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== OTIS C. WHITE ==
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== OTIS C. WHITE 1874-1957 ==
  
 
Deputy Grand Master, 1928
 
Deputy Grand Master, 1928

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OTIS C. WHITE 1874-1957

Deputy Grand Master, 1928

MEMORIAL

From Proceedings, Page 1957-113:

Right Worshipful Otis Converse White was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, on January 21, 1874, and died in Worcester on April 22, 1957. Into those eighty-three years of life was crowded all of the varied activity thar could come to a brilliant student, a successful business man, an active Mason, and a distinguished citizen.

He was the son of Dr. Otis C. White and Henrietta Walker, and came from New England Colonial stock on both paternal and maternal sides, dating back to pre-revolutionary days. Otis White was educated in the Worcester public schools, matriculating from English High School into Harvard University. He graduated from Harvard, magna cum laude, in 1896, with a degree in science.

He chose for his business activity the field of manufacturing of electric lighting appliances, and was President of the Otis C. White Company from 1907 until his death.

That our Brother was a man of very wide interests is indicated by the fifteen clubs of which he was a member. These included the Harvard Engineering Club, the Lakeside Boat Club, the Worcester Pistol and Rifle Club, the Foreign Policy Association, and the Worcester Economic Club. He was a member of the Massachusetts State Guard, and was appointed an officer in it by Governor McCall in 1917. He gave outstanding service to the American Red Cross. He was Chairman of the Disaster and Relief Committee of the Worcester Chapter, and Chairman of the Worcester Chapter for three years. He was appointed a National Director during the period of the hurricane and floods in 1938.

Otis White had a distinguished Masonic career. He was raised. in Quinsigamond Lodge, Worcester, in 1900. He did not wait long to get in line, for we find that he was Master of the Lodge in 1909, and continued in office for two years. He received the Royal Arch degree in Eureka Chapter in Worcester in 1910, and the Order of the Temple in Worcester County Commandery in 1922. FIe was a member of the three Scottish Rite Bodies in Worcester, and of the Massachusetts Consistory in Boston. ln 1925, R.W. Brother White was appointed District Deputy Grand Master of the twenty-first Masonic District, which office he held for two years. At the close of his second year he had the unusual distinction of being appointed by M.W. Frank L. Simpson as Deputy Grand Master. He had an unusually busy year. He officiated as Acting Grand Master at the laying of the corner-stone of the Masonic Temple in Newburyport and the Masonic Temple in Hingham. He was Acting Grand Master in the dedication of the Masonic Temples at Dedham and Plymouth. His addresses on those occasions were in the best tradition of Masonic teaching.

Our Brother's abilities were further used, as he was a member of the Funding Committee of Juniper Hall, our Masonic Hospital at Shrewsbury, and was appointed Chairman of that Committee in 1929. He was representative of the Grand Lodge of Indiana near the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts from 1929 until his death. The Henry Price Medal was conferred upon him in Grand Lodge by Most Worshipful Frank L. Simpson in 1928. He received the Veteran's Medal in 1950.

R.W. Brother White worked on a narrow margin of health during his later years, and his Masonic activities were correspondingly abridged. But during the years of his health, he gave himself unsparingly, and exemplified the best in Masonic character and service.

He was affable and urbane, courteous and warm-hearted. He was every inch the gentleman. He was gifted in speech, and had a rare facility in bringing the appropriate word to each occasion he graced with his presence. As witness his address at the Masonic Temple dedication in Plymouth, when he said among other things:

The structure of the material builder, be it ever so strongly built of the most enduring substances which this earth affords, is foreordained to destruction the lapse of time, but the edifice of the spiritual builder, founded on immortal virtues and reared in faith, shall last till time shall be no more.

We can say with the biblical writer: "Give him of the fruit of his hands, and let his own works praise him in the gates." Freemasonry is fortunate in having had such a life to serve its ideals, and in having such a memory to enrich its history.

Fraternally submitted,
Thomas S. Roy
George A. Russell
Rupert H. Robinson
Committee


Distinguished Brothers