Milford chronicle., 1959-12-25
DeMolay News

AQOIl0f c0apIor OF the OrQ0r OF
DeMolay will join the roster of
some 1000 others when Laurel
Chaper is instituted at Laurel, Del
aware, on Wednesday evening, De-
cember 80, in Centenary Methodist
Church in that community.
An initial class of approximately
35 boys will be received into mem
bership in the Order with the con-
ferral of the Degrees, and those
who have been selected as officers
of the new chapter will be INSTALL
ed in their stations and places be-
fore the ceremonies are conclud-
ed.
Temple Chapter of Milford, and
Henlopen Chapter of Lewes will
confer the Initiatory and the De-
Molay Degrees on the class, with an
Installing Suite consisting of pres
ent and past officers of Temple
Chapter inducting the Laurel Chap
ter officers into their respective
chairs.
Paul Davis, present Master Coun-
cillor of Temple Chapter, will con-
duct the Initiatory Degree cere-
mony, and will serve as Chaplain
of the Installing Suite Joseph M
Futcher, Jr., of Lewes, Junior Past
Master Councillor of Temple Chap
ter, will preside in the Fourth Sec
ton of the DeMolay Degree, and
William Carlton Moore, Master
Councillor of Henlopen Chapter,
and his officers will conduct the
Closing Ceremonies. Robert w.
Bryan, P M. c., Chew, will offer
the Invocation and Jay Gray Sipple,
Chaplain, will give the Flower
Talk.
Arrangements for the Institution
are being completed by the Advis-
ory Group of Laurel Chapter, head
ed by James B. Windsor, chair
man of the Advisory Council. Past
Grand Master of Masons in Della
ware, w. Harrison Phillips, will
have charge of the evenings pro-
gram as it progresses and Will in
troduce the guests, and those of the
host Chapter and its sponsoring
body, Hope Lodge No. 4. A. F. and
A. NJ, of Laurel.
The meeting and ceremonies will
be open to all DeMolays and Mas
ter Masons, and a cordial invita-
| ton is extended to all who are eli
gible. Opening ceremonies are
scheduled to start at 1880, with a
brief interval to admit any late
arrivals at about 7:45.
The ceremonies at Laurel will
mark the Institution of the third
Chapter in Delaware this calendar
year, and the fifth Chapter serving
the Delaware area in less than
three years. Laurel Chapter will
be the seventh Chapter in the state,
and makes possible the formation
of a State Chapter and State Off
Ger Line.
The Order of DeMolay was found
ed at Kansas City, Missouri, on
March Is, 1919, by Frank S. Land,
who served as Secretary-General
until his death on November of
this year. During the 40 years that
have passed, the Order has grown
from a group of nine boys who con-
stituted the original club member
ship in Kansas City, to an Interna-
tional Order with Chapters in near
ly all the Free Countries of the
world. In the some two thousand
Chapters, nearly three million boys
have knelt at the DeMolay Altar
and pledged themselves to its high
ideals. Membership in DeMolay
Chapters is open to all boys of
good moral character from IA to
21 years of age, who are recon-
mended by some friend of theirs
who is a DeMolay, or by a man who
is a Master Mason. Boys who are
interested may ask for petition
of membership themselves, and af-
ter the petition is acted on may be
received into the Chapter in his
area.