Companions:

Hello to all, and we hope your year is off to a fine start. We have been doing Degree Work at eola Lodge, and we have a fine group of candidates.

I want to issue a personal note of congratulatios to the Companions who are working on these Degrees. You are doing a impressive job. We are moved by the dignity and beauty of the Ritual as it unfolds before us. The love that you have for York Rite Masonry is awesome. Both new and experienced, young and old work together to make up our fine Degree Team.

The members include Companions: Gerald Favor, Patrick Biggs, Ricardo Parente, Erik Anderson, Sam Tish, John Fletcher, Richard Fox, Miguel Arteaga, Wayne Parks, tom Rice, Jim Dickenson and Gerald McKinnon. R.E. Harry Eisenberg and D.I. James Moore have overseen the effort. Companions from Eustis, Sanford and Brevard County have also participated. If any Companion has been omitted, please forgive me.

If you like to assist us, please contact Wayne Parks or John Fletcher. If you know of a good candidate for these beautiful Degrees, please arrange to get a petition to them. We would like to do them again. There is also the potential to have a "One-Day Festival" in the fall.

Rex Cain, E.H.P.