The Noahchites

by Midnight Freemason Contributor

WB Darin A. Lahners

It may be a surprise to some Freemasons that Hiram Abiff wasn't always in a prominent role in the Master Mason Degree. In fact, the first reference to the Hiramic legend occurs in 1730 in Samuel Prichard's Masonry Dissected. In this work, Prichard refers to Hiram as "Grand Master Hiram". We do know that by 1738, the Hiramic Legend seems to be in place, as Dr. James Anderson's Constitutions of 1738 states that after the completion of the Temple, "their joy was soon intterupted by the death of their dear Master, Hiram Abiff, whom the decently interred in the Lodge near the Temple according to ancient usage." If Hiram wasn't always featured in the Master Mason degree until sometime around 1730, then what was the degree like?

In 1936, a document entitled: The whole Institution of free Masonry opened and proved by the best of tradition and still some reference to scripture, was discovered. The document, which came to be known as The Graham Manuscript, comprises two small pieces of parchment which have been dated to 1726. It was written in very old English, and thought to be a copy from another document.  Translated into Modern English it reads:

"We have it by tradition, and still some reference to scripture for it caused Shem, Ham and
Japheth to go to their father Noah's grave for to see if they could find anything about him to
lead them to the valuable secret which this famous preacher had...
For I hope all will allow that all things needful for the new world was in the Ark with Noah.
Now these 3 men had already agreed that if they did not find the very thing itself,
that the first thing that they found was to be to them as a secret...
They not doubting, but did most firmly believe that God was able and would also
prove willing, through their faith, prayer and obedience, to cause what they did find to prove
as valuable to them as if they had received the secret at first from God Himself at its headspring.
So [they] came to the grave, finding nothing save the dead body almost consumed away.
Taking a grip at a finger, it came away... so from joint to joint... so to the wrist...
so to the elbow... so they reared up the dead body... and supported it...
setting foot to foot... knee to knee... breast to breast... cheek to cheek... and hand to back...
and cried out 'Help, Oh Father'...
As if they had said 'Oh Father of Heaven, help us now, for Our earthly father cannot'...
so laid down the dead body again and not knowing what to do...
so one said: 'Here is yet marrow in this bone' and
the second said: 'But a dry bone' and
the third said: 'It stinketh'.
So they agreed to give it a name as is known to free masonry to this day...
so went to their undertakings, and afterwards works stood."

So it can be said then without a doubt that Noah held an important role in the Master Mason degree prior to the introduction of Hiram Abiff. This is further illustrated in Albert Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and it's Kindred Sciences. Under the entry for Noah, Mackey states: "In all the old Masonic manuscript Constitutions that are extant, Noah and the Flood play an important part in the Legend of the Craft. Hence, as the Masonic system became developed, the Patriareh was looked upon as what was called a Patron of Freemasonry. This connection of Noah with the mystic history of the Order was rendered still closer with the influence of many symbols borrowed from the Arkite Worship, one of the most predominant of the ancient faiths. So intimately were incorporated the legends of Noah with the legends of Freemasonry that Freemasons began, at length, to be called, and are still called, Noachidae, or the descendants of Noah a term first applied by Doctor Anderson, and very frequently used at a much later day."

With all of the characters in the Old and New Testaments, then why would Noah be chosen to be represented in the Master Mason degree prior to Hiram Abiff?

Noah was important for a few reasons:

1. He and his ancestors would have been the progenitors of the Human Race after the flood, as well as the saviors of the animals of the land that he held in the Ark.

2. He carried the Noachide Laws, or the six laws given to Adam by God to which a seventh was given to Noah. These were the laws which would be followed by his people until he gave Moses the Ten Commandments.

The Noachide Laws were:

1. Renounce all idols.
2. Worship the one true God.
3. Commit no murder.
4. Be not defiled by incest.
5. Do not steal.
6. Be just.
7. Eat no flesh with blood in it.

