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The Secretary's Desk

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The Secretary is the cornerstone of the lodge. Through his hand and at his desk the lodge functions at its best. The secretary's duties require a high degree of lodge experience, Masonic knowledge, diplomacy and, above all, detailed paperwork skills. The Lodge Secretary is the backbone of any Masonic Lodge and he holds a position of great responsibility. He sits to the left of the Master. His duties require him to handle all correspondence to the members, minutes of Lodge meetings, petitions of new candidates, continuous lodge member count, and many other administrative duties. He compiles an ongoing list of each new candidate and which degrees that candidate has undertaken. From his member list, he sends out the annual dues notices and receives dues payments.

He communicates with other Lodges and the Grand Lodge, types letters, retrieves the mail as well as handles many other details.


In the highly digital age, the Grand Lodge seeks to better equip the Secretary of our constituent lodges with more modern working-tools. On this section of the Grand Lodge website, secretaries will find pages dedicated to different forms and documents to aide them in their duties.

 To acquire the password for this section please contact Kevin at the Grand Lodge.

Created and maintained by the Grand Lodge Information Technology Committee.
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