WalthamTriad

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WALTHAM TRIAD LODGE

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Location: Newtonville

Chartered By: Albert T. Ames

Charter Date: 06/10/1988 1988-73

Precedence Date: 12/13/1820

Current Status: formed by a merger of Monitor, Isaac Parker and Waltham Lodges, 06/10/1988.

Victory Lodge merged into this lodge, 06/02/2003.


PAST MASTERS

(term year ending)

  • Herbert Frank Albee, 1989
  • Harlan Burton Tewksbury, 1990
  • Scott Matthew Sherman, 1991, 1998
  • Robert Leslie Anderson, 1992
  • Jaak Juhansoo, 1993
  • Salvatore Stephen Privitera, 1994
  • Daniel Joseph Vallucci, 1995
  • Norman Paul Poirier, Sr., 1996, 1997, 2003
  • Roger Eric Berthold, 1999
  • Brian Howard Sherman, 2000, 2001 (Expelled for cause, 2010)
  • William Roger Melick, 2002
  • Robert John Jingozian, 2004, 2005, 2006
  • William Paul Asadoorian, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2020
  • John Houvnas Asadoorian, 2010, 2011
  • Joseph Lawrence Wooters, Jr., 2012, 2013
  • Kenneth Louis Brown, 2014, 2015, 2024; PDDGM
  • Benjamin Elliot Bloomenthal, 2016
  • William Waldemar Dahlbeck, Jr., 2017
  • Mark John Collins, Sr., 2018, 2019
  • David Edward Anthony Ferrazzoli, 2021, 2022
  • James Michael McMullin, 2023

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

  • Petition for Consolidation: 1987
  • Petition for Charter Amendment: 1988
  • Petition for Consolidation (with Victory Lodge): 2003

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

BY-LAW CHANGES

1988 1990 1998 1999 2006 2012 2014 2015


EVENTS

CONSOLIDATION, JUNE 1988

From TROWEL, Fall 1988, Page 24:

Waltham Triad Lodge Meets in Newtonville

The official merger of Isaac Parker Lodge of Belmont, Monitor Lodge of Waltham that had been meeting in Belmont, and Waltham Lodge that had been meeting in Watertown, was consummated June 10 in the Newtonville Masonic Temple. Grand Master Albert T. Ames and Grand Lodge's officers officiated. The Grand Master then installed the new officers of the new Waltham Triad Lodge.

Grand Lodge approved the merger at the September 1987 quarterly communication. Monitor Lodge dates back to 1820, Isaac Parker to 1867, and Waltham Lodge to 1928. The new Lodge will be in the Brighton Fifth District.

CONSOLIDATION, JUNE 2003

From TROWEL, Summer 2003, Page 30:

Grand Master Merges Waltham Triad and Victory Lodges

The merger of Victory Lodge and Waltham Triad Lodge took place on Monday, June 2 in Newtonville. The Charter of Victory Lodge was turned in, and the combined Lodge will continue as Waltham Triad Lodge, which has a precedence of 1820. The Lodge room was filled to overflowing with more than 150 members and guests for the merger ceremony, and the social hour and dinner which followed.

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Pictured above with Grand Master Donald G. Hicks, Jr. are (L) R. W. Shant L. Chebookjian, Master of Victory, and (R) Wor. Norman P. Poirier. Master of Waltham Triad.

200th ANNIVERSARY, 2020

By virtue of operating under the original charter of Monitor Lodge, Waltham Triad Lodge enjoys a precedence date of December 13, 1820. Monitor was the oldest of the four previous lodges that are now merged into Waltham Triad.

The lodge started planning several years ahead for a bicentenary celebration. Looking towards an anniversary date of December 13, 2020, a year-long celebration kicked off on January 18, 2020 with a gala celebration and dinner at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library in Lexington.

Then, Covid happened.

What was to be a selection of special activities during the year, culminating in a rededication on December 12, 2020 (December 13, 2020 was a Sunday), ended up stretching out until November 12, 2021 when the lodge rededication finally did occur.

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While the calendar of anniversary activities was thrown askew, most of what the lodge wanted to do did occur, insofar as it could within the pandemic restrictions visited upon us by our health officials. The nearly two years of activities, and a recap of the 200 years of lodge history, were documented in an anniversary book which can be seen here.

Bicentenary booklet


GRAND LODGE OFFICERS


DISTRICTS

1988: District 5 (Brighton)

2003: District 5


LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges


The curator for this page is Brother Scott Sherman. Please direct informational updates and questions to him.