3. He would have been the keeper of antediluvian knowledge, especially the Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Mackey acknowledges these points further down in his entry for Noah: "The writer of the Cooke MS. (1410/1450 A.D.) had before him an original which may have been written about 1350 A.D. The author of that original frankly acknowledges that many of his historical statements are taken from "the polycronicon," a sort of universal history, or omnium gatherum, in which were collected scraps and fragments of lore of many kinds, especially about the remote past, and without any attempt to distinguish genuine history from myths, legends, tales, fables. It was from such a polycilronicon that the writer of the Cooke original drew the story of Noah and the Deluge which the Cooke condenses into a paragraph beginning at line 290. According to the old tale thus taken from the polychronicon men knew that God would destroy the world out of vengeance, either by fire or by water; therefore in order to save them from destruction, men wrote the secrets of the Arts and Sciences on two "pilers of stone." When the vengeance came, it turned out to be by water as Noah had expected, and for 365 days he and his family lived in the Ark. With him mere his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives. Many years afterwards, the "cronyelere telleth," the two pillars were found; Pythagoras found one, and Hermes the other.

The 0ld Charges (Masonic MS, Old Constitutions, etc., they also were called) which served as a charter for the first permanent Lodges of the Freemasons were held in great reverence; in them was this story of Noah and the pillars, and it is from this source, it is reasonable to believe, that pillar and column symbolism came to be used in Speculative Masonry; and since the use of the Arts and Sciences traced directly back to Noah's sons who recovered their use after the Deluge, practitioners of them were sometimes called "Sons of Noah."

The first, or 1723, edition of the Book of Constitutions of the Mother Grand Lodge touches but lightly on the story of Noah, but in the second, or 1738. edition the whole account is changed, the Arl; itself is described as having been a Masonic masterpiece, and Noah and his three sons are described as "four Grand officers." "And it came to pass as they journeyed from the East of the plains of Mount Ararat, where the Ark rested toward the West, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there as Noachidae, or Sons of Noah . . ." In a footnote the author explains the word: "The first name of Masons, according to some old traditions."

What those "old traditions" were nobody knows because there is no evidence that Operative Freemasons called themselves by that name. But it was in some use prior to 1738, for in 1734 Lord Weyrnouth ordered a letter to be sent to the Prov. Grand Master at Calcutta in which this curious statement was included: "Providence has fixed your Lodge near those learn'd Indians that affect to be called Noachidae, the strict observance of his Precepts taught in those Parts by the Disciples of the great Zoroastres, the learned Archimagus of Bactria, a Grand Master of the Magians, whose religion is much preserved in India (which we have no concern about), and also many of the Rituals of the Ancient Fraternity used in his time, perhaps more than they are sensible of themselves. Sow if it was consistent with your other Business, to discover in those parts the Remains of Old Masonry and transmit them to us, we would be all thankful ...." (A. Q. C. XI, p. 35.)

If ever "Noachidae" was in use as a name for Masons it could not have been extensive, because the word (an ugly hybrid) is almost never met with in early Lodge Alinutes or Histories; it is probable that such small use of it as is encountered in American Lodges in the first half of the Nineteenth Century (it is now wholly obsolete) was directly owing to the popularity here of the writings of the Rev. George Oliver who never hesitated to give to fancies out of his own mind the same weight as the verdict records of history.

There mere two reasons for the place of Noah and his sons in Masonic thought and traditions. It is obvious that the writer of the Cooke MS—or rather, the author of the original of which the Cooke is a copy —had an historical problem to solve: if the Deluge destroyed everything how were the Arts and Sciences, Geometry especially, preserved and recorded?

The story of the pillars and of the use made of them by Noah's sons, which, as was seen, he found ready-made in a polychronicon, was his solution. Second, the story of the sons of Noah had a point to it of value for Masons who sought to make clear to their own minds the religious foundations of the Craft. If Masonry w as geometry and architecture it is as old as the world; if it existed in Stoah's time it existed before Christianity, or Judaism either; and yet it now works in Christian lands; how could a "Christian" society have a pre-Christian origin? The answer was that under the separate religions is a ground, or fundamental, or matrix of a universal religion which consists of a belief in God and Brotherhood among men, and righteousness. Oliver himself gives one of the clearest expressions of this idea in a paragraph of his in A Dictionary of Symbolical Masonry (New York; 1855; p. 190): "NOACHIDAE, Sons of Noah; the first name of Freemasons; whence we may observe that believing the world u as framed by one supreme God, and is governed by him; and loving and worshiping him; and honoring our parents; and loving our neighbor as ourselves; and being merciful even to brute beasts, is the oldest of all religions."

