The Grand Lodge also presents a Secretary of the Year award. Recent recipients are VWB’s Matt Appel and Kelly Combs. I think that award’s been around for about 20 years; I don’t have the stats with me right now.
The Grand Master’s Achievement Award has been around since 1988. As of right now, roughly 900 Masons have received the award, a…
The Grand Lodge also presents a Secretary of the Year award. Recent recipients are VWB’s Matt Appel and Kelly Combs. I think that award’s been around for about 20 years; I don’t have the stats with me right now.
The Grand Master’s Achievement Award has been around since 1988. As of right now, roughly 900 Masons have received the award, and about half of them are alive today.
The Mason of the Year has been around for about 20 years, and I think around two dozen excellent Brothers have received this honorable distinction. I am truly honored to know most of them pretty well.
Like most who have mentioned it above, I received the awards for just, well, doing what I do! I never gave consideration of getting any of them. I got the GMA under MWB Chuck’s year, for work that I done in ritual throughout the district. But heck, I LIKE doing that!
Big key concerning when I received the Mason of the Year in 2017. One, it was fun. I was having fun making a difference up at the State Capitol. But another key is the other Brothers who assisted in the endeavor. There were about a half dozen who were involved, including the Grand Master who gave me the award itself! Yes, I have the award on my wall, but I remember the story behind it, and THAT’s what’s important to me.
I had a conversation with a Brother who I know for certain reads these comments on Emeth right after I received the Mason of the Year medal, who wondered why I wasn’t wearing it on my team uniform. I informed him I didn’t want to appear as a pompous showoff, but he reminded me that I earned that award, and it isn’t any more pompous than the little white Washington State pin (for my GMA award) or the smaller blue Washington State pin (for the Hiram Award I received in 2013.) He had a point, and I still have the medal on my Team Uniform to this day.
Like the PDDGM Apron that I have, the medals and pins have stories behind them. If a Brother mentions the Apron, the MofY medal, or the pins, I can tell them stories. Stories about Freemasons who have made a difference in their Lodges, in their communities, or in other peoples lives.
The Grand Lodge also presents a Secretary of the Year award. Recent recipients are VWB’s Matt Appel and Kelly Combs. I think that award’s been around for about 20 years; I don’t have the stats with me right now.
The Grand Master’s Achievement Award has been around since 1988. As of right now, roughly 900 Masons have received the award, and about half of them are alive today.
The Mason of the Year has been around for about 20 years, and I think around two dozen excellent Brothers have received this honorable distinction. I am truly honored to know most of them pretty well.
Like most who have mentioned it above, I received the awards for just, well, doing what I do! I never gave consideration of getting any of them. I got the GMA under MWB Chuck’s year, for work that I done in ritual throughout the district. But heck, I LIKE doing that!
Big key concerning when I received the Mason of the Year in 2017. One, it was fun. I was having fun making a difference up at the State Capitol. But another key is the other Brothers who assisted in the endeavor. There were about a half dozen who were involved, including the Grand Master who gave me the award itself! Yes, I have the award on my wall, but I remember the story behind it, and THAT’s what’s important to me.
I had a conversation with a Brother who I know for certain reads these comments on Emeth right after I received the Mason of the Year medal, who wondered why I wasn’t wearing it on my team uniform. I informed him I didn’t want to appear as a pompous showoff, but he reminded me that I earned that award, and it isn’t any more pompous than the little white Washington State pin (for my GMA award) or the smaller blue Washington State pin (for the Hiram Award I received in 2013.) He had a point, and I still have the medal on my Team Uniform to this day.
Like the PDDGM Apron that I have, the medals and pins have stories behind them. If a Brother mentions the Apron, the MofY medal, or the pins, I can tell them stories. Stories about Freemasons who have made a difference in their Lodges, in their communities, or in other peoples lives.