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District of Columbia – Pythagoras Lodge of Research


Lodge of Research

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Pythagoras Lodge of Research is the only research lodge chartered by the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, F.A.A.M. (Free and Accepted Masons). It was founded in the 1960s, meets 4 times a year, and strives to promote the best possible Masonic research and education.

If you would like to send email to Pythagoras Lodge of Research, go to the list of our officers and click on any who are listed as having email addresses.

If you live near Washington DC, or if you will be visiting our area, please feel free to visit Pythagoras Lodge of Research. We promise to make you welcome, and to help you enjoy Freemasonry. Pythagoras Lodge of Research is scheduled to meet on the dates listed below, at 7:30pm, at Singleton Masonic Hall, 4441 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington DC 20016, (phone) 202-364-9409.

If you have comments or suggestions about this webpage, contact Paul M. Bessel at: bessel@erols.com

 

Upcoming Meetings in 2001

Monday, January 29, 2001  

Wor. Bro. W. Kirk MacNulty on “Kaballah

 

Monday, April 30, 2001 speaker and topic to be announced
Friday, June 29, 2001 speaker and topic to be announced
Tuesday, October 30, 2001 Elections & Installation of Officers for the next year
Tentative: Inaugural Paper by Incoming W.M. – John Vergalla

 

Meetings that were held in 2000

Friday, February 25, 2000
Wor. Bro. Paul M. Bessel on “U.S. Lodges Conducting Business on 1st or 3rd Degree?”

Friday, March 31, 2000
Wor. Bro. John “Sam” Harris on “Freemasonry in Wartime, including World War II”

Friday, June 30, 2000
Most Wor. Bro. Stewart W. Miner on “The American Doctrine – Recent Changes”

Monday, October 30, 2000
Elections and installation of officers for the next year,
plus Wor. Bro. Richard B. Baldwin on “The Word”

Meetings that were held in 1999

Friday, January 29, 1999
Wor. Bro. Akram Elias on “Grammar – Rhetoric – Logic: Foundation for Masonic Success”

Monday, March 29, 1999
Bro. Jerome Barry on “Music and Freemasonry”

Tuesday, June 29, 1999
Wor. Bro. Al Hemmerdinger on “Astronomy and the Junior Warden”

Thursday, October 28, 1999
Mrs. Vickie Starr on “Pi ala Mode” — also elections and installation of officers for the next year

Officers for the Masonic year 2000-2001

Master

Mansour Hatefi, GM
11575 Hemingway Drive
Reston VA 20794-1246
703-709-7171

Senior Warden

John Vergalla, GHP
703-847-9843

Junior Warden

Paul M. Bessel, JGS
bessel@erols.com
703-418-1172

Secretary

Harold Grainger, PM
14914 Laurel Oaks Lane
Laurel MD 20707-5518
301-498-5584
haroldgrainger@cs.com

Treasurer

Clyde D. Frame, PM
13313 Banbury Place
Silver Spring MD 20904-1214
301-384-6976

Chaplain

Hugh Y. Barnard, Jr., PM
301-598-4192

Marshal

John Greenwood, PM
301-598-5552
drjg33@aol.com

Senior Deacon

Akram R. Elias, PM, Grand Marshal
301-441-9241
aesquare@erols.com

Junior Deacon

Bilal M. Raschid, PM
703-469-7592

Senior Steward

Harold Snider

Junior Steward

Kwame Acquaah, P.M.

Tiler

Robert B. Rench, Jr.
703-536-6634

Living Past Masters

1968

John Greenwood, PM

1974

John C. Schleter, PGM

1978

Robert N. Margrave

1979

James M. Burns, PGM

1980

Leszek Ochota

1984

Theodore M. Kahn, PGM

1985

Maurice H. Goldchain, PM

1986

Maurice H. Hedges

1987

Hiram L. Wohlfarth, III

1988

S. Flory Diehl, PM

1989

Robert R. Eckell

1990

Harold Grainger, PM

1991

Herbert M. Weber

1992

F. William Hershiser, PM

1993

Charles S. Iversen, PGM

1994

Hugh Y. Bernard, PM

1995

Harvey E. Schuyler, PM

1996

Jules S. Tepper, JGW

1997

Clyde D. Frame, PM

1998

Urban T. Peters, PM

1999

Robert H. Starr, SGW

2000

William E. Chaney, Jr., PGM

 

 

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