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Page 2 The North Carolina Mason September/October 2014
By Marty Fischer
In the United States, we are now experienc-
ing epidemics of diseases once nearly wiped
out. Measles is a very dangerous disease which
can cause death or blindness. We are in 2014
having three times as many cases per month as
we did last year. e MMR (Measles, Mumps,
Rubella) vaccine is highly effective; in 2000
measles was considered eliminated. In that year,
nearly all children were vaccinated. When vac-
cination rates drop below 80%, the population
becomes highly at risk for the given disease.
e other factor is the efficacy of the vaccine.
Whooping cough epidemics are occurring each
year. Often, people forget to have booster doses
to preserve immunity; this is one reason for the
whooping cough epidemics.
From the Medical Committee
Why the epidemics?
Seventeen states allow parents to sign a paper
to prevent their child being immunized. North
Carolina is one of the states that make it easy
for parents to forgo vaccinations for their chil-
dren. e most recent anti-vaccine movement
started in 1998 when a study in the journal
Lancet linked autism to vaccines. e author
subsequently admitted the data was faked, and
he lost his medical license. Despite good studies
refuting that hypothesis, many parents continue
to believe it. DO NOT BELIEVE IT!
Vaccination protects the entire population.
Pools of unvaccinated children lead to epidem-
ics. See that your children and grandchildren
receive theirs!
Marty Fischer is master of Horse Creek 719 in
Columbus.
saw the memorial design contest, helped Trey
cast and mold the sculpture and provided advice
along the way.
"e whole concept was to create a memo-
rial by students, for students," Jubran said. It also
gave students the chance to work on an active
commission. e Student Memorial Garden
was commissioned for $35,000, which included
$10,000 in site preparation, and was paid by
the Student Government Association. Twenty-
three entries were received.
Trey's idea for the sculpture came from a piece
he had created just weeks before the contest was
announced. e sculpture, called "Rough Patch,"
had the same circle except with a wedge of cast
iron. "Since I just did the circle piece, I thought
of the circle of life, and to have it broken at the
top, and then the doves," Trey said.
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Trey lost
friends in Fallujah in 2004. "About three-fourths
of my company got Purple Hearts. I've been to
the services, and I've seen memorials that I felt
captured the essence… and others I didn't un-
derstand," Martin said, adding that he wanted
the memorial he created to be recognizable, not
something that people would scratch their head
in wonder. "I wanted to use that experience and
make this piece."
When he finished his tour of duty, Trey start-
ed out in engineering, then business, then ath-
letic training. "en, I saw all the sculptures on
campus and put two and two together," he said.
He said he likes sculpture because "you can
be heavy-handed with it. I like to beat things
with hammers. You can heat stuff up and bend it.
Just the satisfaction of taking a flat piece of steel
and cutting it, and shaping it, and welding it, and
grinding it, and turning it into something com-
pletely different," Trey said. "It's like an erector
set. Who didn't like erector or Lincoln Logs?"
It's just like that kid in his dad's shop more
than a decade ago.
Trey married recently and has been out of
school. He hopes to return in the spring and fin-
ish his degree as well as return to art full time.
Crystal Baity works at ECU News Services.
TREY, from page 8
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Jernigan and Ammons honored as Mayo
presents two Montfort Medals
WINSTON-SALEM —Grand Master
Dalton Mayo presented Montfort Medals to
Past Grand Master Gene Tart Jernigan and J.
Luigi Ammons at Annual Communication. e
Montfort is the highest honor bestowed by the
Grand Lodge of North Carolina.
Some years ago, as financial woes threatened
the Masonic and Eastern Star Home, it was
Jernigan who stepped up to make the hard de-
cisions and correct calls to save the institution.
He presided over MESH's transition to White-
Stone, A Masonic and Eastern Star Community.
He is current chairman of WhiteStone's Board
of Directors and has presided over the Home's
very successful expansion and improvements.
He performs those duties while continuing to
lead his business in Dunn. Jernigan is a member
of Mingo 206, Orphans 261, Mosaic 762, and
Wilkerson College 760.
Luigi Ammons is perhaps best known among
the certified lecturers for whom he served as a
secretary to the Board of Custodians. He was
grand lecturer in 2012 and has served on several
Grand Lodge committees including currently
on Subordinate Lodge Special Activities. Am-
mons is a member of Millbrook 97, where he
has been secretary and newsletter editor among
many other duties.
e Montfort Medal is the highest honor
presented by our Grand Lodge. It is given for
"distinguished Masonic service or achieve-
ment." A grand master may present only three
during his tenure. e award is named for Jo-
seph Montfort, a member of Royal White Hart
2 in Halifax who was named in 1771 "provin-
cial grand master of and for America" by the
Grand Lodge of England, the only man ever to
hold that title.
Jernigan, right, receives his Montfort Medal from GM Mayo.
Ammons, right, receives his Montfort Medal from GM Mayo.
Annual Communication Amendment Scorecard
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Group 2 ............... GL Committeeman residency ........................ failed
Group 3 ............... DDGM residency ......................................... returned
Group 4 ............... Trustee residency ............................................. failed
Group 5 ............... GL officer residency ......................................... failed
Group 6 ............... Multiple fundraisers ................................... returned
Group 7 ............... Plural master limitation ................................ passed
Group 8 ............... Allow alcohol rentals (version a) ................. passed
Group 9 ............... Trial Code revision ..................................... returned
Group 10 ............. Lecture certificates ........................................ passed
CHARLOTTE — On July 11, ten North
Carolinians gathered here to be recognized
by the French nation. France's Consul Gen-
eral Denis Barbet was there to read the roll
of their service and personally pin to their
chest the red ribbon with white stars of the
Legion of Honor.
Among their number was Richard Ripley,
a member of our Garner 701. Retired Colo-
nel Ripley took part of the Normandy D-Day
invasion at Utah Beach and later fought in
northern France, the German Rhineland, and
central Europe.
Napoleon Bonaparte founded the Legion
of Honor in 1802. It is France's highest honor.
e North Carolina Mason published an article
about Ripley in the January/ February 2007
issue .
France thanks Garner Mason
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Fellowship gathering
November 18
GREENVILLE — Greenville 284 and
Mt. Herman 35 (PHA) will hold their Fifth
Annual Fellowship Meeting November 18 at
the Greenville Masonic Temple, 1104 Charles
Street. Rib-eye steaks, double baked potatoes,
and trimmings are on the menu. Supper is at
6:30 p.m. and the meeting begins at 7:30. Din-
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dictions. Rev. Rick Vernon will be the featured
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