.H.; Klamath Falls Valley Lyle Logan 33° and Medford Valley, Bruce Kundert 32° K.C.C.H.
After the capping Bro. Art Borland 32° K.C.C.H. Master of Kadosh, presented the candidate with “The Bridge to Light” and Bruce Kundert 32° K.C.C.H., the Medford PR presented him with the 14° ring.
Rich Maris 32° K.C.C.H. communicates the 15° – 17° to candidate Kacy Morse
Members of Eugene Valley presented the 18° Art McGhehey, Rich Maris 32° K.C.C.H., Michael Robinson 32° K.C.C.H. candidate Kacy Morse, Steve Karner, Alex Casper and Terin MuellerBrethren attending the 32°
Bruce A. Kundert 32° KCCH Personal Representative Medford Valley Scottish Rite
The 10th Annual Medford Valley Spring Reunion for 2019 is in the books and we welcome our new candidates who, have made the decision to obtain further Masonic light through the degrees of the Scottish Rite. The Scottish Rite is known as the University of Masonry and much Masonic light can be learned through these graphically portrayed ritualist degrees. These Scottish Rite Reunions have long been considered a medium of instruction and the degrees presented at these Reunions instructs the candidate in various political, moral and religious philosophies embraced in the Rite. They also expand upon and explain; the duties taught by the degrees presented. These teaching are not a random collection of moral precepts but, are rather an organized and coherent system of doctrine relating to the perfectibility of human conduct. It is our desire to make these degrees available to new candidates who are interested in obtaining further light in Masonry. We hope that our efforts have been beneficial in that cause.
Thanks to all of the Valleys of Southern Oregon and the Brethren who participated in this our 10th Annual Reunion here in the Medford Valley. Your efforts are very much appreciated and we hope that the Medford Valley provided a warm and inviting environment for all to do our work in spreading the philosophy, moral principles and ideals we espouse in our Scottish Rite to our new candidates.
These Reunions present a special opportunity for all Brethren of our great Rite to come together for fun and fellowship as we initiate our newest Candidates into the Masonic light obtained through these degrees as we journey with them as they make their journey towards the 32°, Master of the Royal Secret.
Again thank you to all who participated and we hope to see you again next year as we begin our second decade of Spring Reunion presentations here in the Medford Valley.
Fraternally Bruce A. Kundert 32° KCCH Personal Representative Medford Valley Scottish Rite
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