The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
SCOTTISH RITE
HOLDING 9Th
CONCLAVE HERE
Convocation Opens Today
and Will Continue
Through Thursday.

disqualification of higher degrees
on Master MaSons who have been
grouped as a George Washington
bicentennial class will feature the
Sixty-seventh annual convocation
and reunion of the Scottish Rite
bodies in the Valley of indianapolis
this week.
The convocation was TO open AT
1870 this afternoon and continus
through Thursday.
The degrees will be conferred IN
der the auspices of four bodies IN
the Rite. Directing the degree WORK
will be David c. Pyke, thrice potent
master of Adoniram grand lodge Of
Perfection; Gail II. Moorhead, SOW
ereign prince, Saraiah council, Prin-
ceS Of Jerusalem; j. Ralph Fenster-
maker, most wise master, Indian
apolis chapter of Rose Croix, and
Edward H. Mayo. commander-in-
chief of the Indiana consistory.
Ceremonies Start Today
First of the ceremonies was to be
the fourth grade, to be presented at
100 today. Pyke was to preside.
The exemplification was to extend
through the afternoon with Earl F.
Hites, Russell j. Ryan, Fac Patrick.
Joseph J. Davis, Elmer Raschig and
Paul E. Fisher presiding.
Today's program will close with
the rites of the elaborate fourteenth
degree, the last of the perfection
series. 1t is considered by many the
most impressive in Scottish Rite
Masonry. Thrice potent Master
Pyke will preside
Opening Tuesdays program will
be the comforting of the fifteenth
and sixteenth degrees by Saraiah
council.
Sovereign Prince Moorhead and
Clarence R. Martin, senior warden.
will preside.
COnsistOry to Give Work
Following will be the seventeenth
and eighteenth degrees. They will
be conferred under the auspices of
the Rose Croix chapter. Most Wise
Master FenStermaker and William
H. Morrison, past most wise master,
will preside.
Indiana conSiStory will take up
the work Wednesday under the di-
rection of Commander-in-Ch
Mayo. The twenty-first degree will
be conferred at 1:30. William F.
Kruger will preside.
Closing the afternoon program
will be the presentation of the
twentieth degree, which will place
special emphasis on the Washington
anniversary. Clifford L. Harrod will
preside.
A cast of members of the Rite
from Newcastle will confer the
nineteenth degree in the evening,
under the direction of Martin L.
Rooms, vice-chairman of the ste
activities committee.
Final Sessions Thursday
The twenty-seventh degree will
follow. 1t will be presented by mem
bers of the Madison County Scot
fish Rite club, in charge of Al v.
Reschar of Anderson, honorary
member of the supreme council,
thirty third degree.
Final sessions will be held Thurs
day. First of the degrees to be
conferred will be the twenty ninth,
under the direction of Lee S. Busch,
first lieutenant of the
Consistory.
A cast of thirty-third degree
members will confer the twenty
fourth degree, which will follow.
The group will be headed by Vim
cent Y. Smith, past thrice potent
master and trustee of the lodge
Final degree, the thirty second
will be started at in the afternoon.
1t is the highest degree obtainable
by petition in Scottish Rite Masonry.
COMMUNICATIVE chief Mayo will pre-
side.
Vatet Honor Guest
The convocation banquet at will
close the state meeting. A program
of music, addresses and fraternal
and patriotic features will be pre-
sented. Pyke will preside.
Honor guest will be Eugene Vatet
of Muncie, active member of the
supreme council for Indiana. In
addition, honorary thirty-third de-
gree members from the consistories
of FIT. Wayne, Evansville and South
Bend will attend.