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Masonic Development Course

BruceVB - 2022-10-25 16:14 - (480354 Reads)

The course will be given in three sessions, if you are an Entered Apprentice you can only sit in on session one, which covers the EA degree. Fellowcrafts can sit through sessions one & two.

There is no charge for the course until the course is completed. So only MM’s who are taking the course are asked to pay $20 for their Certificate of completion and pin. If you are unable to cover the cost I will gladly cover it for you.

Also there will be no charge for the MVD course booklet, looking into my recent emails from the Leadership and Education Committee I found that the Booklet is outdated and no longer relevant so I won’t be ordering them to hand out. The L&E committee have started work on the MDC 2.0, an updated version of the current offering. Fixing errors and spelling to the Content and updating within current Grand Lodge standards. Until that is ready, we will be using a digital copy.

Please reply to this email and let me know if there are any conflicts with the December 3rd date.
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Fraternally
R.·.W.·. Christopher Peretin
Grand Sword Bearer
Otsego Lodge #138

13th Annual Masters & Wardens Golf Tournament

BruceVB - 2022-08-03 18:39 - (9657 Reads)

13th Annual Masters & Wardens Golf Tournament Winners
1st Team Awesome Team 58
2nd Cherry Valley 1 60
3rd Father & Son 63
4th The Real SVL 64
5th Team Walling 64
6th Delaware River Bottom 65
7th Cherry Valley 3 65
8th Team Havens 66
9th The Beach Boys 66
10th Cherry Valley 4 67
11th Oneonta All Stars 68
12th Fore by Four 68
13th Cherry Valley 2 68
14th Laurens Old Guys 69
15th Cobleskill Wedgemeisters 72
16th Team Ranc 78

There were 3 skins
Delaware River 3 on hole # 1
The Real SVL 2 on # 8
Team Awesome Team 3 on # 15

The winner of the putting Contest Janet Brannigan Team Fore by Four

See Golf Tournament
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DeMolay Convention

BruceVB - 2021-08-30 18:15 - (3694 Reads)

The newest members of Elias Light Chapter, Order of DeMolay, received the DeMolay degree conferred by a camp fire on August 2, 2021.

On September 16 at 7:00 pm, we will have a simple public Installation of Officers with Jaden as Master Councilor and Dylan as Senior Councilor. Please join us to honor our young men.
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William A Rathbun IV passed to the Celestial Lodge

BruceVB - 2019-12-28 21:02 - (7691 Reads)

His funeral will be December 30 2019 at Tillapaugh Funeral Home
Calling hours are 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM. A Masonic Service will start at 1:00 PM

Williams "Bill" A. Rathbun, IV, 59, passed away Thursday morning, Dec. 26, 2019, at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, surrounded by his family.

Bill was born on Oct. 26, 1960, in Cooperstown, the son of Williams A. Rathbun III and Virginia (Marr) Rathbun of Springfield. He was raised in the Springfield area and graduated from the former Springfield High School in the Class of 1980.

Following high school, Bill worked as a general contractor and undertook many projects of varying types for many local families.

In the spring of 1996, Bill joined the teaching staff at Milford BOCES, teaching students career skills in the manual trades. He first taught "Career Pathways" in special education which consisted of various career choices especially suited to his students desires and talents. A few years later he was asked to teach Welding and Auto Tech, which he did for more than ten years. Most recently and for the balance of his 23 plus years at BOCES, he taught Natural Resource Occupation, which involved such topics as logging and heavy equipment operation. Bill loved his students and his job. He often said he was born to teach at BOCES.

When not at BOCES, Bill put in long hours assisting his wife, Anna at "Finders Keepers," her antique and second-hand store on Main Street in Richfield Springs.

Bills hobbies mirrored his work. He loved going "antiquing" and working on and fixing just about anything that ran, clocks, watches, phonographs, gas and electric motors and antique "one-lung" engines. He was known for his ability to fix just about anything and was always willing to stop what he was doing to help others in need. He was community minded.

He was a former member of the East Springfield Fire Department, which he joined following in his dad's footsteps. He was also a member of the former Masonic Lodge No. 482 in Richfield Springs and when that Lodge closed, transferred to Winfield Masonic Lodge No. 581 in West Winfield, where he remained a member.

Bill is survived by his wife, Anna (Fort) Rathbun of the Town of Springfield; son, Williams "Alden" A. Rathbun V, also of Springfield; mother, Virginia Rathbun, now of Rotterdam; sister, Priscillia Burgess (Robert) of Rotterdam; niece, Lily Burgess; brother-in-law, William Fort and his children, James and Rachael of the Milford area; brother-in-law, Steven Yager (Cheryl) and family; and his "sister-in-law," Diane Mondore (Jerry) of Colorado and their family.
He was predeceased by his father, Williams A. Rathbun III, in 2000.

The family will be present to receive friends from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday Dec. 30, at Tillapaugh Funeral Home, 28 Pioneer St., Cooperstown.

Funeral services will follow the visitation at 1 p.m., officiated by Ronald Fralick, Pastor of the Cherry Valley Presbyterian Church.

Burial will occur in Springfield Cemetery in the spring.

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