Brothers and Friends,

The Santa Ana Valley of the Scottish Rite is Moving its meeting location. As of October 1st, 2012 the Santa Ana Valley is meeting in the DeMolay Center of Anaheim. The Stated Meetings take place in the west lodge room on the second floor. There is an elevator located in the lobby for those who would like to use it. The address to the DeMolay Center is 303 W. Lincoln Ave. Anaheim, CA 92805. There is a map located on the back of this Newsletter for your convenience.

GREETINGS MY BROTHERS!! Thanks to YOU, Our Barry the Pig fundraising program has raised countless hundreds of dollars for the benefit of the children in need of speech and language therapy. In addition to assisting our worthy cause, EACH full pig exchanged entitles you to an opportunity to take home a gourmet gift basket filled with fine wines, cheeses and snacks. The basket will be going home with one of you generous brothers at our January Stated Meeting. So, look in those pants pockets and under the sofa cushions and get those pigs full of change. Your generous gifts will be individually counted and are tax deductible per CSRF 501c3. YOU, my Brothers ARE making a difference in the lives of the children we help.

Dave Price, Pig Czar

Mark your calendars

Saturday Evening September 15th

Shrine Center

Special Guest Speaker

Ill. William F. Stoval, 33⁰ SGIG

Supreme Grand Inspector General

6:30 pm Program Introduction

7:00 pm Dinner with Toasts

7:45 Special Guest Speaker

Dinner will be honey glazed ham, scalloped potatoes, glazed carrots, garden salad, roll and butter and desert bars. The toasts will be given by the officers and will be with wine or grape juice.

Cost is $10 and RSVP is requested. Call the office at 714 543-7277.

Santa Ana Valley awarded medals to ROTC and JROTC students in Orange County. Kermit Rosenthal, 32° , a USMC Retired Captain is the committee chairman and co-ordinated the awarding of the medals. All of the High Schools that have JROTC programs participated in this program. These are special Scottish Rite medals and can be worn on the recipients uniforms. They come with a cer-tificate suitable for framing. Ill. Rick Wood, 33° IGH is shown presenting CDT Robert Ruiz with his medal and certificate at the ROTC Ceremony at Cal State University Fullerton in May.

My Brothers,

Masonry’s cornerstone is charity and in the Scottish Rite, this charitable energy is focused in the support of our Language Center. It is our privilege to provide for this organization and we are always looking for new ways to help our children. We want to show how much we truly care about their develop- ment, their quality of life, but most importantly, about their happiness.

This brings me to our first event this year, Operation “The Rite Backpacks”. Thanks to generous contributions from brothers in our Valley, we have secured funding to provide each child attending the Language Center with a nice backpack, full of the “right” grade-appropriate education supplies, in order to achieve academically.

To make this event fun, brothers and ladies contributing to this operation will be invited to an evening event, where together, we will work on getting all these backpacks assembled for formal presenta- tion to the Language Center. All backpacks will be distributed to children receiving assistance from organ- ization. Many of the supplies needed for success will be found inside each of these backpacks, all except for a trowel, as that implement is for us to keep, so we can continue to spread our brotherly love and affec- tion towards this great center.

If you missed out on this opportunity to give, hang on tight, future “Rite” events will be announced soon. Yes, the “Rite” is here to stay! The Language Center is our Philanthropy, our duty, but most importantly, our unspoken obligation.

Fraternally yours,

Frankie Rosario, 32°
Wise Master

The Supreme Council has mailed out the dues notices for 2013. We have received the membership cards for 2013 so will be able to mail them to you on receipt of your dues. The Life Members received a dues no-tice with a zero balance and it is hoped that they will still find it in their hearts to donate to the Almon-er’s Fund, Childhood Language Center and the Orange County Masonic Memorial Foundation. Their 2013 membership cards will be mailed in October.

An update on the dues for 2012 shows that there are 128 active members of the Valley that have not sent in their dues. This represents a total of $14,260.50 is dues receivable and is money that the Valley could really use. Within the 128 active members, there are 23 members that owe two or more years. Check your wallet and see if you have a 2012 membership card and if not, send in your dues and we will quickly and cheerfully send you your membership card.

Bob McNamara, 32⁰ KCCH

Assistant Personal Representative–Administration

On March 9 and 10th a group from Santa Ana Scottish Rite attended the 2012 Leadership Conference; Mission Possi-ble, in San Diego put on by the Supreme Council of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Mike Selix 32°, James Segerstrom 32° and Daniel Willerton 32° attended the Fellows workshop where we discussed the lessons of the 4th degree of the Scottish Rite and new ways to communicate, share ideas, and improve the Valley membership experience.

The Sovereign Grand Commander, Illustrious Ronald A. Seale, 33° led the class of 28 fellows through a series of exercises to increase awareness of Valley needs. After the class had chiseled away the excess of the Scottish Rite all that remained were the relationships of Valley members. It is the relationships that must be improved upon if a Valley is to grow. Our Valley, Brothers, increases and decreases based on the relationships we choose to build. Who best can work and best agree has always been the key to the success of Freemasonry.

So how do we improve our relationships? We implement more opportunities for newly made Scottish Rite Masons to get involved. By creating new events and improving programs we can break up the mundane cycle of stated meeting, dinner, meeting, dinner. We can choose to actively engage the lessons of the Scottish Rite. We must also create more educational events that are open to all Masons in the area. Find time to visit the Childhood Language Center, your presence alone can prove to a child that Scottish Rite Masons care about their success.

In the last two months we have created two new Facebook pages for the Valley and the Knights of St. Andrew. These pages are open to every one and will keep the younger members of the Valley engaged as they come in. The Knight’s of St. Andrew have also begun taking steps to form their own line of officers and will be holding separate meetings in the near future. These meetings will give the younger members of the Valley an opportunity to become involved right away while the Valley will see an increase in support from the Knights.

Help us create a Valley that others turn to for guidance,

Daniel Willerton 32°

Our May Stated Meeting program will be on personal computer security. It will be presented by Wayne Folsom 32°, who works for a major corporation where he writes and markets cyber security to our government and other major businesses.

His cutting edge insight into this fascinating world of electronic technology and communication is something you won’t want to miss. His presentation will be at 8:00p.m., after our dinner, so the ladies can also attend. There will be a question and answer period after the presentation.

James Segerstrom 32° received his Master Craftsman I certificate and pin at the April Stated Meeting. He is one of many that have completed the first course and is now working on Master Craftsman II.

There is an availability to start a Master Craftsman workshop on a monthly basis to help and encourage progression and completion of both I and II. It seems difficult to find a night or morning to hold a workshop as everyone seems to be committed to something. If you are interested in a workshop, let me know of the times that you are available and I will try to put it together. We will be able to go over the test questions, grade them and then send them in for a faster turnaround time.

You can contact me at the Scottish Rite Office 714 543-7277, my cell 714 381-2949 or my email, macsquest@aol.com.

Scottish Rite Masonry is known at the University of Masonry and this, my Brothers, is one of the opportunities for further light.