Smith receives 60 year pin

By MELVIN SMITH

Crescent Hill Lodge #368 presented me with a lapel pin for 60 years continuous service in the same lodge.  District Deputy Grand Master Larry White made the presentation (pictured) in open lodge on September 10, 2009.  

The officers, when I joined in 1949, were  Worshipful Master Edwin Blocher Sr., Senior Warden James Harrison, Junior Warden Clyde Wells, Senior Deacon Carl Cummins, Junior Deacon Glen Blow, Senior Steward J. R. King, Junior Steward Vernon Welch, Chaplin Glen Adams, Tyler Russell Ray, Secretary/Treasurer Arvie Baie.  The initiation fee, which seemed high at the time, was given me by my dad for my 21st birthday present.  At the time I had no idea that 60 years later I would still be enjoying his gift. 

I was Master in 1958 and presented my dad with his 25 year pin and Art Zellmer joined that year and he went on to receive proficiency certificates for all the lectures and degree work in addition to performing the funeral ceremony hundreds of times. We have several 50 year members but we only know of one other member of our lodge to make the 60 year mark and that was Brother Fay Rush and he made it to 65 years!