D.C. Grand Lodge & Lodge Officers for the Year 2001
Grand Lodge Officers
(installed December 16, 2000)
| Elected Grand Lodge Officers | |
| Grand Master | Most Wor. Bro. Grant R. Berning |
| Deputy Grand Master | Right Wor. Bro. Robert H. Starr |
| Senior Grand Warden | Right Wor. Bro. Jules S. Tepper |
| Junior Grand Warden | Right Wor. Bro. G. Lee Ferguson |
| Grand Secretary | Right Wor. Bro. Stewart W. Miner, PGM |
| Grand Treasurer | Right Wor. Bro. Jerold J. Samet, PGM |
| Grand Lecturer | Wor. Bro. Joel R. Kahn |
| Senior Grand Deacon | Wor. Bro. Leonard Proden |
| Junior Grand Deacon | Wor. Bro. Albert M. Smith |
| Senior Grand Steward | Wor. Bro. Paul M. Bessel |
| Junior Grand Steward | Wor. Bro. Akram R. Elias |
| Appointed Officers | |
| Grand Marshal | Wor. Bro. George D. Seghers |
| Grand Chaplain | Wor. Bro. David A. Balcom |
| Deputy Grand Chaplain | Wor. Bro. Walter F. Simon |
| Assistant Grand Chaplain | Wor. Bro. Bilal M. Raschid |
| Assistant Grand Chaplain | Wor. Bro. Sassan Soheili |
| Assistant Grand Chaplain | Wor. Bro. Kwame Acquaah |
| Assistant Grand Chaplain | Wor. Bro. J. Scott Sumter |
| Grand Pursuivant | Wor. Bro. Alfred C. Boswell |
| Grand Lodge Physician | Wor. Bro. Paul D. Gleason |
| Grand Sword Bearer | Wor. Bro. Jesse Villarreal |
| Grand Standard Bearer | Wor. Bro. Paul T. Sumler |
| Grand Historian | Wor. Bro. Carl R. LeVine |
| Grand Tiler | Wor. Bro. Gerhard Meinzer |
| Special Appointments | |
| Deputy Grand Lecturer | Wor. Bro. Sheldon I. Rappeport |
| Grand Lodge Photographer | Wor. Bro. George J. Stoklas |
| Grand Lodge Liaison | Wor. Bro. John Greenwood |
| Assistant Grand Tiler | Wor. Bro. Sylvester J. Rychlinski |
| Grand Lodge School Tiler | Wor. Bro. Victor A. Petrossian |
| Assistant Grand Lodge School Tiler | Wor. Bro. Carlos A. Landazuri |
| Aide to the Grand Master | Wor. Bro. E. Jay Whitcomb |
| Aide to the Grand Master | Wor. Bro. Sheldon Arpad |
| Aide to the Grand Master | Wor. Bro. Joseph M. Baird |
| Aide to the Grand Master | Wor. Bro. Richard W. Pepper |
| Aide to the Grand Master | Wor. Bro. Norman Barshai |
| Aide to the Grand Master | Wor. Bro. Fernando Castelli |
Numbers of lodges
As of now (December 2000), in the Grand Lodge of D.C. there is a total of 36 Lodges, as follows:
| 32 | Chartered Craft Lodges (Chartered Lodges that are permitted to confer degrees) |
| 2 | Lodges under dispensation (permitted to confer degrees but not Chartered yet) |
| 2 | Special purpose Lodges (Research and Memorial) |
Lodge Officers
| Lodge | Worshipful Master | Senior Warden | Junior Warden | Secretary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | ||||
| 1 | Federal | George A. Keeler | Douglas S. Colmery | Douglas B. McFadden | George M. Reader |
| 3 | Justice-Columbia | William H. Stone | George M. Jabbour | Michael J. Zabrowski | Arthur E. Krum, Jr. |
| 4 | Naval | Lewis R. Edwards | H.R. (Chip) Carlson | James J. McManus | |
| 5 | Potomac | James H. Laughlin, Jr. | Peter W. DeForth | Lawrence N. (Lonnie) Jolma, Jr. | Dean S. Clatterbuck |
