Newsletter from the January 2014 Communication

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Contents

1. A MASONIC GRAVE IN MAROON TOWN. WHO WAS CHARLES ROSS?
   • Recent posts to the email address of the District Grand Mentor have revealed that there is a grave in the rural village Maroon Town in the Parish of Saint James bearing a depiction of the square and compasses which suggests that a Freemason lies decently interred therein....
2. NEWLY INSTALLED MASTERS: July 2013 – January 2014
3. WELCOME! - NEW MASTER MASONS: July 2013 – January 2014
4. OBITUARIES: July 2013 – January 2014
5. ROYAL LODGE KINGS HOUSE BREAKFAST
6. HAMILTON HOLY ROYAL CHAPTER PAINTS CATHEDRAL CHAPEL
   • The Companions of Hamilton Holy Royal Arch Chapter of Hamilton Lodge No. 1440 in Spanish Town undertook a project of painting a chapel in the Anglican Cathedral in Spanish Town....
7. FATHERS AND SONS IN FREEMASONRY IN JAMAICA, THE ‘THOMPSON'S in FREEMASON’
   • By the happy accident of birth, I am the Fourth Generation of this family to be a member of this great fraternity....
8. DISTRICT GRAND LODGE WEBSITE
   • With twelve hundred (1,263) Freemasons in our District, our website will engage in 2013 alone, almost twelve thousand (11,490) unique visitors from one hundred and forty two (142) countries, collectively generating over two hundred thousand hits!.....
9. A WALK AROUND THE LODGE - PART 2
   • By the second half of the nineteenth century circumambulation was no longer regarded as a purely religious or mystical practice, having acquired a new and more general usage, simply meaning to walk around or about...
10. THE WORKING TOOLS OF LIFE - THE ALBERT J. (BUNNY) LEWIS MEMORIAL LECTURE
    • Those of us who were privileged to have known Brother Albert Joseph “Bunny” Lewis will agree that he could easily have found his way into that old Reader’s Digest feature entitled “My Most Unforgettable Character”...
11. EWING LODGE REPAIRS ROOF OF MANDEVILLE HOSPITAL
    • On the request of the CEO Mr. Alwyn Miller, a very dedicated and honourable public servant, the repair was done at a cost of $379,000.00 dollars...