Not all the versions of the Old Charges contain the Noah story in the same form; the Graham MS. version which has so many details peculiar to itself, and is really an Old Catechism more than a version of the Old Charges, gives the Noah story in a different form and reads in it a different lesson; and it has the lost secrets discovered after the death of Noah rather than after the death of Niram. In his Ahiman Rezon, or Book of Constitutions, writing as Grand Secretary for the Ancient Grand lodge of 1751, Laurence Dermott ridicules the whole story; but it is only as history that he ridicules it, not as symbolism, because (to judge by such written remains of it as have survived) the Ancient Ritual connected the Great Pillars with the two "pillars" in the Cooke MS. Also, in both Ancient and Modern symbolism and in the Royal Arch, the Ark is used as an emblem. (This identification of the Ark with Noah's Ark may be a mistake on the part of Eighteenth Century Ritualists, because before 1717 Operative Gilds kept their papers in a "coffin"— which later reappears under the name "casket," "the Lodge," and "ark.")"

Prior to being Widow's Sons, Freemasons were sometimes identified as NOACHIDES or NOACHITES or "Sons of Noah". This is further confirmed again by Mackey under the entry for NOACHIDAE (NOACHITES) in his Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and It's Kindred Sciences.  Mackey states: "The descendants of Noah. A term applied to Freemasons on the theory, derived from the Legend of the Craft, that Noah was the father and founder of the Masonic system of theology. Hence the Freemasons claim to be his descendants, because in times past they preserved the pure principles of his religion amid the corruptions of surrounding faiths. Doctor Anderson first used the word in this sense in the second edition of the Book of Constitutions: "A Mason is obliged by his tenure to observe the moral law as a true Noachida."  Aside from being the Sons of Noah, the Noachides were essentially those that followed the Noachide Laws up until the time of Moses.  In following the moral laws of a Freemason, Freemasons were also following the Noachide Laws, and therefore were associated with the Noachides. 

It is easy to see the similarities between the Noachite Legend given in the Graham Manuscript and the current Hiramic legend. Both include raising from the grave, the five points of fellowship and the pact to record whatever was observed during the actions in at attempt to recover lost knowledge. Furthermore, the words and actions around the grave should strike some level of familiarity with Master Masons. Given the similarities, I think one can say that the Noachite Legend was mostly transformed into the the Hiramic Legend that we know today. Noah and his sons still are represented in Freemasonry in one of the Allied Masonic Degrees, in that of the "Royal Ark Mariner". Noah is also alluded to one of the emblems of a Master Mason, "The Anchor and the Ark." I think that the brethren who went through the Master Mason degree prior to when Hiram Abiff was part of it still had a profound and deeply moving experience. I can only imagine how interesting the degree would have been to witness with Noah being the main figure. All this being said, I might be the only Freemason that is disappointed that real grip of a Master Mason isn't called: "It Stinketh". It would be a much easier explanation than Covid-19 to explain why we're now bumping elbows instead of shaking hands.

~DAL

WB Darin A. Lahners is a Past Master of and Worshipful Master of St. Joseph Lodge No.970 in St. Joseph. He is also a plural member of Ogden Lodge No. 754 (IL), and of Homer Lodge No. 199 (IL), where he is also a Past Master. He’s a member of the Scottish Rite Valley of Danville, a charter member of Illinois Royal Arch Chapter, Admiration Chapter No. 282 and is the current Secretary of the Illini High Twelve Club No. 768 in Champaign – Urbana (IL). You can reach him by email at darin.lahners@gmail.com

Never Stop Asking Why

by Midnight Freemason Contributor

Robert E. Jackson

For as long as I can remember, we as humans seem to have a pattern of assuming the intentions on the actions of another. For some (usually those we care deeply about), we make excuses like "they didn't know better." For others, we assume that it was their specific purpose "you knew what you were doing, and you meant to do that." When some show remorse, we say "are you upset with your actions, or are you only upset you were caught." All of these scenarios assume we know the intentions, and desires, of the other person, but how can we truly know?

I've seen studies regarding programming and engineering principles, in an effort to foster intention within Artificial Intelligence. There are studies on optimizing your productive workflow, by being clear on your intentions. However, after some rudimentary research, I haven't been able to find many studies in an attempt to understand the root intention of humans, and why they do the things they do. The studies I have found indicate two primary factors that drive intent…belief systems, and emotions. Let's look at belief systems first.

