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STEPHEN KALOYANIDES 1926-2018
- MM 1955, WM 1968, 1983, Victory
- Member 1982, The Massachusetts
- Member 1988, The Masters
- Member 1998, Rabboni
- Member 2002, Golden Rule
- DDGM, Brighton 5, 1985, 1986
- Senior Grand Warden 1998
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BIOGRAPHY
MEMORIAL
LEGACY.COM, 1918
From Legacy.com:
KALOYANIDES, Stephen Of Peabody, MA, passed away on April 25, 2018. Beloved husband of the late Katherine (Disberakis) Kaloyanides. Devoted father of Stephen Kaloyanides, and Michael George Kaloyanides and his wife Sheila. Loving grandfather of Alexandra Kaloyanides and her husband Larry Ransom-Wiley, Elizabeth Ruderman and her husband Matthew, and Nathan Wade and his wife Rebecca Stevenson. Cherished great grandfather of Julia Ransom, Jane Wade, and Will Ruderman. Loving brother of Eva George, the late Basil Kaloyanides and the late Alexander Kaloyanides. Also survived by many nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
PROCEEDINGS, 2018
From Proceedings, Page 2018-236:
Stephen Kaloyanides, a Past Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, died in Peabody, Massachusetts, on April 25, 2018. The following memorial is provided as a supplement to the 2018 Proceedings of the Grand Lodge. His necrology appears on Page 55 of this volume.
For many years, Rt. Wor. Brother Stephen Kaloyanides was a prominent and well-beloved brother in many areas of the Fraternity. He was very active in the Fifth Masonic District, home to his mother lodge, Victory of Watertown, where he was brought to Masonic light in 1955 and was Master in 1968 and 1983; he was a regular blood donor and served as
director of the Scottish Rite Learning Center in Newtonville; and he was well-known at Grand Lodge, as a District Deputy Grand Master and as the elected Senior Grand Warden.
Brother Kaloyanides was an expert in the coffee business. His family’s previous generation – three brothers, immigrants from Greece – established a restaurant on Canal Street in Boston in 1916, eventually establishing the Colombian Coffee Company as a result of their own success. When a fire destroyed their business, the brothers (including our Brother’s father) went to work for the La Touraine Coffee Company; but they soon established their own firm, which eventually became New England Coffee, the firm where Brother Kaloyanides worked for many years. In 1949, New England Coffee began roasting their own beans; in 1967, the company moved to Boston, where it built its own processing plant.
Our Brother was, for many years, the premier coffee taster at his family firm. He was the first in his family to perfect the skill of roasting coffee beans, and once claimed that he could tell a bad batch just by the smell. Each batch was checked three times – when the beans arrived at port, when they were brought into the company headquarters, and after blending and roasting. A very detailed article on his love of the business and his role in it appeared in the November 1999 issue of the Northern Light.
From 1994 on, Brother Kaloyanides was the chairman of the board of governors of the Masonic Learning Center for Children in Newtonville, a project that was the brainchild of his friend, Past Grand Master J. Philip Berquist. He brought his enthusiasm – particularly working with children (which he first acquired at as volunteer at the Shrine Hospital, where, among other things, he interpreted for Greek-speaking patients) – to the new effort, working directly with the children admitted to the program; it no doubt brought him even more satisfaction than a perfectly blended cup of coffee.
Brother Kaloyanides was a member of Triad Royal Arch Chapter (now Newton Royal Arch Chapter), and received the orders in Gethsemane-DeMolay Commandery. He affiliated with St. Bernard Commandery #12 in 1998. He was a member of the bodies of the Scottish Rite Valley of Boston, and in 2000 he received the honorary 33°.
In 1998, Brother Kaloyanides was elected Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, during the term of Grand Master Fred Kirby Bauer.
In 2003, Brother Kaloyanides was instrumental in the consolidation of his mother lodge with Waltham Triad Lodge of Newtonville. To this day, the notice of the lodge bears the legend “Waltham Triad Lodge enriched with Victory Lodge”.
He was a gentleman, a friend and a true and devoted Brother, and he will be missed.
