The preliminary program for QC’s Conference in the US from 14-16 September 2018 has just been released. Get your copy here. Featured speakers include Paul Monod, Bob Cooper, Oscar Alleyne, Jackie Ranston, Shawn Eyer, Ric Berman, Andreas Onnerfors, Mark Wallace and a host of other international speakers. The QC booking site has opened and early-bird tickets should be purchased now.
Welcome to our three newest Local Secretaries: Rogério Bittencourt de Miranda in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Valdeir Faria in San Francisco, USA; and Robert Kliaman in Ontario, Canada.
Rogério can be contacted at rogbitt@gmail.com and by phone at +55 21 98822-9242, or on Facebook – rogbitt, and Twitter – rogbitt.
Valdeir is at vfaria@freemason.org and (415) 509 5696.
Robert’s contact details are rkliaman@cpa-ca.com and (905) 707-6886.
We wish you well!
We are delighted to announce that Paul Holmes has become a Local Secretary for Derbyshire. He is currently JW with his mother lodge, Hardwick 2373, and is active in Royal Arch and other degrees. Paul is presently researching the origins and development of Freemasonry in Derbyshire. He can be contacted at paulrholmes@msn.com and by phone at 0789 430 5971.
Welcome to Luis Cardoso, QCCC’s Local Secretary for Portugal. Luis can be contacted at lcardoso@fastmail.fm or by phone on +351 966206009 (mobile). He is a member of Colipo nr. 83 and went through the chair of the lodge in 2013. Luis is currently Vice-Grande Correio-Mor at the Grande Loja Legal de Portugal / Grande Loja Regular de Portugal and has joint responsibility for encouraging masonic educational development.
Welcome to Chris Chapman, our new Local Secretary in Atlanta, GA. Chris is an attorney and active in both Craft and York Rite. He can be contacted on 404-787-4021 (cell) or at chap1993@gmail.com.
We are absolutely delighted to announce to QCCC members that the Most Worshipful The Grand Master, His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, KG, proposes to confer on Emeritus Professor Aubrey Newman, PJGD, the chairman of the editorial committee and a past master of QC, the Grand Master’s Order of Service to Masonry. It is intended that the order will be conferred by the Most Worshipful the Pro Grand Master at the Quarterly Communication of the United Grand Lodge of England on 13 September 2017.
The Order of Service to Masonry is the highest honour the Grand Master can confer on any member of the Craft. Instituted in 1945, it is in the personal gift of the Grand Master and is an acknowledgment of exceptional services to freemasonry. The Order is limited to 12 holders and entitles them to place the letters OSM after their names, preceding any other Masonic rank that they hold.
QC’s Lodge meeting on Thursday, 14 September 2017 (4.00 p.m. at FMH, Great Queen Street, London) will include the 2017 Prestonian Lecture: ‘The Grand Design’. The lecturer is Dr Jim Daniel. Jim has been a Freemason since 1961. Previously a cultural diplomat (1964-89), he is known best as the past Grand Secretary General of the Ancient and Accepted (‘Scottish’) Rite (1989-98), and past Grand Secretary of UGLE (1998-2002). Jim is a past master of QC and now an honorary member of the lodge. An exciting evening is guaranteed.
Jorge Alfredo Gavira-Lievano is back as a Local Secretary for Bogotá, Colombia. He can be contacted by phone on ( 57) 3187357825 and at jgaviria33@gmail.com.
Leo Lusicic, the Master of the ‘Quatuor Coronati’ research lodge for Slovenia, has volunteered to represent QC and QCCC as Local Secretary covering Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. Leo can be contacted at leo.lusicic@ad-con.com.
An outstanding celebratory meeting of the Worthing Lodge of Installed Masters took place at the Charmandean Centre on 24 June, the exact tercentenary anniversary of the founding of the first grand lodge. The meeting was attended by the PGM for Sussex and twenty-seven members of the provincial team, and around 100 Sussex masons were present to hear QC member Ric Berman deliver a paper to mark the occasion. The meeting was followed by an excellent festive board enjoyed by all.