From the moment we are born, the principles of our parents are injected into us. I don't believe this is a genetic predisposition, but something that is fostered within us as we grow mentally and physically. It starts with the family, and those closest, but as the youth grows, their beliefs are solidified by their teachers, clergy, Scoutmasters, and friends. It's amazing to me to think about the massive amount of data, nearly every second of the day, that drives a person's belief systems. It appears that as we get older, or perhaps depending on the emotions of those around us, those beliefs can solidify and become more and more difficult to change. This raises the importance of attempting to see things, or understand things, as they've never been seen before. I believe it was R.W. Brother Jarzabek that first introduced me to this concept. For that seems to be the best method to enable the melting of that carbonite, and adjust your beliefs as new data is experienced.

Now for emotion. "In the heat of battle" is a term that comes to mind here. I've written before that there are studies that show there are two primary emotions…Love and Fear. The anger and hatred in the world are driven out of Fear, and the compassion and caring of the world are driven out of Love. Try to recollect a period of time when you were in Fear of something…as a friend, as a parent, as a Brother. You may have said something, or done something, that you really didn't WANT to do. Something that goes against your belief systems and what you believe is 'right.' However, the action was taken anyway, and it became a regret. Some can dismiss the regret, while with others that regret festers indefinitely, driving more anxiety and depression, and higher levels of emotion. Those higher levels of emotion alter our intentions, and we continue down the cycle.

As I was writing this paper, I kept thinking about how this plays into Masonry, and how our work within the Lodges helps us grasp this concept of understanding intention. It is no secret that our ritual work consists of acting out plays and scenarios. We insert ourselves into the lives of another person, to try to understand their intentions, and what drives them to specific actions. I believe this is one of the reasons why the part of the ruffian in the third degree is by far one of my favorites to play. The breadth of emotions experienced for those small parts in the overall process extends from desire, to anger, fear, and ultimately regret. What influences the ruffians to seek that which they are not entitled to? What data from their lives drives those beliefs, ultimately resulting in acting out of fear?

I suppose the only way to truly understand intent is to walk in the shoes of another, from the time they are born. To feel every emotion, to learn every lesson, to have every discussion. How can that even be possible? As a society, we appear to be so quick to judge…so quick to assume the intentions or desires of another. I firmly believe that Social Media has exacerbated this issue by orders of magnitude, with every sound bite and every meme. We see it every day as people are attacked for a single comment or statement. I'm sure there are some that want to see anger, that want to get a rise out of others, that want to watch the world burn. Love is the only action that can extinguish those fires, don't fan the flames. My Brothers, please do your best to keep Love and Charity in the forefront of your mind.

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” - Atticus Finch

~REJ

Robert Edward Jackson is a Past Master and Secretary of Montgomery Lodge located in Milford, MA. His Masonic lineage includes his Father (Robert Maitland), Grandfather (Maitland Garrecht), and Great Grandfather (Edward Henry Jackson), a founding member of Scarsdale Lodge #1094 in Scarsdale, NY. When not studying ritual, he's busy being a father to his three kids, a husband, Boy Scout Leader, and a network engineer to pay for it all. He can be reached at info@montgomerylodge.org

The Golden Circle of Freemasonry

by Midnight Freemason Guest Contributor

Bro. Mark Mitchell

Simon Sinek, in his book, Start with Why and his Ted Talk, speaks about what he calls the "Golden Circle." Sinek, an author, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur, studied the lives, habits, and successes of many of the world's most influential leaders. He researched leaders like Apple Computers founder Steve Jobs, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the Wright brothers.

What he discovered is that what sets these great leaders apart from others is that they think, act, and communicate in ways that are different than most. The way their minds work seems to enable them to reach levels of creativity, success, and influence that most people do not. Sinek suggests that all leaders can tell you what their organization does. They can tell you about their business. They can tell you the products they produce. They can tell you all about their "widget."

Most can tell you how their product works and how their widget is different from the others. They may even have examples of how their product is better than others or even how their widget can save you money.

