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JOSEPH C. DeNICOLA
Deputy Grand Master, 2014
BIOGRAPHY
From the Grand Lodge web site, December 2013:
Joseph Carl DeNicola of Hanover was installed Deputy Grand Master of Masons for 2014. The Deputy Grand Master is the second highest ranking officer of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, comprised of over 30,000 members in more than 230 lodges statewide.
Harvey J. Waugh, Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts and the presiding officer in the state, handpicked DeNicola to serve as Deputy Grand Master. He will assist the Grand Master and preside over the Grand Lodge during his absence for the next year. He is also the Grand Master ex officio should the Grand Master not be able to complete his term. Waugh, of Lynnfield, was installed as the 88th Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts during the same ceremony.
DeNicola is a native of Hingham, MA. He graduated from Hingham High School in 1976 and attended Suffolk University, where he received a Bachelor’s degree in 1980 and his Masters of Business Administration in 1982.
DeNicola works for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management as First Vice President, a company he has been with since 2007. He previously spent 22 years with Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc. as Portfolio Manager and First Vice President. He also serves the Hanover Town Republican Committee as its Treasurer.
Brother DeNicola began his Masonic career in 1979 when he joined Old Colony Lodge in Hingham. He served as the Lodge’s Worshipful Master, or presiding officer, from 2008 until 2010. A member of multiple Masonic lodges, DeNicola also belongs to Phoenix Lodge in Hanover and Macedonian Lodge in Hingham. He first served the Grand Lodge as Junior Grand Deacon in 2011. He has also served as a Trustee of the Masonic Education & Charity Trust and on the Audit Committee since 2011. In 2012 and 2013, he served as District Deputy Grand Master of the Eighteenth Masonic District.
Active in several Masonic organizations, DeNicola is a 32° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite – Valley of Boston. He belongs to the York Rite’s Saint Stephen’s Royal Arch Chapter, Boston Council of Royal and Select Master Masons, and Saint Bernard Commandery #12. He also belongs to the Aleppo Shrine Temple in Wilmington.
