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is offered to the diners. Te all-night cooking is said to be an attraction in itself, and perhaps, the best reason to enter a team in the competition. Talk about fun fellowship! “Next year,” Sterling said, “We would like to sell
even more tickets and open up the contest to even more of our fellow Masons from all over the coun- try. It’s huge fun and it’s all for a great cause!” For more information about the Carolina Pig
Jig BBQ competition, please visit or call Mike Sterling at (919) 272-1353. Te double-crowned champion this year was
the team from Hiram 40 with, from left, Page Skelton, Adam Page, Tom Imler, Tom Price, Bruce Mulheim, and Josh Lippy. Not pictured was Stephen Speight.
The North Carolina Mason PIG JIG, from page 1
July/August 2010
Ric Carter photos You’re invited
Bike and Hot Rod Ride August 21 MOUNT AIRY — Bring your hot rod or
motorcycle to the Masonic Temple here Au- gust 21. Register at 10:00 a.m. and take off at 11:00 o’clock for the ride over to Veteran’s Park, returning to the lodge at 4:00. Hot dogs will be served.
— Gary McMillian
Golf Tournament August 29 CLEMMONS — Clemmons 755’s annual
golf tournament is coming to Salem Glen Golf and Country Club August 29. Te entry fee is $300 per team. To learn more, contact Bob Charlier at (336) 766-5133 or or vist the lodge website at
Barn Degree September 11 HAYESVILLE — Clay 301 is holding the
41st Masonic District’s second Barn Degree
September 11. Tey will meet in a barn, seating will be hay bales. Officers will be in bib over- alls. You get the picture. Lodge is set to open at 7:00 p.m., but the hickory-smoked barbecued chicken fundraiser is starting at 4:00. For de- tails, contact Chad Hall at (828) 389-3500 or .
— Jim Hyde
Motorcycle Ride September 11 OXFORD — Te 13th
Annual Charity Ride
to the Masonic Children’s Home is set. As usual, motorcycle riders will depart from China Grove early. Other groups will take their own routes to Raleigh for registration, prizes, and staging the last leg of the trip to the Home. Tere will be a Hot Sauce Festival at the Ride culmination. For more information, call Doug Earnhart (704) 957-0346 or Jerry Edwards (704) 857-8162.
Wilkerson College Lodge October 2 OXFORD — Orphans Lodge 761 will host
the lodge at 11:00 a.m., with the program to be announced later.
December 11 GREENSBORO — Te lodge will hold its
annual election and installation at the Greens- boro Masonic Temple. Te 4:00 p.m. meeting and installation will be followed by their semi- annual dinning out meal.
Quitting expectations? A Master Mason approached Peter Gow-
er and said, “I am not getting from Masonry what I expected. I am thinking of quitting.” Peter Gower responded, “The ash can
never again be firewood.” —Zenmasonry
An app for finding lodges My results when searching from home.
By Ric Carter Do you like to visit lodges in new places?
Do you travel frequently? Have trouble find- ing local lodges? Tere’s an app for that. Masonic Traveler USA puts a national Ma-
sonic directory in your pocket, if you have an iP- hone or iPod Touch in that pocket. You can type in a town or zip code you plan to visit or search by your current location. Te meeting times and locations of lodges are listed. Some have contact information. Give it a location, a distance you’re willing to travel, and a range of dates. It pops
back with a list of lodges with scheduled meet- ings and their addresses. Tere’s even access to maps to help you find your way. It will serve as a Masonic passport, recording
what lodges you’ve visited and when. Available add-ons let you get listings of York and Scottish Rite meetings as well as Shrine gatherings. At $7.99, it’s a bargain for the man who likes
to visit lodges as part of his trip. Te Fraternal- Soft product is found in the iTunes App Store. More information is also to be found at .
The Tarheel Mason email discussion list is a great place to discuss lodge topics as well as Masonic philosophy. You can use it to promote things happening in your lodge. To subscribe visit and fol- low the instructions.
MEETING, from page 1
elect Grand Lodge officers. Business is gener- ally concluded around lunch time. To reach the Twin City Quarter take the
Cherry Street exit off I-40 Business and go four blocks north. Te hotel is taking reservations now. Teir toll-free reservation number is (800) 320-0934. Be sure to specify that you are with the Masonic Grand Lodge so you may get our special rate. Come to Annual Communication this year
for the fun of it. Bring a Masonic buddy with you. See you there!
Brother Franz Joseph Haydn By Robert Eugene Juthner
It has been more than 230 years since Joseph
Haydn (1732-1809) was initiated in the Vien- nese “elite” Lodge Zur Wahren Eintracht (True Concord). Teir lodge secretary, David Hein- rich Gottfried von Pilgram then recorded in the minutes of their 354th meeting as follows: “In the year (AL) 5785, on the 11th of the
second month, the petitioner Joseph Haydn, son of Mathias, was introduced, at age 51 years, born the 1st of May [actually 31st March] 1732, of the Catholic Religion, of the middle class, in Rohrau, Austria, now a Freemason, by occupa- tion the Prince Eszterhazy’s orchestra director, thus far not received in any known Order, so- liciting of sincere fervour and his own accord to be received into our anciently honored knightly Freemasons Order, without having been driven by curiosity nor having been solicited, enticed or tempted by Anyone, wherefore he was, accord-
ing to the Statutes of our Honourable Order, balloted on and elected to be introduced into this St. John’s Lodge, named True Concord, and has been accepted as a Freemason Knight, Ap- prentice and Brother.” It was during that year that Emperor Joseph
II, who had been favorably inclined towards the Freemasons, in order to stem the multiplication of pseudo-Masonic lodges, decreed that the num- ber of Masonic lodges in his realm be drasti- cally reduced, limiting them to one lodge per provincial capi- tal, except that the eight lodg- es of Vienna should combine in two lodges. Tis affected Haydn’s Lodge Zur Wahren Eintracht which ceased labor on December 28, 1785 and amalgamated with Lodge Zur Wah- rheit (Truth). In 1786 his name was erased from the membership roster. Other sources, how- ever, indicate that Haydn, accompanied by his friend and brother Mozart, visited the Viennese Lodge Zur Neugekronten Hoffnung (Hope Re- crowned) during the years 1786 to 1790. He may also have visited a lodge in Pressburg (Bratislava, Slovakia), and in 1785–86 he wrote his sympho- nies No. 85–87, the so-called Parisian Sympho- nies, for the Paris Loge Olympique de la Parfaite Estime (Olympic Lodge of Perfect Esteem). Haydn was also a champion of the Enlight-
enment. His compositions were no longer “ser- mons,” as the music of the High Baroque; they opened up a discourse with the real world, as evidenced by such compositions as the oratorios “Te Creation” and “Te Seasons.” He composed 107 symphonies, 24 operas, 83 string quartets, 163 piano sonatas, and the hymn “God Save Franz the Emperor” which later became the na- tional anthem of Austria and was also adopted as the German anthem. In Austria, following World War II, this was replaced by Mozart’s music for “Maurergesang” (“Masons’ Song”) K 623a, rather ironically. Joseph Haydn died May 31, 1809, aged 77
years. Brother Avo Kouyoumdjian, Hayden author,
says: Haydn’s character, marked by honesty, hu- mility, cheerfulness, loving kindness, humor, creative power, and world-openness, shall be our model to emulate, and it shows us those spiritual tools which help us, as Freemasons, to work in- defatigably on the Temple of Humanity, which is based on wisdom, strength, and beauty. April 2006, Te Alberta Freemason