What Sinek discovered in his research is that there is another component that sets certain leaders apart from the rest. The component that he says sets leaders like Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King Jr., and even the Wright brothers apart from the rest is the "why"." They can tell you the "why" behind their widget. 

The "why" goes far beyond making money, driving a fancy car, or living in a big house on the beach. It goes far beyond merely supply and demand. The "why" speaks to what drives that leader to get out of bed, to face setbacks and failure more times than can be counted, and continue to move forward. The "why" is what drives them to try and accomplish something that has never been done before. The "why" is the gasoline that fuels the engine of their life and their creativity. The "why" is their mission, their passion, or even their destiny. In the case of the Wright brothers, another man was working on a flying machine at the same time. His name was H.P. Langley. 

Langley had connections. He had gotten fifty-thousand dollars from the war department for research and development. He had hired the best and brightest engineers and architects to assist in getting his project off the ground. (Pun intended.) The reason that Langley is somewhat obscure is that even though the Wright brothers didn't have the resources that Langley did, they had one thing that he didn't. They had "why." Their mission, passion, destiny, they're "why" was the desire to change the world through flight. When Langley heard that the Wright brothers, a couple of guys working out of a bicycle shop, had achieved flight, he gave up. You see. Langley's "why", as to be first. When it had been done by someone else, he lost his desire.

Sinek cites the example of Apple Products, Steve Jobs. The Apple founder's mission was not to make a computer. His mission, passion, destiny, his "why" was to "challenge the status quo." Jobs' "how" was to create a beautifully designed, user-friendly product. The "what,"" we know, ended up being the Apple computer, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and a host of other products. What Sinek lays out in his "Golden Circle" that Steve Jobs thought from the inside out, as all the truly innovative and groundbreaking leaders do.

Thinking from the inside out instead of the outside in what Sinek calls the "Golden Circle." Start with the "why" and work your way out from there.

So, what is the "Golden Circle"" of Freemasonry? 

The "whys" of individual Freemasons are probably as numerous as the stars. Every man that distinctively knocks on that inner door has his own reason for being there.

Many would say that the "why" of Freemasonry is to make good men better. I think that is the "what" of Freemasonry. Better men are the product of our system of morals veiled in allegory.

The "how" is the proper usage of the working tools. When you rightly apply what it means to meet upon the level, act by the plumb and part upon the square, or when you apply the truths of Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth, you are revealing the process in which a good man is made better.

But the crux of the "Golden Circle" Freemasonry, i the "why." The "why" of Freemasonry is found in the Master Mason degree when where taught the great lesson of the immortality of the soul. We gather around a newly made grave, where there is a body, but there is seemingly not much hope. So the most prudent thing to do is to pray. It is then that despair gives way to new life.

Many Freemasons look at the Craft as a way to discover Light, and the more Light they find, the closer they get to the Great Architect of the Universe. I see that as an outward/in look instead of an inward/out view. When we start with the "me", as, "n individual Freemason, and work my way towards God--that is an extremely elevated view of myself and a low view of Deity.

I did not create myself, and neither did you. I submit that the Great Architect of the Universe is the "why" of Freemasonry. We are on this Masonic journey because of the immortality of the soul, to which God has designed. You may remember these words:

"Thus we close the explanation of the emblems upon the solemn thought of death, which, without revelation is, dark and gloomy, but the good Freemason is revived by the evergreen and ever-living Sprig of Faith, which blooms at the head of the grave. It reminds him that there is an immortal spark in man, bearing a close affinity to the Supreme Intelligence of the Universe, which shall survive the grave and never, never die."

We were not put on this earth to make a name for ourselves or gain some sort of title, position, or rank. We were put here to prepare ourselves for eternity. The Masonic lessons that are taught and applied are ways that we prepare ourselves to make ready that "house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens." There is a master architect, which means there is a master plan. Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. — Bertrand Russell 

The Golden Circle of Freemasonry…The "why" is the Great Architect of the Universe has a master plan and set eternity in the heart of man. The "how" is in answer to the question, "In whom do you put your trust?" and the proper usage of the working tools given to us in Freemasonry. The "what"... is a good human, made better.