| 7 | William R. Singleton- Hope-Lebanon |
Stephen T. Schuneman | Joseph S. Oliver | Jeffrey T. Howard | Eldon J. Brown |
| 10 | Hiram-Takoma | Neil F. Jarvis | |||
| 11 | St. John’s | John P. Longo | Robert L. Johnson | Ronald Perkins | John C. Regner, Jr. |
| 12 | National-Stansbury- Dawson |
Robert E. Proudley | Roy H. Peck | F. Hamer Campbell, Jr. | Gilbert B. Monck |
| 14 | Washington Daylight | Alvin Pardo | Franklin O. Gayoso | Jay M. Emerson | Harold Grainger |
| 15 | Benjamin B. French | Akram R. Elias | Carl E. Williams | Joseph Crociota | John Vergalla |
| 17 | Harmony | Robert B. Rench, Jr. | Ray E. Rapp, Jr. | Timothy R. Roush | Lawrence W. Hynson |
| 19 | Lafayette-Dupont | James N. Therry | |||
| 21 | Anacostia | Walter D. Graham, Jr. | Fernando Castelli | Donald D. Showalter | Ralph F. Connolly |
| 23 | Osiris-Pentalpha | Commer D. Thornley | Roger W. Laumark | Paul H. King | Lawrence M. Spillan |
| 25 | Arminius | Roy Beyer | Kenneth Ranney | John Wimmel | Uwe Timpke |
| 32 | Temple-Noyes- Cathedral |
Hamid K. Toossi | Richard W. Whitlow | William M. Bartlett | |
| 33 | Albert Pike | Denis P. Manor | Richard Bautista | Peter D. Galitzin | Bilal M. Raschid |
| 34 | East Gate | Leonard H. Kahan | Teko Foly | Ricky T. Ridgeway | Leonard B. Fleming |
| 35 | Joppa | Samuel Anthony | Gary E. Guy | Daniel W. Forbes | Dennis Dean Kirk |
| 45 | Samuel Gompers- Benjamin Franklin |
Sheldon I. Rappeport | Robert N. Hixon | Jeffrey Sherman | Walter F. Simon |
| 47 | Petworth | Roy L. Blaylock | John F. Cronin | Sissay Awoke | Howard J. Sweet |
| 53 | Magnolia | Frank S. Chalmers | Richard B. Wilson, Jr. | Johnathan C. Kurrie | Earl (Baron) Fain, IV |
| 54 | Fraternity | James J. Feezell | Jon W. Pool, Jr. | Balfour D. Mattox | Craig R. Lasher |
| 55 |
General George C. |
Paul T. Sumler | Teko A. Foly | Michael King | Ali M. Ghaemi |
| 90 | Mehr | Kiumars Hakimzadeh | Mehran Etemad | Behrouz Nobarian | Hamid Adib-Samiy |
| 92 | Alianza Fraternal Americana |
Daniel Aysahoa | Santiago Gonzales | Guillermo Silva | Rene Gutierrez |
| 93 | La France | Saraphin Omanda | Andre Salmon | Eloi Kpamegan | Dalton West |
| 94 | Hayastan | Armen Simonian | Alex Sahakian | Stephen Ohanian | Paul B. Najarian |
| 99 | Massis | Arman Janian | Armen Garabedian | Armen Simonian | Paul B. Najarian |
| 1776 | Lodge of the Nine Muses |
Lowell K. Dyson | Kevin C. Cowl | Samuel Barr | George D. Seghers |
| 1798 | Sojourner Kilwinning | Wilfred Auber | Jonathan Cole-Lewis | Herbert M. Taylor | John Orleans-Lindsay |
| 2000 | Nur | Assadur Tufekci | Firouz Heyat | Stephan Ohanian (dup) | Unal (Al) Bener |
| Convass B. Dean Memorial | Paul D. Gleason | Charbel T. Fahed | John Greenwood (dup) | Harold Grainger | |
| Pythagoras Lodge of Research | Mansour Hatefi | John Vergalla | Paul M. Bessel | Harold Grainger | |
| U.D. | Fiat Lux | John Orleans-Lindsay | Kwame Acquaah | Daniel D. Darko | Harold Grainger |
| U.D. | Italia | ||||
