The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-04
MASONS MEET
AT CATHEDRAL
IN CONvOCATION
Sixty Candidates for Higher
Degrees Begin Rites
on tuesday.

The semi-annual convocation and
reunion of the Scottish Rite bodies
in the Valley of Indianapolis will
open at the cathedral Tuesday and
continue through Thursday with a
class of about sixty candidates for
the higher degrees of masonry.
The occasion will be made nota-
BILE by the presence of Melvin NJ
Johnson of Boston, the sovereign
grand commander of the supreme
council Of thirty third degree Ma
sons. AS the newly elected head of
the order he is visiting the various
subordinate bodies of the Northern
Jurisdiction and will have a mes
sage for the membership.
Preparations for the convoca-
tons have been completed under
the direction of Fac w. Patrick,
thrice potent master, and the vari-
Gus degrees will have unusual ex-
emplification. Other ceremonies
will be elaborated by the newly
formed Consistory choir with Arnold
Spencer, director, and the Con-
sistory orchestra, directed by Fred
eric A. Barker.
A full complement of convocation
committee has been named whose
chairmen are as follows:
Chairmen Named
General Reception-Robert H Bryson.
with Charles P Benedict Dan " White
and Walter F. Crooke.. vice chairmen.
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Distingqished Guests Eugene 6e E. vatet.
VIM. Earl Gentry and John F. Engelke.
cred naaf j. paws ,,o~o,d
with Albert R. Mariner. vice-chairman.
Safety-Harrv C.. Harwood. with Frank
A. Conway: vice-chaiTman.
Medical Attention-Dr. James H. Taylor
and DR.. Robert o. Alexander.
Tislow. w. Vernon Schultz. and John E.
Kendall.
Otis L. Maberrv Lewis B. Sebastian. Cecil
R. Dillon and Albert R. Mariner.
The class will assemble Tuesday
at $50 a. m. when the oath Of
fealty will be given. Following will
come the fourth, fifth, sixth and
seventh degrees under the dramatic
d;~Sction of Horace Mitchell, with
Mr.. Patrick, Walter T. White and
Russell J. Ryan presiding.
In the afternoon the degrees
from the eighth to the fourteenth
inclusive will be conferred. Wednes-
day the Saraiah council and Rose
CroiX grades will be eXemplif1ed
with the evening devoted to the
twenty-ninth degree under Lee S.
Busch and closing with the twenty
seventh degree, under AL V. Re-
schar, heading a cast of Anderson
Scottish Rite members.
Banquet at 6:3O
Thursday afternoon the twenty
first degree will be presented in full
form, with William F. Kruger pre-
siding, followed by the last of the
series, the thirty-second, under the
direction of Edward H. Mayo, COM
mander -in-chief.
The convocation banquet will be
held at $50 o'clock, with Mr.. John
son, the sovereign grand command
er, as the guest of honor. DR.. Gay
lord M. Leslie of Fl. Wayne, deputy
for Indiana; Eugene E. Vatet of
Muncie and Alfred M. Glossbrenner,
Indianapolis, active members of the
thirty third degree supreme council,
also will be guests.
Tickets will be required for the
banquet, it is announced, and these
may be obtained at the secretary's
office any time during the three
day session.
Members who do not attend the
banquet will be seated later on the
mezzanine floor of the banquet hall
where they may hear the sovereign
grand commanders address.