~MM

Bro. Mark Mitchell is a Master Mason from Wentzville Lodge #46 in Wentzville, Missouri. He is currently serving as the Worshipful Master. He was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in 2014, became a Royal Arch Mason in 2015, and a 32 degree Scottish Rite Mason in 2019. He has had an article called, "Mind Your Own Ashlar" published in the Missouri Freemason magazine in 2020. Mark, a former pastor, is now a compliance coordinator in a transportation company. He lives in Wentzville, Missouri with his wife, Shannon, and their Aussie, Libby. He has two sons and a daughter in law.

Did We Make Them Better?

by Midnight Freemason Guest Contributor

Bro. William Aemisegger

Did we really make our new Brother better? Have we prepared them for the new knowledge and growth which our great fraternity has to offer? We say we make good men better, but did we do that in the best interest of the new Brother or for a dues card? I firmly believe our early brethren did not join for business meetings and halfhearted Masonic Education. Once we open the eyes of our Brothers, we fall short on showing them how to use and apply the knowledge of the lessons and working tools of the Craft. They are either exposed to the officer line and administrative committees, or they are bombarded by the allure of the appendant bodies. From my experience, sitting after Lodge with Brothers more senior in experience than I taught has me more than any business meeting. I learned about life, business, etiquette, and much more.

There is a significant deficit in teaching the great lessons and applications of the ceremonies through which they just passed through. How can we make good men better if we don't give them a foundation to expand their mind and thirst to be better? Sure, the appendant bodies offer an enlarged view of the Masonic Education, and that is great. I sometimes get the chance to ask Brethren more senior than me about how they manage to have time for all the events they attend. Their answers make it clear that they are not effectively using the 24-inch gauge. I usually inquire why they don't use this tool, and the response is often "I never thought about the gauge like that."

Simply put, I find they know the words but have forgotten to stop and contemplate the meaning and application. This fails to build the foundation for any further progress in becoming better. We are making the road harder to travel and setting ourselves up for failure.

Here is my simple view. Our more ancient Brethren are heralded as some of the greatest thinkers of their time. Why? It's because they studied the lessons in the degrees and applied them to their worldly pursuits. They understood the meaning of the working tools and how to apply them to daily use. They contemplated the charges and the allegory within the degrees. We would do well to educate our new and established Brothers on how to use the working tools--how to contemplate the lessons in the degrees to better themselves. If effectively done, it prepares them for the exploration of other appendant bodies, be they Masonic or otherwise.

Teach the speculative uses of our working tools to manage our lives better--help them reflect on the moral lessons within the lectures. Engage the Brothers in discussion regarding our teachings. We opened their eyes; now, let's teach them to use those "secrets." It seems we focus on getting them to the degree of Master Mason but not on making sure they are duly and truly prepared to work as a Master Mason. We are setting ourselves up for failure by not building the foundation of the Education we gave in the degrees.

Our lectures and tools are not one-time-only use. Have we failed the appendant bodies by not indeed preparing the Brother for what lay ahead? Or did we blindly give tools and knowledge and expect them to figure it out themselves?

The solution to this is far simpler than one may think with a huge impact. This impact will be felt locally at first but will spread like wildfire when we awaken the true Mason within. The Search for more light will show you the way.

For the individual Brother looking for your own education ask questions. Go back to basics get in the habit of asking why. The question why is a great place to start. Why is that working tool important? Why is that verse quoted in the degree? Brother Steve Harrison has a great article on this subject that you can find HERE. You are the master of your own education.

To the Brothers bringing a candidate from darkness to light. This is a serious responsibility. You are responsible to communicate our greatest knowledge in the best way you can. Be mindful of what and why you are doing this. You are their first impression of the Fraternity, make it a great experience. Furthermore, any Brother interacting the new Brother is responsible for mentoring and leading him in the Fraternity.

To the Lodge Officers simply be mindful of your Brothers. Engaging the Brothers in active conversation is the best way to nurture education. Engage them on the masonic education presented. Host a Q&A after the presentation or after the meeting. Really take the time to know the Brothers that are members. Take the time to make sure they understand what is going on with legislation, education opportunities, committees, or other local activities. Remember you are the Officer for the Lodge you have a responsibility for the care and stewardship of the Brothers within.

~WA

Brother William was raised in September of 2013 and is a member of both Hernando-Bushnel No. 30 in Florida and Utica-Macomb No. 64 in Davis Michigan. He works at giving back to the fraternity all that it's given him.